Jostling the Hips

Mike Garofalo practicing Yang Style Taijiquan, Fair Lady Works the Shuttles posture.

One of my favorite periods of the year in Red Bluff, California, is from March until May. The temperatures are very comfortable. The grass is green everywhere. The energy of earth and air are rising. An excellent time for "jostling the hips" outdoors while doing taijiquan, qigong, and walking.

"Spring slattern of seasons
you have soggy legs
and a muddy petticoat
drowsy

is your hair your
eyes are sticky with
dream and you have a sloppy body from

being brought to bed of crocuses
when you sing in your whisky voice
the grass rises on the head of the earth
and all the trees are put on edge

spring
of the excellent jostle of
thy hips
and the superior"

- E. E. Cummings, Spring Onmipotent Goddess Thou