I remember when Sheila Salter died in December 1995.

My husband and I had just bought and moved into our first house that same December, only three blocks away from where Sheila was murdered.

I drove by that building a thousand times over the next few years and I thought of her almost every time. Her death touched me even though I never knew her. I have to confess that I couldn’t have imagined that any good could come out of such a tragic situation.

Yet, 13 year later, I am so honored to have her daughter, Sarah Salter-Kelly, share her healing journey in Mosaic with all of us. Her powerful story is on pages 34 and 35. I cried as I edited this story. It is such a testimony of how resilient and magnificent we are as souls. It showed me that good can come from any situation.

And it also inspired me. I want to invite anyone who has a powerful personal story of ‘Transformation & Triumph’ to email me their story to mosaicmagazine@shaw.ca (1300 words or less). I would like to feature one story of personal transformation and triumph each issue because stories like this can change people’s lives. And that is my ultimate goal with Mosaic - to bring you information that can change your life.

I also had the opportunity to interview Elisabeth Fayt, an amazing business woman from Calgary, who is one of the experts featured in the new movie The Opus (Magnificent Motion Picture Works, 2008). Elisabeth is a wealth of information on how we can each use the Law of Attraction to change our lives for the better through a technique she calls pre-paving. Read my interview with her on pages 28, 29 and 33.

We couldn’t fit our whole interview with Elisabeth in the magazine, so the ending is on our website at www.ILoveMosaicMagazine.com. You can either read it all there or listen to the actual interview by clicking on the audio link. I didn’t forget any questions this time .

I honestly feel that this is the best issue of Mosaic I have ever published. BUT I think that every issue! Each issue, I wonder: “How can I ever beat this?’ and yet the next issue that comes is even more spectacular.

Our feature artist is Kathy Meaney. I love her art which is all about celebrating woman and life. It’s fun, beautiful and real. Her artwork and article is on page 44 and 45.

Now here are the Mosaic readers who won a prize from entering our last Mosaic Reader’s Survey contest: Debbie Ewing (Onoway), Nicole Bouclin-Graves (Edmonton), Shelley Trohubiak-Huff (Camrose), Bonnie Heritage (Edmonton) and Aline McGinn (Edmonton).

We’ve got even more amazing prizes for you to win in this issue’s Mosaic Reader Survey. Check out the bottom of page 31 to see the prizes you can win and then send in your survey before July 1! There’s everything from tickets to psychic Michelle Whitedove’s Edmonton show on August 10th, to a Reiki Treatment, a Detox Foot Spa & Infrared Sauna Session, an Angel Reading and a print from our feature artist, Kathy Meaney.

And don’t forget about Mosaic’s Delicious Book Club Dinner on May 13th at Spago’s Restaurant (12433 – 97 Street) at 6:00 p.m. If you like to eat delicious food, read delicious books and enjoy the company of like minded people, then meet us on May 13 to talk about our first delicious book: Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert. Email mosaicmagazine@shaw.ca by MAY 9, so we can advise the restaurant of how many people are coming.

If you can’t make the May 13th dinner but want to keep informed about other upcoming book club dinners, then simply go to www.iLoveMosaicMagazine.com and sign up for our monthly ezine/newsletter.

The Mosaic ezine/newsletter features different mind, body and spirit information that isn’t published in the magazine, as well as keeps you updated on when new issues of Mosaic hit the stands, our deadlines and how to be a part of the next issue. You’ll love it!

With amore,

Connie