Tonight I trained at Alberta park, the normal place I practice martial arts on Wednesday evenings. My normal training mates weren’t there, so it was just me practicing my stuff, whatever that is. I did my Physical Therapy exercises at the park tonight, then I marched around to songs I played in my earbuds. Sometimes I pretended my stick was a sword. Sometimes I pretended I was leading a marching band and the stick was my staff. Sometimes I pretended I was looking to the sky for my imaginary pet pegasus.
Anyway, there were two groups of basketball players, and two groups of fighters. Capoeistas, 3 out of 4 of whole were ladies (yay!) and two fellas practicing something that looked more like boxing off in the distance.
There were also people who had set up a slackline that they were practicing on, and jugglers juggling light-up pins. The mood was happy, a little festive, people were really enjoying themselves, and the weather was beautiful.
Michelle Folk Johnson 