The Martial Way is Back Online!
An Apology
As you may or may not have noticed, I've been unable to update this blog for nearly two weeks because of an error in the template code. In the end, I gave up on waiting for Blogger.com to help and got working on a new template. So, here I am again - new look, new posts, same old me... ...to those that have been waiting patiently, "I'm sorry for the delay!" I'll get started on some new entries as soon as I can.
Excitement Builds
There are many, many changes taking place in my personal and professional life right now. They will have a major impact on my practice of martial arts and I will go into greater detail once things become 'public knowledge' (there are a few people that need to be informed personally before I 'announce' on the internet).
Great changes in life often come with great deals of stress. So, I'm very much looking forward to the next week. It's sure to be the ultimate stress reliever!
In just two days, I'll be training my little cotton socks off, for five days straight, at a Kyokushin Karate summer camp in Budapest, Hungary! No doubt, that'll be the source of some new material for this diary. I've been taking a rather long break from training (OK, I showed up for own 'fight night' but I really did need it) and it's killing me. Most of my injuries seem to be healing up nicely but my right ankle and right hamstring seem to be of major concern right now. They just don't seem to be getting any better. That said, they won't stop me attending the summer camp. I've been looking forward to it for a long, long time and no bruised up ankle, nor torn up hamstring is going to keep me away.
For those with an interest, here's the site for the hosts of the summer camp: Kyokushin Hungary.
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The HUMAN PARADIGM
"...the creative process is a choicemaking process."
Consider:
The missing element in every human 'solution' is an
accurate definition of the creature. The way we define
'human' determines our view of self, others, relationships,
institutions, life, and future. Important? Only the Creator
who made us in His own image is qualified to define us
accurately. Choose wisely...there are results.
Human is earth's Choicemaker. His title describes his
definitive and typifying characteristic. Recall that his
other features are but vehicles of experience intent on
the development of perceptive awareness and the
following acts of decision. Note that the products of
man cannot define him for they are the fruit of the
discerning choice-making process and include the
cognition of self, the utility of experience, the
development of value-measuring systems and language,
and the acculturation of civilization.
The arts and the sciences of man, as with his habits,
customs, and traditions, are the creative harvest of
his perceptive and selective powers. Creativity, the
creative process, is a choice-making process. His
articles, constructs, and commodities, however marvelous
to behold, deserve neither awe nor idolatry, for man, not
his contrivance, is earth's own highest expression of the
creative process.
Human is earth's Choicemaker. Psalm 25:12 He is by nature
and nature's God a creature of Choice - and of Criteria.
Psalm 119:30,173 His unique and definitive characteristic
is, and of Right ought to be, the natural foundation of his
environments, institutions, and respectful relations to his
fellow-man. Thus, he is oriented to a Freedom whose roots
are in the Order of the universe.
selah
Welcome back, Shane. I've missed you. I'm looking forward to your announcment.
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