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| Manzanita Lake - 09/21/2012 |
Manzanita Lake- it's a permanent fixture of the University that many of us pass by at least once a week. Dirty, kind of smelly, and continuously filled with water fowl, it is most decidedly not the place to have an enjoyable Sunday picnic brunch with your beloved. These are the impressions I usually get whenever I walk by the lake. However, this past Friday, as I was killing some time before Dean Thompson's dinner (which, to anyone else fortunate enough to be invited to at a later date, I suggest you do not miss) I decided to walk around nearly all of the lake and not just my usual path near the Jot Travis Building. On this new path, I was able to find a small, secluded area that offered a spectacular view of the lake, shown above. In this area, I was able to relax and meditate for a bit, as I observed a completely different lake, completely with some comfortably mild weather. As I watching the ducks on the lake, I pondered why I had never noticed this side of the lake before, and immediately came to the conclusion that like most of my peers, I was simply going by the lake too quickly to fully appreciate the little sliver of nature that we have right here in our own institution. Never stopping to look deeper, I had not seen the rawness and tranquility the lake had to offered, only the discolored waters and rancid green bird droppings. And yet, these characteristics are too a part of nature- unlike man-made structures, which are classified into the chic and stylish or the drab and gaudy, nature combines elements that are unappealing and breathtaking, combines it into a beauty that can only be appreciated by those who understand that life is not divided into neat little categories, but is instead an insanely complex concept that changes everyday, as a result of both our own choices and seemingly random events.
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