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From the Editor

September 2007 is a welcome time! After an exceptionally hot and humid summer, fall is indeed welcome to the southwest this year.

This fall marks many personal milestones for me. Twenty years ago next month, I lost my grandmother who had raised me from ten months. This month our family lost an elderly woman who a cousin to me, was also one of my life’s strongest inspirations.


Geneva Green no doubt preparing a
scrumptious menu or grading papers

Geneva Green was my second cousin and as an exemplary teacher and hospitable hostess, she not only smoothed the way for many others but for myself as well. In the sixties Green left Texas to run a family lodge, Sportsman's Lodge, in Red River, New Mexico, with her husband and daughter while continuing her teaching. It was those childhood visits to Green and their lodge that set the course of my path and established my love for New Mexico and the Southwest, and she is a big part, if not the sole reason, I sit here writing from my home in New Mexico today. She inspired the craft of writing and expected only the best from each individual.  She touched many lives.  She was the true example of a southern woman; offering food, conversation, knowledge, wisdom and insight to all she encountered. No one ever left her home or her presence hungry or unenlightened. I honor her in her life and in her passing.

Please join me this month and together we can explore much of the goodness the southwest has to offer in the fall. We will follow our bliss to the Centre for Well Being, look at cowboy artists and their work, learn how a former flight attendant chucked her career to become a Taos designer, trek from Colorado to southwestern New Mexico for exciting September events, and we have information on putting together your own fall craft schedule for exciting holiday gift-making.

 

Cheryl Bruedigam, Editor


 


 

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