Arielle Emmett:
CLASS OF 1971
Andover High SchoolClass of 1971
Bloomfield hills, MI
Arielle's Story
Arielle is from New York, New York. Arielle's schools include Andover High School. Arielle later attended University of Michigan (East Asian Studies, pre-med, English) . Arielle works(ed) at Arielle Emmett & Associates; Also Wedding Officiant, Universal Life Church, Arielle Emmett & Associates; Also Wedding Officiant, Universal Life Church.
Music Arielle likes includes Sharon Isbin, 60's 80's Rock, Classical. Books Arielle likes include Wuthering Heights, Crime and Punishment, Jane Eyre. TV shows Arielle likes include Al Jazeera English, The Daily Show, Daily Show.
More about Arielle:"A Mensch who is French, a bear who is fair...
The brocken specter is something I learned about when I studied the poetry of Samuel Taylor Coleridge many years ago. There is a story that when climbers (including Coleridge) of the Harz Mountains in Germany moved up through clouds and fog, and suddenly emerged into bright sunlight, they turned around to see huge shadows -- monsters -- looming up in a distant bank of clouds. A "glory" or multi-colored halo surrounded the monsters' heads. Alas, many of the climbers were so frightened that they fell backward to their deaths.
What the climbers actually saw were their own silhouettes thrown up against the cl...Expand for more
ouds or fog banks. Their bodies, interposed between sun and clouds, cast a shadow at an eerie distance; the "monster" was encircled in a sparkling halo. The flatness of the shadow made it difficult to judge the distance or size, but to the climbers, the monsters were "huge." "The glory" (halo) was created by the "interface" of water droplets and wind.
Strange, too, was what Coleridge noticed: Each climber's "glory" (halo) could only be seen from the vantage point of the other partner. I don't know if this is true on the mountain, but it seems to me that in life, our dilemma is exactly the opposite: We can't see the "glory" in another until we have realized our own. This is the brocken specter -- fright and halo all at once.
As a mother, a teacher, and someone who has traveled enough to know a bit of the world, I believe no one is perfect. But seeing our shadow(s) and "facing them down" are essential; they make the halo visible. Although I've seen the brocken specter from an airplane, I've yet to experience it with a sense of permanence, in my lover's eyes and my own. I search for the mutual confidence of lovers who've made the awful climb of life, seen their monsters, reveled in a mutual glory, and haven't fallen off the mountain!".
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