Torture at the Hands of Prabal Gurung

Prabal Gurung at Target!  Are you kidding me?  Was this new clothing collaboration created just to torture me while I try to live in my self imposed non-shopping, nothing new, reuse, recycle, repurposed life?

Have you seen the commercials?  The.... cutest..... little.... dresses.... around!!  So colorful, springy, fashionable - so ME!  It hurts......  Okay, not literally.

Last week I went into Target to pick up a couple of items (nothing for me - and no clothing).  I knew Prabal Gurung was on the premises when I walked in the front doors. Beware, I told myself. Be on guard. Wouldn't you know it?  Of course those clever marketers placed the springy, colorful, flowing, lovely, sweet pieces of clothing just inside the doors where you almost have no choice but to walk right by!

Did I mention how unbelievably affordable Prabal is?  Well, you didn't expect that I could walk by and NOT look at the price tags, did you?

As I quickly flipped through the hangers just to see if this designer was worthy of my attention - I mean I flipped those hangers so fast - my mind raced. Cute, yes, ohhhh, ahhhh, my goodness, omg, $39.99 for this dress?, no way, I need to get this ... for Sara. She would look so cute in this.

I mean really, look at this! Easter dress?  For less than $50?  That's a steal!

It's a trap. What are you doing? You don't need that! Sara can buy her own clothes. Stop    looking     at      P R A B A L!

Joking aside, I find myself longing for a colorful spring outfit.  Maybe I do that every year at this time because I'm ready to celebrate the warming of the earth. Colors are ever so slowly teasing us and letting us know that just below the surface of winter and grayness is new life, color and abundance.

God is moments away from amazing us with his annual display of new beginnings, of rebirth. I look forward to watching those first green leaves unfurl from the native oak trees, and the dark green heads of spring asparagus pushing through the last layer of rich earth to reveal goodness and life that was hidden for a time from our sight, but life that had never stopped or left us.

So, I will resist buying a new dress for Easter, and instead focus on the exciting display of color, variety, freshness and life that will soon burst forth all around me.  And, I will say "Thank you God! You make Prabal Gurung's designs look like a pre-schoolers scribbling."

Keep your eyes open for blessings and your heart open with gratitude.

Be love and be blessed,