Supporting Artists

My child, I can live on a good compliment two weeks with nothing else to eat.
~Mark Twain

The other day, bighearted Amy Ludwig VanDerwater sent me a sweet card and several poems, including "Alley Violinist" by Robert Lax. It goes:

The Alley Violinist
by Robert Lax

if you were an alley violinist

and they threw you money
from three windows

and the first note contained
a nickel and said:
when you play, we dance and
sing, signed
a very poor family

and the second one contained...

read the rest here.

The question of what the violinist would do is the focal point here, but I would also like to point out how important it was that the folks who loved the music said so. What if the person who could afford a dollar was the only one that the violinist heard from?

Even if you can't afford to donate, your words matter and your opinion counts! Creators of all kinds thrive on knowing that they are reaching someone.

If you are interested in helping artists financially, Patreon is a way to support artists for as little as a dollar a month.