It hasn’t been the daily habit I hoped it would be. And I started doing it with no real understanding or reason for doing it. I was devastated when I hit my first roadblock, and missed some posts. But my relationship to this has certainly evolved, and I’m making some new connections to it that feel right and important to me.

The MODs themselves don’t take very long to do. And there are days that I DEFINITELY throw something up there just to check it off the list. But I’m discovering some interesting things about myself, my eye, and my reasons for doing this pointless thing.

What really completed a circuit for me happened yesterday on the subway. I was rereading “The Gift” by Lewis Hyde. I’ve decided its a book I need to reread on a regular basis. Well, I’m rereading the opening chapters of the book, when something makes sense. (Not a given when I’m reading BTW) Gift giving, or the passing on of a gift, recognizes that the gift or the prospects of gift is not a limited resource. By giving with no thought to its material Value or Usefulness, one helps to ensure the continued visitation of other gifts. To commodify the gift, to give it with expectations for repayment or to gain an angle, is to kill the resource.

So here is my personal connection. I gain nothing from the MODs. Except that by symbolically throwing his stuff out to the world, I am ensuring my future access to moves that perhaps I can use. I think that I have engineered for myself a symbolic sacrifice of short ideas, to ensure the continued flow of other ideas. Crazy probably. But it resonates pretty strongly for me right now.

Okay, more MODs are coming up…may they continue to flow…the good, the bad, and the completely unmemorable.