I gathered up these things from my workspace and the pile of things-at-the-bottom-of-the-stairs-which-need to-go-up, and from the kitchen table. My bedroom is this color and my studio. This is the blue that reminds me of swimming pools, reminds me of home. When you fly over Southern California you see shimmering oval or kidney-shaped swimming pools, like so very many turquoise polka dots on the landscape.
I am missing home. I do, all the time, but feel the sting of home sickness in particularly keen ways this time of year. Even without the private sadnesses, there are so many public reminders and glimpses of home (the Rose Parade reduces me to puddles of tears).
I'm grateful for the memories and traditions of the magical Christmases we had in times past. Those memories and traditions are mine forever: some captured in photographs, some I can still smell and taste or hang on my tree, some are conjured instantly through song or film. And there are a few new ones to look forward to too.
A big thank you to Lisa, for inviting us to blog gratefulness this past month. It was a lovely experience both as participant and witness.
8 comments:
What a pretty arrangement of swimming pool blue! Sorry you are feeling sad. I am strangely homesick quite often even though I don't know for where that is.
nacherluver: I can relate to that. I've lived a lot of places in my life and even though I'm used to being somewhat of a bedouin, I often feel that same homesickness for a mysterious somehwere. Thanks for visiting! :)
I love this photo of swimming pool blues. My living room in CA was different shades of sea blues and greens. Here, I've done the upstairs bathroom in those colors. They soothe me and I miss having them in my backyard. To answer your question on my seagull post, I miss CA terribly.
Funny thing is I didn't "feel" the winter holidays while in CA, and now that I'm back in the land of snow I'm not feeling them here either. This time though, I think it's due to lack of money and missing dear friends.
I'll muddle through somehow ;)
Like you, I'll find joy in simple things like decorating a bit here and there, fresh evergreen boughs in the flowerboxes, a fresh wreath in the house. And I'm sure I'll be inspired when I see my friend's paper clay snowmen :)
I love that little bird up there. So sweet!
~L♥~
i LOVE this blue too Jeannine - just had to pop in and say hi after seeing you featured in 'Studios'!! Hope you are well, I need to catch up a bit on your blog, I haven't been online much the last couple of months.....
take care, xo
i miss california too. those blues whisper like santa ana winds....
i wish for you that you find the joy where you are this year.
gorgeous btw.
gorgeous blue!
i love these colors, that little bird looking up at the camera, and i, too, understand those other blues - the melancholies of the season. hard to know for what we long, but i feel it each year as soon as the christmas rush is over and we settle into a few weeks of nothing much to do but clean and get ready for the new year. i am always the last one to leave each day, and after we finish our last minute christmas wrapping (so much easier to do at work), and pile michael's car full and he takes off to his family, the quiet falls upon me and i always cry. for just a bit and then i am off to my family.
'tis the season.
xoxo
Debi
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