Rainbow

Classes started and it's been an incredibly busy couple of days. I haven't stopped going, but I am glad to say that everything I have been doing has only further fueled me. I am busy with all the right things, and even while running around like crazy, I am able to notice the small things that make each moment unique. Monotony is an easy pattern to fall into, but it's not an inevitable reality. Sometimes it's about taking a different route, looking in a different direction... taking the time to think rather than simply observe. Like this morning, as I was walking to my first class, I saw a rainbow. Okay, well it wasn't a real rainbow, but as the sprinkler was watering the quad, the combination of sunlight and water cast what looked to me like a rainbow.

You can't see the rainbow in the picture which, at first, disappointed me. But thinking about it now, it doesn't matter if what I saw is captured by a lens. I stopped right then and there to look at it, and the rainbow served its purpose right then and there. The image doesn't have to be suspended in time to mean something. It made a difference at that moment - it made me stop and appreciate something that was visually restorative. The rainbow was present. It's no wonder I couldn't project it into the future.