My Year in Color

I love color, don’t you?

 

I think about color, choose things by color, and present myself with color.

I love to see people wearing beautiful colors.

This year I have been a drab bird.

Each day, I have mostly dressed all in a single color.

I have brown and black.  I have navy.  Mostly this year I wear gray.

 

It has been almost a complete year since my mother died.

I think back on the old mourning traditions.  Stay in, don’t do frivolous things,

Dress simply and in dull colors.  I used to think that was an unwelcome requirement,

Now I think it is a relief.  This is what I want.

 

Perhaps later I will find some burgundy or coral.

Turquoise, lime, or periwinkle.

 

Today I treated myself to new earrings.

Each earring has one hanging Majorca pearl.

Gray pearls.

But they shimmer with a little lavender, a hint of green.