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Think pink!
Having tailored my lifestyle in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, what have now become old habits over the course of three months will die hard. I choose not to give up my steadfast exercise routine and healthy in-house eating. Other than exchanging pleasantries with my neighbors from a distance during chance encounters, I appreciate the solitude for hours on end, barring the weekly supermarket run.
I do long for the day when visitation privileges for assisted living facilities are modified, so I can see my mother in person. I’d like to bring fresh carnations to refill the vase which has been empty since March. Preferably pink.
Pink!
According to the psychology of pink, it is the color of universal love of oneself and others. No wonder, I’ve embraced pink with open arms these days.
Old habits may die hard, but I recently made the decision to stop coloring my hair. Time will tell if I choose to stick with this mind-blowing whim. Over the years I’ve somersaulted with red-blonde-red-blonde. Not one to sacrifice fashion, glamour, or sass at any age, I am encouraged by those who embrace long, gray hair gracefully and gorgeously. My muse—Emmylou Harris.
Pink!
Out with the old and in with the new! Another old habit tossed by the wayside is my preference for earth-tone blush and lipstick. To psych myself for going gray, I’ve championed the positivity of pink by acquiring a lipstick tube of “Passion Promise” and “Candy Kiss” crème blush.
Just as it behooves all of us to foster positivity in times of stress or sorrow, the color pink calms and realigns emotional energies.
Here’s to seeing pink elephants without overindulging liquor.
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I with you about Emmylou Harris. Made me recall my great aunt. In looking over old pictures, she was homely in her twenties and thirties. But when she saw her 11-year-old daughter get hit by a car leaving the school bus to cross the highway, rolling in the ditch, breaking her hip and damaging her brain, her black hair suddenly turned white at 40. In her seventies and eighties she was a widow and very attractive with that silver hair. Told me one time that "old guys" were bothering her.
Ron