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mangosteenYesterday was the first "grey day" of the year in Boston. An overcast sky, bare trees, and day-old snow on the ground. The only real color was the double yellow line in the middle of the road which I can see from my window. A day almost totally devoid of color in the outside world. There's another four months of this coming up before we're through.
I've come to believe that I don't need light nearly as much during the winter as I need color. I need to see some sign of life.
Fortunately, a friend of mine managed to get a bunch of the original Muppet Show episodes on DVD, so I went over there to watch. Walking inside the house, it was like the world changed from monochrome to color, with friends and Muppets and pizza and laughter. The picture on the screen looked almost too crisp. I'm sure that the image was fuzzier when I first saw the Muppet Show on television twenty years ago. I don't feel particularly old because of it, but I do realize that I have a significant amount of life that I can look back on, and that I have a history on this planet.
....and it's all in color.
I've come to believe that I don't need light nearly as much during the winter as I need color. I need to see some sign of life.
Fortunately, a friend of mine managed to get a bunch of the original Muppet Show episodes on DVD, so I went over there to watch. Walking inside the house, it was like the world changed from monochrome to color, with friends and Muppets and pizza and laughter. The picture on the screen looked almost too crisp. I'm sure that the image was fuzzier when I first saw the Muppet Show on television twenty years ago. I don't feel particularly old because of it, but I do realize that I have a significant amount of life that I can look back on, and that I have a history on this planet.
....and it's all in color.
