Robert J. Weber received a doctorate in psychology from Princeton University. He has professed in New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Massachusetts, and New Mexico. His last gig was as a Visiting Research Professor of Law at the University of New Mexico. His hobbies and evocations include photo editing to remove the stress fractures of reality—and writing to explore imagination’s reach. His Previous Books: Forks, Photographs, and Hot Air Balloons: A Field Guide to Inventive Thinking. Oxford University Press. Ideas underlying invention as object and pro- cess.   Inventive Minds: Creativity in Technology. (Edited with D. N. Perkins). Oxford University Press. Ideas and history underlying invention.   The Created Self: Reinventing Body, Persona, and Spirit. W. W. Norton. Using the ideas from physical invention and by analogy translating them to personal invention and creation of the self.   Poems from the Rainbow’s Bow, Mercury Heartlink. 2023. Selected as the Po- etry Book of the Year by the Cambridge, Massachusetts Book Club. A poetry of deep ideas and history. He has presented workshops on Translating Film Techniques into Poetry. And advocated for writing and verse as performance art. These works and activities formed the basis for his seminars on invention and creativity. He uses many of those ideas for the present book. Contact: robertJweber063@gmail.com