red and black

I need to be in red and black pretty much the whole time I'm at Whitby so have packed every plain red or black item of clothing that I posses into my (red) case. I'm busy tonight and thurs so am trying to be organised. The dog creased it all nicely by lying on it before I actually got it into the case, but that will be a nice reminder of home when I get there :) Sadly, the shade of red I like (burgundy) isn't really the choir colour so I don't really own anything in the right shade of red. I might have to peruse the charity shops briefly on thursday after work.

I should have thought to check out youtube before - here's Joni building up the songs like I said I enjoyed so much - so if you can get half way through, watch her sing her own harmonies over the top of her own voice - I love it :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khD-kpo40yU

I've been thinking (again!) about love and hurt. It's hard to be around others when they are hurting and lashing out and being mean instead of kind. I keep reminding myself that the message we have is love. It's a good message. And it's not - for me - about persuading people to listen to the message, it's about being love, it's about showing that it is possible to have a loving rather than hurt filled response. I don't always come even close. But I know it's there to be aiming for :)

And today red and black have other connotations. According to a bbc worky-outer thing, I shall be £1500 less well off under the new budget. Hey ho.