inspiration

being inspired by inspiration is a tricky business...
like going to the Sistine Chapel and seeing Da Vinci's masterpieces and then going home, getting brush and paints and attempting to prehaps recapture the beauty and majesty you saw in viewing the dome with your own untutored brushstrokes...
or listening to john coltrane..hearing the flow and rhythm, the beauty and sound, and trying to play like that....with that special humor, that exquisite tone...
you can create beauty....you can take your life and try to be Da Vinci, or Coltrane, or Lennon, or Gretsky...you can try to be like them, but in the end, what you are producing is your self..in music...in sports..in art...otherwise..what is the point?