Invite us into your cave, where silence surrounds the answers you gave. On December 8, 2014. Today, I feel helpless. Last night something happened to show me just how helpless we all are. First, I saw a friend of mine with a very sick son. Despite all our medical efforts, he is just waiting. His parents are the most loving, his community supportive, generous, yet still; he is waiting for a heart. And to watch our world. I feel helpless in the face of the racial battles in the blood stream of our nati.

That one sentence has lead me to another level of understanding. There is no secret way, no hidden path toward mastery. The Way of Karate is long and hard and priceless and endless. Solo training late summer nights. Solo training late summer nights. Eight Years and a Shodan.