My son, Matt, and I visited NYC for two days this week.  On the flight out there, we listened to Coltrane’s First Meditations.  Each tune represents an emotion or state of being.  Listening to Coltrane’s Serenity made me think about how we can all have different ideas about the same thing.  To me, Serenity would have a sense of space.  Delicate, with few notes.  Coltrane’s interpretation seems to be filled with drama, and to my ears, tension.  How would you compose Serenity, Love, Compassion, Joy, Consequences?  What instruments would you use?  What would your music sound like?  It’s interesting to think of representing subjective, invisible emotions with something tangible.  It seems that must be the core of art.