One Word: Hope

I suppose it’s only fitting that this post finally comes together on my B-day and, per usual late to the party but I was finishing up a few things for school and then my new computer broke (DON’T ASK) and when you live in a three-person household that has only two computers it it difficult to obtain one to work on exclusively.  So I had to wait until my parents got a desktop so I could appropriate a laptop.

So at the beginning of the year one of my blog friends did something that she’s done for a while but I was unaware of it the past few years.  I have not made it a secret that I despise New Year’s resolutions…despise them and I have made it a point to not make any for the past several years.  I seriously don’t see the point.  And I know I’ve said it before but if you want to start something new you can choose any ol’ day and just start.  But Alece has done something…different.  She chooses one word and lives the rest of the year with that one word in mind, last year her word was risk and she attested to how it affected her life throughout the year.  So when the new year started to come into view I thought maybe I should try it out, this whole One Word thingy…

I started thinking of what One Word I could choose but it wasn’t until I was at a New Year’s Eve party with my parents and some of their friends and they have this tradition of writing down their New Year’s resolutions, putting them in a hat and then trying to guess who it belongs to.  Well due to my distaste for resolutions I thought quickly and then Alece’s One Word thing occurred to me and I though what would I choose?

The only word that occurred to me was – Hope.  Given my newly graduated status and the fact that I’m currently living with my parents and am jobless that seemed most appropriate.

Hope for a job that I like and can stand to stay at for the next who-knows how many years.

Hope for a nice place to live.

Hope that I can stay in Colorado for the rest of my life.

Hope for a God-filled life and love.

This works for the next year because I am officially a young professional now, no longer a student and it changes things, looking for a job is different because I know that it is entirely possible that I will be there for a good long while and the same goes for a place to live.  And I tend to be a pessimistic person and see the negative side of things so I thought I’d try something new and focus on having Hope.

We’ll see how it goes…

Colors

This is something I did the other day as sort of a fun, interesting, wierd little excercise.  What I did was come up with a positive and negative image or connotation for a few colors so I thought, for fun, I’d share a few of them.  And I wanted you guys to post some positives and negatives of whatever color you want (if you want).

Purple – the sickly color of a bruise as it darkens

the dark, rich color of that beautiful velvet cape

Yellow – dusty, parched wheat fried in the unforgiving sun

bright, happy, sunflower skirt carried by dancing feet

Blue – the deep, dark sea hiding the unknown denizens of the deep

soft pond waiting, hidden behind the house, following a stream, happy children skate

and swim within

Red – obscene flashes of blood on the wall

powerful purring cherry Mustang

Green – all-night binge ending over a toilet splashing stomach contents

soft newness of the tree sprouting out of the fertile ground

Orange – CAUTION, contagious, chemicals will cause death

gooey cold orange dream ice-cream bar

Brown – dismal dark(dank) of dirt filling up around the coffin

rich fizzy cold frosty Root Beer

Silver – mirror flash of the knife’s keen edge as it cuts

stream of silver around your beloved’s neck proclaims your love and their beauty

And finally…

White – famine, pale from hunger, wasting away to no color

pure shining of the bride on her wedding day

Black – death, staring into the inner darkness

mystery, the unknown, looking for forever into the night sky