Dads stories

Saturday, 8^th April 2000.

I have not had a chance to take your artistic creation under the microscope. We have visitors.

Thank you for your nice letter. I agree, this continual hair splitting over these silly but still important commas has been done to death. In English it goes like this with me, I wipe out as many commas as possible, and most probably still have too many. I did read the rules once but have long forgotten them. It seems to me that commas should only be used when absolutely necessary.

The passport picture has finally arrived! I thought there may still have been some problems. As prepartion for the soon to be realised Cable Internet, Robert yesterday installed an additional 20 gig hard disc into my PC and increased my memory to 160K. That should be sufficient. And it all worked like a charm. The first time. Amazing.

My charming wife needed my assistance with shopping. She wanted me to help her choose material to make covers for our armchairs, so that there would be no complaints afterwards. Very wise. Do you know the Opera „the wise woman“ from Orf? Very nice little Opera. But now she is gone – my beloved. Inge dragged her away from me, until tomorrow. What a pity I am over the worst. Those were for me always opportunities for celebration, when my old woman was not home. But I don’t drink anymore. And I don’t indulge in anything else either. As nice as getting old is....sometimes you miss an element of fun!

Where were we? I have just checked in the News but there is nothing new about the David Cup – hier in Australia.

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So that is it for today. I wish you all the best. We are much better. Oh..Tai Chi.

After an old Chineese saying: "Whoever pracitices Tai Chi diligently and correctly will gain the piability of a child, the health of a lumberjack, and the peace of mind of a sage…"

As I see it, this is an exercise which is accomplished with very slow movement, which is practiced with mental concentration. And in this way, body and soul are simultaneously stimulated. I will write more about it once I am into it. But if you would stand and raise your arms by your side, as slowly as is possible, and then, just as slowly lower them again, and you repeat this several times, then you get an idea how this slow movement can train the body. As I already mentioned, I spent a lot of time with the I Ching and know a little bit about ancient chinese thinking. In some ways it is directly the opposite of what we learnt.

All the best. I hope everything turns out ok with your friends.

Say hello to Anne. Peter.