Part One

EVEN

THERE

Where can I go from your Spirit?

Where can I flee from your presence?

If I go up to the heavens, you are there;

if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.

If I rise on the wings of the dawn,

if I settle on the far side of the sea,

even there your hand will guide me,

your right hand will hold me fast.

PSALM 139:7-10

It’s so beautiful here, if only one has a good and a single eye without many beams in it. But if one has that, then it’s beautiful everywhere.

VINCENT VAN GOGH,
LETTER TO THEO FROM LONDON,
JULY 31, 1874