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PUBLISHER’S NOTE.
JOIN US IN OUR BOWL
I’ve been thinking about bananas. Not the use of the word to mean something silly, nor as a gap filler when a conversation is at a lull. And definitely not as a phallic symbol. I’m talking about the fruit that sits on your counter or in your fruit bowl waiting to be the right amount of ripeness before you eat it.
Bananas, in my opinion, are the perfect fruit. You can gobble up a whole banana, or eat it in slices. You can blend one into a smoothie or bake it into something wonderful. I prefer to eat a banana before the brown spots occur – it’s just starting to sweeten but it’s still a bit firm.
A couple of weeks ago I grabbed a small bunch of bananas from a local grocer and put them in the usual fruit bowl on my kitchen counter. Days went by and they looked exactly the same as when I first put them there. Hard, green, starchy and not edible. I put other fruit with them, a few apples and a few oranges, a lime and a lemon, to let the ethylene gas help the bananas ripen. And they did.
Our readers, advertisers, contributors, editors and staff are like that bunch of bananas that need one another and other fruit to ripen well – to get to perfection.
If you are reading this you’re engaged enough in
our city to read a magazine about it. You likely go to some of the restaurants you read about, take in an arts performance or support a local sports team. Maybe you’ve nominated a Top 40 or an Edifier, attended Best Restaurants or simply frequented the establishments of our advertisers.
Edify is the connector. It’s the fruit bowl. We have enough good bananas in the Edify community to make a positive difference. But we need to do it together.
If you don’t already subscribe to Edify, please do. Or better, yet, become an Ed’s List member. Jump into the fruit bowl with us and be part of the community.
Send me an email if you have comments or ideas. Yesterday I got an email from a subscriber (after I apologized for not updating his address properly and he failed to get the most recent issue.) Here’s what he said:
“Don’t beat yourself up on this. Mistakes happen. I, for one, can lay claim to that! Besides, it would be a pretty boring world if we were all perfect.
“Still love my Edify.
“We just got back from spending a month in Phoenix. They have some interesting local mags but nothing to compare to the quality and readabil- ity of Edify.
“Keep up the great work.”
David, thanks for being in the fruit bowl with us.
Trudy Callaghan
Publisher
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