We can go weeks without speaking, and then, when my blue moods threaten to turn black, he will show up and tell me my moods are azure indigo cerulean cobalt periwinkle and suddenly the blue will not seem so dark, more like the color of a noon-bright sky.
I guess when I was really young I didn't like Willie Nelson, and she obviously loved him.
I taught it to my knitting guild many years ago.