Farmer Sitting by the Fireside Reading....Van Gogh“Deeply engaged reading leads to perceptual awakening, stimulation of the core of the intuitive and experiential . . . What reading and writing can teach us is a deeper empathy that leads us to desire the best for others who are entirely different from us, and to long to communicate with them.”
- Makoto Fujimura, “Refractions #26: The Epistle of Van Gogh
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"deeply engaged reading"
I totally agree with that quote. Always tell my kids that that sort of reading makes a person's brain happy.
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I like that ......a happy brain!
Everyone should read Van Gogh's letters, but I had a hard time with the edited version. I did not like the way they were edited - I went and got the un-edited ones from the library - There are 4 Volumes!!! It totally changed the meaning of so much of what I was reading and suddenly there were so many more questions. Van Gogh certainly was a complex person, his mind was full of beautiful ideas, and just like in his paintings sometimes they were so beautiful they were painful...
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