Hair standing on end

It was yesterday.
We began day one of our week long Katathon.

I like to play music.
I feel like a DJ using tunes that I have eclectic added to my personally
burned CD's
We only did the first 10 kata, ten times each.

I began with
Keith Urban, "Better life"
Santana..."Black Magic Woman"
Spanish Tango music
Kenny "G"
Music from Riverwind (a 60's musical)
"Free Fallin" by Tom Petty?
and others
HOWEVER
the very last song I announced to the group:
"I'm going to be very magnanimous and one of you gets to pick a track".
Pick a number from one to 21
and
one of the girls yelled out:
"4"
I said:
"Okay, track 4 it is with 5 more kata left to go"
I asked if everyone had seen this weeks changeable letter sign on the
museum wall. A few people said no, so we took a walk outside into
the Museum parking lot and read the sign:
Happy 75th B. Day
Ansei Ueshiro
459-3000
Karate

and then I said:
"Even though he died in 2002, we keep his story alive.
and you can connect with him any time you want, just nod
your head....but you've got to be feeling really good to
connect with his vibration, at least, that's what I believe"!

Then we went inside and I lined everyone up for Fukyugata san,
(Master Ueshiro's kata, composed in 1960)
We made one straight line down the center of the Museum.
Me in the very front followed by belt ranks in descending order.

We were facing the 9 foot high enamel painting of Master Ueshiro wearing the black
kimona holding the fan.

Bushio warrior wear the black kimona and the fan is a symbol of Okinawa.
I ran a karate school with Ansie Ueshiro
for 10 years across from
Grand Central Station and
the Waldorf Astoria.
He is connected to my heart.




I yelled:
"Kio-tsuke (attention), Rei (bow), Kata Fukyugata san (basic form number one), yoi (ready)",
then I ran to the CD player and cliked track # 4,
ran back to my place in line
and Yelled: "hajime (begin)",
We began the last five kata
The track played "Julia" by the Beetles.

Oh my gaud!
: )
Okay it wasn't Judy in disguise with glasses
and my name isn't Julia
but Jew, Jew, Jewwwwwwww-leeeee-eeee-aaaaahhhhhhh
It might as well have been Jeeeeew-uuuuuuuuu-ddddd--eeeeeeeee!

I felt as though Master Ueshiro was singing to me a love song
as
our first group of Katathon 2008 preformed
the last five kata, his kata Fugugata-san.

We began and ended with a bow and the last bow ended right
presicely at the end of the Julia song!
That song took us to the 100th kata.
My hair was standing on end and I was and still am giddy with appreciation
and
a knowing that he was and is with us, now and forever, Amen!
Thank you for listening,
Judy Barnhart