It's a pilgrimage for me because when I was in college I read Van Gogh's letters and found in them an integrity and beauty that struck me deeply. Van Gogh offered another choice to me, the road of the artist. Be a lawyer, a teacher, a professor, a doctor. And here was Van Gogh talking about color, about rising at four in the morning to sketch workers gathering for work in the fields, about being so absorbed in painting out in the open he forgot to eat. His letters are passionate, thoughtful and occasionally humorous.
Science demonstrates the earth is round . . .
But life too is probably round. . . Van Gogh was a mentor, now I'm coming 'round to him again. In June I'll be in Van Gogh country with these wonderful people. We'll draw, create stories and skits, write and tell stories. And for me it will also be a time of taking stock.