This is beautiful.
http://www.thescreamonline.com/epiphanies/4-1epiphanies/composing.html
Enjoy!
Tom
That was wonderful! 
Thank you for that.
–James
Being a typical wet blanket, anyone who’s ever observed the teeming millions will be accustomed to the fact that many of the greatest and brightest are considered the dregs of society.
I guess the illuminating value of the writing was lost on me.
I was a homeless person in San Francisco so the inequity of the world comes as no surprise.
Chicken Soup for the Choir?
djm
I think i know what you mean. I see it as a reminder, having been homeless as well. In my relative comfort now, I tend to forget that, but I do always remember that the poor and troubled are no less talented than the rich and famous - and are often more inspired.
Somehow I am reminded of the Python treatise on classical composers and how they are all now dead and _de_composing …
djm
I don’t think the writer, or the people he was quoting, were trying to make some grand insight about homeless people. They were just saying that there is more to life than making lots of money. Lots more. And often our values are reversed.
It was just about the joy of creating music.
Tom
That’s how it took it, and I thought it made a very good point.
–James