Today I am wearing BLACK and WHITE. That used to be all that I wore. All that I liked. All that I saw. I thought it was classic...which it is but Landen felt that I needed to embrace COLOR. So if anyone has any complaints of what a COLORFUL person I have become that would have to be blamed on Landen.
I remember shopping with my brother and him saying, "What about those red shoes?"
"Landen, RED does not go with everything and it stands out too much!"
"That's the point, "S"! ...and red goes with more than you think."
So I would try the red shoes and surprisingly enough I found more than one outfit to tango with the shoes.
I had a black sweater which I enjoyed wearing with everything and he encouraged me to give it up for blue.
Landen would get me the most ridiculous looking jewelry and accessories as gifts but when tried on it was difficult to go back to my plain and sensible BLACK and WHITE world.
Not long ago a friend asked me where I got all of my ridiculous jewelry and if I wore it because I actually liked it. I laughed and asked, "Why? Don't YOU like it?"
"Well, it's just I have never seen the stuff you wear anywhere else?"
Again, I laughed and told him about my brother who helped me to embrace COLOR...and that all of this stuff is all round...you just have to see it!
The other day I was telling Mary Lou the story of me painting my blue wall in my apartment...another story....and she said she would think that it would have to be that way. She couldn't imagine Larissa to be somewhere where there was not COLOR. I suppose that is the true thought that triggered this little jaunt...
Well there you go...
Landen taught me to be wise but fun. One does not always have to be sensible...just not completely foolish!
He taught me to live my life with a splash of COLOR embracing everyday with the creative prayer of "Lord, what can you make of today?". Life is so much more enjoyable with COLOR!
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