Lessons from Van Gogh: The Center Is Wherever I Make My Art

Paul Gauguin, The Painter of Sunflowers: Portrait of Vincent van Gogh, 1888. Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam.

…domination is the one thing the soul will flee from.  It will stand up to almost any other trial, but it will depart rather than be dominated.  It will leave the body rather than sacrifice itself to light.

–       Clark Strand, Waking Up to the Dark: The Black Madonna’s Gospel for an Age of Extinction and Collapse

I find joy in sorrow and sorrow is greater than laughter.