a short-short story writer's new year resolution

third week in January is as close to the new year as a writer needs to get to advertise a resolution:

Keeping still. Keeping his back still
so he no longer feels his body.
He goes into his courtyard
and does not see his people.

Hold to him in truth and loyalty;
this is without blame.
Truth, like a full earthen bowl;
thus in the end
good fortune comes from without.

[Nothing]

… it must have been owing to some misapprehension, or perhaps to chance that this commentary on the text of the individual lines found its way into the Commentary on the Images.

Youthfully folly has success.
It is not I who seek the young fool…

Its coming is sudden;
it flames up, dies down, is thrown away.

These definitions have […] been separated and placed with the negative hexagrams under the heading 'Miscellaneous Notes'.

The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony; this is what furthers and what perseveres.

Waiting on the sand.
There is some gossip.
The end brings good fortune.

Waiting in the mud
brings about the arrival of the enemy.
'Waiting in the mud'. The misfortune is outside.
'Brings about the arrival of the enemy'. Seriousness and caution prevent defeat.