as i was telling von earlier today, i'm starting again, and learning again, to take faith - and from reading people who have exuberance, inner fire, unflinching honesty, emotional courage, daring abandon and fierce love - to go together with the intellect, the imagination, the ability and the talent - which may be construed as similar to (but not identical to) what is commonly called drive or purposefulness. it's important to have people like this to remind you of what is possible - not as exemplars, but as examples.