purple

yesterday i was purple. today? i haven't decided yet. maybe i'll be lime green. i walked around yesterday morning looking for purple and it was the oddest thing...suddenly it seemed like every other person i passed was either wearing or carrying something purple. funny how that happens.

do you believe in the power of color? i do. my mood can be profoundly changed by color. yellow, for example. i love yellow. it can instantly perk me up and brighten my mood.  when we first moved back to the States, we were staying at my brother's house in the next town. about three days after our arrival, we came to this town, grabbed a newspaper and over breakfast, began circling ads for rentals. we left the restaurant, drove a few blocks to the first place we'd circled and when we saw the location (within walking distance of everything downtown), decided to take a look. when the property manager showed it to us, we walked in and when i saw that the kitchen had the same yellow counter tile as my childhood home, i turned around and said, "we'll take it." that was it for me. it was like i'd spent decades searching for a residence that felt like 'home'...and i didn't even like my childhood home. it wasn't about the dwelling...it was about the yellow. i was craving that particular yellow, i guess. funny how that works.

in previous chapters in my life, i've worn a lot of red and black. now, not so much. i still like black, but red almost feel too harsh for me now. it's not that i've mellowed into some pastel freak in my middle age. it's just that red feels too strong when i wear it now. i still like a spash of it here and there in accessories, but anymore when i put on a red shirt i feel like i'm wearing a stop sign.

lime green has been one of my favorite colors since i was a girl...that hasn't changed. and i still love blues, especially turquoise and aqua. so you can imagine how dreamy it felt when we lived in the tropics to look out the windows and see those glorious Caribbean hues. i still love the purity of white (not in a Biblical sense, of course) and some soft shades of green. i love the power of orange. i think over the years orange has become my new red.

you know, i wasn't going to write a blog post. i was just going to post that photo collage and hit publish. funny.