Gray Matter (Rainbow Connection's New Color of the Week!)

It doesn't take a lot of gray matter to figure out that no matter where you live in the world, there are a lot of gray days ahead between now and the first day of spring.



Some days, it gets so gray that all I want to do in hunker down and hibernate the winter away.



But although some us may be as big, or hairy as bears...



Sleeping the winter away in some cozy, gray cave is not an option.



So the way I look at it, I have a choice...



I can give into the witch of November and spend my winter in mourning...



Or, I can start to see beauty in gray...



I can choose to see gray as cold and dismal, or I can look for the rainbow in the midst of a gray sky...



I can choose to find that one little spot of color that always seems to be hiding somewhere, even when the world looks to be all gray.



I can look up and see the sunshine, and appreciate the way it sparkles when it bounces off gray.



I can keep the faith. I can do whatever it takes to keep gray at bay.



I can cling to the hope that the gray path I seem to be on leads to a beautiful place.



I can stand tall, and hold my head high, even when I feel old and gray.



I can remember that gray is any two complimentary colors mixed together.



So when I see gray, I can choose to see gray... or perhaps, the red and green hidden there.



Or the orange and blue, or the purple and yellow... wherever I look, I can see color...



No matter what I do, I can choose, in the gray days ahead, to remember that without a few gray storm clouds, there would be no rainbow...



This week at Rainbow Connections, we'll be looking at the color gray... and seeing a rainbow of colorful photos, poems and posts. Please -- don't be gray! Or do! Come join the fun!

(Please remember that Rainbow Connections only accepts photos, poems and articles that pertain to the color of the week! And for the purposes of this contest, we consider gray to be a color, not a part of a black and white landscape. Thanks for your understanding!)