Editor’s Note
Making Every Moment
A Celebration
We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started
and know the place for the first time.
- T. S. Eliot
A
s I sat gazing out of my office window, enjoying the falling autumn
leaves, I rummaged through my memories of the past four months,
actually the last two years to be exact, for a moment that summarized and
best defined my time at Keystone. And for the very first time in my life,
I was lost for words because each and every day has been packed with
action and excitement – as is in the nature of any school, especially so for a
brand new one. I would never have anticipated not being able to capture a
seminal moment in time, a time in which I witnessed new and sometimes
challenging changes unfolding, events exploding onto the scene – very
first day of school, Matriculation Ceremony, camping trip, our visit to the
Bethel Orphanage for Blind Children, the first cello concert, to just name
a few – and an exciting beginning becoming real. Everything seemed so
monumental.
Every day our lives present us with moments to treasure, where we joyfully
find ourselves catapulted beyond the confines of the mundane and
the ordinary. And there are always moments in our lives that shape our
mindsets, our paths of growth and perception of ourselves and the world – a
moment of opportunity, a moment of discovery, turning points, revelations,
epiphanies, unexpected changes, the opening or closing of a door, all of
these can occur in a single glorious, exciting, unpredictable, crucial, chaotic
and amazing moment. It is these bursts of clarifying realizations that we
went after, and ended up finding more than what we were looking for. The
collection of these “moments” in this issue explores and highlights the
process and the action of that core of emotion, that soul or essence of
being a truly unique community, that spirit of life within each of us as it
learns, grows and responds. In this issue, I have called these experiences
“defining moments.”
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