Festschrift editorial--for whom the bell tolls.

A fter four and a half wonderful and exciting years at the helm of the Indigo Journal it is time to pass the baton to our new team of Editors – Drs. Abel Ickowicz and Russell Schachar. I am extremely confident that the new editors will help grow the Journal and launch it into the new stratosphere of high quality research and academic debate. They are supported by a dedicated team of professionals (Vicki Simmons, Elizabeth Waite and Smita Hamzeh) who must receive the lion's share of ac-colades for the Journal's growth and progress over the last number of years. have worked tirelessly to bring cutting edge information and topical issues to their sections. To all these individuals I owe an immense debt of gratitude for asking them to go the extra mile especially under the pressure of a looming journal deadline. I am indebted as well to all the reviewers who have helped uphold the standards of the Journal. I salute as well all the guest editors who have contributed so generously to what amounts to 50% of the Journal's output over the years. It really is a colossal effort and takes impeccable team work to pull off each issue of the Journal but the results speak for themselves. Also as Editor I have benefit-ted from the unwavering support of the CACAP Board of Directors and last but not least is you, my dear reader, the membership that forms the bedrock of the Indigo. We are living in exciting times as child psychiatrists. In any one day I could be refreshing my knowledge of attachment theory by reading Bowlby's still highly relevant trilogy on attachment and loss while in the evening I could be updating myself on models of chromatin re-modeling in the epigenome and how it is shaped by gene and early environment interactions. Everywhere all over the country Canadian child psychiatrists are doing cutting edge research in molecular biology or at the systemic level advocating for better models of care in Canada or internationally. It is not foreign anymore for child psychiatrists to be literate or bilingual at several levels of discourse. We are indeed called upon to integrate and translate more and more how each of these levels " cross-talk " or are " embedded " within each other, to coin Jack Shonkoff's phrase " from neurons to neighborhoods. " And while we have not been …