Mexico-All Along the Watchtower
10.10.10 · Chronological Time · Myth Beginning Again
The CallReinventing the Wheel
All Along the Watchtower becomes a meditation on circular time, coming endings, and the choice to grow older without surrendering curiosity.
The Opening Signal
Some Kind of Way Out of Here
“There must be some kind of way out of here,”
Said the joker to the thief.
With 10.10.10 only two days away, I was looking forward to the cataclysm and the Second Coming.
The date felt less like a point on a calendar and more like a reset button disguised as a number.
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All Along the Watchtower
Chronological Time
The Song Begins at the End
“All Along the Watchtower” carries the audacity of Dylan’s manipulation of chronological time.
At the conclusion of the last verse, it is as if the song finally begins. The ending opens the door. Myth starts again.
The wheel has not been escaped. It has been reinvented.
The Watchtower Equation
Ending + Return + Repetition = Myth RenewedRegressive Aging
Growing Older Without Growing Up
My own aging feels regressive these days, not progressive.
I am the Bob Dylan of the fifty-somethings.
Growing old is not optional. Growing up is.
The calendar moves in one direction. Curiosity does not have to.