What I Know to be True: Gray is a Color

Daily writing prompt

Jot down the first thing that comes to your mind.

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This is exactly the first thing that came to mind when I opened my eyes this morning.

Gray is a color.

It’s not the memory of a color.

Gray is the color of doves and steel.

Gray is a long life’s memory.

I must have been pondering this in my sleep because when I woke up I thought of putting Gray is a Color on t-shirts. The constant framing of aging as loss feels debilitating to me. The list of things one can no longer do or dream about doing gets longer by the day, that is, if you’re keeping a list. Successful aging becomes about how well one manages loss. I don’t like that.

Gray is a color. It’s not the memory of a color.

This time of life deserves a color that speaks volumes. Gray does that.