rainbow

Vermont greeted us with a rainbow. Look look look! I squealed in the small field that sits behind the pizza place that is the only gathering spot in town besides the church. I was talking to Grace, a lover of rainbows who draws them constantly but has seen very few. In fact I have seen very few to match this one. It was complete and perfect. Stripes of every color, bigger than the tiny town, arching over it and the landscape that surrounds it, the landscape that is all trees and grass, the colorful arch says, I AM BEAUTY! In a big rumbling voice. We are all stares. The sun is out and there is misty rain too and clearly it is the perfect combination for the ultimate rainbow. I wonder what people thought before they knew what it was, said Dave. I know what it is, said I. It is GOD! So obviously and clearly that is GOD! It makes you stop and wonder at the beauty of a perfect combination of events which is in fact what this world and all the life on it is! It is like a visual diagram of the perfect meeting of elements and energies that make life! All life! Flowers do the same. Trees do the same. We can find beauty everywhere and in everything and perhaps a good definition of beauty is the perfect meeting of things that create a stunning form. I find it is the spider crawling up the window. In the raindrop on the glass. On the pansies with their rich deep colors and sumptuous shapes. But a rainbow, that perfect, arching over a gorgeous afternoon with the golden light of sun peeking over clouds that are blue with misty gray, THAT is a masterpiece. And though we can find beauty everywhere, we need the masterpieces to knock us off our feet and remind us, hey! You are lucky to be here in this precious moment.