Valparaiso University - Beacon / Record Yearbook (Valparaiso, IN)

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IW 10.8 E A C The Pieces, The Places, - Putting Together, The Glue. . . The Artist Begins. Sunlight and wind on the Tundra; you hand me a piece of your day in simple words and easy expressions turned smoothly intricate on a lathe of familiarity. Together we go to the cafeteria for lunch. Books spill out of your pack and texts slide quietly beneath the conversation - my professors, my classes, , we did this, that, we will, we go, we did, Ilm working on, this is due, and God, I,ve got to get my laundry done soon. Ilm running out of clothes. 0 N We speak animatedly, tying knots and laying down the strokes of paint that will fill the gaps of my day with yours. How much ofthis will I retain, I ask myself between bites; the food, your face, or the paper Ilm struggling to finish? The trees are finally changing color, the leaves dropping and turning mosaic where they cover the grass; I remember how they looked green and bare, and I will go today and read under one while the weather holds.

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I will try to connect, spreading mortar and with each word I read, each passing figure I see, press another fragment into the wall until the ground is too coid and the wind too bitter to stay out any longer. And tonight we shall set everything aside as we so often do, sit up late with the stereo playing loudly, perhaps with the Christmas lights turned on, and order pizza. . -Eric Appleton CAMPUS LIFE w 11