Which is your inclination? Which color flashes before you when you’re barraged with provocative actions and statements?
Red hot lover, blue velvet; spicy red tomatoes, mellow blueberries. Which one?
Madison Farmers' Market, September 3rd
Madison Farmers' Market, September 3rd
Someone asked me recently why the events of my recent weeks have not left me feeling angry. Why should they? I can feel anger at politicians and decision makers who affect the lives of others, but what grave harm has befallen me?
Everyone tries with their available resources to make a go of it. People around me are well-intentioned good souls who sometimes don’t quite connect the dots and so the result becomes strangely distorted.
It produces no anger in me at all. Just sadness that this is the way life has to play itself out, that in wanting goodness we so often fail at getting near it. So, blue. My color remains Ocean blue -- the color of sadness, peace, vast spaces.
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Your post reminded me of a video my friend Tony Kunewalder did for a band called TSOL (True Sounds of Liberty), which is what the Wife of Bath did in the Canterbury Tales, much to the chagrin of passengers in the carriage.
The TSOL song had a line like, red is the color, yes red is the color, and then morphs into blood is the color.
After the video played on MTV(1986?), TSOL went on tour, and had mild success. They played an after-noon gig at Headliners in Madison with the Tar Babies.
I hung out with the band a bit before the show. They were nice. However, a few of them had habits, and habit people don't do well in the day.
Blue is the color of those who have habits.
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