{"id":10083,"date":"2022-09-22T09:31:58","date_gmt":"2022-09-22T16:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/egallery\/?p=10083"},"modified":"2022-09-22T09:31:58","modified_gmt":"2022-09-22T16:31:58","slug":"imagine-my-surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/egallery\/2022\/09\/22\/imagine-my-surprise\/","title":{"rendered":"Imagine my Surprise"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was reading along in a book I was much enjoying and suddenly, WOW, there was a photo of woman I once painted. What a surprise!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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I’d called her Nepal Grandma<\/em> and she was one among many of my “standing portraits.” The photo originally came from my friend, linguist and Bible translator Dave Watters who, with his wife Nancy and two young sons, worked in the outer reaches of Nepal for many years. He was full of amazing stories and I often encouraged him to write the book. But due to politics within the country the time was never right, until it finally was. It turned out to be just in time, before his untimely death . . . the book finished by the two sons.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

At the Foot of the Snows<\/em> by David Watters, is <\/span><\/span>available on Amazon. A great read.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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The main progenitor in the book, besides David himself, is one Hasta Ram<\/em>, a man of immense character and resolve. David once requested I make his portrait, which I was glad to do. It now hangs in the office of one of the sons, Daniel, in Waco, Texas.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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As I finished reading the book the thought came over me that Nepal Grandma<\/em> should also be in the Watters family. I made contact and my offer was heartily received. The painting now hangs in the home of the other son, Steve, also in Waco.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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The Watters will send me a photo of how it hangs honorably in their home. Meantime, here’s how it looked in ours before it left, with the book on the couch.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Everybody happy.<\/p>\n

PS We’re currently in Park City making art. Watch for the next blog about that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The book is a gift to the world, my paintings, a gift to the family of the author.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/egallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10083"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/egallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/egallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/egallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/egallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10083"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/egallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10193,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/egallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10083\/revisions\/10193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/egallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/egallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/egallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}