Everything’s Better With Butter

I realize that butter yellow is not the most popular colour for a winter coat. To be honest, I wasn’t 100% sold on it when I bought it at Athleta. I’d seen this coat in a gorgeous poppin’ red colour on boxing week and was close to picking it up but decided not to. I checked in a few weeks ago to see if it’d be on sale again. They didn’t have the red, but they did have it in this interesting butter-yellow colour. Marked down from $275 to $75 bucks, I figured I’d give it a try.

The coat sat in my closet for a few weeks with the tags still on. I have a very sturdy winter constitution and rarely wear a winter coat. However, we got walloped by two back-to-back winter storms last week, leaving the city a winter wonderland. Followed by frigid winter temps. So I finally caved and cut the tags off and have been wearing my coat this past week.

Butter yellow is growing on me! It is definitely unique - I like that. As a brown girl, there isn’t a colour I can’t wear that doesn’t look good - so no issue there. But to be honest, what I love the most about this coat is the sheer joy it brings me to be out in the world looking like a big ole stick of butter. What is that saying, “everything is better with butter?”

This year my research project is to inquire into what it is to be juicy. To be a vital and potent force in the world. When I think juicy, my mind immediately goes to zesty, fresh, juicy oranges. But this fabulous new coat of mine is supporting me to expand my juicy repertoire to include the quality of butter. Rich, decadent, slippery and messy! Yet ever so delicate in colour.

What I like about having a strong movement repertoire, is that it allows you to extend in the world in ways that are more responsive to need (yours and others). It can also help prevent stuckness that can occur when attempting to live a more expansive life, cause you’re able to meet and respond to it (what could be better than butter to help us get unstuck)

So here, let me hand you this stick of grass-fed organic butter. So you can apply these buttery qualities liberally into your next creative project. To your next hot date. To that big presentation, you wanna knock out of the park. Let it grease the wheels of your imagination, slick up that presentation, pour it on hot and slide up against your date Barry White style, add richness and depth to your experience, though it may leave you messy and most certainly in need of a napkin or two to wipe up.

See for yourself how butter can indeed make it better.