I’m just mad about saffron. Saffron’s mad about me. Boom boom. I’m just mad about saffron. And she’s just mad about me. They call me Mello Yello. Quite rightly, they call me Mello Yello. Quite rightly, they call me Mello Yello.

Gosh. This was a song from Donovan in the 1960s, and it really touched a chord with people at the time.

It was really emblematic of the so called flower power era, the time of love and peace right near the end of the Vietnam War. The Vietnam War ending, of course, in 1975. But by this time, people were talking about flower power, time to end the war, were sick of militarism, etcetera, etcetera. So color has a lot of value when it comes to life, doesn’t it? Now, what role does color play in life?

Well, certainly, it has to have a tremendous emotional impact. It does convey I guess, it communicates how we feel. You know, you think to yourself if you give flowers, for instance, if you’re a man, if you give white roses, it’s a sign of pure love. Red roses, a sign of love. Yellow roses, a sign of closeness.

Orange roses, a sign of emotion, etcetera. So walk through a garden, smell the flowers as they say, listen to the birds twittering. It’s a wonderful experience. Truly. Right?

So in a sense, it’s a cultural significance because, of course, some color like Western culture, white is a sign of pure love. Eastern culture, a sign of death. Right? But the thing that causes me the most concern in the modern era is that we are getting bland in a way. You know, when I was growing up, we were told that we could be one of four seasons.

We could either be a spring, a summer, a fall, or a winter, and we could actually find the colors that complimented us. Us. For instance, I like to wear blue. Blue looks quite good on me, but if I wear dark colors like perhaps black or brown, not so good, not as powerful. And I think most of us are somewhat similar.

So color is very important. Now what would be the most dominant color to yourself? And I think really it’s gotta be red. Right? I think all of us would agree.

Red is great. It’s fantastic. Then we get colors like blue, also beautiful, depending on what kind of blue it suggests. Maybe, I don’t know, if red were to be a color of passion, perhaps power, love, even anger, like the god of war, Mars, I always associate with red. I’m seeing red, meaning I’m angry.

Blue would be maybe calm. Trust, stability, yellow, happiness, optimism, caution, then we would go on, wouldn’t we? We’d get down into gold. Gold revered, I mean, really, forever. Right?

Forever, really. And then perhaps silver not as important, but still important in that sense. But once again, we seemingly are getting away from color. If you walk down the street, we are bland. We’re not looking good.

We’re not vibrant. Why not? I’m always puzzled by this, you know. It’s gotta be because perhaps we’re on the Internet. I mean, we’re in our phones.

We’re away from the external world because the external world has to be glorified with color, a bright sunny summer’s day. The beautiful blue sky, turquoise water. Right? And, gee, back to the a little bit of history, but the Byzantines were always associated with purple to be in the purple. You have a strip of purple on your toga or on your clothing.

And when the Byzantine Empire collapsed in 1453, you could no longer get access to purple. So you had to perhaps accept a deep blue, but no purple. No purple supposedly until the Chinese came up with, you know, a type of artificial purple. So I mean, little things, a? Color has always been there in life.

You think of people that have a certain signature color like a red dress, for instance, or somebody who likes to wear a blue bow tie. You know, Donald Trump has always a blue suit, and he likes the reds and the blues, things along this nature. Power. Right? There’s suggestive of power.

So I think we really should sit back and ask what color looks good on me. Right? And then I can go along and and sing a song and, gosh, have some fun with color. And why not? And you know what they say.

You know what they say. Critical thinking is everything and put some color in your life. You’ll really enjoy it. It’s wonderful. And critical thinking is great. Truly great. You take care. God bless. Bye bye.