More than a word

30/11/2009 by admin.

Blue. Blue. The word evokes something inside of us. A feeling. A thought. A sense of something that you can’t quite put your finger on, but it’s there. What is it? What does this colour, mood, movement, music or feeling represent?Scientifically speaking, blue the colour is evoked by the perception of a spectrum of light dominated by energy with a wavelength of roughly 440–490 nanometer. Spiritually, it is symbolic to the fifth throat chakra. It is also said to be the aura colour shown when someone is oriented toward spirituality and is used to represent peace.Once considered a hot colour, it is now an icy, cool, calming, cold colour, said to help the perception of time pass more quickly, yet too much blue can make you feel dejected. Non can better describe this feeling than that of the Blues. No other label of a genre of music has been able to amalgamate everything that it has ever stood for or represented. It was something special, taking from its origins of European and African music yet retaining a completely new identity, one separate from either of its parent traditions. The American writer, Washington Irving is credited with coining the term ‘the Blues’ as it is now defined in 1807. From the expressive words of deprivation, extreme suffering the

“field holler” and spirituality all created a road from the fields to the towns for the Blues. The singer would speak of their blues and the guitar would answer back. Learning to make the guitar talk would enable them to give feeling that would travel through the most coldest of veins to the most hardened stone hearts and break them. Its a certain feeling that hits when you put on a blues track, you may lie back and ponder upon some of life most elusive answers. Looking up at the clear cloudless day-time sky while the molecules in the air scatter blue light from the sun as demonstrated with the Tyndall effect in 1859.But Blue hasn’t just been in our minds, it has been a part of our language for many centuries. The modern English word ‘blue’ comes from the Middle English, ‘bleu’ or ‘blwe’, which came from an Old French word ‘bleu’ of Germanic origin. Though it started almost totally absent from ancient Western art and language, it is now formidable in everyday language, familiar phrases present us with both positive and negative aspects of the descriptive word blue. To be a ‘true blue’ is to be someone loyal and faithful. Out of the blue - unexpected (positive or negative). Yet it seems ever present that blue is just that feeling of being slight, one piece missing, feeling blue, blue Monday and of course having the Blues.

We can all feel blue, but only some think blue. It’s a state of mind, a way of life; it doesn’t necessarily mean you’re unhappy, it allows you to be in tune with your surroundings and their vibrations. You give though, like blue, to the different shades of life, sometimes you’re as blue as they sky, giving light with a smile, other times, you’re a deeper shade like Sapphire, finding it hard to retain your way.

We all think blue. I’m just the first to admit it.

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