Lost and found…

It’s been said that the measure of your time on this planet is how long people remember you after you’re dead. Notice I didn’t say that measure had to be positive. A person could be a scurrilous SOB and be remembered for a long time—Hitler and Stalin come to mind, for example. The other extreme might be Gandhi or Mother Teresa.

Creative people have an advantage in this respect because memory of the person can fade fast (even with the internet, very few people really know you, on the average),...