The Starry Night Explanation

I feel this ought to have some sort of explanation to go along with it. I mean, picking a famous van Gogh painting as one's personal icon is rather precocious. So here's the deal:

I've always been on the lookout for other "Marleigh" type things. For example, there's Bob Marley, Ziggy Marley, the Ghost of Jacob Marley from Dicken's A Christmas Carol, Marlee Maitlin, and some woman on a soap opera who I think was trying to run off with her twin sister's husband or something. Anyway, I was speaking to a Canadian woman who was in a church choir with my mother, and she said that where she came from "marley" was an adjective used to describe the sky just before a storm, you know, when it's all cloudy and ominous and the wind starts blowing kind of weirdly...

Back to the point. I figured that having an icon that was a view of a marley sky would be a great thing. So I did a bunch of searches for pictures of storms and the only guy I think got it right was Vincent van Gogh.

So, there you have it.