Letter from the Editor

I sat at my desk, thumbing through the pages of Alexis Pike’s photo book, Color Me Lucky. Then it hit me: two pages without photographs.

where there is little risk, there is little reward.

So there I sat, genuinely contemplating what I would do next, all because I read an Evel Knievel quote. Alexis knew what she was doing when she put that quote over two pages in an artist book.

Coming up to that point, I was trying to decide whether or not I would take on this magazine. I was pretty sure I wanted to, but I’m an overthinker— it’s not a decision that happened overnight. I went through every what-if I could think of: what if it’s too much, what if I can’t come up with anything good, what if I’m not good enough; but then I saw those two pages.

Of course it’s going to be hard at times. It’s absolutely going to have its challenges. That doesn’t make it not worth doing, though. Life requires risk. There are times when you have to throw everything to the wind and run blind, never looking back.

So here’s to the risk-takers, the rule-breakers, the go-getters, the movers and shakers— we’re here. We’re here in our unapologetic boldness, lifting each other up as we go. People may doubt us, tell us that we can’t, tell us that we’re naïve, say that women can’t. But we can.

We can do anything. We can run a magazine, we can raise children, we can get degrees, we can farm, we can sew, we can yell, we can.

Take that leap. Move to that city. Take that job. Own your worth. Be willing to gamble on yourself— after all, your bet looks pretty damn good.