Color Your Day Empowered
Confidence and personal power are closely
related, though one does not preclude engaging the other. To accomplish a challenging
feat, however, we must engage both.
How? Color your day with supremacy …
EMPURPLE (em purʹpɘl) vt., vi.
– to make or become purple. [Of course! What did you think it meant?! WW #167]
Humanity has been empurpling the world
since at least Neolithic times
(latter Stone Age, about 10,200 BC), by cave artists, and eventually adopted as
the color of royalty.
Psychological emphasis on the
ancient empurpled power color, is demonstrated in popular, successful brands like:
Hallmark, Cadbury candies, Yahoo! and FedEx. Oh, and let’s not forget Barney the Dinosaur!
Not taking any chances, Hallmark took empowerment
a step further and incorporated a royal crown into their company persona.
While the word, purple, doesn’t rhyme with
anything (in conversational words), that belies its power in history. It has even inspired hits over the
decades in songs from silly to scintillating. “Deep Purple” by
Nino Tempo and April Stevens lulled us into love at #3 on W-RIT/Milwaukee’s “Right
Music Survey” October, 1963.
Good thing, too, ‘cause
purple got a bad rap in the '50s from a hilarious hit novelty song. It needed a
makeover after …
“Purple People Eater” (Sheb Wooley, 1958) hit the
top of the charts and stayed there for more than a month, driving everyone nuts
with its can’t-get-it-out-of-my-mind tune. Do you know, it’s about a “one-eyed, one-horned flying” creature
that eats “purple people”? I swear …
♪ “I said Mr. Purple People Eater,
what's your line? | He said eating purple people, and it sure is fine …” ♪
For this week’s word, we’re using empurpled
more as a color for your canvas of life mindset, than in the process of creating
art, songs, or clothing.
Its mental motivation when worn with a
positive attitude can exude honor, courage, royalty, and leadership. Fill your
mind with purple, but just a touch is needed outwardly, to inspire.
So, why was the silly song creature here on
Earth? He knew the power of purple: “I
wanna get a job in a Rock and Roll band!”
Word Challenge: EMPURPLE. Attract success. Think purple and how it inspires
nobility of the mind, as you fit empurple into your week of colorful
writings.
Learning knows no prejudices or boundaries, and
it isn’t fattening! Expanding your mind is a no-cost simple joy. Do you feel
that way too? Share your comments below, about Wordplay
Wednesday or learning in general. What’s your inspiration?
Write first for yourself … only then can you write for others. (L.Rochelle)
LinDee Rochelle is a writer and editor by
trade, and an author by way of Rock & Roll. She has published two books (of
three) in her Blast from Your Past
series, available on Amazon (eBook and print): Book 1 – Rock & Roll
Radio DJs: The First Five Years 1954-1959; and Book 2 – Rock & Roll
Radio DJs: The Swinging Sixties. Coming soon, … The Psychedelic Seventies!
E-N-D
