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I learned a new word today.

Yesterday as we were driving to church, Miika announced that “everything has a color.”

“You’re right, Miika,” I answered rather non-chalauntly.

“But Mommy, even things that don’t have color have color.”
Now she had my attention…

“Like letters and numbers.”

“Oh?” I said.

“Yes, ‘A’ is yellow, ‘B’ is blue, ‘C’ is red…”
She went on to tell me that numbers and days of the week also had colors and attributed colors to every one. Then I quizzed her randomly asking her what color “G” was…”Z”, etc…She didn’t forget the color that she’d attributed the first time.

So, today I did a little googling and discovered that this color sense has a name: synesthesia. I found an article in a Yale publication that stated, “Synesthetes are at the highest end of the spectrum of creative cognition possible among humans.”

WOW! I knew that Miika was creative, but had no idea about any of this. Now I’m fascinated. I also discovered that synesthetes are often left-handed, which Miika is. I have a lot of reading up to do!

By the way Saturday is silver and Sunday is gold.

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