Thanksgiving 2006
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I had a great visit with my daughter at Thanksgiving.
A year ago, on Thanksgiving,
I visited my daughter.
We had great food and drinks
we had love
and hugs
and puppies to walk
and even a renegade kitty cat.
Then we went to a museum
to see some Van Gogh paintings
in an exhibit called
“Sheaves of Wheat.”
These were some of the very last things
painted by Vincent van Gogh
in the very last year of his life.
I looked at a lot of paintings, and
Vincent seemed to be fixated on
wheat and it’s gathering
Finally, as I looked at one called
“Wheat Field with a Reaper”
I was struck with what Vincent saw:
Wheat and it's gathering
is a spiritual matter.
The gathering of the wheat
is part of a process
The reaper brings
death and birth in each swing of his scythe
The death of the wheat
is
The birth of the bread.
I began to sob amid the crowd of people.
I knew I couldn’t call Susie
and tell her what she already knew,
and that is this:
There is no difference between the wheat and the bread.
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©Lou Perryman, November 2006
Lou Perryman is an actor who has worked in the film business for over 40 years, both behind and in front of the camera. He payed "L.G." the skinned alive man in Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, did crew work on the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre, appeared in Poltergeist, The Cellar, and Boys Don't Cry. Recently he was joined by his friend Sonny Davis at a film faculty to lead discussions on filmmaking. Lou Perryman lives in Austin, Texas which is where he first met Susan.
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