'Leave Your Ego at the Door'

One of the wonderful things about training in Aikido is the opportunity to share the art with others. Recently the Dan Shumaker of the St. Paul Community Reporter paper wrote an article on the Dojo called 'Leave Your Ego at the Door.'

The idea of the Training Scholarship is wonderfully described by Ray Bradbury in Fahrenheit 451, when he writes:

"Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you're there. It doesn't matter what you do, he said, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away. The difference between the man who just cuts lawns and a real gardener is in the touching, he said. The lawn-cutter might just as well not have been there at all; the gardener will be there a lifetime."

What will you "leave behind" as your legacy?