It's more about feelings than precipitation, and about making lemonade out of lemons.
The Watercolor Rainbow
By Janet Sobczyk,
2012ⓒ
A
watercolor paint set
was
her first lesson in art
but it became so much more.
I
taught her to dip the brush
in
one color at a time,
always
rinse the brush before
dipping
another color.
The
picture was a rainbow
with
puffy clouds beside it.
It
started out colorful,
but
then the poor child forgot
to
rinse between the colors.
Soon
the whole picture was gray,
the
colors had all blended.
She
was so very sad then
to
see how it had turned out.
“I
want to throw it away,”
she
said and started to cry.
Instead
I added a poem:
“Sometimes
on a rainy day,
Even the
rainbow can seem gray.”
We
sent it to a dear friend
who
was feeling sad herself.
She
hung it up on her ‘frig
as
a gentle reminder
of
our love and prayers for her.
My friend with the young artist in 1992
1 comment:
This is a lovely story and poem Janet (though I must admit that your font choice made it a little difficult for these older eyes to read easily). :)
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