One Starry Night
Being Pyotr Ilyich: Tchaikovsky’s Inner Life, Revealed by Himself 130 Years Later , a spiritual memoir by Chris Nielson that delves into past-live regression and the journey a soul takes through life. The following is a memoir of my own. Many years ago, I took a trip to the Provence. When we arrived in Arles, I knew exactly where I was, as if coming home after a long time away. But I am getting ahead of myself. Let me start at the beginning. When I was a little girl, I loved looking at art books. I was one of the few children allowed to go into the adult section of the library in my hometown. Art books called to me along with books on people from around the world. One day, as I was thumbing through a book on Impressionism, I came upon the section on Vincent Van Gogh. The minute I saw, Vincent’s “Starry Night” something inside me clicked. I just sat studying the painting, running my small fingers over the images on the page. I knew this painting was mine; it was painted for ...