(This was painted with crayons by Elizabeth Roskam.)
I was thinking about boxes of Crayola crayons we used to have in first and second grade. There was a smaller box, with basic colors. And when I was in second grade I had a larger box of Crayola crayons that had a couple of different levels to it, like seats at a concert, and with so many crayons in there, you found a larger variety of colors, and the color would be named on the paper wrapped around the crayon.
Burnt sienna.
Periwinkle.
When I Google it now, I see lists of color-names in this brand. Many of the color-names now, I'm pretty sure they weren't in the crayon collection I had in second grade. They don't seem familiar. Two others that I do think I recognize from back then: mahogany and cornflower.
I wouldn't have thought those two up from memory, but when I see them written on-screen, I seem to remember them.
Those are funny words, for a child who just learned to read the year before!
"Periwinkle."
"Burnt sienna." It sounded vaguely exotic. It was some kind of brown.
"Cornflower" was a good word. I knew the word corn and the word flower, but I hadn't seen them pushed together like that....
Did it say "cornflower" or "cornflower blue"?
Is there a History Of Crayons somewhere?
Forrest Gump said life was like "a box of chocolates."
Maybe it's also like a box of crayons.
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