Monday, December 13, 2004

[1903 - Carlos Montoya, flamenco guitarist, born]

[1961 - Grandma Moses (Anna Mary Robertson Moses) died at age 101]

When I Grow Up

What will little William be,
When reaches he maturity?
Kind Reader, mayhap be absurd,
Grandpa Moses of the written word.
To give his career a needed boost,
Trains he to Master the mot juste.
Should you care about poorwilliam,
Than prithee The Force is with him.

Note: Grandma Moses was about seventy when she began her career as a self-taught painter. She did not sell her first painting until almost age eighty. Soon this special artist attained recognition and fame for her primitive style of homespun works. She was so long in coming to her art because she grew up in an era in which the traditional role of women (particularly farm wives) was to work hard at keeping up a home and raising children. She did that rather well by most accounts, starting out with her husband as tenant farmers, and bearing ten children. William, by contrast, has no valid excuse for waiting as long as he has to grasp at the brass ring.

Grandma Moses - Thunderstorm

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