Random Thoughts
This is a dream come true! After 34 years of being a public school teacher, my financial advisor says I can retire! This is GREAT news for TrueAiki.com and TrueAiki Seminar attendees because it means I’ll have more time to work on the blog and a more flexible schedule for Read more
Hi Everyone, I’ve spent several vacation days fighting with WordPress (there is a learning curve) in order to better organize TrueAiki.com. All the blogs are under the menu Blog now, and there are sub menus leading to the different topic areas. I had to re-post a number of old blogs Read more
I was watching a video on Olympic lifting (I still love metal. Don’t tell anybody!) and I heard this great quote: “I haven’t taught until they have learned!” That one is a keeper.
In a comment relating to my last blog Gary wrote: Allen As parts of a whole we as individual parts have self-awareness….at what point does that self-awareness create the illusion of separation? When does individuality separate mind from body and self from the universe? Gary · March 25, 2020 at Read more
Last week I worked twelve hour days all week. By Friday I had a migraine and felt hot when I got to bed. So … no time for blogging or video. Also, Friday I had to take my computer in to have the hard drive replaced. Normally I’d do this Read more
Good Day, I recently ran across an informative and entertaining article on Tensegrity and I thought you might enjoy it while you are waiting for my next blog post (which I am working on presently.) Here you go: https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a31932446/string-table/ I hope you enjoy it. See you next time! ~ Allen
Hi Folks!, Bad News: My school district just went on Spring Break a week early due to Pandemic. Time will tell if I go back after two weeks or if we will still be in “social isolation” and I’ll start teaching online. Good News: I have two weeks when barring Read more
Hi Folks, I re-filmed TDD 11 & 12 and am presently going through the steps of encoding the video so that I can edit it, encode it again for export and then post it. Cross your fingers! Allen
Hi Folks, Let’s start with the bad news: As I posted last time I finished filming TDD 11&12. The bad news is that the right and left camera’s shot just fine, but the main center camera (supposedly my best camera) shot the entire thing in a blur! I thought about Read more
When I first started teaching large public seminars in the early 2000’s I quickly discovered that I didn’t like it. It was interesting. One would think that it would be great. There were plenty of people, lots of attention, and much respect and appreciation shared. Strangely, I found the whole scene unrewarding and Read more