Friday, February 29, 2008

100 Word Stories: You finally tracked down the end of that rainbow

It was a long journey. Years. Plenty of times when you weren’t paying attention, and I knew you were thinking out the myriad individual problems and discouragements involved in such a project. I admire the way you tackled them, one at a time, never downcast for long, always fired by optimism, determined and confident that this could be done, this enormous challenge.

You bought little more than a steel skeleton rusting in a paddock, and now it is a bus again, sometimes carrying people on joyrides, always bringing them joy.

Rainbow gold is such an individual thing.

Now – what’s next?

There are those who will know the inspiration for this particular story....

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