One of my favorite blogs is Sugar City Journal. Lynne wrote a post about Grandma Moses that is inspiring. What an amazing lady - started painting at 76, lived to 101 and in that time became a rather famous American painter.
I loved this description of her process...
"Grandma Moses did all of her painting from remembrance of things past. She liked to sit quietly and think, she once said, and remember and imagine. "Then I'll get an inspiration and start painting; then I'll forget everything, everything except how things used to be and how to paint it so people will know how we used to live."
and her philosophy...
"I look back on my life like a good day's work, it was done and I feel satisfied with it. I was happy and contented, I knew nothing better and made the best out of what life offered. And life is what we make it, always has been, always will be."
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