These days when you say ‘green’ folks
immediately think something eco-related: the environment, energy, agriculture,
recycling, and such. Today, for this blog, ‘green’ also means just green. I’ve
done orange and red – now it is green.
Green is a color I’ve used for years, usually
with red. Amy day can be Christmas Day. In my last house I had wall-to-wall
forest green carpet. Dark? Not at all. With while walls and even darker
upholstery, it was smashing. (I’ve that same upholstery now, but with the yerky
beige carpeting – you can bet I won’t be doing a blog on beige - that was the
best available choice from the builder eight years ago. Fate forfend we should
have replaced it before its time – that wouldn’t be ‘green’!)
There are as many shades of green as there
are leaves on the trees. They vary, as they fit into a crossword puzzle, from
pea to chartreuse; they vary, as they fit on the color scale, from spring
through apple and olive to forest. They vary as widely as the shades on the color
chips at the home improvement store. Just think of those poor folks who have to
think up names for all those colors.
Just think of some of the neat things that
are green: emeralds, moss, shamrocks, baby spinach, pickles, Cousin Margaret, Kermit.
Just think of some of the nasty things that
are green: kale, slime, spinach baby food, jealousy, envy, toads.
Green is the Christian ecclesiastical color
of hope; it was the favorite color of Mohammed, and it is the most favored
color, especially for flags, in the Islamic world. It is the color of growth.
The first green of spring, in any culture, gives hope for a good year to
come. The Green Man of legend is also a
symbol of rebirth.
In today’s world, for many, along with
orange, green means decaffeinated as in coffee. We’ve got the Green Party, The Green Bay
Packers, Green Peace, Wearin’ o’ the Green. We try to go green and
live green.
On these cold winter days we’re never gonna ‘think
pink’ – it’s green, green, green. In all
its shades and tints, it is the color of spring.
It ain’t easy bein’ green.
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