Crayons

In 1903, Crayola sold the first box of crayons.  The box included 8 colors.  Those colors were black, green, violet, blue, orange, yellow, brown and red.  The colors were enough to make a rainbow and the pot of gold at the end of it.  In the hands of small children, those colors drew little houses with picket fences and stick children playing in the yard.  Those colors can draw hearts, puppies, unicorns and blue birds.  It's amazing if you think about it.  Eight colors that can draw and color everything in life.  But if you look at a box of eight crayons today, it looks so small.  For the record, I think that eight is perfect.

Happy Anniversary, Jeffrey!  Thanks for spending the last eight years coloring my world.