Life has all the answers; sometimes, unfortunately, they're not the answers we were hoping for; but the Truth will out, in the end. The suffering chronicled in SUNFLOWER is absolutely Universal in nature- take it from someone who knows first hand-, but so, too, is the depth of feeling and the ties one feels to the past (whether a place or a period of time). I'm reminded, for some reason, of a quote from Mary Shelley's FRANKENSTEIN (it may just be the season, but the quote's a good one): "Destiny was too potent, and her immutable laws had decreed my utter and terrible destruction." It certainly seems that way, more often than not, and, the older I get, the more convinced I become that that quote needs to be carved in stone somewhere.
