Joy Cometh in the Morning

<p>Joy Postle Blackstone was best known for her vivid murals often depicting the jubilant wading birds of Florida. When she died in 1989 the world lost a wonderful artist ��� but Joy was much more than a painter. Joy���s father died when she was only three; her childhood was spent nurtured by her mother and brother until she began her career at the Chicago Art Institute.</p><p>After graduation her life changed as she and her family moved to rural Idaho to live on the family homestead. There she met her husband Bob and so began their three-year honeymoon in the midst of the Great Depression. Joy painted and Bob promoted. They lived a vagabond life. They eventually settled in Florida where Joy made friends with the birds who would make her murals legend.</p><p><i>Joy Cometh in the Morning</i> traces an artist���s life from 1896 through to her death in 1989. Joy Postle Blackstone harbored the psychological scars of abortion infidelity childlessness death and the eventual limitations of advanced age; yet as the Bible says ���Weeping may endure for a night but joy cometh in the morning.��� Through feast or famine hope or despair Joy persevered and she did it with a smile.</p>