“I’d like to add green accessories to my blue room because those two colors respond well to each other.” Okay, then. Wow. I’m a little bit blown away by this statement coming from my eight-year-old. I go immediately to my old friend Google to see if this is decorator’s lingo or something he may have heard on some television show. Google informs me that colors ‘work well together’, ‘coordinate with each other’, ‘go really well together’, but respond to each other? Not so much. And there are no references to television shows quoting the response of one color to another. I think it is quite a beautiful statement. Of course, I am making too much out of an off the cuff remark, but I think I’m the writer here, and my kid just said something I’d like to steal as my own. I think, perhaps, I should be thanking his wonderful teachers for encouraging his creative little mind. He wrote a story about a monkey in class not long ago, and he mentioned how the monkey slept ‘above the below’. Again, can I steal from my kid? Isn’t that a lovely way to explain that the monkey slept in the trees? Or is my love for my amazingly brilliant son clouding my judgement? Oops, hold on, my amazingly brilliant son is licking the popsicle box again. Creative genius or bonehead? Thoughts? Anyone?
