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feedback and support. Thank you to our design and print gurus, Laura Parvey-Connors with Loose Leash Marketing as well as Donna Elliott and Mike Peissig of Gateway Printing. We learn something every time we meet and our magazine truly depends on you. Our teacher, Lorilee Evans-Lynn, and all teachers around the world deserve a standing ovation followed by a day of rest and ultimate pampering. It is teachers like these who inspire us to do more, to dream, and to achieve. Thank you to Dudley Dana and the Dana Gallery for hosting our ridiculously complicated fund raiser and our Advisory Board members for supporting us through your readings and your presence. Thank you to Chelsea Rayfield, who was not only a teacher, but a big sister and a friend to us. A final thank you to our wonderful parents and Cathy Marshall, our ultimate <strong>Aerie</strong> Mamma, who comes in and feeds our cranky souls early on Sunday mornings. All our parents deserve trophies and a multitude of thanks. Finally, thank you readers for supporting us, believing in us, and hearing the stories of all these outstanding people. Katie DeGrandpre, Editor
To the Reader: As we neared production of this, our 2 nd issue of <strong>Aerie</strong> International, I couldn’t help but reflect on our aspirations for this magazine. One was to establish a legitimate journal for young people, a journal of writing and art that young people could claim as their own. We wanted it be one of beauty. We hoped to make connections, not only for our editors and the people we were fortunate enough to encounter on and off these pages, but also to offer the means for young people far outside our sphere to meet. Having pen pals is great, but what if we could give young people the opportunity to share their art in their own magazine? It is a usual day for me to enter the classroom and find Katie, our 2009 Editor, sitting cross-legged on a table, reading from a manuscript or waving one in front of my face (I mean that literally), usually accompanied with the command: “Lorilee, this is AMAZING. You HAVE to read it.” She is usually right. That’s how I first came to hear, “Worker Bee,” a story about what might be described as a very conventional narrator and his obsession with an equally unconventional young “antagonist.” Jake Ross manages to take on environmental issues, high school, middle America, and its fringes. His characters are whimsical and delicious and irreverent, at once both fantastical and oddly real. In her memoir, “Navy Blue,” Emma Pimmental speaks of visiting a hippotherapy farm in Sudan for children from underfunded hospitals. These children have been abandoned by war, disease and poverty that is nearly incomprehensible outside the developing world. Emma walked to Jane- Ann’s farm twice a week all summer in the Sudanese heat and dust to help. “I learned more about love and humankind that summer than I ever have before or since,” Emma writes. I don’t know that I could have picked two pieces from the magazine less alike. And yet they are about what the entirety of this journal, all of art, perhaps, is about—coming to the center of a thing and laying it bare, first to discover it for oneself, and then, if we are very lucky, to share it. This magazine is full of those kinds of moments, in image and in word. Many pieces poke fun at our cultures and who we are. Annie Chang writes about growing up Asian-American in central Oklahoma, “where just five minutes from my home are real cattle farms and horse ranches.” She says she likes to laugh at herself, and in so doing, gives all of us permission to laugh, not only at her, but at ourselves as well. Her story is part memoir, part fiction, about shopping trips to Wal-Mart where her mother insists, over her daughter’s protestations, to buy soymilk for the family “primarily because Oprah Winfrey tells her to.” Her story is hilarious, a convergence of cultures and coupons. Whether visual art, photography or writing, the pieces are about longing and love, about society, about what we accept and what we do not. In “Killing Beauty,” photographer Gabriella Otero formally poses two young girls in party dresses in a field. They are focused like manikins on an electrical power station in the distance, their backs to the viewer. Austin
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