Sometimes the veil slips for a brief moment and all is well. Thoughts march into an orderly formation and heed the call to arms. Battle plans are drawn, and the campaign begins its procession into inevitable glory. Doubt and disillusion are trampled and vanquished, and the heavens part with a burst of brilliantly orchestrated eight part brass fanfares.
But not too often.
Most of the time our mental barracks is litter-strewn with yesterday’s hung over ideas and amorphous notions desperate to go AWOL or praying for the firing squad.
Even though I think I’m pretty good at keeping the creative troops in line, there is always the threat of mutiny and breaking of ranks. Since I am now tired of beating this metaphor to death, I’ll try and get more specific: As someone who makes their living through a creative pursuit, I have to keep sharp through work lulls, which are, as anyone who actually does this kind of work knows, becoming more frequent within this economy. Though I am fortunate enough to have had a certain level of achievement in my career, I’m always looking to do more, so I’ve really been digging the whole social networking thing and trying to understand how it might wind up impacting my career, or provide a base of operations (sorry) for stimulating the artistic side of things. After a couple of months of going at this, Tweeting, Blogging, Facebooking etc, I suspect it comes down to just putting it out there and truly welcoming the unplanned encounter with the unexpected. Not to get all “The Secret” on you, but if the idea is “ask and ye shall receive”, well, cool, I’m asking the cyber- universe to keep the interesting connections coming and let them manifest into some kind of mutually beneficial reality. Summit meetings at my place kids-all participants welcome.
Forward March.
