Sprightly Colors!

OK, who knows what ROY G BIV stands for?

Anybody?  If you’re from the Philly area and are old enough to remember Captain Noah, it stands for red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. An easy acronym to remember the colors.  Are you singing along with Mrs. Noah in your head? I'll bet you are! 😀

Growing up, Crayola had the 64 box.  64 crayons in one box, plus the sharpener on the back!!!  With colors like Bittersweet, Cornflower and Thistle! Is this bringing back fond childhood memories? Now they have a 120 count box.  Then there’s the color wheel with the primary, secondary and complimentary colors. How about the colors of a sunrise or sunset?  Take a trip to Cape May, NJ, walk the streets and see the most colorful houses around.  Just goes to show you how important color is in everything we see and do.

So, what’s your favorite color?  Mine’s purple.  Any shade but I prefer a deep yet bright purple.  Wearing and seeing purple brightens my day.  That’s why I always have something purple in view.  Our living room walls are a shade of purple.  Purple coffee cups.  Purple earrings.  Purple baseball cap.  The majority of my tee and dress shirts are purple. Purple bath towels.  I even have a purple smiley-face pillow!  I don’t think there’s any shade of purple I don’t like.  But there are colors I don’t enjoy.  Bright orange walls in a room would drive me crazy yet bright orange flowers are beautiful.  It’s all in how we perceive colors and how they affect us individually.  Some colors take your breath away while others calm the waters and some simply make us say ooh. \

So today, put on a color that makes you feel Sprightly. Whether it’s a brightly color or a nightly color wear a color that makes you feel good.  Does red float your boat?  How about lime green?  Does fuchsia fuel your spirit or does a spa blue sooth your soul?  You decide then color-up and thrive! You may even ‘brighten’ someone else’s day.

Simply do whatever makes you feel Sprightly!