In one part it’s my own grey, in the other it’s that I’m redesigning my blog based on a different WordPress theme, since I was never quite happy with the previous one. I’m now using a theme called Thematic, which is supposed to be superduperistically customizable, but for starters it’s just like how movies & TV started: no technicolor, no RGB.
So today — Henkimaa.com is black & white (& grey), just like me.
But color will return.
Perhaps tomorrow? Perhaps.
Do you remember “Mary Poppins”? There’s a song, “Jolly Holiday” that Bert (the chimney sweep) sings when Mary takes the Banks children to the park. I saw the theatrical production while I was in Cleveland earlier this month, and in the middle of the opening bars of that song, the set is magically transformed from a dingy, sooty, bleak London street scene to an impressionistic landscape of Monet colors. Mary and Bert instantly reappear on stage in lavender and magenta rather than brown and — grey.
I sat there and thought that I should hum a few bars of “Jolly Holiday” when I’m feeling myself falling into my own colorless landscape.
Banish the grey. But have some fun redesigning Henkimaa.
Thanks, Pam. I’ve gotta I quite like the font & post structure with this theme, & I feel less crowded with a two-column structure: so far so good on redesign, though yes, color will be welcome when it comes back. Some stuff I gotta learn about this theme.
I’m peculiar with the grey… “Jolly Holiday” or similar cheerful stuff won’t help me stay away from it or help me get out of it — in fact, has rather the opposite effect. I have to just let it dissolve away, or sleep it off. This one came on by surprise last night — maybe some song I heard — brought on the lonelies, grief over this year’s losses, especially of relationship. And my dad’s birthday was two days ago. And I’ve had too too much exposure to the antigay crap….
But at least I can joke about it now. (see most recent tweet/FB status)