Marilyn

Fragments:  Poems, Intimate Notes, and Letters by Marilyn Monroe

I've always been a Marilyn Monroe fan.  The myth of Marilyn Monroe as the quintessential "blond bombshell" lives on today. With her child-like voice and dumb blond persona, it is easy to overlook who Marilyn really was.  She was a woman who survived a unhappy childhood fraught with isolation and abuse.  Marilyn rose above it with inner strength, courage, and determination to reinvent herself into a successful movie star and sex symbol.

(Photo Source:  Sam Rose)

But that was only one side to this complex woman.  She loved reading great works literature, wrote stories and poems; a genus in her own right who always sought ways to improve herself and her mind.

The world loss a truly talented woman, too soon.  If she had lived longer who knows what she would and could have achieved.  How sad for her...and for us.