Thursday, July 17, 2008

Mellow Yellow

Who is that guy in the yellow tie? This is Matt. I work with Matt. Matt is quite amazing, especially when he wears this particular tie. It's yellow, and when Matt wears his yellow tie, there is a certain glow about him. He smiles differently, he walks with more confidence, he tells more jokes, and he just seems more mellow. Mellow Yellow.

I have never taken a liking to the color yellow, mostly because I do not wear it well, but since seeing Matt wear his yellow tie I felt inspired to research the color yellow to get a better understanding of what makes yellow so very mellow.









Things that are yellow:

- the Sun

- Post its

- Bananas

- Lemonade

- Taxis

- School Bus

- 75% of the pencils in the U.S. are yellow

- Yellow Ribbons are a sign of hope, usually tied around an oak tree

- Coldplay has a song called "Yellow," The Beatles also have a song called, "Yellow Submarine"

- And my favorite and sort of ridiculous fact I learned about the color yellow is that the comic book character Green Lantern was afraid of the color yellow.



Thank you Matt for inspiring me to open my mind to the happiest color in the spectrum.

What is something yellow that you love?

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

How fun this is. Also I just wanted to remind you that I've been telling you yellow is a great color :) It's my fav, I suppose because it matches my wired, lets go, excited about life attitude.

Love ya,
CT

Shan said...

i too did a little bit of research my love.

Yellow is has the highest symbolic value in Buddhism through its link with the saffron robes of monks.

I also looked up what yellow auras mean...
PALE YELLOW : introversion

PRIMROSE : Cheerfulness and confident

LEMON YELLOW : strength of direction

BUTTERCUP YELLOW : focused on a path of action

GOLDEN YELLOW : Indicates inspirational thought

MUSTARD : May indicate manipulative tendencies

STRAW YELLOW : day dreamer

hmmm.....

Shan said...

oh yea. and yellow cake with chocolate frosting. mine and my brother's favorite cake flavor! (josh hates it cuz he has always had to eat it for all of our big events-bdays, graduations, good report card etc. !)

...and for occasions such as kevin coming to chicago! so guess what, i just made a big yellow with choc frosting just for my brother and i!

its so nice to have my cake and eat it too! ;)

p.s. sorry bout the long comments, so uncouth to outwrite my host! its just that you inspired me so much, i couldn't help it! :)

Anonymous said...

Crystal my smart, fun, beautiful neice, you are amazing and will go far in life. Live life to the fullest and follow your dreams!! I am so proud of you!! Your amazing!! I told your mom your secret about this fall and she thought that was so cool!! She also is a Sex in the City freak!!

Shan said...

...awkward