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2000 And Beyond
My schedule is still part time but increasing. My Black Belts have remained here and loyal. They have saved our school. Given of themselves for the past two years regardless of their own schedules. All of the Black Belts of the association from every school have been there at my call, at any time, for any reason. Not one ever left any doubt of that. There are no words.
Sensei Endrizzi is back in the association along with his school and Black Belts, and Sensei Hoover after a recent move has been talking about a Kentucky associated school. Master Ed Mathna, a constant at the headquarters dojo since 1975, made a move to Arizona, but has been involving himself in as much as possible to keep his membership in the association active. And a Black Belt of mine was recently made Chief of Police in a local town. Life has continued on.
As I have expressed to all of them, we are now beyond an association, we are a Clan, a warrior family. Distance has no meaning.
My illness may have held us up a bit, but we are still here and momentum is picking up. We haven't lost any ground. Our future is still out there waiting on us to arrive. And arrive we will. Growing and improving with each step.
As I finish this "Brief History" we are moving into the actual start of the new
millennium. It seems as if it has taken forever to write this thing, and only overnight to live it.
Reflection shows so much packed into those years. The people we have come in contact with, the things we have seen and done. More than once we have been part of history. How fortunate we have been.
As I recuperate I find that I have come full circle and been given the wonderful chance to once again be a beginner. Missing muscle has changed my center and thus dictates I make corrections and find my new center in order to shift weight as is necessary.
I ask those of you who are experienced. Wasn't that when it was best? To put on that white belt, to be a beginner. The struggle, the sweat. I know this road. I have traveled it before. With luck, perhaps I can hit the same potholes again.
Forward • 1960's • 1970's • 1980's • 1990's • 2000 and beyond...... • Acknowledgements
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