Kindred Spirits

Had lunch with a friend of mine today.  We came to the following conclusions:

• Creative people like ourselves crave more time to exercise our creativity, but we are probably better off keeping our day jobs.  Otherwise, our creative endeavors would become our jobs, and then they would be like, well, work.
• Having said that, we would both like to at least have a shot at the opportunity to just do creative stuff all the time without the nuisance of having to make a living.
• History is probably full of people doing creative things in the midst of making a living doing something else.
• Playing live music is exhilarating.  My friend knows about this extensively.  I have only done it once so far.  But addiction has already set in.
• For some people, like ourselves, Springsteen's "Born to Run" album changed everything.
• There are some things that must be universally beautiful (a phrase my friend used), one of which is Clemon's sax solo in Jungleland on the aforementioned album.  (See previous post.)
• Having four kids also changes everything.
• Creativity and the ability and energy to express it probably follows a bell curve. But we aren't going to be discouraged by trends.
• Many creative people were only recognized as great after their death.  So if recognition is the goal, there is still hope.  But recognition is a lousy goal.
• The Applebee's pick 'n pair deal makes a great lunch.  And cheap too, especially since Joe picked up the tab.  Thanks man.

We would have come up with many more interesting things, but had to go back to work.