Red velvet warmth

For a moment, then for another moment life flickers into pleasantness, into a gentle warm feeling that things are not going to go wrong.  Because they don't, really, not as much as my mind predicts - no that approaching man in the hoodie is no more likely to stab me than I am to stab him.  I am wearing a hoodie too.  Gosh, if only I could stay in that red velvety warmth and not be dragged I to this insufferably cold paranoia.

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