Concrete

Three cubic yards of making your own concrete, five hours bent over crouching. My back and legs were screaming stop please. I push through, the muscles don’t scream pain anymore they just hurt, my mind wanted to give up quit let some one else do this job for a while, No. Perseverance mind over pain ignore it keep going. Now it’s done.
So what did I learn? People who work concrete for a living I greatly admire.
Sore muscles no pushups for a couple of days it’s catch up time, but today I am back on track.
Sifu Hayes
Silent River Kung Fu, Stony Plain, Alberta, Canada

Life is Changing

Lost a good friend, funeral last Saturday. He was fifty-four. A very caring happy to help you type person. Lost his life to Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma, nine months after diagnoses.
This makes me look at my own life and evaluate myself. You know what I mean, look back and judge if I have done all you can do, and am I happy with myself as a human being. Did I tell those people that I loved them? Did I give them a helping hand when they needed it? Should I take those trips, buy that holiday trailer or save the money for retirement.
That question always arises. What am I doing? Where am I going? These types of things come along and whack you back into reality.
I thank you Barry for letting me be a friend in your life.
Sifu Hayes
Silent River Kung Fu Stony Plain, Alberta, Canada

Misunderstanding

When problems, misunderstandings or disagreements, happen in your life there are three things to ask yourself and these questions must be thought of and answered honestly.
1- when misunderstanding happens ask who, Look at the problem through someone else’s eyes. In the first you consider the source.
2- when misunderstanding continues ask why, is it you who is creating the misunderstanding or the other person just being negative. Examine the reason.
3- ask what, what is to be learned from this misunderstanding. Learn the lesson.
After all this and things are not worked out forgiveness in what is in hand, forgiveness does not mean you agree. It just means you let it go, if you hang on and don’t forgive, bitterness sets in and if you hang on to that it will dig a hole in you and never let you go. Besides you can’t change the past.
Sifu Hayes
Silent River Kung Fu - Stony Plain, Alberta, Canada

The Beetle

Seen some maps of the progression of the pine beetle. I think our forests are on the losing end of the bug. The Beetle has spread so fast and so quickly that our forest has no hope. The bad thing is that you know what follows the dead trees standing in the forest from the pine beetle, fire. Our Government is doing everything it can to try to save the trees, cutting burning, but will it be enough, the idea is to keep the beetle from spreading any further east then Alberta. The surveys from 2005 thru 2009 can be viewed. Form your own opinion. www.mpb.alberta.ca/Resources/regionalmaps.aspx
Sifu Hayes
Silent River Kung Fu – Stony Plain, Alberta, Canada