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Speaker 2: run a little behind and so I've got to catch Yeah,
Speaker 2: but I'm gonna we're gonna dive back into this conversation
Speaker 2: on color. Okay, so less than one task one, I
Speaker 2: don't know, whatever you want to call it. Okay, Principal one.
Speaker 2: When you are testing color samples, it is imperative, imperative
Speaker 2: that you reproduce the final conditions as much as possible.
Speaker 2: That means large samples back at your house, large samples
Speaker 2: as large as possible in the target room, on the
Speaker 2: target's surface, painted over primer, painted over primer. This is critical.
Speaker 2: I'm going to talk about this sum on the other
Speaker 2: side of the break. If you're changing the color of
Speaker 2: a room, let's say, oh, right now, the room is blue,
Speaker 2: but i'd like it to go like a shade of
Speaker 2: canary yellow. Okay, do not bring canary yellow home and
Speaker 2: put a sample of canary yellow on the blue wall.
Speaker 2: Why mixed LightWave frequencies into your eyeballs. Suddenly guess what
Speaker 2: blue and yellow mixed together create green? Yeah, it's gonna
Speaker 2: be like ew. Okay, So what we have to do first?
Speaker 2: If you know you're going to change the color of
Speaker 2: a room, then get the primer up on the walls
Speaker 2: and get the room white first. Then bring home your
Speaker 2: color samples, then canary yellow. We'll have a fighting chance
Speaker 2: of showing you what the end result might be. Canary
Speaker 2: yellow with white next to it. Different, completely different than
Speaker 2: if you paint canary yellow a splotch of it on
Speaker 2: top of a blue wall. It is going to mess
Speaker 2: with your eyeballs. Okay, I guarantee it. All right, I
Speaker 2: got more of this. We'll talk a little bit more
Speaker 2: in detail about that large samples, target room, target, surface,
Speaker 2: painted over primer when we return.
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Speaker 2: So glad that you are with us on the program.
Speaker 2: It is a privilege to spend some time with you
Speaker 2: talking about this very important thing that you call home.
Speaker 2: We're all about turning ordinary houses into extraordinary homes in
Speaker 2: any way that we can. From a design, construction, DIY
Speaker 2: architectural perspective. It's all here waiting for you. That's what
Speaker 2: I'm all about, and so I'm happy to do it.
Speaker 2: And we're talking about one of the trickiest things when
Speaker 2: it comes to that kind of process today, and that
Speaker 2: is color. Color colors are tricky. So before the break,
Speaker 2: I told you this less than one, I mean, most
Speaker 2: important fundamental thing. When you're testing color samples, it is
Speaker 2: imperative that you reproduce the final condition as much as possible.
Speaker 2: That's what I spent so much time at the beginning
Speaker 2: of the show today, And if you missed any part
Speaker 2: of the show, you should go back and listen to
Speaker 2: it on the podcast. But I've spent so much time
Speaker 2: explaining to you that color is all about various frequencies
Speaker 2: of light waves getting into our eyes and then the
Speaker 2: brain interpreting those wavelengths of light. And when there are
Speaker 2: mixed wavelengths of light coming at various sizes, then the
Speaker 2: brain struggles to interpret those and those colors change. Because
Speaker 2: color is not an absolute it is a biological interpretation
Speaker 2: of light inside your brain. So that means that every
Speaker 2: single condition that changes changes a color, always always changes
Speaker 2: a color. In fact, if you're sitting in a room
Speaker 2: right now, it doesn't even matter what color. Even if
Speaker 2: you think you just have white walls, you don't. You
Speaker 2: don't have stark white walls. You may have bright whiteish walls.
Speaker 2: But even if you're sitting in a room right now,
Speaker 2: there is a difference in the color on the walls.
Speaker 2: There's one wall in the room that has a lot
Speaker 2: of bright light hitting it, and then there's another room
Speaker 2: there's another wall, probably a wall that's adjacent to it,
Speaker 2: that has less direct light coming to it, and so
Speaker 2: it's darker. It's just literally a darker color. And you see,
Speaker 2: so that changes and it keeps changing throughout the day.
Speaker 2: So that's what I mean when I say testing a
Speaker 2: color sample. And I'm serious when I tell you this,
Speaker 2: because when we as designers are working out colors in
Speaker 2: a room for a client, we really mess that room
Speaker 2: up with samples. I mean we really do. We want
Speaker 2: the largest possible sample on every wall that will be affected,
Speaker 2: and we want to look at it on the target's surface.
Speaker 2: Painted over primer, not painted over some other color. Okay,
Speaker 2: painted over as white as possible to keep it things
Speaker 2: as neutral as possible, the proper sheen, thechine that we're
Speaker 2: going to use, and then we evaluate it. We evalue
Speaker 2: it under multiple daylight conditions and multiple artificial lighting conditions.
Speaker 2: So we look at that color in the morning, we
Speaker 2: look at it at noon, we look at it in
Speaker 2: the afternoon, we look at it at night when the
Speaker 2: lights and lamps are on in the room, to make
Speaker 2: sure this color is the one we want and that
Speaker 2: it's going to work and perform as we wish in
Speaker 2: all of those conditions. And if you think, wow, that's
Speaker 2: a lot of work, and that's what you pay a
Speaker 2: designer for to do that kind of investigation to make
Speaker 2: sure that the colors do what they're supposed to do
Speaker 2: because they keep changing. So I always speak of a
Speaker 2: room in terms of colors, not the color. Hey what's
Speaker 2: the color for this room? Well, we're going to pick
Speaker 2: a particular color and then it's going to create colors
Speaker 2: in this room all ways. And I want to make
Speaker 2: sure those colors are all working when we want them
Speaker 2: to work the way we want. Second lesson most colors.
Speaker 2: Almost all of them have what we call a mass
Speaker 2: tone and an undertone. Okay, the mass tone, just think
Speaker 2: of it as the main color, like yellow, okay, yellow,
Speaker 2: there you go. Okay, but you know if you've stood
Speaker 2: at a paint store sample wall, that there are you know,
Speaker 2: five hundred million versions of yellow. Okay. Why is that? Okay,
Speaker 2: it's not because of the yellow. It's because which is
Speaker 2: the mass tone, the main tone. I don't know. You
Speaker 2: don't have to remember these terms. You just got to
Speaker 2: remember the principal mass tone or the main color. And
Speaker 2: there is a background color, which we call the undertone. Okay.
Speaker 2: It is the undertone always that screws you up, always, always,
Speaker 2: always it is the undertone. Uh. This is something that
Speaker 2: Tina is the absolute queen of the union. On she
Speaker 2: had and I've got a pretty dang good eye for color.
Speaker 2: I mean, just patting myself on the back or a man.
Speaker 2: For a designer, okay, for an architectural designer. I am
Speaker 2: really good with color. But I pale all of my
Speaker 2: gifts and powers, pale and bow the knee to the
Speaker 2: mighty Tina. She has got an eye like unbelievable. I
Speaker 2: will be struggling with two colors that I'm just trying
Speaker 2: to narrow something down to. She'll come over and just
Speaker 2: glance over my shoulder and she's like, well, that one
Speaker 2: on the left's got a lot of redded and I'm
Speaker 2: like and then suddenly I see it. I'm like, unbelievable.
Speaker 2: I can't believe you do that so well anyway, it
Speaker 2: is the undertone that always messes you up. The undertone.
Speaker 2: Do you know what the undertone is? And so here
Speaker 2: is our third lesson So lesson one, big samples in
Speaker 2: the realistic setting, okay, as much as the finished setting
Speaker 2: as possible. Lesson two. All paint colors have a mass tone,
Speaker 2: a main color, and the undertone. And knowing the undertone
Speaker 2: is what gives you real directional power. Okay, So how
Speaker 2: do you find out what the undertone is? You don't
Speaker 2: necessarily look forward in the name. The names are just
Speaker 2: roofy stuff, right, and you're not gonna see it on
Speaker 2: some color chart per se. But here is the key.
Speaker 2: This is so exciting. You know what a primary color is?
Speaker 2: A primary color are the three colors that are not
Speaker 2: actually in the color spectrum, that are not actually a
Speaker 2: blending of any other colors. They're simply the true colors,
Speaker 2: and from those three colors, all other colors are created. Okay,
Speaker 2: those three colors are red, blue, and yellow. Okay, not
Speaker 2: not red blue and green. That's in that's on emissive
Speaker 2: colors like on a TV. That's RGB. That's on a monitor.
Speaker 2: Now that I'm talking about reflective colors, the kind of
Speaker 2: stuff that we put on our walls, it's red, blue,
Speaker 2: and yellow. More specifically, you've seen these letters before, cmy, cyan,
Speaker 2: magenta and yellow. And yes, it's four things there. Cmyk
Speaker 2: K is black. It's just we didn't use the B
Speaker 2: because that confuses it with blue and other things. It
Speaker 2: is it is CM. Why okay, cyan, magenta, and yellow.
Speaker 2: Why is this important for you to understand what the
Speaker 2: three primary colors are? And why is it important that
Speaker 2: when you go to the paint store you actually have
Speaker 2: a physical card, not your phone. Your phone's not gonna
Speaker 2: work in this situation because it's a different kind of
Speaker 2: color that it's projecting an actual piece of paper or
Speaker 2: a card that has those three colors on it, Cyan,
Speaker 2: magenta and yellow. Why is this important has to do
Speaker 2: with the undertone, and I'll tell you right after.
Speaker 3: You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
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Speaker 2: Your Home with Dean Sharp, the house Whisperer. That's me.
Speaker 2: I'm here every weekend helping you turn your ordinary house
Speaker 2: into an extraordinary home. And we do it. We do
Speaker 2: it by handing out advice, construction advice, DIY advice, design
Speaker 2: advice most first and foremost, because, as I always say,
Speaker 2: when it comes to transforming a home, design matters most.
Speaker 2: Design matters most. And one of the things that happened
Speaker 2: during the design process is the selection of colors. And
Speaker 2: colors just can be such a hassle, such a heartache,
Speaker 2: because they're confusing, and we are demystifying that process. I've
Speaker 2: spent a lot of time during the show explaining to
Speaker 2: you kind of the science of how color works. And
Speaker 2: now we're into these very very tangible pieces of practical
Speaker 2: advice for you. So far, the main rules are less
Speaker 2: than one. When you're testing color samples, got to put
Speaker 2: them in final conditions as much as possible. That means
Speaker 2: you put them in the room that they're going in
Speaker 2: large samples on white primered walls, not on some other
Speaker 2: colored walls in the target room on the target surface,
Speaker 2: painted over primer with the proper sheen, and then you
Speaker 2: evaluate it in all conditions of life, day, night, afternoon,
Speaker 2: artificial lighting, the whole thing. The second important lesson to
Speaker 2: learn is that most colors in the paint store, almost
Speaker 2: all of them exclusively save three, have a mass tone,
Speaker 2: which means a primary color like oh, we're going to
Speaker 2: paint the room blue or we're gonna do something in
Speaker 2: a gold you know, the mass tone. And then there
Speaker 2: is this pesky undertone. There's a secondary color there that
Speaker 2: you don't see that is changing the way it works
Speaker 2: in the room. And it is the undertone that is
Speaker 2: almost always tweaking you when you bring that sample home
Speaker 2: and you're like, oh my gosh, it looks so much
Speaker 2: more golden in the store, and now it looks sick screen.
Speaker 2: I don't understand it. It is the hidden undertone. So
Speaker 2: just know that that's what's in the paint now. The
Speaker 2: third lesson is that there are three primary colors. Now,
Speaker 2: you computer people, I'm not talking about RGB red, green
Speaker 2: and blue. That's for computer screens. That's not for IRL
Speaker 2: in real life, okay, And this is the difference. This
Speaker 2: is the difference between emissive colors like something that's being
Speaker 2: projected at you with light behind it, like a computer
Speaker 2: screen or your phone, okay, or reflective colors, and that's
Speaker 2: where color is out there and light is bouncing off
Speaker 2: of it, which is the rest of the world. Okay,
Speaker 2: So understand that that there are three primary colors that
Speaker 2: we use. It is c M Y, cyan, magenta, and yellow.
Speaker 2: Now why is it important? I said this before the
Speaker 2: break teased you. Why is it important that you go
Speaker 2: to the paint store if you really want to understand
Speaker 2: the color that you're looking for, that you go to
Speaker 2: the paint store with not a screen on your phone
Speaker 2: with this, but with cyan, yellow, and magenta on a
Speaker 2: card or piece of paper printed boldly and beautifully. Those
Speaker 2: primary colors, the primary colors are primary in that those
Speaker 2: are the three colors that all other colors are mixed
Speaker 2: and made from. Okay, The primary colors are not mixed
Speaker 2: from anything else. They are that simple color and that only,
Speaker 2: and there are only three in the gabillions of mixed
Speaker 2: colors out there. Why is it important? But here you go,
Speaker 2: because if you hold a mass tone primary color cyan,
Speaker 2: magenta and yellow up to next to that complex mixed
Speaker 2: color sample that you're looking at, it will reveal to
Speaker 2: you magically. It will reveal to you the undertone. Now
Speaker 2: what do I mean. Let's say you're picking a kind
Speaker 2: of blue for your room or something somewhere. Cabinetry maybe
Speaker 2: very popular these days. I love blue cabinets, love them.
Speaker 2: So you're picking a kind of blue, and you're looking
Speaker 2: at all these blues and you're like, I wish I
Speaker 2: could figure out what the undertones are in these blues
Speaker 2: that are making them look different. Well, if you take
Speaker 2: true blue, the primary blue cyan, and you have that physically,
Speaker 2: and you slide that cyan next to that mixed blue,
Speaker 2: the presence of the cyan and the sample both hitting
Speaker 2: your eye at the same time, will reveal to you,
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, there's brown in there. Oh my gosh,
Speaker 2: it's red. Oh my gosh, it's yellow. Oh it's leaning
Speaker 2: toward green. It will reveal the undertone to you. There
Speaker 2: is no more important piece of advice I can give
Speaker 2: you or color selecting samples than that. To understand color,
Speaker 2: have the primary colors in your pocket, in your purse
Speaker 2: with you, and hold them up next to Now, you
Speaker 2: can also most good paint places will have a chart
Speaker 2: with the primary colors that you can grab, but use it.
Speaker 2: Use the primary colors, hold them up to the samples,
Speaker 2: and boom, you will see the undertone starting to bleed out.
Speaker 2: Suddenly you'll see all this red in there. Suddenly you'll
Speaker 2: see brown, you'll see gray, you'll see green bleeding out,
Speaker 2: and you'll know, hey, it's not going to be these
Speaker 2: these are leaning in the wrong direction. I need these.
Speaker 2: I want the warmer colors, or maybe not the warm
Speaker 2: I want the cooler colors. I want the greens in there.
Speaker 2: You'll know, you'll know, oh my gosh, it is a
Speaker 2: life saving device. Okay, all right, those are the most
Speaker 2: important parts. Now how about cheating and finding out selection
Speaker 2: of colors. So when we come back, I'm going to
Speaker 2: take the last segment of the show today and I'm
Speaker 2: going to tell you about two really important tools. One
Speaker 2: is a color wheel so that you understand complementary colors,
Speaker 2: triads of colors, those kinds of things. And two, a
Speaker 2: very very high tech tool for identifying that one color
Speaker 2: that you saw in this place on the thing, this
Speaker 2: place on the thing with the guy. You have a
Speaker 2: way if you have one of these in your car,
Speaker 2: or in your pocket or in your purse. If you
Speaker 2: have this high tech tool, you'll be able to go
Speaker 2: right up to it and identify exactly what that color is.
Speaker 2: Take it right to the paint store, and bring that
Speaker 2: color home with you. I don't care if you put
Speaker 2: it on an animal, a wall, anything, a leaf of plant.
Speaker 2: If you find the color that you adore, you can
Speaker 2: bring it home with you you capture with this device.
Speaker 2: We'll talk about it when we come back.
Speaker 3: You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
Speaker 3: KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2: Thanks for joining us on the program. Here we are
Speaker 2: at the end of another three hours, but we're not
Speaker 2: done yet. Not yet, my friend, not yet. And please,
Speaker 2: if you're just joining us, or if you've missed a
Speaker 2: good portion of today's show, remember this broadcast is also
Speaker 2: the House Whisper podcast. Just right after we go off
Speaker 2: the air, it will be available wherever you're favorite podcasts
Speaker 2: are found. You can listen to it anytime, anywhere on demand,
Speaker 2: as many times as you need to. And there is
Speaker 2: a lot of information on color and color theory today.
Speaker 2: But here we are wrapping out at the end, and
Speaker 2: I am making our final points so where are the
Speaker 2: most important points so far? Number one, The color is
Speaker 2: in your head. It is a biological response in our
Speaker 2: heads to different wavelengths of light, which makes it tricky
Speaker 2: because cheaps changing all the time. But we get our
Speaker 2: arms around it by testing color samples in their home
Speaker 2: condition the final conditions as much as possible, large samples,
Speaker 2: target rooms in the target room, on the target surface
Speaker 2: painted over white primer, not with the old color on
Speaker 2: the wall, and then we look at it under daylight
Speaker 2: and artificial conditions all times during the day and night
Speaker 2: in order to understand it. Second lesson to repeat again.
Speaker 2: Most colors, almost all of them, have what we call
Speaker 2: a mass tone that means just the main color, like
Speaker 2: you know, oh I'm blue, okay, But there's an undertone
Speaker 2: underneath it. And it's that undertone that gives us problem.
Speaker 2: That's why at the paint store, it just looked blue
Speaker 2: at the store, and I brought it home and now
Speaker 2: it's green. Or it looked blue at the store and
Speaker 2: I brought it home and now it looks purple. Because
Speaker 2: there's an undertone that leans towards the cool end of
Speaker 2: the spectrum or the warm end of the spectrum. The
Speaker 2: undertone is what always sneaks in and gives you the problem.
Speaker 2: So how do you determine where the undertone is? Third principle,
Speaker 2: there are only three primary colors cmy cyan, magenta and yellow,
Speaker 2: or you know, blue, red, and yellow, but it's actually cyan, magenta,
Speaker 2: and yellow. Have those colors on hand. Okay, not on
Speaker 2: your phone, because that's a different quality of light on hand,
Speaker 2: on a card, on a piece of paper. Grab one
Speaker 2: of the charts from at the paint store. Hold the
Speaker 2: suspect tone up to its true color. It's pure primary color,
Speaker 2: so a blue sample. Hold it up to cyan, and
Speaker 2: it will reveal the undertone to you. You'll see it,
Speaker 2: you'll see what direction it's heading, and you'll make much
Speaker 2: much better decisions at the paint store with the samples
Speaker 2: that you are bringing home. And finally today, now there
Speaker 2: are a couple of tools for picking colors. This is
Speaker 2: not so much the you know, defining the color samples
Speaker 2: properly at the store, but for picking colors in general.
Speaker 2: Get yourself a color wheel. Now, this you can do
Speaker 2: on your phone. Okay, because this is not again about
Speaker 2: getting real specific with the tonality of a color. But
Speaker 2: this is picking a color theme for a room. Because
Speaker 2: of the spectrum of colors, there are complementary colors on
Speaker 2: the color spectrum, and a color wheel is a device
Speaker 2: you can also go down to a place like hobby
Speaker 2: lobby or Joe Ann's or Michael's or an art store
Speaker 2: and you can pick up a color wheel, an actual
Speaker 2: physical color wheel, and you spin it around and you
Speaker 2: can see it reveals complementary colors on a spectrum. So
Speaker 2: like if you're like, well, my furniture is going to
Speaker 2: be this color, what else will work in here with that?
Speaker 2: And then you look at a triad or a dual
Speaker 2: opposite color or a quad color. All of these kind
Speaker 2: of configurations are revealed on this very small simple tool
Speaker 2: that is a color wheel. Color wheels will cost you
Speaker 2: five bucks. Okay, you can order one on Amazon today
Speaker 2: and it'll be here this afternoon or tomorrow, and then
Speaker 2: you can use it. You can also and like I said,
Speaker 2: because we're not comparing real specific color shades, you can
Speaker 2: also download a color wheel app on your phone. And
Speaker 2: the app that I use is literally called color Wheel,
Speaker 2: and you can download it and you can use that
Speaker 2: for preferences and then use the primary color card like
Speaker 2: I said, when you're actually at the store zeroing in
Speaker 2: on the samples that you're wanting to target. So a
Speaker 2: color wheel. And finally, this is a very high tech tool.
Speaker 2: And this one's gonna set you back ninety eight dollars. Okay,
Speaker 2: go to online, go to a nixsensor dot com, nixsensor
Speaker 2: dot com, nixsensor dot com, and take a look at
Speaker 2: the Nix Mini three. It's the third generation of the
Speaker 2: Knicks Mini Sensor. This is a pocket color analyzer. And
Speaker 2: I say pocket because it is about it is about
Speaker 2: the size of a walnut. That's it. It pairs to
Speaker 2: an app on your phone. And this Nixcolor sensor, it
Speaker 2: is so so dang accurate, and it is so effective.
Speaker 2: It literally enables you. It's all charged up. Keep it
Speaker 2: in your purse, keep it in your pocket, keep it
Speaker 2: in the car when you're out looking for stuff. It
Speaker 2: literally allows you to walk up to any surface, anything
Speaker 2: at all. Okay, Like, oh, I love the brown on
Speaker 2: that leather sofa. I wish that was the color that
Speaker 2: we could paint the cabinet. Well, pull out your next sensor,
Speaker 2: open up the app on your phone, walk over, push
Speaker 2: the next sensor. Onto the surface of that brown leather sofa,
Speaker 2: and within two seconds you will have that exact color
Speaker 2: fully analyzed into breakdown of scientific colors CMYK Pantone colors.
Speaker 2: But best of all, the Knick's Library has ga billions
Speaker 2: of all the major paint shades of the major paint brand.
Speaker 2: So mine, of course, is set to Benjamin Moore, and
Speaker 2: so I will put that NIX sensor. You tell me, Dean.
Speaker 2: At this store, I was just shopping for furniture, there's
Speaker 2: a table. This table is kind of a brownish gray.
Speaker 2: I love this color. That's the color that I want
Speaker 2: on my cabinets. I don't know how to get it.
Speaker 2: And it's like, tell me the store I'm going in.
Speaker 2: I find the table, I put the nick Sensor down there,
Speaker 2: and boom, it shows me the top three matching shades
Speaker 2: and colors of the current Benjamin Moore color lineup in
Speaker 2: all of their paints. It is such, it is such
Speaker 2: a cheat. I hesitate to tell you because it makes
Speaker 2: me look like a wizard. But the fact of the
Speaker 2: matter is, you know, it's all transparency, full disclosure. Here
Speaker 2: for ninety eight bucks, you can have this amazing device
Speaker 2: in your pocket. I think most places. I think, if
Speaker 2: you go to Nix, it's just the Mini three sensor,
Speaker 2: it's gonna set you back one hundred bucks. And but
Speaker 2: it's a game changer. It is a game changer. You
Speaker 2: can put it on a pet, you know, like, oh,
Speaker 2: I love the I love that kind of blackish brown
Speaker 2: on my pet's nose. Just stick it on his nose
Speaker 2: for a half second. You'll find out what that color is.
Speaker 2: It is so so voud. Oh. If you're patching, like
Speaker 2: you've got a room, You're like, I don't want to
Speaker 2: change the color of the room. But this room, this
Speaker 2: white paint in here is like fifteen years old and
Speaker 2: it's bleached in the sun. And now we've got this
Speaker 2: little area up here of damage. I don't have the
Speaker 2: paint anymore. What can I do? Put the knick sensor
Speaker 2: right up next to the damage on the good paint.
Speaker 2: Still register it. You'll go get a tiny little sample
Speaker 2: from the paint store. It's going to match, and you'll
Speaker 2: be able to patch that little hole without repainting the
Speaker 2: whole wall. Anyway. There you go, my friends, A crash
Speaker 2: course in color theory and the practicalities of choosing color
Speaker 2: for your home. And the tools to get it all
Speaker 2: done in Ah, there you have it all right. Hey,
Speaker 2: it's Mother's Day today. I'm just going to leave you
Speaker 2: this very very short thought. Motherhood is hard. You know,
Speaker 2: that's no news to anyone. It is not a sprint.
Speaker 2: It is a marathon. It's often a very very thankless job.
Speaker 2: And what's even harder is you know you have no
Speaker 2: control over the results because you know, just like we did,
Speaker 2: kids grow up under good circumstances, under bad circumstances. But
Speaker 2: even under the best of parenting circumstances, kids grow up,
Speaker 2: they make their own decisions, and they become their own people.
Speaker 2: Motherhood is tough. It can also be deeply, deeply rewarding.
Speaker 2: And today is the day that we just celebrate it
Speaker 2: for all that it is, in all of its beauty,
Speaker 2: in all of it goles, in all of it's imperfection.
Speaker 2: And the fact is, you know what, for most moms,
Speaker 2: it's simply unavoidable because it's built in and it's who
Speaker 2: you are. It's the nature of he who you are.
Speaker 2: I love this quote from the author Robert Heinlein. He said,
Speaker 2: motherhood is not a biological relation. It is ultimately lee
Speaker 2: an attitude and you know what, that's so true. You
Speaker 2: can pick the mothers out of the crowd anytime, any
Speaker 2: day of the week. It's not about biology. It's about
Speaker 2: an attitude, and they carry it with them and they
Speaker 2: do it every day without fanfare, and they do it
Speaker 2: well well. Today is the day. Today is the day
Speaker 2: for us to give a little fanfare for all the
Speaker 2: moms out there, and I honor you and I wish
Speaker 2: you the very very best of Mothers days today. And
Speaker 2: for all of you who have moms, which is literally
Speaker 2: one hundred percent of us, make it happen. Reach out
Speaker 2: to the moms in your life and make sure they
Speaker 2: know that they have not expended this energy in vain
Speaker 2: that you have noticed and that you know it's true.
Speaker 2: And with that, I encourage you all to get out
Speaker 2: there in this beautiful, warm, sunny Southern California day, or
Speaker 2: whatever the weather is like wherever you are across our
Speaker 2: beautiful nation, and as always, get busy building yourself a
Speaker 2: beautiful life. And we will see you right back here
Speaker 2: next weekend.
Speaker 1: This has been Home with Dean Sharp, the House Whisper.
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