The author, Karen Harwood, has lived through the bygone eras from the late '40's to present and much has changed. Trials of rejection and the anger which goes with betrayal and the sorrow of loss. Every person has a range of life events which tie and bind or loosen and inspire. Those things are natural to all people and vary with each individual and include love, hate, loss, and sorrow bordering on despair. These things make us the same and yet so very different. The growth and insight gained from these things is priceless. No one can go through them without change and to stay in that state is unhealthy. This is a product of the the healthy joy which is possible with the changes of a growing outlook and sweeping clean of the mind.