“What do you mean we can’t have a moose head over our
fireplace?” he asked with a grin. Clearly, Love-of-My-Life and I have differing ideas of
beauty.
The phrase “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder” (similar
to “One man’s trash is another’s treasure”) may actually have less to do with
preference and more to do with the eye’s physical ability to see.
Studies indicate that while, on average, one in 255 women
suffers some form of color deficiency, as many as one in twelve men do.
www.xrite.com/online-color-test-challenge
has a fun, free, online color challenge.
The page opens to four strips of out-of-order color squares. You drag and drop
the squares of color to correct the order to produce a smooth progression from
one color to the next. Your score is calculated against others in your age and
gender category.
While you
are rearranging the colors, think about how you feel. We have all heard that
blue calms and red can raise your blood pressure, but a new study revealed that
green can boost your creativity.
Sue
Shellenbarger reported in the Wall Street Journal that students were given creativity
tests.
Students who had green cover papers were consistently more creative in
their answers than students who had white, red, blue, or grey cover papers.
Green paper aside, some of my most creative thoughts came
when I left (the room).
Take a break. Leave the room. Imbibe liberally in a beverage
of choice (mine is coffee).
Perhaps the most creative solution to the moose head is to
braid green ribbons through the antlers and imbibe.
Cheers!
first published in Big Country News, 13 March 2014.
