Editorial May 2023
Dear Readers,
It’s come time for me to graduate high school.
I’m experiencing many feelings, some of which I did not anticipate. I have a great deal of anticipation about what comes next, and a great deal of gratitude for the things that have happened during the last four years alone. I feel quite a bit of relief to have made it this far! I must confess that a very big part of me feels sad. I will miss so much about my home, and my school, as I go off to college, and I don’t feel happy when realizing that high school will no longer be my everyday reality. I feel very happy. Countless hours of blood, sweat, and tears went into the earning of the diploma I will hold. I feel scared. I’ve grown a lot as we’ve continued to write Spirit. You have seen my voice as a writer change, and grow, but I don’t feel that I’ve grown “enough” for whatever the next phase of life will bring. How can I study and learn and eat and pray and live in a whole new place on my own? I will miss my brother and my mom and my family and home so much. I share all this because I 
don’t think these feelings are exclusive to this change for me. But I feel quite encouraged by Ralph Waldo Emerson’s words… and hey! We have the whole summer ahead of us.
Love,
Editor Jaanu
