Today’s (optional) prompt: What color defines you?
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A Director of a play I was in once said to me, concerning
choice of costumes: “You may wear anything but purple.”
Purple defined Julie and may keep the audience disconnected from my character.
People see me and think purple. I wear purple eye glasses.
Samuel sitting on the purple stairs outside my home.
The pavement in my backyard is painted purple. There is a room in my house I
lovingly call “The Purple Room.”
Ironically I have neither seen nor read “The Color Purple” and considering it is by Alice Walker, one of my word-beloveds, it surprises on many levels. Perhaps I
To make mixed media art pieces, I dye book paper... purple
ought to put it on my reading list for this year.
I like to create mixed media art from book pages. Which color is the most common? Need you even ask? Purple! I have to force myself to use other colors, though lately I have been using lots of my scraps to create stuff. I use scraps of purple, pink, blue, purply pink and purply blue with the occasional yellow and orange or red thrown in for a bit of a different look.
I am proud to say the mug I am sipping my coffee from this morning is a deep blue. Granted if you look long enough, you will note some very delicate shades of purple within the blue, but I am trying to get
The Purple Whale kept me company while I was on a Birthday Writing Retreat. (Note purple notebook)
variety.
The journal I used to collect quotes and poetry yesterday is pink: decidedly
pink.
Purple is my color. What else can I tell you?
This was my 5 minute Stream of Consciousness Sunday post. It’s five minutes of your time and a brain dump. Want to try it? Here are the rules…
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Julie Jordan Scott has been a Life & Creativity Coach, Writer, Facilitator and Teleclass Leader since 1999. She is also an award winning Actor, Director, Artist and Mother Extraordinaire. She was twice the StoryTelling Slam champion in Bakersfield.
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