Exploring Rainbows - ABC
Session Four -Green   
​Course Objectives, Topics, Resources and Links
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Course Objectives

By the end of this series of workshops, 
participants will be able to list at least five ways to use the color GREEN to enhance their lives!

Examples
1. Sight, Sound, Touch, Taste, Fragrance
2. Art, Literature, Nature, Religion, Science
3. Daily Living - Wardrobe, Decorating, Meals
4. Using and Understanding color’s impact on moods
5. Increase awareness of marketing strategies 
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Advertising - Green represents health - it is used by companies that want to encourage a healthy life style and concern for the environment. 
Art- Several examples - Go to a museum and find your own green discoveries.
Birds - What's your favorite? Look for it this week. ​

Cartoons and Characters - Well, there's Kermit, and Oscar, Yoda . . . do you have a favorite? Watch a green cartoon this week. 
Chakras - , represents vitality and will, empowering, draws dreams and goals into reality. One of several affirmations - "I
Dining - Stimulates appetite and is fun and cheerful. Try Roy's or Miss Shirley's in Baltimore and Joyce assures us The Big Bad Wolf's House of BBQ has the best you can find!
Doors - Green Doors - represent . Now in our area they represent warmth, positivity and joy. 
Effects of Color - most visible to the eye so used for school busses, caution, energy, humor, fear and frailness
Fairy Tales - The Golden Bird, The Yellow Dwarf, The Yellow Fairy Book 
​Flags - Yellow Jack Flag - Quarantine, Yellow Flag - Maritime marking for infectious disease. ​

Flavors- refreshing, uplifting, cheering, stimulating, rejuvenating
Flowers - Daffodils, Sunflowers, Yellow Hibiscus, Freesia
Fragrance - Jean Nate! There's a flashback! Pure as sunlight, fiery intensity, lemon, floral, feminine, luxurious. Versace's Yellow Diamond - that's on my list to find and sample soon!
Gemstones - Yellow Sapphire, Citrine, Tiger's Eye, 
Global Difference  - Chinese saw Yellow as the center of the universe - only royalty could wear it. Showed a clip from the Curse of the Golden Flower, rich in golden yellow. 
Thailand - King Bhumibol - took the throne at 16 years of age in 1946 and reigned until his death in 2016 (70 years) He was born on a lucky Monday, represented but the color yellow, and everyone wore yellow in his honor every Monday. 
History - Discussed Elderly South Korean woman, the comfort women, marching recently in yellow vests to protest having been sex slaves for Japanese soldiers in WWII
Holidays - Easter, more golden tones - Christmas

Insects - Showed a variety. It's probably too early to find many right now but be sure to watch for yellow insects as summer approaches. 
Jade - Yellow Jade - one of the rarest jades. Attracts good luck and good fortune, dream stone. 
Kryptonite - Most dangerous to Kryponians - destroys their power permanently. 
Language - Yellow bellied, yellow fever, yellow dog contracts, yellow journalism 
Mandalas - Two yellow value mandalas from Sheppard Pratt - one for value and one learning. Other examples as well. ​

Mosaics -Several examples including more by Yulia Hanansen
Politics - Yellow Dog Politics - liberal Democrats
​Quotes - Shared several quotes featuring the word yellow or referencing fire and warmth. "Don't set yourself on fire to keep others warm>" 
Religion and Spirituality - Yellow is the color of knowledge, learning, happiness and peace. Krishna, Vishnu and Ganesha often are shown in yellow. 
Songs - The Beatles Yellow Submarine, mentioned, but didn't listen to Frank Zappa's Yellow Snow or Elton John's Goodbye Yellow Brick Road. 
Sports- A penalty is indicated when  referee throws a yellow flag, a yellow flag means caution in car racing and we looked at some of the ugliest uniforms ever made as many featured yellow. 
Super Heros - Solar Man, Wolverine and Yellow Jacket. Also learned that the Green Hornet is afraid of the color yellow. 
Symbolism - Symbolism of yellow is varied - from joyful, optimistic and academic wisdom to caution, jealousy, and deception.
Totems - Two examples - the lion and goldfinch
Unexpected - We learned why pencils are yellow - named for the Ko-i-noor diamond to symbolize being luxurious. 
Xamine Your Zipcode - Shared several photos of local yellow areas. 
Zen- Zen West Restaurant  ​