A year ago, it was January
18th, 2014. Helen and I were down in Los Angels. It was a
Saturday, and I had completed the 2nd of 8 weeks training
with the Gracies. I was comfortable by then, and deeply immersed in
Jiu-Jitsu, Disneyland, and LA. My instructor was coming down in
another week for a short visit at the academy, and I was hoping he'd
remember to bring the Gracie University belt stripe that I'd earned a
month earlier. I was a one-striper, but hadn't yet received it, so my
belt was naked.
Six months ago, it was
July 18th, and I was still babying a knee injury, which
was just starting to come around. Our lives were running in
comfortable, home mode.
Three months ago it was
October 18th, and we were just a few days away from flying
off for a month-long vacation in Florida.
Three months from now, it
will be April 18th, and the weather here will be getting
really nice. By then I am confident that I'll have a third stripe on
my Blue Belt. We will have spent a bit of time between now and then
playing in the desert.
Six months in the future
it will be July 18th. We don't travel in the summer like
we used to as working teachers. As retirees we spend the best months
at home.
A year from now will put
us just inside the beginning of 2016. I should have maxed out my Blue
Belt with four stripes, and be looking ahead at earning a Purple
Belt. That's like getting a Black Belt in most other martial arts. I
should know, as I already am a Black Belt in Karate. There won't be a
rush to get evaluated, as I intend doing that at another big, winter
Los Angeles trip maybe a year later.
That's about it; a year into the past and into the future....
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