Chicago's Mary Poppins

There are people in the world who seem to go unnoticed by others. I think that there are some writers and artists who nurture the ability to blend into the wallpaper in order to observe the world around them. I love stories about people who aren't what they seem on the surface. The recent discoveries about the life of a woman named Vivian Maier seems to have all of the elements of a story about an "unchosen treasure." And her haunting photography has made me ardent admirer of her work.