Myrna,

No, my wife doesn't understand why I sing and record.

She tells people that I can sing but thinks my recordings are awful.

Perhaps she has taste?

Roger

Hi Roger,

It takes guts to make sounds come out of our mouths, especially in public or when we know other people will hear it. All artforms take guts, performance arts and visual arts. I remember when I was first online a long time ago in a chatroom and showed one of my poems, and a med student decided to "fix" it...even though I hadn't asked for edits, it was a finished poem I was showing to people...and I said to him, "What if I observed one of your surgeries and decided to FIX IT by stitching up your patient with red yarn?"

Audiences are the best and the worst all at the same time, people who don't have the guts to do something, somehow think our finished products are their experiments, or up for scrutiny instead of admiration or just observation.

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Hi Roger,

It takes guts to make sounds come out of our mouths, especially in public or when we know other people will hear it. All artforms take guts, performance arts and visual arts. I remember when I was first online a long time ago in a chatroom and showed one of my poems, and a med student decided to "fix" it...even though I hadn't asked for edits, it was a finished poem I was showing to people...and I said to him, "What if I observed one of your surgeries and decided to FIX IT by stitching up your patient with red yarn?"

Audiences are the best and the worst all at the same time, people who don't have the guts to do something, somehow think our finished products are their experiments, or up for scrutiny instead of admiration or just observation.

Well said Kathleen.

Roger