Comments on: A Perfect Red

By: Tiffany

Tiffany — Wed, 17 Feb 2016 17:43:10 +0000

It is interesting how the color red can illicit such strong biological or physiological responses, as well as cognitive. I feel like each person sees color in a slightly different light. We all perceive things within a different frame of meaning. For one, the initial response may be love and passion while for the other it may be violence and anger. Most people have similarly efficient cones in their eyes and a perceptive optic nerve, so it is fascinating to know that what one person experiences with the color may be vastly different to the person next to him or her.

By: Warwick

Warwick — Mon, 15 Feb 2016 19:06:40 +0000

Martha, As I read your description of the diversity of the colour Red. It occured to me that we have many variables attached to colour. The one that always amazed me is the colour Black. Their are 387 shades of Black., and yet in conversation Black is black. I have just finished reading Doerr's The Light we will not see. If you have not read it, it's a must and beautifully written. Two young lives being lived near Paris and Berlin. She becomes blind at a very young age. I wondered how she saw colour. What would "Red" mean to her. Just a thought

By: Happyfly

Happyfly — Sun, 14 Feb 2016 04:07:32 +0000

Reluctant to lower the tone of this beautiful blog with a dumb sports reference but soccer teams with red uniforms win more matches than do their cochineal challenged opponents. Go red!

Curious to know how the capture of over one billion bugs a year affected the ecology of their prickly pear cactus hosts.

By: elaine barnard

elaine barnard — Sun, 14 Feb 2016 03:57:57 +0000

Martha, Your energy is boundless. Your wit exceptional. Your skill with words enchanting. Thanks for the posts. Elaine Barnard

By: Gitta Rosenzweig

Gitta Rosenzweig — Sat, 13 Feb 2016 19:05:28 +0000

In reply to Susan Brown. Loved this piece . How prescient of me to anticipate as I just bought my first pair of red shoes and I feel daring and liberated from the black, brown and tans. Fantasy, youthful and cheerful come to mind too.

By: Susan Brown

Susan Brown — Sat, 13 Feb 2016 06:41:30 +0000

Today I feel blue – all that red makes my red blood rush to my pale face … may all the valentine cards that hide Ash Wednesday give way to multi colored Easter eggs … and may the colorless rain wash it all away to greet a new day.