This book tells true stories in segments about a young lady who was raised in a small town Woodbury TN, in a little old shanty house, with every crack and crevice filled with children and adults. Soon the family moved to Nashville, TN when she was very young. There she witnessed all types of blood shed. Her sister´s baby died, in her arms of S.I.D. Not long after that her brother was accidently shot in the face and blinded in both eyes, and later died, she thought a part of her went wtih him. Her greatest wish was to move out of the proverty blood sheding neigborhood. Later through the years she married a great guy and did moved out. Some serveal years later , she endured extream tradgies and found herself going through a nasty divorce. She lost her mother her father and her son all in a nine month period. Her 15 year old son's death took a toll on her life, he killed himself playing Russian Roulettle while sitting at a table eating captain crunch cereal. She felt she couldn´t bare anymore pain, she tried to committ sucide, but felled. She begin looking for happiness, she entered into blame, she entered into self pity, she entered into fear, she entered into doubt. During her search for answers she entered into the house of God and turned her life over to Jesus Christ. In the end she found love, peace and unspeakable joy through the lord Jesus Christ. Now she is able to tell the world how she made it threw.

"This is an intimate and revealing biography of Agnes Martin, renowned American painter, considered one of the great women artists of the 20th and 21st Century. A resident of both New Mexico and New York City, Martin has always remained an enigma due to her fiercely guarded private life. Henry Martin, award-winning writer, and art scholar, having access to those who were close to Agnes Martin--friends, family, former lovers--has given (gives) us a full portrait of this universally revered artist. Readers will learn of her bouts with mental illness, her several significant lesbian relationships, and her lifelong yearning for recognition despite her reclusive lifestyle and need for privacy. Arriving in the wake of major international retrospective exhibitions of her work from London's Tate Modern, LACMA in Los Angeles, and the Guggenheim in New York City, this book provides a perspective of Agnes Martin that has not been seen in earlier, more academic works or fine-art monographs. Certain to be a mainstay for readers of the arts, and admirers of the creative spirit, this book also includes rare photographs from Martin's family and friends, many of which have never appeared in a book before"--

A richly imagined novel based on the life of artist Agnes Pelton, whose life tracks the early days of modernism in America. Born into a family ruined by scandal, Agnes becomes part of the lively New York art scene, finding early success in the famous Armory Show of 1913. Fame seems inevitable, but Agnes is burdened by shyness and instead retreats to a contemplative life, first to a Long Island windmill, and then to the California desert. Undefeated by her history—family ruination in the Beecher-Tilton scandal, a shrouded Brooklyn childhood, and a passionate attachment to another woman—she follows her muse to create more than a hundred luminous and deeply spiritual abstract paintings.