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We are FROM IWAMA in spirit, anyway! Paul Henderson and Yvonne Thelwell at a Nippon Kan seminar in Denver.

Aiki Jinja in the morning.	Mark Larson throws Stephanie Yap in an Iwama demo. 2000.
Declan Cummings gives me a fine send off. I was saved by my springy twin ponytails. A seminar in Washington D.C. at the invite of Yvonne Thelwell.	Declan was my main uke for my 4th dan demonstration at the 2001 Lake Tahoe Memorial Weekend Seminar, with Bill Witt presiding. He had to put up with my rebellious nature as my demo was unusual. I think he is now in Surrey, in his native England.
I discovered Izawa Sensei giving an astonishing demo in Denver, Colorado, and became his student until graduate school intervened. The moment was captured by someone here. 2001.	Kei Izawa, PY, and Takako Sonobe at a taichi festival in Boulder. Two really great friends. Where is Sonobe, now?
Sean Hollander and I at a the Lake Tahoe seminar, 2001. He kept the TAA website for several years, and I taught him the 31 jo kata on a boat pier by Lake Tahoe. His resulting sunburn made him curse me for several days, I am sure. He now teaches Japanese in Arkansas.