Priorities

[shewhomust]

First the sky, then the mountains, then the hills, then the trees, then the houses, then the cattle and then the people.

So said Grandma Moses, according to this article in yesterday's Guardian.

She was actually talking about her painting methods: always in the same order, from the top down. (The article also says that she didn't use an easel, so this may just have been to avoid smudging what she had already painted.) But I think it makes a fine all-purpose incantation.