In May, on a trip to Big Sur with my mom, just a few days after Highway 1 reopened to the public, I bought a book at Nepenthe called One Color a Day by Courtney Cerruti. It’s a year-long project book where you mix one color per day. Mix meaning, well, interpret it as you want. Sometimes I “mix.” Most of the time I just see how the colors interact with each other. I started it May 1.
I was also taking a Maitri and Creativity class via Karuna Training. Each week we focused on a Buddha family, a concept I am not equipped to pithily explain here, so let me just say each family focuses on aspects of our human existence. The Karma family is about action and goals/drive and its color is green; its element wind.
Each day in the book you are encouraged to name your color. On the 24th I named my color Cecily, because Cecily died that morning. Cecily is my brother’s step sister. We only met a few times (a vacation in Arizona when she was seven and I was 25; at Red Feather Lakes in 2001; and then again at my brother’s wedding in 2016.). Despite it only being a few times, I felt connected to her. I loved her as a kid and admired her so much as an adult. She made an impression on my heart and I was happy to know her and have this extended family connection.
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