Happy Color, Happy Heart
Tay Tay’s Flower
After a death in our family, I spent weeks (months?) coloring flowers on the Happy Color app. My young niece witnessed this and colored her own flower to share with me and to honor our loved one.
What is Happy Color?
Happy Color is a color-by-numbers app where users can tap their way into relaxing (if that’s your thing) and add some beauty to their life by coloring pictures from a catalog of 20,000+ images. Our favorite category was flowers. Bonus features include achievements to track progress and video replays of the coloring process, also very soothing. Happy Color is available on your favorite platform: Apple | Google.
My Happy Color Achievements
Out of 828 pictures (!!!), 180 were flowers (❀ )… each one of those 451,758 taps of color healed us a tiny bit (♡). Thank you Happy Color!
Our Happy Flowers
From Our Hearts to Yours
Some insights and joy Ma Butler shared with us.
Like our Ma Butler, I enjoy sewing for my loved ones. As my niece was starting a new school, I wanted to adorn her hair with flowers. The project quickly expanded to creating flowers from cultural fabrics for all the beauties in my life. (See also our #WallofPretty and Culture by the Yard)
Ma Butler spoke three languages, English, Portuguese and Creole. For all the aspiring polyglots, if we learn how to say “flower” in the top ten languages spoken in the world, we could communicate personally with over half of 7+ billion people. Not a bad start to trying to understand each other, eh?
Flower [English]
Huā (花) [Mandarin]
Phool (फूल) [Hindi]
Flor [Spanish]
Fleur [French]
Warada (ورد) [Arabic]
Phula (যুদ্ধবিরতি) [Bengali]
Flor [Portuguese]
Tsvetok (ЦВЕТОК) [Russian]
Phool (پھول) [Urdu]
Maua [Swahili]
What creative activities have brought you healing? How do you continue to honor your loved ones, both past and present? Connect with us on X/Twitter: @village_values.
Thank you [Xièxiè (谢谢), Dhanyavaad (धन्यवाद), Gracias, Merci, Shkran lak (شكرًا لك), Dhan'yabāda (ধন্যবাদ), Obrigado, Spasibo (Спасибо), Shukriya (شکریہ), Asante) for reading!
