Some emails are like rain, others more like rainbows.
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Dear Tristan Gooley,
First thank you so very, very much for your book, The Lost Art of Reading Nature’s Signs. It is so chock a block with great information!!
The other reason I am writing is thanking you for teaching me/enabling me to purposely find a rainbow, rather than just stumbling upon one by sheer luck. As I was leaving work at Salem University, Salem, Massachusetts, USA, yesterday at 5:00 p.m. 6/29/16, I was caught in a torrential downpour. Later reports said we got an inch of rain per hour. Since reading your book, I am more aware, curious during my walks to and from my car which I park about a mile from work to give me a chance to be out of doors before and after work. It is a nice walk, along the Lead Mills Conservation area and the Salem Harbor. Since reading your book, I’ve been watching the clouds and their patterns and therefore wasn’t too surprised that rain was on the way. As I walked in the heavy downpour, getting soaked nonetheless, I noticed that the sky was clearing on my right side, in the west. The storm was over the harbor and headed east out to sea. Suddenly I remembered the illustration in your book. The conditions should be perfect to find a rainbow. Therefore, I should place myself between the sun and the raindrops. So I turned slightly, and when I could feel the warmth of the sun on my back and shoulders, started looking intently toward the water and the dark skies above. I was worried that perhaps the sky was too dark for a rainbow to apprear. When suddenly I literally gasped out loud in awe like a startled child, there it was –the rainbow!! It was like a magic trick right before my eyes. I remembered you saying that it was sometimes even possible to see 2 or 3 rainbows at the same time, so I adjusted by stance and glaze by a fraction and couldn’t believe my good fortune– a second one, not full like the first, but 1/2 of one appeared to the left of the first. I can’t remember when I was so excited. It was as if the universe was letting me in on a little hidden secret, a treat just for my eyes only. In the past, I would have walked by not knowing that I might turn and look for a rainbow, seek one out on purpose, waiting for it to show itself. It was a treat, a delight, a magnificent find..the Irish in me felt as if I had found indeed a pot of gold. I was soaked to the skin standing there laughing out loud. It was brilliant. I couldn’t wait to rush home and share the news with my family.
Thank you, thank you, thank you! Please keep writing!!
Best regards,
Karen Whalen
Marblehead, Massachusetts
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Some emails are like rain, others more like rainbows.
Thanks for reading Karen, and for writing!
Tristan