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Northern Renaissance / Jan van Hemessen/ The Surgeon

Good day yesterday.  Bad day yesterday.

Went with J. to the Cellos.  As always, the show was amazing.  Ten Cellos, a horn section (with trombone), piano, keyboards, bass, drums.  A couple of "wow" vocalists and 800 or so fellow cult followers made for a damn fine night.  Went with the usual suspect for this particular gig.  I still haven't decided what my feeling are about this one, no clue whatsoever.  The thoughts change every moment.  I am torn as to whether she will make me happy and add ten year to my life, or make me crazy and take take ten years away.  Or for that matter, make me crazy and add ten years to my life or make me happy and take ten years away.  Truth be told, it is unseemly that this kind of thing should come up at this stage in the arc.

Anyway, PcelloP are to be seen.  In my dotage I have become a fanboy.  It's kinda odd.

Screed

A lot of time has been spent in the land of the internet discussing the roles and importance of routine and ritual.  I think that, in theis country, there is a not-very-strong consensus that these kind of things are bad.  I can't say that I agree with such. 

I am tending toward the idea that routines and rituals just kinda point a person to what has sorta worked in the past for some folks, When you go through the process with this kind of thing, it allows you enough emotional and temporal stability to cobble together a process that will allow you to accomplish what else you need in life.  Now, the problem with this kind of thing is that folks think that once they have found the process that works for them, that the problem is solved. 

Folks like this don't seem to get that people aren't cut from the same mold.  Since I doubt sincerely that anyone with the poor time management skills to read this little affectation is of that flavor, I will further address the issue from the point of the view of selecting and honing the rituals that work for you. 

I guess that I am looking hard at the set of rituals that will get me through the next stage.  Until I retire, I will have it easy this way, my rituals and routines anre established and I have the time and energy to structure my day around them.  Pretty simple stuff; get up, personal hygeine, cast the hexagram, read the I Ching and the associated Tao Te Ching, dring coffee, write, travel to work, work, travel back (maybe have a beer or a pizza enroute), get home, read, think for a while, go to bed. 

Now, when I look back at the other routines that I went through in the process of arriving in the here and now, there were a lot of tried and discarded "that didn't work".  I think that this was what a lot of folks refer to as "growing up".  Not to say that I have arrived, but there is an argument to be made about my having made progress..

Nope, each and every one of us needs to work out our own routine/ritual set and keep it updated.  I wish you luck.  Mine needs a lot of work as I go through the next three years.