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We were late in getting our September Issue out. So many things had thrown our schedule off taking us to publishing on-line in the wee hours of September 11th. Laurel, our creative director was posting as I was finishing up my last edits leaving two of them unfinished and ending up as fillers. Midway in her posting, she had called me to turn on the television, "To any channel," she had cried. Within an instant, what I saw transported into a surreal state taking me, along with those who populate the rest of the free world, into a forbidden place in my mind where the ugliness of retaliation dwells. And like the rest of you, I too found myself at odds ends, sleeping and then waking into new days of robotically functioning and trying to fathom the horror of the cataclysmic events that has befallen us.

Now, three weeks later we are still in the throes of that catastrophe and trying to get our bearings. For those of us left standing outside of the piles of ashes to face the possibility of further threat of terrorism must shore up against our fears. And somehow despite the devastation before our eyes, its images imbedded into our brains never to leave us we are prevailing. It's not a question of our will to survive this mental blow and physical anguish that has come to pass our way but rather it's how we attempt to rebuild the rest of our lives that 's important. In order to continue intact, we must face a new set of rules for living, adopt a new wave of thinking and confront the new challenges laid out before us.

We, here at 4 Points Press Publishing Company, had entered our ninth month in existence with an absolute long-range plan. Now in our tenth month, we have re-evaluated those goals and have put in place plans, a new agenda, so to speak, that will allow us to carry out some of our old plans as well as permit us to incorporate ways where we can make a contribution, any contribution, to a fund that is geared to help victims of the "Catastrophe of September 11th".

Marie Villarreal, Chief Editor