Introduction

Brian Cam: How do you balance the necessities of life with pursuing your life's purpose, your creative impulse or your art? I'm hoping that you will submit your reflections on what I see to be a fundamental tension between doing what we feel we must in terms of living a meaningful life and what we have to do just to stay alive. This is something that I've been thinking about a lot in the last few years. As background, about five years ago, I had saved enough money to leave permanent employment.