One April morning, twenty-five years ago, I found myself speaking with an elderly Irish farmer in his newly ploughed field. At the time I was living in County Monaghan, a rural midland county on the border with Northern Ireland. Prior to coming to Ireland, I had been reading the poems of Patrick Kavanagh (1904-1967), who [...]
Archive for February, 2012
99. Seventy percent
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 70 percent rule, bruce frantzis, Grace Schireson, guang ping yang tai chi, ichigo ichie, tai chi, tai chi chuan on 9 February 2012 | 6 Comments »
If you have ever played a competitive sport, you have probably been exhorted to give 100 percent. Or, as the sports cliché would have it, “110 percent.” And the attitude embodied in that exhortation extends well beyond the arena of athletics. Whether the field of activity be business or law, selling cars or playing tennis, [...]
