Thoughts

Grey

   Thu, May 1, 2008 - 1:00 PM
We always underestimate grey as a color, attribute it as being boring, being the lack of color, and life....

But there is the shade of grey that your favorite black jeans take on after 5 years of wear, when they become a part of you, infused with your personal legends,

Grey like a well travelled road that fades off mysteriously into the distance around the corner

Grey like the sky in BC when a storm is coming over the ocean

Grey like the milkieness of blindness as it start in the centre of your favorite pets eyes

Grey like the hairs that appear at our temples when we have enough wisdom to earn them

Grey like your favorite teddy bear as a child, worn down, dirty from generations of little hands touching and loving

The color grey of the dash of an old car, one so old that it has a name like, "Old Betsy"

So dont underestimate grey, it has the same depth to it as that quiet plain girl in the corner, who at any moment could take down her ponytail and take off her glasses (circa every 80's movie) and be the most striking woman in the room....



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Thu, May 1, 2008 - 1:37 PM
grey is the shale of the rocky mountain alpine .
grey can be very grounding and soft feeling for me .
Thu, May 1, 2008 - 1:39 PM
and my first cat who i named : shadow : wore a glorious coat of multitoned grey fur .
Thu, May 1, 2008 - 3:45 PM
fade to grey
greys it sets a nice mood for a comic book
grey as the fog in sf as it stirs through the day/night
grey as the president
graze the grey as it falls upon its prey
Thu, May 1, 2008 - 4:36 PM
grey.....
the name of the ghost that only my kids see.
Thu, May 1, 2008 - 10:56 PM
i love my handed down grey hoodie!
and there's' nothing like putting your hair down! and tossing it around!! ;)
xoxo
Fri, May 2, 2008 - 10:40 AM
grey is unpolished silver


and said to be the color of mental instability...
maybe that's why i like it so much. hehe

gris gris gumbo yaya.
Fri, May 2, 2008 - 2:00 PM
greytness
what about gandalf the grey? and the grey havens, the undying lands where only the elves can go.

i went looking after marin said it was the color of metal instability. the only thing i could find on the net about that was that orange was the color of instability. when i looked at wiki on the colour grey i got depressed. "wishiwashiness", the greys (aliens), oppo environmentalists, drabness etc. yeah yeah we all know about grey.

perhaps my concern lies in the fact that my wardrobe has been almost fully grey for the past 4 years. i counted 7 grey hoodies. i do love the neutrality of it all. libras hey. it's never black or white for us.

still, made me think i should maybe wear the occasional colourful piece. just to spice it all up.


and what about silver..it's pretty much shiny grey isnt it?
Sat, May 3, 2008 - 3:14 AM
my best pants are grey.
Wed, May 7, 2008 - 8:16 PM
poem written on a grey day.
hey tess:

i streamed this while sitting in the gumboot on a very grey day recently:

it's called "grey is the colour i see with my eyes closed."

the greyest of greyish grey greys
alights on me at the end of my days
as i'm thinking of all that i've sung under sun
the sky shards and fragments the tangles undone
rattled in the racecar but still set to: win
look back on life no regrets no special thoughts
still holding tight and pull in the ones who were lost
the whitest of light white light spins out of the grey
beautiful ending when you're walking in the Way
new beginning re:set and come on come on back
this page fades to grey, and not ever to black.

...
Tue, May 27, 2008 - 11:46 PM
grey quite intense
grey is beautiful

the sky is most beautiful mixed with shades of grey
my shadow is grey
my kitty is spotted grey
my eyes turn grey sometimes
a special color indeed