I came home today after a long day at the cancer clinic, emotional tank empty and used up after expending a good portion of it on helping a man and his father cope after a grand mal seizure. Upon entering my back door off the mud porch, there greeted me from the makeshift scrapwood island, bundles and bundles of cut tulips and rosebuds. Burnt orange with flames of yellow on the lips of the tulips, purples rich in grey and hints of burgundy and pinks that are the color of my little girls cheeks when they are overheated. My husband had went over the top in his extravagance. I had asked for a little bundle of tulips (think Jewel) and he came home with put your entire hands around the bunch of tulips (think bulk from Sam’s Club). I divided them all up into little bouquets in dainty bud vases and long, elegant stem vases and scattered them throughout the house. I then go to the dining room table (which has now been moved in front of the piano in the living room…still undecided about furniture arrangement this Spring) and there was a box from my favorite online yarn store! It felt like Christmas! Audrey helped me unpack and of course she had to “organize” all the skeins into matching colors. I had bought a cheap basket at Joanne’s earlier and I found myself walking around the house with this basket heaping full of yarns of all delicious colors: chocolate raspberry, teals, deep greens of the forest, gumball pinks with hints of peach, warm browns…

Ahhhh, color.
It speaks to me this evening and makes me feel unusually happy.

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