From a letter to a friend....

Just a little rant on the value of creativity in the world today.Our whole society is seemingly becoming more and more geared to reinforce the theorythat creativity of all kinds, is worthless.It's being pounded into our collective heads that things like painting, music,writing, photography, etc., are really sort of useless and, in fact ANYBODY CANDO IT so why PAY someone. The point is NOT EVERYBODY CAN DO IT! The 'powersthat be' have somehow raised the limbo stick so every Tom/Dick/Harry can danceunder it and be a Rockstar. Making stuff up is hard! It takes time. Seriousenergy. And to be good, you have to be smart. Learning music theory forexample is every bit as difficult as learning Algebra and Geometry. They've cutback the creative