Serious attempt number one, a question and a name.

If I were to write,

to write enough to write a blog,

would I be righting a wrong?

This is serious attempt number one, in opposition to a few mind experiments, of writing a blog post. I want this, if I am to write, to be creative, eloquent, interesting, and relevant. That requires a lot of thought, which requires a lot of time, of which I’m not sure I’ll have in the subsequent months. But this is serious attempt one, on a Monday, an irrelevant repeating categorization of a period of time during which I have a free afternoon, evening, and night, for now, at least.

My primary identity for the next four months is an American exchange student in la República Dominicana, stationed in Santiago, attending PUCMM (poo-ka-my-mah). My on-the-side identity that also happens to be my long-term self-image is that of an anthropologist, a learner, a teacher, and a human. I envision, hope these two identities will be shifting in and out of the forefront of this lucha for right, through write, for meaning; that one be the other’s challenge in un intercambio that takes place in the soul, one soul, that of Caitlin, me, o Catalina, si prefieres. 

I'm on my way to being human, from being human, and figuring out what that means, for me and for my co-inhabitants of the world. I think humans are beautiful, as with life. Which leads to the name of this blog: The heaven color. The heaven color is so entirely difficult to describe, as I've tried for years. I first saw it on a school bus when I was 17, a good year. I looked at the window, rather than out of it, which really means through it, and I saw the color. It was a winter day in Michigan, so that means the background was a dim faint yellow-ish sun ray cloud piece of sky that had light blue, which may have been deep blue, behind that, but you couldn't really see it. And the window was dirty with dried dirt slush-y water that had melted from snow on the side of the road. So you couldn't really see out of it, or through it, just it, the heaven color. 

I next saw in on some of that melting slushy snow with dirt in it that was reflecting some of the sky.

So The heaven color is the name of this blog, because I don't know if heaven exists, but if it does it's there in that heaven color, and it's creating the beauty in this world. And this is all an integral part of being a human.


The heaven color can be seen almost every day in the sky from la isla of Hispaniola, and that's where this blog, The heaven color, is being started.