Director’s Note

Our dreams tell us who we are. Who we’ve been in the past. Who we want to be. What we really want. They exist as aspirations and anxieties. They are our passionate love affairs and gruesome horror stories. They are mirrors, sometimes shattered, but still showing a glimpse of your face.

While making this issue, I have been thinking a lot about the role dreams have played in my life. I think of the freshman girl who joined SHEI four years ago, certain the dreams she held so tightly would be the ones she writes of now. Now starting my senior year, I can hardly remember the time when most of those dreams were my own. The print team spent a lot of this semester discussing our dreams, both the silly stories we told through laughter and those that woke us up in the night drenched in sweat. We ultimately decided on five ways in which we experience our dreams in; love, fear, belonging, absurdity, and peace. Through our explorations while making this issue, a lot of what we initially thought about dreams has changed. I encourage you as the reader to interrupt these dreams as you please and as they relate to your life and challenge you to take a moment to reflect upon dreams of your own.

For the past four years, SHEI has existed to me as a daydream within the chaos of my life and school and I have so much love for the publication and those within it. I cannot express my gratitude enough for those who helped to make this issue and everyone who made this possible.

Thank you for taking the time to look at our work.

Sarah Ory Creative Director