Filling the Well: Marcus Aurelius, Odilon Redon, Garip Ay, and Vincent van Gogh

 

Violette Heymann (1910) by Odilon Redon, The Cleveland Museum of Art

 

The soul becomes dyed 

with the color of its thoughts.

 

– Marcus Aurelius

 

Van Gogh's Starry Night painted on dark water by Garip Ay

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1eS3ChsQAM

April 1: Michelle H. Barnes and Cosmo Sheldrake

April 2: Hans Christian Andersen

April 3: Guy Finley, Anneke van Giersbergen and Árstíðir 

April 4: Joseph Campbell and Fabien Weibel

April 5: Salvador Dalí and Pilobolus

April 6: Jacob Nordby and Talking Animals

April 7: Aileen Fisher, XTC, and Takarazuka Ballet

April 8: Amit Ray and Yehuda Amichai

April 9: Frances Hodgson Burnett

April 10: Frank Lloyd Wright, Stéphane Grappelli, and Django Reinhardt

April 11: John Burroughs and Stunts Amazing 

April 12: Beverly Cleary

April 13: Lee Bennett Hopkins and Judy Collins

April 14: X. J. Kennedy, Godfrey Reggio, Philip Glass, and Ron Fricke

April 15: Lucille Clifton, Anthony Howe, and Akeboshi

April 16: Donna Tartt and Micah

April 17: Kobayashi Issa (International Haiku Poetry Day)

April 18: Yasunari Kawabata and Alexander Mercks