In
yesterday’s paper, there was a ‘humorous’ article about November. The author joked about how boring the world
is, now that everything is ‘brown’. That’s
it. Brown. All I can say is that the writer should get
off his butt once in a while, open his eyes, and actually SEE.
Looking
out my window right now, I can see
 |
| This is not outside my window. |
amber, amethyst, apple-green, apricot, aquamarine,
auburn, auburn, azure, bay, beige, beryl, bittersweet,
blue-green, bottle-green, brick, bronze, bronze, bronze-green, buff, burnt sienna, cantaloupe, carrot, chartreuse, chestnut, chocolate,
cinnamon,
cocoa,
coffee,
copper,
coral,
drab, dun, dust, emerald, fawn, forest-green, fuscous, ginger, glaucous,
grass-green, green, hazel, hazel, henna, jade, kelly, khaki, lime, Lincoln green, mahogany, malachite,
moss-green, ochre, olive drab, olive-green, aquamarine,
emerald, peach, pea-green, pine-green, red-yellow, russet, rust, sage,
salmon, sea-green, sepia, snuff-colored, sorrel, spinach-green, tan, tangerine, tawny, terra-cotta, titian, toast, turquoise, umber, verdant, verdigris, viridian, yellow-green
That’s
just for a start. You can easily see
more colors in winter – if you actually look – than in summer, when the trees
drown out the more subtle colors with their green.
As
the man supposedly said, “They have eyes, but they do not see.”
Another
rant: This time, ignorance. The newspaper included an interview with a
deaf man. (He was most emphatic about not being called “hearing-impaired”. He resents the idea that he is in any way
impaired. He is deaf.)
He
was complaining about how his guidance counselor in school treated him as if he
were “deaf and dumb”, and told him not to apply to college.
I
guess even deaf people these days don’t know that “dumb” means “silent”.
Early
athletes would lift the heaviest weights available – bells. They would take the clapper off, so they were
silent – dumb bells.
Deaf
and dumb means no hearing, no speaking. It does not mean stupid.
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