My first patient was a retired steelworker who talked interestingly about political demonstrations and union work while I slowly set out the needle I would use and organized my alcohol wipes, colored lab tubes, plastic access device, gauze and tape.
I rolled the window down, certain that I was watching something people were not supposed to see: the world undressing itself, changing color, wiping off its makeup with a moonlight-hued layer of cream.
It was obvious why the collaboration worked: the applications and wiping, the running colors, the constant development — that was what Mr. Cline was doing too.
If you've had about enough of your 8-year-old's experiments — of wiping up food coloring, tossing broken toy parts haphazardly realigned, and mopping up the pungent vestiges of a vinegar and baking soda volcano — then crack open Gene Barretta's new biography of Thomas Edison.
Take out the hair and wipe the hair color from it with a paper towel after the allotted time to see how its color looks.
And the cold moment that returns to mind and sticks there, unbidden, may be preferable to the alternative and much longer blank spaces, whole months and years wiped clear of color or conversation.
"My task was to wipe out the color line, to abolish sectionalism, to end the war and bring peace," he wrote in his diary.
You can use erasable markers so your child can wipe off the color and start again.
Use a damp paper towel to wipe away any color product that gets on your skin or a household surface.
Use a clean cloth to wipe off excess color if the copper became too dark, or if you want to create a more variable, less even effect.
