The Hawaiian Islands are themselves more or less a string of greenhouses: plant growth conditions are excellent year-round, complete with daily showers that are more like routine watering events than like storms. I looked where Bill was pointing, up toward the jungled mountains, and saw a bright ribbon of rainbow stretching in a full arc across the sky. Its sharp focus made it all the more brazen and beautiful, and it was bracketed by a second rainbow, wider and fuzzier, a gentle halo supporting the confident blaze of the first. “Hey, it’s a double rainbow,” I marveled. “Goddamn right it’s a
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