Colour is power

A list of things beautiful today;

(Not in numerical order)

1. The happiest baby laughing in a car park. I mean truly, it was joyous.
2. Finding a set of  ceramic scales your best friend wrote on, in the days when you worked at the same place and had too much fun to call it work.
3. Realising your new space reminds you of the house you would like to live in. I'm calling the new studio 'the barn'.
4. Hand washing Indian textiles. Colour is power so I am told. I will hold this in my heart.
5. Singing songs to Nan about radiotherapy, she has only one more session to go! Cmon!
6. That new traffic light at the end of the road, it has a new green man button. It's nice. It's different to all the other buttons, it's sort of convex and it feels good to push.
7. Seeing the hysterical tears of a colleague as he explains the jerry springer musical.

There is space

There is a space in my home where you can sit and watch the colours of the world change. The sky moves across the frames, like Turner paints, the colours, the movement of clouds. It is all the things I love. Sometimes I can sit for a long time, watching the light fade, watching the birds pass over, and I feel this connection with the world. It takes me on this journey, from light to dark, from blue to pink to green to deep navy. At night the moon shines down, it casts it shaddows and illuminates the tansparent shapes like a secret ice cave.

Tonight it glows with the fading embers of the day, it is calm now, it is calm.

My heart slows, it is thankful for all the colours of the day.