quarto revealjs presentations vertically center content in columns

[shannon.pileggi]

Is there a away to vertically center content within columns in quarto revealjs presentation?

Something like this, where the slide title stays in place in top left, but content within columns is centered.

---
title: "Untitled"
format: revealjs
editor: visual
---

## Quarto

::: columns

::: {.column  width="50%"}
This

is

column 

1
:::

::: {.column  width="50%"}
This is

column 2
:::


:::

[cderv]

For reference, this has been cross posted in quarto revealjs presentations vertically center content in columns · Discussion #1386 · quarto-dev/quarto-cli · GitHub and there is an answer there