Green Way

Months of the Year
Poems, Quotes, Lore, Weather, Gardening Chores, Links
http://www.egreenway.com/months/index.htm
Published by Michael P. Garofalo

Cloud Hands Website: Tai Chi Chuan and Qigong
http://www.egreenway.com/taichichuan/index.htm
Published by Michael P. Garofalo

In 2007, there were 1,040,263 webpages (excluding graphics) served to people all around the world from the domain folder www.egreenway.com/taichichuan

This website includes webpages on the Yang, Sun, and Chen styles of Taijiquan and many forms on Qigong. It also includes sub-folders on meditation, walking, yoga, and esoterica.

The most popular webpages requested were the Staff, Eight Section Brocade, Yang Long Form, Yang Short Form, Index Homepage, and the Qigong Homepage.

In addition, over 890,000 webpages (excluding graphics) were distributed from the subfolder on Months (http://www.egreenway.com/months/index.htm).

Therefore, the total 2007 traffic in webpages served from the domain www.egreenway.com was 1,930,263 webpages served.

The statistics for October 2006 usage at www.egreenway.com shows that readers around the world requested 180,243 webpages excluding graphics files (.jpg and .gif).

For the 2006 year, based on statistical analysis, www.egreenway.com sent out the following number of webpages:

Mind-Body Arts
Cloud Hands: Tai Chi Chuan and Qigong Website;
Yoga, Meditation, and Fitness Websites
1,123,900 webpages in 2006

Months Website and Green Way Blog
749,300 webpages in 2006
Of this total, the Green Way Blog is served to an average of
438 persons each day or 160,000 each year.
The Cloud Hands Blog is hosted by Blogger and usage statistics are not available.

Total for www.egreenway.com in webpages served:
1,873,200 webpages in 2006

I estimate that the Cloud Hands: Taijiquan and Qigong Website will have served 2,263,900 webpages to people around the world from January 1, 2003 until December 31, 2006.

2005 Statistical Report

“I was so happy to read your walking meditation. I wrote to my sweetie to get him to go outside and walk. That writing made me remember. My garden is awake but I have a few problematic areas from a bad wind storm. I never give up even when adversity comes. I have to place a few annuals to cover the spots until things heal. Thank you for your thought-provoking website. It inspires me to write and observe my garden more.”
- Anetta Barnes, 6/1/06

“And while I’m throwing a whole lot of the world’s most glorious things at you, I will tell
you that one of my favorite websites to stroll through is Michael Garofalo’s
Spirit of Gardening, which has a lot to say about complexity and simplicity.”
- Lisa Schamess, The Truth Hurts, 6/5/06

“This is the best collection of quality quotes I have ever seen! It has great related links too. I appreciate the vegetarian quotes since I have been a vegetarian since the age of 13. This is my second year as a gardener. I have an herb garden with 12 herbs that are flourishing and a vegetable garden. I’m looking forward to exploring more of your sites.”
- Yvonne Bergeron, 6/4/2006

“I like your website. It is so nice that you already have the Taijiquan Camp information on it. I am going to pass that to my Qi Dragon people to read about our recent camp.”
- Liping Julia Zhu, 6/20/2006

“No suggestions. Just writing to say…. Wow! What an exhaustive list you’ve compiled! I am studying Qigong and T’ai Chi in Portland, OR, with a deeply Taoist teacher, and it has changed my life in many ways. My teacher is leaving to go live in a monastery in China, returning actually. So, I am curious who else is out there teaching, and it’s a lot! I don’t think I’ll easily find another teacher so steeped in the deep mysticism of taoism, so I may simply practice and practice and when the right teacher is there….I’ll find them. Anyway, just want to express my gratitude to you for putting so much information in one place. You seem like a good man!”
- Benno Lyon, 6/16/06

“Hello Mike, Greetings again from Portland, OR. Just used one of your delightful quotes as a footnote for our condo community veg garden emails I just sent out. I did a search on your site and could not find one of my favourite little poems, though it may be there. So, I thought to share it. Planting One for the mouse One for crow. One to rot, One to grow.”
As always, grateful thanks for the wonderful website to browse, I spend hours just reading and enjoying. Hope you had a good visit to Portland to see your children earlier this spring. My husband and I are transplants from South Africa and thoroughly enjoying our NW gardening experience. Best to you, Terese.”
- Terese, 6/19/2006

“I wish you had been around back in 1972, I might have stuck with Taijiquan. Now I’m having to start all over. Very good website! Thanks.”
- James Moore, 6/21/06

“Your website is excellent. It is a great feeling to find someone like yourself who values Chinese cultural practices so much.”
- Master Xiansheng Bing YeYoung, Sacramento, CA, 6/27/06

The Spirit of Gardening

Cloud Hands: T’ai Chi Ch’uan and Chi Kung

100,000 Hits Reached

This blog has been served to 100,986 readers since it was started in August 2005.

Lately, it has been served to an average of 541 persons each day.

I hope the blog provides some pleasure and insight to its readers.

Thank You!

My first post was:

“What a wondrous life is this I lead!
Ripe apples drop about my head;
The luscious clusters of the vine
Upon my mouth do crush their wine;
The nectarine and curious peach
Into my hands themselves do reach;
Stumbling on melons, as I pass,
Ensnared with flowers, I fall on grass.”
-Andrew Marvell, Thoughts in a Garden

Green Way Wisdom - Summer

The Spirit of Gardening

Books that I am currently reading:

365 Days of Walking the Red Road: The Native American Path to Leading a Spiritual
Life Every Day. By Terri Jean. Avon, Massachusetts, Adams Media Corp., 2003. 360 pages.
ISBN: 1580628494. A collection of quotations arranged by the days of the year. Includes facts

and biographies pertinent to Native American culture.

The Long Road Turns to Joy: A Guide to Walking Meditation. By Thich Nhat Hanh.
Berkeley, California, Parallax Press, 1996. Revised edition. 74 pages.
ISBN: 093807783X.

Chi Walking: The Five Mindful Steps for Lifelong Health and Energy. By Danny Dreyer and
Katherine Dreyer. New York, Simon and Schuster, A Fireside Book, 2006. Index, 258 pages.
ISBN: 0743267206.

Mount Analogue. A Tale of Non-Euclidian and Symbolically Authentic Mountaineering
Adventures. By René Daumal. Translated from the French by Carol Cosman. Woodstock,
New York, Overlook Press, Tusk Ivories, 2004. 120 pages. ISBN: 1585673420.

Food for Solitude: Menus, Meditations to Heal Body, Mind and Soul. By Francine Schiff. Rockport,
Massachusetts, Element Press, 1992. 271 pages. ISBN: 1852301813.

Websites that I enjoyed visiting:

Center for Contemplative Mind in Society

Tai Chi Heartworks

Dynamic Balancing Tai Chi

A Butterfly Flaps Its Wings Notes on the Way

“Hi Michael, I bow to your work! It is truly amazing. It amazes me all the more for a special reason: in the 90s I published a novel titled “Rabenwelt (Raven World)” in German, and a key character there is a Hawaiian-Korean “Zen Gardener” called Mr. “I am just a simple gardener” Makani. When I started browsing your website, I really felt moved and thought: hell - Master Makani has his own website now. Really beautiful and great work! Keep going! Kind regards from Germany.”
- Stefan Thiesen, 5/1/06
Mind Quest, http://www.mindquest.info

“I stumbled on the site in search of arbors. What a delight! So friendly. Thanks for sharing. I’m a native daughter transplanted to Pahrump, NV. Desert landscaping and gardening is by trial and error. Loving the sun however, after living a number of years in Washington state.”
- Kay Turner, 5/12/06, www.symmetrydirect.com/KTURNER

“I was a student of Cheng Man-ch’ing’s son Patrick in New York City in 1971 and 1972. I would like to contact Patrick. I would also like to thank you for you website. I live in Portland, Oregon and often travel to the Bay area. I will stop next time and take a class if it is possible to drop in. I play the bass fiddle and would like to link your site to my teaching materials. Thank you for your fine work. Best wishes!”
- Glen Moore, 5/22/06

“Walking Meditation Resources is an exhaustive resource for walking and standing meditation.”
- Graham English, Intergral Conversations, 5/26/06

The Way of Long Life and Long Vision
Includes reflections on I Ching, leadership, longevity practices, Chinese tea and books.
By Ren Qizhen.

“I went off alone at daybreak
through places without a trail,
In and out, up and down,
while the heavy mist
Made mountains and brooks
sparkle with green and purple.
Sometimes I saw huge pines and oaks,
each wider than ten arms around.

In the current I went barefoot,
stepping on stones in the streams,
With sounds of rushing water,
and the wind blowing in my clothes.
Moments like these in our lives
bring a joy in themselves –
Why must we stay fettered and tied,
put in the harness by others?

But then with a sigh I think of those lads,
the two or three of my circle –
How could I manage to stay here until old
and never return home again?”

- Han Xiangzi

Annual Usage Report for: www.gardendigest.com

Usage Report for the Month of November 2005

Detailed statistics are available for the exact usage per webpage for all webpages
at the www.gardendigest.com domain. All statistics are for .htm or .html webpages
served; and exclude counts for graphics files (.jpg or .gif) served as part of these webpages.

In November, 2005, the usage report showed the following number of webpages
(.htm or .html) served from the domain:

Spirit of Gardening 112, 523
www.gardendigest.com/

Cuttings: Haiku Poetry 35,444
www.gardendigest.com/poetry/

Concrete Poetry 19,597
www.gardendigest.com/concrete/

Zen Poetry 11,655
www.gardendigest.com/zen/

String Figures 7,439
www.gardendigest.com/string/

Total 186,658
www.gardendigest.com

Annual Estimates for 2005: www.gardendigest.com

Factoring in the fact that the summer months (June - September) have less usage than the
October - May period, I can make a reasonable estimate of usage of the webpages (.htm or .hrml)
at the www.gardendigest.com domain, excluding graphics files (.jpg and .gif) served.

In 2005, I estimate that www.gardendigest.com served the following number of webpages
(excluding graphics files: .jpg and .gif) to people around the world:

Spirit of Gardening 1,148,000
www.gardendigest.com/

Cuttings: Haiku Poetry 362,000
www.gardendigest.com/poetry/

Concrete Poetry 200,000
www.gardendigest.com/concrete/

Zen Poetry 119,000
www.gardendigest.com/zen/

String Figures 76,000
www.gardendigest.com/string/

Total 1,905,000
www.gardendigest.com

The Spirit of Gardening website has served up over 8 million webpages from
January 1, 1999 through December 31, 2005.
www.gardendigest.com/index.htm
and
www.egreenway.com/months/index.htm

The Poetry Webpages have served up over 2,298,000 webpages from
March 1, 2000 through December 31, 2005.

The Cloud Hands: Taijiquan and Qigong website has served up
over 1,240,000 webpages from January 1, 2003 through December 31, 2005.
www.egreenway.com/taichichuan/index.htm

Kudos, Praise, Awards, and Feedback for November, 2005:

I have been publishing webpages since 1995, and still remain highly motived to continue my on-line publishing and other creative efforts. I find delight in researching and writing on topics of keen interest to me. I satisfy an ongoing desire to learn more about the advances in computer software and hardware. I enjoy the many pleasures of social computing, and in making new friends on-line. It is very satisfying to develop a product or service that is popular with readers. Web publishing has opened doors for me to earn a good part-time income as a writer and webmaster. My professional development as a librarian (M.S. L.S.) has expanded greatly over the last decade because of web publishing. My philosophical interests are able to flower and bear seed, and my “love of wisdom” continues to grow.

I get e-mail feedback from numerous readers every day. Many offer good suggestions for improving a webpage or blog I publish. A few disagree with my comments and ideas. Many write to thank me for my publications, praise my work, and encourage me to continue. Some thank me for helping them find a bit of information that they had been looking for on the Internet. Some want to exchange links because of common interests.

I thank everyone who has taken the time to write to me. I answer all legitimate email messages sent to me.
Best wishes to you all for a fine winter!

Some of the positive feedback I get is posted on the last day of each month in the Valley Spirit Journal.

The Spirit of Gardening website has a long kudos, feedback, and awards webpage.

The Cloud Hands: Taijiquan and Qigong website also has an extensive kudos, feedback, and awards webpage.

The statistics for October usage at www.egreenway.com shows that readers around the world requested 144,910 webpages (excluding .jpg and .gif graphics files).

For the 2005 year, based on statistical analysis, www.egreenway.com sent out the following number of webpages:

Mind-Body Arts
Cloud Hands: Tai Chi Chuan and Qigong Website
Yoga, Meditation, and Fitness Websites
903,600 webpages in 2005

Months Website and Green Way Blog
602,400 webpages in 2005

Total for www.egreenway.com in webpages served:
1,506,000 webpages in 2005

I estimate that the Cloud Hands: Taijiquan and Qigong Website will have served 1,240,000 webpages to people around the world from January 1, 2003 until December 31, 2005.