The Rainbow Connection

Whenever I have to answer those “password protection” questions like, “what is your mother’s maiden name?” and I am asked, “what is your favorite color?”—I answer “white.” I love the color white because it is clean—something that seems to constantly elude me. I like white because according to the Color Code, I am a white. White is the color of peace. But mostly I love white because it is a combination of all the other colors.

A few days ago, I got together with “the ladies” for a lovely lunch. I have been thinking all week about how unique and different each one of us are but how together we are each striving for the same things—to be good and do good. Just like a prism that separates light into the different colors of a rainbow, life has separated us into our own unique colors on the spectrum but when combined together we still work together in harmony and peace and light. So often, what one can’t do, the other can and this has helped us over the years to decorate Christmas trees, plan reunions, take care of the “parental units,”plan weddings, funerals and reunions, bake cakes, bread and casseroles, raise children, hike mountains and ski down slopes, birth babies, decorate homes, open businesses, write papers and edit manuscripts. I think I have finally arrived at that glorious place in life where I don’t “envy” others but instead can appreciate that we each have something to bring to the buffet and can now just enjoy the feast. Together our talents cover the whole “spectrum” of the rainbow—dancing, art, cooking, teaching, healing, decorating, listening, writing, gardening, scrapbooking, humor, photography, reading, music, organizing, and letting things go— some of us can even make our own soap! Together ladies we are one “rainbow connection” and my life is so blessed because of it. Thanks for lunch!!