I’ve been painting by numbers for years. Ostensibly colourful, faking it, making it to some extent. But dancing to someone else’s tune, seeing life through someone else’s specs.
How about if I cranked up the colour in my life? Have you ever had that feeling? When you want to choose the hues, the saturation, the light and shade. When you want to make bold choices of your own. Live your life in vivid colour.
Today is a grey, rainy day yet the colours in the garden or hedgerow are stronger, insistently themselves. What’s more, the colours shine, glow even. You can see the landscape in a completely different way. Wouldn’t that be great? To shine out, to stand out. To be seen in your glorious, true colours? Even when it’s raining.
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I love that idea Jan – how colours can be “stronger, insistently themselves”.
As can we. As can we, even when it’s raining
Joanna You’re so right! And it’s something we have to keep reminding ourselves of. I guess in adversity (e.g. constant rain!) we have to set aside artifice, and so we can get a stronger sense of who we are.
See what you did there, Joanna? You fed me back my words and made me see them differently. What a brilliant coach you are.
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