That statement by Eudora Welty, who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1973 for her novel, "The Optimist's Daughter," may sound rather zen-like at first. I think what she's getting at is that there are plenty of mysteries to be unravelled by going deeper into the reality of our lives.
As I have gotten older I've been surprised at how many secrets surround the people we consider ordinary. For example, my beloved uncle, who had an affair that resulted in the birth of a child he supported financially for the first 18 years of her life, and his wife who stayed with him even though she never trusted him totally again, not for the remaining forty years of their marriage before he passed away.
If we are really brave we can dive into our own lives, the parts we'd rather not look at, but that we can redeem a little, perhaps, by turning them into stories that may mean something to someone else someday.
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