My father always threatened that if he had to mow the yard (my task), he'd tear up the grass, pour our yard full of concrete, and paint it green. Good thing I liked mowing or I would have been a very skinned-up kid playing on concrete... and maybe the green would have rubbed off on my skin. I might have looked the part of Elphaba, the wicked witch of the west in Wicked!
Green has come to have many connotations in our lives these days... most recently the environmentally friendly "going green", but also "green with envy", "green around the gills", "get the green light", and for all my theatre friends, the "green room." Being "green" has come to have a very positive meaning for us all, and we should all try to do more for this planet that is trying to sustain us.
