February Prompts for Maintaining the Mystique

Leave everyone guessing.

I’ve been picking up and putting down a 1973 book of journal entries written by an Albuquerque graduate student named C.S. Merrill while she was working as an assistant to Georgia O’Keeffe.

Merrill was 26 at the time (O’Keeffe was 85). Her observations largely read as a transcription of her days at work: descriptions of breakfasts, errands, answering le…