The topic of color keeps coming around to me.  So color me curious.
I may as well talk about it.

Color is really the grandest of magic tricks.  It happens when light comes in contact with a surface.  Now light is made up of the spectrum of colors…. and the surface either absorbs part of the spectrum, or bounces it off.  When blue bounces… we see blue. And on.  When all of the colors bounce, we see white.  When they all get absorbed… we see black.

But they bounce and absorb in a gazillion-gabillion different combinations.  Nuances.

So when someone asks me what my favorite color is… I am a little confounded.  How can I answer that?  How could I possibly choose one?  And what the heck would I call it?  There are buckets full!

I found out…. just yesterday… that I am not alone in this mindset.  My brother thinks the same exact thing.  And let me tell you this… my brother KNOWS color.  He used to work at Sherwin-Williams.  He was the Grand Namer of the Paint Chips.  Like Flight of the Rose…. and Sand Dollar Whisper.

But back to it.  You see… I really like… let’s say… BLUE.  But there are… right now… in the same room with me… about 20 different colors of blue that I can see.  Just from where I am sitting.  Some of them I like.  Others…. not so much.  Depending on “the blue” it may or may not be my favorite color.

This is particularly true of green.  Wow.  There are some gorgeous greens.  Then… there is snot.  And bile.  Yuk.  I’m not crazy about neon green either.. or army-drab green.  So you see?  All greens are not alike.

There is an entirely different level to this as well.

My “favorite” color changes all the time.  Right now, I am really jazzed about orange. Years ago… I couldn’t stand anything orange.  I think the lighting is different these years.  That MUST be it.

As it turns out… those guys in the white lab coats (all the light deflecting) … in those big labs…. have deemed that color affects our moods, our emotions, our development,  and even our appetites.  Blue and purple are relaxing; red is a passionate color and increases our circulation;  green is the heart color, associated with peace and earth energy… but yellow.   Yellow affects the nervous system.  It is a high energy color, causing our minds and nerves to be stimulated.  They say you should never paint a bedroom yellow.  Guess what color my bedroom was while I was growing up?

Follow the Yellow Brick Road, Toto.

We owe a lot of this haberdashery to Sir Isaac Newton.  One day, he caught some light in a prism… split it into seven different colors…. and we haven’t been the same since.  And then… the apple dropped on his head.  Which is why I am writing this on an Apple Computer.  But that is a whole-nother story.

There are bold colors and bland colors.  Light ones and dark.  There are warm colors… and cold colors.  Yep….  for me… what color I like is highly dependent on the current room temperature.  If it is cold in the room… I like to see a good red, or an orange.  Hot summer day… give me a blue.  As in …  deep blue pool of water.

Oh so much to consider… in the way of color.  Heck.  Try painting your kitchen.

These days… I would have to say my favorite color is … Sock Monkey Gray.  It matches me.  Like a sock.

“We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value no matter what their color.” – Maya Angelou

“On my desk, Sulley. The pink copies go to Accounting, the fuchshia ones go to Purchasing, and the goldenrod ones go to Roz. Leave the puce.” – Mike Wazowski