I have decided that my word for 2022 is HOPE.

I always reflect on my life at the end of one year and the beginning of another. I am sure that most of us do. 2021 was another year of heartache for many and certainly a traumatic year for most. It was not a year that you could make plans for anything. And just when you think it is getting a little safer to resume activities, BAM! here’s another variant. Or something else gets thrown at you that can be life-altering.

One can read from a variety of sources that what you think, you become; what you feel, you attract; what you imagine, you create. Jude King, PhD says “Where Your Thoughts Go, Your Life Follows”.

Be kind, sit in stillness and HOPE for the best.

I intend on starting and ending each day with HOPE in my head and HOPE in my heart. Anyone want to join me?

I always give you a heads up for color each season. The color palette has been out for several months. It is determined months ahead of the season so that companies can plan their colors and have time to produce fabrics and merchandise. Let’s hope all of the supply chain problems are resolved before you want to add to your wardrobe for Spring 2022.

Pantone is the best source for color. Leatrice Eisman is the Executive Director of the Pantone Institute. For 2022, “Diverse and distinctive colors come together to create a palette blending comfort and familiarity with unexpected delight”.

I have already shared with you the color Very Peri as THE color for 2022. (See blog from December 12, 2021). Here is the palette for Spring/Summer 2022 New York. I think that it is a great mix of soft and saturated colors.

VERI PERI is a newly manufactured color by Pantone. This is the first time the company has made a new color for Color of the Year rather than using one of their existing colors. “We have a new color, because we have a very new vision of the world now” says Pantone Color Institute’s Executive Director Leatrice Eiseman. She continues “It is literally the happiest and the warmest of all the blue hues. Because of the red undertone, it introduces an empowering feeling of newness, and newness is what we’re looking for.” Eiseman goes on to say “The color symbolizes the future, (it) has that sprightly, joyous attitude that we’re talking about, that carefree confidence, and creative spirit”.

Color is such a communicator of mood and attitude. I love this new color!