A Scattering of Crows

Vincent Van Gogh’s last day

Photo by The Shotify: https://www.pexels.com/photo/silhouetted-tree-with-birds-sitting-on-the-branches-at-sunset-18827770/

Auvers-sur-Oise, France

July 29, 1890

Morning

Vincent awoke in his rented room in Auvers-sur-Oise, the first rays of dawn filtering through the dusty skylight. The room was sparsely furnished — a creaky bed, a rickety chair, and a small wooden table littered with tubes of paint, brushes upright in their pots like…