Alive, Awake, and Aware
Vincent van Gogh, The Starry Night. 1889. Museum of Modern Art, NYC In Chapter 3 of the Book of Baruch in the Apocrypha, a collection of ancient texts that failed to make the cut for inclusion in at least some Christian Bibles, the following exchange between God and the stars is recorded: “The stars shone in their watches, and were glad; He called them, and they said, ‘Here we are!’ They shone with gladness for him who made them.” To the modern ear, fluent in the language of
