Jazzo, what a good thread topic--thank you. I'm so glad you're still with us. Though the phrase tastes funny, I think the idea of 'turning your brain on' (plug it in) and getting creative (with the Muses' help) is excellent. My total knowledge of the martial arts comes from watching bad movies, but in one of them the teacher kept saying, "Use what's around you" (as McGyver demonstrated, on his gone-and-unlamented TV show). People who cannot afford to run out and buy something new whenever they want to have always had to get creative in recycling and reusing, and if Prof. Mockbee can give them new ways to think about old things, more power to him.