July 13th-A Fallen Brother

One of the reasons I missed practice recently is that a fellow aikidoka and a good friend just had an operation stemming from an injury sustained in the dojo. I won't get into all the details here, but my girlfriend and I visited him the day after surgery. We brought him juice and wished him a speedy recovery. He's out and back at work. He may take a hiatus from aikido, but his ki is still strong.