MALFUNCTIONING BY BEA NEWBERRY

When I was manufactured, circa 1998, I was born with a malfunction.

I did not come with an “off” button.

Much to my creators’ dismay growing up, this constant state of “on” is my greatest asset.

Seriously, I cannot shut it off.

It’s all okay, no clinical intervention is yet needed.

But to ensure I am striving to be creative and innovative, I know it is not just up to my mind and

my actions. To be fully self-taught is to fall short. So, I am receptive and selfish in taking from

the minds around me. In other words, I’m onto you.

My cache includes: my memory of an elephant of times past, combined with the collection of

experiences in the present, meant to marry with the space I reserve in my mind to synthesize

who I am consuming, what I am consuming. This makes my human capital and creative process

exist in the first place.

Thank you, all, for supplying me with your minds to work with, to learn from.

I function best and create more from all that you have taught me.

Carry on.