Sunset, Thursday, 6 August 2009

Thursday, August 6, 2009 at 09:45PM
BVD in Albemarle County, Antony & The Johnsons, Blue Ridge, Don McLean, Robert Johnson, Stony Point, Sunset Paintings, Sunsetology, iPod, “Cross Road Blues”, “Crossroads”, “Hope There’s Someone”

William Theodore Van Doren. Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va. Oil on paper, 16 x 20.

So I’m chopping some really potent onions from Integral Yoga, and this doesn’t usually happen but tears are flooding down my face, the sunset (meaning the image I will want to paint) is happening unexpectedly early and is one of the strongest sunsets it seems like we’ve had in weeks, and the iPod has decided to throw down one of Don McLean’s major I’m-killing-you-softly ballads (“Crossroads,” as it happens), but I’m actually laughing because the tears have nothing to do with the beautiful sunset, or the song, or even with the following:

Oh, I’m scared of the middle place
Between light and nowhere.

                        “Hope There’s Someone” – Antony & The Johnsons

 

The sun goin’ down, boy
Dark gon’ catch me here.

                        “Cross Road Blues” (Take 2) – Robert Johnson

Article originally appeared on The Very Rich Hours (http://www.theveryrichhours.com/).