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The Reutlinger Community - Bess Meek - Mystifying Walk in Central ParkDescription
"The colors are ecstatic," Bess giggles, as she describes one of her colorful paintings that hangs above her bed. "That's my little lavender person – it’s me. I call it 'Voilà!' When I paint, the colors have fragrance, a memory, a temperature and a feeling."
Bess is infectious, just like her art. "I've been happy since the day I was born," she says with a smile. She grew up in a family full of Pekinese and Pomeranian dogs, raised by her father, and reports proudly that she was frequently called on in class to read for the other immigrant students in the lower East Side of New York City, where she was born in 1932. Later she worked as an assistant bookkeeper for a giftware company, raised three children, and became intrigued with pharmacology.
Bess has read everything from Erma Bombeck to Lobsang Rampa and boasts, "I've learned how not to be a stick in the mud." She's a Gemini, loves German milk chocolate, and her favorite season is fall because "when you look outside, it makes you shiver inside."
Her wise advice: "If you don't laugh, you get in a rut. Life is here for the living."
