I Ching I Chang I Change

Continuing on from my previous post, Trish MacGregor made another comment on Adele's web site (here):

Trish says:January 10, 2013 at 11:50 pm got the book review on dashboard. You know you have undertaken a lifetime commitment, right? And you must have some insight into how the i ching embraces that commitment? I love this book…

Adele Aldridge says: January 11, 2013 at 7:02 am  Thanks Trish – well I think I have already spent one life time working on this. My biggest fear is not being able to finish it. Constant work and constant interruptions. Maybe I should call those interruptions “changes.”

Trish's mention of the “I ching” and then Adele's last word, “changes ” caught my eye... and ear... given that "ching" and "change" are pretty close in spelling, and this in turn reminded me of a name  from my recent post, Abracadabra:

• Ha-Joon Chang

Ching and Chang are that much closer in spelling.   Note the following from Chang's wiki page:

Influences	Robert Rowthorn

Well, for one we have another addition to the "Rob/Bob Theme" pattern-cluster, and his surname breaks down into a cryptic "row thorn"... an addition to the recent "Row" and "Flower" pattern-cluster (see yesterdays post Rich by Itch).  Note from his wiki page:

• Robert "Bob" Rowthorn (born 20 August 1939) 

My father's birthday is also August 20.  

Note from the I Ching wiki page:

The I Ching ([î tɕíŋ]), or Classic of Changes

The name Zhou yi literally means the "changes" (Chinese: 易; pinyin: Yì) of the Zhou dynasty. The "changes" involved have been interpreted as the transformations of hexagrams, of their lines, or of the numbers obtained from the divination.^[8] Feng Youlan proposed that the word for "changes" originally meant "easy"

And so we have a "Changes" pattern-cluster.  Note from Feng Youlan's wiki page:

• Feng Youlan (Chinese: 馮友蘭; Wade–Giles: Feng Yu-lan; 4 December 1895 – 26 November 1990)

His birthday stands out given that together with the birthday of my dog, Bailey, we have a "December 4, January 5, ___/ Date Sequence" pattern-cluster.  So bridging the February 6 gap, we use the "Formula" as per usual, arriving at:

• Jimmy Roberts (April 6, 1923 – February 6, 1999) 
• Philip F. Walters ( 20 April 1916, died 6 February 2000)  

First of all, Walters was born on the 111th day of the year!!!
And now we have a "February 6, ___, April 6/ 6th Day, Month Sequence" pattern cluster.  Bridging the March 6 gap... and cutting to the chase, we arrive at:

• Louisa May Alcott (November 29, 1832 – March 6, 1888) 

Alcott's date of birth is just 2 off from Youlan's date of death.   And they both miss the mark when considering the following info :

• November 28 is the 332nd day of the year (333rd in leap years)...33 days remaining