The Sensitive Suffer

The sensitive suffer (Van Gogh, Modigliani); the strong sensitives prosper (Matisse, Picasso), and how finally their differing backgrounds mold them.

The sensitives are driven by an obsession with anguish; the sensitive strong by a balance found within, an ability to control conflicting emotions.  The sensitives who burn (learn) so quickly, for their forboding of early death drives them to know, move quickly through the forms of their time.  An older artist teaches us to be patient, to breathe, to control the craft.


Torture ticking inside of us a brace flapping gently up and down – a kind of mouse trap.  A form of torture can be found in our search for the human soul.  What happens in near-death experiences (caused by a lack of oxygen to the brain) allows the residue or remnants of deeply imprinted experiences to unfold before our dying eyes:  down we go into our privacy barely breathing.  The isolation is the fear and then without warning we see what has been absorbed by the soul – the essence of us – beyond the protective armor.  


Death haunts our kingdom.  How sadly we walk our well-worn beloved paths.