It was supposed to snow today. So I left the house decked out with frog mittens and all, and was sadly disappointed. I really, really wish it would snow, just so there was a change, if that makes any sense at all.
Yesterday we had a guest speaker that I got to miss school for - Deen Larsen, founder and director of the Schubert Institute, if I'm right. He was talking maily about Goethe (the guy who wrote Faust and the Sorrows of Young Werther, which is supposed to be a fantastically depressing book that sparked the whole blue raincoat yellow rubber boots thing, which is now a classic) and wholisticism and ... just.. oh my god....
One thing he said was that (relative to Goethe) *goes to fetch notes*... I can't remember exactly, but there was a lot of opposites and pieces and the whole picture - how erotic and sacred are essentially the same thing in nature, and that art and science are two aspects of the same thing, which is essentially just love, and like joy and suffering can't really be separated.
The joy and suffering part came from a poem Goethe wrote (that is also a Schubert song) - "The rose on the heath" where a little boy sees a red rose in the distance, and runs up to look at it more closely. "Morning lovely" was how the poem described it (red like the sunrise, red which is the colour of birth, sex, and death, essentially) and the little boy has a dialogue with the rose, where he says he's going to pluck the rose, and the rose says she's going to stab him with her thorns so he won't forget her. But he plucks the rose anyway, basically taking the beauty even though he knows the pain comes with it - saying yes to the mystery
He was also talking about true inner nature, and how it came through not through what you say but the way you say it, and talking about the inner nature of people, and of trees, and how everything is connected, but not just parts of the whole, but the whole is also completely in each of its parts, and it all made a lot more sense when he said it.
"Become what is in nature, it will use you in a beautiful way"
He also talked about a scene in Faust that had to do with the sunrise and a waterfall, and there was more about colours.
I don't know, it was all just very beautiful and amazing and inspiring and made me want to learn German.
And speaking of colours, as I was writing this, I was listening to Donovan, who has a song about colours, but that's in relation to love and suchlike, so it's not really connected in any way shape or form
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