“Conscience is a man’s compass, and though the needle sometimes deviates, though one often perceives irregularities when directing one’s course by it, one must still try to follow its direction.

-Vincent van Gogh

Van Gogh has been my favorite painter since I was a baby. Really. My mother used to hold me up to see a print of one of his paintings of sunflowers and ask me who painted it. I was learning to talk, and I’d tell her.

Today I think he might have been better off not worrying about the direction of his compass, and just focusing on the brush in front of his nose. Some of us are born to create, and let the world find it’s own groove and it’s own grain to grind, is my point.