I’m still thinking about the value of reinvention.  Inspired by the story of Gaylord Perry the longtime baseball pitcher.  His spirit and his mind carried him when his body let him down.  When he no long could sustain a certain pitch or set of pitches he reconfigured his plan.  Sometimes this required developing new ways, new approaches, maybe new pitches.  I don’t know about this in any depth but his new plan had to fool the batter and that is the proof of success, plain and simple.

And he was able to do this over and over again lengthening a career remarkably.  I guess he didn’t see himself cast in stone unable to change wedded to some ideal or method.   It is rather that change was his secret weapon.  To actively strive for the effective whatever that might look like.  What little bird told him he could do that to that extent?

And I know about reinventing through my own life.  At least one time reinventing.  But I have never given it the thought it deserves really.  And what if I or we just had it in mind that maybe that is a continuing process not just a response to a specific onetime happening.  Perry seems to have used it as a strategy not just a stop gap measure.

I hear such amazing stories these days of people I come in contact with who have made a break with jobs, careers or life styles and have fashioned new more effective situations.  All this is very creative and brave.  Sort of dancing with the “hands we are dealt”.

Just thinking that this reinvention ought to be something that is celebrated not just observed.  And maybe the process of continuing reinvention ought to be celebrated.  It is sort of hopping across the river on the rocks not exactly sure of what is next but trusting in our ability to be nimble.

Yea, time to gear up to walk.  We are getting close to the salt water “in Spain” here at Phil’s Camino.   After reaching Santiago for the second time we are on the side trip to the coast, to Finisterre and Muxia.

After while crocodile, love, Felipe.