Them Bones

Last night I finished reading Kathy Reichs’ “Bones To Ashes”. It was an excellent, engrossing read. No surprise there. All of her books are this way and when I get my hands on one, I devour it. If you don’t already know, Reichs’ books were the inspiration for the Fox hit TV show, BONES.

My only complaint: Dr. Temperance Brennan’s, the main character, on-again/off-again relationship with Detective Andrew Ryan.

I’m sure this is done to add some drama throughout the series, but I’d prefer they be together and muddle through the occasional spat or something. Kathy Reichs is a superb storyteller and between her descriptions of body language and snippy conversations, I can feel the tension between the characters. That’s a huge compliment to Ms. Reichs’, but I don’t care for it. They belong together.

Tempe and Ryan sort of remind me of my neighbors, Tom and Lynette. On alternating weekends, they are either making divorce announcements or having relationship breakthroughs rediscovering their love. They are either holding hands or hanging “Gone Fishing-Alone (I hope, anyway)” signs on their front door.

It’s either super wonderful or really bad with them. There’s no in between. They are like a roller coaster, on a straightaway just building up speed during the week and then on Friday nights, they find out if they go on an upward climb or if the world suddenly bottoms out on them and they start descending into a stomach churning fall.

My jaw bones ache just listening to them sometimes. Right into my ear and then down the back of my neck. Ouch.

I think at times we can all get caught up in this black and white thinking. I know I do. Sometimes it is very hard for me to see the “shades of gray” and I end up extremely frustrated until I can.

That’s what happened this week. I got caught up in black and white thinking and ending up so frustrated that I realized I was holding my breath at times. I had to stop, remind myself to breathe and remember that the world is in high definition color and not black and white and gray. My new Hi-Definition big screen proves it!

I’ve decided to move my RGB slider to the red side of the spectrum today. Red is the color of energy and love. It’s hearty tone represents strength (think power ties, gentlemen) and courage (think American Flag, people!)If I were a better gardener, it would be the color of my rose garden.

Best of all, the color perfectly compliments my favorite fashion accessory, rose colored glasses. The world appears much more lovely when I have them on. :)

Today is a much better day.