Ultramarine
Blue! I’m feeling nautical! In the manner of someone who lives far from the
sea, drifting, as it were, on dry land. I search for a boat, a berth, a place
on the deep blue. I am grounded. And I want off it. My feet long for adventure.
What a colour.
What an ‘I could just dive in there and find a whole world’ kind of a depth it
has. Ultramarine. Sounds like such a mystical path to somewhere… different. I
could be bobbing along, bobbing along on the bottom of the beautiful briny...
oh! Look what’s happened now. A Bedknobs moment and a pause to say a quiet ode
to the ultramarine blue, thank you.
How could you
not love this colour? So simple… so strikingly simple, but look at it! It is
endless. It leads to something more. Imagine those lines expanding, lengthening
beyond the corners of your eyes. Watch them touch the horizon and tip, drawing
you down and off to the next place. Watch them roll and churn.
I let myself
drift into Ultramarine Blue and find within it such strength that I dare not
argue with where I am nor where it takes me. My Crayola Colour Mood reminds me
that there is always more out there. More to find. More to do. At the right
time I will drift on and fall wherever it shall lead me.
Elloise Hopkins.
