A COLORLESS WORLD
Looking at all the cars on the road today, I am struck by the ugliness of the newer colors. It’s almost like they primed them but forgot to paint them.
Are the new cars a reflection of the murkiness of the world right now? Teachers say that about 75% of their classrooms are filled with kids who have no ambition or desire to do anything. Is there a reason people live on their screens and not in our beautiful world?
If I were starting over again in a career and couldn’t be a pilot, what would I choose for a career? There are so many things I love to do…
I love color, so maybe I would be a photographer. But not just a photographer.
On my layovers, I loved going to theme parks, zoos, museums, and exhibits. Designing them would be amazing! I could combine photography with biology and architecture.
The Singapore Zoo was one of the best I’ve ever been to. It was like walking through an animal park with invisible cages. Whoever designed it must have known what they were doing.
Jurong Bird Park is another place in Singapore I love to go to. The birds are amazing. I went there so often that the man in charge of feeding the birds let me go behind the scenes and into the cages.
I volunteered at the Minnesota Zoo, too. We were trying to socialize monkeys by putting them together for short periods. Often, this involved fights and throwing feces. We had to separate them with water hoses and duck when the shit came our way! Their flamingo flock was huge, and we studied their interaction to find the ideal numbers for breeding in captivity.
The Atoll Reef at Ocean Park in Hong Kong is amazing. I never figured out how they designed it. You started at an island and spiraled down through beautiful coral reefs, down to the larger fish, and eventually to a deep ocean world of fish devoid of color.
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Museums in the United States had wonderful exhibits. How much fun it must be to design them! One museum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, had huge glass-blown amoebas, paramecia, and cells complete with the nucleus and mitochondria and other organelles.
The Smithsonian has so many buildings and exhibits you could never explore them all.
In fact the entire world is so big, so full of color, you will never run out of places to see and things to do, if you just get off your phone!
But back to cars. Metal-flecked paint in grays and blacks—even pearly whites are better than flat grays and blues and greens. Colorful tractors, combines and bankout wagons make my world go round.
If you can’t see color, opportunity, and possibilities in the world, you are hanging around the wrong people.