Tuesday, June 20, 2006

Light, Refracted 

Now with songs about rainbows! Also today: what IS on the other side?

A practically unbloggable day, mostly because after years of bigbang prep school graduation pomp and end-of-year ritual as the boarding community empties out of itself, lugubrious and slow, it turns out public school goes out with a whimper. Has it really been 180 days since that first prepubescent kid showed up in my classroom, half a foot shorter and temporarily, oh so temporarily, reticent?

If I believed in omens, though, I'd have to say tonight's weather trifecta -- a perfect rainbow, superimposed over a sharpstick lightning storm, against a reddening sunset -- was closure enow. Certainly was the biggest damn sign I've ever been shown, anyway; an hour long and slotted perfectly into the treegap before us as we drove over the mountain from a long family afternoon in Northampton, itself a kind of heaven: playground play, window toyshop shopping, supper with Mom in the organic restaurant, sorrel soup and perfect crab cakes while the rain started outside.

Surely the universe was trying to tell me something. And funny, how rainbows bring folks out of the woodwork to gawk in the streets, grining at each other and the sky in turn. I slowed the car coming through town to yell at a few teens out for a stroll, enjoying their first night of summer, that they were facing the wrong way. Their gleeful exclamations fading through the open window as I drove off were reward enough. Mission accomplished, for another year.

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And now, today's bonus...my favorite songs about rainbows:

• The Dixie Chicks cover Rainbow Connection. Willie Nelson's version is a different kind of winner.
  
• Somewhere over the Rainbow, done sweet and Hawaiian by Israel "Iz" Kamakawiwo'ole.

posted by boyhowdy | 9:38 PM |

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Comments:

Sorry Josh Mosh...I think Jim Henson's version is (still) the winner.

And why do you have a link to (dead blog) mrs_fezziwig and not moi? A jewish new england edublog with verbosity (no mommy though).

# posted by  Shaw Israel Izikson : 1:06 AM, June 21, 2006

 

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