That was back when I was six months old.

It might have been because my teacher, Gunter Weil, was an old Harvard running buddy of Dr. Timothy Leary, and even ended up doing a lot of “experiments” with him–but, the hardest thing about it was getting all the animals straight, and making sure that I had their poses mimicked perfectly before I started breathing through the tan’tien (or, as some people spell it, “liverwurst”).

Eventually, the crane and the monkey and the elephant and the
lemur (just kidding about the lemur) all ran together, and after
several years of practicing this beautiful and ancient Asian
art, I checked into an loony bin.

But there obviously is something to the thing. Proverbs even speaks, amazingly, of “(bringing) health to the navel.”

The blog’s new look looks great–much more, in its style and feel, in keeping with what the blog is supposed to be about
(as opposed to the previous color scheme, which seemed to be
appropriated from a blog about funeral parlors).

Also good to see an actual new post. For a while there, I
thought I was, all of a sudden, reading the Rienstra Rant.

L,
P