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Yesterday on a break at work, I spent some time meditating and looking at my new scooter keys and my keychain. I decided it was a good exercise to organize the whole thing – getting rid of any keys I no longer needed.

The whole process got me to thinking about keys in and of themselves. I became instantly fascinated in how they work – the power we all trust in with their intricate and complex bumps.

Anyone who knows me well knows how annoyed I am with locking things up – I think it’s obnoxious to put faith in midnight rituals of making sure all the doors are locked in your house. This mostly stems from the way I grew up in the country where we never had to lock a door (we were robbed twice by the way… but we still never got into the habit of locking up).

I usually find it more of an inconvenience to make sure all the doors are secure – I don’t know how many times I’ve had to waste waiting for a tow truck to come open a door where the keys are still in the ignition, or hours spent trying to climb in through a window because I left the house key on the counter.

I remembered being in a buddhist monastery for a college retreat and having to wait around while the monks search frantically for a set of keys to open the doors to the temple. That one has always confused me.

Anyway. I was on my break and I was playing with my keys, and I wondered how hard it would be to learn to pick locks.

Here’s where the Storm-trooper/Melchizedek weirdness reared it’s head:

About an hour after my break this landed in my rss feed:

Guide to picking locks

WTF? This was on a productivity blog. Why the hell are they posting about picking locks? Because I psychically googled it?

I am thinking about ways to use this strange coincidence in a ritual practice.
Hopefully this weekend I can go to the University Village key copy place
and buy 1 key that can not open any locks (it has not been cut). Then I will seek out a “skeleton key” that will open any lock. These seem like two good amulets to have in my possession.

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