DO YOU HAVE THAT IN GREEN?

by Heather the Jane

Let me qualify that statement: I am not a clothes horse by any means. I rarely buy anything new except jeans. Clothing is just not where I chose to put my money (books, on the other hand….). I've never had a real fashion sense, nor cared whether or not I had one. I’ve never wanted to make a fashion statement. [---Flashback to the 80s and my acid wash jeans---] Okay ONE fashion statement in my whole life (and I've yet to figured out what that statement was....).

But color crazy? Oh yeah. Green. I'm nuts over green, because it's my writing color.

This is a picture of my handsome son Conor sharing my enthusiasm for green ... and life! 

 I'm really not sure when this started exactly. Early on when I started writing I realized I was more productive and things flowed easier in a few of my favorite shirts – green, of course. That evolved. And over the many years I've been writing, I've found it to be my 'power' color when I dive into this wonderful world of words. (And yes, I will buy a green shirt if I happen upon a good one ... good meaning blindingly bright and shiny, sequined even.) I have a few favorite writing t-shirts, two older-than-death cozy green sweaters. Love my green socks. Whenever I'm in Halifax there is one particular shop downtown where I pick up a bright green scarf every single time. Earrings, fuzzy pencil case, the trim on my whiteboard, bright cushions, notebooks and binders, purse, pens, hair elastics, towels, Christmas ornaments, stuffed frogs, pillows and sheets. I have many shades of green candles, of course and, yes, they do stand for my writing energy and hopes. In case you're wondering ... my dream car? Oh oh oh ... someday, I'll be behind the wheel of that lime-green Smart Car convertible beep-beep-beeping my way along the city streets :-) Basically, if it comes in green ... I get it in green. Because why the heck not surround myself with this powerful color? Why not give myself this gift of knowing (not just believing) that as I write, I'm empowering my writing life every single day – every single moment – that I surround myself in green?

I can hear the skeptics now ... “It’s all in your head.” Well, duh. Where the heck do you think the stories come from in the first place? And you know what? I know what I know and feel what I feel - unapologetically. Yep, I feel colors. I just do. Different colors mean different things to me, make me feel differently, spur me on, and that's all there is to it. And if green-green-marvellous-green can help niggle and nudge me into the writer I wish to be, help our beloved stories along, I am so good with that :-)