S U M M E R   C O L O R

Still time to enjoy Mother Nature's palette

Summer brings with it easy access to locally grown, and hopefully organic foodstuffs. Bright summer colors are the perfect color for our eating choices. The red of the early strawberries made me ever so happy, that is until I succumbed to a pesticide attack brought on by the berries that weren’t organic. One step forward, two steps back. I want to shop locally, and/but it’s increasingly important to make organic choices even if the price is higher. The ultimate cost of ingesting pesticides is higher yet!

Mother Nature Knows her Colors 

The colors of the rainbow create a healthy and visual recipe for what’s best to eat – mix - match and blend these colors:  

Red ~ throw in the washed strawberries

Orange & Yellow ~ add mango and pineapple

Green ~ add a green - like spinach

Blues & Purples ~ complete the rainbow with the berries,

add coconut water and a protein powder

Living with Color

Recently, I was reminded by feng shui consultant, Lurrae Lupone, that my preferred color palette of blues and greens for my office and home needed to be juiced with some high energy colors. My preferred summer colors and mid-tones just aren’t enough!

Featured Tribe Member ~ Essex Printing

I’m in a pinch, the printer has failed me, not once, but twice. 
The deadline is now. 
The client is a Fortune 100 company. 
This is not the time for a breakdown. 

What I need is a Breakthrough. 
Being bold isn’t necessarily being popular. 
Decide to switch our printer relationship
Interview candidates.

Ask for quotes.
Choose one, pray, quietly bold within.  
Review the paper choices.
Test the paper choices. Decide.

Prepare the art files.
Proof the job, color matters mightily.
Correct the files as needed.
Proof the job again.

Keep the client in the loop.
We will make the deadline.
Leave the printer team to do their job.

Pick up the first needed copies.
Deliver with a day's margin.
Breathe a sigh of relief.
What more do we need?

Nine months later, our hero printer 
wins the N.E. Print Industries, 
Pinnacle Award, First Prize, 
for our project in its category.

Color matters.
Being Bold matters.
Gratitude matters.

Time for a reprint!

I almost collapsed….laughing. I’m in Santa Monica at the gas station with my French girlfriend. We’re filling up the rental. Monique is driving and I’m the tour guide from Seattle to LA. As usual, we are yacking as Monique pulls away from the gas pump. Suddenly, we’re being screamed at to stop the car!

Oh whoops, the gas hose is still pumping and we’re on our way. We are shrieking, doubled over as the gas station guy is having a hernia.

Suddenly, I have to go to France! Having had a 16 year stint of living in Paris, it makes sense. And now suddenly, I’m longing to go back, so I booked it for October.

After a day or two of walking the streets of Paris, smelling the metro, watching the Parisians strut their stuff, and reading the Herald Tribune from the terrace of Les Deux Maggots on the Blvd. St. Germain, Monique and I will head South.

We will pretend we will only speak French, for my practice and benefit, but that will last maybe 10 minutes before we switch to English. Our friendship began in English, thus it’s where we are most comfortable.

This will be fun, and what doesn’t feel like fun, rest assured, we will turn it into fun!

P.S. Our tribe member of the month Globe Pequot Press is the publisher for both Wandering Paris and Rendez-vous with France, as well as, Create the Space You Deserve.