I wrote this little piece today after a conversation with a friend. We were talking about the trees and it mad me think about the way we describe things and how some things are defined by words or colour's. One of the mantras that keeps cropping up in my seminars and lectures is the phrase 'show don't tell'. I'd been beginning to find it annoying but today I began to understand it,
Green, one simple word that
describes so much. But does it capture the essence of the grass, the boldness
of a stem, that shade between green and blue
that made up the sea. It can’t possibly. But
it does. We look at the grass the stems and the sea and the word we choose to
describe these things is green. But they are
so much more. The grass is vibrant and smooth, the needle like blades flow
together in the breeze like a blanket. The stems are dark and strong, each wiry muscle
supporting the delicate flower petals. The sea is a watercolor mix of turquoise. Nothing is
just green.
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