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Writers@Work invites you to join in a panel discussion devoted to the topic of Flash Fiction. Panel Moderator: David Kranes Panel Members: x Ron Carlson x Chris Merrill x Robert Shapard x James Thomas When: Saturday, June 8, 7:30 p.m. Where: Alta Lodge—Deep Powder Room This panel is free and open to the public. It is supported in part by the Utah Humanities Council. More information about this and other events can be found at www.writersatwork.org.
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lice Toler's mind is a deep-thought generator. Give her a shadow of an idea and within minutes a compelling, artistically lit reality hovers in 3-D. (I’ve noticed this skill in art director Polly Plummer Mottonen, too.) What began as a Facebook chat about alternative uses for trampolines last month became “Breaking News—an Attractive Nuisance: Turn off the tube and go clean out the gutters” in this issue. Likewise, a short assignment on the practicality of backyard ponds in a desert environment turned into a fascinating dialogue with her entomologist husband about the critical water needs of beneficial insects and urban wildlife. That story is illustrated with a photo of an ever-expanding hole behind the CATALYST office that John deJong has been digging, then terraforming (like the engineer he is) since last summer. It could eventually become downtown SLC's version of the Kennecott pit were it not for the Wasatch Community Gardens' Urban Farm Tour in June, for which this hole must be transformed into a
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pond with attendant fish and water-filtering marshes; in time, I hope, to attract some dragonflies and Jesus bugs, too. It will also reactivate one of my major philosophical dilemmas I’ve shared here before: coping with raccoons, for which water, and chickens, are the ultimate attractive nuisances. Watching the babies
toddle along the fence and learn to climb the box elder on summer nights is akin to watching "Criminal Minds"—entertaining but full of foreboding. And when the adults lounge on the henhouse roof, and images of inevitable carnage come to mind, I want
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to change the channel. For TV, I call that good mental hygiene. But in the backyard, one must deal. I can relate to a blood-lusty rancher who has it in for a livestock-killing coyote, though my preferred weapon is a loud voice and a lot of bluster. For now. Knowing my capacity for violence in defense of my hens prevents me from applying the "Coexist" bumper sticker someone gave me (though it is handy advice in traffic). Perhaps I'll put it on the henhouse. But there's also the question of the slingshot, which Pax wants to teach me to use. Speaking of raccoons, I walked into Salt Lake County Animal Services shelter at 39th So. 500 West last month—just to look, honest; walked into the cat room, and locked eyes with the first cat I saw: an enormous, alert Maine Coon. I was astounded to learn this gorgeous boy had been at the shelter since January 16. Weighing in at 13.4 lbs, he is talkative, affectionate and mostly well-mannered (though fierce when it comes to dogs). Yes, I walked out the door with him in a bulging cardboard cat carrier. We call him Mosey Poesy. Like baby Moses found in the reeds, like "moseying" as he walks, like a poem, also a posey. He eats flowers.
He is maybe five. History unknown. May he live long and happy. Right now he is frightened of the chickens (though he’s at least twice their weight). But I hope he will be my decoy raccoon, and the real ones will give him, his hens and this eventual pond wide berth. 6 a.m. A massive moon—full, tonight— looms low over downtown Salt Lake. The chirps and hum of ambitious birds and cars on the move signal night’s end, even though it’s still dark. I was going to write this month about spirituality and ecology. Charles Eisenstein (Sacred Economics) was just in town. Tim DeChristopher (of Bidder 70 fame) has been released from prison. May 4 is the 43rd anniversary of the Kent State killings. The U of U Humanities department is organizing a spirituality and ecology conference. I’ve been thinking of Ram Dass, and how, years ago when he visited Salt Lake, he mentioned he had a photo of then-secretary of Defense Dick Cheney on his altar; it took me years to figure that one out. But he was on to something we need to discuss. Maybe next month. u Greta deJong is CATALYST’s editor and publisher.
DON’T GET ME STARTED John deJong Drawing a line in the sand
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ast month Elise Lazar, a good friend of ours (and one of the CATALYST100 featured in Jan.), conceived of the radical notion of speaking, in person, with Orrin Hatch, the very senior United States Senator from Utah, about the Keylstone XL Pipeline. You may have heard about her run-in with Senator Hatch’s staff and her place on the Washington, D.C. police department’s “most persistent constituents of the week” list from the SL Tribune’s Paul Rolly or on the Huffington Post. It’s the first thing you get if you google HATCH_WASHINGTON_DC_POLICE. Elise’s mistake was her belief that Sen. Hatch would deign to waste his time listening to her views on a subject
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that was decided for him a long time ago. Hatch took $429,050 from the oil & gas industry in the 2012 election cycle. He spent $4 million of the nearly $12 million he raised on two campaign consulting groups staffed with some of the worst apologists for the dirty fuel industry this side of the Potomac. Orrin probably thinks he’d be wasting his time listening to a constituent. And time is money. To raise $12 million in campaign contributions you’ve got to bring in $6,451 each and every day, except Sundays of course, for the entire six-year election cycle.
What do you think Sen. Hatch will be doing when he makes his next trip to Utah? Listening to constituents or to contributors? In his defense, Sen. Hatch has made it no secret that his government relations services are available for the right contribution. In 2000 he took Microsoft and Bill Gates to task for their paltry campaign contributions, saying, as reported in the Washington Examiner, “If you want to get involved in business, you should get involved in politics.” Thirteen years later, business on Washington’s lobbyist-infested K Street has never been better. Oil shale is just about the dirtiest energy around. But the real problem with the proposed $7 billion Keystone, from Alberta, Canada to the Gulf, is the legitimacy it lends to the idea that we are hopelessly addicted to fossil fuels and that we, as a nation, will do anything necessary to to get our next fix. Like mining oil shale in eastern Utah and western Colorado. Guess who is the dealer’s shill, bought and paid for? No, he doesn’t have time to listen to you, Elise. u John deJong is associate publisher of CATALYST.
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Devil’s Dictionary, Vol. 2 BY DENNIS HINKAMP mbrose Bierce disappeared in Mexico sometime during 1913 after having written The Cynic’s Word Book which was later renamed The Devil’s Dictionary. I’ve always admired his writing and am saddened that he didn’t have a chance to take a crack at our 21st century nonsensical language. In his absence, this is my tribute.
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Colorado River most endangered American Rivers has named the Colorado River as the most threatened river in America in 2013 due to outdated water management. The report cites data from a recent Bureau of Reclamation Study which shows there is not enough water in the Colorado River to meet current demands, let alone to support future demand from growing populations in an era of climate change. Current Western water policy is on course for disaster as Colorado, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, California and Wyoming duke it out trying to grab their own water allotment before the water flows downstream. To preserve river recreation, wildlife habitat and water supplies, the states will somehow need to prioritize conservation over the kind of water grabbing encouraged by use-it-or-lose-it water laws. In response to the report, the Utah Rivers Council has released a new video titled, “Utah Childishness Endangers Colorado River.� AMERICANRIVERS.ORG/ENDANGERED-RIVERS, TINYURL.COM/CRBSTUDY
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Herbert nixes West Desert water grab Governor Herbert rejected a controversial agreement that would have allowed Nevada to pipe groundwater from an aquifer under Snake Valley on the western border of Utah. Ranchers and environmentalists who opposed the agreement believe that the amount of available water was overestimated and that lowering the aquifer would cause a dust bowl destroying local agriculture and making air pollution worse on the Wasatch Front. Herbert seems more concerned about not letting Nevada get any of Utah’s water than making progress towards sustainable water policy. Nonetheless, this was the right environmental decision.
Bishop proposes public lands dialogue U.S. Congressman Rob Bishop (UT-R-1), of all people, is calling for a dialogue on the future of Utah’s public lands. On the one hand, this might be a good thing. Utah’s public land battles are often not as intractable as you might think if all the stakeholders are invited to the table in good faith. During the 2013 General Session of the Utah Legislature, Senate Minority leader Jim Dabakis (D, District 2) called for just such a dialogue, though his proposal was never voted on. On the other hand, Bishop in particular has been responsible for fanning the flames of disagreement. Bishop is the one who introduced “SkiLink� legislation to privatize a strip of land in the
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Wasatch Mountains backcountry in order to allow the ski industry to avoid a public planning process. As a past chair and current member of the antagonistic Congressional Western Caucus Bishop has involved himself in countless attacks on
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DeChristopher a free man Just in time for Earth Day, Tim DeChristopher finished serving his prison sentence for disrupting a 2008 BLM oil and gas lease auction. He celebrated by giving an Earth Day sermon at the First Unitarian Church in Salt Lake City, doing an interview on Democracy Now with Amy Goodman, and doing a nationwide telecast Q&A to about 50 nationwide screenings of the film “Bidder 70� about his act of civil disobedience. DeChristopher plans to attend Harvard Divinity School in order to become a Unitarian Universalist minister. public lands conservation; and even as Bishop calls for dialogue he has introduced legislation to “improve� (read, “gut�) the Antiquities Act that allows the President of the United States to preserve threatened historic sites and allowed the creation of the Grand Saircase-Escalante National Monument.
Willard Bay oil spill On March 18 another Chevron oil pipeline burst (the third in three years), spilling 600 barrels of diesel into Willard Bay on the Great Salt Lake. The spill happened at the start of the spring migration when hundreds of thousands of birds depend on the Great Salt Lake as a stopover. Things could have been worse, though. The spill was partly contained by beaver dams. Six oil-soaked beavers were taken to the non-profit Wildlife Rehabilitation Center of Northern Utah where they are recovering from burns and respiratory problems caused by the oil.
Salt Lake City has a new bike sharing service. GREENbikes are designed for short trips in the city by people wearing regular clothes and carrying ordinary stuff. You can buy a membership for 24 hours, seven days, or a whole year, and use a bike for short trips around town instead of getting in your car or waiting for the bus. GREENBIKESLC.ORG
Park City to ban plastic bags? City Hall in Park city is considering a ban on one-time-use plastic grocery bags. So far, only a short, unofficial discussion has taken place, but city officials expect that the city council and Mayor Dana Williams will officially address the idea by early summer. The ban would be part of Park City’s general environmental program, but the city expects opposition from business groups who fear the ban would increase buisiness costs. Mark Holm, owner of The Market at Park City, told the Park Record last month that he feels the ban would annoy customers and not accomplish much for the environment. He says that during the ski season, The Market distributes nearly 80,000 plastic bags, which cost the store one cent a piece, whereas paper bags cost five to seven cents each. Last month, Recycle Utah held an online survey about one-time-use plastic bags, and said that more than 90% supported a bag ban (although there were only about 100 responses to the survey at the time). According to Recycle Utah, less than 5% of plastic bags are recycled—the rest either take up space in landfills or float around on the breeze. Either way, they degrade into tiny toxic particles that make their way into the environment. Park City wouldn’t be the first resort town to ban plastic bags: Telluride and Aspen, Colorado already do. TINYURL.COM/PCBAGBAN
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Breaking news— an attractive nuisance Turn off the tube and go clean out the gutters
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In the law of torts, the attractive nuisance doctrine states that a landowner may be held liable for injuries to children trespassing on the land if the injury is caused by a hazardous object or condition on the land that is likely to attract children who are unable to appreciate the risk posed by the object or condition. The doctrine has been applied to hold landowners liable for injuries caused by abandoned cars, piles of lumber or sand, trampolines, and swimming pools. However, it can be applied to virtually anything on the property of the landowner. —Wikipedia s I lay in bed at 3:30 in the morning, following Twitter transcriptions of live Boston police scanner feeds, I knew I wasn’t doing myself any favors. One of the marathon bombers had been shot earlier that night, and the other, a 19-year-old boy, was on the loose and being hunted through the streets of Watertown, Massachusetts. I was jet lagged, so 3:30 a.m. was a “reasonable” hour to be awake, but still. I let myself be pulled into this story I had no ability to affect, my adrena-
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cats. David Sipress, a cartoonist for the New Yorker, expressed it perfectly: he sketched a couple walking down a city street, the woman say-
The greatest work that any of us do is to take responsibility for the energy we communicate to others, which is the energy we cultivate inside ourselves on a daily basis. myself to close my laptop and get some more sleep. All of the next day, I found it hard to concentrate. A borked circadian rhythm combined with heightened baseline anxiety made simple tasks like loading the dishwasher seem insurmountable. I wound up online over and over, either checking for news out of Boston or trying to distract myself by looking at pictures of
ing to her partner, “My desire to be well-informed is currently at odds with my desire to remain sane.” Farhad Manjoo over at SLATE.COM recommended that we’d all be better off cleaning our gutters than trying to follow breaking news either on TV or the Internet. I think he’s right. The news these days has turned into an Attractive Nuisance. It may not be as obvious an
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injury as breaking an arm while falling into someone else’s abandoned swimming pool, but the emotional distortions we all undergo when we let ourselves get sucked beyond the event horizon of “breaking news” leave a mark on us, and have the potential affect everyone we interact with. On April 19, the day of the manhunt, I was exhausted, cranky, anxious and paranoid. I’m not advocating avoiding the news altogether, but I think that it’s important to develop the discipline to decide when it’s worth trading the health of our bodies and minds for a level of involvement with current events. Some people may feel more energized by following the news, but I’m exhausted by it. I’m giving myself, and all of you, permission to turn it off if it makes you feel angry, restless, nervous, revolted, sad, frightened, paranoid, fatigued, queasy, jittery, irritable or just plain bad. The greatest work that any of us do is to take responsibility for the energy we communicate to others, which is the energy we cultivate inside ourselves on a daily basis. The world is not a safe place and it never will be, so figuring out what boundaries we need to set and maintain so that we don’t get emotionally drained by all the drama is really important. Don’t let yourself be manipulated. Watch out for Attractive Nuisances—they’re everywhere, and not just on the various glowing screens we encounter every day. If something or someone makes you feel bad, ask yourself “Can I affect this? Am I learning something from this?” If the answer is ‘no’ on both counts, then what are you hoping to accomplish? Sometimes what you’re learning is that you’re letting yourself get sucked dry by things you can’t influence. In that case, the best thing is to take the lesson and move on. Nobody bats 1000, me least of all. I’ve spent hours, days, even months circling various Attractive Nuisances in the past, and I’ll have to forgive myself for that behavior again in the future. Still, when I sit down and interact with someone, I want them to feel better for having talked with me. I don’t want to be a transparent conduit for all the trauma that the world has to offer. I can’t put a stop to all human evil, but I can dampen rather than amplify it. If that’s all I get to do during my time on this planet, that will be enough. u Alice Toler is a CATALYST staff writer.
GREEN BITS
News and ideas for a healthier, more sustainable future BY PAX RASMUSSEN
Heat grabber update A couple of months ago, I wrote about my $50 in-window solar heat grabber that my wife and I built. Basically, the idea is you make a long, shallow box (bisected lengthwise) out of foam insulation board. The top part heats up, hot air flows into the house, pulling cooler air from the house down the bottom of the box, where it heats to flow up into the house. The idea is a sort of sun-powered, cycling heat exchanger. I bought the plans from Mother Earth News and now, I suspect, they weren’t considering the rather more intense nature of the Southwestern sun. In short, my heat grabber melted. The way the grabber works is the panel in the middle (bisecting the box) is spray-painted black, making a surface that absorbs heat from the sun. That heat is transferred into the air and heads up into the house. The problem is, that black painted surface got so hot in mid-March (when the sun started coming out for extended periods of time) that the foam panel melted, pulling away from the sides of the box. The grabbers still works— sort of. Instead of cycling the air the way it’s designed to do, it sort of just wafts hot air into the house. There’s no flow now, since the box is no longer bisected. It’s just one big box of hot air. So if you read my bit a couple months ago and intend to build one for yourself: Build it out of wood and line it with the foam insulation board, using some sort of spray adhesive. It might even be a good idea to put a bit of sheet metal over the middle panel and spraypaint that black, instead of the foam board directly. That way, the panel might melt or shrink a little, but it won’t matter: The box
will still be sealed tight, and the heat will still go where it needs to go. TINYURL.COM/MEN-HEATGRABBER
The Dirty Dozen and the Clean 15 The Environmental Working Group has released their 2013 “Shoppers Guide to Pesticides and Produce.” Personally, I look forward to this every year to see what’s safe to eat, and maybe if some things from last year have changed. This year, bell peppers have dropped from #3 on the Dirty Dozen to #12, but were replaced by cherry tomatoes (which weren’t even on the list last year). Apples and celery are still #1 and #2, respectively, while peaches went from #4 to #8. Asparagus replaced onions for first place on the Clean 15 (onion is now #10). EWG tests produce based on the way they are consumed, which means they peel and/or wash the veggies before testing. If you already have the smartphone app, make sure to update it to get 2013’s list (if you don’t, go to the link below and download!). EWG.ORG, TINYURL.COM/DIRTYDOZENAPP
GMO urban legends We’ve noticed over the last few months that there’s some Monsanto/GMO misinformation floating around the interwebs. First, a list
of supposedly Monsanto-owned companies to avoid buying from. The list includes such companies as Coca Cola, Ocean Spray, Lipton and a couple dozen others. The companies on this list, though, are not owned by Monsanto. They might (and most likely do) use products that have been genetically modified and sold by Monsanto, but the big M doesn’t own them. Second: A chart that shows how you can ‘decode’ produce labels to know whether or not your veggies are organic, have been genetically modified or grown with pesticides. Purportedly, a four-digit number means the produce has been conventionally grown, a five-digit number beginning with a nine means organic and a five-digit number beginning with an eight means GMO. This is true, but these codes are used for the convenience of suppliers and grocers, and there is nothing that mandates or regulates the use of codes in this fashion. They could be different or absent for any number of reasons, so this should be used as a general rule-of-thumb only. TINYURL.COM/NOTMONSANTO-OWNED, TINYURL.COM/PRODUCECODES
Americans for alternative energy According to a Gallup poll published in March, more than two-thirds of Americans want to focus on solar, wind and natural gas energy more than on oil, coal and nuclear. The poll found that 76% of Americans favor solar power development, 71% wind and 65% natural gas. Only 46%, 37% and 31% favored oil, nuclear and coal, respectively. The poll also found, not surprisingly, that oil, nuclear and coal were more popular with Republicans, and in the South. Democrats’ top choice nationwide was solar, whereas Republicans’ was natural gas. u TINYURL.COM/GALLUPALTENERGY
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RELATIONSHIPS
Crowd-sourced advice for newlyweds What have you learned in your marriage— or wish you had known beforehand? BY JAYNE ANN BOUD AND LACEY KNIEP
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llow us to introduce ourselves, Lacey Kniep and Jayne Ann Boud. We are University of Utah interns this semester at CATALYST. You may have noticed our work in the past few issues. Throughout this internship, we have learned about green living and cultural creativity in addition to learning all about the wonderful world of magazine writing
and production. Our experience has been absolutely wonderful! But there is something crucial we have yet to learn as this semester comes to a close. We are both getting married this month! To better prepare ourselves for this next step in life with our soon-to-be spouses, we asked our friends and CATALYST readers, both married and divorced, what they have learned
We divorced once but the divorce didn’t work! We married again on our anniversary so he didn’t have to remember two dates. I didn’t want to set him up to fail! I’ve learned that the only person you can change is yourself. Don’t try to change him. I’ve learned that no one is perfect. I’ve learned not to do anything so much or so often that it’s expected, only enough to be appreciated. Support your spouse’s dreams but don’t forget your own and don’t stop pursuing those dreams. Compromise is a great idea but it’s important to agree on the compromise. You can go to bed mad, contrary to popular belief. Sometimes it’s best to sleep on it rather than force an issue when there is fresh anger or hurt. It’s important to laugh often and forgive easily. Forgetting is a little harder but worth the effort. Don’t hold onto grudges. It only eats at you from the inside. It also gives others power over you. Own your feelings and your mistakes. There are many stages of love. Relationships cannot sustain that fiery passion every day. It will reignite during various times of your relationship. Love grows in many ways during good and bad times. It’s the small things that add up. Be considerate, be kind, be faithful, be honest, be playful, be patient, be yourself. And last but not least, I’ve learned that when the grass looks greener on the other side of the fence, it’s time to water the lawn! Good luck to the brides and grooms. It’s not always been easy, but it has certainly been worth it. Debbie, married 39 years You’re a team; work together. You are both are human and individuals, so it is natural to be annoyed at times or mad with each other. Just remember that you are on the same side. Look after each other’s needs. Alison, married 15 years
in their marriages—or what they wish they had known beforehand. Thank you for sharing your insights and experiences with us!
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Show more love when you least feel like it. Being upset doesn’t get you anywhere, but somehow service toward the very person you don’t feel kind toward will soften the hardest heart. Angela, 25, married 5 years Five years ago, our marriage was in pretty bad shape, and we couldn’t understand what we were doing wrong. We loved each other, but somehow our ability to communicate had atrophied, and things were going downhill. I [Grace] was in therapy, but it didn’t seem to be helping much. I think it was an act of desperation at the time, but we attended a party where I took a large dose of LSD and had what you might call a bad trip. It wasn’t fun, but in the middle of all the chaos I suddenly realized I could really see my husband… and that there was something terribly wrong that he had been hiding from me. Afterwards, I confronted him about it, and he admitted there had been some sexual abuse going on in his house when he was very young. He’d always had problems sustaining long-term relationships as an adult, and he thought that these things were related. We went into couples counseling. It has not always been an easy ride, but we have had a strong, loving, and trusting marriage now. After reading up on the therapeutic uses of MDMA and other psychedelics, we decided to integrate these experiences into our efforts to address our trauma and rebuild our relationship. Our therapist is skilled in pointing out the dynamics between us (both good and bad) but psychedelics have given us the ability to drop
If your partner does things that annoy you, more than likely what annoys you is merely a reflection of yourself, not him or her. Samantha, 24, married 7 months: This may sound overly practical, but I really wish someone would have given me this advice before I married: Have the Money talk. Find out what outstanding financial obligations your partner has. Does he file his taxes on time? What you learn likely won’t be a deal-breaker, though it may delay the wedding date, allowing time to get things cleaned up. Honesty now is a lot better than resentment later. Julia, 59, married 27 years Let it go! Give each other a break. Remember that you’re both imperfect. Don’t ever think, ‘Well, I’m not going to do this until he starts doing that.’ You’ll never get anywhere that way. When one of you does something really dumb, don’t rub it in! Just use it as a good opportunity to show the other how much you really love them. Lindsay, married 5 years
ferent. You and your spouse have to find how you two deal with things. What works for you may not work for someone else . Julia, 22, married 3 years I used to think that it was a little hokey to have couple-related paraphernalia all over the place— such as a hallway filled with pictures of the happy pair frolicking on a beach next to a framed love poem by Anonymous... or tattoos of your SO’s face on your bicep. I admit that I judged... and I was so, so wrong. Because that shit is crucial for managing snarky emotions the third time your husband gets flour from his bread-making project all over the lovingly hand-washed dishes in the drying rack... or photo Jennifer Leahy
our defenses and really do the work of building ourselves as a couple. Grace, 38 and Mick, 42, married 10 years
No matter how perfect you both start out being, there will be some differences and behavior/control games played. So learn to talk things over, with only each other. Never go to friends and family to get them on your side. You may not agree for a while, but you will each eventually understand where the other is coming from. Generally speaking, men don’t talk over things, they don’t want to cause waves, so talking is at first scary to them. Jack [my husband] has loved it for many years now. There are a few circumstances that are unfixable—extreme personality disorders such as narcissism, sociopathy, substance abuse, etc. My advice is to get therapy, and then get out ASAP when problems are entrenched. Don’t hang in there for years hoping for a change that isn’t going to happen. Like I did. Joan, 78, happily married 30 years after two painful previous marriages
grinding annoyance. I’ve found that using images or love-notes or love-gifts (I like to re-read our first conversation on OKCupid... or play with a little snail-shaped bottle-opener that my husband got me as a just-because gift) in order to reinforce the little pathway from the part of my brain that stores husband-related memories to the part of my brain that generates ooey-gooey lovey-dovies, and counteract the trail that leads to resenty feelings. (So maybe when I finally get around to framing pictures from our wedding, one should go next to the toothbrushes and one should go in the drying rack?) Adele, 29, married 9 months There are three entities in a marriage. You and your spouse are each individuals but the marriage itself is also its own being. You are not blending your life with another’s. You are creating something new. Sometimes this new entity is strong and healthy. (This part is easy and feels great) Sometimes it’s weak or fragile and it will need care and attention or rest. (This is the work.) Have many interests, some that you share and some that are your own. Time apart is as important as time together. If you are very lucky, like me, you have great role models. Both my parents and my in-laws lead by example in the marriage department. Happy 50th wedding anniversary Doug and Myrna! Polly, 51, married 18 years This is a trick I learned late in my marriage. Had I learned it earlier, we probably would have never divorced; earlier still, and we possibly never would have married. Here it is: Appreciate each other—not with nods of encouragement, or by entangling emotions, but simply as one appreciates fine acting in a play. We’re so much bigger than the dramas we enact, and it’s good to remind ourselves, every single day, that Hamlet was right. Two people, appreciating each other in this way, share such a gift. True love loves a drama-free zone. Greta, 61, married 20 years, divorced 7 years Have an attitude of gratitude and find joy in your journey together.
Your relationship is more important than being right. Also, pick out your own jewelry...it keeps feelings from being hurt. Bonnie, 32, married 9 years
Tex Always kiss goodnight.
Remember what’s important and always give your spouse the benefit of the doubt. Your spouse will probably not intentionally try to hurt you. If he ever does hurt your feelings, he usually just doesn’t know what he said. Also, discuss periodically how you can meet each other’s needs. Melissa, 22, married 2 years Marriage is not a 50/50 thing. You each have to give 100% and expect nothing in return. If you both always put God first and make sure he is the center of your relationship, things fall into place. Kelcie, 20-something, divorced 2 years My advice is: don’t take any advice from other couples because each couple is unique and dif-
Denise Always make peace before you go to sleep. Mary Jayne Ann Boud and Bryce Osborne
you’ve knocked his toothbrush out of the holder and into the beard trimmings and dusting of girly makeup powder in the sink...again. Seriously, you need the most love-sappy stuff you’ve got hung up in every room of the house. Because every time your spouse does one of those annoying little things, you probably remember Every. Other. Time. they’ve done that exact same annoying little thing—and it reinforces connections in your brain between the concept of your beloved and that feeling of tooth-
Don’t let money issues dictate how happy/unhappy your marriage is. Ladonna Never use the word ‘divorce,’ even in a joking manner. Caitlin Honor, love, adore and serve each other forever and ever. Jewel, 70, married 49 year
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EXPLORING ANCIENT UTAH
Pen-and-ink drawing of the “Unexpected Panel”, carbon dating of Barrier Canyon Style art dates this panel to between 4,000 and 1,700 years ago.
Rain-magic rock art of the Canyonlands ancestors The careful observations of an artist reveal new meanings in the messages of Southern Utah’s ancient dwellers STORY AND DRAWINGS BY JOSÉ KNIGHTON
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he wilderness art museums of southern Utah’s canyonlands offer the best of two worlds: the physical exhilaration of a great hike and the mental stimulation of meeting unusual works of art. No matter how much time one spends in the presence of prehistoric rock art, like any other art, it is never enough to comprehend its complexity. Even studying photographs after a visit, one’s attention is dominated by imposing elements of the composition.
For some time, I have been creating detailed pen-and-ink drawings as tributes to the imaginative obsession
this art provokes. This labor of love has forced me to pay precise attention to details otherwise easily overlooked. As well, with hikes to related rock art, repetitions of similar—seemingly minor—elements have revealed themselves. A trip to a recently re-discovered site initiated a cascade of such revelations.
Pen-and-ink drawing of “Snake Belly”, AKA “Intestine Man”
Tracking a rumor of an ancient rock art panel through the southern Utah desert is an act of faith. From this canyon’s mid-level sandstone terrace we scan the potential sites of such a panel as we hike upcanyon. The possibilities seem nearly infinite. Eventually, though, we find a few suspicious footprints that focus into a path up the main wash and across a sandy bench on its far side. We spot a likely protected overhang in the distance and trek toward it. We’re so intent that when we pause beneath the actual site—accident or intuition?—we are still focused on our distant mirage. The presence of the Unexpected Panel (as it has been called) draws our attention upward and we stand agape in stunned silence. The intricacy of detail in this startling outburst of imagination painted on the sandstone rock face is dumbfounding. Some of its figures are as large or larger than ourselves. And some are 15 to 20 feet above the ground— unreachable and intimidating. I whisper thanks to our great friend who did the forensic extrapolation from a photographer’s trip notes on his blog, where he gave the art the name we use. And then hunted down this site which has only become public in the last couple of years. Eventually we break out in a chorus of coyote hallelujahs. Southern Utah’s canyons are as laden with Native American rock art—from historic Ute and Navajo back to prehistoric Fremont, Pueblo and Basketmaker cultures—as the Manhattan railyards used to be with vibrant graffiti. But this is the old stuff, centuries or millennia older than the above cultures and possibly ancestral to some. It’s also more elaborate and elegant than any subsequent rock art. The earliest hunter-gatherer cultures in the Southwest have been prejudicially described by archaeologists as the “Desert Archaic” people. The ancient rock art paintings in Utah’s canyonlands have been identified by the world-famous Great Gallery, considered the model of the Barrier Canyon Style (BCS) rock paintings. That renowned and enormous panel is really in Horseshoe Canyon which is intermittently drained by Barrier Creek. There is no Barrier Canyon. How old is that panel in Horseshoe Canyon? Unfired clay figurines with design similarities to
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Visiting Rock Art of the Canyonlands Ancestors It’s a sad dilemma that any public description of rock art locations exposes it to an extreme risk of vandalism. There are, however, three significant, high profile Barrier Canyon Style panels that are essentially in the public domain. Two are within an hour’s drive from Green River, the third is a little more with a good hike at the drive’s end. All are accessible on well-maintained dirt roads.The Sego Canyon and Buckhorn Wash panels both received major, professional restoration in the mid-90’s to remove decades of vandalism. The type-site for this rock art style, Horseshoe Canyon (AKA Barrier Canyon) is part of Canyonlands National Park. A few years ago a chainlink fence was installed for protection of the Great Gallery and a park ranger is usually on patrol.
Sego Canyon Take I-70 east from Green River for approximately 24 miles, take the turnoff to Thompson Springs (Exit 185). Drive north through town on SR 94 and continue on the dirt road for approximately three miles to a parking area for the rock art.
Buckhorn Wash Take I-70 west from Green River for approximately 30 miles, take the dirt road (Exit 129) north, backtracking for a little over three miles until the road turns and continues north for approximately 16 miles to cross the San Rafael river bridge. In approximately five miles the the rock art will appear on the canyon walls beside the road.
Horseshoe Canyon Take I-70 west from Green River for approximately 13 miles, take SR 24 (Exit 147) south for approximately 24 miles to about a half mile south of the Goblin Valley turnoff. Turn east on the dirt road to the Hans Flat ranger station of the Maze district of Canyonlands N.P. Bear right at the first fork, left at the second fork, continuing to a signed junction after about 25 miles. Turn left, and its about six more miles from this junction with signs marking the way to the turnoff on the right and the rim of the canyon. The hike into the canyon and upstream to the Great Gallery is seven miles round trip. “Snake in Mouth”
EXPLORING ANCIENT UTAH the rock art’s motifs have been excavated upcanyon. Fortunately, that work was done by professional archeologists who could date the clay figures by depositional layers in which they were found. These figurines could have been left behind “as early as 6,000 to 8,000 ago,” according to an article by Betsy L. Tipps, “Barrier Canyon Rock Art Dating,” that appears in the National Park Service publication The Archeology of Horseshoe Canyon (available free online). Specific to the paintings, carbon dating of actual paint fragments from stylistically related sites found elsewhere and also described in the article pulls the creation of the paintings forward to between 4,000 and 1,700 years ago. Older isn’t necessarily better. But with rock art there’s a point where art starts to evolve (or devolve) toward the iconography of writing. These are two distinctly different forms of communication—one visceral and one pragmatic. Think of the difference between Picasso’s “Guernica” and the ideograms of Chinese text in which each character incorporates a simplified representation of what it identifies. Both are symbolically loaded. But one is a punch in the gut and the other may be instructions for hooking up a DVD player. Most of the chipped-in rock art (also known as petroglyphs) of later prehistoric cultures, Fremont, Basketmaker and Pueblo, seem to be, with their stylized manner, moving more toward those ideogramic representations and away from more evocative forms of art. But, the preeminent thing about BCS paintings (also known as pictographs) thrives in the fact that they are intentionally enthralling— both emotionally and imaginatively, rather than intellectually. *** As we stand gawking like museum tourists below the focus of our quest, we are not too distant as the crow flies from the BCS type-site in Horseshoe Canyon. We recognize familiar elements of that style’s rock art. Predominating are larger-thanlife moon-eyed demigods whose hypnotic stares have, ever since Spielberg, been associated with ET. These often limbless torsos do have an other-worldly quality. Southern Utah artist and archaeologist Joe Pachak (known from his work with the Edge of the Cedars Museum in Blanding) speculates that some
figures from the Great Gallery in Horseshoe Canyon could be representations of “shroud-wrapped bodies,” possibly prepared for exposed sky-burials. This might explain the BCS sites’ absence of the preserved interments common to Fremont, Basketmaker and Pueblo cultures. Whether or not Pachak’s educated guess is accurate, it resonates with beliefs and rituals of one of the oldest surviving southwestern Native American cultures. The Hopi, who have lived for centuries on their
This is the old stuff, centuries or millennia older than prehistoric Fremont, Pueblo and Basketmaker cultures, and possibly ancestral to some. defensive mesa tops in what is now northeastern Arizona, may or may not be descendants of the artists of the BCS culture. Being hunter-gatherer, seasonal nomads, those ancient artists left behind little evidence of their material culture except their magnificently durable rock art. Some Hopi clans do, however, have direct lineages or oral traditions going back to the prehistoric Basketmaker and Pueblo cultures (both commonly known as Anasazi or more recently as Ancestral Puebloan). Some Hopi katsinas (aka kachinas), whether carved cottonwood figurines or ritual masquerades, are representations or embodiments of transcendent ancestors; in tabloid parlance, dead celebrities—think Bogart and Lincoln. Some are recent enough to be associated with remembered individuals. Some have been in oral tradition for so many centuries that they’ve metamorphosed into demigod myths— think Moses or Ulysses. Whenever I visit Horseshoe Canyon and stand in front of the figure most often referred to as “the Holy Ghost,” I see the Hopi’s skullfaced Maasawu. This intimidating demigod, according to oral tradition, led the Hopi clans out of their “third world”: out of the Chaco Canyon culture’s tyranny at the declining end of the prehistoric Pueblo era in the 1400s and to new lives in their current Fourth World
Dr. Todd Cameron on those Arizona mesa tops. One doesn’t need to leap a very wide conceptual gap to recognize protokatsinas or even Maasawu himself in some of the imposing BCS figures left by the canyonlands ancestors. Perhaps those ancestors are representatives of an even more distantly prehistoric Second World. *** Once we free our attention from captivation by the Unexpected Panel’s katsina-like, humanoid figures we recognize the wealth of detail in the panel’s elaborate composition. Several smaller figures incorporate both animal and human characteristics, abstract winged circles, an arc evocative of a rainbow and, inevitably, symbols too alien to our own cultural foundations to guess the artist’s intentions. Occasionally the most evident component of a suite of elements— subordinate to a BCS panel’s dominating anthropomorphic figures—is the presence of a raincloud. My rock art-obsessed companions and I refer to an obscure panel near Moab, otherwise identified by its give-away location name, as the Stormbringer Panel. Our re-naming recognizes both the need for protective secrecy and the presence of unmistakable rainclouds trailing curtains of virga directly over two major anthropomorphs. Although this seemingly ancient panel—with numerous Basketmaker animal petroglyphs superimposed much later—is heavily faded from ages of exposure, the simplified raincloud and rain-curtain would be difficult to interpret as anything else. Still gazing up at the Unexpected Panel, we recognize nothing as obvious as a raincloud, but the arcing
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Glossary Petroglyph: art chipped into the rock surface rather than painted onto it Pictograph: painted rock art Barrier Canyon style (BCS): rock art of southeastern Utah’s earliest, Desert Archaic inhabitants; the name is a conflation of the Barrier Creek and Horseshoe Canyon which it intermittently drains: there is no actual Barrier Canyon. Anthropomorph: a rock art figure with some human characteristics Hopi: a clan-based pueblo society in northern Arizona 1and one of the oldest surviving southwestern Native American cultures.
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twin lines over five small supplicant or dancing figures looks like a rainbow. Vertical painted streamers below the rainbow and dancers are identical to the virga falling from rainclouds of the Stormbringer Panel and make this identification seem like more than idle speculation. Often the presence of such a rain signifier is less apparent, as exemplified by two panels—quite different from each other—on opposite sides of a canyon near Canyonlands National Park. The larger one (usually called Snake in the Mouth for the tiny uvula-like snake hanging in a torso-like figure’s open mouth) has an amorphous horizontal shape overhead. Pulling one’s attention off this dominant anthropomorph, one is likely to notice small streaks and droplets falling from that dark shape toward an attendant figure and a diagonal snake above its head. The intricately delicate Snake Belly (or Intestine Man) panel on the opposite side of the canyon seems to have less potential for rain signifiers. But, above the three main semianthropomorphic figures (one of which is a perfect example of Pachak’s burial shroud) there are 100 or more fingerprint-painted dots that may or may not represent raindrops. The real rain signifier here, however, requires familiarity with a minor detail of another panel entirely. Next to the Snake Belly and its attendants is a seemingly abstract six-lobed form with hanging loops joining the tapered lobes. Minutely painted birds that would fit on fingernails fly between each lobe. It seems unlikely that the mysterious lobes are simply clumsy abstractions. Below, are barely visible vertical repetitions that I’ve heard described as lollipops. What on earth? *** Before hiking away from the Unexpected Panel—since the sun is dipping toward the horizon—we comment on another aspect familiar from other panels. Snakes! Many BCS panels have snakes slithering across them or otherwise woven into their designs. There’s one above us, with back-and-forth loops partially obscured by a mineral stain, hanging from a mooneyed figure’s arm. Half of the figure’s head and most of its single arm are also obscured by the same descending stain. Another figure appears to have a snake sprouting from its shoulder for an arm. There are also two small snakelike designs above and below the double arc of the rainbow.
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Many native people see snakes’ shedding of their skins and emergence from dens in the earth when the ground warms in the spring as symbols of rebirth. But for the Hopi they are also the guardians of springs. The Hopi snake ceremony, documented by Jesse Walter Fewkes in a report first published in 1897 involves ritual handling of deadly rattlesnakes as well as other less dangerous desert serpents. This was the first Hopi ceremonial “dance” from which outsiders were banned when their sacred rituals started taking on a Barnum and Bailey atmosphere. In his book, Sun Chief: the Autobiography of a Hopi Indian, Dan Talayesva, after describing Snake Clan priests carrying rattlesnakes in their teeth, states, “They
EXPLORING ANCIENT UTAH figures in the path of this seepage of gathered rainfall was intentional. That possibility increases to probability when one considers that the intention of some paintings was, very likely, the supplication of ancestral spirits for sustaining rain. I feel it’s worth taking another brief glance at the Snake Belly panel’s identifying figure. This figure is small, not much more than a foot high and unusual among its sibling pictographs. It’s proportionally wider than other BCS figures and has what appears to be a skirt of feathers along its bottom edge. Another unusual detail, corrupted by erosion and barely discernible in photographs, is a triangular rattlesnake-like head protruding vertically from where one would expect a
Detail of the “Unexpected Panel”
are then released with prayers, to convey to the Rain Deity.” It’s quite possible that this ancient propitiation ritual of the Hopi was carried from their deep ancestral past as carefully a rattlesnake clutched between their teeth. The Head of Sinbad panel, famous in anthropology textbooks for a shaman figure, includes numerous snakes. One is clutched in a figure’s hand and another seems to be whispering in a mooneyed figure’s ear. This figure is partially obscured by mineral stains. These paintings are extremely old and some, like the Stormbringer panel, have not aged well. The water seepage which has, over the centuries, deposited mineralization may not necessarily have occurred as an oversight or a poor location choice on the part of the artists. It’s possible the placement of certain
head to protrude—a faint detail I noticed when working on a penand-ink rendering. A little-known petroglyph in Canyonlands National Park has similar details. In the Stormbringer panel, another petroglyph has similar snakey internal loops and a trailing edge of tentacle-like fringe similar to the Snake Belly’s “feathers.” Author Erna Ferguson in her book Dancing Gods, published in 1931, recounts how each Hopi snake collector “carries a bag of sacred meal with which to sprinkle the snakes, and a buffalo-skin bag to put them in.” It is not beyond the realm of possibility that these glyphs represent such a collecting bag or personifications of such bags. Such enclosing bundles are known to calm irritated captives and would have offered safe and respectful transport for dangerous serpents as
collaborators in rain-arousing rituals that may have preceded those of the Hopi. *** Before finally wrenching our imaginations away from the Unexpected Panel, we take one last, mind-etching look at its focal figure. There is always a dominant figure in these elaborate and always singular compositions who clutches at your soul. I’ve intentionally left this hybrid figure—so well equipped for clutching —for last. Smaller than the ghostly torsos it shares the wall with, it has two stubby legs and two reaching arms, turned to one side, with delicate but dangerous-looking claw-like fingers and seems to be flinging four enigmatic winged circles toward the panel’s edge. It has a rectangular head, wider than it is high, with two huge piercing eyes. The addition of a pair of moth-like antennae imbues the figure with an insectoid, even alien, quality. Though there is a mineralization-obscured snake hanging in space behind this figure, and a small mammal beneath the winged circles seems to be communing with a smaller snake, it is impossible to trap this figure’s essence in the conceptual net of rain-magic that we’ve been exploring. No amount of well-founded or dumbfounded speculation can ever dispel the mysteries of these labors of human imagination. But something that is not subject to speculation is the fact that they were indeed labors. These elaborate works of art represented a substantial commitment of time and effort for a hunter-gatherer, subsistence community. As generations of their people swept past, as pigments they worked with failed or succeeded to chemically bond with the sandstone on which they were painted and disappeared, faded or remained vibrant, their mastery of materials and technique evolved. Eventually, they knew—without doubt—they were creating something both important and enduring that reached into the deepest enigmas of human existence and survival. Their mystery is one the passage of centuries has only enhanced. u When José Knighton moved away from Moab nine years ago, someone said (and it was printed in the newspaper), “It’s sad enough when you lose the family dog, but we’re losing the community coyote!” There, you know all you need to know about José. And, also, that he is a highly skilled observer that manifests in poetry, prose and his careful, captivating pen-and-ink drawings.
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Learning in a post-digital age From calligraphy to goat milking, skillsharing lets friends, enthusiasts and professionals teach and learn from each other. BY KATHERINE PIOLI pread out on my kitchen counter, a bowl, bag of bread flour, salt, glass of tepid water, and jar of pasta madre (sourdough starter), vie for space among cocktail glasses and half-empty food plates. I shout over the noise of conversation: “Pour in your madre, weigh out 400 grams of flour and 300 grams of water.” Only a handful of people in the room gather close to watch my demonstration. It is an informal classroom. My sourdough bread-baking class marked our skillshare group’s second meeting. The monthly gatherings took root last winter. A small group of friends, without an official name or list of classes or attendees, coming together partially as an excuse to get out of our winter burrows and socialize. Do-it-yourself kind of people, we also wanted to learn from each other. As is often the case with brilliant ideas, our skillshare group, I soon learned, was not unique in the valley. Varying manifestations, such as Beehive Braintree and the Garden Group, are appearing all over the city. It’s a new kind of adult education, not associated with a college or university. These groups tap
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amateurs, professionals and, in our case, self-taught enthusiasts to lead short courses (a few hours to one day) on everything from soap-making to narrative journalism to building raised-bed vegetable gardens. On a recent Wednesday night I followed my partner Benjamin up the stairs at the office of Higher Ground Learning to the loft classroom where yet another new skillsharing group, the Beehive Braintree, was meeting. Unlike my own do-it-yourself group, the Braintree’s creators are using skillsharing as a business model—a trend happening from New York City to Australia. At the Beehive, classes are designed to benefit students as well as the teachers. By sharing their skills in a formal classroom setting, Beehive Braintree’s creators hope to help professionals build a reputation and possibly attract more work. Stepping into the classroom, I found seven students already seated at a horseshoe of tables facing a whiteboard. Benjamin, the guest teacher for the night’s class on narrative journalism, stepped up to the front and introduced himself. The scene felt light years away from my class the week before in a loud, crowded and messy kitchen. Ben put on a nametag and distributed printouts. I stepped back downstairs to talk skillsharing with Braintree’s creators, Dallas Graham and Paul Matlin. “I work in front of a computer eight hours a day. When I leave work, I want to connect with people,” Dallas told me as we held our own conference downstairs underneath the Beehive class loft. The conversation had turned to the rise of social, real-time, face-to-face knowledge sharing in the digital age. “Resources like YouTube are incredibly influential,” he continued, “but we are becoming over-saturated by screens and I see that people are finally reaching a tipping point.” But skillsharing isn’t just a movement away from technology—it’s also a movement toward mature social and intellectual engagement. To drive this
point home, Dallas recalled for me a moment of revelation during one of his group’s skillsharing sessions. “I was talking with a mother of two young children after one of our classes,” said Dallas. “She told me, ‘I’m with little kids all day. I want to use my brain. I want to get out and exercise that part of me.’ ” Both Dallas and Paul connected with the student’s need. While one works as an artist and a generalist, and the other as a niche specialist in the medical field, each man empathizes with the adult need for intellectual engagement or just plain fun. It’s not uncommon, then, for such skillsharing groups to touch on topics ranging from how to stock your home bar to calligraphy to landscaping. My own DIY group has similar eclectic tastes with a focus on homesteading skills. After our initial brainstorming session, we came together to make soap, which
chance to present our gardens. I call it the show-and-tell-off. People love to show their gardens.” Meetings are also a time to share specific gardening skills like making seed starter pots from newspaper or sharpening tools. And they use group momentum for the harder tasks—the “old many hands make light work” mentality— and join forces to shovel compost or turn garden beds. Like my own skillshare group, the Garden Group operates via a simple email list, with meeting announcements also listed on a open-access group website. Interest in the Garden Group extends from Ogden to Lehi, with nearly 80 people on the email list, but participation is much more modest with anywhere from five to twenty people showing at a gathering. Giving yet another unique spin to the skillshare idea, the inspiration for the Garden Group, a branch of the international Transitions proj-
Skillsharing isn’t just a move away from technology—it’s also a move toward mature social and intellectual engagement. turned out to be a simple, yet dangerous, process since we made ours with lye. The second meeting, at my own house, focused on bread and now we all wait expectantly for the next meeting, which promises a lesson on milking goats. Building solar dehydrators, jam-making and meatcuring are also on our list of desired activities. skillsharing can be anything participants want it to be. Less interested in generalist knowledge, Salt Lake’s Garden Group, familiar to some by its former name the Sustainable Foods group, focuses the concept on a single hobby, gardening. These gardening enthusiasts gather monthly to share potluck meals, labor in the garden and helpful tips and techniques. I caught up with organizer Jim French on a recent afternoon to talk a little about garden skills sharing. “It’s pretty informal,” Jim told me. “We do meetings at a new person’s house every time so we each get a
ect, comes from Transition’s firm environmental ideology. As Jim explained, “The idea is that in the foreseeable future we are going to stop having a cheap source of fuel. We might as well start preparing for that in a joyous way. We need to start working together now, creating small and more personal communities that we can depend on and food systems that don’t depend on transportation.” Fuel isn’t the only thing that Jim hopes people won’t depend on. As unofficial organizer of the Garden Group, he also hopes to see new and independent gardening groups starting all over the valley and the Wasatch front. “My mantra is ‘plan on your own obsolescence’, ” he joked. “But really, people need to take this thing and make it their own.” And that’s some great advice for all skillsharing in any form. u Katherine Pioli fights fires in the summer, raises heritage fowl in the 9th & 9th area, and writes for CATALYST.
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FOOD AND COMMUNITY
The little co-op that could — with a little cooperation The Wasatch Cooperative Market recently hit the halfway mark on its founding membership goal. What exactly is a grocery co-op, and why would you want to participate? BY BENJAMIN BOMBARD
Thanks to the Wasatch Cooperative Market board of directors who modeled for this story.
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ou stroll through the sliding glass doors and fumble for the grocery list at the bottom of your reusable bag. Immediately, you have the sense that something’s different in this store. Friends told you that would be the case. You can’t put a finger on it, but, yeah, something is definitely different here. You push your shopping cart through the produce aisles. There are the usual price tags on the potatoes and tomatoes and corn and apples and all the other fruits and veggies. Next to a lot of the tags are small signs with photos and descriptions of actual farms and farmers. You look around and realize that these farms and farmers are located pretty close to here and they produce much of the delicious food surrounding you. In the bulk section, you find recipes for how to prepare stuff you’ve never had the nerve to try— bulgur wheat, mung beans, hominy, quinoa. And you never knew so many cheese and dairy products were produced in these parts; but there they are, displayed on the dairy section’s shelves. You wend your way through the frozen-food section, past the bakery (with locally baked sticky buns) and the butchery (you sample the locally made sausage) and through the health and beauty section. On your way to the checkout stand, you notice what’s really different in here is the lighting. The lighting and the smiling faces it illuminates around you make you feel comfortable here. And here comes a smiling face now. A store employee sees you staring up at the lighting fixtures and says, “Welcome to the co-op! Can I help you find something?” * In 47 of the 50 United States—and no, Utah is not among them—there are stores like this. They are called cooperative markets. They are member-owned and democratically controlled, meaning their customers are also their investors, and each investor wields a vote in the organization, each investor receives some manner of return on their investment in a profitable year at the store, and each investor gets to walk into their grocery store and say, “I own a piece of this.” Along with farmers markets, cooperative grocery markets are the ideal business model for the
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current foodie movement. They have regular grocery store hours, a friendly “corner-store” vibe, wellpaid, well-benefited and often happy employees, and they focus on selling high-quality, natural, healthy, sustainable foods, goods and merchandise, with a strong emphasis on locally produced items. An average co-op market buys goods from roughly 150 local producers; conventional stores contract with fewer than half that number. Unlike nearly all other business models, structured as they are around one essentially vapid “philosophy”—maximizing profit for shareholders —classic co-ops are defined by their adherence to seven guiding principles: voluntary and open membership; democratic member control; member econom-
count, there are approximately 325 cooperative grocery stores in the US, with another 200 in development. Even Wyoming, with a population half as large as Salt Lake City’s, has a co-op—in Bozeman, population 38,000. An effort is currently underway to get Utah off the list of the three states— Oklahoma and Alaska, included— that currently don’t boast a true cooperative market. The Wasatch Cooperative Market doesn’t yet have a storefront
An average co-op market buys goods from roughly 150 local producers; conventional stores contract with fewer than half that number. ic participation; autonomy and independence; education, training and information; cooperation among cooperatives; and concern for community. They have the interests of the environment and community at heart. They also serve as incubators for local farmers and added-value food producers: think salsa makers, cookie bakers and hummus gurus. According to one
or employees or food to sell, but since the co-op was founded in 2009, 200 Utahns, from Draper to Logan, have recognized the need for a cooperative grocery store in the capital city and they’ve made the one-time $300 investment necessary to become a founding member-owner. The Co-op’s board members have set a goal of bringing onboard 400 member-owners by July 2013. The group received a much-needed boost from two recent $10,000 grants awarded to it by the Utah State Legislature and an independent consulting group, but it has struggled to find the necessary number of investors to complete its initial development and move on to choosing a store location. * The idea of co-op markets may be foreign to many Utahns, but the concept is nothing new across much of the western world. Indeed, they’ve became so influential in the global economy that the U.N. declared 2012 the International Year of Cooperatives. That’s big pretty big billing for a business model that traces its humble roots back to the year 1844, when a small group of im-
poverished weavers and other works in Rochdale, England, decided they’d had enough with the encroaching poverty foisted upon them by the encroachment of the Industrial Revolution. Barely able to afford the staple food items they needed to survive, the 30 tradesmen banded together as the Rochdale Society of Equitable Pioneers to open their own store where they could sell foodstuffs at reasonable prices and pay workers a reasonable wage. The Rochdale Pioneers laid out the seven principles that guide successful cooperative businesses to this day. Within three months, they had made enough profit to expand their selection and were soon known for providing goods of the highest quality. What began as a humble community store in north-central England has burgeoned into more than 5,000 storefronts selling everything from food to insurance, electricity, legal services, even funeral care. The cooperative movement thrived in Europe, and was injected with new life in the United States in the 1970s when the “second wave” cooperatives were formed by people who, faced with the growth of commercially manufactured foods and diminishing local crops, wanted access to natural and organic foods outside of the national grocery chain stores. From 1969 to 1979, 10,000 new food co-ops were established in this country. At first glance, Utah may appear bereft of co-ops. But have you ever shopped at an Ace Hardware store? Or bought gear at REI? Have you ever spread Land ’O Lakes butter on your toast or poured yourself a glass of Sunkist orange juice or tossed a
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handful of Blue Diamond Almonds into your mouth? Is your car or house covered by Nationwide Insurance? Yep, they’re all co-ops, member-owned and operated. And did you ever shop at ZCMI, the Zions Cooperative Mercantile Institution, Utah’s first co-op? Faced with the imminent completion of the Transcontinental Railroad, Brigham Young rounded up community and business leaders to organize a community-owned department store dedicated to supporting local manufacturing and sharing profits with the Mormon community. * Alan Stutz, currently acting chair of the Wasatch Cooperative Market’s board, has been involved with the organization since its inception five years ago. He came to Salt Lake City from California in 2007, and one of his first upon arriving was, “Where’s the grocery co-op?” Two years later, he and Salt Lake native Ben Gaddis jump-started the Wasatch Community Co-op, hoping to catch a spark with Wasatch Front residents. Member-ownership in the Co-op carries a one-time $300 price tag, although the group stresses that money is an investment, not a fee. It is technically a for-profit organization, and in a profitable year the by-laws require it to disburse a minimum of 20% of its profits to member-owners as dividends. How large a dividend a given member-owner receives depends on how much they shop at the market. Being member-owned, coops can be slow in developing, especially in areas unfamiliar with the concept of a co-op grocery market. It takes time to disseminate the idea and to convince people that it is indeed a good idea, even in tough economic times, to invest several hundred dollars in a market that can’t put food on your table today. And a coop can’t exist without the financial support of visionary founding member-owners. It takes at least five years, on average, for a co-op to get from the development phases to its grand opening. “You get out what you put in,” Stutz says of the group’s development efforts. He and a handful of new and potential member-owners were at a potluck dinner held by the Co-op. While the group can’t currently offer food on store shelves to its member-owners, it strives to cultivate community around food and local businesses: member-owners can show their Co-op member cards at several area storefronts and restaurants to receive a discount. Stutz and member-owner Alison Riley were seated at a kitchen table in the home of Barbara Pioli, the Co-op’s development coordinator. Riley, who’s never stepped foot in a co-op grocery store, listened intently as Stutz explained that “nonmember-owners will get the same off-the-shelf price as members, but the co-op will only pay out profits to member-owners. So there’s a direct incentive for co-op members to shop at the market.”
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* Perhaps it would be more accurate to say there will be an incentive when there’s a physical market to shop at. “That’s the number one question we’re asked: Where’s the store?” Stutz said, with a note of frustration. “I get the feeling from a lot of people that they’ll invest once the doors open.” The Co-op’s board members calculate they need to bring on 400 founding member-owners to complete a feasibility study that will help pinpoint potential locations for the 10,000square foot market they currently envision. They arrived at that store size on the advice of a consultant who emphasized that any smaller, and the store wouldn’t be able to service a community as large as Salt Lake’s. It’s understandably difficult for some new investors to put money into a store that doesn’t even exist, but at which they’ll be expecting to shop. Once a suitable location for the store has been pinpointed, board members expect the response will be, “That’s the perfect location,” or maybe, “It’s a little out of the way, but we could make it work.” * Food-buying clubs, run cooperatively, have been around Salt Lake City for decades. In the January 2004 CATALYST, we noted that there was a moratorium on forming new buying clubs in the valley because the distributor that supplied local coops also supplied Wild Oats (since purchased by Whole Foods) and did not wish to further impinge on the retailer’s market. Several food-related organizations in the Salt Lake Valley have “co-op” in their names. While these businesses may provide valuable services to the community and the producers they contract with, they do not adhere to the seven guiding principles that define a cooperative. Community supported agriculture (CSA) associations are sometimes mistaken for cooperatives, to, but they are not. Classic co-op grocery stores, such as the Boise Co-op, the Community Food Co-op in Bozeman, Montana, or the very successful Wheatsville Co-op in Austin, Texas, keep regular grocery store hours and offer a dependable year-round market for local goods and produce. * Stutz said he had expected the Wasatch Cooperative Market would have signed up enough member-owners to afford the feasibility study by now, four years into the group’s development phase. The good majority of the Co-op’s founding members reside in and around downtown Salt Lake, which is where Stutz says the market will in all likelihood be located. “People need to see a business plan,” argued Denise, another Co-op member-owner at the potluck dinner.
Classic co-ops are defined by their adherence to seven guiding principles:
• voluntary and open membership • democratic member control • member economic participation • autonomy and independence • education, training and information • cooperation among cooperatives • concern for community
She said there’s a vast influx of new Salt Lake residents who relocated to the area from more progressive regional cities—like Boise, Eugene and the Bay Area—where co-ops are a way of life for many socially conscious city dwellers. “There are a lot of people who moved here from out of town and they belonged to co-ops where they were before, and they want one here. They have the money and they want to do this,” she said, “but they need to understand why this one will work.” If all goes as planned, the Co-op’s business plan might be drawn up and that feasibility study could be conducted sooner rather than later. The $20,000 grants it has recently received will help pay for both those projects and cover the wage of
“We’re not dragging our feet, but people keep asking us when we’re going to open, and we tell them: ‘When you become a member-owner.’” a paid communications intern. The only catch is that same niggly one the group has contended with for years: They need more member-owners. They need investment money from people eager for Utah to finally terraform its co-op desert. As Stutz put it, the co-op is past the point of no return, and it will happen in one form or another. He laid it out plainly for Riley as they sat at the kitchen table. “We may not get the store size we want, and I don’t know if we’re going to open next year or in five years. It totally depends on growing member-ownership. We’re not dragging our feet, but people keep asking us when we’re going to open, and we tell them: when you become a member-owner.” Utahns are no strangers to cooperative organization. We are, after all, the Beehive State, and the dominant Mormon culture puts a premium on volunteerism and community building, and the larger social framework is shot through with a thorough understanding of the importance of working together. If Stutz is right and the Co-op’s doors do in fact open sometime in the future, it will provide Utahns with a living link to the legacy of the Rochdale weavers, the heritage of ZCMI, and a deeper connection good, honest, naturally produced and local food. And when its doors finally open, its founding member-owners will be able to proudly proclaim, “I helped build that.” u In the course of writing this article, Benjamin R. Bombard became a member, and then a board member, of the Wasatch Cooperative Market. He is a co-producer of RadioWest on KUER 90.1 and writes a blog, “Fowl Play,” for the CATALYST Weekly Reader.
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CHAKRA SERIES
Exploring human energy and endocrine anatomy: Chakra Two Here’s the skinny on sex hormones BY TODD MANGUM, M.D.
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he chakras are a metaphysical system of the body from the yogic tradition, used in both religious and medical Hindu and Buddhist canons. The chakra energy centers are usually depicted as seven lotuses of rainbow colors arrayed along the spine and up into the head. Understanding of this system has long been used both to heal illness and to promote spiritual enlightenment. Todd Mangum, M.D.’s series on the chakras explains how this conceptual framework can be used to expand our understanding of how our bodies work. He covers the traditional and contemporary interpretations of the chakra system corresponding to various systems of the body. To be healthy is to have a free and balanced flow of energy through the body. Engaging this powerful symbolic system can help us to achieve and maintain health in a far more nuanced and active way than Western medicine can by itself.
The second chakra is associated with pleasure, sensations and sexuality. Location: in the pelvis. Governs: sexuality and desires. Main issue: involves the ability to experience pleasure and sensation, especially as these relate to sexuality. Externalizes: as the ovaries in women and the testicles in men. Element: water. When balanced: we feel sensuous. Color: a harmonic of orange. Key words: fluidity, change, polarity, movement, sensation, emotion. Influences: sacrum, pelvis, lower abdomen, genitals, gonads, prostate, uterus, kidneys and bladder. Deficiencies: manifest as an inability to derive pleasure through the senses, a fear of sexual intimacy or a belief that earthly sensual pleasure is evil and should be denied. Excesses: lead to seeking pleasure in addictive ways. Imbalances: manifest physically as impotence, frigidity, any gynecological problem, PMS, prostatitis, lower back pain especially at lumbosacral joint, urinary tract infections and cancers of any associated structures.
Wildness and wilderness Chakra two, the sacral chakra, is the source of passionate emotions. It embodies our innate inner wildness. When this wildness has been
repressed, we will often seek to destroy its external counterpart, wilderness, for it is too painful to have mirrored back to us from nature the freedom and beauty that we have denied within ourselves. Where this wilderness once was we construct strip malls, amusement parks and zoos, so someone else can sell back to us inferior imitations of our intended birthright. Emotions are the source of our indomitable power. Emotions, like rivers, are literally Energy in Motion which, when dammed, stagnate and build up pressure, eventually exploding and damaging everything within their paths . When the second chakra is balanced, one has a healthy relationship to pleasure, neither denying nor overindulging in it. The body will be supple, with fluid, smooth movements. Emotions will flow like those of a small child, seamlessly moving from anger to joy to fear to sadness without judgment, restriction or depression
Androgens, estrogens and progesterone The endocrine glands governed by the second chakra are the testicles and the ovaries, both of which produce androgens, estrogens and progesterone. Both men and women suffer from imbalances and insufficiencies of these hormones. A monthly menstrual cycle and the bells and whistles of menopauserelated problems experienced by women much more obvious than those experienced by men. The equivalent of menopause in men is called andropause. Andropause is the result of declining levels of class of steroid hormones called androgens. Like the estrogens, which are an ensemble of feminizing hormones, androgens are a medley of masculinizing hormones. Of the androgens, testosterone is unquestionably the most notorious. Testosterone is also an anabolic steroid hormone which means it promotes the building of bone and
muscle. It also positively impacts one’s mood, energy level and sense of well being. It is most renowned for its powerful effects upon libido and virility. DHEA and androstenedione are also androgens but are less potent. Testosterone begins to decline in men usually in their 40s or 50s. Compared to the hormonal roller coaster ride of menopause, andropause is often an uneventful and slow but steady hormonal downward slide. Symptoms of testosterone deficiency include fatigue, depression, apathy, diminished mental acuity, loss of sexual function and desire, decreasing muscle mass and increasing fat. Low testosterone also results in a loss of resilience, flexibility and endurance. Joint aches, muscle pains, stiffness and risk of injury increase. Both men and women of any age may experience problems related to imbalanced levels of not only testosterone but of estrogens and progesterone as well. Estrogens refer to an entire class of hormones, some of which occur naturally and many of which do not. This critical distinction is often blurry to both modern medicine and the media. Estrogens promote secondary sexual development in women. Estrogens are more dominant in the first two weeks of a woman’s menstrual cycle and prepare her body to get pregnant. The prominent estrogens in women are estradiol, estrone and estriol. Estradiol is the most potent of these hormones and the one most likely to be prescribed to menopausal women. Even estradiol has proven to be problematic because it has been prescribed in isolation or with Provera. Neither regimen provides the proper hormonal balance. Progesterone is not the name of a class of steroid hormones like estrogen is, but is a single specific hormone. Progesterone promotes gestation—in other words it maintains a healthy pregnancy, as you can deduce from its name. Progesterone’s other beneficial effects include protecting against fibrocystic breasts, acting as a natural diuretic, helping burn fat for energy, protecting against endometrial and breast cancer and protecting against and even reversing osteoporosis. Progesterone acts to both balance and enhance the effects of estrogen. Labeling estrogens bad and progesterone good would be as ridiculous as labeling the brake in your car good and the gas pedal bad. One without the other would either
Xenoestrogens (manmade chemicals with potent estrogenic properties), stress, nutritional deficiencies, disturbed or deficient sleep and obesity negatively impact hormonal levels. be a disaster or a standstill. The balance between these two hormone classes is as important as their actual levels. This applies to both hormones generated internally and those acquired through replacement therapy. Too much estrogen relative to progesterone creates a host of problems which include weight gain, PMS, endometriosis, uterine fibroids, breast tenderness, headaches, leg cramps, gallstones, high blood pressure, blood clots, nausea, fluid retention and an increased risk of endometrial and breast cancer. Too much progesterone relative to estrogen causes its own set of problems, which include depression, fatigue, somnambulence and breast tenderness as well.
Appropriate—and inappropriate—supplementation Decades of using synthetic versions of testosterone, estrogen and progesterone in a variety of inappropriate ways combined with faulty reasoning has generated a plethora of modern myths which do not apply to balanced and biologically appropriate hormone treatments. One such myth is that testosterone is hard on the liver and quite dangerous. If this were true, our hospitals would be full of virile young men in their teens and early 20s as their testosterone peaks. Conventional medical doctors have known for decades that progesterone counters the negative effects that excessive estrogens can cause throughout a woman’s system. With consistent use of inappropriate hormones like Provera, however, this knowledge dwindled to the myth that progesterone only protects the uterus and is therefore unnecessary if a woman has had a hysterectomy Many options are available for both men and women today besides choosing between inappropriate hormones or none at all. Bioidentical estrogens, progesterone and testosterone are available from not only compounding pharmacies but conventional ones as well. “Bioidentical” is the term that most accurately describes these hormones. Since they are synthesized in a lab from wild yam or soy
they are not, technically, all natural. Unlike conjugated estrogens and Provera, however, which are also derived from soy or wild yam, bioidentical hormones are exact replicas of those found in humans. Premarin, on the other hand, is far from bioidentical for women, though it is all natural, coming from pregnant mares’ urine. A few carefully selected bioidentical hormones can potentially treat numerous diseases as well as provide a variety side benefits instead of side effects.
How to maintain a healthy second chakra To keep a healthy hormonal balance, eat organic food whenever it’s available. Many pesticides are xenoestrogens—manmade chemicals with potent estrogenic properties. Xenoestrogens are endocrine disrupters which negatively impact both the levels and the functions of numerous hormones and are deleterious to almost every creature on earth. Stress, nutritional deficiencies, disturbed or deficient sleep and obesity also negatively impact hormonal levels. For women, foods containing phytoestrogens like soy can counter some of estrogen’s stimulatory effects. Many herbal preparations have hormonal stimulating and balancing properties. For men, saw palmetto berries prevent the conversion of testosterone into a hormone known to promote prostate problems and male pattern baldness. Other ways to maintain a healthy second chakra: Practice yoga, focusing on postures that free up the pelvis such as pelvic rocks and hip circles. Spend time in and around water. Drink a lot of water. Sit by a river watching its grace and power. Go to the ocean and let the waves baptize you. Take a bubble bath by candlelight. Go dancing alone or with someone you love. Visit some of the 774,520 million acres of wilderness in Utah. u Todd Mangum, MD, is director of the Web of Life Wellness Center in downtown Salt Lake City.
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Great Salt Lake Bird Festival, May 16-20. GREATSALTLAKEBIRDFEST.ORG
28th Annual Living Traditions Festival Wave goodbye to winter and celebrate the launch of Salt Lake’s outdoor event season with three days of food, music, dance and crafts honoring the diversity and cultural traditions of our community. Local ethnic
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ready access to herbs for you and your family’s first aid needs. Herbal First Aid, May 4, 10a-12p. Day-Riverside Library-Tree Utah’s Eco Garden, 1575 W 1000 N. $20. WASATCHGARDENS.ORG
“Beer, Blues & Brats”
This month’s fundraiser: Come help’em get it up (the new Element 11 Center Camp & Stage) and get down with happy shiny people in Utah’s Burner Community.
Support Crossroads Urban Center—the nonprofit, grassroots organization that aids disadvantaged Utahns with critical needs. Beers, brats and more will be served during live music by The Number Ones and The Fourteenth Ward. Rubber Room School of Dance belly dancers will also perform.
CATALYST First Thursdays, May 2, 8p-1a. Zest, 275 S 200 W. $5. ELEMENT11.ORG
Beer, Blues & Brats, May 5, 2-6p. The Community Co-op, 1756 S 700 W. $45 (donation). CROSSROADSURBANCENTER.ORG
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RDT’s Ring Around The Rose — Samba Fogo A wiggle-friendly series of performances for children and families that explores the arts of dance, theatre, music and storytelling. Learn all about Brazilian dances and rhythms with the dancers of Samba Fogo. Rdt’s Ring Around the Rose, May 11, 11a. Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, 138 W 300 S. $5. RDTUTAH.ORG
People’s Market A community farmers and artisans market held each Sunday in Jordan Park near the entrance to the International Peace Gardens. The market features local produce, beautiful local crafts and performances by local musicians and other performers.
Make a tin of calendula salve and learn about other plants you can find or grow in your vegetable and flower gardens to have a
People’s Market, May 12-Oct 20, Sundays 9a-2p. International Peace Gardens, 1000 S 900 W. Free admission. SLCPEOPLESMARKET.ORG
Scandi Fest 2013 Sample a taste of traditional Scandinavian folk culture led by three accomplished instructors from the Seattle area. Dance workshops will feature fun mixers, easy couple dances, and the beautiful Bingsjo Polska.
Photography installation by Carol Koleman Check out CATALYST’S own Carol Koleman photography installation at Finch Lane Gallery. Koleman, who also had a solo exhibit at Finch Lane in 2005, is the recipient of a Utah Arts Council Traveling Exhibit award and was a Ruttenberg Award finalist. Carol Koleman exhibit, May 3-June 14, 9a-5p. Opening reception, May 3, 6-8p. Finch Lane Gallery, 1325 E 100 S. SLCGOV.COM/ARTS
Scandi Fest 2013, May 10-11, Fri-7:30-9:30p, Sat-9a-4p. The Columbus Center, 2531 S 400 E. $12-$30. SALTLAKESCANDIDANCE.ORG
15th Annual Great Salt Lake Bird Festival Kevin Karlson, author, birder and shorebird expert will speak May 18. In addition to giving the keynote address, Kevin will also guide a few fieldtrips and sign books.
Empty Bowls Utah The sale of a single handmade bowl can mean eight meals for people in need. Check out this sale of over 700 locally made and donated bowls to benefit the St. Vincent de Paul Dining Hall. Soup, bread, live music and a bowl to take home will be provided. Empty Bowls Utah, May 4, 12-4p. St. Vincent de Paul, 437 W 200 S. $15. EMPTYBOWLSUTAH.ORG
craftspeople, chefs, dancers and musicians will share their insights on techniques, styles, tools and materials used in their respective art forms, many of which are centuries old. Living Traditions Festival, May 17-19, Fri-5-10p, Sat-12-10p, Sun-12-7p. Salt Lake City and County Building, 450 S 200 E. Free. LIVINGTRADITIONSFESTIVAL.COM
Gem, Mineral and Fossil Show Wheel of Fortune, slabs, silent auction, door prizes, more. Gem, Mineral & Fossil Show, May 17-19, 10a-6p. Salt Lake Co. Equestrian Park and Events Center, 2100 W 11400 S. $2. WASATCHGEMSOCIETY.COM
Sahaja meditation Recharge your batteries in minutes. Discover ways to manage stress, master your emotions and find solutions to your problems. Sahaja Meditation, May 18, 2-3p. Sandy Library, 10100 Petunia Way. Free. SLCOLIBRARY.ORG
Moab Arts Festival Enjoy live music performed on the center stage throughout the weekend. Kids tent for acitivities, food vendors and artwork for sale. Pottery, wall hangings, welded art, photography, jewelry and many surprises. Moab Arts Festival, May 25-26, 10a-4p. Swanny City Park, 100 W 400 N. MOABARTSFESTIVAL.ORG
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THE UNIVERSITY OF UTAH DEPARTMENT OF MODERN DANCE AND ART FORMS, INC. PRESENT TANDY BEAL AND COMPANY IN
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John Dupuy reading
Building Garden Structures
John Dupuy will read from and sign his book, Integral Recovery: A Revolutionary Approach to the Treatment of Alcoholism and Addiction.
Learn about some basic structures you will need in your garden that require some building skills: raised bed boxes, various kinds of season extenders and trellises for climbers.
Reading, May 23, 7p. King’s English, 1511 S 1500 E. Free. KINGSENGLISH.COM
Building Garden Structures, May 18, 10a-1p. Fairpark Garden, 1037 W 300 N. $10 WASATCHGARDENS.ORG
Dry Beans Dry beans make a great addition to any garden because they give back in so many ways. Beans help amend our soil by fixing nitrogen and making it available to other plants, they are easy to grow—taking almost no maintenance, and provide a great source of vegetarian protein. Dry Beans, May 18, 2-4p. Fairpark Garden, 1037 W 300 N. $10. WASATCHGARDENS.ORG
2013 Utah Pride Festival Last year’s attendance broke 28,000, including people from the LGBTQ community and their allies. See website for schedule: events, parties and parade! 2013 Utah Pride Festival, May 30-June 2. Washington Square, 450 S 200 E. Fri $40, Sat & Sun $10. UTAHPRIDEFESTIVAL.ORG
Writers at Work 2013 conference Workshops are led by award winning authors. Register for private consultations with a variety of professionals. See website for details on workshops, and faculty biographies.
Beekeeping and Pollinators Learn the basics of pollinator attracting, bee keeping and honey harvesting, and why bees and pollinators are important parts of every garden’s ecosystem. Registration required. Beekeeping and Pollinators, JUNE 1, 12A-12P. Grateful Tomato Garden, 800 600 E. $10. WASATCHGARDENS.ORG
Composting The key to creating healthy soil is compost. This workshop outlines the science behind making compost for beginners to experts. Registration required. Composting, JUNE 1, 1-3P. Day-Riverside Library-Tree Utah’s Eco Garden, 1575 W 1000 N. $15. WASATCHGARDENS.ORG
Writers at Work, June 5-6, 8a-5p. Alta Lodge, Alta. WRITERSATWORK.ORG
Permaculture Basics Learn the basic principles of permaculture and how to incorporate them into your garden. Permaculture Basics, May 4, 1-3p. Day-Riverside Library, Tree Utah’s Eco Garden, 1575 W 1000 N. $15. WASATCHGARDENS.ORG
Spring Plant Sale Red Butte Garden’s spring plant sale offers a seriously interesting selection of herbs, specialty annuals, vegetables, heirlooms, sun and shade perennials, ornamental grasses, shrubs, conifers, roses, vines, trees, and the best selection of native plants and drought tolerant plants. Garden members only, Friday, May 3; general public, Saturday, May 4. Spring Plant Sale, May 3-4, Fri-1-8p, 9a-3p. Red Butte Garden, 300 Wakara Way. REDBUTTEGARDEN.ORG
Raise Chickens in Your Backyard Learn how to keep chickens happy—and you happy, too, with their delicious eggs. Raise Chickens in Your Backyard, May 11, 11a-12:30p. Conservation Garden Park, 8275 S 1300 W. Free. CONSERVATIONPARK.ORG
Container Creations Gardening has gone wild with everything from shoes to shutters now capable of providing homes to the right combination of plants. Sign up to get your own creatively flowing as you see all sorts of non-traditional ways to incorporate plants into your garden. Container Creations, May 16, 7-8:30p. Conservation Garden Park, 8275 S 1300 W. Free. CONSERVATIONGARDEN.ORG
Building Man Sustainable Living Arts and Music Festival 2013 (aka SLAM Fest 2013) The Solar Saucer Cosmonauts and the Hive Collective are up to their Earth-healing hijinks again down in Green River at the annual Building Man festival. Sustainable living workshops include solar photovoltaic systems, daily adobe building, and the construction of water catchment systems for use in the high desert. Attend morning yoga classes at the ranch and afternoon yoga at the beach, with Dub Yoga and Partner Yoga specialties. Been feeling glum? Join in with laughter therapy, where you'll learn exercises that combine acting and visualization with playfulness. Prolonged and hearty unconditional laughter is the best medicine! Also, don't miss the genuine banjo-pickin' lawyer who will teach you about your fourth amendment rights. Other recycled and upcycled craft workshops include crocheting with plastic grocery bags and learning to make MOOP earrings. Drum circles will be held next to the Green River, kids activities are available at Coyote Camp, and crystal healing, vocal sound healing and sustainable communication workshops will have your aura glowing. An impressive lineup of talented DJs and musical performers includes local favorites Alastair, Motto, illoom, deCay, heartWreck, StarBass and many more. Come get your dub on, align your chakras, and heal the planet all in one weekend! May 23-May 27. $75; kids under 12 free. JENKSTAR.COM.
May at The Leonardo Mummies of the World in its final weeks!
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Create What You Crave: Soaps and Scents Friday, May 3, 7 – 9pm $29/person / $24 for members Explore the science and art of soap making! After a short, fun lesson in basic soap chemistry you'll become a technician, combining oils, fragrances, and other ingredients to create a one-of-a-kind bar of soap. Take it home to cure and in four weeks your personalized soap will be ready to use!
May's Lab @ Leo Artist-in-Residence:
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On February 12, 2008, in Oxnard, California, eighthgrade student Brandon McInerney shot his classmate Larry King twice in the back of the head during first period. Valentine Road shakes us to our core as it calls into question our very notion of justice.
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È NORTH AMERICA: BORN TO BE WILD Join us for a special, advance screening CITY LIBRARY 210 E. 400 S.
Graphic Designer and Photographer Dallas Graham All month long in the Lab @ Leo!
of first episode of Discovery Channel’s upcoming series. Shot over three years, this series travels the continent from the Canadian tundra to the rainforests of Panama.
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The Gene Study Fridays 3 – 8pm Saturday and Sundays 11am – 6pm Free with Museum Admission The Leonardo has teamed up with The University of Utah to conduct a research study unlike any other. Researchers are studying genetics and multitasking, and visitors to The Leo have a chance to participate! Stop by and help science get a better understanding of humanity. Tapas . Asador . Cocktails
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In this dizzying, effects-driven drama, two scientists (Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton) chase tornadoes in their quest to deploy a new recording device to study the storms.
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Daily, dozens of retired school buses travel from the United States to Guatemala, where they are resurrected as brightly-colored “camionetas” that transport people to work each day.
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È GOD LOVES UGANDA A powerful exploration of the evangelical campaign to infuse African culture with values imported from America’s Christian Right.
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Pose of the Sage Vasistha (Vasisthasana)
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f you practice yoga, you probably favor some poses over others. I can safely say that this month’s pose, Vasisthasana (Pose of the Sage Vasistha) is one of the few that has never been a favorite. Perhaps that’s why I practice it. I don’t exactly dislike it, but I practice it because it’s good for me, in the same way that taking cod liver oil is good for me. Poses that require— and show off—my flexibility are a lot more fun. But Vasisthasana challenges me in less comfortable ways, and sometimes leaving my comfort zone is far more interesting than doing what feels good. Vasisthasana is named for the sage Vasistha. Legend has it that he owned Nandini, the “cow of plenty,” who could instantly grant any of his wishes for material riches. Vasistha, a selfless being who wasn’t swayed by the temptations of earthly wealth, employed Nandini’s talents in the interest of generosity to others. Yogic lore contains many stories about covetous greedheads who tried their best to wrest this cow of infinite pleasure away from Vasistha. They were never successful, of course. Vasistha’s selfless virtue always won out. Vasistha is known for having taught about the happiness of forgoing fleeting material pleasures in favor of an ultimately more satisfying—and far more difficult to attain—happiness that comes with living a simpler, more introspective life. Like the sage’s chosen life, his namesake pose is quite simple. It is Tadasana (Mountain Pose), the most basic of standing poses, practiced in a different relationship to gravity. Despite its simplicity, practicing Vasisthasana requires strength, balance and concentration. However, it also builds them. On a physical level, the pose strengthens and tones your abdomen, shoulder girdle, lower back, gluteal muscles and legs. It simultaneously strengthens and stretches your wrists. The expansive shape of the pose is said to reduce depression and anxiety, while its strengthening qualities increase confidence, determination and will power.
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Begin in a simple plank pose, arms straight—like the “up” portion of a push-up—on a nonskid mat. Press your palms into your mat as you lift up through your shoulders. Turn onto the outside of your right foot, stacking your left foot on top of it. Rotate your entire body to face forward. Press your right hand evenly from heel to fingers, inside to outside, into the floor as you raise your left arm up toward the sky. Make sure your pelvis is lifting up, aligned with photo by Abhilasha Keays the rest of your torso rather than sagging toward the floor, a position that can place extra strain on your wrist. Take five to 10 deep breaths, simultaneously grounding your right hand as you expand your left arm upward. Return to plank pose and repeat on the other side. If your balance feels shaky, place the toes of your top foot on the floor slightly in front of your bottom foot. If your arms are not ready to bear the weight of the rest of your body, try bending the knee of your bottom leg and supporting yourself on your knee, shin and leg (see inset). This variation is also appropriate if your wrist is not ready to stretch that far while bearing your weight. The traditional path of yoga is to cultivate the freedom that comes from renouncing our addiction to worldly pleasures—material goods and pleasant experiences. It is not, mind you, renouncing the things themselves, but our neverending dependence on them for our happiness. Originally, the practice of yoga went against the grain; those who practiced it lived outside the mainstream, giving up the things the rest of society endlessly strived for. Vasisthasana, while it might not be your or my favorite pose, can teach us about the benefits of orienting our lives toward those things that don’t bring instant gratification, but rather a subtler, deeper and more lasting sense of well being. u
The expansive shape of this pose is said to reduce depression and anxiety, while its strengthening qualities increase confidence, determination and will power.
Charlotte Bell is a yoga teacher, author and musician who lives in Salt Lake City
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your own combination or choose from house favorites! Full espresso bar and large selection of breakfast sandwiches are also available. Drive-thru available at both locations. Wifi. Café Solstice Cafe Solstice inside Dancing Cranes Imports offers a variety of loose teas, speciality coffee drinks and herbal smoothies in a relaxing atmosphere. Lunch features veggie wraps, sandwiches, salads, soups and more. Our dressings, spreads, salsa, hummus and baked goods are all made in house with love! Enjoy a refreshing Violet Mocha or Mango & Basil smoothie with your delicious homemade lunch. SOLCAFE999@GMAIL.COM. Coffee Garden 254 S. Main, inside the former Sam Weller’s Books and 900 E. 900 S. 355-4425. High-end espresso, delectable pastries & desserts. Great places to people watch. M-Thur 6a-11p; Fri 6a12p, Sat 7a-12p, Sun 7a-11p. Wifi. Cafe SuperNatural Organic, locally grown, gluten-free, fresh cooked to order, raw foods, fresh juices and smothies, superfood shakes, great food to go or dine-in. Discounts for Prana Yoga participants. Located in Prana Yoga. Free convenient parking in Trolley Square’s 600 East parking garage. Mon-Sat 10a-9p: Sun 10-3p. Wifi. Dodo 1355 East 2100 So. 801.486-BIRD (2473) Sugar House Park. Serving Salt Lake for over 30 years. Homemade soups, in-house smoked turkey, artichoke pie, fresh salads, pastas, seafood & steak entrees. Ramon’s 12 daily fresh-baked desserts. Beer, wine & liquor available. Open daily for lunch, dinner, weekend brunch. Finca 1291 So. 900 East. 801.487.0699. Tapas, asador, cocktails. From the creators of Pago. FINCASLC.COM
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Omar’s Rawtopia 2148 S.Highland Dr. 801-486-0332. Raw, organic, vegan & scrumptious. From Chocolate Goji Berry smoothies to Vegan Hummus Pizza, every dish is made with highest quality ingredients and prepared with love. Nutrient dense and delectable are Rawtopia’s theme words. We are an oasis of gourmet health, creating peace through food. M-Th 12-8p, F-Sat. 12-9p. Pago 878 S. 900 E. 801-532-0777. Featuring seasonal cuisine from local producers & 20 artisan wines by the glass, complemented by an intimate eco-chic setting. Best Lunch—SL Mag, Best Brunch—City Weekly, Best Wine List— City Weekly & SL Mag, Best New American— Best of State. PAGOSLC.COM. Tue-Sun 11a-3p, 5p-close. Takashi 18 West Market St. 801-519-9595. Award-winning chef Takashi Gibo invites you to savor an incredible Japanese dining experience with Salt Lake’s best sushi, sashimi, small plates (Japanese tapas), and hot dishes from his tantalizing menu. Enjoy a beautiful presentation of classic sashimi or experiment with delicious creations from the sushi bar. Featuring an extensive selction of premium sakes, wines, Japanese and domestic beers, and signature cocktails. Mon-Fri from 11:30a.; Sat. from 5:30p. Washington Square Cafe9/13 Washington Square Cafe is located on the first floor of the historic city and county building. Serving breakfast and lunch with daily specials, catering to vegetarian, gluten-free, vegan and meat enthusiasts alike. Space available for events, meetings and private parties. Come experience local art, live music and lounge areas with reading material and wi-fi. 451 S. 200 E. 801-535-6102. M-F 7:30-4. WWW.CLOCKTOWERCATERING.COM
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HEALTH & BODYWORK ACUPUNCTURE Keith Stevens Acupuncture 7/13 Dr. Keith Stevens, OMD, 1174 E. 2760 S, Ste. 16. 801.467-2277, 209.617-7379 (cell). Specializing in chronic pain treatment, stressrelated insomnia, fatigue, headaches, sports medicine, traumatic injury and post-operative recovery. Board-certified for hep-c treatment. National Acupuncture Detox Association (NADA)-certified for treatment of addiction. Women’s health, menopausal syndromes. STEVENSACUCLINIC.COM
SLC Qi Community Acupuncture 12/13 R. Dean Woolstenhulme, L.Ac 177 E 900 S. Ste 101D, 801-521-3337. Acupuncture you can afford. Quality acupuncture on low sliding scale rates ($15-$40) makes health care affordable and effective. Relax in comfy reclining chairs in a healing community setting. Acupuncture is good for allergies, back pain and more. Downtown SLC. WWW.SLCQI.COM Salt Lake County Acupuncture, LLC.6/13 Allan Post L.Ac., Dipl. O.M., (owner). 5005 S. 900 E., Ste. 161, Murray. Acupuncture, Chinese herbs, nutritional and lifestyle counseling, to balance body, mind and spirit. Musculoskeletal pain, stiffness, trauma; thyroid, adrenal and other endocrine issues; digestive issues; colds and flu, asthma and allergies, PTSD, addictions withdrawal. 801-590-8337 (O) 510-290-6316 (C) WWW.SALTLAKECOUNTYACUPUNCTURE.COM AYURVEDA
Vedic Harmony 3/14 801-942-5876. Learn how Ayurveda can help you harmonize your lifestyle and well being. Primordial Sound meditation,Perfect Health & Wellness counseling. Georgia Clark, Certified Deepak Chopra Center Vedic Master, has trained in the US with Dr. Chopra, Dr. V.D. Lad, Jai Dev Singh, David Crow & in India with Dr. A.P. Deshpande. TARAJAGA@EARTHLINK.NET CRANIOSACRAL Conscious Journey FB 801-864-4545. CONSCIOUSJOURNEY.NET
Sheryl Seliger, LCSW 6/13 801-556-8760. 1446 S. 900 E., Email: SELIGERS@GMAIL.COM Powerful healing through dialogue & gentle-touch energy work. Adults: Deep relaxation, stress reduction & spiritual renewal, chronic pain & illness, head & spinal injuries, anxiety, PTSD, relationship skills, life strategies. Infants and children: colic, feeding & sleep issues, bonding, birth trauma. Birth preparation & prenatal CST. EDUCATION Karen’s Energy! 8/13 748 E Pioneer Road Draper, UT. 385-414-2769. Organic Health Food- Education-Wellness Center! Our goal…a dis-ease free Utah! Thermography, health screenings, detox programs, organic take-out, raw retreats, organic superFoods, & more! Hundreds of health classes! Including “Living with ENERGY: Never Be Sick Again!” WWW.KARENSENERGY.COM FELDENKRAIS Carol Lessinger, GCFP 8/13 801-580-9484. Do you know how to engage your body to draw upon its highest potential for comfort, strength, and healing? Carol helps people of all ages: infants, developmentally challenged children, people chained to computers, injured athletes, performing artists, seniors, and
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Erin Geesaman Rabke Somatic Educator. 801-898-0478. WWW.BODYHAPPY.COM FB Open Hand Bodywork. Dan Schmidt, GCFP, LMT. 150 S. 600 E., #3B. 801.694.4086 WWW.OPENHANDSLC.COM. FB Carl Rabke LMT, GCFP FOG 801-671-4533. Somatic education and bodywork. Feldenkrais®, Structural Integration and massage. Offering a unique blend of the 10 sessions with Awareness Through Movement® lessons. Discover the potential for learning and improvement at any age, as you come to inhabit your body with ease, vitality and integrity. WWW.BODYHAPPY.COM MASSAGE Conscious Journey FB 801-864-4545. CONSCIOUSJOURNEY.NET Graham Phillips Davis3/14 801-889-3944. Muse Massage; strong, warm, gentle hands. LGBT-friendly. Get back in tune with powerful structural allignment therapy. Integration of the divine masculine-feminine within, using craniosacral therapy. Feel better today!
Healing Mountain Massage School FB 801-355-6300. 363 S. 500 East, Ste. 210 (enter off of 500 East). HEALINGMOUNTAINSPA.COM Stress Buster CALL!3 801-243-4980. 1104 Ashton Ave., #114 (Sugar House). Ginger Blaisdell, LMT, NCTMB. The core of her practice consists of orthopedic bodywork along with CranioSacral therapy, sports massage, tension & pain release, lymph drainage therapy, visceral manipulation and energetic attunement. 60 and 90-minute sessions available. STRESSBUSTERMASSAGE.COM MD PHYSICIANS Web of Life Wellness Center FB Todd Mangum, MD. 801-531-8340. 508 E. So. Temple, #102. 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 NATUROPATHIC PHYSICIANS Cameron Wellness Center 3/14 801-486-4226. Dr Todd Cameron, Naturopathic Physician. 1945 S. 1100 E. #202. Remember when doctors cared? Once, a doctor cared. He had that little black bag, a big heart, an encouraging smile. Once, a doctor actually taught about prevention. Remember “an apple a day”? Dr. Cameron is a family practitioner. He takes care of you. He cares. WWW.DRTODDCAMERON.COM
Eastside Natural Health Clinic 9/13 Uli Knorr, ND 801.474.3684; 2188 S. Highland Dr. #207. Dr. Knorr uses a multi-dimensional approach to healing. He can help optimize your health to live more vibrantly and support your natural healing ability. He focuses on hormonal balancing, including thyroid, adrenal, women’s hormones, blood sugar regulation; gastrointestinal disorders and allergies. Detoxification, food allergy testing and comprehensive hormonal testing available. EASTSIDENATURALHEALTH.COM 2/14 Full Circle Care; Leslie Peterson, ND 801.746.3555. 150 S. 600 E. #6B. Integrative and naturopathic medical clinic offering a unique approach to your health care needs. Specializing in thyroid, adrenal and hormonal
imbalances; food allergies and gluten testing; digestive health; nutritional IV therapy. Men, women and children welcome! WWW.FULLCIRCLECARE.COM 2/14 PHYSICAL THERAPY Precision Physical Therapy 9/13 801-557-6733. Jane Glaser-Gormally, MS, PT. 3098 S Highland Dr. Ste. 371. (Also Park City and Heber.) Specializing in holistic integrated manual therapy (IMT). Safe, gentle, effective techniques for pain and tissue dysfunction. This unique form of therapy identifies sources of pain and assists the body with self-corrective mechanisms to alleviate pain and restore mobility and function. UofU provider. WWW.PRECISIONPHYSICALTHERAPYUT.COM
REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH Planned Parenthood of Utah 6/13 1-800-230-PLAN, 801-532-1586. Planned Parenthood provides affordable and confidential healthcare for men, women and teens. Services include birth control, emergency contraception (EC/PlanB/ morning after pill), testing and treatment for sexually transmitted infection including HIV, vaccines including the HPV vaccine, pregnancy testing and referrals, condoms, education programs and more. PPAU.ORG ROLFING/STRUCTURAL INTEGRATION Paul Wirth, Certified Rolfer™, LMT 801-638-0021. 3194 S. 1100 E. Move with ease, not pain. Working with the structural limitations in your body to help you feel stronger and more relaxed. MOSAICBODYWORK.COM 1/14 Carl Rabke LMT, GCFP FOG 801-671-4533. Somatic education and bodywork. WWW.BODYHAPPY.COM VISION CARE Wasatch Vision Clinic FB 801-328-2020. 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 WORKSHOPS & TRAINING McKay Method School of Energy Healing.. 877.767.2425. MCKAYMETHOD.COM.
MISCELLANEOUS ACCOUNTING Chart Bookkeeping8/13 801.718-1235. M’Lisa Patterson. Qualified and dependable small- to medium-sized business bookkeeping services. QuickBooks expert. My office or yours. MPATTERSON@CHARTBOOKKEEPING.COM LEGAL ASSISTANCE Schumann Law. 801.631.7811, ESTATEPLANNINGFORUTAH.COM. FB MUSICIANS FOR HIRE Idlewild 10/13 801-268-4789, WWW.IDLEWILDRECORDINGS.COM. David and Carol Sharp. Duo up to six-piece ensemble. Celtic, European, World and Old Time American music. A variety of instruments. Storytelling and dance caller. CDs and downloads, traditional and original. IDLEWILD@IDLEWILDRECORDINGS.COM
PROFESSIONAL TRAINING Healing Mountain Massage School FB 801-355-6300. 363 S. South 500 East, Ste. 210 (enter off of 500 E.). Morning, evening, & weekend programs. Graduate in as little as 7 months. 8 students in a class. Mentor with seasoned professionals. Practice in a live day spa. ABHES accredited. Financial aid: loans/grants available to those who qualify. WWW.HEALINGMOUNTAIN.ORG VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES Adopt-a-Native-Elder 6/13 801-474-0535. Adopt-A-Native-Elder is seeking office/warehouse volunteers in Salt Lake City every Tuesday and Friday 10 am-noon. Come and join a wonderful group of people for a fascinating and gratifying experience. We also need volunteers with trucks and SUVs, donating their expenses, to transport supplies for Spring and Fall Food Runs, Navajo reservation community events in southeast UT and northeast AZ. Contact Joyce or MAIL@ANELDER.ORG, WWW.ANELDER.ORG
MOVEMENT & SPORT DANCE RDT Community School. 801-534-1000. 138 W. Broadway. FB MARTIAL ARTS Red Lotus School of Movement 8/13 740 S 300 W, SLC, UT, 84101. 801-355-6375. 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 KungFu. Located downstairs from Urgyen Samten Ling Tibetan Buddhist Temple. WWW.REDLOTUSSCHOOL.COM, REDLOTUS@REDLOTUS.CNC.NET YOGA INSTRUCTORS Mindful Yoga: Charlotte Bell FB 801-355-2617. E-RYT-500 & Iyengar certified. Cultivate strength, vitality, serenity, wisdom and grace. Combining clear, well-informed instruction with ample quiet time, these classes encourage each student to discover his/her own yoga. Classes include meditation, pranayama (breath awareness) and yoga nidra (yogic sleep) as well as physical practice of asana. Public & private classes, workshops in a supportive, noncompetitive environment since 1986. WWW.CHARLOTTEBELLYOGA.COM YOGA STUDIOS Avenues Yoga 12/13 68 K Street, SLC. 801-872-YOGA (9642). Avenues Yoga is a friendly, down-to-earth place where all are welcome. We offer classes for all body types and ability levels, from Yoga Nidra and Restorative, to Power, Flow, and Core. Free Intro to Yoga every Saturday at 11:45am. Introductory Special $39 one month unlimited. WWW.AVENUESYOGA.COM Mountain Yoga—Sandy (formerly Bikram) 801.501.YOGA [9642]. 9343 S 1300 E. Offering hot yoga classes to the Salt Lake Valley for the past 10 years. Locals-only Intro: $39 for 30 days unlimited yoga. Our South Valley sanctuary, nestled below Little and Big Cottonwood canyons, provides a warm and inviting environment to discover and/or deepen your yoga practice. All levels are welcome. All teachers are certified. 38 classes, 7 days a
Inner Light Center week. See website for schedule and special classes. WWW.MOUNTAINYOGASANYD.COM 3/14 Centered City Yoga 9/13 801-521-YOGA (9642). 918 E. 900 S. 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 100 classes a week, 1,000 hourteacher trainings, monthly retreats and workshops to keep Salt Lake City CENTERED and SANE. WWW.CENTEREDCITYYOGA.COM THE SHOP Yoga Studio 10/13 435-649-9339. Featuring Anusara Yoga. Inspired fun and opening in one of the most amazing studios in the country. Classes, Privates, and Therapeutics with certified and inspired Anusara instructors. Drop-ins welcome. 1167 Woodside Ave., P.O Box 681237, Park City, UT 84068. WWW.PARKCITYYOGA.COMB
PSYCHIC ARTS & INTUITIVE SCIENCES ASTROLOGY Transformational Astrology FB 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
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Margaret Ruth 801-575-7103. My psychic and tarot readings are a conversation with your guides. Enjoy MR’s blog at WWW.CATALYSTMAGAZINE.NET & send me your ideas and suggestions. WWW.MARGARETRUTH.COM Nicholas Stark 7/13 801-394-6287; 801-721-2779 cell. Shamanic Intuitive Readings and Energy Work . Ogden Canyon.
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Suzanne Wagner. 707-354-1019. WWW.SUZWAGNER.COM. MEDIUMS Kathryn Miles 3/13 801-633-4754. Psychic reader, medium, channeler. Internationally renowned psychic healer for more than 20 years. Experience a reading, receiving messages from guides and loved ones, peering into your Akashic records, past and future experiences and soul path. Classes available at my mystery school, The Lifting of the Veils, at my sanctuary in Sugarhouse. WWW.KATHRYNMILES.COM
Shari Philpott-Marsh9/13 Energy Medicine / Shamanic Healer 801-599-8222. Overwhelmed? Stuck? Pushed and pulled by forces that interfere with your peace of mind? Shamanic healing cuts to the root of the problem. I intuitively unwind the core issues, recalibrate your energy body, and bring you to a place of strength and clarity. Core emotional clearing; mental reprogramming; soul retrieval; past life reconciliation; spirit guide activation; elimination of dark forces / interdimensional interference. I also love mentoring healers. WWW.RADIANCEYOGA.ORG
Spiritual Studies include -Metaphysics -Sacred Channeling -Tarot - Numerology -Shamanic Journeys -Kabbalah -Yoga . . . and more May: “Writing as a Sacred Art� Part 2 (Part 1 not a pre-requisite) “The Way of Mastery� - book study; 1st & 3rd Tuesday, each month Holistic Wellness Fair
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PALM READINGS Elias Caress 9/13 801.783-6058. Highly experienced palm reader available for private readings or for multiple readings at private events. Tarot and hypnosis also available. Downtown area, additional charge for travel. Accepts credit cards. More information at WWW.ELIASCARESS.COM. PSYCHIC/TAROT READINGS Crone’s Hollow 8/13 2470 S. Main St. 801.906.0470. Have life questions? We offer intuitive and personal psychic consultations: Tarot, Pendulum, Crystal Ball and other oracles. $22 for 20 minutes. Afternoon and evening appointments. Walk-ins welcome. We also make custom conjure/spell candles! WWW.CRONESHOLLOW.COM
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The Work of Byron Katie 7/13 801-842-4518. Kathy Melby, Certified Facilitator of The Work of Byron Katie. The Work is a simple way of identifying and questioning your stressful thoughts that cause your suffering. Experience the joy and happiness of undoing those thoughts and allow your mind to return to its true, creative, peaceful nature. Individuals, couples, families, groups and retreats. WWW.THEWORK.COM HYPNOSIS Jolene Shields, C.Ht. 5/13 801-942-6175. 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. Medically Certified Hypnotherapist with 25 years experience. Relief from pain, HypnoBirthing(R), study enhancement, anxiety/ stress, insomnia, weight loss and more. JOLENESHIELDSHYPNOTHERAPY.COM MEDITATION Meditation for Wellness 7/13 801-979-0111. 336 E. 900 So. SLC. Cultivate your mind, practice meditation. Through the practice of meditation, ease and a sense of overall happiness arise in the mind, reducing negative emotions and the stresses of modern living. Offering individual instruction and group meditation courses within private, in-house or corporate settings. CULTIVATINGEASE@GMAIL.COM.
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THERAPY/COUNSELING Jeff Bell, L.C.S.W. 6/13 801-364-5700, 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.
Marianne Felt, MT-BC, LPC 9/13 801-524-0560, 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. Introspect Inc. “looking within”9/13 801.413.3901. 24 So. 600 East Ste. 2. Psychotherapy for adults, adolescents and children. Specializing in relationship and self confidence issues. Healing from within by gaining clarity of ones thoughts and feelings. Family and group work available. Assessment and treatment evaluations. INTROSPECT9@GMAIL.COM
Jan Magdalen, LCSW 3/14 801-582-2705, 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 FB 801-266-4551. 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. Stephen Proskauer, MD, Integrative Psychiatry 8/13 801-631-8426. 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 Diane St John, Personal and Life Coaching I help people make those changes that are difficult to make and see themselves the way they want to be seen. I have over 30 years of experience working with body, mind, health and relationship issues. My background includes SE Trauma Resolution, Perceptual shifting with EVOX, Voice Dialogue and Continuum Movement. 801935-4787. WWW.PATHSOFCONNECTION.COM. 3/14 Don St John, Ph.D. Body-Centered Psychotherapy 6/13 801 935-4787 Sugar House. As you learn to be fully with yourself—here and now—and simultaneously allow me to be fully with you, you
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Sarah Sifers, Ph.D., LCSW, Shamanic Practitioner 3/14 801-531-8051. Shamanic Counseling. Shamanic Healing, Minister of the Circle of the Sacred Earth. Mentoring for people called to the Shaman’s Path. Explore health or mental health issues using the ways of the shaman. Sarah’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. Naomi Silverstone, DSW, LCSW FB 801-209-1095. 508 E. So. Temple, #102. Psychotherapy and shamanic practice. Holistic practice integrates traditional and nontraditional approaches to health, healing, and balance or “ayni.” Access new perceptual lenses as you reanimate your relationship with nature. Shamanic practice in the Inka tradition. FB Nicholas Stark7/13 801-394-6287; cell: 801-721-2779. 20 years of Shamanic healings/energy work. Ogden Canyon.
RETAIL ARTS & CRAFTS Blazing Needles 8/13 1365 S 1100 E, SLC. 801 487-5648. More than a local yarn store, we're a unique gathering place for knitters of all levels and styles. Beginner or expert, old or young, male or female, Blazing Needles welcomes you! Fine artisan yarns, quality tools and classes. Check our website for classes and special offerings! M-W 10a-7p, Th Knit Night 10a-9pm Fri & Sat, 10a-6pm, Sun 12-5pm WWW.BLAZING-NEEDLES.COM GROCERIES, SPECIALTY FOODS, KITCHEN SUPPLIES Beer Nut. 1200 S State St, 801.531.8182, BEERNUT.COM. FB Cali’s Natural Foods. 389 W 1700 S, 801.483.2254, CALISNATURALFOODS.COM. FB FB GIFTS & TREASURES Blue Boutique. WWW.BLUEBOUTIQUE.COM FB Cosmic Spiral 10/13 920 E 900 S, SLC. 801-509-1043 Mystical, musical and metaphysical gifts and resources for every persuasion—in an atmosphere that soothes your spirit. Psychic, Tarot and astrology readings, events and classes. Singing bowls, drums, flutes, incense, books, jewelry, cards and smiles. Noon-6:30 pm, Mon-Sat (11-5 Sun). Dancing Cranes. 673 E Simpson Ave, 801.486.1129, DANCINGCRANESIMPORTS.COM FB Golden Braid Books. 801-322-1162. 151 S 500 E, GOLDENBRAIDBOOKS.COM FB Healing Mountain Crystal Co.FB363 S. 500 E. #210, SLC. 800-811-0468, HEALINGMOUNTAIN.ORG.
Lotus. 801.333.3777. Everything from Angels to Zen. 12896 Pony Express Rd. #200, Draper, WWW.ILOVELOTUS.COM FB Turiya's Gifts8/13 1569 So. 1100 E. 801.531.7823. M-F 11-7, Sat 11-6, Sun 12-5. Turiya's is a metaphysical gift and crystal store. We have an exquisite array of crystals and minerals, jewelry, drums, sage and sweet grass, angels, fairies, greeting cards and meditation tools. Come in and let us help you create your sanctuary. WWW.TURIYAS.COM RESALE/FURNITURE, ACCESSORIES Elemente 11/13 353 W Pierpont Avenue, 801-355-7400. M-F 126, Sat. 12-5, See “Abode.” RESALE/OUTDOOR GEAR & CLOTHING fun & frolic consignment shop8/13 801-487-6393 2066 S. 2100 E. Consigns everything for travel /outdoor recreational experiences. Fun seekers can buy and consign high-quality, gently used outdoor gear and clothing, making fun time less expensive. Call to consign your items. FACEBOOK @ FUN & FROLIC CONSIGNMENT SHOP; in the 21st & 21st business district. MYFUNANDFROLIC@GMAIL.COM
SPIRITUAL PRACTICE ORGANIZATIONS All Saints Episcopal Church. 801.581.0380. Foothill Dr. at 17th S. WWW.ALLSAINTSSLC.ORG.
Inner Light Center Spiritual Community 10/13 801-268-1137. 4408 S. 500 E., SLC. A spiritual, metaphysical, mystical community dedicated to spiritual enlightenment and unconditional love through spiritual practice, education, service, celebration and fellowship. Sunday Celebration: 10 a.m.; WWW.INNERLIGHTCENTER.NET
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IN THE GARDEN
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The entomologist and etymologist converse:
Ponds in the desert BY ALICE TOLER
t may not seem logical that an upland desert like the Wasatch Front should naturally sustain much in the way of wetland ecology, but before the land was developed the network of streams and rivers making their way from the mountains to the Great Salt Lake dotted the landscape with wildlife-sustaining sloughs, swamps, and beaver ponds. The increasing loss of this habitat has impinged upon the local wildlife for decades now, but you can do your small part to welcome wetland-loving
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Not only are garden ponds a tranquil and relaxing garden feature, but you can also encourage beneficial predatory insects such as dragonflies. plants and animals back into your garden by creating and maintaining a small pond. Not only are garden ponds a tranquil and relaxing garden feature, but you can also encourage beneficial predatory insects such as dragonflies. Dragonfly larvae are aquatic
and will eat pretty much anything they can get their mandibles around, from mosquito larvae and other invertebrates to small tadpoles and fish fry. Adult dragonflies eat adult mosquitoes, flies, ants and wasps. Birds of all types are encouraged by water features, and honeybees also need water,
especially in the heat of summer. Other native bees, which are also beneficial pollinators, use mud to cap their brood chambers. Trent Toler (related), a local wetland ecologist, discussed the features of a garden pond from the viewpoint of creating a thriving wetland microenvironment: “Ideally, you would design it with a gently sloping edge on at least one side to provide a couple of feet of transition zone between the pond and your garden. You would plant this zone with rushes and wetland seed mixes, and the vegetation here would provide habitat for beneficial insects and amphibians such as leopard frogs and native toads. In the middle of the city it’s tougher to attract these amphibians, but given enough time you would be surprised what shows up. These transition zones are a really critical area for a lot of species, and we have lost a lot of them as the city has been developed. “Birds in particular have suffered from the draining of wetlands along the Wasatch front. A lot of the streams that come down from the mountains are now flowing through
It doesn’t look like much right now, but soon this hole in the ground will be a beautiful pond in the backyard of the CATALYST magazine offices. We’ll post photos monthly so you can watch the process.
pipes, so there are a lot fewer water sources for birds in the summer. Butterflies also need water in the summer, and at a big mud puddle in the heat of summer you’ll usually see all sorts of insects coming down for the water. “Even if you have a pond without a transition zone, it’s better than a lawn. Anything’s better than a lawn! Any chemical-free pond will provide water for all sorts of animals, and if you have a tree over parts of the pond that will reduce the evaporation. The water will
Jay Mcgowan captured this image of bees drinking in his back yard.
evaporate a little in the summer and may require topping up, but grass lawns and trees are also incredibly thirsty and transpire a lot of groundwater during the hottest months, so they are not really any more virtuous in terms of saving water.” So, if you want a pond, go ahead and have a pond, safe in the knowledge that you are doing our ecosystem a favor. If you are planning to stock your pond with game fish (catfish, bluegill, etc), Utah Division of Wildlife Resources requires that you acquire a Certificate of Registration from them (available as a downloadable form) so that they can keep track of possible invasive species which could decimate the native fish in our rivers if they got loose. A fishless pond or one with ornamental fish only (such as koi) does not require a Certificate of Registration. u Alice Toler is a CATALYST staff writer and an etymologist, married to entomologist Trent Toler.
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therwise known as “bush” and “vining” tomatoes, these are the two main distinctions of growth habit in the tomato world. It is very important to know which kind of tomato you are growing, because they fruit differently and require different husbandry techniques. Determinate “bush” tomatoes stop growing when they reach a certain height. They flower and set fruit all at once, and then die after fruiting. Most will grow to about four feet tall, while one of the smallest dwarf varieties, the MicroTina, tops out at about eight inches. These tomatoes do not require much trellising or caging, and should not be pruned or have their suckers removed as this will reduce the crop. They do well in containers. Roma tomatoes are determinate tomatoes, as are Alaska Heirlooms and
Bush Beefsteaks. Indeterminate or “vining” tomatoes will keep growing until the first frost, up to 20' tall or taller if you treat them properly. They produce tomatoes all season, and are great for providing a continuous harvest for salads in the summer. You’ll need to provide a trellis or a cage support for indeterminate tomatoes to keep the fruit from resting on the ground and being attacked by slugs and other nasties. Most heirloom varieties are indeterminate. Pruning the sucker shoots that sprout from the axils between the leaves and the main stem of a vining tomato will prevent the plant from growing into an impenetrable tangle, and will help prevent disease. It also directs more of the plant’s energy into producing fruit rather than more vegetative growth.
The virtues of Umbellifers! Seasoning, medicine, companions, sometimes food— fennel and dill belong in every garden ill and fennel (Anethum graveolens and Foeniculum vulgare), two herbs that are often confused, are both members of the carrot or parsley family, the Umbellifers. Both plants produce large yellow compound flowers and have hollow stems and fractally divided hairlike leaves, but the agricultural and culinary uses of each are quite different. Dill leaves tend to be more delicate than fennel leaves, and the seeds produced are flatter and thinner. A taste test is quite reliable—fennel has an anise or licorice taste, while dill tastes like pickles. Roast fennel seeds to release their aromatic potential, and use dill in a sauce with salmon for an amazing flavor pairing. Dill is the classic pickling herb; plant it with cucumbers and garlic to jump-start your own homegrown, homemade pickles later in the season. Some varieties of fennel, like Florence fennel, produce a large “bulb” (really a thickened stem), which can be harvested and sliced to use either raw in salads or cooked in stir fries, casseroles and stuffing. Both dill and fennel seed are used in cooking and in traditional herbal medicine. The Umbellifers in general are estrogen-mimicks, and a now extinct
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species called silphium was actually used as birth control in ancient Greece and Rome. Fennel has been used to treat nausea, and both dill and fennel have been used in traditional “gripe water” used to treat colic in babies. Dill and wild fennel both grow easily under benign neglect, but if you plant them too close to one another they will “argue” and attempt to cross-pollinate, so if you want both, plant them far apart. Both dill and fennel make good companions to other plants, attracting ladybugs, parasitic wasps, and predatory flies who will prey upon insect pests on nearby plants. Butterfly larvae, aka caterpillars, love both dill and fennel, and you can plant them in your vegetable garden as “sacrificial” plants that will keep the varmints preferentially off your lettuces or other vulnerable crops. Other members of this family include angelica, anise, arracacha, asafoetida, caraway, carrot, celery, chervil, cicely, coriander (the mature form of cilantro), cumin, hemlock, lovage, Queen Anne’s lace, parsley, parsnip and sea holly. u
If you want to grow both fennel (above) and dill (below), plant them far apart.
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BOOKS
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Transformation and inspiration In life, in love and in the garden BY ADELE FLAIL With all the “homework” you’ll be inspired to do after reading Houston’s book—between the meditation exercises, the reading or re-reading of the books and articles quoted, the inevitable watching of the referenced TED talks and, of course, reviewing the classic movie with Judy Garland—you’re sure to have a better understanding of your own heroic journey.
The Book of Gardening Projects for Kids: 101 ways to get kids outside, dirty, and having fun Whitney Cohen and John Fisher of Life Lab, 2012, Timber Press Okay, I have to admit this may be my favorite gardening book of aaalll the gardening books, even though I don’t...you know... actually have children. While this may be a sad reflection of my maturity level, this book does offer a lot of fun ideas for pretty much anyone who can toddle out into the garden.
The Wizard of Us: Transformational Lessons From Oz; foreword by Deepak Chopra Jean Houston 2012, Atria Books/Beyond Words Building on Joseph Cambell’s The Hero with a Thousand Faces, spiritual explorer and visionary Jean Houston uses the adventures of the archetypal Dorothy, the Wizard and friends as a map to guide the reader on his or her own personal journey toward heroic self-understanding. This book isn’t the be-all-end-all in transformational tomes—nor is it intended to be; rather, it provides an “Enlightenment: 300 mi” signpost to those both new to the ideas of the human potential movement, as well as to readers already far and away down the yellow brick road. Drawing on the beloved movie as well as on the original story by L. Frank Baum, Houston takes us once more on the wellknown quest while exploring the deeper truths inside the well-loved story, while providing meditation practices that help expand both heart and brain at each experience along the way. Houston draws heavily on the thoughts and knowledge of other visionaries, tying the Scarecrow’s search for a brain to new discoveries regarding the persistence of neuroplasticisty in the adult brain and the benefits of meditative states (to give one example), or linking the Emerald City to ideas in William McDonough’s Cradle to Cradle as a metaphor for visioneering a society totally in balance with the natural world.
Expect to find your basic procedural gardening know-how slipped in along the way (how to test your soil, how to start seeds, how to compost, etc.) but the main focus is on fun activities and recipes that might help even your stodgiest “grown-up” gardener discover a new way to revel in the bounties of gardening and of the natural worlds—check out a recipe for potato pancakes which also includes instructions on making potato prints (you are a shell of a human being if neither of these bring you joy), a guide to bug racing (fun for kids, and possibly drinking-game-worthy for the 21-and-over crowd), and instructions for one-bite salsa (both snack and treasure hunt) where a single chip gets loaded with fresh bits of onion as well as with cherry tomatoes and basil still warm from the sun.
For those readers who are actually parents, whether your kiddos are distractible ittybittys who get bored of weeding after a few minutes, or sassy teens who have to be prized off of the video controller— you’ll find plenty of strategems for getting your kids excited about gardening, from games that trickily get kids immersed in everyday tasks, birthday party themes that take cues from seasonal changes in the garden, and inspiring stories that will help your child make the connection between their special interests and the myriad experiences to be discovered out-of-doors. And, for you grown-up people, reading through Cohen and Fisher’s compendium isn’t a kiddy-town slog. Parents and even child-free gardeners will find stories that spark happy remembrances from youth gone past—building delicate fairy houses in the tree branches or finding a cocoon under a leaf, marching bright green plastic dinos through the lettuce or eating raspberries fresh off of the cane... That child, delighting in the sensations and endless wonders of the living world, is still inside every adult gardener, and, with help from Cohen and Fisher, is sure to remain—curious and open to experience — in the next generation of gardeners as well.
be one of the few relationship books on the market free of any wacked-and-wacky PUA stunts, 50 Shades of Domestic Abuse, or Men Are From the Silent Planet b.s. that’s kept the genre going since its inception—this book is utterly unflashy, but is in no way boring: The retro-charming tome is filled with wit, style and warmth, and of course, kindly advice that will have you missing talks-over-tea with your own Gran. Traveling with Cutie through her memories of the love she lived and lost, you’ll find the story of two people who were deeply content with themselves and brought that as a basis to their life together. Her enjoinders, such as “don’t expect perfection, but demand respect and honesty,” aren’t gimmicky— or anything you probably haven’t heard before from a wise older friend or relative—but nevertheless provide just the mental refresh we all need occasionally. In fact, each chapter is rich with gentle little mantras, guiding not only those looking for (or looking to keep) love, but those struggling with nonromantic personal relationships, career woes, facing the realities of aging, or the death of a deeply beloved one. While the title Fall in Love for Life is an accurate description of the Coopers’ Carol Koleman recorded this wild sight during a CATALYST garden photo safari inspired by “Gardening Projects for kids”
Fall in Love for Life: Inspiration from a 73-Year Marriage Barbara “Cutie” Cooper with Kim Cooper and Chinta Cooper 2012, Chronicle Books “Cutie” Cooper’s seven-decade story of marital bliss is both memoir and self-help book, originating from the advice-dispensing blog she created with husband Harry (with the help of granddaughters Kim and Chinta) before his death in 2010. This may
marriage, it could just as easily be titled Fall in Love with Life, and if Cutie has anything to say about it, you can expect to do just that. u Adele Flail is CATALYST’s newest staffer. She is a scientist and artist, and recently illustrated The Nature Lover's Almanac, by Diane Olson (Gibbs Smith publisher).
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METAPHORS FOR THE MONTH BY SUZANNE WAGNER
A Tarot reading for CATALYST
MAY 2013
Embarking on an adventure that will take you
out of your mind Osho Zen Tarot: The Source, New Vision, The Lovers Medicine Cards: Turkey, Whale Mayan Oracle: Harmonic Resonance, Hologram Ancient Egyptian Tarot: Four of Swords, The Lovers, Princess of Wands Aleister Crowley Deck: Dominion, Science, Victory Healing Earth Tarot: Nine of Feathers, Three of Wands, Seven of Rainbows Words of Truth: Humor, Creativity, Express he road to wholeness is often a twisted and complicated path. The more we learn, the more we realize how difficult it is to really understand the great design that is our life. In every moment we are creating our reality. Each choice, each action modifies the external world. When we are unconscious, we are at the whim of the telepathic agreement field currents that create what we call reality.
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When we are unconscious, we are at the whim of the telepathic agreement field currents that create what we call reality. I love to travel because going to other countries and being exposed to other agreement fields makes me realize that possibilities are vast and various. In those moments I understand just how malleable reality can be and how caught up we can become in the agreement field in which we belong or choose to participate. May brings with it the feeling of connectedness to all that is. Begin to open to a larger connectedness that is humanity. Become aware of ways we can work together. Notice how we are working against each other. Over and over again, humanity loves to create separateness. Separateness creates conflict, which causes suffering and needless fear, perpetuating beliefs that dehumanize others. Through conscious awareness and clarity, we learn the deeper lesson: By finding commonalities rather than the differences, we can resolve conflict. When we look to each other as companions along the path of life and love, our eyes do not become clouded by fear and uncertainty. We
see ourselves reflected back in each other. As equals walking the pathways of karma, love and life, we can become more creative in how we express truth to others—ways that allow opening rather than closure. If we can step beyond the level of attachment where the old forms of war, conflict and revenge reside, then we can allow the spirit inside each of us to guide us toward harmony. Take this month to nurture new ideas into aliveness. Allow a possibility to emerge within you that has lain dormant for a long time. Reach out to others who can feel your heart and intent. And love those who are not ready to see the fullness that you are becoming. It is only by example that we learn to trust and understand other ways of being. Your good intentions will be blocked by those who are not ready and do not understand. You cannot force your beliefs onto others. You can only live your life in accordance with the deepest core truths that move you and motivate your heart to love. We are beginning to feel into a completely different possibility—moving not into air but into water. You will feel the tide turning and the shift happening. All you have to do is follow the flow of your heart. Let something magical move you into uncharted waters. Feel the wind fill your sails and know that you are embarking on a new adventure that is taking you beyond your mind, beyond your knowing, and into a place where you store your deepest self. May is the month to prepare for this shift. We cannot continue in the old way. It has become too exhausting. You do not want to be Don Quixote fighting illusory warriors. It is time to get into the heart that beats your soul into aliveness. It is a beautiful heart. It has great knowing and wisdom. Trust it and it will show you the miracle of who you are. As I write this in late April, it feels appropriate to end with these words from the Dalai Lama: “You must not hate those who do wrong or harmful things; but with compassion, you must do what you can to stop them — for they are harming themselves, as well as those who suffer from their actions.” u Suzanne Wagner is the author of numerous books and CDs on the tarot. She now lives in California, but visits Utah for classes and readings frequently. SUZWAGNER.COM ARTWORK IS DETAIL FROM COVER ARTIST ANDROID JONES’ “ENGAGED”
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