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The Colorful 95-year-old Ilona Royce-Smithkin

Teresa Kay-Aba Kennedy and 95-year-old Artist Ilona Royce-Smithkin, October 25, 2015

I had the most delightful encounters this week as a result of my recent trip to Montenegro thanks to new friend Ari Seth Cohen. His book, Advanced Style, has spurned a community of glamorous women who are 70 years old and above. One of these women I met is 95-year-old Ilona Royce-Smithkin. With red hair and red eyelashes she created, she is a burst of color and energy.

Tame the Gremlin

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A DOSE OF POWER LIVING®: Tame the Gremlin – As painter Vincent Van Gogh said, “If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.”

The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.
- Leonardo da Vinci