Gate Keepers Founder, Editor-in-Chief Vicki Goldston This Issue: Abundance! Heaven: An Excerpt from 57th Street Idea, Perspective, and Curation: Brandon Harris Excerpt from Spicy…a blog: Abundance Bakery and MY Upside-down Cupcake Copy Editor Lois Crabtree Core Contributors Sarin Basley SSarin’s Thai: Larb Pal Duk (Catfish Salad Bernard Basley It’s All Thai: Bernard Basley Photography Dr.Joyce Brown The Treasure of Serving Dr. Robert V. Gerard Spirit of Abundance Julies Gibs Caribbean Cooking with Julies Gibs: Chicken Wings, Rice and Peas, and Plaintain Janis Merrill Gipson Mi Casa, Su Casa: Abundant Ministrone Wanda Gail Campbell Abundance is Perspective Susan Peters Abundance, in the Heart of a Beholder Rve. dr. Robert Yarbrough Part of the Package Tekla A. Syers With This Pen Marlon S. Hayes The Journey of Loving Abundantly Deborah M. Gray What Type of Thinker Are You? Linda Isbell New Directions: A Tribute to My Mom Guest Contributors Johnny Belew …And Here’s Johnny Debra Flint Salter Just an Illusion: An Anniversary Tribute to Dr. Rudolph Maragne Stepping Stones: Goin’In: Truth Mikel Elam Artist: Mikel Elam Rosemary Summers The Presence of Rosemary Summers M. Larae The Positive Power of You: The Abundance of Vibrations SugarPearl SugarPearl’s Studio Kitchen: Cookin’ Shrimp Stuffed Salmon Aletha Metcalf Evans A God Test…The Worst of Times Brings Out the Best of Her Cassie Mebane A Day in the Life of a Teacher: Cassie Mebane Brandon Harris Idea, Perspective, and Curation: Brandon Harris