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       Stardate: 20230814.1510 
       Location: Family Room
       Input Device: Steam Deck (navi) attached to TV.
       Audio: Downstairs dryer
       Visual: TV with boxes running debian vm running Xfce with x2go 
               session attached to lab workstation running ratpoison/nano.
       Energy: 50%
       Mental: 50%
       Emotional: questioning.  
       
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       "...If our work does not support our soul, then the soul will exact 
       its butcher's bill elsewhere.  Wherever the soul's agenda is not 
       served, some pathology will service in the arena of daily life.
       
       We may choose careers, but we do not choose vocation.  Vocation 
       chooses us.  *To choose what chooses us* is a freedom the by-product 
       of which will be a sense of rightness and a harmony within, even if 
       lived out in the world of conflict, absent validation, and at 
       considerable personal cost.
       
       Too often we remain in service to the agenda of the first half of 
       life when the soul has already moved on to the agenda of the second.  
       In the first half of life there is a place for ambition, for the 
       driving powers of the ego, which compel us to over throw our fears 
       and to step into the world.  As we have seen, the chief task of the 
       first half of life is to build a sense of ego strength sufficient to 
       engage relationship, social role expectations, and to support 
       oneself.  But we all fall into an overidentification with the ego and 
       these various roles, no matter how worthy they may be, and often they 
       are not, ego identifications alone will not suffice to satisfy the 
       soul over the long run..." [1]
       
       [1] Hollis, James.  Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life: How 
       To Finally, Really Grow Up.
       
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