Reinventology

Edging over shallows

As we wade Into

parts Unknown.

t.parker ©2007

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Something about the word "reinvention" makes my adrenaline buzz and my ideas flash with a paparazzi frenzy. Before I understood what reinvention really meant, (aside from Madonna) I was always reinventing, but chalked it up to being an ungrounded dilettante. In other words, I felt a little critical of that insatiable urge to have an idea and make it happen. Really, I would say, even a wee bit guilty. And I would go further to say, ashamed that I would be so undisciplined to go the route of the imagination as opposed to the status quo.

I had this adolescent notion that the status quo would be my protection. I mean, you don't bite the hand that feeds you, right? Well, after my war of attrition, the hand has drawn back a nub. The phantom limb is pointing me to the unknown territory of being openly inventive. No apologies, unless I forget where I am. 

If you Google Athena, you'll see how the oracle is Queen. If I may dumb it down a little; guys came to her for advice on guy things, but needed a strong woman to ask. After all I've been through life-wise, I draw on that trait and ask myself: WWAD? What would Athena do?

It is sort of like: When the vulnerable path of being seen as an artist of any sort is taken, I need the protection of wisdom; not the status quo. And boy, I will appropriate (see steal) wisdom anywhere I can get it. It is my boat as I set out over these uncharted waters in me.                                                                                                 Image:  "After the bath" by Jerry Dreesen 2006