Colours in Nature

 I'm writing my exit slip a bit late but I can recall my feelings during the colour matching activity last week in the garden. 

I would first like to mention that before we all set out, I was wishing that I had drew the blackberries the week before because now I was going to be matching something green like most others. I was beyond elated when I walked over to the grapes and saw that one bunch had turned purple! It was an awesome moment. 

There were so many different colours provided in these cards but I loved that absolutely none of them were a perfect match to the things we found in nature - you can't recreate creation. And I think there is a unanimous consensus that every colour found in nature was much nicer than the ones on the cards. 

During and after the activity I couldn't help but feel something I often feel which I can't really put into words with great precision. It is my lack of understanding human nature. We have this innate, obsessive tendency to want to understanding every minute thing. We have this need to label and name things, for naming is the first step in bringing something into the human perspective of the world. It is the step in which we bring something from outside our "understanding" to inside it. Understanding in quotations because we can't be certain that that in fact is what it is. Just something I ponder on I guess...