The Best Thing that Happened to This Martial Artist
I've been writing about people who have been important to our school during this emotional time when we close it down and move South. There are people I haven't saluted due to time limitations--people like Vicky Arratia, Deb Thompson, Gary Whitcanack, Eric Schlichte, Xixuan and Conan Collins, Colin Frye, and of course Kim and Chris Miller. There are many more, too.
Since 2002, however, the most important person of all has been my wife and best friend Nancy. I've never known a woman like her. We started dating in August of 2002. By January, she started into the tai chi class and loved it. As time went on, she encouraged me to buy the building for our school. She got in there and painted and worked so hard.
She also encourages my tournaments and enjoys the road trips. The picture above was taken at a Chicago tournament after I won the gold medal in Advanced Hsing-I forms.
Having Nancy in the classes gave me someone to flirt with, and I enjoyed using her as a "dummy" to demonstrate fighting applications. The class enjoyed it, too, I believe.
I'm moving to Florida with my best friend. The school didn't really work. We lost hundreds of dollars every month but she never complained. We were both very proud of the effort we made. We realized that it's just too difficult to work full time and try to run a school, especially when you don't teach kids.
It took me nearly 50 years to find her. It's a shame it didn't happen sooner, but we're enjoying every moment. We laugh our heads off every day. We enjoy spending time together. She's the most dependable woman I've ever known. And I love it when we're at home and she turns to me suddenly and says, "Can we go over that tai chi move again?"
I'm a lucky man.
--by Ken Gullette
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