Scenes from the Road: Black & White - Justin & Mary

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Tue. Feb 23, 2010 by Mary

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Scenes from the Road: Black & White

If I'm being honest, I think a lot about what I'll be like when I'm a little old lady. What my silver hair will look like and how many lines will have found my face. Will the laugh lines outnumber the frown lines... will my eyes still dance behind the crinkles? Will they dance because they remember? Will they dance because they never want to forget? All the places they've been and all the things they have seen in this world. Will they dance in a way that only a little old lady's can... because frankly she knows something you don't know.

I think about what I'll be like when I'm 97 years old and I paint a story of a life well-lived. Will I use broad strokes of color or will I save some of that just for me? Will I pen it black & white, these snapshots that make up a lifetime, and then simply smile through my crinkles and say...

Well if you think that's good, you should have seen it in color.