I just heard a moment ago that one of my dear students, Tis from the Hackney class, passed away very suddenly two days ago. Phil and Tis had started T'ai Chi a year or so ago but couldn't continue again until September when they joined my class. They were both always full of such enthusiasm and Tis smiled in such a broad and deep way when something resonated with her or some seeming paradox amused her. I just spoke with her partner Phil, a friendly, warm man and a perceptive student, who had called me to apologise that he wouldn't be at class for a while but hadn't abandoned his T'ai Chi. I send love and deepest sympathy on behalf of the whole class.