Given that Canada Day is just around the corner, this really ought to be a study in scarlet, but here we are. And there we were a few days ago, stumbling across yellow at two locations in the Ottawa Valley: Ashton and Pakenham.
In Ghostbusters, our hapless heros are instructed to choose the form of their intended Destructor, Gozer the Gozerian.
Choose and perish.
(timestamp – 2:56)
In mindfulness training, participants are instructed to notice a given colour for a whole day. On this day, of course, the yellow itself didn’t mean anything; noticing it meant everything. If the “nimble little minx” from Ghostbusters had been along for the drive, she might have growled this instead.
Choose to notice,
and live.
Yes, ma’am.
And not a single school bus! I love yellow. Good thought to concentrate on one colour for a day. I will try it. I saw Ghostbusters – didn’t notice this piece of advice. As it was innumerable years ago, probably I don’t remember whether or not I noticed the advice.
Judith – 🙂 True – we saw no school buses. As for remembering the dialogue, it’s possible that I’ve seen Ghostbusters more than once . . .
I once owned a 1962 Valiant, about the colour of your header photo (whatever those flowers are). It was a much better car than Chrysler’s servicing of it. Alas.
Jim T – 🙂 The header flowers are Sedum acre, I believe – or Goldmoss stonecrop. Sorry about the car. It’s always been hard to get good help.