"All good things must come o and end"

I have always been very fond of Tove Jansson’s Moomin family books, ever since reading them to my children when they were young, and even now buying their calendar each year, so that their lovely pictures smile at me each day in my kitchen.  I have also bought two small table mats which  cheer me each time I put my tea-cup on them.  One has Moominpappa saying “The world is full of great and wonderful things for those who are ready for them”,  and the other has Moominmamma telling me that “ All nice thing are good for you”. 

I am thinking of both these Moomin sayings in writing this blog, because I am giving it the title of another proverb very much on the lines of my Moomin mats. Guy and I have now decided that it is no longer feasible for us to continue running our regular twice-yearly SOFEA clinical seminars. I am now in my 90^th year and no longer in practice, and have also made my last visit to China.  Guy is extremely busy carrying on my legacy over there in Beijing, putting together a programme which will eventually become  a Chinese five element teaching course, based on my Handbook of Five Element Practice, but with all the necessary modifications which Chinese acupuncture qualifications demand.

 

So all the good things which my many visits to China have created, not least my friendship with the many Chinese five element acupuncturists who have attended my seminars in their hundreds, and the support of Professor  Liu Lihong in actively promoting five element acupuncture over the past more than 10 years, are now sadly coming to an end, but  what will never end, though, is the enthusiasm with which it has been welcomed in China, nor the warm feelings my time in China evoke in me.  So Moomimnmamma is right,”All nice things are good for you.”