The Well

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Sorry Mike, no update today.  Mind is a wandering and when I cast the exact same hexagram (Hexagram 48 (The Well) with a moving line at the bottom) I have to sit up and pay notice.  

 

 

One does not drink the mud of the well.

No animals come to an old well.

Then good old Jeff sent me a link to a video "Don't Let the Old Man In".  Lots of folks like me need to watch it.

Some folks see this as a call to return to childhood, to become an adolescent again, to breathe again the irresponsibility and the solipsism of youth.

Fuck that:  I am going to arrest things at being forty or so.  Back when you really hit your stride.  Back when you hit your power.  Gonna work for a couple of years yet.  Student loans, surreptitious supplements to the memory care facility to make Mom's life more comfortable, a pile of stock options from defunct companies, and 2008 all conspire against not working.

 So I think that I will keep the old man out by walking out the door of the house every day before he gets there and locking the door behind me.  I will remain among the living.