through our nasty jeers and misdeeds have pushed borderline cases over the border.

If there is any encouragement at all to be found viewing our "other" homosexuals it is in the fact that so many of the ones we talked with, despite this condition, lead responsible and creative lives. One young teacher put it well: "I know that I am a homosexual . . . I am totally aware of my desire. But I also know there is more to life than this. It kills me to see some obsessed with their homosexuality all the time. I want to make something out of my

life, and I'm going to. I owe it to the kids I teach . to my family and first of all to myself." Perhaps some homosexuals are better off than some heterosexuals in an important respect: many of them have faced up to an integral and unlovely part of their personalities rather than hiding from self-knowledge. We all would do well in our increasingly conforming and facadebuilding society to heed Socrates' injunction: "Know Thyself." Know who you are and with God's help do something positive about it.

RECOGNITION

When the event

Slips from me

And I sense

You too will fade

To dim daguerreotype,

I make a raid

Into tomorrow's camps. And stake a claim Against aloneness Of the empty days. Far in that country I win through Leaving a sign That will be you.

Brother Grundy.

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