Random Rainbows

During the coronavirus lockdown a new trend has emerged. People, mostly children, have been drawing pictures of coloured rainbows in paint or crayon and displaying putting them publicly, often in the windows of their homes. The artworks are often accompanied by uplifting words or poetry. Above are some that I found in my local area; one was sent to me by a friend who lives a few miles outside Oxford. Not that this is a local phenomenon; it is a craze that has caught on all over the world, see: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/11309096/rainbow-pictures-windows-coronavirus-uk-lockdown/. Crises like the COVID 19 pandemic bring out the worst in people; who can forget the Australian shoppers fighting over toilet paper or the used facemasks in Thailand being sold at exorbitant prices? However, it also brings out the best in people too. There has been a positive element to the lockdown that has revealed the courage, stoicism and compassion of the human species. Suffering often does that. The famous bereavement counsellor, Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, wrote something in one of her books that I've never forgotten. She found reports that people living under enormous emotional stress in prisons such as Auschwitz and the Soviet Gulags of Russia were drawing pictures of butterflies. Sometimes these were merely outlines carved onto wooden furniture or walls. It was as if these images symbolized an angelic energy that had found these people in their darkest hour to comfort them. Maybe these rainbows are the same thing.

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