From the age of four, I have associated each day of the week with a particular color.

I know I was four because we lived on Linda Lane. I remember sharing a room with my little sister Terri, and Sammy our yellow parakeet. Peering through the shadows of time, I can still see through our bedroom window, the white church across the road, its silver cross gleaming in the moonlight under the dark pines. I remember kindergarten at Hurst Elementary, lining up with the other kids with my nickel for milk, taking naps on the floor with my aqua towel, and spinning the metal merry-go-round in the Florida sugar sand.
That was fifty years ago, and only now do I attempt to illustrate the colors assigned to each day. Why reveal them now? Perhaps for imagination’s amusement, the path of least resistance. A difficult passage in a painting is vexing me; it’s easier to indulge a distraction devoid of restraint, than paint in the dark.
What day is it? Tuesday – Yellow. . . Saturday? – Orange, and so it goes. I didn’t select the colors, they appeared and remained. I wonder, if the days had different names, would the colors be the same? It’s not a very appealing arrangement of colors, my day’s. I like Thursday’s blue-gray and the brown has possibilities. Brown can become mysterious. When I think of brown, I see a deep, transparent abyss folding into a soft, shadowy, violet-brown. I can get lost in twilight browns. Color space is a fascinating topic, in future articles; I’ll cover in depth, the properties of color.
None of these is my favorite color.
Friday is green, odd, and probably my least favorite. It wavers between a medium and deep green and spatially is the furthest away. Because it fluctuates, it’s not a very truthful color, is it? Since my dad was Catholic, Friday meant confession at Saint Paul’s, and fish sticks for dinner. I loved my dad, but I hate fish sticks.
Somewhere along the line my day’s became colored, and each color has an associative feeling in nature attached to it. That feeling is ineffable.
That I can only describe in paint.