Color Matters…

Imagine this scenario will you.

A girl comes home and opening the door for her is an anxious, waiting mother. As the girl steps in, the mother, obviously impatient, bombards her daughter with rampant questions. “Tell me, what happened? How did it go? Did it go alright?” The daughter, as she slowly and glumly takes off her coat, gives her mother a cheerless puppy look -lower lip flipped- and explains: “Mom…he gave me a flower.” Almost instantly, a gigantic smile begins to stretch across the mother’s face to take up at least three quarters of it while her arms, in rhythm, gradually begin to stretch as well: a huge indication that a maternal hug was inches away.

“But you don’t understand,” the words halt the now almost-in-motion mother, “the flower is not what you think it is!” murmurs the daughter with a twinkling in the corner of her left eye forewarning the birth of a tear. Pausing to try and understand, the mother’s deciphering attempts were futile. The following words, echoed ten times: “Mom, the flower was yellow… ellow… ellow… low… low… ”

Mother and daughter embrace as their tears combine to form a puddle in which they sit to soak, like chicken marinating in sauce, “mourning while absorbing”, a sad, sad day. Moments are what it takes and the maid is recruited from the confines of her next-to-the-kitchen room to huddle in the puddle. For those still wondering where this is heading: Yes, color does matter.

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