Sky Alive, a colorway
Awe of Horizon, and Colors of Daylight and Night Wander
Colorway is an additional, monthly essay for paid subscribers. Think: deeper dives into memories, practices, and the colors in the Odette Press landscape. Pairing reflections on color with ways to tend to our lives to take care; later pieces feature recipes, sights, sounds, to connect with each color of note. Today, an essay on Sky Blue. Read to the end for prompts to pair with this color practice, and for a discount code over in the Odette Press shop. I’m glad you’re here.
“For many years, I have been moved by the blue at the far edge of what can be seen, that color of horizons, of remote mountain ranges, of anything far away. The color of that distance is the color of an emotion, the color of solitude and of desire, the color of there seen from here, the color of where you are not. And the color of where you can never go. For the blue is not in the place those miles away at the horizon, but in the atmospheric distance between you and the mountains.” — Rebecca Solnit, “The Blue of Distance” from A Field Guide to Getting Lost
Focus out, out, out to the furthest points of your imagination, and understand that there is even more sky than that for your mind can comprehend. Stars scatter into midnight infinities. Sunsets rage into the horizon, soothing their way into new days and distance. Every morning the same spheres shine in the wide sky, reemerging toward infinity across endless horizons.