Remember learning the basic colors when you were little? While there were different sets of colors that when combined gave interesting results, those we focused on as little kids were red, yellow, and blue. It was Isaac Newton’s experiments with light and prisms that gave us the idea that these were the canonical primary colors, and that these colors when combined differently made all other colors. Today, of course, we know that isn’t true, but when they are combined they still make some wonderful colors and give us some interesting lessons.
It occurred to me today as I looked up at the glaring sun,
the brilliant sky, and the impossibly moist trees that perhaps our world is
simpler than we think. Maybe we just
like to think it’s complicated so we can feel important, like we’re figuring it
all out. So I looked and looked at that
yellow sun until my eyes hurt. Then I
moved my eyes to the blue water, and while water itself isn’t blue, it
certainly appears that way because of the reflection from the sky (which also
isn’t really blue). From there my eyes
went to the moist, protective, abundant green color of the trees.
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| The mystery of green. |
Could it really be that simple? Could it really just be child’s play? Could the Creative Hand just have
finger-painted all of life in a joyful blending of squishy colors? Swish-swish with the yellow, swish-swish with
the blue, ahhh, pretty, pretty green!
Nice green. Nice colors. Yes, let’s keep it green, then. Surely the chlorophyll in plants could have
chosen any other color to be when first coming into existence? Why choose green?
Well, why not choose green?
Pretty, pretty green from the joining and the love of the bright yellow
sun and the sweet blue water. Yes, I
think it really just might be that simple.
Any child could have done it.
