Note from the Editor

This issue was open to all subjects and thus features an unprecedented variety in content. Over this past year, I have been blessed to see this publication grow from a humble single sided sheet to a professional-quality four-page spread. I thank you, readers and contributors both, for allowing me to be a part of this. I eagerly anticipate what the coming year will bring.

I used to look back on an evening or weekend and find myself frustrated at how little I had accomplished, even if I kept myself in the library for the whole time. I was distracted by my sentiments, bored by my reading, tired of sitting at a desk… Yet, what would humanity be if it ran at 100% efficiency? If we ceased to struggle, would art be of any worth to us? Would our emotions, dominated by our drive for productivity eventually fade into nothing? Would we cease to love? Perhaps the irritating inefficiencies that hinder our true potential are necessary, even beautiful; perhaps the time we waste is part of what allows us to cry, to laugh, to write, to compose; perhaps, the imperfection we loath is the very quality that makes, and keeps, us human.