DECONSTRUCTION

an aspirational, if not slightly earnest exercise in process

Let’s be clear from the outset. I think most of us are on this platform to write, first and foremost, reading and connecting close behind.

To widely varying degrees, Medium is a place where we are free to create and curate our thoughts, ideas, stories, and various personal chronicles. Largely, because we have a need to document, to narrate, to name that thing, by and through our connection with others of a similar ilk. Some may say pack, others may prefer tribe. Whatever our term of referance, there is a sense of that deep and abiding, though often unquenchable, need to be heard.

Ones comfort level with it is unique, however. Thousands of intimately specific destinations on what is an ongoing navigation of how much, how little to expose, in an ultimate question of what is ever enough.

What follows, I think, is a somewhat abstracted process of imparting ideas in formation. Fully considered, yes. Fully parsed, not yet anyway.

Loosely translated … pretentious writer crap for mapping how I like to think.

Consider it a thinly veiled nod to unpacking and processing yet to occur, around a Medium that has the potential to elevate, amplify, and frame needed voices. Conversely, an ever present awareness that silence can be actively solidified.

A conceptual model of a post-modern reminder that nothing exists separated from context. Or, if orientated post-structurally, then I suppose that’s up to you, isn’t it?

Comfort and fit warnings …

If you suffer from that particular composition known to rely on a rigid binary of form and order, holding the idea of everything in its place and a place for everything as a central life-sustaining ethos, prone to confusion, therefore anger at non linear allegorical themes, you may wish to consider some fresh air, as this self referential exercise in the form of one existential smashup of ones metaphorical car around the closest lamp pole, is set to begin in ten, nine, eight ...

Shortly post impact one begins an initial dawning of correctly framed context and perspective.

Accuracy checks reveal no significantly altered cathartic functions, indicating in part that appropriate right cerebral function is positively implied, thus present.

Extracting ones self from the twisted concoction of ruminations, considerations, random thoughts, metered risks, and safety / harm scales of implied perceptual focus vs. constant and articulated norms, one centres a new rooting of heightened awareness.

Translated further, what results might be predicted from the specific, inherent power of this medium if a demonstrated trust is present and a safe space to be heard is realized?

Begging the question, where are we collectively if that synergy fails in a harmonious alignment? Where are we individually?

I’m sitting with that.