Oceanside High School - Spindrift Yearbook (Oceanside, NY)

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; V X '» . . . a kaleidoscope of colors and people and places and — “ ' - 1 - 'prismatic ingredients and characters memories » 'prismatic’ ingredients and characters shifting changing people who leave and' come and go and people you neVer’melei and some'you'll neverV j i forget even after . this'is Oceanside Jijfaerhaps a part of it only °nlyy, ' minutes that were unimportant and nevef the impor- , tant things to hpld onto things we remember and ttimes it is hard to forget new fa$es new plans new ideas suddenly old, and used and accustomed unexpectedly a new time for class and not enough tjme ever for anything esppcially sleep a time for fun and a timcf for laughs cmd someone saying no or i dotft think so controversy and heated talk and why'does it matter and who cares anyway and after “all'this is Oceanside only sometimes we remember we came here new to it all a pa pushed our colors and our, ways qnd our ideas ,' and ourselves into the pattern and turned it And whirled it 'ana moved sometimes with, elation or cheers or v with qrief or worry and it- twisted at our touch and a ' pattern emerged and it was the same after al but dif- ferent from tlf% year's, before an'd hard to hold onto or passjan.oc show someone'eke and it changed all the § time even as vye touched it anfl held it in our hands like , the strings at thp. world jn our grasp 1 I the oceanside we have hated and the'Oceanside we have loved alternately despairingly continually from the oceanside that was and the oceanside that is ours to the « oceanside that 'know, ■ J e V is yet to come whose face we do not L, ■ i • -v r •... '