MCS Awareness Month: Yellow colors our world

Posted by Susie

May 022010

Many members of our canary community have adopted yellow as this year’s theme color for MCS Awareness Month!

Heralding MCS Awareness Month, profile photos radiating the warmth and vibrancy of yellow are popping up throughout our community on Facebook and on our network. Yellow, for those of us with Multiple Chemical Sensitivity, symbolizes the canary in the coal mine, with which we all identify. Our identity as a canary embraces and honors our bodies’ wisdom, and uses our song to alert the world of the menacing dangers of toxic consumer goods and a polluted planet.

“The color Yellow has stood for wisdom and intellect throughout the ages. It is full of creative and intellectual energy. A sun color, it makes us feel happy and optimistic. Expansive and free to do and be all that we can be. Cheerful, Joyful, Curious, Yellow promotes optimism. Helps you feel expressive, friendly and experimental.”

Jacki, who had to give up her career as a nurse due to developing Multiple Chemical Sensitivity, turned her misfortune into a blessing, inspiring us all. She’s athletic, often kayaking, hiking, and working in her garden. She and her husband, John, live a completely nontoxic lifestyle, growing veggies and roots crops in an organic garden, and raising chickens for meat and eggs. John, who took Jacki’s photo above, hunts wild game, bringing home venison, rabbit, goose, turkey, beef, lamb and goat. They eat tons of fresh veggies, green smoothies, but not much bread and no sweets.

About the above photo, Jacki says, “Yellow is the color for MAY… learn, and educate others on MCS… we need your help. Thank you for caring and sharing… love ya, jj.”

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Thanks to Lourdes Salvador for her contribution to this post about the color yellow.