“What’s your favorite color?” Everyone knows their favorite color and can answer promptly and with reason. Pink because it’s soft and feminine. Green because it reminds us of nature. Yellow because it’s bright and sunny and cheerful.

Brown is not high on anyone’s list of favorite colors. Which is a shame. Brown is criminally under appreciated. Brown is everything warm and cozy. Brown is the soil that feeds us. Brown is comforting. It’s a worn couch with a soft blanket. Hot chocolate or tea or coffee steaming and warming our hands and bellies. The richness of a favorite dog’s fur. Everything about the color calms and soothes.

A brown soul is the best soul to find. They radiate comfort. Stability. They are earthy and wholesome. They pull you in like gravity and just being near them makes you want to set your burdens down and sigh in relief. They’re home. They welcome you in with open arms and set you down with dinner before you know it.

Everyone should have that friend to turn to. Not the gray-souled friend that serves as an anchor. But the brown-souled friend that acts as the comforter. The grounded friend that gives and folds around you when you need it. That lends solace and peace wherever they go.