For years I wore mostly dull colors: gray and brown and blue
(especially blue, because it brings out my eyes, tee hee).
Then, some years ago, I made a breakthrough, and I began to
wear red shirts, and orange, and yellow, and chartreuse.
Now I love bright colors. I have a marigold-orange shirt,
very vivid, and when I wore it a few weeks ago – “ORANGE!” a coworker shrieked.
“I look at you, and all I can think of is ORANGE!”
Colors are important. They’re all around us, and we need to
appreciate them. This is Pride Month, after all, with a flag that looks like
this:
The colors have meanings: red is life, orange is healing,
yellow is sunlight, green is nature, blue is harmony, and purple is spirit.
(The original flag included pink for sexuality and turquoise
for magic/art. I wish they were still included.)
Did you stay up
To see the dawn
In the colors
Of Benetton?
I love that song. It’s full of life and art and magic and
sunlight and spirituality. Let’s hear it:
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