Grandma Moses: Miracle @ 78!

It is a fact, most fortunate people in our society are those who are so totally absorbed in their work that they don’t know where their work ends and their play begins, they love what they are doing, never thinking of going home early.

Anna Robertson Moses commonly called Grandma Moses, born September 7 1860 started as a farm girl, as a young champ she had a desire to paint but was discouraged by her family and friends, this prompt her to put her heart’s desire aside and centered her heart to farming.

She had children by the time she was out of her teens and in her 60s a great grandmother. When she turned 75, her husband Thomas Moses died of a heart attack. The doctor told her that she was too old to work on the farm any longer, she had to stop farming thereafter. She felt that she didn’t have much time to live, so she decided to fulfill her first love and heart desire…

It is never late to venture into what you have passion for, Grandma Moses did some painting before she passed on.

She went to a nearby town and visited an art store. The person in the art store sold her some paints, canvasses and brushes, and show her how to use them. She went back to her farm, sat down and begin painting what came to be called “Primitive American Landscapes”.

Grandma Moses finished her first painting when she was 78.

Some of her works include Haying Time 1945, Out for Christmas Tree, White Christmas, Winter is here 1945. 

When she was 101 year old, a major gallery in New York City held a showing of her works. In the last 10 years of her life, some of her paintings were selling for more than a $100,000 each.

It’s been estimated that if she had begun painting in her late teens as she really wanted to do, and her painting had been as successful commercially as they still are today, she might have become one of the richest women in America.

Doubtlessly, as human we have our unique qualities, which requires concentration to become a light for those around us to see. Grandma Moses when she began painting, she earned more in a year from her painting than she and her husband had earned in an entire lifetime of hard work on the farm. She was not only a complete natural; she was also a totally original talent.

When you wake up, you move up. It’s never, never too late to find your true place. Miracle @ 78!

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