A Dragonfly's Tale

The sky, river, sea, and land quarreled over colors to represent them. The sky claimed blue, but the river roared in disagreement.

Land demanded multicolors, greens, yellows and browns. That decision angered both the sky and river. The sky shouted about needing ambers, crimsons, and golds.

They quibbled daily. Only darkness ended the fighting. The next day arguments surged anew.

Finally the dragonfly interceded, "Why not collaborate and exchange colors throughout the day?"

To encourage the altering of colors, her clan of dragonflies wove a variety of darks and lights into a collage to present to their view. Then the butterflies became involved.

They invited birds, ladybugs, bees and other insects to add hues.

Members of the animal and plant kingdom arrived to convince land, river, sea and sky about the intermingling and sharing of color.

Finally the land, river, sea, and sky agreed to trade and collaborate. 

The dragonfly danced in triumph.