There are so many songs about color. Songs that lift us up, like “Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini,” and songs that make us think, like “It’s Not Easy Being Green.”
“Purple Rain” and “Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain” are entirely different, yet we might sing along with both.
The blues sets a mood and so does rock and roll. The music we listen to, the stories we tell, the moods we sustain, all are a part of the backdrop of our life. All part of creating how we live in these uncertain times. All part of human creativity.
In our Community Center, the hallways are lined with beautiful artworks, paintings that show uniqueness of talent, color and focus, splashes of pigments across a canvas, or realistic portraits of people and pets. Each artist has presented a picture of the world from his or her perception of life.
Bob Ross, famous for his television show teaching anyone to paint, said, “All you need to paint is a few tools, a little instruction, and a vision in your mind.”
That is all we need to live a fulfilled life also. One of the most important things in life is creativity. We know the future will contain love, fear, hope, despair, relationships that last and some that don’t; being with other people, being alone and all these experiences bring color to our lives.
These are the tools we will use to create our work of art, our experience. Our instruction is to imagine our life as a canvas, and we are the artist. Within us is an infinite array of colors, and each day we step up to the canvas carrying our tools. Our canvas, our expression of life, will be what we create it to be.
Actor Danny Kaye said, “Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can at it.”
From the song by Cyndi Lauper, “I see your true colors shining through, I see your true colors and that’s why I love you. So don’t be afraid to let them show, your true colors, true colors are beautiful.”
Look around. Everyone is a living work of art, and every day we have an opportunity to choose our true colors and support others to see their true colors also.
The Rev. Linda McNamar is a Laguna Woods Village resident.
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