28/12/2023
GRATEFUL for the mornings I wake up and feel ok physically, my body stretches beyond what it could 12 months ago, being tired and emotionally drained takes its toll on the physical body, GRATEFUL I am up and at em'.
THANKFUL for the nights I see a changing sky, a palm tree across the road frames a mountain. No bombs light it up, just stars, no screams of pain just squawking cockatoos.
HAPPY for memory. Motherhood turns a brain to mush for all the right reasons, but seldom do we appreciate them. I'm thankful my body grew, birthed and breast fed a human safely and we are here to tell that tale. Birth is amazing, there's incredible fear and uncertainty, but my most recent experience was like nothing I'll ever experience again, the good and the bad. My baby, my home, my husband, my way, in his own time. PERFECTION in all the imperfections.
LUCKY for love, from our children who smother us to the point of irritation, friends who we miss but know they are there, your messages are what guide us through moments of doubt. LOVE from people who left us this year, we feel you on our skin and in our burning ears. LOVE is in a thank you, a smile, an unconditional gesture that changes a life. LOVE from people we barely know but feel, we really feel.
PANTONE is the word we choose for 2024, what will grow and give life and blossom with colour? Previously underground getting nourished, feeling what runs by thy roots, what feeds us or makes us wither away. We will not shrink to suit anothers agenda, nor shine for anothers pleasure, but we will BLOSSOM with every colour from the book.
Raise a glass to the colourful book of PANTONE. As a blossoming pantone represents who I aspire to be, she holds all the colours, the messages, and meanings behind each step in order to live confidently with good feelings and strong relationships. Here we BLOSSOM.
ART and words a little collage by me, Renee
