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Six months of planning. Uncountable hours of preparation. Like cultivating a soil that will bring forth a burst of brilliance and flower, this has been my life this past year.The first international Classic Formula class in Nanjing with Dr Huang has wound its course. Nourishing as a long cooked soup, where flavors slip and blend into a more complex creation, the knowledge and skill of Huang, combined with the experience and inquiry of the practitioners who travel from a world away created two weeks of rich exchange that will be a benefit drunk by our patients. While it was my intentions and effort that built the frame, and strung the weft. And my ability to shuttle between languages helped to weave the tapestry that was to unfold, however as the vehicle I didn’t so often get to see or experience the collage of thread and connection that are the tapestry itself.This trip, however, has not been for me. It has been for the practitioners that entrusted their time and effort to this endeavor. It has been for Dr. Huang, to give him a chance to teach a western group of doctors. And it has been for the pursuit of taking the seeds of an ancient medicine that offers solutions to modern problems, and planting them in a foreign and ready soil..The success of this class lies not with one person. The ever dependable Andrea Elliott, with her excellent Chinese language, and more importantly cultural skills, and our master of arrangements Tracy Wang were responsible to hiding the complexity of structure that supported us in our two weeks with Dr. Huang.They get the credit for making this event run smoothly, in a country where things rarely run smoothly.….And then, there were the practitioners who came from America and Italy. Seasoned and thoughtful doctors who brought their thirst for knowledge and desire to be of service to their patients. They were the water and sunlight that gave Dr Huang the opportunity to share this ideas and experience in ways that will no doubt help all of us to serve our communities, and to further the development of Classic Formulas in our own lands!

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