WineontheKeyboard

Color has always been an important part of my world. The brilliant colors. Subdued colors. The shades and hues and variety. I reach for certain colored clothes when I want to be cheered up. Other subdued colors, like my favorite gray sweatshirt, sit there waiting for me when I want to just sit back and chill out. (warmly )

When I was growing up my favorite color was yellow. Probably because my mom’s favorite color was yellow, so she dressed me in lots of yellow. It wasn’t until I went off to college that I realized I could choose my own favorite color… Not that my mom was still dressing me in high school, you know. I mean, she still bought me lots of yellow clothes, but I did pick out my own clothes. Mostly. Well, she gifted me a lot of yellow clothes and we shared clothes a lot. My mom has awesome taste in clothing. I’ll move on to my next favorite color…

Then I was all about red. Red sweaters. Red scarfs. Red shoes. Red cars. Even a brief stint of red hair… Red. Red. Red.

Then in the last 8 years or so it slowly became all about the Pink.

I love pink. Bright, brilliant, glorious pink.

It’s a happy color. Shocking pink, love that the most.

I feel a bit fickle. I mean, most people just pick a favorite color and keep it don’t they? Well, I’m obviously not very loyal to my colors… Please don’t think less of me…

How about you? Do you have a favorite color? Has it changed over the years, or is your favorite color from childhood still your favorite color now?

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I cannot believe how lucky I am sometimes. To live in my house, backing up to my woods. Where creatures like this come up and share their lives with me.

Sneaking up to the base of the bird feeder to get the scattered seeds. I feel like I can almost reach out and touch this beautiful deer.

Then he looks up at me, wondering if I’m safe or a danger. Staring at me. Almost as if this brilliant creature can look into my soul.

Sometimes I think, in our hurry and bustle that is real life, we forget to appreciate the wonderful things in nature that surround us. So today, how about pausing for a moment in the rat race which is daily life, and look up at the sky. Listen to a bird, the crunch of a fallen leaf, the music of the wind in the trees. Stare up at the clouds and see what you can see in them. Take just a moment with me to appreciate the beauty that is nature.

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I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations; and suddenly find - at the age of fifty, say - that a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about…It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you. ~ Agatha Christie

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I’m SO into my second blooming now and I love it. So much to try, learn, explore. How about you?

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