Comments on: The Color Purple

By: Denise

Denise — Sat, 08 May 2010 15:17:35 +0000

I love the color purple. And now, I love it even more. Thanks for sharing your insights and gifts with us, and giving us more to ponder!! Happy Mother’s Day!

By: Tim McGuire

Tim McGuire — Tue, 04 May 2010 00:15:51 +0000

This was a delightful column, but I am afraid I found it typical of the overthinking we do as Down Syndrome parents. My grandaughter’s favorite color is purple and I never thought negatively about it for a minute. And yet, your fears make complete sense to me.
Freud was correct. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. That’s a hard thing for Down parents to remember. Thanks for making me contemplate that strange paranoia!

By: starrlife

starrlife — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 11:40:06 +0000

I love purple too- shows depth of character and individuality! As for the bump- we have one too, call it the love bump and I want you to know that it is almost flat now that she is ten. (Praying that s. doesn’t have to endure it again!)
PS- we also got a DS lite and she has a great time with the Cooking Mama program.

By: regina palingates

regina palingates — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 11:24:01 +0000

When I am an old woman I shall wear purple
With a red hat which doesn’t go, and doesn’t suit me.
And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves
And satin sandals, and say we’ve no money for butter.

I shall sit down on the pavement when I’m tired
And gobble up samples in shops and press alarm bells
And run my stick along the public railings
And make up for the sobriety of my youth.

I shall go out in my slippers in the rain
And pick the flowers in other peoples’ gardens
And learn to spit.

You can wear terrible shirts and grow more fat
And eat three pounds of sausages at a go
Or only bread and pickles for a week
And hoard pens and pencils and beermats and things in boxes.

But now we must have clothes that keep us dry
And pay our rent and not swear in the street
And set a good example for the children.
We must have friends to dinner and read the papers.

But maybe I ought to practice a little now?
So people who know me are not too shocked and surprised
When suddenly I am old, and start to wear purple.

by Jenny Joseph

By: Carolyn

Carolyn — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 04:24:29 +0000

Right on Heather – even in ancient times, purple was the color of royalty. Who knows, maybe Sophie would have chosen purple on her own? It’s a great color.

By: Heather B.W.

Heather B.W. — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 01:35:34 +0000

Purple is regal!

By: Robert Rosen

Robert Rosen — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 21:51:34 +0000

Thanks for the reminder that meaning and art is in the creation and not everything has to be substantive. It reminds me why I love certain lyrics like Jim Morrison’s ‘Poor Otis dead and gone. Left me here to sing his song. Pretty Little Girl with the Red Dress on. Poor Otis Dead and Gone.’

By: Elaine

Elaine — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 21:44:08 +0000

My Sophie owns that same dress. And I wish she liked purple more than she does. Purple is spunky, the color of queens and strong independent people: Alice Walker’s characters, Prince, my godmother (who wore red and purple together, regally, fabulously).

I think the problem is with getting into any color rut. I decorated my Sophie’s nursery in green & white & some other colors (I’m not too color-coordinated a gal), but sometimes she will go weeks in a row wearing nothing but pink.

By: Cheryl Fisher

Cheryl Fisher — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 21:27:11 +0000

OMG, too funny! Madeline and Sophie MUST have a play date – Madeline also is a fan of Purple… for the same reason that I, too, did Pink with Girl #1.
Today Madeline is toting around a purple aug comm device even – it’s obvously “that” bad!
Hope all is well – hug your PURPLE GIRL for me!

By: audrey

audrey — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 21:21:53 +0000

laughed out loud, thanks amy.