C enizo N ot es
by Carolyn Brown Zniewski, Publisher and Danielle Gallo, Editor-in-Chief
W
ith this issue
we have some
big changes
happening. Lou Pauls is
riding off into the sun-
set. She has been our
business manager since
January 2013. I’d like to
thank her for the five
years of keeping our
finances rolling. Rani
Birchfield has been Advertising Editor for sever-
al years now and she is moving up to Associate
editor. Danielle Gallo has been Editor for five
years and will now be Editor-in-chief and in
addition to editing she will do advertising and
the lion’s share of business. Wendy Lynn Wright
will continue doing all the Art and Design,
Maya Brown Zniewski will still be our Web
Master and I will continue as Publisher. Some of
our email addresses have changed so check them
out. We will still be the same Cenizo Journal of
the Big Bend. No change there!
Our cover and Photo Essay in this issue are
all about the sky. It’s high summer here and the
days are long and the nights are shorter and our
darkness is filled with the most incredible stars.
I love to lie on my back on the earth and look
up at that amazing celestial firmament, letting
all the tiresome worries of 21st century America
dissolve into the eternal energy of the universe.
I hope you will get out there, too, and appreci-
ate the best the Big Bend has to offer.
Again, our apologies to our contributor,
Jeremy Gonzalez. Please watch for future contri-
butions from Jeremy and read his work in the
Fort Stockston Pioneer where he is Managing
Editor.
I
don’t usually think of
the summer as a sea-
son of changes. The
soft, humid mornings,
blazing days and mild
evenings that stretch
seemingly to infinity fol-
low one after the other
in a stately progression
that seems to last a good
nine months. Change in
the Big Bend summertime comes from the
human side of the equation, as Nature languid-
ly plods along.
This year, the human changes here in the
Trans-Pecos are rapidly piling up. With the
indefinite closing of Balmorhea due to structur-
al damage, a summer tradition as old as human
habitation falls by the wayside. All we can do is
hope the spring will be strong enough to survive
the march of human progress.
The loss of our scholarly gentleman and dear
friend, Jim Glendinning, is perhaps simply the
normal march of the generations, the passing of
a torch from the old guard to the new, and yet I
can’t envision the Big Bend without him. It’s
hard to imagine a voice as gentle, humorous,
loving and mischievous as his emerging to fill
the void he leaves behind.
I believe that change is good, even if the
process is a little disturbing. Change causes us to
contract for a moment, to contort as though to
duck a blow. But those are the movements that
make us strong, and flexible, as individuals and
communities.
While the seasons roll predictably through
their quiet paces, enjoy this issue of the Cenizo,
and the shifting human tapestry it chronicles.
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CE N IZ O J OU RN AL S TA F F
PUBLISHER
Carolyn Brown Zniewski
publisher@cenizojournal.com
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Danielle Gallo
editor@cenizojournal.com
WEB MANAGER
Maya Brown Zniewski
mayamadeapothecary@gmail.com
ASSOCIATE EDITOR
Rani Birchfield
aed@cenizojournal.com
DESIGN/PRODUCTION
Wendy Lynn Wright
art@cenizojournal.com
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