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WE REMEMBER MOMENTS Thoughts to share and hoping to Paint again ... Laurie Justus Pace

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2022 Spring 1976 Shop my Available Artwork.   Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales.  "We don't remember days, we remember moments." Cesare Pavese I was on the treadmill this morning watching part of a movie doing my 3 miles.  This quote was in the movie and it stuck with me. There are some days I remember, but truly only because of moments in that day.  I remember vivid moments of securing my first job at age 16.  I saw an ad in the Sunday Dallas Morning News by Neiman Marcus hiring an artist's model. Back in that time they hand drew the ads using people wearing the clothes.  Personally I like it better than today.  I was hired and I worked there that summer and all through my Senior year in high school... I took one morning class and hoped a bus to downtown Dallas.  The time I remember it happening but the memory is the ad that I cut out of the want ads and held on to it and even have it

Tea Party? . Texas in Wonderland . Having Fun 15 Years Ago . Having Fun Fifty Years Ago . Laurie Pace Texas Artist

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2019 Tea Party Watercolor 2004  SOLD  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FOLLOW MY BLOG  ON INSTAGRAM     @lauriepaceblog Available Paintings by Laurie Pace          “Well that was the silliest tea party I ever went to! I am never going back there again!” Lewis Carroll    I was giggling last night remembering some of the past things in life I did that make me shake my head and wonder what crawled into my brain at that time. Did I ever mention the time I dated five boys named Bill?  Or, that I was hired as a model at Neiman Marcus just three days after I was turned down at age 16 to be a waitress at a high class tea room?  I know when they turned me down I hit a wall feeling so dejected, and God turned it right around and I modeled runway, commercial work and photography until I was 34. I am waiting for a new adventure and I know the