Do Dishes or Play Guitar

[albert_d]

Never would happen at my house. I don’t think it is that I play that bad. I think that she considers it ill form if I play while she works.

[jumpinjeff]

@albert_d : time to set out a tip jar and tell her you are working too.🤣

[Bill_Brown]

That’s awesome @jumpinjeff 🤩 Your wife obviously loves you very much and knows you very well – and perhaps she knew that you had a little too much “cheer” and didn’t want any broken dishes 😉

I hope you and your family had a wonderful Christmas🎄 and best wishes for the New Year🎉 (and no broken dishes)🤣

[jumpinjeff]

Your observation is spot on @Bill_Brown . Lotta love in our house. It does seem to flow. Nary a broken dish. Lovely Christmas for us. Hope yours was great too. HNY.

[the-old-coach]

Jeff–

This thread is like…….. awesome!

You three always make me smile with your perspectives and the way you word and share them. Hope you all had a great Christmas!

[jumpinjeff]

Hi @the-old-coach . Hope your Christmas was filled with joy. I look for your post where/when ever they appear. I look for them in the matrix and occasionally I see one floating around but can never get close enough to grab it. Happy New Year Mark!

[ScottyMac]

Mi esposa much appreciates my guitar plucking and such so much more the then workouts I do on Trumpet, my first instrument from middle school, through uni and beyond. The trumpet is limited to the basement. The guitar, anytime, any room. We are lucky, Jeff.

[N-lightMike]

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 😄

[jumpinjeff]

N-light, as per usual you got me thinking on three levels and I am now bouncing around in the submediant degree of thought (this is one of my favorite places to explore). I will compose and return.

[albert_d]

I like the idea too. But I am using a metal tip bucket so it makes lots of noise when those coins hit or, even better, lets those Andrew Jackson’s lay out flat. (I put the first one in myself so she would know my “work” and contribution to the “higher callings” is legit).

[N-lightMike]

Sounds like a great idea, @albert_d . Let us know how it goes. 🤣

[the-old-coach]

Hot tip– Glue that Andrew Jackson down and put Varathane or something over it😎.