Tao of the Rainbow No. 7:

“Rainbows introduce us to reflections
of different beautiful possibilities
so we never forget that pain and grief
are not the final options in life.”
        --from Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

Why so much talk for so many years––centuries in fact––about something as natural, common, and simple as rainbows?

It may be because even though they are simple and explained perfectly by laws of physics they are also brilliantly mysterious. It may be that because despite the different kinds of destruction that rumble through the world, rainbows always come back with their beauty, mystery, and inspiration intact. Although as ethereal as clouds of starlight in a distant nebula, they are also as enduring as the earth herself.

But can there be such a thing as a Tao of the Rainbow? Or a Way of the Rainbow? The first hints at such a possibility came with the publication of the special section in the center of the book Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry.

Further evidence comes from the pages of this blog: http://the-journey-and-the-rainbow.weebly.com/blog-tao-of-the-rainbow/a-beautiful-breathless-painted-pose