Hey, it’s been forever since I’ve been able to show some progress, but in the March issue of Shodo Geijutsu, the magazine for my Shodo group, you can read that I made it to yukyu. This is up from 1 kyu. Check out the cover of the mag:
My name has a big old circle above it in the 1 kyu listing.
There are still two levels to go before shodan, but it means that dan is in reach, and possible, something I didn’t really even imagine three years ago when i started this with my daughter.
Woohoo!
B.S. Donovan 
Nice job! : )
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Hey thanks, Bofu. You keeping up with this in Texas?
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I hadn’t been much for the reasons I talked about last time, but I have finally found work, moved to Ohio, and we have a place (and I bought a nice desk) so I’m ready to get to work ; )
I did manage to get my 2nd Dan in kanji though!
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Woohoo! 2 dan. Impressive. So do you send it via email? Or snail mail?
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Snail mail.
Which means I get like one week to practice stuff before I have to send it.
Not ideal but now that I can actually practice each day it should be easier. I’ll just work on assignments when I can and then practice classics the rest of the time.
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Congrats! 🙂
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Hey Thanks! Ocean, did I ever tell you that I used to live in Taiwan (like a million years ago)? You’re from there, right?
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Oh, wow, I had no idea you used to live in Taiwan. Yup, I’m originally from Taiwan, but based in California now.
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Yeah, I studied Mandarin as an undergrad, lived in Taichung for a little over a year. My first experience with calligraphy was at Donghai University. I never touched it again for decades till just three years ago in Japan. Now I’m really enjoying it.
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That’s so cool. I find that calligraphy is like that: a little taste once, and then if you pick it up again later, you’ve been bitten by the calligraphy bug.
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A BBVX wrote Calliope as she jumped onto my keyboard.
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Wow, totally not understanding the comment. Thanks tho.
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The cat jumped on the keyboard hitting Caps Lock and typing out the beginning of that. I was so amused I turned it into a (wry/unexplained/bizarre) comment.
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