| 10 June 2009
I am ecstatic to announce that the June/July 2009 issue is the First Birthday edition for Injoy Magazine—Dreams do become realities! Time is so obviously accelerating and this does allow for more opportunity to manifest with a positive belief system miraculous happenings can certainly be drawn into existence.
This is not the time to become swaddled in a blanket of fear, or doubt, or disabled by regret : it’s time to know what you love and love what you do—so take some time out from your busy schedule to immerse yourself Injoy.
Refining and designing, and sourcing innovative ways to create Injoy is a delicate process as it explores through the grass roots of community, extoling the intricacies of human society. Injoy will continue to publish articles, stories, interviews, photographs, all with symbolism embedded in digital artistry—voices from the people for people who want to inspire, inform and invoke a sense of positivity and well being in all.
Injoy will continue to emerge as the journey unfolds, as it finds its way across the fringes, and beyond the edges, gathering all sorts of information and imagery that might provoke the conscious expanding facilities in many individuals, inadvertently enriching the field of our collective consciousness.
People tell me that their children read Injoy, neighbours have it and visitors to our beautiful region send emails and cards to express how much they appreciate taking Injoy home with them and sharing some of the ‘byron voice’ with people in their local areas. So far it has reached Tasmania, Adelaide, Sydney and Melbourne, London, America, and places we will never know.
Each issue is like a birth, with all the contractions and expansions that come whislt bringing new life force into existence. I do not perceive Injoy to ever become static, or fixed to a formulated model—I hope it will continue to reveal itself through each new issue.
I aspire to Virginia Wolf’s iconic saying; “never ceasing to become,” which makes this job as both editor & graphic designer divinely unknowable; a blessing that balances the structured energy needed to manage a small business, committed to administration, financial dealings and all types of business affairs.
Injoy Magazine is like a dinner party. I have had a long time vision of bringing together a group of exceptionally unique beings. This gathering would ignite the grandest of sharings, diverse perspectives–interesting mergers through laughter and openess, induced by good wine and sensational food.
Each issue of Injoy is an invitation to taste the rich creative juice that flows through and around the Byron Bay, and beyond the bubble.
Many people express a desire to write something and publish Injoy, and some quickly apologise saying that they are not writers. I encourage people of all or any degrees of talent, age and passion to share their voice and contribute to the rich tapestry of creative expression that is so deliciously evident throughout this region we are blessed to call ‘home’.
Once again I want to extend my deepest gratitude to all the local advertisers who continue to support this publication and make it possible for you to find yourself Injoy... and to all the people who share their voices Injoy, thank you, the feedback continues to be great, people repeatedly say they “feel good” when they read Injoy. Please do remember to shop locally, and listen to each other, and support our beautiful community.
To my mentor at Southern Cross University, Dr Janie Conway Herron, a special thank you for endorsing the first birthday issue with an article, and for honouring my voice and refining my craft during my five years of study at SCU.
To finish I would like to share a story that made me laugh—I was talking with my ten year old daughter and we were trying to remember a name of a song. She stopped and thought, and then she said… “It’s on the tip of my tongue, oh if only my tongue could reach my brain.”
Injoy with love, Bhadrena
