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Aquamarine Spring

Love that Red, the name, I think, of a lipstick color. Love that red of my own lips, dressed not in metaphors of berries or flowers, but in a blast of color that speaks belief in a vibrant voice … I line and color my mouth to exert the autoerotic faculty of speech.

Joanna Frueh, 1996, p. 7

I just want you to be. Be with me. Be in the moment. Red, May 30, 2004, personal communication

March 26

Good morning, Professor! I hope you are well. Today is the vernal equinox, the beginning of astronomical spring in the Northern Hemisphere. You're beginning fall. Our rhythms will be different. My Grandma says New Year's resolutions don't work in Canada because January is not a birthing time. She tells me to set my goals for the year in early spring. As a child, Grandma warned me not to fall in love with anyone who came from far away (I think she was