letterfromthepublisher
This issue is dedicated to
children...children meditating, children’s rooms, children’s education. Now, you might think, “I’m not a child, so this issue isn’t about me.” But the truth is that a child lives within each of us; and, if we’re lucky, there may be times during each day when that child comes out to play.
contact us office window.
Today, for example, while doing all sorts of grown-up things in my office, I heard a fuss outside and looked out my window to see a mother javelina and her javelina baby settling in for a nap right against the glass of my I made an immediate discovery: my inner child didn’t care in the
slightest that javelina are aggressive, stinky, unwelcome pests with a reputation for destroying the carefully nurtured flowers around my building. Nope, my little girl was jumping up and down with excitement! All the grown-up stuff that had been so important just a moment before was entirely forgotten. I slowly crept to the window and pressed my nose to the glass for my first “up close and personal” javelina encounter.
The mom and baby cuddled together affectionately. She was very tolerant: the baby tossed and turned as it tried to get comfortable, whacking her occasionally with a careless hoof, and once or twice kicking dirt upon them both. Had the glass not been there I could have reached out and touched them. Instead, I snapped several photographs and emailed them to everyone I knew. Javelina aren’t terribly photogenic creatures, and in my photos were barely discernable among the brown dirt and rocks, but I couldn’t have been happier. There’s something about wildlife that charms the inner child. And there’s something about children that charms the outer adult. We were all there once.
So I’ve decided to let my inner child come out and play more often. And I’ve de- cided not to let my fear of being childish keep me from being child-like. I hope this resolution, and this issue, will find a way to speak to the child within you as well.
Publisher/Editor, Holly Baker
holly@naturaltucson.com
Editorial Staff Gary Payne Amy Wall
Contributing Writers Jon D’Auria Kira Freed Donna Heath Gary Payne Gina Siler Amy Wall
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