Signs of Blue

When someone dies, we must learn a new way to communicate with them. We are learning a part of Dawn and her fiance's language is the color blue. It appears when least epected, and leaves its comfort and message on our hearts. 

Dawn passed away on January 26, 2022 and three days later my husband, Charlie, took this picture. Notice the blue? The wall is a gold color. Dawn and Daniel's  favorite color was blue. We lost Daniel, her fiance, in 2019 to mesothelioma. We were having a small candlelight vigil for friends and family when the beautiful sky blue on the wall appeared.  I believe she came to us along with Daniel to tell us she was with us, and she is happy in the stars. 

On Valentine's Day of this year, 2022, my husband and I were watching the news when the image above flashed on the screen. We looked at eachother and couldn't believe our eyes. In an image of blue was the announcement about SpaceEx's planned, private human spaceflight mission, Polaris Dawn. Amazingly my poetry chapbook, Between Grief and Hallelujah, (written about and dedicated to Dawn) will be on a later Polaris Mission as part of Samuel Peralta's Lunar Codex program, which is a coded timecapsule of 30,000 contemporary artists, writers, musicians, and filmakers from around the world, and buried by NASA's Viper Rover on the south side of the moon.

Sunday brought blue light to our dining room. I walked into my dining room and was greeted with this light display. Notice to the blue reflection at the front door, and the feathered rainbow images tipped in bright blue. The notes of blue that appear reminds us of the power of love that lives on and is never broken.