Day 20: A Momentary Distraction
Blue Like the color of water Sky Blue I'd heard so many answers before I usually tuned them out, but for some reason hers stuck in my mind. Because there is only one color that creates peace and panic as well. How many had I heard answer with the same words? How many had ever considered the answer more than a simple verbalization? The color you associate with the cold, yet smile when it stares down at you on a windy spring day. Her choice wasn't atypical. Blue was in fact the most common color chosen, but I had never heard anyone speak so passionately about why. They never seemed to care. When I was a small girl I visited the sea. I remember the lapping waves nipping at my pink ankles. The water never looked blue there. I wondered from where this wisdom came. She didn't appear sagely. Quiet Docile She didn't show the spark of insight Mother always explained the water was blue because of the sky. I r