THE MIGHTY MEZ OF THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS INVITES YOU TO UNRAVEL THE THREADS AND MYSTERIES OF LIFE, DREAMS, SONG, AND SPIRITUAL PARABLE IN THIS I CHING EPISODE #4.

Inspired by the clear and evocative 1985 translation of the I CHING, by Kerson and Rosemary Huang - a team of a poet and physicist-poet, I kept a diary of musical interpretations of hexagrams which appeared to me when I consulted the oracle over the course of a year. HEXAGRAM 33: RETREAT (Bill Mesnik) "Form is transitory, acquiescing in the flow" I'm yielding to the circumstances, being still and letting go, open to the transformation - going with the flow. I'm gone with the flow in the grip of the tide I don't know - nobody knows if I'll see you on the flip side. What we see ain't what we get, it's not under our control - the tide surges up, then leaves us flat in the midnight coaster roll What's the point in making scenes, or, inscribing your little name in stone, When the tide surges up and the beach is swept clean into endless, timeless unknown? I'm gone with the tide in the grip of the flow - Whether or not I'll be purified well, I just don't know. HEXAGRAM 42: INCREASE (Bill Mesnik) "The time of increase does not endure, therefore it must be utilized while it lasts." One hand strengthens the other; on the other hand, I might fall. Could you lend a hand, my brother? I don't have much, but I could lose it all. I'll follow your instructions; you seem to know the way, I played right through the harvest, now my stores are empty at the dark of the day. I heard warnings about the future, but I turned the other way, music soothed my apprehension, and my passions held sway. Now I'm looking for a harbor, and I saw your firelight. Might I bide awhile in your cabin to pass away the dampening night? HEXAGRAM 13: WATCHING (Bill Mesnik) I'm watching - watching... letting things play out in time Although I'm invested in the outcome, I'm just watching, and trailing behind. In the dawn - the anxious dawn... before the pulse of the day, Should it come to pass the shadows grip you, you may not be able to have a say. We are travelers - fond travelers sharing this path for a mile, Although I may want to protect you, we'll only be together a little while. So, I'm watching, watching... letting things play out in time. although I'm invested in the outcome, I'm just watching, and trailing behind.