Varla Bishop life, life lessons

Forever a Girl

So I’m at my favorite resale shop where everyone who works there is female and 70+. I can always hear them talking and laughing behind the wall. However today I was laughing right along with them even though they couldn’t see me.

Apparently one of the women has a new gentleman friend. One of the ladies said to her:

“Did you give him coffee this morning?”

She said “it isn’t like that he didn’t spend the night.”

“So are you saying you didn’t give him coffee?”

She said “he did not spend the night, it isn’t like that.”

“So you two don’t even hug?”

She said “ well yes we have hugged, but not that other stuff.”

They all started cracking up and laughing. I was thinking that no matter how old we get we still are girls at heart. We will always be laughing with each other and talking about boys. I loved it.

Varla Bishop Landscape, portrait, Watercolor Paintings

Poverty

My uncle use to say “I’ve been broke but never poor”. He died last year and I miss his stories and his wisdom. He was a wealthy man in many ways.

There are many people in this world who are struggling just to make it through a day. They are poor. My mom use to tell me how hard the Depression was. Always wondering about the next meal or how to keep the family together. Everyone worked; everyone contributed if they could. Days were long.

So I look around me and feel blessed for all I have. I’ve heard it said “history repeats itself if we fail to learn life’s lessons”. Are we repeating history now? Is there a lesson we failed to learn? The news today makes me physically ill. It is full of hate and laced with sarcasm. How did we get here?

I’ve started painting pictures of how hard life was back in the 30’s and 40’s. Kids worked and they learned to do without. Even today we know that kids are going to bed hungry, are being sexually assaulted and abused or assuming responsibilities that only adults should have.

I want us to remember how our decisions effect our children. How our words and actions effect our children. We as adults are responsible for our children and their future. I want to remember the past so I can do better with the future.

Doing Chores

Varla Bishop Watercolor Paintings

All About Love

I find that when I paint people I love I enjoy my brush the most.  Today I finished painting my 2 year old grandson Reed.  He is on his mom’s back enjoying the fact he is wearing her sunglasses.  His sister must be busy as she too loves wearing the se sunglasses whenever she gets the chance.   So what does big smile of his mean to you??