turtles!! and a rainbow welling-up!!

i've just now come inside, from the beach.  just before dark.  i was sitting out there, on a rock i've never sat on before, in the whole 4+ years i've lived here....  sitting just a couple feet from the water ... looking at the great ocean ... eating popcorn from my big blue bowl ... thinking about this melodrama that my friends and i are swirling around in, called Life ... and suddenly up popped the head of a dear honu (Hawai'ian sea turtle) --- as if to say, "hey, cheer up, everything is alright...!"  then there was another one ... and another one ... and even more.  they kept popping up here and there in front of me ... and then, out on the horizon, over the waves, i saw the start of a rainbow....

it was just a little bud of color, coming up from the very surface of the water, among some white clouds.  it sat there a moment, and then grew straight up -- vuuuuupppp -- just a vertical "rainpole" ... not very far, compared to a normal rainbow, but it was very interesting -- and, like the turtles, very cheering!  one more silent voice saying, "don't worry, everything is alright, you'll see!!"  and then it faded away, even though the turtles continued to play for a while....