Everyday our life is presented with a new color pallet to help us paint our life’s canvas. There in front us lies a list of choices and option for us to choose from and list of decisions for us to make. It is true that some colors always seem to be present while other colors seem to never be there. Some colors we choose again and again out of habit or because we fear to dabble into the unknown. Some of us gravitate to the darker colors and some to the brighter ones, most of us live out life moving back and forth between them.
A painter once told me that painting was all about the light. This is indeed so true; one has to be able to see what you are painting after all. She referred not to the light shining onto the canvas, though important, but the light shining onto the object. The world after all is out there beyond our own canvas. We need to observe the world and then when we see what it is that moves us while the light is still shining we pick the paints from our pallet to paint what we observe onto our canvas. Too often people do not look beyond their own canvas so they find themselves simply placing paint onto the canvas in an attempt to fill that canvas with color. They are not painting life onto the canvas at all.
Sep 09 2010
Today’s Color Pallet
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