It took 100 years for someone to point out what van Gogh had hidden in his ‘Café Terrace at Night’

Hidden in plain sight, that is.

By Annie Reneau

Vincent van Gogh is world-famous for his paintings, though he didn’t live long enough to see his own success. Since he died in 1890, his works have been analyzed by countless art scholars and historians, with more and more of his unique artistic genius being revealed over time.

One of his paintings took over 100 years to be fully appreciated for its subtle allusion to a famous painting motif. “Café Terrace at Night” portrays people eating at an outdoor cafe at night, using van Gogh’s signature style and color palette (famously utilizing no black paint). But that’s not all.

Here is the painting. What do you notice?

Co-authors shocked to find their children’s book written 40 years ago is suddenly a smash hit

They never made a dime from the book. Now it’s an overnight bestseller.

By Annie Reneau

Every author dreams of writing a bestseller, but few authors actually reach that goal. Even fewer hit bestseller status decades after they publish a book, but that’s exactly what has happened to Elissa Guralnick and Paul Levitt.

Guralnick and Levitt coauthored children’s books when they were younger, but they never saw a dime of profit from them. In fact, Guralnick tells Denver 7 News that every time they published a new book, her husband would ask, “How much is this one going to cost us?”

Now, thanks to author Eli McCann sharing a nostalgic memory of his eighth-grade teacher reading a book that helped him learn the word “ingratiate,” one of Guralnick and Levitt’s books has become an Amazon bestseller overnight.

How embracing the ‘Empty Boat Theory’ can help you keep anger and anxiety in check

Letting go of anger is a beautiful thing.

By Heather Wake

We all have moments where it feels like the world is against us. When we assume people are thinking negatively about us, we act accordingly by becoming angry or anxious. Once that mindset latches on, it can be tough to let go.

But one simple Taoist parable-turned-viral-TikTok-hack offers a gentle yet powerful reminder that we are not the main character in everyone’s story.