Everyone loves the comic strip “Peanuts.” At least everyone over 30. (Charles M. Schulz died in 2000). But the really poignant thing about Schultz’s beloved characters is that he brought to life the struggles and doubts from his own childhood and allowed his characters to act out those difficulties of life through comedy and laughter.  One wonders if doing this wasn’t a healing endeavor for him as well. The traumas of our past stay alive within us until we can vanquish them somehow by coming to terms with our own insecurities and foibles, desires and disappointments.

Something similar has been said of the iconic Mr. Rogers. In his recent biographical film, his wife revealed that by creating the characters he used in his weekly programs and displaying the relational problems between them, …