It’s never too late to be who you might have been. ~George Eliot

I love a good success story.

Anna Mary Robertson Moses didn’t start painting until she was in her 70s. She had been an embroiderer, but because of arthritis she had to abandon that path and begin a new one, painting. Long story/ short, an art collector saw her work in a drugstore window and soon after an art dealer in NYC exhibited some of her work and the rest is history.

The part I like best about Grandma Moses’ story is that to begin with (at 70-something years old, mind you), she didn’t have the ‘folk style’ of painting we all know her by, she started with a much more realistic style, yet, she developed her own style as she went along.

I think, sometimes, we forget that we cannot start at the end; that we need to learn and develop our own way of doing things. I’m not even sure it would be nice to start at the end; we would surely miss some of the good stuff by skipping it.

On her 100th birthday in 1960, then NY Governor Nelson Rockefeller, declared September 7th ‘Grandma Moses Day’ in her honor. Today, I honor her just the same. Happy Birthday, Grandma Moses. You are an inspiration, still.