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Music For All Occasions Classic country, Blues, Classic Rock/Pop, Latino L AST C ALL B AND J IM H ALL 432.426.9061 [email protected] C e n izo J o urna l Volume 9 Number 3 C ONTRI B UTORS Rani Birchfield is a freelance writer current- ly embedded in the Big Bend region. She enjoys hiking, video games and Bollywood films. In her off time, she works on a post- apocalyptic story influenced by current events.. e-mail: [email protected] Susan Covington is a native Texan who has been fortunate to live all across the U.S., has traveled different parts of the world, and knows for sure that Texas is the place to live. Her passions include fine needlework, cooking and baking, reading, writing, and watching those glorious west Texas sunrises and sunsets. e-mail: [email protected] Jim Glendinning, an Oxford-educated Scot, lives in Alpine. The story of his travels, Footloose Scot, has just been published, as has Legendary Locals of the Big Bend & Davis Mountains for Arcadia Press. e-mail: [email protected] Madge Lindsay, formerly with Texas Parks and Wildlife, launched the Great Texas Coastal Birding Trail, the first birding trail in the U.S. She is co-author of Hummingbirds of Texas. She is now happily retired in Fort Davis where she gardens for hummingbirds and works with the Chamber of Commerce to coordinate the Davis Mountains Hummingbird Celebration. e-mail: [email protected] Philipp W. Rosemann is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Dallas, whose sojourns in the Big Bend have provoked insights into the deeper meaning of the cycles of life. e-mail: [email protected]. S TART TO F INISH C ONSTRUCTION We do it all! Concrete to cabinets, welding and all types of fencing 45 years of experience Jimmy Counts, Owner [email protected] 325-340-0175 6 Cenizo Third Quarter 2017 Reba Cross Seals is a published writer, teacher and artist. She has been published in Cenizo Journal, Houston Chronicle, Teachers’ Mailbox, Fun for Kidz, Country Woman, Quaker Life, The Writer Magazine, Mature Living and included in anthologies such as Noble Generations II, Famous Poets Society, and Chaos West of the Pecos. e-mail: [email protected] C. W. (Bill) Smith is a writer, historian and curator of the Terrell County Memorial Museum. e-mail: [email protected] Larry D. Thomas, is a member of the Texas Institute of Letters and was privileged to serve as the 2008 Texas Poet Laureate. His Larry D. Thomas: New and Selected Poems (TCU Press, 2008) was a semi-finalist for the National Book Award. e-mail: [email protected] Matt Walter is a renaissance man. Now retired from USCG, he is presently a Museum curator at Fort Davis, an history lecturer at Sul Ross and a part time NPS ranger in Big Bend Park. He spends his free time as a solo traveler and amateur photographer. e-mail: [email protected] Wendy Lynn Wright is an artist, musician, freelance graphic designer and co-founder of the Cenizo Journal. She has lived in the Big Bend for the last 17 years, but now resides in El Paso. Wendy’s story is her very first to be published in the Cenizo. e-mail: graphics@cenizo- journal.com Carolyn Brown Zniewski started her publishing career at age nine, publishing a one-page neighborhood newsletter called The Circle. From 1992 – 2006 she wrote a recipe column for two neighborhood newspapers in Minneapolis, MN. In 2013, she started publishing the Cenizo. e-mail: publisher@cenizo- journal.com Maya Brown Zniewski is an herbalist and soapmaker who enjoys frequent visits to the Big Bend area. Her handmade salves, soaps and tinctures are available at: mayamadesoap.com. e-mail: mayamadeapothe- cary @gmail.com Cover: Yucca, Luticia Pauls, photograph Copy editor: Rani Birchfield SUBSCRIPTIONS Cenizo Journal will be mailed direct for $25.00 annually. Make checks payable to: Cenizo Journal, P.O. Box 2025, Alpine, Texas 79831, or through Paypal at cenizojournal.com SUBMISSION Deadline for advertising and editorial for the Fourty Quarter 2017 issue: August 15, 2017. Art, photographic and literary works may be e-mailed to the Editor at [email protected] For advertising rates or to place an ad, contact: [email protected]