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Peace Green

I decided to write. I did not know what to write. Somehow I began thinking about colors. Random colors. Naming colors. I found a website that generated random hex colors. Hex is the color code used in html code. I decided to keep generating a random color until I got a color with 23. The first color I got with 23 I was not fond of. It was a shade of purple. It was a nice color but I wanted a blue or green or gray. The second color I got was #2EAC23 and what immediately stood out to me was that it contained the letters "EAC" which comes from the middle of the word PEACE. I could not find an official name for this color so I gave it my own name which is peace green.

The color contains the letters EAC sandwiched between the numbers 2-23 and today's date just so happens to be 2-23 or February 23. The day I found me this color. In doing research I learnt that today is World Peace and Understanding Day which is also Rotary's birthday. I have heard of the Rotary Club but I never thought of learning more about them. It is cool that I went looking for a random color and was led down this path. Why is it called Rotary? I read that in the early days, meetings were held at different member's places in rotation and hence the name. Their logo is a wheel which has me thinking of a color wheel now.

What else do I notice? The word "peace" is 5 letters long. So is green. Both contain two e's and 2+3 = 5. My favorite color is blue but I also like green. I learnt that blue is a primary color and green is made by mixing blue and yellow. The colors of the Rotary are Rotary Royal Blue (#003399) and Rotary Gold (#FFCC00). What happens if I mix these two? If I do in a 3 to 2 ratio I get (#66705C) which is a sort of gray green. Which reminds me that I also like the color gray. Especially gray jerseys. Both gray and green begin with gr. That is great. I wanted to end with a quote related to peace and in my search I came across a quote related to inner peace. I guess we could say that peace in the outside world begins with peace on the inside. "Make peace with broken pieces".

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