Eastern Mennonite School - Shenandoah Yearbook (Harrisonburg, VA)

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A yearbook marks another block of our given time. Each of us asked different questions while we spent our hours and days and months here. Some of the questions we asked weren't very important — maybe because we were afraid, or too busy, or because we didn't have energy, or were too tied down, or maybe not rooted at all. But that is only part of the history. Some of our questions were important and will remain. Dreams, children, books, accidents, reflections, clocks, companions, newspapers, skies . . . drew us into new dimensions of questioning. 6

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Opaque wanderings . . . sometimes a stark question surfaces out of our noncommittal layers and makes our eyes hurt with the effort to see reality . . . and sometimes there is a quiet yet pervading sense of sadness because each of us has such different realities . . . and it is only rarely that we touch each other with enough sensitivity, enough impact. . . that because we have touched, a new reality shapes around us.

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The counterpart of questions is answers, and some of these have come, too. Certain answers were supplied — a gift we only had to take. Others took effort . . . draining, con- centrated, tired, low ebb, resurrected, effort. Certain answers were comforting, and others were so disturbing it will take our lifetime and beyond to work them out. Many of the answers still elude us and press us on. 7