Just Navy

When Russ and I first bought our current house 31 years ago we were the youngest people on the street. Russ was not yet 30 so technically he was the youngest. Soon after we moved in an older to us couple moved into the house across the street. They were in their late fifties, renting that house while the husband got a graduate degree from Duke for fun.

They were from Texas and still spent lots of time in Texas as they had young grand children. I can’t remember their names, but they were very nice. The wife did not work and since I was working in Canada and London going back and forth I didn’t have much time to get to know her.

The one thing I did notice is every time I did see her she was wearing Navy blue. She had dark hair and pale white perfect skin. Sometimes she wore white with Navy Blue, but always Navy.

I mentioned this to Russ one day. He also commented that her Mercedes was also Navy blue. So I started to keep track every time I saw her and I can say without a doubt I never saw her without Navy on.

Fast forward to tonight. I was getting undressed from class and hanging up my dress in my closet. I tend to put the thing I just wore in the front of the closet as I don’t really have a system. I looked at the sleeves of all the clothes in the front and noticed every single thing was blue, most with white.

I had turned into my nameless neighbor. No need to think about what I am wearing. It will be blue and maybe white. I think it makes life easier to just have a color. When I travel I just take one color and white. Everything goes together and you only need two pairs of shoes. One blue and one white. That Texas woman was really smart.