Why Are There So Many Songs About Rainbows?

So I get the new Muppet Show music tribute CD and, in the aftermath of Hurricane/Tropical Storm Irene (we were just on the edge of it), I get this view from my front window.  A rainbow connection?

And it turned out to be a full rainbow!  Thankfully, one is never too old to marvel at something like this.

For These Troubled Times

(Inspired by today's 'On Point' on NPR)

The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
                                     'The Second Coming' by W. B. Yeats

The world is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste to our powers.
                                     'The World' by William Wordsworth

History!  Read it and weep!
                                     'Cat's Cradle' by Kurt Vonnegut

May I, composed like them
Of Eros and of dust,
Beleaguered by the same
Negation and despair,
Show an affirming flame.
                                     'September 1, 1939' by W. H. Auden

You're either staying in or going out.
Everything else is irrelevant detail.
                                     'Sein Language' by Jerry Seinfeld
                                       

My Homage To The Group Of Seven

Redstone Lake, Haliburton, Ontario - August long weekend.