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REGULARS 8

DON’T GET ME STARTED Can you say “President Obama”?

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ENVIRONEWS Environmental news from around the state and the west.

NOTES FROM THE TRAIL Oregon Country “Fair” should be renamed “Excellent.”

SLIGHTLY OFF CENTER Mourning the living: We are all perishable goods.

THE HERBALIST IS IN MERRY LYCETT HARRISON Herbs are abundant now. Try these recipes for dips, drizzles and marinades.

CATALYST CALENDAR OF EVENTS ADRIANE ANDERSEN Check out our online calendar for complete calendar and continuous updates.

ASK YOUR MAMA: A QUESTION OF BLOOD RIGHTS How to create a ritual celebrating a girl’s first menstrual cycle.

TRANSFORM U AURETHA CALLISON Bejeweled in individuality: Reflect your essence with jewelry choices.

COACH JEANNETTE: WHAT DO YOU WONDER? JEANNETTE MAW When we practice a strong habit of thought, we call forth results that match.

SHALL WE DANCE? WALTZING WITH ROBOTS How to make machines seem alive.

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AQUARIUM AGE “Normal” fades away—but it ain’t all bad news.

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Can you say “President Obama”? The French have a phrase for it: fait accompli BY JOHN DEJONG ne major shortcoming of Republicans is the inability to see the inevitable. Last month New York Times token conservative William Kristol bemoaned, at length, the success of Barack Obama’s recent trip abroad. The fact that Senator Obama acted more presidential than George W. Bush ever did, as in “leader of the free world” rather than “Commander and Thief,” seemed to stick in Kristol’s craw. Other conservative commentators took Obama to task for not visiting wounded soldiers, berating him for flitting about the capitals of Europe. But his listening tour, in a short week, undid much of the last seven years of damage to America’s inter-

but what kind of democracy is it, where: ...top judicial posts are handed out as political party favors? ...the executive branch usurps legislative power by issuing signing statements that contradict the legislative intent of laws? ....every two-bit dictator on the planet is inspired and jealous? The legal counsel that enabled the Bush administration may have, in the end, served them right by letting them think they could get away with trampling our Constitution and international laws. The shit is apparently so deep, on the international front, that most of the inner circle of the

Conservative commentators took Obama to task for not visiting wounded soldiers, berating him for flitting about the capitals of Europe. But his listening tour, in a short week, undid much of the last seven years of damage to America’s international reputation. If George W. Bush had spent more time listening to world leaders, rather than talking at them, there might not be nearly as many wounded soldiers to commiserate with. national reputation. If George W. Bush had spent more time listening to world leaders, rather than talking at them, there might not be nearly as many wounded soldiers to commiserate with. Besides, what can anyone say to a wounded soldier or to a dead soldier’s bereaved relatives? “Sorry.” “Oops!” “I promise to never waste an American life on a self-serving lie.” Obama is too tactful to say that to a wounded soldier, but it is what he needs to say to America.

Regime change at home The Bush administration has set the image of the United States back years and years. Fortunately the lost time will be made up as soon as we change the current administration. The United States enjoys an enormous amount of good will around the world. The Bush administration has prided itself on trying to spread democracy around the world,

White House has been advised not to travel outside of the good old U. S. of A. ever again, lest they be apprehended by international justice officials for crimes against humanity. But where can they hide from the citizens of the United States? Burma? China? Tierra del Fuego? If this were a fair fight, it would be as good as over. But I’ve got to admit I’m a little nervous thinking about what Cheney, Rove et. al. are cooking up for an October Surprise in this next election. Republicans have regularly landed low blows in the final days of Presidential elections. Dirty tricksters from Bush’s 2004 campaign are already working on McCain’s campaign. This election is not a fait accompli. We all need to get out and do everything in our power between now and the election to ensure regime change at home. ◆ John deJong is associate publisher of CATALYST.

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Stephen Trimble bargains for Eden Salt Lake City author and photographer Stephen Trimble has published a new book titled “Bargaining for Eden” about the tensions between public lands and private development. In 1996 the Snow Basin land exchange bill sponsored by Utah senators Orrin Hatch and Bob Bennett transferred ownership of 1,320 acres of National Forest Service land near Snow Basin ski resort to billionaire Earl Holding, owner of Sinclair Oil. Supposedly, the exchange was necessary for the 2002 Winter Olympics, but in fact it was a political favor, allowing Holding to make a fortune from real-estate developments at Snow Basin. Based on this incident, Trimble explores the cultural context driving development in the West and proposes a new ethic of land use. Stephen Trimble. “Bargaining for Eden: The Fight for the Last Open Spaces in America.” University of California Press. $30

Citizens envision Jordan River future Salt Lake Valley residents would like to restore the Jordan River to a green, natural area with nonmotorized trails and opportu-

nities to view urban wildlife, according to the results of a recent survey taken by Salt Lake County and Envision Utah. A total of 408 people attended workshops and focus groups, and 880 more filled out an online survey. More than 60% of the respondents said that the primary focus of the Jordan River corridor should be to preserve it as a natural area (as opposed to emphasizing recreation, shopping, or jobs). The most

released their proposed resource management plan and final environmental impact statement, which will determine land management priorities on 555,000 acres of public lands in Kane and Garfield Counties until a new plan is written 10 to 15 years in the future. When the draft plan was issued, the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance submitted many comments (which you can read in the appendix of the

The 1996 bill sponsored by Hatch and Bennett transferred ownership of 1,320 acres of National Forest Service land near Snow Basin ski resort to billionaire Earl Holding, owner of Sinclair Oil. Supposedly, the exchange was necessary for the 2002 Winter Olympics, but in fact it was a political favor, writes Trimble. desired facilities were trails and wildlife viewing areas, and more than half said that restoring river habitat is a top priority. Blueprint Jordan River: WWW.BLUEPRINT.SLCO.ORG

Kanab plan fails to rein in off-roaders Remember last year's flurry of draft resource management plans for Utah's public lands? Now the first of the final plans has appeared. In July, the Bureau of Land Management Kanab Field Office

online document) including a concern that “one of the most obvious and consequential flaws in the document is its failure to assess the ongoing impact of existing ORV [off-road vehicle] use in the Kanab Field Office.” The BLM responded by writing, “The routes that are already in use are considered part of the baseline, and therefore, it is not reasonable to consider the impacts to vegetation from these already disturbed linear surfaces.” However, the BLM plan also admits that “existing man-

agement efforts and processes, which were developed to address OHV use levels 20 years ago, are often inadequate,” which means that the BLM's “baseline” of ORV damage represents inadequate management of the problem. Protest period ends August 18, 2008. Kanab Proposed RMP and FEIS: BLM.GOV/UT/ST/EN/FO/KANAB/PLANNING.HTML

Utah to reduce greenhouse gas As part of the Western Climate Initiative (a collaboration by the governors of Arizona, California, New Mexico, Oregon and Washington to develop regional strategies to address climate change) the State of Utah has announced the Utah greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction goal to reduce GHG emissions to 2005 levels by 2020. That represents 9 tons per person less than if the policies were not implemented. The strategies tend to be more about government policy than individual behavior; however, your daily commute choices can help support goals of clean car emission standards, aggressive mass transit, and trip reduction for employers of over 100. Utah's Greenhouse Gas Reduction Goal: WWW.DEQ.UTAH.GOV/CLIMATE_CHANGE/GHG_GOAL.HTM

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You are not reading enough Has the Internet killed the joys of sitting down with a good book? BY MARK MORFORD

he pile is waiting. The pile is getting higher. The pile looks impressive, probably isn’t, still feels slightly overwhelming, vaguely threatening, even as it sighs, waits, drums its fingers on the inside of my skull, promising all manner of wonder and insight and syntactical bliss if I’d just, please, maybe, right now, even for just an hour or three, pay it some serious, focused attention. Please? It’s a bit of a problem. More than that, it’s a moral, ethical, personal issue, a deep indignity of the soul, a painful twist to the nipple of my id. See, I love books. Admire and appreciate and adore. Was a lit major at Berkeley, read voraciously, still love to read, still like to consider myself a big consumer of books and deep thinker about bookish issues and ideas and authoralia. And yet, if I’m painfully honest, I have to admit it: I barely read books anymore. Not nearly like I used to, anyway. Not for a long, long time. And chances are, if you’re at all addicted to the new media vortex, neither do you. It’s become a social conundrum, a cultural sore spot, a morose sign of the times. The question has been posed by agents and writers and a confused, hyperconsolidating publishing industry: What happened to all the readers? What happened to the culture of books? And the hint of fatalism, just underneath: If few truly read anymore, what of the state of the American mind? How much more dumbing down can we possibly stand? Oh sure, books still sell, product is moving like crazy, but by and large it’s truckloads of self-help and how-to flooding over a precious handful of sure-hit novelists, topped off with the grand cherry that is Oprah, single-handedly keeping the tepid melodramatic coming-of-age family saga alive. In between, 18 zillion copies of “Eat, Pray, Love.” But overall, the message is bleak: Fewer writers of real talent are being discovered, fewer publishers are willing to take any sort of risk, and serious, literary-minded reading, that glorious pastime, that fine personal art, the immersive and transportive and beautiful intellectual fertilizer, appears to be giving way to the more addictive but far less nourishing hellbeast of new media and the Net.

It’s an easy beast to blame. I skimmed through Nicholas Carr’s fascinating and depressing piece in the recent Atlantic Monthly (“Is Google Making Us Stupid?”), which talks up, among other things, the downfall of deep reading, of spending uninterrupted hours immersed in a literary tome or even a long essay, a victim to modern media’s vicious ADD, short-attention-span approach to engaging the world of ideas. Carr’s upshot: The Net might actually be rewiring our brains, changing the way we read because it’s changing the way we think, forcibly adapting us to tolerate only bite-sized summations and simplified blips at the expense of deeper thought, of the ability to parse ideas, to sink in for a long, committed intellectual journey. Proof? That’s easy: Just try to sit down with that dense copy of W.G. Sebald or Haruki Murakami after spending any portion of your week online, and watch as your Net-addled brain becomes almost instantly anxious and frustrated, eager

I am moderately sure a brain thusly amped on the wicked energy drink of the Web can, through honest time spent, through forcibly yanking the Ethernet cable out of one’s cerebral cortex, be re-rewired, untrained, re-addicted to the deeper juice. after just a couple thousand words to jump away, ogle pictures, watch dumb teens humiliate themselves on YouTube, buy some shoes. Christ, if TV numbs you out, encourages a passive, flaccid state of intellectual disengagement, the Net does the opposite, slamming so many tiny shots of pseudo-meaning and media and nothingness into your brain over the course of a few hours, it’s like getting stung by a swarm of horny bees. It seems all dour and dreary and unfortunate because not a week goes by that you don’t hear about some gloomy book fair or publishing industry merger or the death of a legendary independent bookstore that just couldn’t compete not only with Amazon, but with a generation trained to read nothing more challenging or lengthy than

grammatically mangled e-mails or snarky text messages or snide 300-word pop culture takedowns on Gawker. Ah, but I do believe all is not lost. There is lingering hope. I am moderately sure a brain thusly amped on the wicked energy drink of the Web can, through honest time spent, through forcibly yanking the Ethernet cable out of one’s cerebral cortex, be re-rewired, untrained, re-addicted to the deeper juice. In fact, it isn’t that difficult, really. We just like to think it is. I can personally attest. About a year ago the most astounding thing happened: The hard drive on my MacBook suffered a rare and painful meltdown when I was away on vacation. I was, much to my initial horror, to be email/Net-free for over a week. What was I missing? Who was emailing? What about all the blogs and the news and the Significant Global Happenings? What of all the salacious offerings of nubile flesh and social wonderment stroking my in-box as I sat there, entirely cut off and adrift? Mercifully, the yoga kicked in and I quickly shrugged, sighed, noted the incredible opportunity, the gods trying to tell me to unplug. I hit the bookstore and bought three thick, sticky literary novels like a misguided vegan buys some grass-fed steaks for the first time, and devoured them whole. As I did so, an amazing thing happened. Time slowed down. The brain quickly returned to its normal breathing. The mental seizures and the near-constant desire to click away and leap to something different, faded and soon vanished. And the books I so loved suddenly moved from the bottom of the intellectual priority list straight back to their original, top-tiered state of grace. I vowed to never let them drop so low again. Even though, right now, they have. Even though, right now, even as I add to the glorious pile of must-reads on my desk, I realize I’ve been sucked back into Net-time again, back to the world of instant feedback and clickable everything, as the pile grows heavy and scornful and lonely. Ah but here again, an opportunity. For it is here that I remember the most wonderfully humbling lesson of all ... When I finally got my precious MacBook back, when all email was restored and all Net access was regranted and I was able to dive back into the perky digital maelstrom, when I spent a few hours and got all caught up, it finally hit me: I’d missed exactly nothing. The world was exactly the same. The beautiful churn continued, same as it ever was, with or without me. Isn’t that fantastic? Someone should write a book about it. ◆ Mark Morford is a yoga instructor, fiction writer and editor/columnist for sfgate.com.

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Swami travels Oregon Country “Fair” should be renamed “Excellent” or someone who travels as much as I do, I don’t like to travel that much. My favorite vacation spot these days is my own backyard, with easy access to a nearby multi-acre state park to hike around in. And with two writing projects cooking, I was a bit reluctant to disturb my routine last month to drive up to the Oregon Country Fair in Eugene. I had been hearing about this event for years, and this year—thanks to my compadre Bruce Lipton and Country Fair veteran and Egyptologist Nicki Scully—the Swami and I were invited to speak. As Kurt Vonnegut said in his novel “Cat’s Cradle,” unusual travel arrangements are “dance lessons from God.” Well, this time the Creator outdid even our wildest expectations. Arthur Murray, eat your heart out.

A heaven of a party For those who have never experienced it, the Oregon Country Fair is nothing less than a small city that gets built for one week, then dismantled every year. Some 18,000 people work and camp at the fair, while 40,000 visitors a day stream through what can best be described as a peace, love, creativity and beauty theme park. These folks have been doing the fair for 40 years, and over that period of time they’ve learned how to throw a heaven of a party. As pro bono presenters, my wife Trudy and I were treated like royalty. (No, that doesn’t mean we were taken to Dairy Queen for breakfast and Burger King for dinner.) We were assigned what I playfully called our “native guide,” Gretchen, whose assignment was to “make sure we were happy” and that we didn’t get lost to or from our presentation. We enjoyed great food, great entertainment and great company...and while “not working,” I made connections I couldn’t have made in ordinary work life. Three of many connections stand out.

An inconvenienter truth Even before the fair began, I found myself talking with retired Army Colonel Ann Wright, who courageously spoke out and resigned her commission in protest of the Iraq War. One point she made in her presentation deserves emphasis here. During the sanctions against Iraq during the 1990s, half a million Iraqi children died because of our economic strangulation of that country. When asked if these deaths were “worth it,” Madeleine Albright, the Secretary of State under Bill Clinton, replied, “Yes.” Now I would like to pause and reflect on this for two reasons. First, as we stand on the threshold of electing a Democratic president in the hopes he will be different from the Republicans, let us remember that Madeleine Albright was and is a Democrat. Even if you believe as I do that an Obama nation will be an improvement over the abomination we have today, please remember that

empire is empire, whether under the abuser Republicans or the enabler Democrats. Nothing will change in this regard unless and until we the people demand it and stand up for it. The other point is this. That which they do to the least of us, they are willing to do to most of us. In other words, if you or I are somehow caught between the empire and its goals, our lives are worth about as much as an Iraqi child’s. We Americans used to be able to imagine that we were served well by the American empire. Consequently, we were willing to go along with the “don’t ask, don’t tell policy”—we promise not to ask our government what they are doing to “protect” us, and they promise not to tell us. However, after nearly eight years of Bush and Cheney (who’ve done more to awaken humankind than any dozen spiritual teachers), we must realize America has been rear-ended by its own karma. As we’ve watched Democrat and Republican alike declare that our Constitutional protections no longer apply, we are coming to look more and more

After nearly eight years of Bush and Cheney (who’ve done more to awaken humankind than any dozen spiritual teachers), we must realize America has been rear-ended by its own karma. like those third-world people whose plight we have conveniently overlooked for the past two generations. Maybe it’s time we awakened to the inconvenienter truth that America has been turned into a banana republic thanks to Banana Republicans and their go-along Democrat cohorts. If you happen to be one of those “spiritual folks” put off by political discussions, let me assure you that this conversation is bigger than politics. It challenges our very spiritual and moral foundations. If you feel compelled to point to “those radical Muslims” and the danger they present, I would suggest that we don’t defeat this threat by emulating it. The notion that our doing evil is justified because we are “the good guys” is moral midgetry of the first order, something all of us should have outgrown by now. Let’s put it this way. Exactly what did those Iraqi children do to deserve the death penalty? How about the Iraqi civilians—hundreds of thousands of them? Does anyone get charged with those “souls batted in,” or does the Official Scorer call it an “error”? I hate to make a comparison between Nazi Germany and Not-See America, but seriously...what’s the real difference between genocide and

collateral genocide? The Swami tells us, “the truth shall upset you free,” so I highly recommend buying and reading former L.A. prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi’s latest book “The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder.” Bugliosi was the prosecutor who convicted the Manson family and wrote a book about it, “Helter Skelter.” This book is way, way more important. Buy it, read it, discuss it. Our goal should be to make it number one on the New York Times bestseller list. Thanks to a mass media that can only be described as a “brainwashing machine stuck on spin,” we’ve become collectively dumbed down and numbed up. It’s now official. Bush, Cheney, the neocons, the neolibs, the media aren’t fooling anyone anymore. From now on, people who buy their hokum are fooling themselves.

And now for the real good news In more heartening news, I made two more contacts of note. First, I met and had a long conversation with Kevin Danaher, director of Global Exchange and co-producer of the highly-successful Green Festival. I had been wanting to meet Kevin for several years, and the Country Fair setting was perfect for an uninterrupted conversation. He is unusual in that he is a political activist and visionary entrepreneur focused on finding solutions and putting them into practice. In the course of our conversation, Kevin told me I had to hear Ari Lesser, a young spoken word artist who uses rap, sharp comedy and poignant imagery to awaken, inspire and activate young people. When I heard Lesser, I was blown away by his artistry, wit and insight. I later found out that he is the son of Raymond Lesser, publisher of Funny Times, a paper that sometimes publishes the Swami. Like his dad, Ari is funny and political, and while Ray has already made his mark, Ari has a chance to be...well, the greater of two Lessers. And that brings me to the most heartening thing of all about the Oregon Country Fair—the amazing bridge being built between the late ’60s/early ’70s generation and the young people now in their teens and twenties who have the energy and vision to take the ideas of “peace, love and justice” to the next sophisticated and functional level. The young people who enthusiastically appreciated the Swami’s performance (my overflow audience was mostly under 30) have already moved past the archaic distinctions of “left” and “right” and are ready to come “front and center” to create a world of “sustainable abundance.” I was moved beyond words by their spiritual and political maturity, and their willingness to learn and build. The young people I met may be a minority in their age group, but they will be the minority that makes a difference. ◆ Steve Bhaerman is also known as Swami Beyondananda. Visit them online at WWW.WAKEUPLAUGHING.COM.

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Carol Hinkamp 1933 - 2008 Carol Hinkamp breathed her last breath at 10:45 p.m. June 14 in St. Louis after many years of pain and multiple illnesses. She is survived by longtime Logan resident Dennis Hinkamp and his partner, Susan Buffler. Mrs. Hinkamp was preceded in death by her husband, Ronald, who died June 4, 2007. Her cremated remains will be interred with his at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery in St. Louis. Mrs. Hinkamp was a retired magazine editor, fashionable lady, astute decorator and collector, lover of dogs and thoughtful neighbor and friend. She was especially inspirational to her only child, Dennis, and was understanding and approving of his choice to live so far away in this strange land called Utah. Like everything else in his life, Dennis chose to write about the experience:

When my mother was in intensive care I could see and hear all the beeps and blinks of her monitors, but her breathing was almost drowned out. At 3 p.m. June 14 when they decided there was nothing more they could do to improve her condition they moved her to "comfort measures." This is not really a hospice, but at least a private room with no instrumentation or fluorescent lights. By this time mom was only a shell. She was unresponsive to touch or sound. I don’t like the term "brain-dead," but she was unaware. At first her breathing was loud and labored and I cowered in the corner of the room, checking my e-mail and looking at baseball scores to try to distract myself from the sound of fighting death. Then it turned to almost snoring, but still unbearably loud. I just wanted it to stop, I wanted to go home and just have someone tell me when it was over. But ever so gradually the volume went down to that of a contented nap, to that of a snoozing dog, to that of a sleeping child….until it became so faint that I had to move closer to hear for sure … until it because so faint I could only tell by looking at her mouth ... so much fainter … so faint, so faint … so ... In the space of seven hours my mother breathed her last. There weren’t any last words, no dimming of the glow in her eyes, no grip left in her hands; just breathing; letting me know she was going peacefully.

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Dr. G’s guaranteed fat loss program Skip the scale; focus on the fat BY PAUL GAHLINGER, M.D., PH.D. ummer is more than half over and the outdoor pool still beckons. That new tube of sun block is untouched. And the bathing suit… uh oh, it’s a little tight with that chub you picked up over last winter. You feel like a walrus that has waddled onto shore. The dinner roll over your hips is complemented by puffy pockets on your neck, your arms, your chest, thighs, knees—even your ankles. Congratulations. We humans bow before you. You are a survivor. To explain this, let’s back up a little—say, to about 24,000 years ago. This era was called the Paleolithic. Paleo, meaning “old,” and lithic, “stone.” In other words, the Old Stone Age. People at that time were fully modern humans. With a haircut and some new clothes, they could pass unnoticed today. Pictured here is a figurine from that period. It is often referred to as the Venus of Willendorf, after the Austrian town near where it was found (it is now in the Natural History Museum in Vienna). Art historian Christopher Witcombe describes it as a “remarkably realistic representation of a fat woman.” She has seven concentric

This is what fat people really should be called: survivors. rows of neatly plaited hair, with braids falling down her face and neck. Small markings on her wrists seem to indicate the presence of bracelets. Particular attention was given to her genital area, with the labia of the vulva carefully etched and made clearly visible. There are two things I am sure of about this figurine. The first is that it was carved by a man. And the second, that he was in love. Life in the stone age had some nice features. You could wake up to a sparkling sunrise in pristine skies. Beachside property was readily available. No telemarketers. On the downside, you often risked getting eaten by a big cat, clubbed by your neighbor, or—far more often—starving to death when the winter lasted too long or Ancient beauty Venus of Willendorf the summer drought was too intense. Starvation was then, and still is now in many parts of the world, the greatest threat to life. Humans, and indeed most animals, are hard-wired to avoid this. The chubby ones manage to save up a few calories to last

HEALTH & WELLNESS through the lean times. The skinny ones die. There is a physiological rule of thumb: Without oxygen, you can live for four minutes; without water, for four days; and without food, for 40 days. That’s if you are at normal weight. A truly fat person, given water and chewing some roots for vitamins and minerals, can live without food for as long as a year. That is the person who survived. If you are a man, that is the woman you want, who will give birth to a healthy baby and have full breasts to feed it, and still be around in a few years to take care of the child. To the guy who carved the Venus, she was the angelic ideal of beauty, of health and survival. This is what fat people really should be called: survivors. Of course, things have changed over the last few millennia. Now we have a supermarket in every neighborhood with 7Elevens between them. If we don’t want to walk that far, we can order pizza or Chinese or whatever right to the house. And that’s if we somehow run out of food in our 19-cubic-foot side-by-side Subzero refrigerator. Evidently, starvation is the one thing we don’t have to worry about.

Diets are the worst way to lose body fat. Any type of food shortage signals your brain: “Hey, we’ve got a possible starvation threat here—so conserve energy and pack on the pounds!” Today, our picture of beauty has also changed. Let’s consider Brazilian model Ana Carolina Reston. She is on dozens of magazine covers. She is also dead. In 2006, at age 21, she died of anorexia. Never mind other preposterous icons of beauty such as Calista Flockhart, who would evoke sympathy from the starving villagers in the Sudan. The fact is that for most people throughout history, our look of beauty would be the look of someone who is sick. OK. Let’s get back to your chub. Now you know why it’s there—because you are the best! I understand this is not much reassurance when you want to look trim and slim in your lycra swimsuit. The question I hear so often is, “I’ve tried so many diets! How can I lose weight?” The first thing to realize is that you do not want to lose weight. You want to lose fat. There is no secret to shedding body weight. You can lose more than 10 pounds in one day by sweating it off, by taking cathartics to induce diarrhea, or by taking diuretics to urinate out your body water. But all of these forms of weight loss are accomplished by losing body water, which is unhealthy, and you gain the weight right back when you rehydrate. Diets are the worst way to lose body fat. Any type of food shortage signals your brain: “Hey, we’ve got a possible starvation threat here—so conserve energy and pack on the pounds!” Let’s look at the science. The authoritative International Journal of Clinical Practice recently evaluated weight loss programs in a report with the rather daunting title, “Neuroendocrine Regulation of Energy Homeostasis.” Basically, here is what it says: The body tries to regulate its weight, balancing its energy needs with food intake. If food intake is unreliable (as when dieting!), the body stores extra energy to carry it through the dips. At the same time, the dieting body slows down metabolism to burn as few calories as possible. The desire to eat is largely influenced by a number of hormones that carry signals from the stomach and intestine to the hypothalamus of the brain. At least a dozen fat-regulating hormones have been identified—including leptin, insulin, ghrelin, oxyntomodulin, neuropeptide Y (NPY), proopiomelanocortin (POMC) and others. New drugs that block these hormones have shown some promise in causing weight

Subcutaneous fat, the fat under your skin that makes skin glow and feel nice, is good. It is the visceral fat (the fat around your organs) that you want to reduce. Visceral fat is a set-up for diabetes, heart failure and cancer. loss. For example, Orlistat (marketed as Xenical) blocks pancreatic lipase so that you cannot digest dietary fat. Rimonabant (Acomplia, and other brands) blocks the brain’s cannabinoid receptors (the receptors which give marijuana users the munchies), and therefore takes away appetite. Sibutramine (Meridia), originally developed as anti-depressant, also takes away appetite. Remember the Fen-phen fiasco of the 1990s? It was by far the most popular weight loss drug—until users started showing up with damaged heart valves. The resulting lawsuits from 50,000 users cost the manufacturer $14 billion. The fen is now gone but the phen is still available. Phentermine can wreak havoc on your heart, not to mention causing insomnia and impotence. The word diet really means two very different things that are endlessly confused with each other. The first meaning is the sort of food you eat. As in, “the diet of koala bears is eucalyptus leaves,” or “you should eat a healthy diet.” The second meaning is to limit food, as in being on the Atkins diet, Slimfast diet, grapefruit diet, or Oprah’s latest diet. These two meanings of the word are constantly mixed up. The truth about diet is incredibly simple and well-known and just plain common sense. All you need to do is eat well, which you can accomplish by the following: • Don’t eat packaged foods. • Don’t add salt to anything—your taste buds will adapt. • Lay off the sugar and fats (including hydrogenated oils, which have transfats—about the worst stuff you can put in your body).

The difference between fat and oil is that fat is generally solid at room temperature, and oil is liquid. Oils are fine, and fish oil, olive oil, and canola oil are especially great. (Not that you’d want to cook with fish oil. But a daily dose, straight-up, is a very good thing.) It is that simple. You don’t have to spend a fortune. Look at your food bill. How much of the money goes to packaged foods? And if you really want to economize, get a 100pound sack of rice and a 50-pound sack of beans. For about $100, you will have enough food for a year that is more nutritious than your previous, garbage-heavy (in more ways than one) diet. Why buy an expensive box of sugary cereal when you can get rolled oats (which you can eat uncooked if you like) with fresh fruit—at half the cost with 100 times more nutrition? Become a label reader. Don’t believe cereals with names like “Swiss muesli.” I’ve lived in Switzerland and believe me, real muesli is nothing like the crap they sell in the store. (Here is my 500-year-old family recipe: rolled oats, shredded apple, raisins, cinnamon, raw sheep’s milk—OK, you may have to substitute that last one.) You like soup? Get a crock pot and a pressure cooker. You like meat? Don’t read “The Omnivore’s Dilemma.” So much for diet and nutrition.

The real way to lose fat Let’s start with a metaphor every American understands. Cars. Imagine you have a Corvette. Fast, slim, but it gets as little

deplete those supplies—and then you open the door to your fat store. Each pound of fat holds about 3,500 calories. Each pound also contains about a mile of fine blood vessels. Think about that. Every minute, for every additional pound of fat, your heart has to push blood through an extra mile of capillaries. No wonder blood pressure goes up! You may be thinking—“If my car has an extra gas tank in the back, why not just take it out?” A lot of people do this, usually by liposuction. But it actually doesn’t work that way. This is because there are two stores of body fat: the fat under your skin (subcutaneous fat), and the fat around your organs (visceral fat). Subcutaneous fat is good. It gives women their beautiful rounded curves. It is the difference between men who look like Michelangelo’s statue of David and men who are steroidpumped body-building freaks. Every woman I know prefers the former. Subcutaneous fat makes skin glow and feel nice; Modern beauty? when you lose it, skin Ana Carolina Reston becomes wrinkly and leathery. Visceral fat, on the other hand, is not so good. You need some to cushion the organs, but obesity packs most of its fat inside the body cavity and around the intestines. It is a set-up for diabetes, heart failure,

Each pound of fat contains about a mile of fine blood vessels. Think about that. Every minute, for every additional pound of fat, your heart has to push blood through an extra mile of capillaries. No wonder blood pressure goes up! as seven miles to the gallon. Now imagine you have a Prius; you can go a long way between fill-ups. Now imagine you have a Prius with a 500-gallon auxiliary fuel tank in the back, because maybe you want to drive across the country without stopping to fill up. That’s like a fat person—stored energy for the long haul. How in the world are you going to empty that extra fuel tank? The answer is to drive like the Corvette. Pedal to the metal. When you drive the extra-tank Prius, you first have to burn up the gas in your regular tank. Once that is gone, you dip into the reserve tank. Your body is pretty much the same. You need energy to live. Just sleeping or lounging around uses maybe 1,500 calories or so per day (there are formulas for your exact number). A full 20% of that is used by your brain. When you need more during exercise, you first use the glycogen in your muscles and liver. It takes about 20 minutes of exercise to

and it’s associated with a higher risk of cancer and many other diseases. The problem with liposuction is that it can only take away subcutaneous fat, not visceral fat. It is the visceral fat that you want to reduce.

At last, as promised, here is how you burn off that fat The first thing that I recommend to everyone is to get a heart rate monitor. You can spend a lot on fancy ones that download data to your computer and even have a GPS built into them. A $50 basic one will do just fine. (At my MediCruiser clinic, we’ll give you a 20% discount on one.) You don’t really need a heart rate monitor—it is basically just to keep you honest—but it can make your fat loss program far more effective (and interesting).

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iven that the largest manmade structure on earth is a garbage dump (the Fresh Kills Landfill on Staten Island), it seems fitting that the world’s largest proposed art piece is a stack of used oil barrels that would dwarf the Great Pyramid of Giza. Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s “The Mastaba: Project for the United Arab Emirates” was conceived in 1977, when oil cost $13 a barrel. Thirty-one years later, with crude now fetching $119 a barrel, and production long past peak, the Mastaba is the ultimate monument to our collective folly. Its form based on a type of trapezoidal tomb used in ancient Egypt, the Mastaba would consist of 390,500 empty, garishly colored, 55-gallon oil barrels, stacked 984 feet wide, 492 feet high and 738 feet deep. (By comparison, the Salt Lake Mormon temple is 118 feet wide and 107 feet tall.) Christo began working with used oil barrels in the late 1950s, not because they were symbolic, but because they were cheap, large and unbreakable. He wrapped the first batches, after wrestling them to his seventhfloor studio on Rue Saint-Sénoch, in Paris. His largest previous oil barrel project was 1999’s “The Wall—13,000 Oil Barrels,” in Oberhausen, Germany. Unlike most of Christo and JeanneClaude’s creations, which typically exist for only two weeks, and are as much event as art, the Mastaba would be engineered to last 5,000 years. Also atypically, the project would not be self-funded by the artists; should it come to fruition, the ruler of the United Arab Emirates, a Middle Eastern federation of seven states in the Persian Gulf, would pick up the bill, though Christo and Jeanne-Claude have already spent $1 million of their own money on preliminaries. The exact location for the Mastaba has yet to be finalized, though Christo and Jeanne-

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Claude visualize it on a slightly rising plane somewhere in the Arabian Desert. Christo and Jeanne-Claude have been collaborating on art installations since 1961. They were born at the same hour on the same day in 1935, and have a son, Cyril, who is a poet. Christo creates the art and JeanneClaude manages the massive and complex installations, which typically require hundreds of permits. The couple is best known for projects such as wrapping the Berlin Reichstag and the Pont-Neuf Bridge in fabric, and for “The Gates in Central Park,” which hung there for two weeks in February 2005. Their next project is “Over the River: Project for the Arkansas River,” for which they will suspend 5.9 miles of fabric above the Arkansas River in Colorado, following the course of the river for two weeks in 2012. —Diane Olson

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The exercise program is simple: You set your heart rate monitor to your target level (easily found online or in the monitor instructions). Then you can do whatever you like, as long as your heart rate is in the target zone. It doesn’t matter. Run, bike, swim, hike, rowing machine, power walk, have sex…if your heart rate is on target, you are using oxygen—oxygen to burn fat. To lose weight, you should be in the target zone for an hour a day, six days a week. It is a lot, but you can watch TV, listen to music, chat on the phone, even read the paper while you are doing it. Take a few minutes to warm up, and leave 10-15 minutes to cool down and do some stretching. I recommend 60 minutes at target because the first 20 minutes are needed just to use up your glycogen, and only after that do you tap into the fat reserves. I also suggest doing this in the morning for a couple of reasons. First, it takes some discipline. By doing it in the morning, perhaps after a cup of coffee to get going, you have it out of the way for the day. Otherwise, daily tasks tend to build up and edge out other activities, and after a long day, you might not be up for an hour’s exercise. Second, this exercise will make you stronger, fitter, give you more energy, and rev up your metabolism—all day long. In fact, you’ll find that you are sleeping warmer because you will be burning more calories even at night. Make the discipline easier on yourself. With a regular schedule,

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preferably exercising with others who will reinforce your practice, you will be more consistent. Muscle weighs more than fat. Many who begin a new fitness program are surprised to find they don’t lose weight—some even gain weight! But it is fat loss that is important. If you follow this program, you will lose fat—I guarantee it—probably about a quarter pound a day. Not body weight, but body fat. When you lose fat this way, it will stay off. It is a positive trend that gets stronger, not a negative trend like diets or drugs that inevitably fail. Fat loss can be measured several ways: hydrostatic weighing, in which you are submerged in water; calipers, commonly used at fitness clubs; and the new scales with electrical impedance. None of these is 100% reliable or accurate. The new scales are pretty good in my opinion. (The Taylor bodyfat scale is highly rated by Good Housekeeping and sells for around $50.) I especially like the ones with four electrodes (rather than just feet), which can show visceral fat as well as total fat. Do you need a fancy scale? Probably not. You’ll know when that fat turns to muscle. Your clothes will fit better. You’ll have more energy and strength. And—don’t worry. You’ll still survive. ◆ Paul Gahlinger is the president & CEO of MediCruiser, an urgent care clinic and house call service that he calls “21st century health care.” WWW.MEDICRUISER.COM. He is a regular contributor to CATALYST.

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The new handmade world Create community—shop on Etsy

BY AMIE TULLIUS photos by Cat Palmer come upon Etsy by chance. A friend sends me a link, and when I log on, I am shocked by what I find: a giant online marketplace where artists from around the world sell their crafts. It is like wandering into a thrilling aggregate of the Art Festival,

nals, rings, cardholders, and paintings. More structured shopping options like categories of crafts or gift guides help navigate the daunting number of shops if you’re not such a follow-your-nose kind of shopper. Etsy members also curate groupings of favorite items—almost like craft mix-tapes—and post them on the treasury page. You can shop Etsy by geography— whiz around the globe using the geolocator interface and click randomly to find art in, say, Iceland or maybe Puerto Rico.

Etsy is fascinating, inspiring and completely addictive...But it’s more than that. Etsy is the antidote for the blasé monodesign of late model capitalism: it is wildly diverse, creative, and exciting. Etsy is fascinating, inspiring and completely addictive—it provides some of the most exhilarating shopping I’ve ever done. But it’s more than that. Etsy is the antidote for the blasé monodesign of late model capitalism: it is wildly diverse, creative, and exciting. Etsy’s founder Robert Kalin created the site as cure for the meaninglessness of modern shopping. “The web completely changes the way that world commerce works,” he says. “Etsy as a whole is providing viable alternatives to shopping at places like Wal-Mart.” Kalin also says that the “human-to-human relationship of the person who’s making and selling [a product] to the person who is buying it is at the core of what Etsy is.” Sales are between buyer and seller on Etsy, with the site taking only 3.5% of each sale. Contrast that to sell-

Farmer’s Market, gallery stroll, and a hipster craft bazaar the size of a small city. I am first struck by the site’s innovative and delightful search interfaces. You can search by color: mouse over a field of colored bubbles and click on, say, tomato red. Ten windows pop up with tomato red jour-

ing in a retail environment, where an artist would expect to pay a 40-50% commission to the boutique. Local artist Dana Robison, creator of Piddies baby slippers, says that when she joined Etsy, it “opened my eyes to the fact that everything we purchase doesn’t have to be mass-produced under conditions most of us wouldn’t condone. Etsy has made me mindful of the amount of work and time that goes into handmade products, and the value in supporting artists and artisans who are not mass-producing their products but are making each one by hand.” If such a thing is possible, Etsy is a kind of socialized capitalism. It is ethical capitalism that respects all parties involved in the transaction: first and foremost the artist, the buyer, and then the greater community of sellers and buyers. It provides not just beautiful art and products, but a warm sense of community and belonging to one’s world. Even though you have access to and are connecting with craftspeople from around the country and the globe, it feels as if it is a small community. But what about our local community? Back to the great Etsy search interfaces. I click the link for “shop local” and type in “Utah.” One hundred of the most recently updated shops pop up featuring crochet hats, photography, leather journals, baby booties, cards, beadwork, buttons, and handbags. If I were only to shop in Utah, Etsy would be a treasure. Here are a few of my favorite finds:

brought her national attention, from a review in a New Jersey newspaper to a contact from Rachel Ray’s PR people to see if she’d like to send over an owl tee shirt to be featured in the magazine. She’s had international sales lately from as far as Russia, Germany and Norway, and gets orders all the time from the UK and Australia. “That’s all from being on Etsy. Otherwise, I was just in a little booth by myself in Eugene, Oregon.”

Piddies WWW.ETSY.COM/SHOP.PHP?USER_ID=5445160 Piddies might be the cutest things in the world. Dana Robison handsews and embroiders these sweet little baby slippers out of her home near Liberty Park in Salt

After she tells me this, I do a search on Etsy for “pay it forward” and it’s true! Six pages of free or donated items and services pop up. The idea is that the kindness is catching. feet on the bellies/soles. She has red and green parrot slippers, little yellow chicken slippers, and sweet little orange goldfish slippers with kissy red lips and blue bubbles

Full Spectrum & Beanchild WWW.ETSY.COM/SHOP.PHP?USER_ID=5305402 Full Spectrum and Beanchild are the screenprinted clothing shops of Sonya Evans, an artist out of Clinton, Utah who taught herself to screenprint while she was living in Oregon so that she could work from home while her daughter was young. She started out selling her work at farmer’s markets until a friend told her about Etsy. Her designs are edgy and graphic, featuring unexpected hand-screenprinted octopi and jellyfish, 10-speeds, and pinking shears on tee shirts, bags, pillow covers, and tea towels. Beanchild, the children’s clothing counterpart of the Full Spectrum, is a line of screenprinted baby clothes including a skull and crossbones black cotton diaper cover, a newborn onesie with a red antennaed shrimp across the tummy, and itty little

“On Etsy, there are people who share my weird little fixations.” hoodies with angel wings. Sonya says that becoming a part of Etsy made her want to buy everything handmade and local. “Buying things that are not handmade feels meaningless now,” she says. She says she never expected the business to become so successful. Her Etsy shop has

Lake. She opened her Etsy shop just last November and put up 10 pairs of slippers to see what happened. The first pair sold within an hour. I ask if she’d sold her work before Etsy, and she tells me “no, but I have been sewing, crocheting, crafting, and building all of my life and have always had an entrepreneurial spirit. I’ve always asked myself, ‘would there be a market for this?’ when I created something I felt was unique.” Etsy has given her a marketplace to test the waters without much risk. She custom makes each pair of slippers as they’re ordered, so demand drives her production. Her slippers are mostly birds, darling felt bird mary janes with blanket stitches along the edges, and stick-out wings, beaks and tails. There are chartreuse baby bird slippers with turquoise wings and tail, a little orange beak, and tiny perfect embroidered yellow

embroidered on the bottom. Dana tells me that she was amazed at the friendliness and supportiveness of the Etsy community. “From the very first day,” she says, “there were people coming out of the woodwork to encourage me.”

Romy Brett WWW.ETSY.COM/SHOP.PHP?USER_ID=21595 Romy B started out just shopping on Etsy, but after a couple of months, decided to open her own shop. She had met several of the artists in the community through the “contact” section, and the people she met made it easy for her to get started. “One made my logo,” she says, “another made my icon, another helped with business cards. There is a PIF section (pay it forward) where others get good karma for helping me. At that point I started listing items.” (After she tells me this, I do a search on Etsy for “pay it

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forward” and it’s true! Six pages of free or donated items and services pop up. The idea is that the kindness is catching.) Romy B’s shop includes tiny pictures of power women—Wonder Woman, Marilyn Monroe, Frida Kahlo, and the Virgin of Guadalupe (to name a few)—in the wee circular frames of magnetized bottle caps. She also has hand-painted tiny drawings in bottle cap frames, Madonna and glitter-encrusted matchbooks, and whimsical stuffed plush critters. In addition to her Etsy shop she sells at galleries around the nation, and locally at the Women’s Art Center, the Blue Cockatoo, Utah Artists Hands, the Artspace City Center basement patio during gallery stroll and at the Salt Lake Farmers’ Market.

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Remember the scene in Fritz Lang’s 1927 silent movie masterpiece “Metropolis” when the robot woman is revealed and comes to life? Dirty Bird’s Metropolis photo bracelet includes a still of that scene as well as three other stills from the film captured in glass and silver. Perhaps you’re into zeppelins: Now you can have four glass-encased images of dirigibles silently drifting, launching, and elegantly crashing in flame for all time around your wrist. Old anatomy illustrations? Dirty Bird has you covered. Lovely and haunting, the bracelets are attractive from a distance, and fascinating up close. Melissa Dallof is the force behind the shop— which she says is more of a hobby than anything else. She’s in her final year of law school, and making the jewelry is a fun side project and creative outlet. Dallof says she has been surprised by the items that have been successful in her Etsy shop. “Etsy reaches such a large audience,” she says, “you can do something unusual and somebody out there will like it. I think I’m going to add a photo bracelet of different Eames chairs. And seriously, in my circle of acquaintances, how many people are going to say ‘Oooh, Eames chair jewelry!’ or be excited about jewelry made from old films? But on Etsy, there are people who share my weird little fixations.”

Lii Lii WWW.ETSY.COM/SHOP.PHP?USER_ID=5061740 Lii Lii is the work of Yvette Daley, another Salt Lake City artist. Lii Lii is a vast Etsy store featuring jewelry made of vintage Scrabble pieces decoupaged in decorative bits of beautiful paper. Flipping through her hundreds of necklaces and earrings, one is lured by blackbirds,

arts and crafts daisies, a printed honeybee diagram, Japanese owls, brown blossoms against a blue sky, 1920s floral wallpaper designs, china patterns, and tiny Eiffel Towers. Yvette says she was also surprised at how friendly the Etsy community is. She says that “people want to include me, as the maker of their jewelry, in their purchase experience. They write to me to tell me about an experience they had while wearing one of my pieces of jewelry. They send me pictures to show me how they look wearing my jewelry. I sometimes get emails months later from customers who want to let me know they are still wearing their jewelry and loving it.”

ByKali WWW.ETSY.COM/SHOP.PHP?USER_ID=5418707 When I first talked with Kali Mellus, she was in the process of transitioning from a physical shop to an almost exclusively online business. When she wasn’t sure if she would be able to renew her shop lease, she decided to take the business online, work from home, and use Etsy as the main venue for selling her work. Kali’s art is industrial but elegant: she makes necklaces and belt buckles with pins, nails, staples and washers imbedded in layers of resin. I’ve been a fan of her stuff for quite some time, so it was disappointing for me to hear that she was closing her Pierpont gallery. But when I caught up with her a few months later, she told me, “As far as this Etsy thing goes. I could not have expected it to go as well as it has. I was the featured seller about a month ago and since then I have sold over 100 pieces.” She told me she was nervous about closing her gallery, so signed up for various summer festivals and local markets, and is now having to sprint to keep up with the demand for her work.

Certainly Etsy is not a substitute for going out and buying art from local shops and art festivals, but it is a great way for local artists to maintain creativity and autonomy while taking their business to a larger audience, and it is a way to nurture the creativity and diversity of people in the rest of the world. It is a global community based on respect for kindness and each artist’s uniqueness. Shop local, think global? On Etsy, it’s almost the same thing. ◆ Amie Tullius is a short story writer, essayist, and lover of the arts. She is a recent transplant from San Fransisco, where she completed an MFA in writing at the California College of the Arts. She now lives in Park City with her fiance and dogs.

THE HERBALIST IS IN

Herbs in abundance! Dip, drizzle and marinade with fresh garden herbs BY MARY LYCETT HARRISON

ow’s the time to take advantage of the abundance of fresh herbs in the garden. Make a salad sing with diced fistfuls of parsley, sorrel and chives added to a basic vinagrette. Add sage and basil blossoms, too, for a strong burst of their fresh, familiar flavor. One important herb tip to remember is that the flavor we enjoy from our culinary herbs comes from their essential oils, so it is best to combine herbs with a bit of olive, canola, butter or other oil to bring out and enhance the natural flavor the herb releases. For example, fresh, chopped garlic added to a combination of butter and olive oil and slowly warmed on the stove will make a dipping sauce so divine that guests will close their eyes to savor its rich deliciousness. Other herbs don’t hold up so well to heat, so allowing them to infuse an oil while at room temperature or in the fridge will be the best method to capture their flavor. Here are several herb recipes to spark your imagination and creativity.

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CHIVE FLOWER DRIZZLE Pluck and separate the pretty, pink chive blossoms from about 5-6 flowering heads and mix with 1 T. finely chopped chervil and 2 T. parsley. Add 1/2 cup extra virgin olive oil.

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garlic Add juice and zest of a lemon and 1/2 to 3/4 cup olive or canola oil.

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Rather than bottled mayo, try this dressing on potato salad. 3 T. each chopped fresh dill, chives and parsley 1 T paprika 3/4 cup canola or olive oil 1 T. dijon mustard Salt and pepper to taste

1 T. diced fresh ginger 1 shallot, diced 1 clove garlic, diced 2 T. mint, chopped fine 3 T. Thai basil, chopped fine Zest and juice of a lime 6 oz. coconut milk 2 T. peanut or sesame oil To grill, gently remove the meat from the marinade and place on the grill so that the herb bits and pieces stay attached. Strips and skewered meats lend themselves well to taking on lots of the herb flavors.

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Skip the artificially flavored, smoky brown syrup for this refreshing and unusual taste sensation. Marinate chicken, fish or pork for a couple of hours in this delicious blend of chopped, fresh herbs. Strong-flavored herbs hold up best during the grilling process.

Liven up that BLT, submarine or veggie sandwich with this herb spread: Blend these fresh herbs in a small food processor: 1 T. rosemary 2 T. lovage leaves (they taste strongly of celery) 1 shallot Coarse pepper Salt to taste Add to 1/2 cup of mayonnaise.

FRUIT DRIZZLE Add 2 T. finely chopped, fresh lemon verbena to 1-2 T. grape seed oil. Drizzle over chopped fruit of your choice.

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HERB MARINADE Coarsely chop 1-3 T. each: sage thyme chives oregano mint basil

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Setting my priorities for the Slow Food Challenge 2008 SWM w/o kitchen chooses his secret weapon BY DAVID M. HOZA s a single male without a good kitchen, far from the skills that made me a versatile baker and cook back in the day, I’m used to living with food on demand, whether from the supermarket, the whole foods market or the farmer’s market. Andrea and Mike Heidinger, who spearhead this year’s Slow Food Challenge, want participants to eat from the local, natural palette for a month, at least a week. I’m hoping I can make it through a day. Finding substitutes for things

like olive oil, coffee and baking powder can be more than a little daunting. Sure, you can make crackers and get by without bread, but can you make dinner when you haven’t been past the farmer’s market this evening, it’s getting late, the kids are whining and you’ve had a whirlwind kind of day? The blog at least offers a community bulletin board for recipes, stories and who’s got what where when. Community support may be the name of the game.

In preparation for the 2008 Slow Food Challenge, I’ve decided I really need to set my priorities. I figure what I got-ta got-ta do is find that one key missing ingredient in my home. With coffee, Luna Bars, and all the exotic spices of life on the way out, it’s certain I’ll want to hunt high and low and make certain I’ve got my honey in hand before anything else is decided. Who wouldn’t want to start things right with some all natural, organic, locally grown honey? Of course the imagination runs away with the possibilities of a honey that comes from the hive next door, sweetening everything! I’d make everything with my honey. The big question would be what to leave my honey out of—in a partnership worldview, what would Honey prefer to be left out of? The answer could be an elegant solution derived from a very local sense of place, as John Todd or U of U Professor Fred Montague might

The Slow Food Challenge 2008 Officially begins: August 16 Recommended duration: 1 week or 1 month Find the Challenge: at your plate and market Locally sponsored events: by Slow Food Utah, Wasatch Community Gardens, TreeUtah and The People’s Market. Check their websites for specific events. Stories and recipes at: HTTP://LOCALFOODCHALLENGE.BLOGSPOT.COM/

The Challenge: Eat naturally grown local foods from within a 250- or 100mile radius of home. Challenge yourself! Eat only from the local, seasonal palette of natural foods! Find substitutes or alternatives to foreign ingredients and processed foods. Do without olive oil, coffee and imported meats and cheeses. Get to know

ingredients of different packaged and restaurant foods, and find, create and make breakfasts, lunches, dinners and snacks that are made up of local, natural ingredients. Discover what natural foods grow in your neighborhood and surrounding region. Join others and support one another in a healthy, lowcarbon, buy-local lifestyle experiment. Most of all, have fun!

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say. It sure don’t take no Goldilocks to know how much honey is “just right.” All you brilliant kitchen mavens know what I’m talkin’ ‘bout, mm-hm. Without coffee, I imagine my honey sweetening up the morning, and for dessert, sweetening up the evening considerably. With this kind of satisfaction day in and day out, I might come to miss such pleasure in the heat of work and the day. Knowing where to find my honey, I wouldn’t have to go far, and that is a real source of pleasure and security, let me tell you. Sure, I could wish for a little afternoon delight, savor honey very warm with fresh mint, but you know what they say; absence makes the heart grow fonder. We imagine the grail of opportunities to be a place where you could grow whatever you wanted whenever you

I imagine my honey sweetening up the morning, and for dessert, sweetening up the evening considerably. wanted it. Imagine if you didn’t have to go all the way to Green River in the summertime to find yourself a honeydew! But the Slow Food Challenge is all about giving you the opportunity to experience in every season its turn, and we’d all get sick of honeydew this, and honeydew that. The hardest thing in the world, I think, is just to let my honey be. You can imagine what expectations we have, what with Sweet Honey in the Rock, Tupelo Honey, (Mudhoney?) and the like. But life isn’t really worth living if you demand everything on your own terms. The Midas touch may give everything that sweet golden amber, yet turn to stone what you would own. Besides, look at what we have the possibility of having right in our own back yard! Humming ever so sweetly from the Wasatch, from high in the Uintas, from isolated ranges west as far as the Great Basin and the Deep Creeks, the ever so salacious Wild Mountain Honey, mmmm…! ◆ David M. Hoza lived off the grid for 10 years. You can find him at SUSTAINABILITY@DIAMONDPOINTCOACHING.COM.

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Rendezvous Rye High West Distillery brings the Wild West back to Utah BY SCOTT EVANS

“ADULT BEVERAGES” first recorded whiskey-fest took place as the mountain men gathered to exchange pelts for supplies. With a background in biochemistry, High West Distillery owner David Perkins has long appreciated whiskey and bourbon. He began distilling in 2005 after an inspirational trip to the Makers Mark distillery in Kentucky. Three years of hard work and some mentoring from a master distiller has resulted in Rendezvous rye whiskey, which can be found at Utah state liquor stores ($40/750 ml). The handcrafted glass bottles reflect the crafted nature of what’s inside, Perkins says. He doesn’t filter the final product, making for a slight cloudiness and, Perkins says, enhanced flavor.

is left behind Next, yeast is added to the mash causing a bubbling fermentation. Up to this point, the process mirrors beer production; it takes about a day to get the wort to the fermenters and two to three days for full fermentation to take place. In fact, the whiskey-maker’s name for fully fermented wort is beer. The departure from beermaking begins when the beer is transferred to the still, which heats the beer to 175 degrees, causing the alcohol to evaporate. The evaporated liquid is cooled, captured and transferred to barrels to age. Every whiskey producer has its own trade secrets about length of time in the barrel and what type of barrel is used. Rendezvous Rye is made from two 100% rye

High West Distillery’s Rendezvous Rye Whiskey features more than a complex glass of whiskey; it packs a punch of history as well.

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ach spring the desert beckons me. About this time each year, I grasp for books, maps and literature that compels me to pack my gear and get on the road. My current reading choices, “All the Pretty Horses” by Cormac McCarthy and “Angle of Repose” by Wallace Stegner, have only increased my salivation. On nearly every adventure, an excellent bottle of booze accompanies me on my journey. After a recent

tasting and tour of Utah’s first distillery since Prohibition, High West Distillery, I believe I’ve found a most fitting travel companion. Their Rendezvous Rye Whiskey features more than a complex glass of whiskey; it packs a punch of history as well. High West Distillery named their “initial public offering” whiskey after the annual rendezvous of trappers and settlers that took place in Cache Valley, Utah where, in 1826, the West’s

He keeps a mailing address in Park City, but his beautiful, manually operated copper pot still and small staff reside in a westside Salt Lake City warehouse while awaiting their official digs in Park City. High West’s ambitious plans include revamping the 100year-old livery stable in old town and to be distilling on-site by 2009. In addition to rye whiskey, High West has released Vodka 7000 (referring to Park City’s elevation), distilled primarily from oats. Future offerings will likely include local fruit-infused vodkas and possibly some eau de vies (spirits distilled from fruit brandy) as well. Before it gets to the bottle, Rendezvous Rye is made from crushed grain (rye in this case) mixed with water in a “mash tank” where fermentation begins. Then the liquid, or wort, is transferred to fermenters, and the mashed grain

whiskeys; one aged for six years and the other for 16 years. Whiskey (also spelled whisky) is a general term that refers to any alcoholic beverage distilled from fermented grain mash (barley, rye, wheat or corn) and aged in wood. The variations in spelling generally correspond with the country of origin. The United States and Ireland refer to “whiskey” and “whiskeys” while Japan, Scotland, Wales and Canada all utilize

“whisky,” with “whiskies” for the plural form. Understanding the differences between bourbon, scotch, rye and Canadian— all types of whiskey—can make the inexperienced whiskey drinkers’ eyes glass over. To briefly clear the smoke: Bourbon is an American whiskey made primarily from corn which is distilled in Bourbon County, Kentucky; it’s aged in new oak for at least two years. Scotch whiskey is made mostly from barley, distilled in Scotland and aged in used oak barrels for a minimum of three years. Rye whiskey is American and has to be made from at least 51% rye mash. Canadian whiskey is made from a blend of grains and is aged in wood for a minimum of three years. For a state with such strong feelings about controlling the sale of alcohol, Utah has a rich history of drinking and distilling whiskey. Historical records show that some early settlers were makers and sellers of whiskey. As early as 1859, a portion of Main Street in Salt Lake City was known “Whiskey Street.” The drink of choice on Whiskey Street and its environs was a local whiskey named “Valley Tan.” With historical relevance, High West Distillery tempts our state with world-class whiskey. A true artisan whiskey, Rendezvous Rye surpasses the historic Valley Tan with finesse and style. It was recently awarded the Double Gold Medal at the San Francisco World Spirits Competition, the Grammys of the spirits worlds. Rendezvous Rye whiskey is a godsend for Utah and anyone who appreciates a good stiff drink. ◆ Scott Evans is a manager and liquor buyer at Squatters.

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Caffé Ibis 52 Federal Ave. Logan. 435-753-4777. WWW.CAFFEIBIS.COM. Caffé Ibis, open 7 days a week, is a 30-year-old award winning “Green Business” in historic downtown Logan. We feature triple certified coffees (organic, fair trade, shadegrown), along with teas and fine chocolates at our espresso bar. The WiFi equipped gallery/deli serves organic ethnic cuisine for breakfast and lunch. $, CC, V, TO.

Himalayan Kitchen 73 E. 400 S. 328-2077. The best choice for Himalayan food downtown. Featuring a new, fresh lunch buffet daily as well as a fine, innovative menu with Nepali, Indian and Tibetan cuisine. Selections include momos, goat curry, a variety of lamb and seafood dishes, chicken tikka, chicken tandoori and vegetarian dishes including curry. Hours: Lunch: Mon-Sat 11:30a-2:30p. Dinner: 5-10p. $-$$, CC, V, W/B, P, TO, CAT.

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Cucina Deli 1026 Second Ave. 322-3055. Located in the historic Avenues, Cucina offers a full menu of freshly made sandwiches, gourmet salads, specialty entrées and desserts. Daily specials include parmesan chicken, lasagna, and poached salmon. Enjoy the European atmosphere inside or relax under the umbrellas on the patio. Mon-Fri 7a-9p; Sat 8a-9p; Sun 8a-5p. $$, CC, V, P, TO, CAT.

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Cafe Med 420 E. 3300 S. 493-0100. With Mediterranean influences from Persia, Greece, and Turkey, Cafe Med’s menu is huge and diverse. Appetizers include hummus, baba ghanouj and spanikopita. Falafels, gyros and kabobs abound, and specialties include Persian eggplant stewed in tomatoes with lima beans and shallot yogurt, or moussaka with layers of beef and lamb, onions and eggplant with sliced potato and cream sauce, or the baqala polow, roasted lamb shank with dill rice and lima beans. Open daily. $-$$, CC, V, W/B, TO.

Coffee Garden 254 S. Main, inside Sam Weller’s Books and 900 E. 900 S. 355-4425. High-end espresso, delectable pastries & desserts. A great place to people watch. Mon-Sat6a-8p; Sun 7a-6p. $, CC, V, P, TO.

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Manly foods When is a man like a vegetable? BY JUDYTH HILL

really want to write about men. Men have lately been rather uppermost on my ever-lovin’ mind, if not in my bed. Then I remembered, in the nick, as we say, of time, that I’m also a food writer. So, I’ve added vegetables. They do share something in common, like needing lots of sun, water and rich soil. No, I think that’s primarily about vegetables. Well, they both provide roughage, and basic nutritional... Uhn, no, that could be wrong. Well, shining eyes, and glowing skin. There. Eat a large helping of men daily, and you’ll… hmmm. There must be a connection. I mean my very first cookbook, that sweet treasure, given me by my mother when my wooden spoon was longer than my arm, was “The Settlement Cookbook.” And it said, clear as day, right on the cover, “The Way To A Man’s Heart.” But maybe they just meant the

meat and potatoes. And of course, the cakes, the stollen and küchen. I think those recipes actually commence: take one man, one ring, seven promises, two sets of inlaws, one stereo, and mix with…but perhaps I digress. Start over. Vegetables. Green, yellow, red, purple, blue-black. I think the hearts of men come in those colors: I know their ties do. Diced, julienne, cubed, sliced, grated to pulp. I know some men

Deep in your winter, you will be grateful that you have carefully preserved both your love and your vegetables. who definitely feel like the end products of an enraged Cuisinart.

Sautéed, stuffed, braised, grilled; so many ways, so little time. Be that as it may, it’s harvest time, in life if not in love. But what a strange year! A fickle New Mexico spring has left us bereft of the usual abundancies of apricots and peaches, and there’s nary an apple to be seen in many of our orchards. Though, like good men, there are a splendid few. And tomatoes, scarce because they need warm nights (hmmm) to reach that ripe ruby state, that ready burst of juicy heat in the mouth ...but sheesh, when you have one… Ok, ok, enough. It has been a year for green beans, bush beans, and oh those squashes, turning king-size in their and our gardeny dreams. This is the current green thumb report from my poetfriend Joan Logghe: last year at this time, we canned and jammed and dried and froze in a frenzy of plenty. ‘Til

I convinced her as the gemmy little jars emerged from their steam bath, that what we both really needed was to go shopping immediately. Two black and one coral dress later we both were rested and perky, and infinitely ready. At least I was. Much like the grasshopper and ant, however, I have lived to see the wisdom of her ways, as her jewel-like syrups and plump peach halves emerged to enliven Sunday pancakes, or roll sensuously down the side of two ice cold scoops of vanilla Haagen Daz. Such is the truth of seasonal desires. Deep in your winter, you will be grateful that you have carefully preserved both your love and your vegetables. And if you haven’t the blessing of filling a colander in your own garden’s dewy morning, there is always the privileged option of your local Farmers’ Market. First, let’s deal with the arsenal of summer squashes at hand, oddly confirming a notion I have never succumbed to, namely, that you can have too much of a good thing. A simple and delicious bread and butter pickle can be put up with zucchini and yellow squash, and these late summer afternoons are the perfect weather to do so.

A Profundity of Pickles 4 lbs zucchini 2 t. celery seed 1 lb. small white onions 2 t. turmeric 1/2 c. salt 2 t. dry mustard 1 qt. cider vinegar 2 t. mustard seed 2 c. sugar Slice the squash and peeled onions thinly. Cover with water and the salt. Let stand 1 hour, then drain off salt water. This will crisp the vegetables. Combine the remaining ingredients, bring to a boil, and pour over the drained squash. Let marinate 1 hour. Bring the mixture to a boil, cook three minutes. Pack into pint mason jars and boil, covered, in a hot water bath for 20 minutes. Remove jars from water bath and allow to cool to room temperature and seal.

Of course, you know that zucchini bread is one of the delights

A wise cook knows to freeze pesto neatly in ice cube trays, ready to pop into a marinara, a creamy what-have-you sauce, or enjoy simply solo, heated à point, for a whoosh of summer’s bounty revisited. of fall. Spicy, with the round, warm flavors of cinnamon and ginger, it’s rather idyllic, like certain men, slathered generously with sweet butter and accompanied by a tall cool glass of cider. This is a non-dairy recipe and you could even substitute a cup of honey for the sugar. It will be just as lovely and P.C. too!

Best Zucchini Bread Preheat oven to 325º. 3 eggs 1 3/4 c. granulated sugar 1 c. vegetable oil 1 T. vanilla 3 c. all purpose flour 1 t. salt 1 t. baking soda 1/2 t. baking powder 2 c. grated raw peeled zucchini 1 T. cinnamon 1/2 t. pumpkin pie spice, ginger, allspice, clove to taste Possible to toss in as the mood and cupboard contents dictate: 1 c. walnuts, chocolate chips, or raisins Beat eggs until light and foamy. Add sugar (or honey), oil, zucchini and vanilla. Combine all the dry ingredients in a separate bowl. Stir into the wet just until moistened. Batter should still be a bit lumpy. Pour into two greased loaf pans. Bake 1 hour, or until a toothpick inserted near the center of the pan comes out dry, and the top, when lightly touched with a delicately inquiring fingertip, springs back. This bread freezes beautifully. If you’re still overburdened squashwise, the large ones make an excellent Zuke Parmesan. Dip half-inch thick slices in beaten, peppery egg, then bread crumbs, and sautée them. Then you layer them in a casserole dish with a nicely basily tomato sauce and generous slabs of mozzarella betwixt and between. Sprinkle lavishly

with Parmesan and bake for an hour or so at 325º. This dish, a delicious pinot, and candlelight says it all. Now this is really cool:

Sun (well, almost) Dried Tomatoes Preheat oven to 200º. Slice perfect Roma tomatoes thinly, or cherry tomatoes in half, and sprinkle with salt. Place on a cookie sheet and bake for 6 hours, or until crispy. These can be frozen for longterm storing, and your pizzas will go on automatic gourmet with these poised on the gooey, lascivious cheese. Or, mix the tomatoes with excellent olive oil, fresh basil, chopped herbs of choice, and crushed fresh garlic. This makes a lush, heady sauce added to a bit moreoil for hot, al dente pasta; or aheady hors d’oeuvre spread on fat, velvety slices of buffalo mozzarellawith maybe a deep, wellbred Merlot. Oooooo, that Bear’s Lair ’06 is way que good, and quite easy on the pocketbook. However you may choose to enjoy men or summer’s provender, trust me, these tomatoes will be a treasure in your culinary toolkit And last, but surely not least, autumn caches for winter to come require pesto, which a wise cook knows to freeze neatly in ice cube trays, ready to pop into a marinara, a creamy what-have-you sauce, or enjoy simply solo, heated à point, for a whoosh of summer’s bounty revisited. Or merely defrost, warm gently, and schmear on crisp Italian bread with cool slivers of crisp Anjou pears. This entirely fabulous and genius version of pesto, is especially interesting because it marries two extraordinary gems of the green world, basil and green chile, traditional flavors of the old and new world both. It also begins with a man, to wit, the utterly and divinely brilliant Felipe Ortega, worldrenowned master and maestro

of micaceous pottery, as well as a effervescently creative chef, who devised this salutary recipe. Sr. Ortega, multi-talented, multi-lingual, runs a wild and inspiring pottery studio cum B & B, Owl Peak, nestled among the majestically rivered, piñon and yucca blanketed mesas of La Madera, New Mexico. His shapely pots, hand-crafted (by coil, not wheel) of clay dug from the ancestral locale of his people, and open-fired, are a rich, deep mahogany color, the slip ashimmer with mica specks, like tiny stars. A visit will profit you a gorgeous meal, perhaps a pottery class, and assuredly, time spent in the company and abode of a 100% original beauty-maker of the first order. And a man who knows his vegetables.

Felipe Ortega’s Green Chile Pesto 4 large cloves of garlic 1 c. well packed, fresh basil 1 c. well-drained, roasted, peeled and chopped green chile* 1 1/2 c. freshly grated Parmesan cheese 2/3 c. piñon nuts, finely chopped 1/2 t. salt (add more as you desire) 1 c. olive oil In a blender, make a paste of all ingredients except the oil. Gradually add in oil, and if desired 1/4 cup of grated Parmesan cheese. Whether your fantasies run toward men or vegetables, remember: both require tenderness and attention, and a sultry, joyous cook does not live by bread alone. ◆ Judyth Hill is a poet and former bakery owner. She has published six books of poetry and is the author of the internationally acclaimed poem, “Wage Peace.” WWW.ROCKMIRTH.COM

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Torrey Music Festival Aug 1 7-9p, Aug 2 11-9p., Aug 3 11-3p. Join us for hot music in the cool, high desert for a weekend of relaxation, camaraderie, and great original music! Featured artists include The Badly Bent, Mark Baysinger, Badly Bent the Stacey Board Trio, The Lab Dogs and many more! There will also be plenty of opportunities to jam, participate in an after-hours open mic sessions, or just relax and enjoy the area. $20/day, $45 for a three-day pass, kids under 12 free! WWW.TORREYMUSICFESTIVAL.COM, INFO@TORREYMUSICFESTIVAL.COM.

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Mondays, Aug 4-25, 7-9p. Where can you go to find ethnic South American dances, North African and Middle Eastern music, and Russian a cappella folk songs? The Utah Arts Council’s “Mondays in the Park” concert series, that’s where! Every Monday during August, free concerts of folk music and ethnic dance will take place at the Chase Home Museum located in the center of Salt Lake City’s Liberty Park. Free. Bring lawn chairs, blankets, and a picnic. Info: 533-5760; ARTS.UTAH.GOV.

Presidential Candidate Gloria La Riva to speak in Salt Lake City

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Library. La Riva was a leader in the movement against the Gulf War, including the 200,000strong San Francisco march on Jan. 19, 1991,

and she is a volunteer organizer for the anti-war coalition ANSWER (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism) in the Bay Area. Her address will focus on three issues: U.S. out of Iraq, single-payer health care, and the environment. Level 1 Conference Room, Main Library, 200 E. 400 S. INFO: LINDA.JPARSONS@GMAIL.COM.

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and choir at the Summer Choral Institute. Be ready to study, sing and perform powerful pieces of music that promote peace, love and harmony. Presented by Salt Lake Choral Artists at the University of Utah. Open to all. $60 adults, $40 students. Rehearsals will be held at the University of Utah School of Music. Info: WWW.SALTLAKECHORALARTISTS.ORG; 942-1434.

Scottish Country Dancing in the Park Aug 5, 19, and 26, 7-9p. Roll your “r’s” over to Sugar House Park for some Scottish English, and Welsh country dancing. The dances range from slow and lilting to lively, and do not require you bring a partner, but you’ll want someone with whom you can share this fun! All dances will be taught and tailored to the experience levels of attendees. Wear comfortable clothes (kilts optional, bagpipes perhaps too cumbersome), and come dance on the grass to your (Brave)heart’s content. Gather on the lawn at the north end of Sugar House Park (2100 S 1400 E), south side of the road, overlooking the pond. Frrree!

Shower singers unite: “Peace and Paradise: Requiems by Faur and Rutter” Aug 7-9, 7-10p. Let your voice be heard! Experience the peace and beauty of music for strings, organ

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Plant and Pest Diagnostic Clinics Aug 11, 1-4p. Wondering why your garden is sprouting more bugs than beans? Master gardeners use research-based science to identify and diagnose plant and pest problems from samples you bring in. This free service is open to anyone who needs assistance. Every Monday (except holidays) through August 1 pm-4 pm. County Government Building, 2001 S. State, Rm S1200. Info: 468-3179 or EXTENSION.USU.EDU/SALTLAKE.

Om Shanti Retreat Aug 8-10, all day. Gas prices, the economy, your kids, the neighbors’ kids, the air quality… Pick a reason. It’s time for a retreat! Come up to the Krishna Temple situated on an elevated 15-acre plot in rural Utah. This 50’ high structure is modeled after a famous devotional place in India and offers respite from the everyday grind, including pet therapy in the form of llamas, cows, parrots, and peacocks. Enjoy a vegetarian buffet and salad bar, temple and meditation room, lake and waterfall. You’ll come back to work the following Monday rejuvenated and spiritually fortified. $101, 8628 S. State Road, Spanish Fork UT. Info: 801-7983559; WWW.UTAHKRISHNAS.COM.

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2nd Annual Women’s Redrock Music Festival Aug 8, 5-9p and Aug 9 12-10p. Escape to the Women’s Redrock Music Festival, where visual and musical artists and emcees rally in the name of “encouraging and supporting Independent Women Musicians from the US and around the world.” Their motto is “Music by women, for everyone.” This year’s featured artist, Melissa Ferrick, promises a performance that is “fierce and funny, outspoken and vulnerable, passionate and real.” Other artists include Camille Bird, Gearl Jam, Jill Knight, Edie Carey, and many more! Artists will perform outdoors, at 7,000 feet elevation in Torrey, Utah, where you will Jill Knight Gearl Jam enjoy a cooler version of Utah’s desert summer. The location is near Capitol Reef National Park (bring your camera and hiking shoes!) and other horseback riding and biking opportunities, so you can rock out to excellent music and artistic expression at the festival and then likewise get rocked to the core via active, outdoor living. Limited housing and camping is provided, so call early to reserve your spot. Tickets are $20 for Friday’s shows, $30 for Saturday’s shows, or $45 for both. Robber’s Roost Bookstore, Torrey Utah. INFO@REDROCKWOMENSFEST.COM or visit WWW.REDROCKWOMENSFEST.COM Motown. They are proud to pay respect to this devilishly good music by giving you a full-scale show to remember. If you want the funk, they’ve got the goods. Gates open at 7. Free. 1355 W. 3100 S. Info: 965-5100

WorldStage! Concerts — The Soul Survivors Aug 11, 8-9:30p. Bringin’ you some furious funk and the sweetest of soul classics, the Utah Cultural Celebration Center presents one of the valley's finest entertainment groups. This 10-piece band boasts some of the best musicians in the Intermountain West; their flashy, inyour-face show is no mere cover band. The Soul Survivors take the best funk, R&B and soul tunes ever and tear into them with fierce style and a sound hailing back to

“A Park in Paris” picnic to benefit The Trust for Public Lands Aug 12, 5-7p. An opportunity to eat delicious food for a great cause! The Hotel Monaco Salt Lake City and Bambara restaurant co-host the third annual “A Park in Paris” picnic to benefit the Trust for Public Land

(TPL), a national nonprofit land conservation organization. The party will feature education on water conservation and environmental issues, water-wise gardening with Cactus & Tropicals, live music, and delicious picnic food by Bambara. A live auction and drawing with items from environmentally conscious businesses will include earth-friendly products and services. The event is open to the public. A suggested donation of $20 is welcome at the door. Guests must RSVP at RELINE.SOMBRERO@HOTELMONACO.COM or 990-9729.

Salsa party and Eat Local Movie Night Aug 15 and 22. Designed to nourish your physical and social wellbeing, Wasatch Gardens presents two events that will draw you out to

enjoy the summer air and local community. Both events are free and open to the public! Aug 15, 6-8 p. Celebrate the season of tomatoes, peppers and onions at Wasatch Gardens’ annual Salsa Party and competition! Come to sample the entries, or bring your own homemade salsa and enter to win prizes. Music and kids activities. Located at Fairpark Garden (1037 W 300 N). Entry forms for the salsa contest are online: WWW.WASATCHGARDENS.ORG. Aug 22, 7:45-10:30 p. Bask in the summer night air during the Eat Local Movie Night. Everybody brings a local-ingredient dish to share (along with the recipe), and a blanket and a chair to best enjoy a movie under the stars. This event will take place at the Tomato Garden (800 S 600 E). Seating is limited, so call 359-2658 to reserve space.

Ogden Pagan Pride Day Aug 30, 11a-7p. It’s Ogden’s first Pagan Pride Day gathering! Come learn about the many varieties of Paganism and some of the myths that surround it, and join in celebrating the harvest season. Increase your knowledge of and appreciation for the vibrant Pagan community via workshops, craft vendors, music, dancing and more. Admission: one non-perishable food item per person. Monroe Park, 3000 S. Monroe Ave, Ogden.

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A question of blood rites BY DONNA HENES Dear Mama Donna, I am anticipating my granddaughter celebrating her first menstrual cycle in the not too distant future. I would like to do something special for her in the way of ritual. I don’t know much about creating that kind of ritual, but I want her day to be a special one that she will remember as bringing her into the fabulous sisterhood of women. Can you help me create such a ritual or tell me where I can learn more about doing such a thing? Loving Grandma from Florida

Dear Grandma, How lucky your granddaughter is to have you to help support her spiritually as she passes through this highly charged and profound life change. This is as it should be, as it has long been, and can once again be—the ongoing ages of women welcoming when it is their time, each new generation into our sacred continuum.

Ceremonies of first blood are a powerful binding rite, the sticky blood, which binds each generation to the next: the Ancients, the Ancestors, the Grandmothers, the Matriarchs, the Mothers,the Daughters,the Perpetual Keepers of the Spiral of Life. This, unfortunately, was not my personal experience. Like so many in my generation, I learned about menstruation from a small sensible pamphlet put out by Modess, an early purveyor of sanitary products. It stressed how simple and ordinary the experience was. How you could live your modern, active life completely unembarrassed and unimpeded by the necessities of your periodic condition. Being quite well prepared (and a Girl Scout, too), I knew exactly what was happening when I discovered my first droplets of blood while playing at Susie Glassman’s house. When I came out of the bathroom, I proudly made my announcement

to Susie and her mom. Suddenly out of nowhere, a fast-moving force bore down on me as Mrs. Glassman inexplicably slapped my incredulous face. She then quickly kissed and embraced me, clucking and fussing like a mother hen. When I told my mother my momentous news as well as my shocking experience, she was furious that Mrs. Glassman had struck me. She knew all about that Jewish tradition where the mother slaps her daughter to welcome her into the long-suffering sisterhood of women. A rational feminist, she hated that I was subjected to this old-fashioned superstitious and humiliating rite. But if my mother didn’t slap me, she didn’t hug me, either, nor make a sweet congratulatory fuss. She agreed with the book that this was just a normal, if unpleasant, bodily function which she usually referred to as “the curse.” Hardly worth a party. Of course, first blood also means first egg. I still find it practically

brated with a Red Ritual. We are special, soul-connected karma sisters and have always shared a rich ceremonial life. I conceived and developed the concept of the rosy red ceremony, and we worked together to arrange the details for a very special evening. Each step in the process of preparation suggested a deeper layer of discussion, story telling and understanding. Red = Blood. Blood = Life. Life = Eggs. We each dressed completely in red, and we both wore bright red lipstick. (One of us was particularly happy about that part.) We sat on rust-colored cushions. A large circular mirror on the floor between us served as our altar decorated with red flowers and candles. We stretched out our legs to create a circle, and painted each other’s finger and toe nails a glossy fire engine red. We blessed each other with a red oil of my own recipe that I call the Power of Love. This does not refer to

This is Love-of-Self love, the power of personal passion, direction, expansion. The power to pursue the dream of one’s own purpose. The power to achieve one’s fullest potential. The courage to be true to one’s vision and convictions. True love. impossible to comprehend the enormity of the sheer potential represented by the blood and the egg— the awesome power of the possibility of life. This is not to say that we are locked into a biologic imperative to reproduce, but that we possess the inherent ability to do so— should we choose. Like that car commercial where the drivers are playing motor polo on a field at the edge of a cliff. “Not that you would, but you could if you wanted to.” No wonder the entire Mbuti society chants “Blessed with the blood!” in celebration of a young girl’s first period. The coming of age ritual for pubescent White Mountain Apache girls is also performed by the entire nation. Each girl wears an eagle feather in her hair for long life, and in the center of her forehead over her third eye, she sports an abalone shell to represent Changing Woman, the Great Creatrix in Her mystical periodicity. When my fairy goddess daughter came into her first blood, we cele-

couple-type love. This is Love-ofSelf love, the power of personal passion, direction, expansion. The power to pursue the dream of one’s own purpose. The power to achieve one’s fullest potential. The courage to be true to one’s vision and convictions. True love. We blessed the four elements, of which we are part. We tasted each one, taking into ourselves the power of Mother Earth. Drank water with sea salt. Ate a grain of healing earth from Chimayó, New Mexico. Breathed in the fragrant air of burning sage. Rubbed ash collected from the volcanic fire of Mt. Pinatubo, Mt. Vesuvius and Mt. St. Helens. We blessed each other as the dear daughters of Mother Nature. We are strong and beautiful like She is. We swore to use our female powers to protect Mother Earth and all Her creations. We pinned some of the flowers from the altar into our hair, and sucking on sweet strawberry candies, we told each other our favorite parts

of being a girl, of being a woman. We got silly and giggly (the sugar no doubt) and exchanged all sorts of secret dreams and desires, fond memories, and fabulous flights of fantasy. Sort of a New Age Goddess version of “I Enjoy Being a Girl.” Danika* took up a tall, unlit crimson candle and talked into it her aspirations, ambitions, goals and intentions for this new stage of her life. She was serious and sincere, and I was touched and honored to be in her presence. When she finished her list, she lit the candle, thus igniting her intentions. In the glow of the flame, she sealed her transformation with a sip of red berry juice and bite of egg hardboiled in water colored with beets. Finally, I presented her with a red velvet drawstring purse for her to use as an amulet bag. One by one, I offered her various objects that were symbolic of the power of womanhood and related its significance as she held each in the palm of her hand: a tiny pink rose bud for the blossoming of her true self; a cowry shell, representing the holy yoni through which we bleed, through which we receive pleasure, through which we were all conceived and born; a crystal to draw the energy of the universe toward her; an eye charm to help her to see what it is important for her to see; a rose thorn for protection; a silver bell for joy. Over the years, as she grows into her woman power, she will add her own magical charms to this starter collection. This Red Ritual is only by way of a suggestion, you understand. Feel free to design an occasion that speaks directly to you and to your granddaughter and which is true to the relationship that you share. Use images, symbols and objects that resonate with you. Trust your woman wisdom and share with her what you know. Welcome her, in the name of all life, into the sacred flow of succession. This is the root of all initiation. Be “blessed with the blood!” xx Mama Donna ◆ Are you cyclically confused? In a ceremonial quandary? Completely clueless? Wonder no more. Send your questions about seasons, cycles, and celebrations to Mama Donna at CITYSHAMAN@AOL.COM. Donna Henes is an internationally renowned urban shaman, eco-ceremonialist, award-winning author, popular speaker and workshop leader whose joyful celebrations of celestial events have introduced ancient traditional rituals and contemporary ceremonies to millions of people in more than 100 cities since 1972.

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a few days. Prayer is the cleansing tool of choice for others.) The more I do this work, the more I believe that the kingpin to all of life is, ”Does this make me feel good?” After all the clearing, people usually have two types of jewelry: too big and too small, too delicate and too heavy. Many folks are out of touch with their bodies and have no idea how they relate to the size of their jewelry and where it should land on their bodies. Maybe a person will have a connection to a certain stone, but maybe it would be better left on their sink than worn on their neck.

Three necklaces that are exactly right might be plenty. Most of the jewelry people don’t wear has some critical flaw in comfort or practical design. Jewelry is best when the wearer can forget it’s there. It must become a part of us, seamlessly flowing through our day and returning home with us at night. I tell all my female clients that what they wear just below their clavicle is critical to what they say about themselves to the outside world. The color, the stone, the art, the size and the shape— all these elements need to be just right to perfectly reflect one’s essence. Three nice necklaces that are exactly right might be plenty. Earrings are a different story: You just need more. They need to be the right length, weight and color to be seen through the hair. I like my clients to develop a keen eye for what is fabulous, not just okay. There are so many amazing jewelry artists now; we have an amazing range of choices, so we don’t have to settle. (My favorite local artisan jewelry spot is Fawn, a boutique near Over the Counter Café on 33rd South and 23rd East.) Rings are really powerful and I love to see men wearing them, even pinky rings. If they are not too big and scary, they can be extremely classy. I like that in a man. Women can have a sense of play and fun in their jewelry collections as well as the staid and sensible pearls. The little girl in all of us wants some big shiny things for dress-up. (I love to buy the cheap colorful rings at Got Beauty, just for fun.) Remember that your jewelry is a wardrobe, too, so clear it out and restock it with things that speak only of you! ◆ Auretha Callison an image and essence consultant in Salt Lake City. Visit her at WWW.INTUITIONSTYLING.COM.

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Spring Forest Qigong Healing 842-4517. Phil Story. Energy healing sessions for relief from illness and pain. Restore and maintain harmony and health. Individual and group instruction. Theta Healing & EFT 435-843-5309 Theta DNA I & DNA II certified by Vianna’s Nature’s Path. Resolve physical & emotional pain. Limiting beliefs dissolved quickly. Leave your pains from years past & create lasting peace in your mind and body, call or e-mail today! HEALINGSWITHGENNA@COMCAST.NET Theta Healing with Darcy Phillipps 916-4221. Are you free to be who you really are? Changing your beliefs changes your life. Doors open to instant healing. Love is unconditional. Dreams to reality. Come and play. DARCYPHILLIPPS.COM. Universal Abundance Reiki Master-Teacher: Distance Attunement 313-0692. Karen Burch, Reiki Master/facilitator. Specialized Reiki helps release limitations, promotes prosperity, insight. Easy to facilitate. No touch positions. Entire being activated, not just hands. Flows through intention, travels any distance. Only one Attunement needed. Manual/ certificate. $40. UA Reiki phone sessions also available. Kathryn Wallis 394-4577. Evenings 4-7. Be healthy regardless of your age and what you hear. Your body is a chemical lab reflecting formulas by thoughts, illnesses, aging, mindsets, lifestyle. Just living offsets chemical balance. I change your balance by remote only. 30 years experience. WWW.WHOLEBODYBALANCETUNING.COM

GETAWAY outdoor suppliers, lodging, spas, outdoor education Canyonlands Field Institute 1-800-860-5262. P.O. Box 68, Moab, UT 84532. Authentic nature and culture. River and hiking trips and camps for schools, adults and families. WWW.CANYONLANDSFIELDINST.ORG Cliff Spa 933-2225. Cliff Lodge, Snowbird, UT. Relax, refresh, recreate. The Cliff Spa at Snowbird offers massages, wraps, facials, manicures, pedicures & a full service salon. Also a rooftop lap pool, whirlpool, eucalyptus steam room, dry saunas & exercise facility. WWW.CLIFFSPA.COM

HEALTH, WELLNESS & BODY CARE Ayurveda, beauty supply, birth services/ prenatal care, Chinese medicine/acupuncture, colon therapy, dentistry, health centers,

health products, homeopathy, naturopaths, nutritionists, physical therapy, physicians, women’s healthcare

A.I.M: Frequencies – Balance – Self-Healing DaNell 680-2853, David 558-9340. Stop surviving and begin thriving. The progression of the AIM (All Inclusive Method) technology is chronicled in the novel “Sanctuary: The Path to Consciousness” (Lewis & Slawson). Inherited predispositions, physical & mental imbalances, environmental toxicity–you can self heal 24/7 using this frequency tool. Pets too. WWW.INFINITECONSCIOUSNESS.COM. Almarome® Organic Essential Oils 1.866.392.6909. Based in Sugar House and Provence, France. Home of The SHIELD™, unique blends of 100% certified organic essential oils to protect your health all winter long, reduce exposure to bugs and maximize immunity. WWW.ALMAROME.COM Lori Berryhill, L. Ac. MSTOM Acupuncture and Herbal Medicine 670 7th Avenue 355-3076 / 554-5913 Offering a full range of health/wellness care. The philosophy of my clinic reaches for healing, restorative and preventative therapies including all acute and chronic diseases, sports injury, pediatrics, and emotional issues. Cameron Wellness Center T.W. Cameron, BSN, ND. 486.4226. 1945 South 1100 East #202. You can enhance your healing potential! Naturopathic medicine with emphasis on treatment of chronic illness. Services include: education in mind/body connection, thyroid, adrenal and hormone balancing, diet and lifestyle counseling, neural therapy and intravenous nutrition treatment. Colon Hydrotherapy—Massage 541-3064. Karen Schiff, PT. Licensed physical therapist, certified colon hydrotherapist, I-ACT member, FDA approved system. Clear out old toxins & create the environment within you to realize your health goals. Gently soothe, cleanse, hydrate & tone your body’s primary elimination channel. Enhanced results with nutritional guidance & abdominal massage. This ancient work is a gentle, external method to relieve digestive distress, PMS, menopause, infertility, more! WWW.KARENSCHIFF.COM Dragon Dreams, a New Age Gift Boutique In the Web of Life Wellness Center, 989 E 900 S, 509-1043. Meditation and chakra CDs, ORGANIC skin care products and incense, books, crystals, local artist consignments and mystical things like magic wands, fairies and dragons. DNFT Chiropractic With Lacey Picard, DC. 505-8189 Directional Non-Force Technique offers specific, gentle adjustments for long-term correction. No cracking or popping. TMJ, knees, shoulders and spine are addressed as well as previously hopeless concerns. This technique focuses on minimal visits. Enjoy your life now! POWERFULLIFECHIRO.COM. Five Element Acupuncture LLC Pamela Bys, RN, BSN, L.Ac. (Dipl Ac.) 2670 South 2000 East, SLC; 256 Historic 25th St., Ogden. (801) 920-4412. Five Element Acupuncture focuses on getting to the root cause of all problems. It treats symptoms as

well as causes. Live Healthy and Live Long. WWW.ACUPUNCTURE5E.COM

Uli Knorr, ND Eastside Natural Health Clinic 474-3684. Dr. Knorr, with 12 years of clinical experience, offers comprehensive naturopathic medical care. Focus on gastrointestinal health, endocrinology, detoxification and the cardiovascular system; Bio-identical hormone therapy along with adrenal and thyroid function support. Natural medicine/ herbal medicine focus. RBCBS/ ValueCare. EASTSIDENATURALHEALTH.COM. Maharishi Ayurveda 801.446 2999. Maharishi Invincibility Center of SLC. Enjoy Better Health Today. Maharishi Ayurveda herbal supplements are ancient, authentic, time-tested formulas for promoting health and well being, without negative side effects. Produced with naturally organic wildcrafted herbs, these supplements are manufactured according to the highest international standards of purity. WWW.MAPI.COM Todd Mangum, MD, Web of Life Wellness Center 531-8340. 989 E. 900 S., Ste. A1. Dr. Mangum is a family practice physician who uses acupuncture, massage, herbs & nutrition to treat a wide range of conditions including chronic fatigue, HIV infection, allergies, digestive disturbances and fibromyalgia. He also designs programs to maintain health & wellness. WWW.WEBOFLIFEWC.COM Leslie Peterson, ND Full Circle Women’s Healthcare 746-3555. Offering integrative medical care for women of all ages. Natural hormone replacement therapy; annual exams; evaluation, diagnosis and treatment of many gynecological health concerns; natural medicine preferentially used. Gentle, safe, whole-person care. WWW.FULLCIRCLECARE.COM Planned Parenthood of Utah Call 1-800-230-PLAN to reach the Planned Parenthood nearest you. Affordable, confidential health care & family planning services for women, men & teens. Abstinence-based education programs for children 532-1586. Many volunteer opportunities 532-1586. Precision Physical Therapy 557-6733. Jane Glaser-Gormally, MS, PT. 4568 S. Highland Dr., Ste. 140. Licensed PT specializing in holistic integrated manual therapy (IMT). Safe, gentle, effective techniques for pain and tissue dysfunction. This unique form of therapy works to identify sources of pain and assists the body with self-corrective mechanisms to alleviate pain and restore mobility and function. BCBS and Medicare provider. Wasatch Vision Clinic 328-2020. 849 E. 400 S. in Salt Lake across from the 9th East TRAX stop. Comprehensive eye care, eye disease, LASIK, contacts and glasses since 1984. We accept most insurance. WASATCHVISION.COM Acupuncture Associates. 359-2705. Natalie Clausen. Center For Enhanced Wellness 596-9998. 2681 E. Parley’s Way. Millcreek Herbs, LLC. Merry Lycett Harrison, RH, CAHG. 466-1632, WWW.MILLCREEKHERBS.COM

ACUPUNCTURE AND

CHINESE HERBAL MEDICINE Millcreek Wellness Center WWW.MILLCREEKWELLNESS.COM 486-1818. 1550 E. 3300 S.

MISCELLANEOUS HOURLY SPACE AVAILABLE Dhanyata Life Center, West Jordan. Available for life enrichment classes, weekend workshops, creative workshops, small yoga/meditation groups, client and group meetings, life coaching etc. Early A.M. P/T subleases also available. FREE WIFI. DHANYATALIFECENTER.COM Space Available 596-0147 Ext. 41, 989 E. 900 S. Center for Transpersonal Therapy. Large plush space. Bright & comfortable atmosphere, available for workshops, classes, or ongoing groups. Pillows, yoga chairs, & regular chairs provided, kitchenette area. Available for hourly, full day or weekend use. Tracy Aviary 322-BIRD, WWW.TRACYAVIARY.ORG. An oasis in the heart of Salt Lake City with 350 birds and 150 species. Many are endangered or injured in the wild and unfit to be released. Guests enjoy Utah’s oldest standing industrial building – The Mill, used for event rentals and year-round bird programs. Volunteer Opportunity Adopt-A-Native-Elder is seeking office/warehouse volunteers in Salt Lake City every Tuesday and Friday 10:00 am - noon. Come and join a wonderful group of people for a fascinating and gratifying experience. Contact Joyce 801-4740535 or MAIL@ANELDER.ORG, WWW.ANELDER.ORG. Catalyst 363-1505. 140 McClelland, SLC. CONTACT@CATALYSTMAGAZINE.NET. KCPW—88.3 & 105.1FM. 359-5279 KRCL—91 & 96.5FM. 359-9191 KUED—TV 7. 581-3064 KUER—FM90. 581-6777

MOVEMENT & SPORT dance, fitness, martial arts, Pilates, yoga AquaNia 801-455-6343 Jacqueline Fogel, Certified Nia Instructor. Experience the joy of movement in the water of a warm pool. AquaNia is movement that awakens body awareness and body wisdom to promote health and well-being. Adaptable to meet the needs of all fitness levels. JLFOGEL@COMCAST.NET Bikram Yoga—Salt Lake City 488-Hot1 (4681) 1140 Wilmington Ave. (across from Wild Oats) Bikram certified instructors teach a series of 26 postures affecting every muscle, ligament, organ & all of the body, bringing it into balance. 36 classes each week.

All ages & ability levels welcome to all classes. The room is warm by intention, so come prepared to work hard & sweat. Check for new classes in Catalyst calendar. WWW.BIKRAMYOGASLC.COM Bikram Yoga—Sandy 501-YOGA (9642). 9343 S. 1300 E. Our south valley sanctuary nestled below Little Cottonwood Canyon provides a warm and inviting environment to discover or deepen your yoga practice. All levels encouraged, no reservations necessary. Certified teachers. Classes 7 days a week. Call for schedule. Introductory package is 10 consecutive days of unlimited yoga for $20. WWW.BIKRAMYOGASANDY.COM Centered City Yoga 521-YOGA. 918 E. 900 S. and 625 S. State St. Centered City Yoga is often likened to that famous TV “hangout” where everybody knows your name, sans Norm (and the beer, of course.) We offer more than 60 classes a week to keep Salt Lake City CENTERED and SANE. WWW.CENTEREDCITYYOGA.COM.

Dr. Robert Zeng, O.M.D., L.Ac. ᓿ 20 years of experience as a Chinese medicine educator and practitioner ᓿ Advanced training at Chegdu and Hei Long Jiang University of Chinese Medicine in China for pain management and post-stroke care ᓿ Founder of International Institute of Chinese Medicine (IICM), Albuquerque and Denver campuses. Relief From: arthritis, injury, post-surgery, fibromyalgia, migraine, sciatica, carpal tunnel, bone spurs, herniated disc, stroke rehabilitation, MS, asthma, allergies, bronchitis, sinusitis, cold, flu, chronic fatigue, weight control, diabetes, thyroid disorders, prostate disorders, depression, stress, anxiety, insomnia, cancer, addiction, and other health concerns.

Dr. Lin Bin, O.M.D., L.Ac. ᓿ ᓿ ᓿ ᓿ

M.D. and O.M.D. in China Specialized in Chinese Gynecology and internal medicine Practiced acupuncture and Chinese medicine in the U.S. for 16 years Faculty member for IICM and Dallas College of Oriental Medicine. Relief From: infertility, PMS, irregular menstruation, menopausal symptoms, yeast infection, fibroid, endometriosis, breast lumps, ovarian cysts, pregnancy and after-birth care, hypertension, coronary heart disease, high cholesterol, arrhythmia, stomachache, constipation, colitis, hernias, ulcers, hepatitis, urinary tract infections, incontinence, and aging.

Mindful Yoga 355-2617. Charlotte Bell, RYT & Iyengar certified. Public & private classes, workshops, retreats, river trips and teacher training since 1986. This form of yoga combines alignment awareness with mindfulness practice & breath-supported movement to encourage a sense of ease & balance in traditional postures. Classes include meditation and pranayama (breath awareness) instruction as well as physical practice. Bring comfortable clothing and a sense of humor. WWW.CHARLOTTEBELLYOGA.COM Red Lotus School of Movement 740 S 300 W, SLC, UT, 84101. 355-6375. Established in 1994 by Sifu Jerry Gardner and Jean LaSarre Gardner. Traditional-style training in the classical martial arts of T’ai Chi, Wing Chun Kung-Fu, and T’ai Chi Chih (qi gong exercises). Children’s classes in Wing Chun Kung-Fu. Located downstairs from Urgyen Samten Ling Tibetan Buddhist Temple. WWW.REDLOTUSSCHOOL.COM, REDLOTUS@REDLOTUS.CNC. NET.

Center for Enhanced Wellness 2681 E. Parleys Way #203, Salt Lake City Tel: (801) 596 9998

Pioneer Comprehensive Medical Clinic 12433 W. Fort Street, Draper Tel: (801) 576 1086

HELP NAVAJO ELDERS The Adopt-A-Native-Elder Program is looking for volunteers to help with food packing and with our fall food runs to the Navajo Reservation.

THE SHOP Anusara Yoga Studio 435-649-9339. 1167 Woodside Ave., P.O Box 681237, Park City, UT 84068. Certified & affiliated Anusara instructors inspire students to open their hearts & express themselves through the art of yoga. Exciting all-level classes taught in an amazing 4,500 sq ft. historic building in downtown Park City. Drop-ins welcome. WWW.PARKCITYYOGA.COM

Food Packing at our Salt Lake warehouse: Saturdays Sept. 6 & 13, 8:00 a.m. to noon Food Runs to the Reservation: Oljato: Aug. 19-20 Leupp, Dilkon, Birdsprings: Sept. 23-26 Many Farms, Tsaile, Pinon: Sept. 30-Oct. 4 Sanders, Big Mountain, Teesto: Oct. 5-9

The Yoga Center 277-9166. 4689 So. Holladay Blvd. Hatha-based yoga classes 7 days a week, including vinyasa, slow flow, Anusara, prenatal, gentle and restorative. Workshops, corporate and private sessions available. All levels of experience welcome. WWW.YOGAUTAH.COM Body & Mind Studio. 486-2660. 1063 E. 3300 S. WWW.BODYANDMINDSTUDIO.COM Erin Geesaman Rabke Somatic Educator. 898-0478. WWW.BODYHAPPY.COM DanceScene. 298-8047. Margene Anderson. RDT Community School. 534-1000. 138 W. Broadway. Streamline. 474-1156. 1948 S. 1100 E. WWW.STREAMLINEBODYWORKS.NET

For further information about the Program or these activities please visit our website at: www.anelder.org If you are interested in participating in a food run, please contact Linda Myers at 435-649-0535 for additional information.

Food runs are an opportunity for a spiritual journey to walk the Giveaway Path with traditional Navajo Elders. Salt Lake City Warehouse: 328 West Gregson Ave.

Warehouse Phone: 801- 474 - 0535

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PSYCHIC ARTS & INTUITIVE SCIENCES astrology, mediums, past life integration, psychics All About Your Life: Readings, Psychic Tarot 575-7103. Margaret Ruth. Listen to Margaret Ruth on X-96 FM on Friday mornings or book a private appointment or party. WWW.MARGARETRUTH.COM Channeled Full Spectrum Readings Direct From the Masters 347-5493, Marie. Tap into your highest potential by having readings brought forth in the highest vibration possible. Receive wisdom, counseling, life path, career, and love advice, entity healings, prayer work, ascension and path acceleration. Become the light. Channeled Readings through Spiritual Medium 968-8875, 577-1348. Deloris, as heard on the Mick & Allen Show (KBER Radio, 101.1), can help you with those who have crossed over and other paranormal activity. She can help bring understanding regarding past lives, life purpose and relationships. Available for parties and night clubs. DELORISSPIRITUALMEDIUM.COM

Lilli DeCair: Inspirational Mystical Entertainment 533-2444 and 577-6119. European born professional psychic, holistic health educator, reiki master /teacher, life coach, Mental Health Association in Utah Board Member, serves on Mayor’s Diversity Speakers Board, ESL I instructor, party entertainer. Featured radio magazine personality. Available at Dancing Cranes Fri-Sun, 486-1129 and Cafe Alchemy Sundays 5-9 p. One of 2005 Governor’s Commission on Families Women of the Year recipiants. Poet, singer, dancer, wedding planner/official, Shamanic 9 Day Medicine Wheel Journeys. Alyse Finlayson, Spiritual Artist & Psychic 435-640-6042. Trained artist uses her psychic gifts to paint portraits of your angels and guides. Offering soul retrievals and assists people in building and bringing awareness to their connection with their souls (higher selves) so as to develop their chosen soul paths. WWW.SOULINTERCONNECTION.COM;

Free Horary Charts: Practical Astrology Avani Vyas. 288-9354. Quick answers to your specific questions relating to day-to-day matters (relationships, purchases, job changes, relocation, travel etc.). Excellent aid to your decision making. No medical questions please. Horary: The Art of Cycles & Timing Victoria Fugit. 435-259-9417. Horary can answer questions about lost articles or animals, buying new cars or houses, signing contracts; it helps you decide about changing jobs, moving, getting married. If you are wrestling with a question, horary can probably shed light on it.

Instant Psychic Ability; Metaphysical Therapy Perform visual telepathy and telekinesis in just minutes. Parties and private counseling by

Koda, author of “Instant Enlightenment” and “Koda’s Psychic Party Games.” Metaphysical awareness, psychological wisdom and astrology can rid you of guilt and fear and empower your life. WWW.KODASPLACE.COM

course that teaches us to live deliberately. It gives us tools for experiencing compassion and true cooperation on our planet and opens doors unimaginable. Rebecca Hunt is a new Avatar Master. Call regarding a free introduction.

Julie Sudbury Latter, Master Astrologer 25 years in practice. Personal readings by phone, in person. Relationship compatibilities, career options, life crisis and lessons, life direction. Readings for loved ones passed on. Understand what your loved one experienced in the death process. 801-539-0539.

Barbara G. Babson, L.C.S.W. 567-3545 370 E. South Temple, #550. Psychotherapy for individuals, couples, and adolescents. Specializing in EMDR (eye movement desensitisation reprocessing). Barb uses EMDR from a position of empathy and understanding in treating trauma, loss, and relationship issues.

Soul & Psyche 293-0484. Cynthia Hill, PhD. Astrological readings focused on energetic & cellular memory patterns of the ’mind-body’ system, personality strength & challenges; current & past life patterns & habits, relationship & family dynamics, soul purpose & spiritual intent, current & future cycles of growth, healing & empowerment through self-knowledge & understanding. 30 years clinical experience. Call for appt. & class info.

Jeff Bell, L.C.S.W. 364-5700, Ext. 2, 1399 S. 700 E. Ste. 1, SLC. Specializing in empowering relationships; cultivating hardiness and mindfulness; managing stress & compulsivity; alleviating depression/ anxiety/grief; healing PTSD & childhood abuse/ neglect; addictions recovery; GLBT exploration as well as resolving disordered eating, body image & life transitions. Individual, couples, family, group therapy & EMDR.

Transformational Astrology Ralfee Finn. 800-915-5584. Catalyst’s astrology columnist for 10 years! Visit her website at WWW.AQUARIUMAGE.COM or e-mail her at RALFEE@AQUARIUMAGE.COM Amy Megan West, Professional Astrologer WWW.MOONGLIDE .COM. Astrology, Tarot and Psychic reader with over 20+ years experience. Astrologer for WWW.MYSTARLINES.COM. Call for appointment: 550-5353.

Center for Healing Arts 209-4404. Carol Littlefield, APRN/PP, psychiatric nurse specialist with prescriptive practice. 18 years offering natural alternative care. Awaken the soul by applying new science and technology to ancient wisdom practices. Metatronic healings. Soul therapy, the highest healing! Group meditation Thursdays 7-8:30. 1210 Princeton Ave., by appointment, insurance accepted. WWW.OURCOMMUNITYCONNECTION.COM.

Anne Windsor, Professional Astrologer 888.876.2482. 1338 S Foothill #182 Salt Lake City UT 84108. KNOW NOW. Invest in a session with Anne Windsor and draw on her extensive experience to crack your own life’s code. Discover winning strategies to attract healthy relationships, establish financial security, achieve professional success, and find contentment. Private tutoring, gift certificates available. Visa/MC. WWW.ANNEWINDSOR.COM

Center for Transpersonal Therapy 596-0147. 989 E. 900 S. Dana Appling, LCSW, Denise Boelens, PhD; Chris Robertson, LCSW; Lynda Steele, LCSW; Sherry Lynn Zemlick, PhD, Wil Dredge LCSW. The transpersonal approach to healing draws on the knowledge from traditional science & the spiritual wisdom of the east & west. Counseling orientation integrates body, mind, & spirit. Individuals, couples, groups, retreats, & classes.

The Windswept Center 560-3761. We offer classes and workshops that teach you how to access your own clairvoyance and healing abilities. Learn simple tools to bring your life together—manage your job, family, future, relationships, creativity, health and spirituality. For more information about us, classes and workshops, please visit our web site or call our office. WWW.WINDSWEPTCENTER.COM

Steven J. Chen, Ph.D., Licensed Psychologist 718-1609. 150 S. 600 E. Healing techniques for depression, anxiety and relationship issues. Treatment of trauma, abuse and stress. Career guidance. Sensitive and caring approach to create wellness, peace, happiness and contentment. WWW.STEVENCHEN.COM.

Intuitive Therapy Suzanne Wagner, 359-2225. Trish Withus 918-6213. WWW.THEREISONLYLOVE.COM

PSYCHOTHERAPY COUNSELING & PERSONAL GROWTH coaching, consulting, hypnosis, integrated awareness, psychology / therapy /counseling, shamanic, sound healing Avatar 244-8951. Avatar is a consciousness training

Sue Connor, Ph.D. 1399 South 700 East #10. 583-7848. Improve your response to stress with effective self care strategies. Increase your relapse prevention skills and enhance your recovery. Mindful psychotherapy for relief from acute and post traumatic stress, addictions, disordered eating, chronic pain or illness, mood disorders. New book clubs starting in June. Check out info at WWW.MINDFULSLC.COM Stephen Emerson, LCSW 487-1091. 150 S 600 E, Ste. 7B Offering a transpersonal approach to psychotherapy that facilitates access to innate inner wisdom, strength, creativity and potential for individuals, couples and families dealing with life transitions, stress, emotional difficulties, low self-esteem, relationship issues, addictive behaviors and abuse issues. Treatment of performance anxiety for musicians, actors and other public presenters.

Emotions Anonymous Need a 12-step group? Call 359-HEAL (4325).

Marianne Felt, MT-BC, LPC 524-0560, EXT. 3. 150 S. 600 E., Ste. 7C. Licensed professional counselor, board certified music therapist, certified Gestalt therapist, Red Rock Counseling & Education. Transpersonal psychotherapy, music therapy, Gestalt therapy, EMDR. Open gateways to change through experience of authentic contact. Integrate body, mind, & spirit through creative exploration of losses, conflicts, & relationships that challenge & inspire our lives. Some lower fees available.

Robin Friedman, LCSW 599-1411 (Sugar House). Transformational psychotherapy for making lasting positive change. Discover effective ways of finding and expressing your deeper truth and authentic self. Relationship work, sexuality, depression/ anxiety, addictions, trauma recovery, and creative explorations of life-purpose and self-awareness. Individuals, couples, groups. Trained practitioner of Expressive Arts Therapy. Jeff Grathwohl, MA 403-5171. 336 E 900 S. The Synergy Center. Illuminate the luminous body! A luminous energy field surrounds us and informs our body and life. Release the wounds and contracts that keep you from choosing your own destiny. WWW.THESHAMANNETWORK.COM. Teri Holleran, LCSW Red Rock Counseling & Education, LLC 5240560. 150 S. 600 E., Ste. 7C. Transformational therapy, consultation & facilitation. Discover how the investigation of loss, trauma, body symptoms, mood disturbances, relationship conflicts, environmental despair & the questions related to meaning & purpose initiate the transformational journey. Hypnosis: Jolene Shields, C.Ht. 801-942-6175. Hypnosis is a naturally induced state of relaxed concentration in which suggestions for change are communicated to the subconscious mind, making change seem effortless and easy. Jolene is a medically certified hypnotherapist with 18 years of experience. Weight loss, HypnoBirthing®, stress reduction, smoking cessation, etc.

Law of Attraction Lynn Solarczyk 801.510.0593 or LYNNSOLARCZYK@MAC.COM. Teaching the law of attraction—what it is, and how to apply it to your life. LIVINGLOA.BLOGSPOT.COM Jan Magdalen, LCSW 582-2705, 2071 Ashton Circle, SLC. Offering a transpersonal approach to the experiences and challenges of our life cycles, including: individuation-identity, sexuality and sexual orientation, partnership, work, parenting, divorce, aging, illness, death and other loss, meaning and spiritual awareness. Individuals, couples and groups. Clinical consultation and supervision. Marilynne Moffitt, PhD 266-4551. 825 E. 4800 S. Murray 84107. Offering interventions for psychological growth & healing. Assistance with behavioral & motivational changes, refocusing of life priorities, relationship issues, addiction & abuse issues, & issues regarding health. Certified clinical hypnotherapist, NLP master practitioner & EMDR practitioner.

Sunny M. Nelson, MSW CSW 801-755-1229. Healing with the Higher Self. Interventions to assist Autistic and Indigo children and adults. Healing with assistance from the Higher Self to resolve trauma, addictions, grief/

$PMPSQVODUVSF loss, womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s issues, emotional pain, gay/lesbian /bisexual issues. This approach teaches the concept that one chooses life events for the purpose of soul growth and spiritual mastery.

NeuroFeedback Associates 801-428-3178. Donna J. Salmen, Ph.D. 4001 S 700 E Suite 500, SLC. Specializing in neurofeedback and biofeedback computer interactive treatments for anxiety, depression, behavior disorders, attention problems, support for smoking and addiction treatment. Facilitates self regulation without drugs or side effects. Introduction at no cost. privateREVOLUTIONS 232-6162. Online Coaching. Success Soundtracks. Strategic Plans. Revolutionize your life or business in 2008. We help you cross the finish line, mixing powerful right-brain tools like visualization with strategic coaching. Goal-focused packages or custom soundtracks â&#x20AC;&#x201C; available completely online. Credit cards accepted. WWW.PRIVATEREVOLUTIONS.COM. Stephen Proskauer, MD, Integrative Psychiatry 631-8426. Sanctuary for Healing and Integration, 860 E. 4500 S., Ste. 302. Steve is a seasoned psychiatrist, Zen priest and shamanic healer. He sees kids, teens, adults, couples and families, integrating psychotherapy, meditation and soul work with judicious use of medication to relieve emotional pain and problem behavior. Steve specializes in creative treatment of bipolar disorders. STEVE@KARMASHRINK.COM. Blog: WWW.KARMASHRINK.COM. Jon Scheffres, MA, LPC 633-3908. 1550 E. 3300 S., SLC. Every life is a call to adventure. Offering an awareness-based approach for treating depression, anxiety, marital/relationship issues, adolescent behavior problems, domestic violence and addictions. Individual, family, couples, and groups. Stress reduction through yoga and meditation. Clinical consultation and supervision also available. Mike Sheffield, Ph.D. 518-1352. 1104 E. Ashton Ave (2310 S.) #112. Coaching and psychotherapy with adults and youth. Integrative approach to personal transformation, emphasizing process work with selfawareness, pattern change, transitions. Workshops and groups on mindfulness, creativity, emotional intelligence, transformational journeys, relationships, parenting.

Sierra Earthworks Foundation 274-1786. Holladay, Utah. Ramona Sierra, MSW, LCSW. Providing clinical services through integrated approaches utilizing traditional and indigenous healing practices to health/mental health and complementary medicine. Most insurances accepted. SIERRAEARTHWORKS@QUEST.NET Steve Seliger, LMFT 661-7697. 1104 E. Ashton Ave. (2310 S.) #203. Specializing in helping people develop healthy loving relationships, conflict resolution for couples, developing powerful communication skills, resolving parent-teen conflicts, depression, phobias, ending & recovering from abuse, conflicts & issues related to sexuality & libido in men & women, sexual orientation issues.

Sarah Sifers, Ph.D., LCSW Shamanic Practitioner, Minister of the Circle of the Sacred Earth 531-8051. Shamanic Counseling. Shamanic Healing. Mentoring for people called to the Shamanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Path. Explore health or mental health issues using the ways of the shaman. Sarahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s extensive training includes shamanic extraction healing, soul retrieval healing, psychopomp work for death and dying, shamanic counseling and shamanic divination. Sarah has studied with Celtic, Brazilian, Tuvan, Mongolian, Tibetan and Nepali Shamans.

Spiritual Coaching Marlise Cromar, Oceans Consulting. 815-3658; (MARLISE33@MAC.COM). Spiritual life guidance using a refreshing combination of wisdom traditions including Buddhism, the Tao, Shamanism, Mayan Calendar, A Course in Miracles, Numerology, Christian mysticism, and Eastern Indian consciousness. Focus is on bringing balance to life by harmonizing masculine & feminine energies and embracing your unique, creative role in the collective transformation. Outdoor sessions welcome! Naomi Silverstone, DSW, LCSW 209-1095. Psychotherapy and shamanic practice, 989 E. 900 S. #B5. Holistic practice integrates traditional and nontraditional approaches to health, healing, and balance or â&#x20AC;&#x153;ayni.â&#x20AC;? Access new perceptual lenses as you reanimate your relationship with nature. Shamanic practice in the Inka tradition. SoulCentered Coaching LLC 801-440-1752 Sara Winters, COC, Spiritual Psychology. Find balance in your life by connecting with your soulâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s desire to live your life consciously through self-awareness, gratitude and forgiveness. Matt Stella, LCSW Red Rock Counseling & Education, LLC 5240560 x1. 150 S. 600 E., Ste. 7C. Psychotherapy for individuals, couples, families and groups. Specializing in relationship work, mens issues, depression, anxiety, addictive patterns, and lifemeaning explorations.

Daniel Sternberg, PhD, Psychologist 364-2779. 150 South 600 East, Bldg. 4B. Fax: 364-3336. Sensitive use of rapid release methods and EMDR to free you from unwanted emotions to allow you more effective control and happiness in your life. Individuals, couples, families, groups and businesses. Treatment of trauma, post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety, tension, stress-related difficulties abuse and depression. Jim Struve, LCSW 364-5700 Ext 1. 1399 S. 700 E., Ste. 2, SLC. Specializing in life transitions, strengthening relationships, fostering resilience, healing from childhood trauma & neglect (including male survivors of sexual abuse), assisting partners of abuse survivors, addictions recovery, sexual identity, empowerment for GLBT individuals/ couples. Individual, couples, group therapy and NET (Neuro Emotional Technique) practitioner. Flexible times. www.mindfulpresence.com The Shamanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Cave John Knowlton. 263-3838. WWW.THESHAMANSCAVE.COM

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What do you wonder? How to harness your wonder power BY JEANNETTE MAW

here does your wondering mind take you? What do your thoughts land on when you leave them unattended? I asked a handful of friends what they were wondering about one day. Here’s a sample of what I heard: “I wonder …” • when my son will remember my birthday • whether or not I’ll get this project done in time • if the check came yet • how many things in last night’s dinner were not on the diet • whether it’ll rain on my wedding day • when my trainer’s going to admit he doesn’t know what he’s doing • if I’m going to let my partner down in our next tournament • whether the bank will close before I get there • what my manager thinks when I’m late The common thread was to muse about something they didn’t necessarily want to come to fruition. I don’t want to say it’s natural for our wonderings to take on the form of worries, because that sounds like a limiting belief I wouldn’t want to add energy to. But until I started asking much younger people what they wonder about, most of the thoughts I heard didn’t feel very “wondrous.” The top three dictionary entries of “wonder” on DICTIONARY.COM share the possibilities of where our wondering mind could take us: 1. to think or speculate curiously

COACH JEANNETTE 2. to be filled with admiration, amazement, or awe; marvel. 3. to doubt So our wondrous thoughts could potentially take on neutral, positive or negative tones. In fact, sometimes I heard positively worded wonders that reflected negative attitudes behind them. (“I wonder if my husband’s coming home for dinner,” one friend said, for example. Sounds like a nice thought, but she spoke with irritation that indicated she didn’t expect him to.) Even our positively worded thoughts, if associated with a negative feeling, actually call in a negative outcome rather than the positive potential. That’s why it’s so helpful to be aware of (and deliberate about) what we wonder. Imagine the higher stakes of where our undisciplined imagination takes us. In October 2003 an Army private phoned his dad from Iraq saying he thought he’d be killed in an unarmored Humvee. Exactly one week later, the private was killed— just as he had imagined he would be, in his unarmored military vehicle. That’s not to say every random thought we ever entertain will manifest itself. Thankfully, many stray topics we wonder about don’t become reality. But when we practice a strong habit of thought, retracing it over and over, reactivating the associated feelings with that pattern of thought, we call forth results that match. My triple-Virgo boyfriend and I recently moved in together, along with my rambunctious dogs and foster cats. The potential for significant challenges was clear as we integrated two very different lifestyles under one roof. He is fastidious, somewhat of a perfectionist and didn’t have pets. I, on the other hand, have long since learned to

Many stray topics we wonder about don’t become reality. But when we practice a strong habit of thought, we call forth results that match. live with cat hair on clothes, dog hair on bed, noseprints on windows, and all the other joys of sharing space with four-legged companions. Recognizing the potential for trouble as we made plans to live together, I purposely flowed lots of positive expectations about how smooth the living arrangements were, how easy it was to get used to and to accommodate each other, and what a fabulous idea it turned out to be to consolidate households. And it was all that—smooth, easy, accommodating, fabulous! Except for the one thing I kept wondering about…where, I mused, would the dogs relieve themselves in the new house? I didn’t wonder about my boyfriend’s reaction—I knew it wouldn’t be fun. But I did wonder about where the dogs would “go” if the need ever became urgent. In the old house, their regular spot was on the rug in front of the tv. As I settled into the new

house, I wondered where the new “spot” would be. Of course, I didn’t realize I wondered that until the day I discovered the new spot. (Formal living room rug; toughest in the house to remove a stain from.) “Oh boy,” I thought. “Russ isn’t going to like this. Who did this?!” While putting all my best stain-cleaning efforts to work before my sweetie came home, I heard myself resignedly say, “Well, I always wondered where they would go.” “Really?” I asked myself. “You always wondered?” Indeed, I had. The realization then hit me that I’d been wondering it since we moved in five weeks ago. In hindsight, I realize it might have been smarter to wonder how the dogs are so good about holding it. Or how lucky that they chose the hardwood or tile floor. Five weeks of wondering till manifestation— that would have been plenty of time to redirect the miscreant wondering had I been aware of it! Nevertheless, lesson learned. These days I pay better attention to my wonderings. Instead of musing about what will happen to my unemployed friend or whether gas prices will bankrupt the airlines, I wonder better feeling things. Like how quickly my foster kittens will be ready for adoption and what sort of pleasant surprise my sweetie will bring home tonight. It’s a simple matter of noticing where this mind inevitably wanders. When it goes somewhere repeatedly that isn’t something I’d like to call in to my reality, I gently take the reins and redirect it to a new wonder.

Here’s how you can put your wonder power to good use: 1) Pay attention. If you don’t notice where your mind is going, you’re powerless to redirect it. Although stray thoughts will unavoidably come and go, it’s the repeats that gain power to manifest in your physical reality. Be mindful of them. 2) Practice Wonder Management. Set an intention to become more conscious of what thoughts cross your mind and to naturally entertain more positive and supportive thoughts. (Setting the intention is an easy way to grease the wheels for achieving whatever you want.) 3) Be picky. Don’t let yourself wonder just any old thing—be choosy about the quality of musings you hold. Only the best will do! 4) Don’t despair if you discover negative wonderings over and over. No need to add fear or discouragement into the mix. Instead, smile at your cute self and gently redirect. This technique requires no money, no experience, and little time. Instead of letting your wonderings roam willy-nilly wherever they might chaotically land, practice wondering what might go right for you, how good life can be, and what delicious things you must have done in a past life to deserve it. Your wonderings are much more powerful than you may have given them credit for! ◆ Jeannette Maw is a Law of Attraction coach and founder of Good Vibe Coaching in Salt Lake City. WWW.GOODVIBECOACH.COM.

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August 2008

Waltzing with Robots How to make machines seem alive

BY AMY BRUNVAND all-E, the wonderful new animated film made out of monochrome magenta plastic. She’s from Pixar, is a kid’s movie that portrays got on a princess dress with little puffed sleeves, a a postapocalyptic dystopia resulting nipped-in waist, a huge flared skirt scalloped like from out-of-control consumer culture. a seashell, and a big bow on her head that looks (I wondered how long it will be before oddly like Minnie Mouse ears. The tuxedo guy Happy Meals start to come with little plastic makes an exaggerated formal bow and the robot Wall-E’s inside, but apparently Disney doesn’t turns towards him. She lifts her mechanical arms seem to be allowing that.) Wall-E is the last and they embrace. Waltz music begins to play operable unit of a formerly immense robot army and they start to dance, he taking slow, purposeleft behind to clean up the mess after human ful steps and she gliding across the floor on hidnegligence rendered Earth uninhabitable. All of den wheels. the remaining people have The pink ballembarked on an endless luxury room-dancing robot cruise to outer space. The plot is is named MS basically android meets femmeDanceR (it stands for bot: Wall-E dreams of love, he Mobile Smart Dance finds it (and in the process he Robot), and the actually does succeed in saving Japanese research the Earth). But what do robots team that invented (particularly G-rated robots) in her has published love do? scientific articles to It turns out that they dance. justify why anyone In the pivotal love scene Wall-E would bother teachand Eve, his ovoid love, jet though ing robots to dance. outer space like cosmic fireflies. In tech-speak they Watching them through a window explain, “If robots “If we neglect to endow our robots are a man and a woman, two giant could move not only with the ability to perceive subtle marshmallow people lying floating passively, but also human rhythms and to move dynami- actively based on beds because after 700 years in space their legs have atrophied. human intentions, cally in corresponding temporal patThe pair has just barely escaped a environments, terns, they will never get beyond the virtual-reality consumer dystopia knowledge of tasks, and had their eyes opened to the etc., we could realize stilted, rigid interaction that people beauty of the here-and-now. As a more effective currently expect from machines.” they watch the robots spiral human-robot coordithough space they reach out to nation system than hold pudgy hands with each other. the conventional one.” MS DanceR is outfitted The outer-space dance scene transforms the with an omni-directional mobile base, a body robots Pinnocchio-style into “real little boys,” but force sensor and a computer program that tells it also restores soul to the human characters. the wheels where to go. In other words, she is an Since the people at Pixar are computer geeks and elaborate electronic marionette controlled by techies, I think that they knew exactly what they invisible strings. Perhaps that explains why the were doing by using dance as the bridge between dancing scientist seems a bit robotic himself. If ghost and machine. his movements are not precise, the robot won’t In real life, scientists are teaching robots to get the cue. dance precisely in an effort to give them more “A skilled dancer could achieve the same results “soul.” Looking up dancing robots in an engiwith a shopping cart,” complains one YouTube neering database eventually led me to a oddly viewer who suspects the tuxedo guy of merely compelling YouTube video that shows a slim, seripushing the robot around. But watch the human ous-looking Asian man in a tuxedo dancing with dancer closely and it’s clear that he really is a robot, or more precisely a femmebot since the directing the robot. The control system for the robot is clearly a girl. Her helmet hairdo, expresrobot is ballroom dance steps—something that I sionless Barbie-doll face and rigid ballgown are doubt was especially easy to learn.

Why bother to dance with robots? One reason is that dancing is a link between freeform humand behavior and the kind of patterned behavior that machines can easily accomplish. If you wanted to look like a robot you could mime herky-jerky movements as Anthony Daniels did playing C-3PO in Star Wars to convince us that a guy in a robot suit was really a machine. If you want a machine to look human you have to do the opposite and smooth out the motion. In sci-fi terms, dancing robots mean the difference between obviously mechanical humanoids like C3PO or Robby (another guy in a robot suit) and androids like The Terminator that, at least in movies, get mistaken for real people. This idea of using dance to make machines seem more lifelike inspired Marek Michalowski of Carnegie Mellon University and Hideki Kozima of Japan’s National Institute of Communications Technology to build the world’s cutest dancing robot which is named “Keepon.” Keepon looks like the adorable love-child of a Marshmallow Peeps and Frosty the Snowman. He has a microphone nose and eyes made out of cameras so he can “see” and “hear” what’s going on and respond by nodding, shaking, bobbing and rocking. If you look at the robot he looks right back at you, tilts his head and bobs up and down like a happy puppy. Keepon’s inventors explain that social behavior is like a dance that helps regulate human interactions with each other. They say, “If we neglect to endow our robots with the ability to perceive subtle human rhythms and to move dynamically in corresponding temporal patterns, they will never get beyond the stilted, rigid interaction that people currently expect from machines.” After testing Keepon with toddlers the researchers concluded that “Robots like Keepon have the potential to stimulate children’s ‘sense of wonder’ and to make them aware that the ‘wonder’ will be shared with others.” That’s a pretty good description of Wall-E’s dance. So the bleak view is that dancing robots are the insidious first step towards The Terminator and inevitable robot apocalypse, but perhaps dancing robots are also a step towards Wall-E and a way to reconnect with wonder. ◆ Amy Brunvand is a University of Utah librarian and a dance enthusiast.

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August 2008 Normal fades away—but it ain’t all bad news BY RALFEE FINN orget about the lazy, hazy dog days of August, and instead be ready to stay keenly aware and acutely present. From the very first day, normal fades away, and each of the next 30 days, what’s unconventional sets the standard, making August a month of many upsets, both personal and collective. Be prepared for some of August’s disturbances to rattle the deep, surfacing more than a few surprises. Yet while some of what rises to the surface of daily life is unexpected, much of what’s revealed by August’s intensity is all too familiar. Don’t let that fool you into thinking certain situations can be handled by rote. This month, the planets aren’t phoning it in, and neither can we. A solar eclipse on August 1 at 6:21 a.m. EDT sets the tone for the entire month. During a solar eclipse the Moon overshadows the Sun, and from an astrological perspective, that translates into unconscious drives over-

Aries

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Shift your thinking and refuse to engage in negative thoughts or a negative attitude. Instead, concentrate on gratitude. Then do whatever is required to be successful and then some. If you’re willing to make the effort to align your internal and external realities, the results will be satisfying.

Taurus

April 20-May 20

Confrontations with friends are likely to reveal unconscious patterns in need of creative renovation, yours or others. And while some of what’s said may not be easy to hear, if you’re willing to slog through the discomfort, you will emerge with previously undiscovered yet valuable information.

Gemini

May 21-June 21

You must choose: (1) Engage in battle and spend time and energy on a situation that will eventually settle down on its

shadowing conscious desires. In ancient times, eclipses were powerful omens about the future. Even though they happened with seeming regularity, they still disturbed the domination of the brightest lights of heaven. And

Be ready to stay keenly aware and acutely present. This month, the planets aren’t phoning it in, and neither can we. even though we now understand the mechanics of an eclipse, that doesn’t necessarily mean eclipses are powerless. Quite the contrary; they still seem to disrupt or dislocate daily life. Be-

own. (2) Ignore the tumult and withdraw. Or, (3) Strike a balance between the two and by doing so polish your ability to defend your position—and perhaps advance it—without exacerbating the already hyper-intense environment.

Cancer

June 22-July 22

Listen closely to the words of those you love and you’ll hear words of love. Significant others —spouses, lovers, friends and family—are hugely supportive of all your efforts, so much so, you are able to put aside petty squabbles and simply enjoy their company.

Leo July 23-August 22 The emphasis is on finance, particularly your belief in your ability to make money, which means the focus is also on selfesteem and self-confidence. The best way to meet this challenge is to put aside all thoughts of

cause eclipses are believed to distort time, their effect is said to have a three-month time range on either side of the actual event. So people born on August 1 might want to pay close attention to what transpires as a result of this eclipse. What’s more, almost exactly three months after this eclipse America will elect a new president; we may not feel the full force of this eclipse until election day. Back in present time, a Mars/Uranus opposition makes it almost impossible to distinguish the difference between the eclipse effect and the “normal” turmoil of any Mars/Uranus interaction—at least for the first few days of the month. We’ve been in the tension of this opposition since July 30 and it lasts until August 13, exact on August 6. Mars represents the Warrior. Uranus symbolizes Revolution. And when they face off through an opposition, we experience extreme tension that seeks its release through a nonstop

lack and scarcity and instead, concentrate all your energy on practical, concrete steps you can make toward greater abundance.

Virgo

August 23-September 22

Make your mantra for the month “Make love not war” and you’ll embrace the perfect attitude for handling any and all difficult situations. What’s more, your devotion to affection will be so noticeable, it will positively enhance your reputation as a skillful negotiator.

Libra

September 23-October 22

You have an opportunity to dial down your anxiety as you simultaneously attune to a more optimistic state of mind. But to take advantage of this moment, you must refuse to be distracted by external events. I realize you have responsibilities, but they don’t have to be burdensome.

need for freedom. This interaction can be brutal, intolerant and harsh, so please do your best to avoid meanspirited confrontations you might later regret. Also, it would be wise to slow down. Mars/Uranus contacts are always in a hurry, which is why accidents are associated with this signature. But that’s not all. This opposition spurs sudden and erratic action. So don’t be surprised if you find yourself acting impulsively in almost any situation. While I’m not suggesting you shelve spontaneity completely, rash, brash or otherwise reckless abandon could have lasting negative consequences. And meeting upheaval with upheaval won’t improve any situation. But prudence isn’t likely to be a priority. From August 9-23, exact on the 17th, a Mars/Pluto square agitates the already distressed air. This square pushes hard and as it coalesces with the Mars/Uranus opposition, it fuels the notion that sheer brute force is the

Scorpio Oct 23-Nov 21 While events may be disconcerting, other developments offer the possibility of great comfort, especially if you’re willing to share your ideas with others and commit to a collaborative venture. Remember, everyone wants to be heard. So listen carefully and honor the needs of others.

Sagittarius Nov 22-Dec 21 Be prepared to shift out of vacation mode and into a serious attitude about work. And while there are bound to be some glitches, especially the tendency to work yourself to exhaustion, if you stay determined to see each project through, you will be pleased with the fruits of your labor.

Capricorn

Dec 22-Jan 19

Rather than allowing the erratic pace of the month to throw you into a tizzy, use these vacillations to help you strengthen your

equilibrium. I realize it won’t be easy to ride certain of the waves, but if you make maintaining balance your primary goal, you’ll be better for the process.

Aquarius

Jan 20-Feb 18

Keep your own counsel, particularly when it comes to money and love, and don’t engage in toxic thoughts about hopelessness or helplessness. Each of us co-creates our reality, which means there are always opportunities to transform a negative situation into a positive one.

Pisces

February 19-March 20

It feels like a relationship crisis because it is. But it’s important to realize that your primary partnership is with yourself, which

means part of what’s taking place is an identity shift. You are changing, rapidly, and the good news is that there is plenty of support for your successful transition.

ANIMALS ANIMALS only way to solve a situation, and that could translate into the tendency to push too hard. So rather than insist, desist and wait for a more propitious and generous time to implement your plans. As the Taoist sages often advise, during times of chaos it is often best to take no unnecessary action. On a positive note, a Sun/Pluto trine from the 14th-27th, exact on the 21st, feeds creativity, idealism, physical strength and stamina, as well as a desire to actualize specific goals. Alas, being clear about intentions won’t be easy. A Sun/Neptune opposition, from the 9th-22nd, exact on 15th, is going to make most situations mushy with misplaced sympathy, sensitivity and susceptibility to suggestion. Do whatever it is you do to keep your mind focused and clear, and you will transform this Neptunian tendency toward confusion into altruistic empathy and concern for your fellow travelers. And there is more good news this month. (1) From the 10th-31st, Mercury and Venus travel in tandem, giving birth to a sense of beauty through an appreciation of art, music, design, love and inspiration. We love this. A lot. And we wish it would be forever. (2) From the 9th-18th, Saturn also conjuncts this Mercury/Venus conjunction, turning this appreciation for beauty serious with the desire to concretize creative aspirations. And here’s the best news: (3) From the 13th21st, Jupiter trines that Mercury/Venus/ Saturn conjunction. This positive, optimistic conglomeration of energy shifts minds and hearts away from conflict by providing an atmosphere conducive to beneficial, profitable, and valuable unions of every variety, from marriage to business to collaborations to just plain gettin’ along. It’s simply the perfect astro-antidote to the brashness of Mars/Uranus/Pluto, as well as to August’s overall anxiety and agitation. (4) From the 20th-28th, Uranus opposes the Venus/Mercury conjunction, but this is not a pernicious interaction. This opposition is about innovation, invention, inspiration, and yes, a little hair-trigger impetuousness, but nothing that could land anyone in too much trouble, unless, of course, you decide to marry a total stranger. And even then, who knows. It might be destiny. On the 16th, a lunar eclipse at 5:10 p.m. EDT possesses the potential to add yet another wrinkle to an atmosphere that’s already anything but smooth. During a lunar eclipse, the Earth comes between the Sun and the Moon, which is interpreted to mean that ethereal concerns take a back seat to earthly matters. It will be interesting to see if anyone notices this shift in energy, given the volatile nature of the first few weeks of the month. This month, as the stars stir the caldron of change, we are almost sure to experience that intensity as a sense of fluidity about any number of life’s challenges. While fluidity is uncomfortable, it isn’t necessarily negative. And often it presages a great transformation in the way people choose to live their lives. ◆ Visit Ralfee’s website at WWW.AQUARIUMAGE.COM or email her at RALFEE@AQUARIUMAGE.COM.

Made-to-order prescriptions for your pets (and you, too) Compounding pharmacies offer customized meds BY SUNNY BRANSON

ow hard is it to get your iguana to swallow a capsule? Does your cat eat around the pill hidden in its food? Can’t get a dosage small enough for your gerbil? Giving medicine to pets can be challenging – whether the animal has special needs or is just a difficult patient. Compounding deals with the unique problems with medicating pets. Compounding is the art and science of preparing customized medications. Until the 1960s, manufacturers provided only bottles, capsules and tablets to pharmacies. It was up to the pharmacist to weigh up the necessary herbs or medicines from scratch for patients’ prescriptions. Some pharmacies, such as University Pharmacy and Jolley’s Pharmacy, both in Salt Lake City, have brought back these old-fashioned principles to better serve their customers. “We are here to solve medicine dispensing problems for humans and their animal companions,” said Dean Jolley, owner of Jolley’s Compounding Pharmacy, which has offered veterinary compounding since 1982. “We have creative ways to find what’s needed to solve most prescription challenges.” Compounding pharmacists provide customized care with accurate dosage, preferred flavor, and size-appropriate medication solutions. All compounding for animals requires

a prescription from a veterinarian. By working closely with your veterinarian, a compounding pharmacist can create solutions for giving medicine to your pet more easily, whether your pet is a cat, dog, ferret, bird or snake. If you’ve already filled your prescription, but are having trouble getting your pet to take the meds, compounding can help by providing it in another form.

Species-specific flavors Animals appreciate flavors as much as humans do. Your cat may like his medicine with the tuna or chicken-liver flavor or your dog might enjoy the lamb or veal flavors. Flavors like alfalfa or apples and caramel are palatable to horses and other farm animals. On the exotic animal front, a guinea pig might like the green bean flavor or perhaps orange, but your parrot might prefer tutti frutti. If your pet’s favorite flavor isn’t on the menu, place a special request—the compounding pharmacy may be able to fulfill it.

Discontinued medicine When you find a medication that works for your pet, you don’t want to change it. When manufacturers discontinue a medication, compounding can help. The pharmacist can often prepare a prescription for the discontinued product.

Dispensing method What works for some animals just doesn’t work for others. For the dog who refuses to take a pill, there are topical creams, ointments, and lotions that you simply rub on the belly or behind the ears where the medication can be absorbed into the bloodstream. There are chewable medicated

treats so your canine thinks he’s just eating a tasty biscuit. Other compounding options include otic solutions (a liquid preparation of soluble chemical substances usually dissolved in water) and nonaqueous suspensions, sugarfree formulations, ophthalmic preparations, sterile injections, and rectal suppositories.

The right size Some animal medicines are available in only one tablet size, making it difficult for smaller animals to swallow. The pharmacist can compound the medication into a smaller form, or concentrate a medication for larger animals. With compounding, your pet gets an amount exactly right for its size and condition.

Combining meds In cases where your pet may require more than one medication, a compounding pharmacist can work with the veterinarian to combine more than one drug into a single dosage. Fewer medicating sessions mean less stress for the animal and less effort for the pet owner. Medicating your animal companion doesn’t have to be challenging. Compounding may make life easier on you and your furry, feathery or scaly critter. ◆ Sunny Branson volunteers for Wasatch Animal Rescue, and sponsors two pot-bellied pigs at Ching Farm Sanctuary

For more information: Jolley’s Compounding Pharmacy; 1702 So. 1100 E., SLC: (801) 4861528 WWW.JOLLEYSCOMPOUNDINGPHARMACY.COM University Pharmacy; 1320 E. 2ND SO., SLC: 801-582-7624 WWW.UNIVERSITYPHARMACY.COM

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Arthurian Tarot: In Ector’s Keeping Mayan Oracle: Mystical Power, Hologram Aleister Crowley: Strength, Princess of Disks, Science Medicine Cards: Spider, Mouse Osho Zen Tarot: Harmony, Flowering, Clinging to the Past Healing Earth Tarot: Justice, Seven Of Wands Ancient Egyptian Tarot: Wheel of Fortune, The High Priestess Words of Truth: Commitment, Reclamation, Core Movement, Freedom ebs of political intrigue surface in the heat of August, but there is a way through if you hold true to what is most dear and precious to you. We will all feel as if we are standing between the past and the future. The personal and economic decisions made at this moment affect the coming months in huge ways. Change is coming. So clarity and specificity about what you want to manifest are important. As a nation, we may feel nostalgic about past patterns that we wish to experience again. But life changes permanently, regardless of how hard we want to cling to the past. How happy we feel in this moment will be related to how kind we have been previously to those we love and others in our lives. We can use difficult situations to practice unkinking old patterns of body and mind. When we are most triggered, we have incredible opportunities to open our hearts and send love into areas that have consistently caused pain or upset. This is difficult; it takes discipline not to fall into old habits of the personality when we recognize moments of tremendous growth. In recognizing these moments and choosing some other way of behaving, we begin to unwind the negative patterns that cause suffering. Some of us may find we need to let go of

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unhealthy attachments that do not allow the free flow of change to manifest as fully as we might like. In these moments, we may find ourselves facing old insecurities that surface because past patterns and people no longer serve the emergence of new patterns we wish to create. That is okay. As we grow and evolve, our friends and support people will change or grow with us. But we cannot make others do what we want. Each person shifts and opens in their own perfect time. This month, let the past go. Don’t get me wrong; the past was great! But we can’t let ourselves miss how marvelous the new pattern might be by clinging to feelings and people from the past. Love them all. Appreciate them all. And allow your heart to expand and open so others can also connect to your light and gifts. As you create the web of reality around this new segment of your life, pay attention to details, but not so much that you chew to pieces the thing you are creating. You are attempting to find ways to merge your mystical intuitive powers and perceptions with your rational mental perspectives. They can work together. Some things should not and cannot be rationally explained by the mind, but they work nonetheless. Within each realm, different rules of reality and perception apply. All are valid, and all can help you expand beyond what you know and beyond blind faith. But you must be aware that you are more than just your mental constructs and beliefs. You are more than a bunch of magical dreams and thoughts. When you do not limit your experiences to what you want to be true and what you want to prove is correct in your reality, then something tremendous can happen. You begin to understand that you are a vast and varied multidimensional being that needs, wants, and desires all levels of experience to find wholeness. ◆ Suzanne Wagner is the author of numerous books and CDs on the tarot. She lives in Salt Lake City. WWW.SUZWAGNER.COM

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AUGUST 1 NEW MOON. Summer Cross-Quarter Day. The Sun rises at 6:22 a.m. today and sets at 8:44 p.m. August’s average maximum temperature is 89°; the minimum 61°. It rains an average of .86 inches. AUGUST 2 Separate melons from the ground with a thin board to prevent decay and wireworm damage. AUGUST 3 Rats have been found to experience REM sleep, which suggests that they dream.

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AUGUST 4 Free fertilizer! Most plants love coffee grounds, and most coffee shops give them away. Coffee grounds contain substantial amounts of nitrogen and potassium, and are acidic, with a pH of between 3.0 and 5.0. They don’t contain phosphorus, however, which flowering plants need, so either use your grounds on non-flow- m s ering plants, or in com- on C lover bination with super phosphate or rock phosphate on flowering ones. AUGUST 5 Time to fertilize parsnips, potatoes, pumpkins, squash, Swiss chard and watermelons with some nice stinky fish emulsion, and to top-dress strawberries with mature compost.

AUGUST 6 Set beer-filled saucers in the garden, level with the soil, to lure slugs to a happy, drunken death. Studies show that they prefer imported beer. Really. AUGUST 7 Corn is ripe when the husk is tight and the silk has dried and turned brown. Summer squash are at their peak of flavor and texture when they are four inches long.

AUGUST 13 Plant crimson clover beneath and between veggies and in empty beds to retain moisture, staunch weeds and feed the soil. Leave it in place until next spring. AUGUST 14 How to tell if a watermelon is ripe: 1) Thump it. If it sounds hollow, it’s ripe. 2) Look at the color on the top. It’s ripe when there is little contrast between the stripes. 3) Look at the color on the bottom. An unripe watermelon will have a white bottom; a ripe one will have a cream or yellow one. AUGUST 15 Sister Moon: Scientists have found a three-mile-wide asteroid that appears to be caught in Earth’s gravitational grip, making it our second satellite. AUGUST 16 FULL GRAIN MOON. Deadhead chrysanthemum, coreopsis, cosmos, marigolds, phlox and zinnias. Cut herbs just before their flowers open for best flavor. AUGUST 17 Cat Nights begin. Irish legend has it that for the next seven nights, witches are able to turn themselves into cats and back again. Meow!

AUGUST 8 FIRST QUARTER MOON. Anthophobia Autumn Crocus AUGUST 18 Lawns is a fear of flowers. Place cut over-seeded now with flowers in a solution of one part water white clover or drought-resistant and one part clear soft drink, grass will have time to get established and a few drops of bleach, to before winter sets in. Water often and make them last longer. If mulch well. you dare. AUGUST 19 Young fruit trees will AUGUST 9 Beyond develop stronger limbs and a wider kinky: Mantids, scorpicrotch angle if you weigh their ons, spiders, crickets, branches down with clothespins. You grasshoppers and ant can dry your undies while you’re at it. lions all practice sexual The neighbors will be thrilled. cannibalism. AUGUST 20 Sunflowers are AUGUST 10 Patrol phototropic, turning to follow basil plants daily and pinch the Sun’s progression throughoff any developing flower out the day. buds. AUGUST 21 Make sure AUGUST 11 Dog Days of potatoes aren’t escaping into Summer end today. Exposure the sunlight; cover them up if to a type of bacteria found in they are. Time to cut back soil boosts happiness levels berry canes that have finished and can help restore healthy fruiting. immune functions in people AUGUST 22 It’s time again who are depressed and prone to plant cool weather crops, to infection. including beets, beans, carAUGUST 12 Tonight and rots, endive, garlic, lettuce, Spinach tomorrow night look to the peas, radishes and spinach. northeast for the Perseid Provide shade for the peas and meteor shower. It should be excellent greens. this year, with a meteor a minute, and AUGUST 23 LAST QUARTER no Moon to brighten the sky. MOON. A good day to go to Farmers

Market: Basil, beans, beets, corn, cucumbers, dill, garlic, melons, onions, peppers, potatoes, shallots, squash and tomatoes are ripe. Yum. AUGUST 24 When harvesting cabbage, you can leave the plant in place, cut off a chunk, and cover the remainder with plastic or foil. It will keep longer that way than in the fridge. You can also just cut off the head, cut a cross in the stump of stem, and get another crop of small heads. AUGUST 25 Chilies were likely the first spice used in the Americas; early cooks started using them around 6,000 years ago. If you like your chilies hot, let the ground dry out before you pick them; for milder pods, pick right after you water. AUGUST 26 Sow these seeds now for early blooms next spring: alyssum, digitalis, English daisy, forget-me-not, phlox and primrose. Plant autumn crocus now for late fall blossoms.

AUGUST 27 When attacked by a predator, minnows, snails and earthworms release a chemical that warns others in their community to avoid the area. AUGUST 28 Give evergreens their last shearing of the year. Cut back the flower stalks of perennials that have finished blooming. If you cut delphinium flower stalks to the ground, a new flower stalk will develop. AUGUST 29 Stop fertilizing roses and broad-leaved evergreens until next spring. AUGUST 30 Entomologists have kept ants alive 14 years or more, although in the wild their lifespan is closer to six months. AUGUST 31 The Sun rises at 6:53 a.m. today and sets at 8 p.m. It’s difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato. —Lewis Grizzard ◆ Diane Olson is a writer, gardener and bug hugger.

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