"When I imagine the perfect trade I would like to make with the world, it would be to make music."
I share your passion. I love listening and playing for their aesthetic and enjoyment value- and lately havereally dove (dived?) into the wealth of material on the healing power of music. (Not new agey nonsense, but proven scientific benefits. (Musicophilia by Oliver Sachs is particularly interesting.) I've begun a course at the New York Open Center's Music Institute on Music and Sound Therapy.
If you share this interest, perhaps you can e-mail me and we can descuss specifics, musical tastes and other issues to see if we might like to meet. I would ideally like to someday compose songs and instrumentals and see some income from music, but my major passion is creating and enhansing the intrinsic enjoyment of music for myself and others-(Particulatly states of ecstasy and bliss-secular, but if it enhaances someone's personal spiritual practice-hey, why not?)
One thing I would like to try soon, even with limited abilities is to volkunteer working with children under going dialysis, or chemo for example. Posibbly terminal patients in a hospice. For that kind of work, I'd like to combine humor, group sing-a-longs,movement and relaxation/and or meditation therapy. Sounds like a tall order, but I have experience in those areas. I'm an ordained Zen Buddhist monk, with twelve years experience in teaching and practicing meditation. I've had several powerful "openings" involving music during dome of thr retreats that we did monthly..
So, if you weould like to make music for ther world and have a rich, rewarding time in the process, I think that if we happenerd to be on similar tracks, maybe we can help each other realize our dreams (And if you know of others with a similar bent, feel frree to fwedf this e-mail to them- maybe a small group can emerge.
Hope to hear from you,
Marc 718 631-7873 (but e-mail is best)