got this note from vincent

who wanted to cheer me up about the groovy situation:

I cannot repeat to you often enough, boy, that when one is thirty, one is just beginning. Look at the biographies of artists. Even many who had painted from their earliest years changed only then, found their own personality only then. I only ask you to take those things into consideration.

~ Vincent van Gogh

Very encouraging, though I keep asking him not to call me "boy."