The Yellow Sun

A Lost World

What color is the sun?

The answer may surprise you. If you were born in the last 20 years or so, you will probably say “white.” For many of us born in the last century, however, the answer might be different. We remember the sun being a buttery yellow gold, not the stark white orb floating in today’s sky.

Colors were different under that sun. Greens were more verdant, the sky a rich deep blue, the shadows darker and cooler. Light had a different quality—it actually felt good to lay down on a deep mound of grass and bask in the golden rays without feeling stripped bare by blinding whiteness.

Somewhere along the way, that changed. Either the sun we had has altered or it has been replaced by a different one entirely. With the departure of that yellow sun the world has changed, also. Blame climate change, blame air pollution, blame the fact that the sun is heating up, blame the Mandela effect...all of the blame won’t bring back the lost world which once orbited a golden, yellow sun.

In this section I will try my best to preserve my memory of that world.