Vincent van Gogh

This has been the week for "signs" about Van Gogh. It began last Sunday when I watched this BBC program called Power of Art that was about van Gogh. It of course made it so much better with Andy Serkis playing van Gogh. But there was nothing special about it. Only a good program about a good artist.

Then last Tuesday in Medium, Allison dreamed about van Gogh. Thought it was a little funny then. And I thought that she had it wrong, because she dreamt he put a gun to his head, and in the Power of Art program he said he shot himself in the chest... That was really all that went through my mind at that stage.

Then on Friday, of all the pages in Art through the Ages, you picked the pages where Starry Night was!! Now it felt a little strange. But I wrote a good poem.

Then on Saturday, I saw a painting by van Gogh in a movie. No idea what movie it was, but I was switching from channels to channels. Now I really thought it must be a sign of some sort. And I made up my mind yesterday when I heard the song Starry, starry night (this version sung by Josh Groban). I thought, now this I cannot deny anymore. It is too strange to be coincidence. Tomorrow I will go to the library and find some books about Vincent van Gogh and see what it has to show me.

And so today I did and how three books with me home, two biographies and one novel. And I went into a book store to see if they had any notebooks on sale. And don't you think I found a notebook with von Dutch on the cover!! It cannot get any clearer than that!! Now all I have to find out is what the heck is being said about this. How it is suppose to connect to my life. Am I suppose to write something about Vincent or is it something about his life that can be inspirational for my own life? That is something I have to find out I guess... One of the books is the letters of Vincent, mostly to his brother Theo I think. Just barely flipped through it...