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September 17, 2007

Change the World: Make the Sky a New Color

ME Liz Strauss wrote this at 5:30 am

Suddenly Crayons Found Her

Change the World!

A friend and I have an ongoing conversation about crayons and their powers. We’ve noticed how a mere mention of the waxy “creatures” gets people talking about positive experiences and ideas. On Mondays last year when the sky or events seems gray and without color, our early morning email conversation about crayons would get a little longer.

One night while we were talking, a miscue happened. I’m sure I don’t remember the story as well as I remember the fallout. Messages were sent and received. Feelings were misunderstood and confused. Even after it was sorted, things didn’t feel back to normal.

In a cold, gray next morning, I was still bothered. I went to a convenience store, bought a box of crayons, and walked down the street to a florist. I asked for a small bunch of flowers, and Would they include the crayons in the arrangement?

Okay, so the flower lady looked at me a little funny, but she did what I asked.

Sunset at Semaphore

I wrote in the card something like, When the gray Chicago sky sucks, color a new one. and signed it with love.

She called laughing saying that was the best idea.

The most amazing thing happened. One a week, near the train station, my friend found a crayon waiting for her — yellow, blue, green, blue again. I think that was the order.

Suddenly crayons found her. Now my friend has a whole collection of crayons.

Amazing things happen when you make the sky a new color.

We can change the world — just like that.
–ME “Liz” Strauss

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If you’re ready to change the world, send me your thoughts in a guest post. Feel free to take the gorgeous Change the World image up there that Sandy designed back to your blog. Or help yourself to this one.

Change the World!.

Email me about what you’re doing or what we might do. Let’s change the world one bit at a time together. Together it can’t take forever.

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6 Comments to “Change the World: Make the Sky a New Color”

  1. September 17th, 2007 at 7:03 pm
    Mike said

    No comments here? I wonder what’s going on?

    People SAY they like crayons, but when you point out evidence of an advance party scouting for their inevitable invasion, they get skittish…

  2. September 17th, 2007 at 7:16 pm
    ME Strauss said

    Hi Mike!
    I know. We’re overwhelmed by crayons it seems. :)

  3. September 17th, 2007 at 11:09 pm
    Mike said

    What the masses don’t understand is that the crayons dream of a symbiotic relationship where our two races really do color gray skies.

    It’s amazing what you discover when you decide to unburden yourself of preconceptions.

    Thank you for this gem of a post, Liz!

  4. September 17th, 2007 at 11:27 pm
    Mother Earth said

    i lived in a double wide trailer at age 17 - where i worked at a dude ranch as a “you name it - I did it assistant to all”

    the trailer was infested with mice - ugh - one mouse use to repeatedly visit my box of 64 - never an autumn goes by where I don’t get a new box of crayola’s - needless to say this mouse chewed on the green and the silver ones until they were no more and then stopped chewing

    for all that it was worth I found that remarkably endearing - that mouse, the wolf spider that hung out in the shower, and the 12 million cats were my world at the time -

    what a strange memory

    Mother Earth
    http://www.bestwellnessconsultant.com

  5. September 18th, 2007 at 4:24 am
    ME Strauss said

    Hi Mike!
    Crayons and people aren’t so different. My next post will show that. In fact, I believe I am part crayon myself. :)

  6. September 18th, 2007 at 4:29 am
    ME Strauss said

    Hi Mother Earth!
    Green and silver . . . so the mouse obviously wasn’t color blind.

    I know that autumn “new crayon” feeling. I get it every year too. I think crayons are like music . . . they have the power of time machines.

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