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from the editor

mama clodagh
“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
—Mahatma Gandhi

MICHAEL ADAMS < Editor in Chief madams@hdmag.com 646.654.7621 JONATHAN MARSLAND < Creative Director jonathan.marsland@nielsen.com 646.654.4472 STACY SHOEMAKER RAUEN < Executive Editor sshoemaker@hdmag.com 646.654.4411 ALIA AKKAM < Managing Editor aakkam@hdmag.com 646.654.4419

Full disclosure: Clodagh is a personal friend, but I was

a fan long before I got to know her well. She was among my rst major interviews when I became editor-in-chief some 13 years ago, and I was immediately struck by her intelligence, candor, and warmth. Over the years we crossed paths frequently at various industry functions, highlighted by her induction into our Platinum Circle several years ago. I think our relationship was truly cemented on a car trip I took with her and her husband, photographer Daniel Aubry, from the Miami airport to Fort Lauderdale; normally a short jaunt, but made rather longer by three directionally challenged souls who did not notice for well over an hour that we were driving the wrong way. We learned a lot about each other that day, and liked what we discovered. No one is Clodagh’s friend without becoming aware of her erce and total devotion to philanthropic causes, chief among them the Thorn Tree Project, dedicated to supporting the Samburu tribe of Northern Kenya by building schools and providing other services to these poverty-stricken people; her New York fundraising events every year for Thorn Tree are vibrant, joyous a airs. But the Thorn Tree cause was merely theoretical for me, until August when I traveled with Clodagh to Kenya to visit the Samburu and the schools her e orts helped to build. Not only did their deep needs become real, so did their joy, their warmth, and their boundless a ection for one of their singular allies and friends. Mama Clodagh they call her. You get to know a lot about a person when you spend every day for two weeks together—breakfast, lunch, tea, dinner, and nightcaps—and this journey only con rmed what I already knew. An artist perceives the world in ways those of us less talented do not. Every sight becomes a painting, every sound a song. Without even trying, she is a teacher, a counselor, and a caregiver. All of these su use this issue. “Happiness” is her theme, and while there are many de nitions of the word, I nd Gandhi’s the most appropriate. They never met—at least in this life—but I know if they did they’d have quite a lot to talk about, he with his steaming cup of Indian tea, she with her white tequila on the rocks.

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