Traditional gifts for a second anniversary are cotton and garnet. Happy 2nd Anniversary, Ablaze ! Since cotton is an interwoven material, we can see how it represents a journal like ours that brings a campus together, entwining works by students, staff, and faculty. Cotton is flexible and durable, too, and while this 6th issue marks only our second full year, we feel it shows the promise of endurance. Cotton is also synonymous with comfort, so conventional gifts are often towels, robes, and comforters – those items we indulgently wrap ourselves up in, like a good story or poem. On the other side is the garnet stone. With its deep red color, it often symbolizes a fiery passion, and as we look over this volume of work – our longest to date – we feel this gem is an apt image for our cam- pus community’s burning desire to express themselves in the many genres of writing.
So, Dear Reader, we invite you to enfold yourself in these readings like your favorite blanket and warm yourself by their promethean fire.
Here’s to another year, with the hope of more to come.
Write on! Ablaze Staff
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