The Home Issue

Volume 11 Issue 1, Summer 2011

It seems oddly fitting that our issue on the theme of “Home” will be mailed to all incoming students attending Laurier in the fall. As these readers leave the place they have known for most of their lives and embark on a new journey, their concept of this topic is certain to change.

For these new readers, who have never before picked up an issue of Blueprint, welcome. Blueprint Magazine is an artistic endeavour produced by the students and alumni of Wilfrid Laurier University, and members of the broader Kitchener-Waterloo community. Each month, we present a theme and accept freelance art, photography, poetry, prose, and cultural criticism on the topic. This content is content is edited, and then compiled into a magazine by a student-run editorial team.

More so than past issues I have edited, I found a general unifying theme across most submissions that were contributed to this issue. The works of our writers and artists seem to suggest that home is not strictly a physical place, but a space defined by the presence of loved ones and a sense of belonging. As you settle in this university, the opportunities to build this new space for yourself are boundless. Welcome home.

Morgan Alan
Editor-in-Chief