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-4 posts tagged "passage of time"
Abby Patrick | Monday, December 6, 2021
I’ve been thinking a lot about lasts lately. So have my friends. As a senior, it’s pretty natural to be at least a little preoccupied by endings — they’re everywhere. Last football games as students, last fall semester, last Christmastime on campus, last day of classes, even. I think the fall-to-winter switch lends itself to
Andrew Sveda | Monday, November 8, 2021
Politicians love to talk about the “right” and “wrong side of history.” It is quite powerful imagery, after all, and is a strong invocation of moral authority. But boiled down to its simplest form, the phrase effectively says, “The future is on my side. In 50 or even 20 years, all will utterly reject your
Sara Schlecht | Friday, May 21, 2021
When I first got to Saint Mary’s, I had a sticky note list of classes I needed to take over the next few semesters and a mental list of graduate programs I wanted to attend. My plan was to do everything as efficiently as possible, and I thought nothing of the way I used my
Show Some Skin | Thursday, November 5, 2020
The indescribable undefinable most admirable passage of time The twisting listing constantly persisting reason for my rhyme It slips and slides, an eclipse of tides, holding me beneath the current Its pull provides unwanted guides to things that were or weren’t Meant for silly little souls with facsimiles of goals that are surely set to