The Conversation
The other day a vocalist, Ruby from my husband’s band was over my house for a rehearsal.
Ruby is a beautiful Indian woman who was wearing the most stunning blue sweater with a sparkling iridescent necklace that seemed to pick up a blue hue from her sweater.
When the vocal rehearsal was over, I had the opportunity to sit and chat with her in my blue and white country kitchen. She looked like she belonged in my kitchen amongst all my blue and white china teacups and teapots.
I was very taken with the particular blue color since it was my very favorite shade of blue during my childhood. I shared with her my memory of opening the box of 64 Crayola crayons always reaching for the peacock blue crayon before my siblings could ever use it and colored everything with it...
We discussed also, how this particular shade of blue is HER color. Every person has particular colors that work best for their skin tone, hair coloring and a lot of times the favorite color is NOT the right color for the person’s needs. So I was indeed complimenting her on her choice of color as well as the Right choice of color for HER.
My husband became involved with the conversation. It seemed he wanted to validate my color assessment by stating that he reveres me as a color expert. My career early on was Assistant to the head buyer of textiles for Evan Picone . I had to be accurate with my color selections for the linings of their garments.
So the conversation evolved and Ruby began explaining about the piece of glimmering rock that adorned her neck. She told us that it was cut from a piece of a rock that was reported to have had an image of the Blessed Mother mysteriously imprinted on it. She likes to wear it with that shade of blue because it seems to radiate a calypso of blues making it even more beautiful a piece.
Ruby then asked my husband and me what OUR favorite colors are. She explained that this is one of the questions she uses in the assessment of people while performing her occupation as a “Black Belt” and no not “Karate”. It is a Human Resources position that she explained to us.
We answered the color questions and she assessed our answers. This color conversation percolated in my mind for several days now because of her evaluations of MY favorite color presently and from my past.
My question to my readers is “What is your favorite Color and Why”.
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My answer to the favorite color question was presently Green. Prior to Green it was Blue, and prior to Blue it was Purple.
Ruby then asked me what each color reminded me of.
My Favorite Colors, Present and Past
Green - My Irish heritage, the outdoors, the scent of fresh cut grass, the rolling hills of the Irish countryside.
A Bible verse:
The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not be in want.
2 He makes me lie down in green pastures,
he leads me beside quiet waters, Psalm 23 1:2
Blue- Monet, French cuisine, dining on fine blue bone china, tranquility, the ocean waves low tide.
Purple- The passion of Christ, spring flowers, spring coats with white gloves as a little girl with my sister, colored Easter eggs, new beginnings,Van Gogh.
These three colors were my favorites at different times of my life. I have analyzed the color choices a bit further for my own documentation and study.
I would love to hear from my readers!!
Katie D
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Color is so important. Although I wear mostly black, I find red to be my lucky color. A tiny dash of it somehow sparks me. My fave colors change, too, from deep green to now chocolate brown.
ReplyDeleteCaroline
Colors are so very important! I love bright vibrant colors, as well as the deep soft pastel hues. My favorite color has always been blue...but I love the HUGE wide range of blues. All of them. Like the ocean - how the colors change.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing this with me!! Colors speaks volumes!
@spreadingJOY
My favoraite color for some time has been green...and I mean any shade from Kelly to teal. It looks good with my eyes (which are blue-green) and it favers my skin tone. Before green my fav was blue...as in your blue and white table settings which I also collect to a periwinkle shade. What do you think?
ReplyDeleteThis is so beautiful to consider! Especially in the mostly colorness of a northeast winter! I try to use color to find balance as I wrote in a post of mine last September: I try to be conscious of different colors on different days: dark blue and lavenders on Moonday, red on Tuesday for Mars, yellow on Wednesday - and to think about Hermes, communication, that sort of thing; green on Friday: Freya-Aphrodite-Venus, the goddess of love, harmony, beauty ... for me color is a way of achieving balance. I learned today that there are no blue or black roses, my favorite flower. Fascinating.
ReplyDeleteWinslow is so right about "balance." Something that isn't easy for me sometimes. I used to live in Santa Fe, NM. Because of my job at the time, I only wore black, different textiles, different shades but always black. You can dress it up or dress it down. I'm blonde so it seemed to work. Then, I moved to Florida and somehow it didn't seem right to wear black all the time, so I started shopping for bright colors. My favorite colors are all shades of the blues and greens of the ocean Bright colors make me feel happy and somehow they go much better with palm trees and sun!
ReplyDeleteI still have my all black clothes when I go on travel. A gal in a boutique once told me, "black is for the lazy." For me, she was probably right because as I sit at my work desk now .. it's shorts tshirts, no shoes, no socks, no problems! (-;
Great article!!!
Claudia
Thoughts from my friend John Locke @DonovanCreed on Twitter
ReplyDeleteI think this is a fascinating blog topic, and I loved reading it as well as the responses. I fear I must be the most bland person on earth, however, since my favorite color is black. It doesn't remind me of anything consciously, but it is what it is! Thanks for sharing!
Thank you for bringing it to my attention. I'll check back later today!
Hugs,
John