None of these ladies would formerly have identified themselves as painterly, but when three of them bid for a group art lesson at a local charity auction and invited the rest of us to attend the experience, we all had the chance to test our painterly acumen. As you might notice below, originality was neither called for nor tolerated. The nice lady at the far left directed our efforts, step by step, and the result was what you see far below.
Can you guess which three of these women are named Judy? You’ll recognize Marilyn looking much more like herself than in the Scrub Daddy post. The woman in yellow is my sister Patti, the tall pretty lady between them is my long time friend and college little sister, Patty. Marti, another best friend from college days onwards is next to our teacher and Jackie is in the horizontal stripes that bother my astigmatism no end. I am the too-short haircut between Jackie and Marilyn (sorry, Audrey).
Ta da!!! How many things can you find that we have in common in the photo? Yes, I cheated and made my moon a blood moon and my stars bleeding stars. I plan not to change my career plans as a result of this experience, but it was fun fun fun and I thank Marilyn, Patty and Patti for inviting us all. Eight participants and only 4 names between the eight of us. I once had three Pattys visit me at the same time. I find it a great boost to my ego that I didn’t get their names confused once.
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 
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There were seven Charlies in my dad’s class in Medical School. It was a not infrequent occurrence that they would eat lunches together. As kids, we laughed ourselves silly at the imagery of Charlie #7 arriving at the lunch table — “hi, Charlie; hi. Charlie; hi, Charlie; hi, Charlie,” etc.
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Ha!!! I was once in a poetry workshop where three of the 9 participants had the same birthday. I was one of them.. and I’ve only met one other person in my life who shared my birthday.
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“… originality was neither called for nor tolerated.” That one made me chuckle 🙂 How lovely both you and your painting are, Judy! Looks like a lot of fun
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Thanks, Victoria. My painting stayed behind in Wyoming and will probably be painted over. If I’d been in Mexico, I would have tried adding embellishments, but no room in the luggage.
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Nice … like poetry. Painting does not have to be serious. Just exercising the left brain. Nice!! Cheers Jamie
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The perfect solution to remembering for women of a certain age is to have lots of friends with the same name. Life would be SO much easier 🙂
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We were just talking about this when I went through the restaurant at the end of the camp day and a customer asked me what was going on. I had on a nametag so she said since they hadn’t worn theirs, they should intro themselves.. and she was Judy also. There were 3 Judy’s in my art clone class and we were discussing the advantages of having all of our friends with the same name.
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