It Works!

Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Mess up your hair. If you are wearing makeup – smudge it. If you have a pair of pants that dont really fit you – put them on. Put on a top that doesn’t go with those pants. Go to your sock drawer. Pull out two socks that don’t match. Different lengths, materials, colors, elasticity.
Now two shoes. You know the drill.
Need to add more? Ties? Hair clips? Stick your gut out? I trust you to go further.
Take a picture.Are you feeling dread? Excitement? Is this not the image you have of yourself? Write about the fear or the thrill that this raises in you? Who do you need to look good for and what story does it tell about you? Or why don’t you care?

Here I am, uncensored, with the green house I just constructed for my wife.  The greenhouse itself is an expression of creativity, redemption, resurrection, of that which had been abandoned, forgotten and otherwise neglected.  The whole thing is askew, unbalanced, sorta symmetrical.  The picture was taken in mid March of this year and has been the home of many hundred plants that survived the cold and many storms of the spring.  It works!  A metaphor of my purpose in life, seeing the potential in others and calling it out!