Wheat and Grass

Part of the Coworking Confidential Series: Saying the parts unknown out loud

“If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now.
For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning.”

Van Gogh wrote that line in a letter to his brother, years before anyone bought his paintings.

He was living on bread crusts and borrowed money,
painting fields he couldn’t afford to walk through.

Most of his work was done in cr…