[jamesn.]

Yes Stephen; your post here helps to point out the problem that keeps coming up again and again throughout social history of: “How does one make a living and still follow their heart’s desire?” What I was attempting earlier was to show examples of other creative periods where people answered their call and how what they were able to bring forth of their own gift for the world. This was not about just getting a job and paying bills as a means for making a life just to survive; but of following their push out of their own spiritual and creative insights and bringing what they found forth as an expression of their life’s calling; (or as Joseph once said: “I was following a star”).

Indeed in Joseph’s own life this challenge was a constant uphill battle; and you had a really nice recount of his life struggles you portrayed in a separate thread here.