In recent years, biographies of 'famous people' are much less 'cleaned-up' and idealized than they once were. As I've read more of them, it's clearer that the i

In recent years, biographies of 'famous people' are much less 'cleaned-up' and idealized than they once were. As I've read more of them, it's clearer that the inner lives of people who 'got up on the stage' are pretty much like those of all the rest of us 'down here in the audience'. And so they are more instructive than the PR bios. This 'haunted' lady was once young and footloose and fancy-free and in pursuit of her dreams. And so were we all. But, once off whatever stage we occupy during the day, we all need to go home. There's where we have to face the same questions ... or distract or anaesthetize ourselves so that we don't. Nobody has all the answers. Today I like this Kenneth Patchen answer I found yesterday. "The meaning is in the wonder."