Color me...

Since this is my first blog post, naturally I could not think of a single thing to write.

I tried to think of something. Think. Think. Think. It is Harry Potter's birthday which is a shared celebration with his creator, JK Rowling. But no, not this time. Some post soon, I am sure, will be all about HP, and then I will have to come out of the nerd closet, but not yet. Tomorrow is the first day of the forth grade for my nine year old daughter, Olivia. That is certainly an interesting topic, but again...no. Maybe another time after she has had the time to tell me all the juicy details, which I will relay to you in full first day of school glory.

So sorry. I digress.

Finally, I decided to peruse the information conglomeration that is the World Wide Web. I found many interesting prompts. I want to express who I am in this first post. Tall order, I know. So I tried for find a prompt that will allow me to achieve this creatively.

The prompt I found (thank you so much lynhawks.com) is titled "Color Me...". It begins by quoting Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

"I have a dream my four little children will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."

Beginning with an MLK quote is very promising. I am a tad ashamed to say that I had not read the iconic "I Have a Dream" speech in its entirety until today. It is beautiful. Dr. King was such a remarkable speaker.

Again, sorry. I digress.

What if we ignored our skin color, though it is surely unique and beautiful, but instead assigned a color (red, purple, blue, green, yellow, or orange) to the content of our character remembering that there is no bad color. Each color brings with it lovely and necessary qualities, that must help to balance the rest. Kumbayah. What about the essence of a person can be represented by a color? I feel that this is a deeply personal question. Here I go!

Color me...green.

If you've ever taken any art class, no matter how brief, you know that green is a secondary color which shows itself when yellow and blue mix. Naturally, I would pick such a complicated color. There is little straight forward about me. I feel like I am many things, and I hate being labeled. Sometimes I am bright and bubbly, which is yellow. Sometimes I am calm, contemplative, and quiet, which is blue.

Blue is a cool color. I mean that it is cool to the touch, both physically and emotionally. Compassion and kindness are blue. Initially, I imagined I was purple, but I realized quickly that is impossible. Purple is much to sexy. This comes from the contribution of red, which is passionate and fiery. I bet Sophia Vergara is red.

Passionate red + mysterious blue = Sexy and seductive purple

Yellow, on the other hand, is bright and shiny. I am very bright, in intelligence and disposition. I am friendly; yellow is very friendly.Yellow does get me out of my shell which is good. Again, because of red, I could never be an orange. The mixture of passion (red) and exuberance (yellow) create quite a handful of a person. My daughter is very Orangey.




But this is not about her.

So together, my duel personalities, yellow and blue, create my whole self, which is green. Green is natural, earthy, and adventurous. I am hungry for knowledge and new experiences, but I also love my old habits. I like things that I can depend upon. Despite my lack of red, I am passionate, just in a different way. My passion is more patient. I am a passionate defender and advocate for my daughter. I am also a passionate defender and advocate for myself, a rather recent development. I have a calm patience that can only be achieved through learning from many mistakes, my own and others', and a fair amount of maltreatment and suffering.

Greens tend to be gracious, so I wouldn't take anything back which made me a green. I love myself completely. You take the good; you take the bad; you take them both, and there you have the facts of life... the facts of life.