by Susan Lobb Porter | Life, Photography, Ponies in the Morning |
One hundred days ago I began a daily practice of photographing my horses.
One hundred days. Who’da thunk it?
Something interesting happened during that time…
I fell in love with Lana.
With Saki.
With Jasmine.
Fell in love with them all over again. Let my heart open up to them once more. Even tho they’re old and will break it soon enough.
I no longer worry about being vulnerable because I’m learning to EXPERIENCE the present. To embrace what is, RIGHT NOW. Including me, at this stage of my life, gray hair and all.
One hundred days and an iphone…who’da thunk it?
by Susan Lobb Porter | Artists, Life |
“I owe it all to art books, chocolates and young men”
Artist Beatrice Wood, when asked the secret to her longevity. Her most productive years were between the ages of 80-105
Whoot Beatrice! My kind of woman!!! Handsprings and black flips My. Kind. Of. Woman!
Because I’m gonna be a kick-ass old lady myself. Yes indeed, I surely am.
I come from a line of women who are direct descendants of the Energizer Bunny. They keep on going and going and going until their batteries run out somewhere around the century mark.
Barring unforeseen circumstance, like Kim what’s-his-face throwing a temper tantrum with a nuclear warhead or maybe a meteorite landing on top of my head, I plan on hanging around for quite some time.
But not just hanging around.
I plan on BEING here.
Painting. Writing. CREATING. Dancing. LOVING. Moving. Laughing. Learning. And GROWING.
Making a damn good time of it.
There will be chocolate involved. Family and good friends. And when I finally cross over, I pray it’s with a smile on my face and paint under my nails.
Oh, and that novel I haven’t finished? It’s not too late. Beatrice published her first in her late 80s. The first of four under her own name. There were others published under the psudonym Countess Lola Screwvinsky. Screwvinsky? Hmmmm…methinks Beatrice was a kickass old lady herself.
