John chose this week’s word and here I am a bit late, due to a slight technical hitch. I have no camera. It went walkies a few weeks ago and despite me turning the house upside down, it hasn’t turned up. I bought a cheapy in the meantime, but the colour balance is iffy and it doesn’t focus, so it’s going back. I hate not having a camera, so I’m going to have to bite the bullet and buy another one. Gah. Anyway, I’ve been trying to take photographs to illustrate this post but no luck.
I have recently succumbed to a fit of nostalgia, and bought a big box of Crayola crayons, like the one I had as a child. 96 colours! (Although the colour names have changed a bit since I was wee.) I have had great fun picking the colours that appeal to me – that resonate, if you will – and looking at the names. The first out of the box was, predictably, my old favourite, periwinkle. (But sadly, two of my other old faves, blue-gray and thistle, have been discontinued). I remember, as a child, pulling the crayons out and being fascinated by names like ‘sepia’, ‘raw umber’ (also sadly no more) and ‘burnt sienna’. When I studied art history at university, those childhood memories came back to me. There are lots of new names to replace the old – including ‘purple mountain’s majesty’. How’s that for resonant?
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What a very colorful way of sharing your thoughts about our weekword -resonate! Hope you can join us again this week. I am the hosting
Purple Mountain Majesty?? Wow, that’s a mouthful of a color! I love the box of 96 as well, but if I recall correctly, my box, when I opened it, didn’t have all the crayons in rows like they use to in the old days, sitting vertical, but were instead lying horizontally. Whatever their arrangement in the box was, I was pretty perturbed because I went out and bought on etsy little crayon roll up organization sets to make me happy. I’m so OCD sometimes.
Do they still have the rather disturbing ‘flesh’?
Apparently ‘flesh’ is now ‘peach’ – probably as a nod to multiculturalism, but really, nobody in good health had skin that colour. Actually, Crayola also, I learned, make a ‘multicultural’ pack with a variety of different ‘skintone’ crayons. Marvellous stuff – although a lot of them seem alarmingly orange.
Great post Sally, I love colors especially vibrant ones, they do resonate and lift energies.