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Hello @jumpinjeff ; @albert_d ; @Bill_Brown ; and @the-old-coach Mark;
Nice thread Jeff. There are many ways to find a purpose for our playing. You, Jeff, have searched for sound that pleases, that you can have musical conversations with. That journey has led you to a place where this happened for you and you can share it with us as something we can see as a possibility in our journey.
But yeah, I understand Albert’s reaction, as I have trouble believing that would ever happen in my household. For me, you hit the nail on the head with your reply to Albert: “Put out a tip jar so she realizes you’re working also”.
Society needs many different things to survive and flourish. We humans have an aesthetic need, so we must have art and music. But we can’t have art and music if we don’t have artists and musicians. It’s so easy to watch musicians and think “they aren’t working”. And then you hear musicians talk about not “having to work”.
But wait a minute, any one in any job can feel like their not working if they really love what they do. It’s not about “what”, but about how you feel about it.
The lesson I’m going to take away from this “most excellent” thread is that I need to “work” harder. I need/want to get to the point that my wife and other relatives would want to have me do my work of playing music while they did other work, such as washing dishes.
MG 😄