Welcome to the Penceworld blog! I am going to introduce you to an idea that you might like to comment on...that a rainbow can be a metaphor for life's journey. It's one of the first things that kids draw when they get their new box of big fat crayons. It's one of the first things that a pre-schooler notices when somebody older than them squirts a spray nozzle in the sun. Later we all learn that colors have names, but the spectrum and possibilities are nearly endless. As we mature and learn about the natural world, we see that there are rainbows in lots of things, but they always have the same shape. Later in physics, we learn about wavelengths and nanometers, but the rainbow's beauty is still the same. A laser is a rarified, single rainbow color. As we all get busy in life, we tend to look less at and for rainbows until one of life's storms brings them once again to our attention. But as hard as we all try and get to the end to see what's down there we never get there - it just keeps moving away from us in sublime unattainable beauty.
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Welcome to the Penceworld blog! I am going to introduce you to an idea that you might like to comment on...that a rainbow can be a metaphor for life's journey. It's one of the first things that kids draw when they get their new box of big fat crayons. It's one of the first things that a pre-schooler notices when somebody older than them squirts a spray nozzle in the sun. Later we all learn that colors have names, but the spectrum and possibilities are nearly endless. As we mature and learn about the natural world, we see that there are rainbows in lots of things, but they always have the same shape. Later in physics, we learn about wavelengths and nanometers, but the rainbow's beauty is still the same. A laser is a rarified, single rainbow color. As we all get busy in life, we tend to look less at and for rainbows until one of life's storms brings them once again to our attention. But as hard as we all try and get to the end to see what's down there we never get there - it just keeps moving away from us in sublime unattainable beauty.
Along I-5 probably near Harris Ranch.
I liked your insight on rainbows! Nicely written...
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