Things I learned …or relearned today.

1- Never ever cook pasta sauce in your birthday suit. Nuff said.

2- The body doesn’t remember pain. Which is probably why I had to relearn the pasta thing. The mind does, conditioned response and all of that.

3- Honey is awesome with peanut butter, and not half bad with tuna.

4- And last but not least, no matter how you stack, sort or organize it, there are never enough hours in the day, days in the week, or months in the year.

Given the training I have been a student of my whole life, I am acutely aware of the value of applying the lessons learned to every day life. As Musashi said “make your everyday stance your fighting stance and your fighting stance you everyday stance”.

The superficial lesson directly relates to martial discipline, but the deeper lesson is that if any wisdom is valid, then it should be universally applicable.

These days a big part of my training is running, …and getting back around to the point I was making about there not being enough time. One of the lessons I am learning as the miles add up, is to leave it all out there. Put your heart into every step and have no regrets. The run will be over before you know it.

Sounds sort of familiar and a lot like a good rule to live by. Leave it all out there. The run will be over before I know it.

I bought my first pair of track shoes this weekend. I have to admit that I was influenced a little bit by their Captain America aesthetic.

I’ll begin attending the Thursday night performance group training starting this week, so I will be putting them to good use.

I know my brother Shingo will appreciate the them, so a picture is included.