Red (Five Minute Friday)

It's Friday! Time to write with abandon! It's fun; it's easy; and it's a great way to kick off a weekend.  In fact, Lisa-Jo even moved the prompt release time to 10pm Thursday nights, effective this week, because some of us (AHEM - yes this is me) are having a tough time staying up til midnight and then thinking in the morning. The #FMFParty on Twitter starts a little early - but still hangs out late, so come and join the fun.  Here's how it works:

1. Set your timer, write for 5 minutes flat. No editing (typos welcome!), no overthinking, no backtracking.
2. Link up over here.
3. Go visit the post of the person who linked before you. Leave a comment - send a little encouragement their way. That's the best part. The most important rule. The community building among our little (actually not-so-little) group of writers. 

NOTE: if you don't have a blog, just go write your 5 minutes in the comments at Lisa-Jo's. We read and love on those posts, too.

So, here's my 5 minutes on RED.

Red's a very versatile color. Can mean stop - as in a stop sign, or red light. Can mean "check this out, it's important" - as in that crazy exclamation point that shows up on an important flagged email.  In a rainbow, it's the beginning - if you color from top to bottom, or even the end, if you color from bottom to top. Or, if you hit a double rainbow, then it's actually in the middle.

It's also one of the trio of colors in our flag - and I think of it paired with white and blue way more often than I think of red all alone.  And when I was in high school, our colors were red and gold.

And here, in Natstown, Red is the color of our team. So I wear it A LOT. Funny, since when I was little it really wasn't on my list of colors that I love. This week, red has also been on my cheer-against list, as we need the Reds to lose to help our Nats grab that last wild card spot.

So, when I think of red, I think of rainbows (which make me smile), high school (great memories of growing up), baseball (no place I'd rather be than at Nats park) and the USA. Proud American, former Army wife, and raising little patriots. Seems like it's now near the top of my color list.

Stop.

Mom & me - showing off some red!