The Color Purple Sunday, May. 12, 2002 ~ 10:58 PM << >>
Jenny� do you mean this?
�Not vain, just wanting to share a good thing. I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere an don�t notice it.
What it do when it pissed off? I ast.
Oh, it make something else. People think pleasing God is all God care about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back. �It always making little surprises and spring them on us when us least expect.
You mean it want to be loved, just like the bible say.
Yes, Celie, she say. Everything want to be loved. Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk?�
Well, us talk and talk bout God, but I�m still adrift. Trying to chase that old white man out of my head. I been so busy thinking bout him I never truly notice nothing God make. Not a blade of corn (how it do that?) not the color purple (where it come from?). Not the little wildflowers. Nothing.
from: The Color Purple, by Alice Walker.
Yesterday I jumped on a trampoline. At sunset. And I forget my age as I banged my head on the purple clouds.
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