Poet, Feminist, Francophile, Painter: Marguerite Beck-Rex

NOTE: A New Series

Perhaps my favorite part of my work is coaching people to use digital tools to express themselves. I am blessed to be a part of some delightful success stories. I want to share some of these with you.

Marguerite Beck-Rex has the detailed mind of a Virgo, and the persistence of a tenacious bulldog. I met her 20 years ago in her 60’s when she had just taken up painting. She had been a journalist, lobbyist, activist, poet. A mother who raised two sons, one white, one black, both adopted, both adored. In her 70s, she led groups of artists on adventures in Provence. In her 80s, although challenged by increasingly low vision, she took up blogging. 

The result is the charming Ink, Paint, Words. 

Tender drawings touched with color alternate with deceptively delicate poems. They seem brief and spare; read it again, there is a potency there arising from a long life well lived and a writer’s craft well loved.

Poem: Either or Both

Poem: Losing Sight No. 2

Painting Losing Sight: No. 3

I hope you will go and explore some of the treasures on her blog, and follow the good stuff yet to come.