It’s been more than a year now since she fell in love with rainbows. I don’t remember how it all started – maybe it was because she was so much in love with colors, or maybe she fell in love with the book “Elephant Dance” where Ravi’s grandpa describes the colors of the rainbow to him.
For the past year, her love for the rainbow has manifested itself in many different ways – from paintings with lone rainbows to pictures of rainbow butterflies, flowers, trees, girls and so on; from making of rainbow bead bracelets to rainbow pattern on pretty much everything she colors or makes or buys at the store. She even bought a dress and an umbrella with a rainbow pattern on them for her birthday this year. Even her birthday cake had a rainbow pattern on it. Pretty much her signature has been a rainbow, for the past year.
But guess what, she had never seen a real rainbow until today. She envied everyone who had seen one and she longed very much to see one. What we say today from our car was the most beautiful rainbow. I’ve never been so excited to see a rainbow though I’ve seen many including the most beautiful one in Hawaii. But today was special, she was seeing it for the first time after longing to see it for so long. She was extremely thrilled when she saw it. I asked her what she thought of it and she said, “it is very beautiful but I thought it would be brighter”. Maybe she thought it would be as bright as rainbows in her pictures – oh, I love the way they think!!
For the past year, her love for the rainbow has manifested itself in many different ways – from paintings with lone rainbows to pictures of rainbow butterflies, flowers, trees, girls and so on; from making of rainbow bead bracelets to rainbow pattern on pretty much everything she colors or makes or buys at the store. She even bought a dress and an umbrella with a rainbow pattern on them for her birthday this year. Even her birthday cake had a rainbow pattern on it. Pretty much her signature has been a rainbow, for the past year.
But guess what, she had never seen a real rainbow until today. She envied everyone who had seen one and she longed very much to see one. What we say today from our car was the most beautiful rainbow. I’ve never been so excited to see a rainbow though I’ve seen many including the most beautiful one in Hawaii. But today was special, she was seeing it for the first time after longing to see it for so long. She was extremely thrilled when she saw it. I asked her what she thought of it and she said, “it is very beautiful but I thought it would be brighter”. Maybe she thought it would be as bright as rainbows in her pictures – oh, I love the way they think!!
