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The weather today was wet, cold, slick, and just all-around miserable.
It filled my heart with joy.
Lol. Miserable weather is icky, but if you have the eyes to see it, its also pretty cool. Let me elaborate:
I've always been awestruck by how many types of beauty there are out there. Take people, for instance. Some are your normal, generic, movie-star gorgeous. Some have a delicate beauty, some a dark beauty, some exotic, some a wonderful homely loveliness about them. Some men have a rugged handsomeness to them, some a delightfuly nerdy cuteness, and some have a boyish charm. Some people you have to look at a while before you realize that they are, in fact, beautiful -- it kind of sneaks up on you in a sudden realization. That's sometimes the best kind.
Besides people, there's animals, plants, and well, nature in general. Everything has a kind of beauty to it. Even the worst storms, in their terrifying intensity and destruction -- green skies and all -- are mesmerizingly gorgeous. You fear them and are enthralled by them at the same time. There's something poetic in how the wind howls and something seductive in the roll thunder...
Even the ugly things in life can be seen as beautiful when seen from the just right angle. Perspective is everything.
After the freezing rain of last night, the trees we're covered in a layer of the most gorgeous icicles one could wish for and they twinkled in even the overcast light caused by the continuing drizzle of rain. The campus "lake" (more like a pond actually) was a beautiful shade of deep grey that I like to call "steel blue" and it was rimmed with trees still stubbornly clinging to their dead brown/orange leaves -- all rimmed in the most pristine of whites. The trees groaned in protest under the weight of the ice and creaked as the wind made the limbs move. The poor half-frozen squirrels were so funny and cute with their coats all puffed out and frazzled. The overcast day and the frozen ground caused all the landscape to be thown into pale and subdued pastels; tints that were every bit as entrancing as their sunny-day counterparts...
Don't get me wrong, it was a truely miserable, wet, cold, awful day and any one caught trudging along outside wanted desperately to be back in, myself included -- but it was also a truely beautiful day, almost intensely so, and I was most definately "awe-full" as I moved hurriedly through it.
What is it about beauty that lifts your spirits? It somehow makes room for your soul expand and breathe. One finds rest in beauty. And a sense of well being, even if it is accompanied by the deepest and most accute feelings of heartache I have ever known. Why is that? I read a book once that theorized that God was nothing if not beautiful. It went so far to say that the essence of God is Beauty. An idea that seemed fantastical to me at the time. But that's because I've always seen beauty as aesthetic: something nice, but not necessary. Certainly not essential to me, let alone the Almighty. But as I've looked around I've seen that, indeed, creation is all beauty. And as every work reflects its maker, so Creation must reflect its Creator. Thus, I conceed. God is, if nothing else, terrible, awe-inspiring, and unmarred Beauty.
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Posted by jessiejay12 on 2007-12-11 19:18:10 | Rating: | Views: 63
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Your ramblings has lifted up my spirit even higher, although my place here is not wet and cold but sunny and warm. Thank you for sharing.
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Posted by Gwatlan
on 2007-12-11 21:46:22
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Such ramblings are truly inspirational. One might have come to realize that many other individuals do not recognize such beautiful aspects of nature. Many dismiss these aspects because they are in some ways inconvenient for human developments. Though on the contrary these aspects are crucial to life on earth, without mentioning the inspiration it can offer. A personally established quote goes something like this “I like the rain, though it may not be appealing to all, for those who understand it can really come to represent the harmony of nature.” Furthermore may this serve as a reminder that while some aspects of life might seem depressing to some they may be prosperous to others.
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Posted by bloodclot36o
on 2007-12-12 22:51:24
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I really enjoy your posts!.....You are a very talented writer!
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Posted by Alice
on 2007-12-21 23:17:20
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