Different families employ the services of different sanitation companies in the community to dispose of their trash, yard waste and recyclables. This is seen in the variety of colours of garbage cans sitting on driveways on the different service days. Most of these cans come in subdued, dirt-camouflaging colours like dark blue, dark green, brown and black. This week, however, we saw a hot-pink trash can on someone's driveway as we were driving to Jenna's and Kate's preschool.
Everyone said something about it, because it was such an unusual colour. Jenna also wryly and somewhat unfairly observed, "That must be the good-smelling one. The dark blue, dark green and brown ones are the -bleeeaaaghh! - horrible-smelling ones."
Also related, Jenna often has strong opinions on what colours are in rainbows. She is open to omitting indigo, but otherwise consistently includes the traditional red, orange, yellow, green, blue and violet. This sometimes causes her emotional conflict, because of her love of pink, which (the girls feel) has been unfairly overlooked in the original divine assignment of rainbow colours. To compensate for this, we have created the Marginalized Hues Rainbow, which is made of brown, grey, white, black, silver, gold and (of course) pink.
2 comments:
The "marginalized hue rainbow" is the best thing I've heard in a long time. I'm a bright colors person myself but just reading your description makes me want to draw or quilt something using those marginalized colors!
Thanks, Shannon! Hooray - those colours should have their day, too - quilt them! Quilt them! Also, have you noticed that those same colours are given the second-class positions in colour-pencil boxes and oil pastel sets? It's almost as if the art companies don't know what to do with them, and just shove them in the sides. Sad.
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