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FROM THE OWNER I am a sibling of three, the
middle child and the only daughter in my family. I remember going to both of my brothers’ baseball games and practices and can recall watching the Rangers games with my dad quizzing us on the plays. “There’s a runner at second, no outs, and if the ball is hit to you, what are you going to do?” is something he would say. He taught us how to slide using cardboard. He’d hit us high pop flies in the outfield. We practiced fielding, hitting and running the bases. It was only natural for me to want to be a part of this game I grew up watching and playing.
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My dad was going to be one of the baseball coaches, and I was going to be on his team. However, I was never even given the opportunity to try out. I can’t remember if it was because of when my birthday fell or if I missed the cutoff to play for his team. Doesn’t really matter — my heart was broken, and I just remember crying. But I grabbed my glove, bat and cleats, and my introduction and love for softball began. I couldn’t believe all these girls shared the same passion as me. I honestly thought at the time, this sport was only for boys. My main position was shortstop, but I also remember playing wherever else they needed me. I think back to those days and wish I would have just kept practicing. High school came, things happened, and that hunger to be the best was gone. I was so proud to see these two young ladies, who love the sport of playing baseball as I did at their age, in our One to Watch section. One made it to the Little League World Series, and the other is well on her way. Don’t ever let anyone tell you, “Girls can’t play ball,” or anything else for that matter. We are always having to prove ourselves, and when we do, we should (in my wonderful singing voice) root root root for the home team. I can’t wait for you to read all about “Ella Bruning” by Jennifer Casseday-Blair and “Lucy Ridenour” by Jocelyn Tatum in this issue. We are all given talents, and it’s up to each of us to choose how we use them. Yes, I never made the girls softball Olympics team or played in any major championships, and that’s OK. I have so many great memories of playing the game I loved. Now that I have two little ones, maybe I am meant to pass on my knowledge of the game to them. And I hope to pass on to all of you through the stories on the pages of this magazine to never give up and keep reaching for your dreams.
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I hope Issue No. 3 brings you inspiration as we start a new year, and in the words of Dottie Hinson, “Lay off the high ones!” If you know, you know.
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42 Stagecoach Mary Short Story
48 ‘Raina and Roger Forever’
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SPOTLIGHT 8 ARTIST Democratizing Art
WORTH 14 STAYING Desert Magic
SUPPORT 18 AMADA GOODS
BE WELL 62 HEALTH
20 HOTEL DRYCE
66 RESILIENCE
Unique Mexican Glassware
Culture, representation and creation
24 BELENTY’S LOVE Vegan Voracity
16 EXPLORING Continuing Education
LIFE 54 ENVIRONMENTAL Upcycle Your Life
60 SOCIETY
Walking: The New Happy Hour for Health Rising After the Fall
FOOD 70 MEMOIR
Identity Through My Knife and Fork
PHILANTHROPY 74 THE COWTOWN
Fort Worth Love
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“This could very well be her hand, and she is taking back control of this stereotype the world may want to give her as a woman growing up in a brothel in a Third World country, but with sheer determination she is living the American Dream.” - Brenda Ciardiello, Recreate, by Jocelyn Tatum, P 26 “I play baseball because I wanted to, and because mostly everybody on the court is a boy and girls don’t play baseball, they play softball, and softballs are too big for my hand, and I don’t like throwing underhanded.” - Lucy Ridenour, One To Watch, by Jocelyn Tatum, P 40
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“Experts agree, walking is a wonder drug – no prescription needed.” - The New Happy Hour for Health, by Celestina Blok, P 62 “We
are not taught that life, more often than not, doesn’t stick to a plan. We are not taught what happens when we stare at a dead end, a goodbye or the end of the line. When we are left to rebuild after the smoke has cleared. When we learn a new word not written out in our pretty little planners — resilience.” - Rising After the Fall, by Jade Emerson, P 66 “For my family, wealth wasn’t achieved through the clothes we wore, the cars we drove or the amount of green paper we had in our wallets, but rather through our fridge. If the fridge was full, we were wealthy. To this day, a stocked fridge equates stability. All is well in our world if the fridge is full.” - Identity Through My Knife, by Angie Ruiz, P 70 “I’m always thinking. But when I’m baking, I’m focused on the buttercream,” she says. “And I love baking because it has a beginning, a middle and an end. I love to clean, too…I see something so messy and so dirty and then so clean right after. There’s an end to it.” - Alexis Ruddock, How Sweet It Is, by Shilo Urban, P 28
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Completed in 2019, Willow House is not only environmentally conscious, but also ecoresourceful. Because water is scarce in the region, 12 single-story, stand-alone casitas utilize a water well powered by a solar pump filtered by two heavy-duty reverse osmosis systems. Walls and pathways throughout the grounds are constructed of rocks that were sourced and collected from various areas of the property, and dead ocotillo branches found nearby were used to create shady structures. Willow House’s proximity to Big Bend National Park provides guests easy access to the Rio Grande River and Chisos Basin hikes. From horseback riding and ATV adventures to river rafting and ziplining, the mountains, desert and rivers of this area are nature’s playground. At the end of a long day, Willow House provides guests what they desperately need…a remote place to clear their heads and a quiet respite away from the noise of the news.
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hat Lauren Werner has forged in the Willow House goes beyond a lavish desert oasis; it’s a wanderlust inspiration for off-the-beaten-path travelers on a private ranch offering never-before accessible views. Guests can enjoy a serene, solitary experience under the starriest of skies but also relax in community spaces featuring a fully equipped gourmet kitchen, living area and outdoor fire pit. It’s the ideal combination of privacy and community, isolation and accessibility, elegance and comfort. Lauren is the founder of Willow House, and as a firsttime hotelier, Lauren’s No. 1 goal was to create a design that was totally in tune with the surrounding beauty. Quite possibly one of America’s last frontiers, the closest town of Terlingua is a mining townturned-ghost town that was first inhabited by Comanches, Apaches and Tejanos. Less than two hours from Marfa, which in terms of desert distance is just a hop, skip and a jump, this region was descended upon by Texas ranchers about 100 years ago. Today the area draws a wild menagerie of Hollywood A-listers, art-world bigwigs, oil tycoons, cowboys and hipsters, all culminating to create a mysterious, alluring community.
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Mary Meet the feisty frontierswoman with a fighting spirit who refused to play by the rules By Shilo Urban Illustrations by Conny Gonzalez
Everyone knew not to mess with Stagecoach Mary in 1890s Montana, a largely unsettled wilderness with ferocious weather and unforgiving terrain. Here on the edge of civilization, Mary Fields drove her stagecoach beyond the boundaries of age, race and gender. A whiskey-drinking crack shot who smoked and cursed continuously, Mary made her home in a quiet mountain monastery. Fond of children and physical altercations, she was a beloved babysitter who also had a standing $10 bet that she could knock out any man with a single blow. She never lost. Heavily armed at all times, Mary fought off wolves and bandits as the first African American female star-route carrier for the United States Postal Service. Standing 6-foot-2 and over 200 pounds, she sat on top of her stagecoach wearing a men’s hat and jacket, with a cigar in her mouth and a rifle close at hand — and a .38 Smith & Wesson strapped beneath her apron. She crafted pretty boutonnieres from her garden for the local baseball players to wear at every game, and anyone who spoke ill of the team could expect a punch in the mouth.
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Mary was born a slave in Tennessee around 1832. Unlike many enslaved people, she learned to read and write. Freed after the Civil War, she worked on Mississippi River steamboats as a laundress and chambermaid. At some point, she became friends with an Ursuline nun named Mother Amadeus Dunne. Mary left the steamboats to join Mother Amadeus at a convent in Ohio, announcing upon
arrival that she needed “a good cigar and a drink.” Her ornery nature and habitual profanity ruffled plenty of nuns’ feathers. But she proved her worth as a groundskeeper, keeping the abbey in shipshape through hard physical labor and sheer force of personality. “God help anyone who walks on the lawn after Mary has cut it,” one sister remarked. But Mary’s destiny was farther west. Mother
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Amadeus had relocated to St. Peter’s Mission, an isolated outpost 15 miles west of Cascade, Montana. She fell deathly ill of pneumonia, and Mary traveled 1,700 miles to nurse her friend back to health. The West suited Mary. She settled in at St. Peter’s as a forewoman, handling “men’s work” — maintenance and repairs, hunting and chopping wood. She raised hundreds of chickens and tended the massive garden. She coordinated supply deliveries, a critical task in a land where survival was still precarious. Yet she accepted no pay, only room and board. With no contract, she could work on her own terms, coming and going as she pleased. Although Mary played an indispensable role at the mission, she was never really accepted as part of the community. Her skin was a different color. She was “difficult.” She bickered. She made people uncomfortable. She had the “temperament of a grizzly
bear” — not to mention a hearty appetite for hard liquor and homemade cigars. After 10 years, Mary’s ill-fitting disposition finally caught up with her when an argument with a co-worker escalated into gunplay. It was the final straw for the bishop, who kicked her out. Mary moved to Cascade and adopted a lifestyle that shocked 19th-century sensibilities. She was a single woman who did not depend on a man, a family, or the church for support — and for three decades, she was the only African American in the area. She worked odd jobs. She talked politics and sports. She socialized with men at saloons, enjoying a special exemption from the law banning women from such establishments. Always ready to fight, Mary became known as one of the quickest draws around. She twice tried her hand as a restaurateur, but both businesses failed because she fed the hungry whether they could pay or not.
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She settled in at St. Peter’s as a forewoman, handling “men’s work” — maintenance and repairs, hunting and chopping wood.
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But in 1895, Mary found her calling as a star-route mail carrier, an independent contractor for the U.S. Postal Office. She was 60 years old. For the next eight years, she delivered packages by stagecoach across the mountainous countryside — and she never missed a single day of work. She drove rocky backtrails on a 34-mile loop from Cascade, transporting vital supplies to remote settlements including St. Peter’s. She battled searing summer heat and wild winter blizzards with temperatures 45 degrees below zero. When the snow became too deep for driving, Mary strapped on her snowshoes and delivered the mail on foot. She earned a reputation for reliability and speed, and for gunfights and fisticuffs. According to the Great Falls Examiner newspaper, Mary had broken more noses in Central Montana than anybody else. Outlaws proliferated in the region, but she was never robbed; the would-be thieves were too intimidated. Wolves presented another constant threat. One night, a pack of the hungry animals spooked Mary’s horses and overturned her coach, which was loaded with precious food for the mission. She fended off the wolves for hours until daylight arrived.
But in 1895, Mary found her calling as a starroute mail carrier, an independent contractor for the U.S. Postal Office.
Mary retired in 1903 and ran a laundry service out of her home, her hearty temperament intact. Well into her 70s, she cold-cocked a man in the middle of the street — he had refused to pay his bill. She became the baseball team’s biggest booster and an in-demand babysitter who spoiled the children with candies and treats. A respected public figure and minor celebrity, Mary ate free meals for life at local restaurants. Schools closed on her birthday to celebrate. When her house burned down in 1912, the townspeople rallied around her, donating the
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books. In one early rendition, she wears buckskin and carries a live eagle on her arm. The largerthan-life frontierswoman has become a symbol of freedom and self-sufficiency, a rough-and-tumble individualist with the grit and the guts that made America. But Stagecoach Mary is much more than a myth. She is a human. A woman. An African American. We can hardly imagine how Mary felt out there on the rugged trails, living beyond the boundaries and leaving behind a legacy that inspires us still today.
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lumber and labor needed to rebuild. Mary died two years later, and her funeral was one of the biggest in Cascade’s history. A simple stone marks her grave, which is located at the foot of the path where she drove her stagecoach through the mountains — and right into Wild West legend. If Mary’s story seems tinged with the sparkle of a tall tale, it probably is. Most of what we know about her comes from anecdotes and oral histories. Over the decades she has developed into a folk hero, the subject of multiple plays, movies and
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Rising After the Fall By Jade Emerson
Growing up, I savored the task of picking out a new and yet-to-be-filled planner at the beginning of every school year. With covers of deep blues, emerald greens, or soft pastels, patterns of bold prints, stars or florals, I felt the power within this one simple decision. On those clean, empty pages of my new planner, I would write my next year into existence by day, week, month and year. As simply as I penciled in my schedule, I penciled in my life. Between homework assignments and after-school rehearsal, I coordinated all of the grand things I thought I would see and do and become. Somewhere I still have all those out-of-date planners tucked away with half-filled journals and annotated schoolbooks. And sometimes I miss their simplicity and the surety I believed plans once held. Who would that girl have been if life unfolded the way she had written it out? Who found success and never doubted it. Who never had to worry if she was on track with everyone else. Who had her whole life planned out on dated pages. Instead, I became the girl who always lost track of her planner after the first few weeks.
Who had a to-do list scribbled on her hand and left Post-its everywhere. Who learned that no amount of planning can ever really prepare you for what’s still left unwritten. We are taught that life flows in a straight line. Alongside our peers, we pass our milestones. We take our first steps, we learn to read, we go to school, we go to college, we get married, and have kids and a house with a white picket fence. And we learn to constantly look around to make sure that we aren’t moving too fast or too slow, leading the way or trailing behind. We are not taught that life, more often than not, doesn’t stick to a plan. We are not taught what happens when we stare at a dead end, a goodbye or the end of the line. When we are left to rebuild after the smoke has cleared. When we learn a new word not written out in our pretty little planners — resilience. The beauty of resilience is that it is something you are forced to find within yourself. It’s a refusal to call the game before it’s over. And it can mean trying again, or it can mean walking away. It can mean holding on or deciding to let go.
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Resilience is rebellion. It’s a redefinition of what it means to be successful, happy or at peace. It’s a redefinition of what it means to be an artist, a mother, a survivor or a woman. There is no such thing as too late, too old, or too far gone. Abandon the notion that success must come before 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70 or 80. Refuse the idea that we are only given a fraction of our lives to live them fully. You can get a degree at any age. You can be successful at any age. You can start a family at any age. You can find love at any age. You can start over at any age. If you are unwilling to give up. If you are resilient. Yes, it’s brilliant to achieve in your 20s what you thought you wouldn’t achieve until your 40s. But it’s just as brilliant to achieve in your 40s what you thought you’d achieve in your 20s. Take a second act. And then a third, fourth and fifth. Strip away every expectation. Forgo the plans. Discard the schedule. No feeling, situation or experience is permanent. Everything changes. And you’ll change with it. Adapt. Fall. Evolve. Panic. Grow. Break down. Begin again. F. Scott Fitzgerald once wrote, “For what it’s worth: It’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. There’s no time limit. Stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same. There are no rules to this thing...I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the courage to start all over again.”
I started over with every reschedule and every fallen-through plan. I learned that my life is so much more than an itemized list in the calendar. I’ll never know who the girl with the plan would’ve been, who untouched strolled down her perfectly planned path. But the truth is, I hope I never know her. I’d rather know the girl I am now. Who has learned to find love within herself when she can’t find it from others. Who has learned to embrace the possibility within uncertainty. Who trusts the unknown and has found strength in insecurity. Who has learned that life is nothing more than an unending beginning. The girl who rose after she fell. No one can finish your story but you. What comes next? How will you rise?
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