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Coloring Outsides the Lines
Coloring Outsides the Lines
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Coloring (Living) Outside the Lines<br />
By Marlene Buffa<br />
In our formative years, parents<br />
and teachers alike encouraged - and<br />
sometimes required - us to color<br />
inside the lines of the all-too<br />
familiar coloring book. We learned<br />
to read by identifying the proper<br />
colors to use in each segment of the<br />
black and white image, making sure our crayon<br />
marks blended together to form a solid-looking<br />
filler. Sometimes, we'd press hard so the crayon<br />
wax embedded itself onto the paper, resulting in a<br />
beautiful sheen. Often, in early schooling, our<br />
coloring projects received grades for various aspects<br />
of the assignment - using the proper color in each<br />
portion of the picture, no combination of colors and<br />
most importantly, coloring inside the lines. As<br />
adults, we accrue credits for conformity, with no hint<br />
of the reward for compliance, yet we strive to obey<br />
the rules. When we begin to live outside the lines of<br />
our past, we bathe in a rainbow of gratification,<br />
breaking restrictions, and daring the possibilities for<br />
self-expression.<br />
Scribbling<br />
As toddlers, motor skills not yet developed, we<br />
learned by imitation and repetition. We saw our<br />
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