something I am grateful for today

losing a pound when I was more expecting to gain one

Beatrice Wood

Beatrice Wood passed away in 1998, at the age of 105 years of age, with the last 25 years of her life her most productive, creating work to satisfy a growing market for her ceramics, writing books and visiting with the hundreds of people who showed up on her doorstep. When asked the secret of her longevity, she would simply offer “art books, chocolates and young men”. [emphasis added]

I only today discovered Beatrice Wood, and I am blown away by the sheer concept of her. That one could reach the peak of one’s creativity at age eighty – she didn’t begin writing til almost ninety – and keep going strong right to the end, it just dazzles me. When I think of the possibility of myself still having another forty-plus years to create in, I am in wonder and awe.