I am very pleased to have my second guest blogger, Mym Tuma. Her story reflects on how when we are students, we feel that it is very important to reach
out to our icons(heroes) that we look up to. In her case it was a matter of  being
a young innocent student who was just too creative and gifted.
   Her story reflects that we can be mentors to our mentors, however  nothing is sacred, be prepared for the unexpected, and cherished the moment.
                                          O’Keefe and Me
                                          Abstracts of Our Letter
     Preface How It All Started.

     This is the fortieth year since I met Georgia O’Keeffe, a  compelling woman, both
 in her art and her persona. She is certainly the foremost woman artist of the century, and some would say the century’s foremost American artist. That’s a remarkable  statement. Given my age at the time of twenty-four, I had an interaction
with an absolutely, almost goddess-like kind of figure, though she didn’t appear that way.
     There were almost no books in print documenting her life. There was a selective
amount of information I had on her at the time, and being excited about the things I
was doing, I knew my approach to nature’s energy was different from hers. And we both shared an interest in minimalism, although I was involved with science at the
time, she took the mystic’s approach.
      Although Georgia O’Keefe was legendary, I was not necessarily aware of that,
on a conscious level anyway. There was much curiosity about her particularly her
decision to isolate herself at that point. While that year, in 1965 I enrolled in NYU’s
graduate program to study with Irving Sandler in his modern art seminar. He commented, “O’Keefe would be interesting to talk about, why don’t you look her up,
since you’ve already met her? She’s a hermit. I never her. I’m curious  about her image as  she has fallen out of popularity in New York, after 1946-into the 50’s.”
Later in 1970 her reemergence caused quite a stir.
     These letters are to be seen as a dialogue between a younger and older artist
and approached from the view that they are not involved with the kind of scholar-
ship that an art historian is but rather as involved in a relationship that existed that had it’s own dynamic.
       You can venture with Mym Tuma on her Georgia O’Keefffe & Me  web site,
www.mymtuma.com . Ms. Tuma just like first guest blogger, Ronald G. Wayne, that life
is a journey that we must share, and never look back. Hopefully others will judge us for
just the starting and ending points of our destination, and certainly not on the time and distance it took.
         I welcome other guest bloggers, and together we can make a difference for
others who need to start their new journey. Please email me at [email protected]
for your story.