What Color Is Love?

We're back from New York and we had an AMAZING time. But, I'll write about that in another post ...when my mother emails me our photos. (I knew I should have brought my own camera!!) ;-)


In the meantime...

I came across this little book a couple of months ago that my mother gave to me on my ninth birthday. It was hers when she was a child. I just can't stop thinking how ironic it is that a book my mother gave me 30 years ago would end up being the picture of my family.

What Color Is Love?

by Joan Walsh Anglund

An apple is red.

The sun is yellow.

The sky is blue.

A leaf is green.
A cloud is white...

and a stone is brown.

The world has many things...
the world has many people...
the world has many colors...

and each of them is different.

In a garden

all the flowers are different colors,

but they live happily together...

side by side.

In a forest

all the birds are different colors,

but they live happily together...

side by side.

In a meadow

all the animals are different colors,

but they live happily together...

side by side.

In our world

all the people are different colors,

and, sometimes, they live happily together...

side by side.

Colors are important

because they make our world beautiful,

but they are not as important

as how we feel...

or what we think...

or what we do.

Colors are "outside" things

and feelings are "inside" things.

Color is something we see with our eyes,

but love is something we see with our heart.

An apple is red,

the sun is yellow,

the sky is blue,

a leaf is green,

a cloud is white...

and the earth is brown.

And, if I asked you,

could you tell me...

what color is love?

The book is so small, the verses are so simple, yet the message is so large.

My mother couldn't have known when she gave me that book all those years ago that her family would end up being so "colorful". She tells me often, and it means so much to me, how enriched her family life has been with a special needs grand daughter, a Chinese grand daughter and 2 (soon to be) Ethiopian grand children. So much diversity and so much love. Our family truly is the color of love.