Yellow

Yellow

• Emotional strength
• Friendliness
• Creativity
• Confidence

Today I focused on yellow and the robins showed up. Okay, okay, robins aren’t yellow, but their beaks are.

Seriously, it was the most amazing thing. I went to my favorite spot beside the young cedar tree and just gazed out over the field. Suddenly I heard rustling behind me and two robins came scuttling out from under the hedge. They were a bit surprised to see me there and watched me suspiciously for awhile, heads cocked to one side. But when I didn’t move, they lost interest and got to work looking for breakfast among the furrows of the field. Surely spring is on its way.

I caught a glimpse of crocuses as I drove through town the other day. We live up on a hill, so things take longer to bloom out here. I haven’t seen the daffodils open yet, but their buds are just about ready to burst.

Yellow. Creativity. I wake up the in the mornings and the air is clear and the birds are singing and my head is full of ideas. I bought fabric the other day and can’t wait to get started on creating something beautiful to wear.

It’s amazing to me how powerful and wonderful these natural rhythms and cycles are. When I started this process a couple weeks ago, focusing on the colors one by one, it was still winter—cold and wet and dark. Yellow felt exhausting to me. But since then I’ve freed myself from a couple burdens that were weighing me down and I feel much lighter, more whole. At the same time, the sun has come out, the world is waking up and spring is sending out it's early call. Yellow just seems like the perfect color for all this renewed energy.