Thoughts on the Color Red

Been watching the events in Egypt lately.  All that blood shed.  So relieved to focus on RED in a different way. 

Today is National Wear Red Day, a day to raise awareness of heart disease in women.  Heart disease is still the number one cause of death for women in the United States and not breast cancer as some might think.  This year the day falls one day after Chinese New Year.  For the Chinese, RED is a color of happiness and good fortune.  Chinese New Year is a time for celebrating.

RED in a few languages:

rouge

rosso

rojo

rot

crvena

rood

pula

pirs

merah

czerwony

Shades of RED: Auburn, Burgundy, Burnt sienna, Candy apple red, Cardinal, Carmine, Carnelian, Cerise, Chestnut, Coral, Crimson, Fire engine red, Flame, Fuschia, Lava, Magenta, Maroon, Persimmon, Puce, Raspberry, Red-violet, Redwood, Rose, Ruby, Rust, Sangria, Scarlet, Terracotta, Vermillion

So today I shall reflect on all those touched by heart disease.  I shall play with the color RED.

The color of passion, the color of energy, the color of love,

the color of life.

Getting Messy

Went looking for a certain photo in an album to share on the blog today.  Tried to scan it but couldn't get that to work so I'll save it for another day.  Ended up looking through old digital photos instead and came across these two from 4 or 5 years ago.  Of course, I couldn't stop there.  I reminisced for quite awhile.

Opened the linen closet where I keep medicines as well as towels and found a jumble of bandaids on the floor.  I've been finding evidence of Miles's messes all over the house lately.  I can remember Meredith being the same way.  Then it hit me.  It won't be long before Miles will no longer be "messy."  My frustration then turned to sadness.  When we're little we don't mind the messes and then we "grow out of" that which may contribute a bit to our loss of creativity.  I think there's something wrong with that.

So today while I'm doing laundry, I think I'll get out the finger paints and get messy.  (I guess the kids can play too.)  Yep, life is full of contradictions/tensions/opposites like that.  Clean and dirty, play and work, boundary and freedom.  What I know is you have to be willing to play and get dirty in order to exercise your creativity.

Will join me?

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