The rainbow down the road.

 

“Well the sky has finally opened

The rain and wind stopped blowin'

But you're stuck out in the same ol' storm again

You hold tight to your umbrella

Well, darlin', I'm just tryin' to tell ya

That there's always been a rainbow hangin' over your head.”

Sometimes we don’t know what we have until it’s staring you in the face; sometimes when it’s staring you in the face, your eyes are closed. I can think of the number of times I should have seen what’s straight down the road, only to have taken a left-hand turn along the way.

When I look back, I often will have tried to figure out why I made the decisions I’ve made? It could be what I thought would be the easiest path, the most creative journey, or something I thought might be fun—-it’s amazing how right and wrong I could be.

Probably the smartest move I made was doing my best not to become an attorney. My Mom wanted it, my Dad never really commented, and as long as I didn’t have to take too many math courses, I was okay with it. In the end, I knew I could not handle any more schooling than I had to take to finish my degree, and law school was just not going to happen.

So advertising became my focus. It fit my interests: it’s creative, sociable, and I learned while being an intern at an advertising agency, that the media sales people had a company credit card to entertain clients. I was hooked.

Move forward many years later, I continued in the same field with a couple of diversions into other areas in marketing. My road has taken me to places in other parts of the country, but it’s funny, I always come back to what I found and what I love.

That “find” for me was photography. I am sure this is not a surprise based upon this blog— it was a long time coming—-but it's something I didn’t see on the horizon even if it were staring me in the face. I will never take a turn away from this passion.

The photo above was taken outside Tucson, AZ earlier this year. For me, the clouds had cleared, the rain passed, and staring me right in the face was the rainbow I had been chasing for so many years.

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