Yesterday, I saw what might have been the most beautiful, most vivid rainbow I have ever seen. It was late afternoon, and the slanting sun suddenly came out from behind extremely dark, rainy skies, yielding two brilliant arcs (although admittedly one was far clearer than the other). The end of the rainbow appeared to be about a tenth of a mile away (although I suppose if you were to walk to that spot, the actual rainbow would be further away still...), and what I noticed most of all was the brilliance of the purple, or violet. My phone's camera couldn't do it justice. And often, with my eyes, I cannot see the purple spectrum at all.
Then, to add to the thrill, there are hawks and eagles in the vicinity in this morning's strong, snowy winds. And when I took a walk, the snowflakes falling on my black jacket retained their unique, distinctive shapes just long enough for me to be reminded of their beauty and wonder.
When I say, if I survive these times, it will be because of Nature, it is not hyperbole. The works of man have become so grotesque that it is almost unbearable. I guess the blessing is that things in the news are so very clearly "what they are"... one doesn't have to wonder, or unravel ambiguities. The only joy I regularly find is in knowing that Nature will last, these other things won't. We are seeing the birth pains of the age of Aquarius. So inwardly, I align with rainbow, and eagle, and ladybug, and the grass greening in the snowfall, and the howling wind, and I stay expectant. What new natural marvel will show itself later today?
I'm doing something that breaks my heart, and sounds a little melodramatic...I am writing old-fashioned notes to many of my British friends, basically saying "adieu", because I sense that if there was a window of opportunity to get back there for a visit, that window may have closed, at least in the old paradigm sense of the word. I remain curious about whether all the things I love will be easier in the new paradigm...and I'll hold onto the memory of that brilliant double rainbow for the rest of this dear lifetime.
