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Just finished reading Pamela Des Barres‘ I’m with the Band: Confessions of a Groupie. Highly recommended. She’s a truly terrific and inspiring writer. Here’s a note she wrote (but never sent) to Chris Hillman (of The Byrds, Flying Burrito Brothers) when she was 17:

I am here, sitting. I have just seen a ridiculous man, asking me where the action is. The action is EVERYWHERE. How can he not know that? How can one answer a question like that? I didn’t. I have realized something: the “other people,” who wonder why we exist in the first place and question our sanity, are immature adults. The rest of the people, LIVING their lives (like you and me), are mature children. I hate to draw lines, but one is drawn.

You have a tiny goose egg, and you drop it into a bottle, it hatches. You keep it in there, feed it and keep it alive…The goose gets too big for the bottle. How do you get the goose out of the bottle, keeping him alive??? If you can answer that question, you won’t have any more. And I don’t have the answer. Maybe we can work it out together. Peace and love, Pamela Miller