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YouLookFab Forum » Topic: Word and Color of the Year https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/word-and-color-of-the-year Style Advice for Fashion Lovers en-US Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:58:58 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 <![CDATA[Search]]> q https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/search.php Carol on "Word and Color of the Year" https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/word-and-color-of-the-year#post-2403734 Mon, 19 Jan 2026 01:38:36 +0000 Carol 2403734@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ Barbara Diane--thanks so much! I do like the idea of divinity, and how long we have had it in our history.  Barbara Diane on "Word and Color of the Year" https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/word-and-color-of-the-year#post-2403600 Sun, 18 Jan 2026 05:25:19 +0000 Barbara Diane 2403600@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ I love your thoughtful thoughts and wording and inspiration. Especially the line about the divinity on the other side of the threshold. And the explanation of particle. And gilt. Carol on "Word and Color of the Year" https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/word-and-color-of-the-year#post-2403145 Tue, 13 Jan 2026 21:51:19 +0000 Carol 2403145@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ Angie--thanks so much! It was early when I wrote it, so I felt like I was almost free-associating. Particle makes a lot of sense, and that "gilt" color--well, there's a lot to say about it. Actually, I look across the room now, and I see that my Christmas tree is a shiny gold. (That will come down in two days.) But when gold is so bright and shiny like that, it is a bit hypnotic, a bit dreamy.  Angie on "Word and Color of the Year" https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/word-and-color-of-the-year#post-2402991 Sun, 11 Jan 2026 22:23:20 +0000 Angie 2402991@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ Carol, as always, your thoughts are interesting, well researched, and eloquent! I much enjoyed reading why Particle is your word for the year. You do your bit to make humanity fab! As for the reasons you chose gold – WOW! You are deep, poetic, and write very well. What a pleasure to read :)  Carol on "Word and Color of the Year" https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/word-and-color-of-the-year#post-2402910 Sat, 10 Jan 2026 20:48:19 +0000 Carol 2402910@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ Helena--thanks so much! I do hope to keep them in mind this year.  Helena on "Word and Color of the Year" https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/word-and-color-of-the-year#post-2402859 Sat, 10 Jan 2026 02:58:54 +0000 Helena 2402859@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ This is such a thoughtful post and I love your word, colour and the logic behind them both. Looking forward to seeing how they manifest for you this year! Carol on "Word and Color of the Year" https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/word-and-color-of-the-year#post-2402834 Fri, 09 Jan 2026 23:02:33 +0000 Carol 2402834@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ Jaime--yes, just as it is good for extroverts to go off and meditate, it is good for individualists to talk to lots of people. The "particle" idea, or being a grain of sand, connotes mortality, insignificance, yet being a part. It is uncomfortable to me to feel that I am no more important than anyone else, but a good thought, nonetheless.  Jaime on "Word and Color of the Year" https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/word-and-color-of-the-year#post-2402592 Wed, 07 Jan 2026 23:17:57 +0000 Jaime 2402592@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ I spent too much of my life as a rugged individualist--feeling overly special, but also different. That part resonates with me Carol, especially the different part. I always felt a bit apart for a bunch of different reasons. I was lucky to marry into a fairly large, tightly knit family with a lot of community aspects, which has enriched my life and changed my perspective on rituals and many other things. Angie on "Word and Color of the Year" https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/word-and-color-of-the-year#post-2402554 Wed, 07 Jan 2026 17:28:06 +0000 Angie 2402554@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ Carol, Please pop the text into the comments section of the blog post when you have a momentum ....I'll be back.... Carol on "Word and Color of the Year" https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/word-and-color-of-the-year#post-2402546 Wed, 07 Jan 2026 15:26:46 +0000 Carol 2402546@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ WORD I actually sat a couple hours meditating on this the other day, and kept gravitating towards science words like biota, calcification and grotto. They were all great, but a stretch to find meaning. I knew I needed a simple word, and so I chose particle...at least for now. To me that means being a tiny part of a whole, almost insignificant but with absolute ramifications on the whole. Though it makes me kind of uncomfortable, it is good for me to think of myself as a tiny part of the mess of humanity, with me being responsible to it, and it being responsible to me. I spent too much of my life as a rugged individualist--feeling overly special, but also different. COLOR I got an image of an Indonesian gold headdress, and I knew that was the color, though it is really not a color--more of a process. It is gold leaf or gilt, and appears throughout history and cultures. I suppose the nearest color would be yellow gold. Here I am showing Indonesian arts, Byzantine mosaic, and an unlabeled photo--perhaps European Renaissance or Baroque period. It is not so much decadent as transcendental--often associated with religion, it reminds us of the divinity that is just on the other side of the threshold. They used to gild picture frames hundreds of years ago in Europe, and that would make you look more closely at the scene inside, spend a few more minutes on it. If I gilded something in my house right now--the couch, the water filter pitcher, my purse--it would cease to look like an everyday object and instead remind me that the world is truly special. This kind of gold will remind me in 2026 it is not all about practicality and to-do lists. It is just as important to be in the moment, acknowledge rituals, allow for divinity, etc. And remind me to stick to goals that are wholly impractical, like reading long, bucket-list literature.