Somehow the world has become even darker since we last met. I’ve been wandering through the corridors of the house of mirrors we call life. Today I’ve been studying this painting by Peter Bruegel from the der Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. When I took the photo, I had one of those moments that happen every once in a while in a person’s life.

I was gobsmacked that I was actually looking at the painting. As I had been the first time I stood in front of a Van Gogh, ‘The Tower of Babel’ was not something I thought that I’d ever see outside of a book. Standing there in der Kunst, I was able to stand in front of it and study it for as long as I wanted. This is a luxury that most people will never experience. When I was younger, I thought that most other people had the opportunity to see these wonderful things. It wasn’t until I actually stood in front of a masterpiece that I realized that really very few people could do what I was doing. I was determined to never let a moment like that ever pass me by. (more…)