I Found a Rainbow

idI just recently bought myself a new cell phone, an LG Neon. Its not the latest and hottest phone around now, but it will suit my needs. Like many people I don't have a land line, just a cell phone. I had to slim down the expenses while I was in grad school so cable TV, the land line, and the cell phone contract had to go. I now only have the pay as you go cell phone. (Interesting side note - when I had a contract with the carrier, the customer service was less than stellar. Now that I easily, and with no penalty, find another carrier, customer service is fantastic.)

I bought the phone for $90.00 from a big discount store. To me, it was a spiffy new phone as I was using a $10.00 go phone in which I could hardly see the screen. I couldn't wait to get it home and rip it out of its annoying plastic packaging. (Why do companies do that?) Once freed from its package I found that the phone uses a micro SD card to store data.
I had a card from a previous phone with a camera so I popped it in. When I looked at the data on the card, I found this:


It may be difficult to see, but on the left side of the image is a rainbow. The picture was taken, I think, sometime in summer of 2009. I remember taking the picture. I went to the coffee shop after work to use their wireless to do some work I had brought home. I was engrossed in my work and when I looked up, there it was: a promise. I grabbed my phone and took the picture, then just watched as the rainbow eventually faded. It reminded me to stop working so hard and to enjoy the small pleasures.

I was as happy to see that promise in the summer of 2010 as I was to see it in 2009. Sometimes the smallest things bring the most happiness.