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Loving to Learn: The Warrior Within; BLESSINGSπ₯π₯π₯π₯π₯π₯π₯π₯π₯π₯π₯π₯π₯π₯π₯π₯π₯π₯π₯π₯π₯π₯π₯π₯π₯
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Remember that Your Are Never Too Old To Learn New Skills
Dedicated to Chuck Norris: Rest in Peace!
βBe like water, my friendββ Bruce Lee
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standing tall. . .
being proud with my chest out . .
being reborn as a warrior and a samurai . . .
growing up in Asia, both in Korea and in Japan. . .
having earned many black belts in many styles. . ..
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standing tall. . .
believing in myself. . . .
testing for another black belt test. . .
passing last week though I am in my 60's. . .
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standing tall. . .
grabbing my chest. . .
rushing to the Emergency Room again. . .
suffering from pains from Post Cancer treatments. . .
having gone some 1000 times in the last five years . .. .
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standing tall. . .
training hard, daily. . . .
trying to rebuild my life, my body, and my soul. . .
having publishers wanting my books all my time. . . .
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standing tall. . . .
remembering being a gymnast, one of the best . . .
training hard, having the UCLA coach noticing me. . . .
dreaming of the future, having a major injury, quitting.
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standing tall. . .
repeating a mantra of healing. . .
giving monies to homeless in wheel chairs. . .
learning and accepting to never ever give up hope. . .
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NEVER EVER GIVE UP. . . . .
. . . .. NEVER EVER GIVE UP. . . . .
. . . . . . . . NEVER EVER GIVE UP. . . . .
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Thank you so much for reading this, for it is strange to one week being in the emergency room and the next week testing for another black belt and passing. . . .
indeed, cancer destroyed my health, but I defeated cancer twice, for I was stage 4, and told I was going to die, . . . I am rebuilding my body. . . .
I eat black fermented garlic, kimchi and white coffee from Malaysia, not coffee and cream, a special coffee. I also make kimchi pancakes from green coffee powder. . . and I only eat green bananas and the skin.. . . Yummy
I am back. . . . though last month I went to the ER about 5 times, I also passed a test of mastery, another rank of black belt.
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Watch My Ted Talk > Buy me some Coffee> LOL
My cancer bills were over $4,000,000.00!
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SAMURAI SAM AND WILD DRAGONS ππ
DR. WAYNE STEIN Ted Talk Speaker, Amazon Author, Asian Gothic Scholar; Yoga Certified, Black Belts. Writer Program Admin, Writing Center Director, Cancer Survivor, Korean Born , Raised in Japan and Italy, grew up In Los Angeles. ππ
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Love this so much!
You are an inspiration.
WOW! You're an inspiration! I'm so glad that you are healing and on the mend. I'm about to go watch your Ted Talk now! β¨
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Beautiful, testimony my dear. I absolutely love your poem. Stay blessed S β₯οΈβ₯οΈβ₯οΈππ
Wow such a powerful testimony! Love your poem. Very inspiring.