the cynics apothecary, the birds and the bees and Vincent Van Gogh/ part 2

fiction
Edward w Pritchard


Reader, this takes a little work on your part to glean the nuances of this thought however if you take the time which takes a few minutes we will gain insight into ourselves, maybe yourself  included.

This is about seeing reality as Vincent Van Gogh saw it.

step one see any self portrait of Vincent Van Gogh from 1889 in particular maybe the one with a bandaged ear, you may use the Internet such as Google images [or go to the museums]

step two  see Van Gogh's picture of Alexander Reid 1887 the art dealer who I think is Van Gogh's idealized image of himself, although Reid was a real person and influential in Van Gogh's life.

step three See Van Gogh's sunflowers

step four see Van Gogh's Wheatfield with Crows 1890

step 5 see the Night Café by Van Gogh 1888, you might now be seeing the World as Van Gogh saw it


Now go to a nice garden someone has created and cared for and thank them for displaying it for us to see.

Here's what I wrote before about Van Gogh's "eye" which might sometimes have gleamed magnificent Sunflowers as Hostas.



the cynics apothecary, the birds and the bees/part 2

fiction
edward w pritchard

No one ever heard the official version of the birds and the bees. Instead other metaphors are used for nature and where we came from.

Originally elemental matter is made by nuclear reactions in stars. Before the elements, stars were made by gravity spinning nothingness. About twelve billion years later matter became plants and eventually blackberries bursted with moistful  temporariness before dropping as dried pons into the earth.  From the soil flowering weedish trees sent blooming flowers, colored delicious pinks, advertising skyward inner mysterious folds of  potentiality.

Thereafter all plants have a brief magnificent explosive blooming.  Later hostas emerged which could be easily split with even the smaller half surviving the disruption. Hosatas avoided the sunlight preferring dark low shady ground seldom blooming, being ignored by bees and birds.