Periwinkle Blue

I went running today. I'm learning to go running instead of the variety of less healthy methods of dealing I tend to do when frustrated or anxious (shopping, eating, reading). I laid down in the grass afterward and looked at the sky, it was that periwinkle blue of earliest evening - the same color as the ceiling of my room at home. I loved that room, always so bright and sunny and Raffles (my dog) sleeping in the corner. It's amazing how a smell, color, or song can take us back in time, fill us with memories so strong it is like one of those daydream sequences in a movie. I wish I could go back to 15 or 18 year-old me and offer advice, some comfort. At least some stock tips and to wait to buy the iPhone after the price went down (I can't afford an iPhone, before or after the price change, so maybe that doesn't matter so much). It's memories like that, remembering who I was before, rembering how far God has brought me, wondering what 30 year-old me would want to say, that keep me going, that and the running.