Beauty Squandered is a Sin

Most buskers aren't world-class musicians like this guy playing a Stradivarius in a DC Metro station. But I've heard some pretty good ones on BART, the Metro, and other various subways and common spaces. I hope I would have stopped to listen to Josh Bell, who performed the music in The Red Violin. Usually I listen a bit to buskers, just because I can't help but listen to background music and read odd bits of text. Other times, I'm the guy in a hurry or listening to my iPod or just plain oblivious.

I'm vowing to give to the street performers whose music I enjoy. (Image from Flickr of an unrelated musician.)