Fredrick Turner

This post is pretty delayed but listening to Fredick Turner two times was very special.
I took some notes during his talk at the Hager Auditorium and his poetry and the way he read it was just beautiful. In Credit Card there were a couple lines that I wrote down because I liked them very much, he said "The Cosmos is a chopped up credit card" and that he "found the key unlocking worlds of light." Also he wrote a really interesting poem titled Bonds and Stocks which was forgetting all about capitalist things and money and getting more in touch with nature and the beautiful earth we live with. That seems very connected to the mind set in Mythology and sort of MSU in general, I saw a quote near the library that goes something like "Our students will leave Montana State with a better understanding that the pursuit of knowledge is far greater than the pursuit of profit." Makes you really wonder what is important in life, is it just making as much money as you can while you're here, or do we want to enrich our selves and the people around us by growing a greater understanding of the world around us and remembering all that cool stuff that we have forgotten to remember throughout the years and our birth.

His poem House of the Colonel had two lines that I wrote down to remember one, "As if they needed new words for hell and heaven" and "All sad things must end as they began."

"I just want to grow up to be young..." This was probably my one favorite line and it made the most sense to me and really made me think. It sounds cheesy but it actually probably changed my life because right when I heard that I couldn't get it out of my mind, and I started thinking about what I want to happen when I grow up. It all made sense that all the things that I want when I get older are what kids and young people either want or have. I want to be healthy, have a boat, wakeboard and ski all day, have a place in the mountains I can go to get away and go skiing and snowboarding. Just like a kid I want a lot of toys and to be carefree.

I think that most people in the world want to grow up to be young because being young is the freaking best.