{"id":7804,"date":"2017-08-28T11:16:23","date_gmt":"2017-08-28T15:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/hottopicsinsider\/?p=7804"},"modified":"2020-01-21T18:57:22","modified_gmt":"2020-01-21T22:57:22","slug":"on-greenery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/hottopicsinsider\/2017\/08\/28\/on-greenery\/","title":{"rendered":"On Greenery"},"content":{"rendered":"

The subject of green is\u00a0all around us and summers overgrown foliage is a reminder. \u00a0I think the news should offer a daily update on green each day. \u00a0A bit of verbiage on how green\u00a0evolves beautifully and lovingly along with our weather, coast to coast, sea to shining sea \u00a0would evoke a smile from me every morning. \u00a0I would surely turn the news on anxious for the update.<\/p>\n

\"\"As summer days wind down and I get a bit melancholy I close my eyes and take in the smell of the hue known as green. \u00a0The lush fresh smell of plant life fills my\u00a0senses on the days where humidity is dominant just after a cooling rain. \u00a0 Oh the smell of\u00a0lawn just cut, that to me is summer and in my mind’s eye its green. I find this so comforting in a time of uncertainty. This familiar color with all its attributes truly grounds me. \u00a0I stop to wonder why a bit more deeply as August roots itself\u00a0and September whispers “I’m coming”.<\/p>\n

\"\"With a focus on Pantone\u2019s Greenery<\/strong> to start conversation I invite you to think of all the good things that exist and revive us year after year no matter what the headlines say. \u00a0 I remind you look around, open your eyes to the diversity of green and it’s acceptance in our \u00a0urban environment, \u00a0rural landscapes and beach style land fronts. \u00a0 Revel\u00a0\u00a0in the open-mindedness of where it lands in our deep forest floors glowing and bright or our hot roof top garden planters puffed up in bluer shades of succulents laced with traces of red and orange and reflect on its resilience. \u00a0It always comes back, its brave and its timeless. It keeps showing up, even though like Kermit the Frog would say, “it’s not easy being green”. \u00a0I admire green. \u00a0 Fact is that this color represents hope and change.<\/p>\n

\"\"When\u00a0the weather is magnificent with roaring skies and bursts of lighting and wicked winds blow our precious gardens and fences \u00a0all around accompanied by bashing high tides…..just a bit of time and the green glows again. \u00a0\u00a0Spring sings it open with the first buds of future leaves on trees and new grasses peaking through the lawns dull landscape. Summer embraces it and it thrives in a steroid infused like fashion simply because of moisture and heat. I invite you to gaze over the green apples at your market with a new perspective, stare deeply into\u00a0the shapes and colors of\u00a0\u00a0squashes and brush your hand upon the herbs in your garden noticing all the amazing shades this wondrous hue holds. \u00a0Remember green is morphing as time rolls to survive.\u00a0\u00a0It keeps\u00a0its\u00a0promises and reminds us that a new season is upon us\u00a0and it will emerge again and again.<\/p>\n

\"\"The color Greenery by Pantone \u00a0is a cheery one though considering green\u2019s vast possibilities.\u00a0 This happy and cheerful color is sure to lighten your mood and so I think everyone should own something in this hue\u00a0or one of the varieties taking it into winter, spring to follow and pairing once again into\u00a0summer too. \u00a0Green teaches us about perseverance and working things out. Just look how it works with all the colors on your farmers market stand. \u00a0It glows proudly with the purples of radishes and beets, it stands sportively with the yellow hues and it freely waves its leafy hands on all our delicious root veggies. \u00a0Don’t hide from it, let it shine and keep believing in its power to come back each year a little tweaked perhaps but always strong and grounded. \u00a0 Green is honest. Green is good. \u00a0Green is loyal.<\/p>\n

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