Living in a Digitalis World

[Magpie]

Meant to comment a while back, but my brain is fried despite the fact I don't snort turpentine like shem.

I LOVE this piece, and oddly enough the halo period was my favorite.

When I saw the title though, I thought of Digitalis used for heart conditions...stupid nurse brain, I suppose--but I still wonder if you could work some kind of heart symbol in there.

Doesn't matter, it's great anyway!

I was quite worried about posting this even though it was in 'Fun', I suppose I thought it might be seen as a a bit too gimmicky. So I'm pleasantly surprised by the response to it. Actually regarding the title, I don't know what happened when I was naming it because it should be something like "Living In The Digitalis Age" or Era, it was meant to be a play on Digital, oh well, that's what I get for using my garden as a pharmacy.
I knew it had been used for heart conditions but I thought it was years ago and they didn't use it anymore but I've just discovered that it's relatively new in that respect. I don't think they really knew what they were doing using it for epilepsy though, much in the same way that someone once noticed that about 5 epileptic people weren't schizophrenic and so ECT was born. Ta Da!!
I totally agree with you about Van Gogh's halo period being his best, when I think about Van Gogh I immediately associate him with errmm Don McLean (and that bloody miserable song), but then when I get that out of my head it's paintings like starry night.
I've had a look at working some kind of 'Heart' in there. All the plants with heart in the name aren't really universally known so it wouldn't work that way, but fear not I'm working on another way to introduce it via forget-me-nots, artichokes and possibly a freesia. It's probably best not to build your hopes up from the way it's looking.

Thanks for reading and the wonderful comment,

Mark