CATALYST Magazine April 2015

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Annual Planting Guide Loomis: Permaculture Growing Hops Yoga for Gardeners

The Biocentric Brothers: The way of the mushroom

Swami Beyondananda: State of the Universe address

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career and in my art,” says Lake. “It continues andall Lake’s upcoming one-man show to play a pivotal role in my creations.”

“Paris Rock n’ Roll” will showcase new paintings from his recent two-month stay About Randall Lake in Paris.

Born in Long Beach, California, Since his return, and raised in Newport Beach, Lake Lake has been working studied at the Paris Academie in his studio, experiJulian (1968); Atelier 17 (1971-73); menting with techand at the Ecole Nationale niques he saw in Paris Superieure des Beaux-Arts (1972). museums—cloisonHe completed his formal education ism, the cross-hatching in 1977 with a master’s degree in of parallel brush fine arts from the University of strokes (Paul Cezanne Utah. Lake received two artist’s and Emile Bernard); studio scholarships in France: The and painting on paper Cite Internationale des Arts through mounted to linen the American Center for Students (Toulouse-Lautrec, and Artists (1971); and the Emile Bernard). “I hope Kathrine Karolyi Foundation in CATALYST is deeply honored to these works will give Vence, France (1973). as much pleasure to Lake has received numerous have had local treasure, those who see them awards, including two awards from Randall Lake, paint as I had in painting the prestigious Salmagundi Club in “Primordial Scuffle” them,” says Lake.

New York City; and the Utah especially for our cover.

The show also will Governor’s Award in the Arts feature other works— (2001). He was named one of the interiors, still life, landscapes and cityscapes of 47 Most Influential People in the History of Utah Utah, and Southern California.

by Salt Lake Magazine (2000). N In addition to the show, Lake is celebrating Randall Lake presents Paris Rock 'N’ Roll Studio Show his 40th anniversary in the Guthrie Building.

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GARDEN: PLANTING GUIDE

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EDITOR'S NOTEBOOK GRETA BELANGER DEJONG

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YOGA FOR GARDENERS CHARLOTTE BELL

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DON'T GET ME STARTED JOHN DEJONG

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BIOCENTRIC BROTHERS: MUSHROOMS IN THE DESERT KATHERINE PIOLI

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ENVIRONEWS: LEGISLATIVE ROUNDUP AMY BRUNVAND

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EARTH DAY BOOK REVIEWS CLARE BOERIGTER, MAGGIE HIPPMAN, ALICE TOLER

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SLIGHTLY OFF CENTER DENNIS HINKAMP

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SWAMI BEYONDANANDA: STATE OF THE UNIVERSE ADDRESS STEVE BHAERMAN

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STEAMPUNK CINDERELLA AMY BRUNVAND

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THE MOUNTAIN ACCORD JEFFREY MATHES MCCARTHY

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CHURCH V. STATE AT UMOCA ALEXANDRA KARL

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GARDEN LIKE A BOSS: THE 12 PRINCIPLES OF PERMACULTURE JAMES LOOMIS

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EDITOR’S NOTEBOOK

The mortification of almost dying wrote text for this column last night.

Then, with one thoughtless keystroke, it was gone. I wrote a note to the production manager: “I lost everything.”

Then I crumpled up the note, tossed it in recycling and went to bed.

I’m a bit more philosophical about loss, after a recent swim with mortality.

It started as a lark — a visit to the psychic fair one Saturday at Dancing Cranes.

A reading with Lady Jill. “You are traveling to water,” was the very first thing she said.

No, I assured her. No plans to travel anywhere, no desire to leave home, no way.

She was clear. I was, in opposition, equally clear. She said other things of relevance. I forgot about “traveling to water.”

That very night, a friend showed up.

“Come to Los Cabos with me,” he said.

Within 10 minutes, I had my flight. A fourday lark. Two 34-year-old guys and me.

Camping on the beach. Why would I say no? Coincidentally, Cabos was “near water.”

It was fun from the get-go. Wandering the beach with my two charming companions, winning a dance contest at a seaside bar, swimming in the rain with my cell phone (funny, but not so smart), eating good food—that was just the first 12 hours. I grinned my ears off.

That night I dreamed I tried to open my eyes, but the light was so bright, I couldn’t.

We drove up the coast and joined some friends at their little camp. They snorkeled.

I explored tidepools of black crabs. That night, the most fluent among us bought fresh-caught pierna from the men at the fishing camp nearby, and cooked it over an open fire. Later I dreamed again of a light so bright I couldn’t open my eyes. I also tried to open a door that wouldn’t budge.

It was windy on Wednesday, the New Moon; I was born on a new moon. That’s CATALYST’s corporate name, too. We went snorkeling. I couldn’t find my own mask before leaving home, so rented one from a little beach place there.

The mouthpiece felt small, as if were meant for a child, but the mask fit well enough. I found a nearby coral reef. It was a rather pitiful thing, but the fish were cheerful so I enjoyed myself for a while, then decided to head back to land.

The guys swam by and said the reefs farther out were better. I followed them.

The fact that I was seriously their senior did not cross my mind—nor that my slacker lifestyle was no match for their strong, mountain-climbing muscles.

I remember snorkeling in Mexico in the ’80s and ’90s, and seeing breathtaking beauty. Here, the coral was broken and colorless. I remembered hearing about hurricane damage and ocean acidification. I felt grief as I’ve rarely felt it, the transitory nature of all things, inevitable loss.

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In retrospect, I don’t think I got to the place the guys were referring to. At any rate, I felt uneasy, and let my companions know I was heading back to shore.

Soon I realized I was in way over my head, figuratively and literally. I was exhausted; maybe I was hyperventilating.

Choppy waves knocked the snorkel sideways. I reinserted it, but still could not get enough air. No amount of effort got me closer to shore. I panicked. I yelled for help, then realized no one could possibly hear me.

This is it, I thought for the first time in my life. I am going to run out of oxygen and die right here, today. I thought of distraught family, shocked friends. Bad Facebook posts. That weighed me down more: guilt, horror and and embarrassment. I was mortified.

I also felt immense gratitude for the National Geographic Society, for all the beauty in the world it had documented so many treasures that will one day pass. I felt the relentless, heartless power of the ocean. Ruled by tides, the ocean does what it does. Praying for the ocean to relent is like talking to a jackhammer on autopilot. No amount of learned helplessness would help me now. I had to save myself.

The mortal embarrassment of looming death kicked me into fighting gear—a gear I didn’t even know I had. Or perhaps I simply allowed for a moment of sanity. At any rate, I ripped off the mask, rolled onto my back and kicked and kicked. Periodically I looked over my shoulder to see the slightest progress. Eventually I collapsed on the shore, and lay there, panting, for a long time.

That night we ate red snapper cooked over a perfectly built fire. I was outstandingly useless to everyone the entire trip, except to help fold the tinfoil on the fish and help win five margaritas in a dance contest. I’m okay with this. At least I was bountiful in my heartfelt praise and gratitude for my stellar companions.

We said our goodbyes. They flew on to Monterey for a climbing excursion. I flew back to Salt Lake. And now I am philosophical about things like computers bombing in the night.

One thing left to do: Contact Lady Jill and ask her—if I had not been so emphatic about not traveling “to water,” what else would she have told me? Would it echo the two dreams, about bright light and closed doors?

It was also a Giant Note to Self: Don’t rest on laurels. Move that body. Your life may someday depend on it.

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Hotter with time When low-level nuclear waste is not low-level nuclear waste

BY JOHN R. DEJONG

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The unloading building and incinerator at the Clive site in Energy Solutions’ low-level nuclear ixty-five years ago, the American waste repository in Clive, Utah, just 65 Southwest was at the beginning miles west of Salt Lake City. of a uranium boom that left lasting scars on the landscape The DOE was (and still is) in the and the population—men lost process of cleaning up the Savannah to deadly jobs in the uranium mines River Site. For more than 50 years it had been the main source of uranium and mills. Today, the byproducts of for nuclear weapons and nuclear that boom, 700,000 tons of waste depleted uranium, are in search of a reactors in the US. They needed a final resting place. cheap place to dispose of a lot of surplus depleted uranium.

In 2009, the US Department of Energy (DOE) approached Energy Energy Solutions received the first of three planned trainloads in 2009 Solutions (the company behind the arena name) with a proposition: to without the explicit permission of the import 5,400 cylinders of depleted State of Utah. The DOE and Energy Solutions had conveniently assumed uranium from South Carolina’s Savannah River Site (SRS) to be buried that depleted uranium was no differ-

DON’T GET ME STARTED ent than the other low-level nuclear wastes that have been buried at the Clive site—wastes that decay over time, thus becoming even lower-level nuclear wastes.

Utah Governor Herbert stopped the shipments after the first trainload of waste arrived, temporarily delaying the receipt of any more depleted uranium until Energy Solutions and the State Division of Radiation Control could show such disposal was safe.

In the six years since, Energy Solutions has repeatedly misjudged, underestimated and ignored the dangers of disposing depleted uranium at Clive. Radiation Control (a division of the Utah Department of Environ mental Quality, will decide what happens next.

Depleted uranium is uranium with all the “good” parts taken out. It’s depleted. But it’s still uranium and it’s still radioactive. And unlike other radioactive wastes, it gets hotter with time, making it more radioactive over time. The deposit will qualify for Class B waste in about 61,000 years, and Class C waste (hottest level) in about 266,000 years.

Burial procedures are much more stringent for hotter wastes, for a number of good reasons.

The reason to properly dispose of nuclear waste is to prevent toxic releases. That can mean for a period of tens of thousands of years, up to millions of years. Class C waste, the

engers and the actions of wind, rain and the inevitable return of Lake Bonneville. Burrowing animals can destroy the radon gas barrier. Future scavengers could open the tumuli to the wind which would spread depleted uranium dust. When Lake Bonneville returns in 10,000 or 20,000 years, the above-ground nuclear tumuli will be scoured by waves down to ground level.

Energy Solutions’ solution for the problem of radon leakage in middle time (10,000 years) is essentially that a sand dune from the Great Salt Lake desert will wander over to the tumuli and park itself for eternity.

The only warning of the nuclear briar patch will be the corroded husks of tens of thousands of barrels, dumpsters and cylinders. Intruders, as posited in Energy Solutions’ plan/ scenario, are limited to ranchers. No mention is made of yahoos with metal detectors. Although there is so much radiologically contaminated metal in the Clive tomb that metal detectors will be unnecessary.

Which brings up the topic of “loss of institutional control,” a euphemism for the time when Energy Solutions has gone bankrupt or been sold off in pieces and everybody else has forgotten what their grandfather helped bury out there. Energy Solutions has no agreement with the state of Utah or the feds for eventual transfer of the facility to state or federal ownership.

Unlike other radioactive wastes, depleted uranium gets hotter with time making it more radioactive, the older it gets. The deposit will qualify for Class B waste in about 61,000 years, and Class C waste (the hottest) in about 266,000 years.

Tumulus rising behind maintenance buildings hottest (most radioactive), must be buried thousands of feet underground in geologically stable formations, usually salt, that will prevent tampering. Class B waste, similarly, must be buried deep enough to prevent tampering. Class A wastes, on the other hand, because they are less radioactive, can be disposed of in above-ground tumuli that look like the temples of the Sun and Moon in Mexico City. The Colorado Plateau is dotted with these gravel-covered tombs of uranium mills similar to the tombs at Clive.

The primary concern is anything that might disturb the repository, from burrowing animals like badgers and ground squirrels to metal scav-

Bureaucratic oversight Depleted uranium is classified as low-level nuclear waste—the result of bureaucratic inertia. In the euphoria of “too-cheap-to-meter” nuclear power, there was no conception of “waste” products even as the “stock” of depleted uranium grew to something north of 700,000 tons. No thought was given to disposal. As recent as the early 2000s, the DOE was still looking for a “use” for depleted uranium. The only significant use was as “kinetic penetrators” used in Iraq, Bosnia and Kosovo where a couple of hundred tons were used to destroy tanks and fortifications. One possible cause of Gulf War Syndrome is the depleted uranium

The real issue is: Is it safe to bring all that uranium back and bury it in Utah’s West Desert? That should be a public health question, not a political question.

In Utah, it may also be a theological question. dust spread around when a spearshaped depleted uranium shell would hit a hard place.

In 2001, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s position was this: “The strategy for the long-term management of depleted uranium is based on the consideration that depleted uranium is a valuable material, which may have various applications, and is not considered a waste. It is not envisaged that final disposition of the depleted uranium will be necessary within the next 70-100 years while nuclear generation of electricity continues.�

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That was written before Fukushima.

But wait! There’s more The 5,400 cylinders of waste from Savannah River are just the tip of the iceberg. The DOE’s uranium enrichment plants in Paducah, Kentucky and Portsmouth, Ohio have 10 times that many cylinders of depleted uranium to dispose of. The citizens of Kentucky and Ohio refuse to allow it to be buried in their back yard.

If Utah politicians and bureaucrats say yes to taking the radioactive suppository from Savannah River, the DOE would also like us to become

keepers of the 700,000 tons of depleted uranium stored at Paducah, Kentucky and Portsmouth Ohio as well.

The nuclear bureaucrats in Washington need to dispose of the nuclear waste. The cleanup of our nation’s nuclear waste has already cost hundreds of billions of dollars and the end is not in sight. Energy Solutions would love to be on the receiving end of some of the nuclear waste disposal gravy train.

Some time ago, I ventured the opinion that Tooele County’s most profitable export was empty waste containers. I could have been writing about Tooele’s share of the nation’s “supply� of nerve gas, which was finally destroyed in 2012. I might have been writing about the proposed spent nuclear fuel storage site in Skull Valley, in 1998 or the shenanigans of Energy Solutions’ corporate grandaddy, Envirocare’s founder, Khosrow Semnani.

In 1997, Semnani was fined $100,000 for helping Utah’s Division of Radiation Control director, Larry B. Anderson, prepare false tax returns on $600,000 in cash, gifts and gold, which Anderson received from Semnani. Semnani alleged that he was extorted by Anderson.

Nevertheless, the DOE requested that Semnani step down as head of Envirocare which he then sold to Steve Creamer in 2004.

Ever since, the political arena around the Clive site has been awash in money. Envirocare and Semnani routinely bought off most of the legislature with campaign contributions. Energy Solutions and Steve Creamer continue the tradition

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with political contributions of $695,370 over the last five years.

Which is to say, don’t expect our legislature to save us from this.

The upshot is that there is no safe way to safely dispose of depleted uranium at the Clive site.

The real issue is: Is it safe to bring all that uranium back and bury it in Utah’s West Desert? That should be a public health question, not a political question. But in a state where a majority of the population profess to believe that Jesus will be back soon, certainly before a huge pile of nuclear waste gets really stinky, it’s a theological question.

We do not have to bury this waste immediately. Energy Solutions and its stockholders, however, need to bury this waste immediately, or at least within the next couple of financial quarters. At that point, the stock will spike and the current owners can cash in their chips.

Let’s speak up now and create a different outcome. N John deJong is associate publisher of CATALYST.

What can you do?

Public hearings will be scheduled in Salt Lake City and Tooele for early May. We will keep you informed via the CATALYST Weekly Reader. (Sign up on our website, CATALYSTMAGAZINE.NET: see “Weekly Reader� under Quick Links).

Call Governor Herbert, 801-538-1000, or email him: WWW.UTAH.GOV/CONTACT Contact your Utah senator and representative.

For some history on Energy Solutions, check out this 2006 CATALYST story: HTTP://BIT.LY/1FOEZS

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Mountain Accord comment period extended The public comment period for Mountain Accord has been extended beyond the previously announced deadline of March 16.

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Utah Senators fail: legislative scorecard, 2015 The League of Conservation Voters has released a special 2015 Senate edition of the National Environmental Scorecard ranking voting record of the U.S. senators.

The scorecard shows that Utah Senators Orrin Hatch (R) and Mike Lee (R) made zero pro-environmental votes on important issues for a final score of 0%.

Lee not only voted against the environment, he was actually absent for three particularly important votes: forcing tar sands companies to pay for spills, International climate action, and Keystone XL pipeline impact analysis.

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ENVIRONEWS

Utah legislative roundup, 2015 general session

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n the November 2014 elections, only 28.8% of eligible Utah voters came to the polls. Low voter participation shows up in the unresponsiveness of legislators with regard to environmental issues that affect Utah citizens. Last January, thousands of people showed up to a “Clean Air No Excuses” rally, but proposed clean air legislation was stalled, watered down or killed outright. In March, hundreds of citizens braved (increasingly rare) snowy weather to rally against the Transfer of Public Lands Act of 2012. Nonetheless, the legislature allocated millions of dollars for misguided water projects and for lawsuits trying to seize control over federal public lands, wildlife and dirt roads.

Good bills that passed Raise the gas tax: The gas tax was raised by five cents to pay for infrastructure improvements.

Local communities can vote for taxes to pay for transit; and an extra fee on alternative-fuel cars was shot down.

Clean air: Utah Division of Air Quality can set clean air standards that are different from federal regulations, reflecting local conditions. The department of Motor Vehicles can refuse to register vehicles that fail emissions tests.

Cow sharing: it is now legal to share your milk cow with a neighbor.

Good resolutions that passed • S.R. 3: approving of an idea to grant 4th graders and their families free admission to national parks in 2015-16.

• S.C.R. 10: Despite the crazy anti-federal ranting, this one is not all bad. It expresses support for the Public Lands Initiative (PLI) led by U.S. Congressman Rob Bishop (R-UT-1).

Maybe we could try to let the PLI public process work instead of undermining it with belligerent threats from the Transfer of Public Lands Act.

Bad bills that passed Dirty air: This one is so bad that Breathe Utah asked Governer Herbert to veto it. HB 396 prohibits the Division of Air Quality from implementing a seasonal ban on wood burning, no matter how bad the inversion gets.

Water waste: $5,000,000 for the Lake Powell Pipeline boondoggle and Bear River water development that is likely to have catastrophic effects on Great Salt Lake wetlands. Utah is the biggest per-capita water user in the nation. The cheapest, most available water supply would come, obviously, from conservation.

Bad resolutions that passed • S.C.R. 3: Asks the federal government to provide no money at all for sage grouse conservation (while Utah spends $2 million against sage grouse).

• S.C.R. 4: Opposes National Monument status for the San Rafael Swell and Cedar Mesa or anyplace else nice in Utah (e.g. Greater Canyonlands).

• S.C.R. 7: For expansion of the Utah Test and Training Range in the West Desert.

• S.J.R 7: Demands Utah control over federally managed wild horses and burros (another bit of anti-federal tantruming).

Your tax dollars, squandered on antienvironmental attacks • $2,000,000 for lawyers trying to transfer federal public lands to the State of Utah.

• $5,000,000 for the Lake Powell Pipeline and Bear River development boondoggles.

• $2,000,000 to “Big Game Forever” to lobby against endangered species protection for wolves and sage grouse (despite a 2013 legislative audit that showed that $800,000 of state money previously given to the same people more or less went missing).

• $500,000 to pay hunters to shoot coyotes—basically a subsidized recreation program for people who like shooting at animals.

• $850,00 ongoing plus $3,000,000 extra for RS2477 lawsuits litigating control of 12,000 dirt roads (a sneaky effort to block wilderness conservation by claiming that Utah’s desert is really chock-full of highways). N

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BY DENNIS HINKAMP

How long?

BY DENNIS HINKAMP

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ater heaters can be faithful employees of your home for 40 years, but I doubt you really appreciate this mundane effort. You replace them, you move on.

When people say “happily married for 25 years” I think “but how many total years were you married?” Longevity in itself is not an accomplishment. Longevity recognition may make sense up to about 10 years. After that, you just appear to be unimaginative.

What if you got an award for 30 years of service but you actually served 32 years including overtime or conversely only served 28 years because two of those years you were taking long lunches? I like awards. Give me one for my élan, style or mirth, but don’t give me one for just being in the same place for XX number of years. Or, if you do, make it something I can use such as free parking or gluten-free muffins for life.

I don’t know exactly how many years I have been writing this column; I’ve successfully forgotten what year I started. There is a thin grammatical line between mile-

There is a thin grammatical line between milestone and millstone. stone and millstone. Repeatedly doing something in Sisyphean regularity can be a curse as well as a reward.

I don’t want a pin, ribbon or gold watch so why even keep count?

Longevity as a benchmark is overvalued. The only reason it is really worth counting years of age is that you get valuable privileging and prizes coinciding with different totals; driving, drinking, voting, AARP discounts and Social Security payments all come at arbitrary ages rather than at some level of competence. I could have driven safely when I was 12, but letting me cast a knowledgeable vote for president even at age 30 was probably ill advised.

Retirement ages, like the paleo diet, made a lot more sense when we did hard labor every day and didn’t live much longer than was necessary for reproduction and progeny launch. Now, living to 80 or 90 is normal and the progeny keep coming back to the cave/nest like rockets that can’t achieve gravitational escape velocity. “How can I miss you if you won’t go away?”

I’ve had a fair amount of success in Senior, Masters, over-the-hill sports events. These separate everyone into five-year age groups. I have a wall full of medals and a drawer full of t-shirts as proof. On the one hand, it’s fun to compete with fellow geezers, but really it can’t match the gloating high of beating the same 20-somethings who just last week thought they had found a new paradigm to something you had been doing successfully for 30 years.

“Do not go gentle into that good night,” Dylan Thomas famously wrote—probably about the only snippet of poetry most people can recall regarding aging and death. I’ve never quite known what this means but I am personally going to interpret it as a rage against a longevity award.

Don’t go gentle into that late afternoon, either. N Dennis Hinkamp has been writing this column for more than 10 years but that’s all the information he’s going to give out. (Only his editor really knows for sure.)

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Swami’s State of the Universe—2015 Cosmic comic pundit Swami Beyondananda calls for evolutionary upwising “Hearty laughter brings us from the static of the head to the ecstatic of the heart.”

— Swami Beyondananda

STEVE BHAERMAN

Greetings, Mirthlings!

Welcome to the State of the Universe—which is, of course, everchanging, same as always.

Here we are, once again, in the here and now, just like last year at this time.

So ... are you finally ready to live in the now?

Good. We have been waiting for you. What took you so long?

With time rapidly becoming a thing of the past (the calendar’s days are numbered, you know) people are living in the now like never before. Listen, I know. I was a futurist in a past life. But now, I have no time for time. I am living all the time in the Timeless Now. I think they call that All-Timers.

Meanwhile, here on Earth—or as it is known throughout the galaxies, the Comedy Channel—a critical mass of the heretofore uncritical masses are awakening to a serious truth. There’s something funny going on.

Take politics—please America’s two political parties spent $4 billion on the last election and it worked—the American people were soundly defeated. Once again the Golden Rule was overruled by the rule of gold, and the Constitution overrun by the prostitution. The result is government in greedlock and rule by a one-party system where we the people haven’t been invited to the party.

Here on Earth—or as it is known throughout the galaxies, the Comedy Channel—a critical mass of the heretofore uncritical masses are awakening to a serious truth. There’s something funny going on.

We don’t exactly have a name for this new system, although I think Futilism describes it pretty well.

Thanks to government for hire, voting has devolved into an act of futility. Whether we vote Democratic or Republican, we seem to end up with Dempublicrats running things.

Now some mystics—pessimystics they are called—would look at this shituation and see a glass 95% empty. As an optimystic I take the exact opposite position. I see a glass 5% full.

Yes, there is good news An evolutionary upwising is afoot, and left and right are coming frontand-center around a new common sense consensus.

In Colorado and, now, two other states, this has meant legalizing cannabis. So what does this mean, other than in the Mile High State you can now legally get a mile higher? For one thing, it means a blooming economy selling transcendental medication. Science is now finding

that humans have THC receptors in the part of the brain called the “hippiecampus.” When this area is stimulated, people see farce fields and laugh at invisible jokes.

There’s an old saying—and I know it because I myself made it up many lifetimes ago—the truth shall upset you free. Once again, in 2014, incon venient truths exposed convenient lies. For example, now everyone knows our government is spying on us, and Public Enemy Number One appears to be none other than—the public. Maybe the NSA needs to be balanced out by another three-letter organization, the ICU—Independent Citizens United, where citizens who intensively care about the rule of law can say, “I see you,” and begin to oversee what we have until now chosen to overlook.

From monotheism to stereotheism, and a real conspiracy There was another sign of the upwising in 2014. Pope Francis took

have run right past it.”

And in this moment of fool-realization, we fully realize our foolishness and laugh in our own face. This is called self-facing laughter, and it helps us illuminate our world from the inside out. People ask me all the time, “How can I uplift humanity?” I take one look at their doomy and gloomy expressions and I say, “You can begin by uplifting the corners of your mouth in a smile.” When you feel the levitational pull giving you a natural face-lift, you are literally overcoming gravity.

Hearty laughter brings us from the static of the head to the ecstatic of the heart, and we take the second step to upwising—we wise up loving. It has been said that the more we expand our hearts the less we will need to shrink our heads. Beliefs lie in our head, love lives in our heart. So... are you going to believe those lies? Or live that love?

When you sacrifice being happy for being right, you know what they call it? Smartyrdom.

With laughter and love helping us wise to the occasion, we take the third step. We show up, living and giving. Each of us has been given a special gift, just for entering. So you are already a winner.

We are all here to let our light fully shine—the enlightened ones call this full-filament. It is true that the unexamined life is not worth living, and equally true that the unlived life is not worth examining. To “show up” means to live life fully, and foolly, laughing all the way. Make a list of all the undertakings you wish to undertake before being overtaken by the undertaker. Express your unique love in the world, and make your life a work of heart.

Bring your gift to the party, and show up for the greatest show on earth—reality! You know, reality.

That’s reality TV without the TV. What a movie we’re in! A cast of seven billion, and all of humanity is in the hero’s role. And the whole world is on the edge of its seat. Will we achieve critical mass before we reach critical massacre? Will there be an awakening, or a wake?

As the great baseball player/ philosopher Willie Mays once said, “That’s what we’re going to play the game to find out.”

I end this 2015 State of the Universe with good news: When it comes to transformation, we have all the time in the world. And that time is now.

May we wake up laughing and leave laughter in our wake. N

Make a list of all the undertakings you wish to undertake before being overtaken by the undertaker.

Express your unique love in the world, and make your life a work of heart.

A three-step plan to launch the upwising I have created a three-step program that is mathematically proven to work four times faster than 12-step.

If we want to have an upwising, we must wake up... wise up... and show up.

We must wake up to the awful truth and the awesome opportunity. Yes, the world is in serious condition, largely due to our conditioning to be serious. Seriously.

And if the problem is serious, then the solution has to be humorous, right? So we wake up laughing as we recognize that we’ve been running around in circles, chasing our tales. These tales usually tell us that happiness is somewhere “out there.” It’s a sure sign of the upwising when those who’ve been in hot pursuit of happiness get struck by enlightening and realize, “Gee, I must

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a stand for social justice, making the Catholic Church more non-dominational. And boy, are those purebred dogma breeders upset! It just goes to show that maybe you can teach an old dogma new tricks.

Maybe monotheism is evolving into stereotheism, where the same truth comes from multiple speakers, in many different languages, and some with no language at all.

After all, there is no harm in harmony, and no sin in synergy. And, in the end, every dogma must answer to the same Master. Maybe if religions evolve in this way, John Lennon could imagine “no religion, too” becoming “all religions true.”

And for those of us who want peace in the Middle East?

Let us first try peace in the Middle West. A first step is to quiet our own barking dogmas, and listen to the silence. Instead of just following the herd, follow the unheard... right into your own heart. Imagine, Americans from all tribes coming into the same space of silence, and breathing together. Now that would be a real conspiracy, and could expose and help us overgrow the con’s piracy we have now.

The evolutionary upwising calls on people everywhere to rise above the identity issues that each side serves up as dogma chow, and instead focus on the identical issues we face now—like being passengers and crew on Spaceship Earth, citizens and denizens of Gaia.

So, come on, you Gaians!

Time to show your species’ pride. And time to evolve from children of God to adults of Good.

Yes, I know. We are collectively in this awkward tween phase called addled-essence. Our essence has been addled by obsolete myth-conceptions.

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SATURDAY /// APRIL 4 @ 11AM È THE GAMES MAKER

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Ivan Drago’s love of board games catapults him into the world of game invention and pits him against the inventor Morodian, who wants to destroy the city of Zyl.

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Food Chains reveals the human cost in our food supply and the groups that are working for humane treatment of farmworkers. Director Sanjay Rawal will be in attendance for a post-film Q&A.

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ADVENTURE Bill Preston and Ted Logan are two

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Florian Herbst and his father, Hanno, have a strained relationship. Florian is happiest when dancing around the house to his favorite disco star, while Hanno doesn’t know what to do with his son.

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In April 1975, during the final days of the Vietnam War, as the North Vietnamese Army closed in on Saigon, South Vietnamese resistance crumbled.

Discussion following the film with Rory Kennedy.

TUESDAY /// APRIL 21 @ 7PM È WHAT HAPPENED, MISS SIMONE? CITY LIBRARY 210 E. 400 S.

Classically trained pianist, dive-bar chanteuse, Black Power icon, and legendary recording artist Nina Simone lived a life of brutal honesty, musical genius, and tortured melancholy. Discussion following the film.

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Levitated Mass is the story of a rock star, the artist behind the sensation, a $10 million, 22-city tour, and the international media storm that ensued.

TUESDAY /// APRIL 28 @ 7PM È POINT AND SHOOT CITY LIBRARY 210 E. 400 S.

Point and Shoot follows Matt VanDyke, a timid 26-year -old with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, who left home in Baltimore in 2006 and set off on a selfdescribed “crash course in manhood.”

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rom time to time I encounter an idea that obliges me to choose engagement or dissociation. Will I dig into the details, get my hands on the levers and try to build something, or will I recognize a wretched time-sink when I see it and stay clear?

Mountain Accord presents such a fork in the road for all of us: Your better self says, “Go to the meetings… read the planning documents,” but your cynical self says, “I’ve been burned by self-interested consultants before... the money will decide this, no matter what I say.”

The comment period has been extended to May 1, 2015.

I’ve decided it’s worth the effort to understand the Mountain Accord proposal, and I’ve concluded that now is an especially important time to express an opinion about the future of the Wasatch. You can do exactly that at MOUNTAINACCORD.COM/GETINVOLVED where each question is followed by a comment box for the easy typing of viewpoints.

JFK had a penchant for the sweeping phrase, and he said “let us not seek to fix the blame for the past, let us accept our own responsibility for the future.” Think of the Mountain Accord as a conversation about the future between stakeholders from local governments, the major ski resorts, leading environmental organizations, state agencies, and recreational users. This conversation started a year ago in subcommittees and focuses on the mountain lands between Parley’s and Little Cottonwood canyons.

Given the breadth of interests and the size of the topic, it’s helpful that the participants have sorted into four committees: environment, economy, transportation and recreation—topics that have risen to the forefront of local concern for skiers, water drinkers, businesses and mayors. If the first phase of Mountain Accord was gathering information to propose a blueprint for action in the Wasatch, this second phase is the moment for all citizens to spotlight their own agendas, or to identify their own objections.

The comment period has been extended until June, and thus allows us all more

influence before the draft becomes a proposal for National Environmental Policy Act and Environmental Impact Statement review.

The biggest news, in my opinion, has to do with land-swaps and with trains. Most attractive here is the potential for land-swaps that trade base areas and boundary expansion to the ski resorts, in return for protection on more than 2,000 acres of the Cottonwood Canyons. Most dubious to me is the multi-billion dollar plan to run a train up Little Cottonwood right next to the road, creating years of construction delays and an enormous environmental impact.

In a democratic process all voices are equal, but some are louder than others.

The present version of the Mountain Accord gives ski resorts an outsized voice because they are focused on particular prizes. That doesn’t necessarily make them immoral or corrupt—just well organized. If you have a different or overlooked position, organize your thoughts and use this mechanism to share them.

We residents of the Wasatch have a great stake in its environmental and economic future, but we need to show that we’re paying attention. By participating in this public process we can exert all our moral influence, but by ignoring a public process we arrive at Plato’s curse: “The penalty for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up governed by your inferiors.”

This brings us back to my opening choice about listening to my better self or my cynical self. The Mountain Accord is a public process that can be an end in itself where developers and consultants craft a deal that masquerades as consensus, or a starting point where a groundswell of public engagement takes the blueprint and rewrites it into a progressive plan for this community’s transportation, environment, recreation and economy. N Jeffrey Mathes McCarthy is Director of the University of Utah’s Environmental Humanities graduate program.

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Why drive an electric or hybrid vehicle?

California for training I went.

We took apart a Prius, Volt, Leaf and an Insight. Wow! This stuff was way cooler than I’d ever imagined.

The technology in the Chevy Volt and Prius is really impressive. The software, control and drive devices are intriguing.

Then came the why. Craig Van Batenburg, one of my instructors, gave the best talk on the subject I’ve ever heard. Standing in front of the “red” and “blue,” the unaffiliated, and the undecided, he talked with conviction about global warming, dead soldiers, consumption and the air we breathe. Craig’s childhood was spent in Ogden, Utah. He knew about me and where I was from. We talked in depth about the air quality in LA and Salt Lake, and the role of hybrids, electric vehicles and extended-range hybrid electric vehicles in making some difference.

I learned firsthand that these vehicles really are environmentally less damaging than their fossil fuel counterparts. They produce little to zero tailpipe emissions. They use substantially less fossil fuel. They also create less noise pollution.

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Electric vehicles—E-Golf, Leaf,

I3,Tesla—produce zero tailpipe emissions. Hybrid electric vehicles, considered “pzev” (partial zero-emissions vehicles), produce very little tailpipe emissions. My 2010 Prius averages 49 miles per gallon around town with fewer emissions. The more vehicles we replace with this technology, the better.

The other factor associated with these vehicles is longevity. These vehicles use less energy to go down the road. They charge themselves while braking through regenerative braking. Most of them do not engage the traditional brakes until under 10 miles per hour. The gas engines are under less load. This all contributes to less heat and wear.

I’ve read that many of these vehicles with over 500,000 miles on them are still on the road. I see wellmaintained ones in my shop that have traveled over 200,000 miles and they look brand new. This should lead us to purchasing fewer vehicles in the future, which equates to lower impact. Own a good vehicle longer and breathe easier. N

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s the owner of a hybrid and electric vehicle maintenance and repair shop I get asked this question often. I almost always start with a longwinded statement about how I love them.

I come from a long line of automotive people. My dad worked for Volkswagen for many years. He used to drag broken air-cooled Beetles home to receive a new life.

That’s where it all started, behind the Hanover house in St. Louis sometime around 1976. The Beetles were different. Everything seemed to be in the wrong place or used the wrong voltage. My dad, not unlike myself, was attracted to these obscurities. The new technology is what keeps me interested in my profession. I was a VW, Audi, BMW specialist in dealerships for most of my career. These companies are constantly producing great new technologically advanced products.

However, they all still received direct power from their internal combustion engines.

When my wife Michelle and I opened our shop in 2010, we committed ourselves to being as green as possible. In our business, this means really a lighter shade of grey. Some choices were easier than others: We installed solar panels, recycled, and chose the most environmentally safe products and practices that we could.

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ver the last few years, permaculture has emerged from the obscurity of the ecological underground to become the buzzword of the times. This is welcome news, as this design philosophy has the potential to change the trajectory of our

on environmental and cultural sustainability. It’s the angle that humans can not only do less harm to the planet but, through good design, we might even be beneficial.

We can then reap the bounty from the surpluses, and meet all of our needs

Every one of us smart little monkeys has the capacity to be a positive force on behalf of the ecology of the planet, with the net result being overwhelming abundance of both beauty and resources, of meaningful relationships and a life well lived, with high fives and smiles all around. global civilization. This could mean a switch away from our current habit of squandering resources, and a move towards what my crew likes to call regenerative hedonism.

What exactly is this regenerative hedonism, you ask?

It’s a cheeky term for a serious idea, a new perspective

continuously. When our needs are fulfilled, we feel good. And when we feel good, well now, that’s pleasure. Pleasure is what the hedon seeks, and now we’ve set it up to regenerate itself continuously.

Let me give you a sampling of one of my ecologically positive feedback loops.

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As someone who gives a shit, I compost all of the organic matter that crosses my path, and usually beat a new path to even more. Once finished, I use this to fertilize, among many other things, my apple trees. Next, as a person who gives two shits, I harvest all rainwater and use this to irrigate, among other things, my apple trees. The apple trees grow, entertain many forms of life throughout the season, and produce loads of apples. I harvest these, and press them into cider. The bulk of this is fermented into hard cider. All the leftover apple schwag from the pressing is tossed into the compost pile, which

perpetuates our fertility cycle. The cider ferments, I invite friends over, we get a little drunk under the shade of the apple, and then we plant more trees. Next season looks even more promising, since we now have even more trees.

At the very least, we’ve entertained ourselves without electricity, products or media. There are smiles all around, and we are up to our elbows in accomplishment and abundance. We’ve diverted loads of organic matter from the landfill, creating fertility without importing purchased products. We’ve sequestered carbon and increased the diversity of life, both micro and macro, in my hard cider urban yard. We’ve sustained life in a harsh desert without tapping an aquifer. My crew is in the back yard, enjoying homegrown drinks, the space and

each other. We’ve accomplished things with friends and experienced satisfaction. We’ve designed this system to endlessly regenerate, in a way that builds soil, resources and relationships.

This is the driving force behind the philosophy of permaculture: It’s the realization that every one of us smart little monkeys has the capacity to be a positive force on behalf of the ecology of the planet, with the net result being overwhelming abundance. An abundance of both beauty and resources, of meaningful relationships and a life well lived, with high fives and smiles swiss chard all around. And we can have all of this without the guilt that comes from the all too common restrictive ecological harm reduction paradigm.

Permaculture is a design philosophy, a set of guidelines to help one make informed decisions. It helps you see the realities of your environment, and set a course of action, or inaction, that results in the best outcome for yourself, your environment and your community.

It is an observation of patterns, which allows us to design the systems that sustain us properly. Each system is designed for maximum interconnectedness with all of the other systems.

And with the right design in place, we get permanent culture, or permaculture. The end result is a beautiful city that harvests and stores its own fresh water, eliminates waste while boosting fertility, grows the majority of its own food, whose citizens feel connected.

Unfortunately, a lot of our current cities do just the opposite, shedding water and disposing of fertility, often while burning people out. It’s time to take the reins on this situation, and up our game. N

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verything that happens in the natural world happens in cycles, and tapping into these cycles is where the near effortless assimilation of abundance lies. Harnessing these cycles in the design phase diminishes ones’ workload dramatically in the long run.

Forcing our will on the natural world only breeds maintenance and frustration, and often poor results. In permaculture, there are a set of guidelines that helps us do this, by helping us asses our situation and act, or not, in an appropriate way. These are often referred to as the 12 Principles of Permaculture. Let’s take a look at them, and see how they can relate to our situation in the cityscape. Most important, think about how they relate to each other. And remember, even a small step in the right direction is still a step in the right direction.

The 12 Principles of Permaculture Design 1. Observe and interact This one seems so obvious that most folks move right onto the next number down the page, assuming they’re just naturally very observant. I’ve been guilty of this. But it’s time we slow our roll, people, and really observe established patterns. This is one of the hardest, and most important, steps. Presented with a blank slate to realize all of our pent-up projects, who can resist the urge to grab the tools and start building?

Someone who wants longterm abundance with a minimum of work input, that’s who. This observation includes the basics, like where the sunniest, hottest parts of your yard are, or where the water pools when it rains in spring. This also includes the patterns of your movement, and that of your neighbors.

Here’s an example of action before observation. When I was a teenager, I helped my father design a great backyard landscape, one that had all the elements that make up an attractive yard. The main pathway from the house through the back yard to the barn was installed in a way that we found stylish and pleasing. This pathway fit the landscape well, but unfortunately was not the way that everyone else was already taking! The new path was rarely used, and the landscape was trampled from the perpetual traffic of the older, albeit unsanctioned, route. Barriers were erected and plantings put up to prevent this, but they proved ineffective as everyone still took the most convenient, and shorter, route, which also took its toll on the plantings!

The moral of the story: Before taking action, observe.

Professional permaculturists will tell you to observe for a year, minimum, before taking action to alter an environment. Any modifications to an ecosystem are going to displace life, so make sure your action is pru-

dent and results in the longterm benefit. Once you have a solid period of observation, accept your observation, wait a while, and then revisit your initial plans with an open mind. If there is already a beaten path, chances are, that is the best route by foot. Stick with it.

This will save time, money and headache later. I’ve saved countless hours and piles of cash by picking up a wine instead of a shovel, and stopping to contemplate the project.

The yield is the reward for our inputs, the motivation for all of the hard work.

Rewards are the pleasure portion of the regenerative hedonism equation.

2. Catch and store energy You may say, “I can’t afford solar panels and a wind turbine!” Well, let me tell you, my friend, there is so much more to energy than electricity. Let’s take heat: Aside from light, of course, the sun produces heat, loads of it. Objects, especially dark-colored ones, heat up in direct sun.

The more dense this object is, the more heat it can store. This process is called solar gain, and can also work in our favor for cooling, but that’s a topic for another day.

While engaged in the previous step, I observed that the southfacing side of my house received the most sun, and the bricks on that wall were still quite warm after the sun went down. I noticed that on chilly nights if I sat close to this wall, I stayed quite warm. I also observed in

the past my tomatoes dying from an early frost, although it often went back to being quite warm for another month. The next season, I planted my tomatoes near the south wall of my house. By simply making an observation, and harnessing the energy I was already catching and storing, I now enjoy another month of tomato season. No extra work, no extra fuss, just passively harnessing energy.

3. Obtain a yield This is the engine that keeps the motivational juices flowing—that magical moment when you eat the first tomato that you’ve ever grown. Hasn’t happened yet? Try it. You deserve it. So earn it. In a bucket, on a balcony, if that’s all you have. Harvesting and eating something you’ve grown yourself is a level of satisfaction and accomplishment everyone should experience.

Aside from what we create, there are free sources everywhere, their yields begging to be harnessed. A passive solar home yields free heat, simply from good design. There are probably 50 fruit trees in your neighborhood alone whose bounty falls uneaten every season; their yield may be yours for the asking. All of the lumber you need to build those raised beds is lying unused somewhere, waiting to be repurposed.

Abundance is everywhere, and the more we harness it, the less superfluous supply we need to work to create.

The yield is the reward for our inputs, the motivation for all of the hard work. Rewards are the pleasure portion of the regenerative hedonism equation. Don’t forget, one of the reasons we are doing all of this is to pleasure ourselves.

4. Apply self-regulation and feedback Turn down the volume on that ego, and take a step back from time to time on any project, especially in the planning

phase. Get the input of your friends and neighbors. A group of average folks will almost always come up with a better solution than one highly intelligent individual, so sit down, smartass, and let that group magic do its thing. This also helps us make sure that our course of action is actually appropriate, and that the work to get there is worth it. It also is a great way to include friends and neighbors in the process.

And remember, while they are there they can also help you dig!

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Make sure to have a few extra shovels handy. That’s a Boss play right there.

5. Use and value renewable resources

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When we harness renewable resources, we are tapped into the abundance of the natural world. It’s amazing how many things most of us will purchase and throw away, but it’s equally amazing how many free and abundant resources we allow to pass us by.

Nowhere has this been more apparent than in my rainwater collecting. Gardening in the high desert, the occasional rainstorm can be quite satisfying as the soil and plants soak up the moisture after a weary dry spell, especially since that means we can skip our watering chores for a few days. However, once you start catching that water, it goes from satisfying to exhilarating! Many a June monsoon I’ve been found, drenched in the downpour, eagerly eying my cisterns as they fill. It is nearly impossible to get enough

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6. Produce no waste To be truly sustainable, everything must be reused, repurposed, or recycled. I’m no saint, I still have some garbage bags going to the curb, but it’s a fraction of what it was a few years ago.

The easiest place to slim down your waste stream is to quit buying disposable products, the second is to compost rather than throw away all of your organic matter. Organic matter accounts for around 50% of the average American’s waste, even higher once you factor in what you flush.

This includes almost all of the paper and cardboard you put into your recycling bin. Recycling is great, but keeping all of those resources on site is better! Paper and cardboard are portable trees, shipped indirectly to my compost pile.

If we want to take it up a notch, let’s help eliminate others’ waste streams. One of my favorite parts of living in the city is the sheer volume of compostable resources thrown out by restaurants, grocery stores and breweries. So while I strive to

GARDEN LIKE A BOSS little ones will tend to fall in place.

Draw a map, big enough to make sense of and sturdy enough to last for years. Mark your paths, the spots you like to hang out, and map the observations you made in step one.

Where are the areas you travel to daily? weekly? yearly? Where is the shade, where does the dog poop, what parts of the yard are trampled paths? Look at the patterns and map them. You’ll be amazed how quickly everything else falls into place.

8. Integrate rather than segregate Interconnectedness is the muscle that makes the force of nature so resilient and unstoppable. Think about how the systems will tie together, how all of your actions will interrelate. This is a great place to eliminate waste.

Here’s an example; We give all of our uneaten food to our chickens, and since I have a two year old, I also have some pretty plump hens.

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Diversity is the main ingredient in the recipe for stability.

That’s how nature works. storage capacity to handle all of the spring rain in the Salt Lake Valley even off of a garage roof!

Banking that abundance, I’m now wealthy in water for the months ahead, and rainwater is the highest grade of H2O. I’m a big fan of the high grade. No chlorine, no fluoride, just pure, clean water. (Of course I always divert the first flush of water to remove atmospheric pollutants, and never collect moisture after periods of inversion).

What I can’t catch, I divert into the landscape and retain it, to allow it to percolate into the soil. This water delivers itself to your property, but most poorly designed systems are built to shed this water and divert it from the property, out and away through storm drains.

Residents then purchase water to use on their landscapes. What a hustle! Don’t play that game. Design your spot to collect it, store it, and soak it up.

minimize my own waste by avoiding throw-away packaging and not buying disposable crap, I also do what I can to capture this massive amount of potential fertility. High-grade compost equals absolutely banging soil. Buying nutrients from the garden center is unimaginative and expensive, and often results in more packaging to dispose of. Hustling organic matter and restaurant waste, composting it and building soil— well that’s just some next level gardening, done like a boss.

7. Design from patterns to details We’re getting into the thick of the situation now. This guideline here is what separates great artists from mediocre ones, and it also applies to your garden, your home, and your special someone. This is about looking at the big picture.

Look at the overall elements, consider the goals, and design accordingly. Tackle the big items first; the

remnant organic matter, freesourced bags of leaves, and chicken poo are raked up weekly and put on the compost pile (waste to resource again) located adjacent to the coop (good design = less walking). Once pre-composted, that goes to the worm bin. The worms finish it off, and make more worms. The excess worms go the chickens. The compost provides fertility to grow more food, which now makes the trip back to the kitchen. It also provides food for the chickens. Win, wash, repeat.

You can gain friends, unharvested fruit trees, and even idle plots of land when you include your neighbors in the action. Turn your block into a fortress of abundance, and you’ll always have help lifting that random heavy object.

9. Use small and slow solutions We humans may be intelligent, but we’re also fairly hasty. We tend to act before we’ve really even thought

10. Use and value diversity Diversity is the main ingredient in the recipe for stability. That’s how nature works. A sea of similarity dulls the spirit. A mono-cropped field invites pests like an open bar.

I grow a wide range plants in my garden, both annual and perennial, and a diversity of varieties of each of those.

When a disease or pest arrives, they’ll generally favor one in particular. No worries, I brought backup. This is the strategy and strength of the natural world. This same rule also applies for inviting friends to be part of your Burning Man camp.

Don’t forget to include the wild as a component of your diversity. It’s easy to get carried away in a small urban plot, and every nook and cranny gets put into production. The best designs leave a portion of the property to remain wild.

11. Use edges and value the marginal In permaculture, the edge refers to where one thing encounters another. This is where the water meets the bank, or where the lawn meets the driveway. The edge is where systems interact with each other. When we design our garden beds with curves and irregular angles, we create more edge, which creates more planting space, as well as more diversity. When we plant next to sidewalks and boulders, plants have access to stored water under these masses. When we move our gardens to the front yard, this abuts it to the public space, and we get more action. And everybody loves getting more action.

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through our ideas to the end, and in doing so it’s easy to do too much, too fast. You’ve heard that saying, “The simplest answer is usually the correct one.� Well, the best thought out strategy often employs the least amount of work, done over a longer period of time. Dramatic changes to a landscape are rarely as effective as subtle ones. Passive systems always outlast anything with moving parts.

A note on that slow solution: It pays to sit on your ideas for as long as possible before action. The main advantage I usually gain from this is it a) stops me from doing very exciting, but very stupid things (occasionally), and b) it gives me plenty of time to scavenge all of my materials for cheap or free. With enough lead time, nearly everything you need can be freesourced. My current aquaponic system is built almost completely from salvaged materials, and it is a beast. The 2,700 sq/ft greenhouse it resides in was built entirely from salvaged materials, the only purchase being the greenhouse film.

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pens at the near surface of the soil. Where the underside of the composting top layer meets the upper surface of the soil below it. This meeting point is the duff, and is where the most microbial action occurs, where the most nutrient rich layer is. Next time you apply compost, don’t mix it in, you’ll minimize the duff layer. When you apply deep mulch, you are providing a long-lasting, self perpetuating duff layer, and applying protection at the same time.

Good job, using protection! Plants’ feeder roots will seek out this layer in the soil, and it is par-tee time.

12. Creatively use and respond to change All designs are subject to random forces that can crash the party, but the best of them roll with the punches, absorb the disruption, and harness its energy. If that force destroys something, you know how to build it better next time. If it destroys it again, maybe it’s not appropriate for your region. If something requires too much maintenance, redesign it.

I’ll take you back to my initial observation story: After a period of dealing with the trampled path thru the landscape, the white flag was waved and we accepted the usage of the preferred pathway, and removed obstructions. A few years later, when we redesigned the front yard, the basis of the design was achieved by recognizing the established traffic patterns. It divided up the yard beautifully, and our natural actions were enhanced by a landscape that catered to our movement patterns, imbued with beauty and considerably less thirsty for water in the desert than before.

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Be open to change, embrace your failures, and before you know it, you’re winning most every time.

Permaculture is on the rise for a reason. Its power is rooted in practicality, its essence is simplicity.

By stopping to observe and by designing well, we can maximize outputs while minimizing inputs.

By shifting our paradigm from doing less harm to doing more good, we can fully enjoy our role as stewards on the planet.

By making careful, calculated decisions, we can harness more abundance with less work, all while being fulfilled and entertained.

By working with the natural cycles and attuning ourselves to the resources that sustain us, we can leave the world better than we were born into it.

So let’s grow this thing, live it, and love every minute of it. N James Loomis runs Onsen Farm, a geothermal powered winter farm in southern Idaho. With a knack for merging biology and mechanics, he also teaches regularly, focusing on aquaponics, deep organic technique, and various urban permaculture disciplines. By night, he can be found making crowds wiggle and bounce performing as dj illoom.

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ong before Jesus turned water into wine, perhaps as far back as 9000 BP, humans were making and drinking beer, or at least something similar. The brew has seen changes. Crack open a beer from 10th century England or 12th century Germany, for example, and most drinkers would immediately notice something missing. Hops.

The rhizome first sprung up in central Asia over 10,000 years ago. By piecing together ancient folklore, we can trace human cultivation of the crop as it left Asia and moved into the area now known as Romania, where is was considered a delicacy and eaten much like we eat asparagus today. Early Europeans also cultivated hops for its medicinal qualities. The plant was valued as a natural sedative— an effect anyone who has harvested hops can attest to— and used for liver problems.

Cultivation of hops continued to spread until, by about the 8th century, everyone from the Vikings to the Hungarians used the plant. In France, tenant farmers used it to pay rent to the monasteries. Meanwhile, with some rare exceptions, people still hadn’t thought to combine hops and beer.

Instead, flavor came to early European beer from gruit, a mysterious and changeable herb mix made of bog myrtle, rosemary, laurel leaves, alder bark, juniper twigs, acorns, mint, sage, ginger, anise, ground ivy, wormwood, yarrow, sycamore sap or other plants including henbane, a poisonous nightshade with psychoactive properties. Some attribute the horrific Medieval images of hell to beer-induced hallucinogenic trips.

The distinction for the first hops use in beer goes to the French Carolingian abbot Adalhard of Corbie in 822 AD. Written down in abbey books that year are clear instructions for the preparation of hops for the brewing of cervisia. Still, the idea didn’t catch on until about the 14th century. Then, the rise of large-scale beer production required a transition from gruit to the more efficient, highly productive and easily grown hops.

As an added bonus, brewers found that hops acted as a preserving agent. High-alcohol-content beers with lots of hops were soon being shipped long distances, say from

England to India, where they arrived perfectly ready to drink. Thus, the India pale ale was born.

Today’s modern brewers can choose from more than 120 hop varietals. Popular varieties, like Cascade, Centennial and Chinook, are available, dried and ready, at homebrew supply stores. Hopheads are also experimenting with growing their own.

Hops grow well in Utah. According to Fritz Kollmann, horticulturalist at Red Butte Gardens, growing hops in your backyard doesn’t even require a green thumb, just a homebrewer’s will. Kollmann offers some tips to make your garden-to-brew experiment a little easier: Start your plant from a rhizome, or rootstock, just like asparagus and raspberries (certain varietals are for purchase each spring from The Beer Nut on State St.). Plant while weather is still cool and wet. Bury your rhizome to a depth of one to two inches. Mulch with straw, leaves or grass clipping to preserve moisture.

You can also try starting your plant from a cutting of an existing hop. In spring, take the tip of a vine, tear off the leaves and bury, tip down. Use rooting hormone to give it an extra boost.

Hops are hardy. They enjoy full sun, but will grow under most conditions. They like nitrogen and will appreciate some nitrogen supplements. They have no specific soil preferences or requirements. They do like water. In their first year, as roots get established, water plants frequently (two to three times a week) but for short durations. After their first year, less frequent but deep watering is preferred.

Drip irrigation is an excellent choice for watering hops.

Hops are a fast-growing vine. Each year they will grow from a sprout to 20 feet tall in about six weeks. Give them a sturdy trellis or fence to climb, away from smaller, delicate plants.

Hops should produce cones their first season and will produce more in subsequent years as the plant matures.

Expect about two pounds of dried hops per plant.

Hops can live a long time, sometimes as long as 20 years.

The plants will self-propagate by moving roots underground, but they are easy to control through seasonal pruning or by digging up volunteer shoots that establish outside the planted area. N Katherine Pioli is a Catalyst staff writer.

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• The space between rows is less (less unnecessary space to weed, more space for gardening).

• berries (strawberries; cane types such as raspberries, blackberries, gooseberries, currants; elderberries) • rhubarb • grapes • fruit trees/shrubs • asparagus • sunroot/sunchoke (Helianthus tuberosus; formerly called Jerusalem artichoke)

Make room for permanent plantings of perennial fruits & vegetables in your garden:

Edible perennials

• More plants remaining after thinning (more intensive planting, possibly to accommodate vertical strategies).

• Fewer seeds to plant per foot (resulting in less thinning).

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Fred Montague says interplanting makes fuller use of garden resources (e.g. shallow-rooted plants with deep; short shade-loving plants with tall sun-loving ones). It also offers some protection and encourages plant yield.

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References and influences: Fred Montague, Gardening: An Ecological Approach (Mountain Bear Ink) Mel Bartholomew, Square Foot Gardening (Rodale) Toby Hemenway, Gaia’s Garden: A Guide to Homescale Permaculture (Chelsea Green) Louise Riotte, Carrots Love Tomatoes (Storey)

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Store in a cool, dark, dry place. Plant more densely than you would new seed.

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pringtime signals blooming bulbs, veggie planting and for me, lots of requests from students for yoga poses to counteract the effects of gardening.

Shoveling, squatting, kneeling and bending over—the forms your

BY CHARLOTTE BELL • Kneeling: Kneeling can be a good alternative to squatting. If kneeling is your position of choice, definitely use a kneeling pad. They’re available at most gardening stores and websites.

• Bending forward: Bending for-

Getting on your mat for some simple stretching after you’ve finished for the day can help, too. body has to assume to get your garden ready for planting—all take a toll, especially when we likely haven’t been doing these things much over the winter. Here are some tips on how to minimize the effects of some of gardening’s most popular positions:

Making the most of motions in the garden

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• Shoveling: One problem with shoveling is that it’s asymmetrical.

Most of us have developed a habit of always using the same foot to press on the shovel, so we always toss the dirt in the same direction.

Try giving equal time to each side.

Shoveling on your less-utilized side may be a bit awkward at first, but it could help alleviate some of the overuse problems that can come from shoveling.

• Squatting: Not everyone can squat. Some people’s knees don’t flex deeply enough, while others’ ankles are constructed in such a way that they won’t bend past 90 degrees, so their heels won’t touch the ground. If you want to squat, but your heels won’t touch the ground, try elevating them by wedging a kneeling pad or two under them. That way the balls of your feet won’t have to support all your weight.

ward is the best alternative for people whose knees have limited motion. When you bend forward, bend your knees and extend your tailbone back so that your femur heads move back in their sockets, and your pelvis and spine can move together. Don’t do any heavy lifting from a forward bending position.

Poses to practice in the garden Gardening is not unlike sitting at the computer for long stretches.

When you sit at a computer for hours at a time, it’s important to stand up, walk around and stretch a little at regular intervals—every 10 to 15 minutes. The same is true in gardening. My observation over the years is that my students who garden feel most of the subsequent stress in their low to middle backs.

Yoga can help, but not just while you’re on your mat. Try weaving some yoga breaks into your gardening practice.

I like to incorporate movements that counteract the effects of the flexion inherent in all the above positions and move the spine in all its other possible directions—

extension, rotation, lengthening and lateral bending. Here are some suggestions for poses you can practice while you’re in the garden. Stay in each pose for five to 10 deep breaths: • Palm Tree Pose (extension and lateral bending): Stand with your feet hips width apart. Raise your arms up toward the sky. Separate your arms to about a 45-degree angle. Grounding your feet lean back and open your heart to the sky, reaching out through your arms. Let your jaw open and drink in your breath. Come back to neutral standing. Raise your arms toward the sky and grab your right wrist with your left hand. Grounding your right foot, bend to the left. Repeat on the other side.

• Wall Dog (lengthening): Stand in front of a vertical surface—a fence, shed, garage or your house. Place your hands on the wall in front of you. Walk your feet back or forward so that they are directly under your sit bones. Press into the wall to extend your sit bones back. You may need to walk your hands up the wall to feel a connection between the hands and sit bones.

• Revolved Triangle Prep (rotation): Stand about six to 12 inches from your wall, facing away from it.

Separate your feet to about a leg length apart. Turn your right foot 90 degrees to point forward. Move your left foot another eight to 12 inches away from the wall and turn it to face forward, as you turn your whole body to face forward (toward the right leg). Descend your left heel (it’s okay if it doesn’t touch the ground) and rotate your entire leg— ankle, shin, knee, thigh and pelvis— inward so that the entire leg is in agreement with itself and with your pelvis. Now rotate your upper torso toward the wall and place your hands on the wall to help you turn.

Adding these movements into your gardening practice should help alleviate some of the aches and pains that can arise later on. You can play with how to incorporate them, sometimes doing all of them in succession, or doing one or two at a time. Getting on your mat for some simple stretching after you’ve finished for the day can help, too.

Taking care of your body during and after gardening will set you up for another glorious day in the dirt. N Charlotte Bell is a yoga teacher at Mindful Yoga Collective, an author of two books, and plays oboe with the Salt Lake Symphony and Red Rock Rondo.

She lives in Salt Lake City.

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ENVIRONMENT

The Biocentric Brothers

he Biocentric Brothers, Chase and Kyle England, are by now familiar faces in the Salt Lake food and farm scene. Natives of Layton, Utah, they began selling locally grown medicinal and culinary mushrooms at the Salt Lake Downtown Farmers Market in 2012.

Recently Chase England stopped by CATALYST to share some exciting news. After three great years in business, Bio Brothers is expanding their operations.

The first big step came this past winter when Chase and Kyle moved their mushroom nursery into a new 4,000-square-foot warehouse in Ogden. Eventually, the space will double as a salesroom. As adaptable as their product, the brothers have come a long way from the hoop houses where they once grew their prize fungi.

The new high-tech warehouse has specialized rooms designed to give the mushrooms the best growing environment possible. In the fruiting room, which looks like the mushroom equivalent of a cheese-aging cave, portable shelving units hold stacks of mushrooms logs, orderly rows of little brown loaves wrapped in plastic bags waiting to bloom. Catering to the tastes and whims of another variety, an adjacent room holds hanging plastic columns filled with mushroom Softwoods often have anti-fungal chemispore-inoculated straw.

With all the extra space, cals and bacteria that inhibit mushroom the brothers expect to growth. But growing mushrooms in an arid boost production from 3050 pounds of mushrooms region filled with softwood forests isn’t a week to around 100 pounds per week. While impossible. They survive, says Chase, by grow most prolifically, fungi some of the bounty will be creating protective and supportive myceli- have no choice but to make available at their market their beds in decomposing softstall, more customers will um networks and working symbiotically wood. They survive, says Chase, also be able to sign up for by creating protective and supa Bio Brothers’ mushroom with other organisms in the soil. portive mycelium networks and CSA, the first of its kind in working symbiotically with Utah. The Bio Brothers “Caring for mushrooms is like takother organisms in the soil. sold their first 25 shares last winter ing care of an animal or any other To keep their business as sustain(full and half shares starting at $50) farm thing,” Chase explains.

“You do able and local as possible, Chase and and look forward to selling twice as have to be attentive to the plant’s Kyle try to use growing mediums for many this coming summer. needs, morning and night, but the their mushrooms that come from the As the new, expanded Biocentric good thing is, there’s no one right local environment—you won’t see Brothers gets on its feet this sumway to grow a mushroom.” any mushroom plugs growing in mer, Chase promises that there is Mushrooms grow primarily on hardwood logs at their warehouse. It one thing the brother’s won’t hardwoods—trees like maple and does limit what they can grow to change: their commitment to eduoak, which don’t grow naturally in mushrooms that are better adapted cation. Eager as they are to grow the west. But mushrooms are also to Utah’s growing environment, mushrooms for others, they remain very adaptable. Growing in an arid mushrooms like enkoi, lion’s mane, equally excited to teach people how region filled with softwood forests king oyster, reishi and shiitake. to grow their own. It’s a public eduisn’t impossible, even though soft“Lion’s mane is definitely my cation campaign that, surprisingly, woods often have anti-fungal chemifavorite,” says Chase, who compares needs a lot more work. Chase says cals and bacteria that inhibit mushthe stringy texture and sweet taste of he still hears the same question room growth. In the Uinta the mushroom to crab meat. Without everywhere he goes: “Isn’t Utah too Mountains, where Utah’s mushrooms the super pungent fungal notes, lion’s dry for mushrooms?”

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mane is a preferred mushroom for those who normally don’t like fungi.

But it’s the aesthetics of lion’s mane, which has teeth instead of gills, that really gets Chase excited. Starting from a small round ball, the lion’s mane’s teeth begin to grow like short hairs until, at full maturity it resembles a cheerleader’s pompom or a piece of white coral.

“You won’t find this Asian mushroom in the grocery store,” says Chase, “because it doesn’t hold up well to travel. Fresh is the only way to get it.” Just another reason to be thankful for Utah’s Biocentric Brothers. N

BIOCENTRICBROS.COM: The brothers recently launched a new website.

You can read their blog, sign up for their CSA, discover mushroom resources and learn more about their grow operation.

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50 Ways to Go Green: A Simple Guide to Becoming Eco-Conscious, by Caroline Chabert and David Turner (Deckopedia)

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hen this unusual deck of cards found its way into my hands, I immediately chose four cards and set myself a goal to follow the green tips for a week. Here’s what I pulled: #9 Stop Unsolicited Mail, #12 Reduce Your Water Consumption, #28 Use Your Cruise Control (improve gas mileage by 15%) and #29 Drive The Speed Limit (prevent the release of over 1,000 lbs of CO2).

Card #9 turned out to be simpler than I’d imagined. I registered online for mail preference service offered by the Direct Marketing Association (WWW.DMACHOICE.ORG). It stops companies from sending you unwanted, wasteful mail.

And the whole process takes about 10 minutes. So long junk mail! The free app PaperKarma (WWW.PAPERKARMA.COM) also stops unwanted mail. Just download the

In the kitchen Easy, Affordable Raw: How to Go Raw on $10 a Day, by Lisa Viger (Quarry Books, 2014)

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iving into this recipe book, by the raw vegan food blogger Lisa Viger, was an adventure beyond flavor. For example, Viger’s apple stacks seem simple enough—there is an apple and some nut butter of choice—but Viger recommends making the nut butter yourself. That step requires about two days of preparation: soaking the nuts overnight, drying them in the dehydrator for another

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app and snap a photo of your junk mail.

Voila. They’ll unsubscribe you.

It wasn’t as easy to see or feel the immediate impact from the following three cards, but I did find myself becoming increasingly mindful as I incorporated these changes into my routine. I timed my showers to the same four-minute song.

Cards #28 and #29 went in my car visor and

Two useful reference books

cup holder to remind me of my driving pledges. Making the cards visible was key to changing my old habits. By consciously engaging with these activities I began to

hold myself accountable for other small daily tasks—putting scraps in the compost bucket, bringing canvas bags to the grocery store.

The deck is easy to use. Color coded by category—at home, with electricity, when buying—each card opens with a rationale, proceeds with a concrete action to be taken, and finishes with relevant trivia. The cards’ statistics are used effectively. Trivia like, “an Energy Star certified dishwasher saves about 5,000 gallons of water every year when compared to hand-washing dishes,” reinforces why these changes are essential. Did you know that if just one in 10 households in the U.S. chose paperbased cotton swabs—where the spindle is made from paper instead of plastic—the petroleum conserved by this action would be more than 7,800 barrels of oil?

The advice in 50 Ways to Go Green can be pretty basic – turn off unnecessary lights, minimize paper use – but it reminds us that changing our simple, daily routines can make an impact.

— Clare Boerigter

day, then aggravating the tenant next door with 20 minutes of food processor shrieking, all for a smooth nut butter. The recipe’s other ingredients, should you choose to make them at home, required an equal amount of time and effort—the date paste begins with dates soaked overnight and the almond milk is homemade by, once again, soaking the nuts overnight, blending them, and filtering the liquid through cheese cloth.

These are not impossible feats but they certainly don’t make for a quick on-the-go breakfast experience. That being said, I would do it all again. There is a satisfaction that comes from having a hand in every

step of the long, complicated process that amplifies the already rich taste of the final product.

To commit to this cookbook, you must be prepared for a serious investment of time, effort and money. Perhaps the more discriminating shopper can manage to do this on $10 a day, as she claims, but I am not that shopper. What you will get in return are high-energy foods that can realize your dream of eating healthfully and with pleasure. If, on the other hand, you are interested in ease and alacrity, I would suggest sticking to the smoothie section with easy, delicious recipes such as Hemp and Carrot Berry Smoothie and Cherry Chocolate Layered Smoothie.

-— Maggie Hippman

By consciously engaging with these activities I began to hold myself accountable for other small daily tasks.

Forgotten Skills of Backyard Herbal Healing and Family Health, by Caleb Warnock and Kirsten Skirvin (Hobble Creek Press, 2015) The latest in Caleb Warnock’s Forgotten Skills series is an herbal manual in the old Mormon tradition, updated for today. The authors exhort us to take back responsibility for our own health, instead of letting health insurance corporations and the sorry state of the standard American diet dictate how we fall sick and how we treat our illnesses.

Warnock’s primer is a short-list of useful herbs, with instructions on where to get them, how to prepare and preserve them, and dosing advice from master herbalist Kirsten Skirven.

The Allergy Fighting Garden: Stop Asthma and Allergies with Smart Landscaping, by Thomas Leo Ogren (Ten Speed Press, 2015) Ogren’s book is a quirky little reference manual that rates almost every common landscaping plant according to its potential for causing allergies.

The author is on a mission to expose and remedy “sexist landscaping” that greatly increases the pollen count in most urban areas, as male trees have been marketed and sold to landscape designers as “litter-free” trees for many decades now.

Ogren’s solution hinges on planting your landscape with female trees—these produce no pollen and also actively remove pollen from the air—and filling the rest of your garden with lowpollen plants. Planting an allergyfighting garden may not cure all of your springtime woes, but replacing that male silver maple outside your bedroom window with a female one may certainly help a great deal.

— Alice Toler

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COMINGS & GOINGS

What’s New Around Town

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Find a parking place, report a pothole A free mobile app has been designed as a convenient way to help Salt Lakers report non-emergency civic issues directly to the city government—quality of life and environmental issues such as potholes, burned-out streetlights or city pipe leaks.

You can snap a picture of the situation you’re reporting and track your service request from your smart phone.

Created by the Salt Lake City Department of Public Utilities, SLC Mobile uses CitySourced GPS technology to locate your requests. Other features include interactive mountain bike and walking trail maps, bike

loyal celebrity clientele including retired Utah Jazz player Mehmet Okur, who is Turkish. Sounds of Balkan languages among the staff and guests echo through the restaurant, making you feel as if you weren’t in Utah for a second, save the silly Utah liquor laws and licensing headaches.

Karajic is excited about a new tapas menu he’ll be serving between lunch and dinner: small plates such as ceviche and quesadillas to go with selections from the new bar menu including Chianti, Reisling and even good old Modelo.

Senad Karajic will host a special celebration of his newly acquired license April 4. Details to follow online.

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MOLLYSNIPPLE.COM: an outdoor magazine for adventurous women Our assistant editor, Katherine Pioli, has started her own online publication that spotlights women in outdoor sports in Utah and the West. She digs into local environmental issues, spotlights women athletes, and overall celebrates our experience of the natural world from a personal perspective.

Having grown up in Utah, Pioli is an avid outdoor enthusiast, marathoner, bicyclist, skier, trail runner and urban homesteader with her husband, Ben Bombard. All of these experiences enrich the information she shares with us, both here at CATALYST and now also at MollysNipple.com. (The online publication gets its name from the actual cartographic names of seven geographic landmarks in Utah.)

Pioli has been writing for CATALYST since she interned with us in 2008, with summers off to work as a wildland firefighter for the U.S. Forest Service until last year. She also teaches at the Salt Lake Arts Academy.

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University panel displays energy savings Last summer the University of Utah Marriott Library became the seventh building on campus to receive solar panels.

Last month a new student-formulated awareness project was unveiled. Grad student Tom Melburn came up with an “electronic dashboard” to provide a daily reminder of the process taking place out in the sun by displaying real-time information about the solar array’s energy output. The board also converts the energy output data

into understandable terms, showing just how many barrels of oil the panel-produced energy is replacing.

The library’s system of 37.8 kilowatts (126 300-watt panels grouped into six arrays) provides enough energy to power five to eight houses for a year—still a small fraction of the electricity needed to power the well-lit library. But the electronic dashboard goes a long way toward making solar understandable, and maybe inspiring the next generation of students to take it to the next level.

share and City parks locator, downtown parking and electric vehicle charging stations locator, a calendar of events powered

by Visit Salt Lake, public utilities bill payment, and even current job listings.

Taqueria 27 opened a sleek new downtown location directly west of Beer Bar and Bar X in March, offering patio dining as well as later kitchen hours than their Holladay and Foothill locations.

Owners Kristin and Todd Gardiner have been taking tacos to another level at Taqueria 27 for three years now. Todd, who is also the chef, got his culinary start in fine dining. “You can put all sorts of fun

Search ‘SLC Mobile’ on any smart phone app store.

Atlantic Café: license to celebrate Just in time for patio dining season, Main St.’s Atlantic Café finally got a beer and wine license.

Senad Karajic acquired the restaurant last August. Originally from Bosnia, he came to Utah from Chicago. Although ownership has changed many hands over the years, Atlantic Café still serves authentic and delicious Mediterranean food with

stuff in a tortilla. All [our] food is just fine dining in a tortilla.” Can you imagine a taco of ground bison, grilled pears & roasted beets, or a slowcooked ribeye over roasted corn and garlic mashed potatoes?

Besides the new location, they’ve added more gluten-free options, and will bring in some new tequilas and mezcal to the cocktail menu.

Tacqueria 27, 149 E. 200 South. Open till 10pm, and till midnight on weekends. WWW.TAQUERIA27.COM

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Reserve a park pavilion now!

Want to party in a park? Salt Lake City park pavilions may be reserved in these parks: Fairmont, Jordan, Liberty, Lindsey Gardens, Poplar Grove, Riverside, Sherwood, Sunnyside, Washington and Westpointe. Pavilions are available from Monday, April 13 through Sunday, October 11, 2015.

Pavilions in Salt Lake City cost $43 ($52 for non-residents). Half-day (8 a.m.-2 p.m. or 3 p.m.-10 p.m.) prices are available for Liberty Park and Washington Park (Parley’s Canyon) pavilions.

Kathleen Bratcher, owner/proprietor of fun & frolic consignment shop in Sugar House, is also a professional massage therapist.

In addition to her many specialties, she received her Traditional Usui Reiki Master level in 2003. But after 22 years, Bratcher is retiring her massage practice.

Bratcher worked on community leaders, local business owners and touring musicians. She taught in the professional development program at Utah College of Massage Therapy from 2000-2005, where she was the keynote speaker at two student convocations. She has made many friends during her career and will miss the massage profession.

Former clients can still visit her at Fun & Frolic, 2066 So. 2100 East. WWW.MYFUNANDFROLIC.COM

48-Hour Film Project registration begins April 7 Filmmakers from all over the state will have 48 hours, the weekend of June 1214, to create the best short film. The event kicks off at Broadway Center Cinemas Friday, June 12. The winning film will compete against films from around the world for the title of the “Best 48-Hour Film of 2015.”

Early bird registration, April 7-May 18, is $140.

Visit 48HOURFILM.COM for more information and to see previous year’s submissions.

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We love saying “hybrid perovskite photovotaic cells” (and they lower solar costs) Another solar breakthrough came last month from the University of Utah.

Researchers from the University, along with collaborators from the University of Texas at Dallas, published findings in the journal Nature Physics about their work with hybrid perovskite solar cells. While we don’t clearly understand even the dumbed-down scientific speak in the press release (“applying a magnetic field makes it possible to glean clues about the behavior of electrons and ‘holes’ in semiconductor compounds…”), what we can gather is that these developments may lead to lower-cost solar panels in the near future.

The hybrid perovskite photovoltaic cells, while still less efficient than regular silicon cells at converting sunlight (20% vs. 26%), can be produced at “a fraction of the cost.” This research opens the doors to greater efficiency for these less inexpensive solar cells.

Real food on U of U campus The University of Utah recently became the largest school in the country, and the first in the Pac-12, to commit at least 20% of its food-purchasing budget to “real” food by 2020—up from its current rate of 11%.

The nationally organized Real Food Campus Commitment is a boon for those wanting

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Suzanne will be in Utah for appointments: healthier, more sustainable options on college campuses. The plan is to shift $1 billion of existing college food budgets away from industrial farms to a more communitybased, ecologically sound model.

U of U staff and students are working together to make this a reality, including

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Amy Wildermuth, chief sustainability officer; Reggie Conerly, Dining Services director; Kathleen Hunt, Dining Services sustainability coordinator and doctoral candidate; student (and now president of the Real Food student group) Will Schott, who organized the challenge last year; Adrienne Cachelin, Sustainability Education director; and Erin Olschewski, sustainability ambassador with the Sustainability Resource Center and vice president of the Real Food Challenge. “This commitment is just the first step in what will be an ongoing evolution of student-led movements for sustainable changes,” says Olschewski. We like the sound of that!

Found a bird?

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In the season of baby birds, some invariably fall from nests where we see them and wonder what to do. A chart from Healers of the Wild, by Shannon K. Jacobs, can be found on the Tracy Aviary website that helps you figure out your best option.

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A few scenarios: If the bird has no feathers and you can find the nest, put the bird back in the next. If it has feathers and is in an area safe from pets and people, leave the area; a baby’s best chance for survival is its mother. However, if you are the bird’s last resort, the chart tells you how to best nurture the baby.

Due to the sensitive quarantining of exhibit birds, Tracy Aviary cannot accept any wild birds, injured or otherwise.

If the bird is injured: Wildlife Rehabilitation Center of Northern Utah, 801.814.7888.

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Tea Zaanti yet another “quit your boring job” success story “It started in Thailand,” says owner Brian Murphy, who had been working as an audit accountant when the idea hit him: Bring responsible tea to the community and promote peace on many different levels. Tea Zaanti started in 2009 as an online wholesale tea business, and last October celebrated the grand opening of its retail store and café in Salt Lake’s East Central neighborhood.

The clever “TeaZer wall” invites visitors to sniff all the varieties of tea available.

There are pastries, a pleasant place to study or meet, and a display of local visual art, with weekly music and poetry soon.

Zaanti means “peace” in Thai. Murphy’s goal is to make the shop’s footprint as small as possible. He sources from small, responsible farmers, uses loose leaf tea, composts the tea leaves and decorates his shop with charming upcycled goods.

“I loved accounting, but auditing just didn’t feed my soul,” says Murphy. “I used to say, ‘I have to go to work today.’ Now I say, ‘I get to go to work today.’”

Tea Zaanti. 1324 So. 1100 East. Mon-Thu 10-7, Fri-Sat 10-5, Sun 10-3. Parking in back.

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customer service and general office management; a community relations coordinator; and a freelance graphic designer for ongoing needs and special projects.

If you are interested in any of these positions, submit a resume, cover letter and design portfolio (if applicable) to KRISTEN@LOCALFIRST.ORG. LOCALFIRST.ORG.

Local First is hiring

Hub & Spoke Diner opens at former Finca site

Local First, the champion of local, independently owned businesses, has part time employment, internships and freelance opportunities available for talented, committed lovers of the the “local first” movement. They are looking for an operations manager to assist with web admin,

Hub & Spoke Diner has opened in the lively, comfortable space that Finca recently vacated in Salt Lake City. Scott Evans, owner of Finca, Pago and East Liberty Tap House, explains that he envisions Hub & Spoke as a neighborhood restaurant with “a unique take on

the all-day diner with a casual, but modern interpretation.”

Hub & Spoke features an affordable, whole-family menu that reinvigorates comfort food with global influences and local, completely fresh ingredients. You can order classics like Caesar Salad, Chicken Pot Pie and shakes.

Or travel a bit with Tonkatsu, Chilequiles or a Breakfast Bahn Mi sandwich.

Pastries baked from scratch and breakfast— pecan waffles, shrimp and grits, pound cake French toast (with lemon curd and blueberry maple syrup—yikes)—are served all day.

Hub & Spoke Diner. Open Monday-Sunday 7am9pm. Beer, wine, spirits and boozy shakes available. 1291 So. 1100 East. 801.487.0698 WWW.HUBANDSPOKEDINER.COM

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UCAIR, with Chevron, is holding a gas can exchange on April 11. Bring in your old can and go home with an environmentally

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The event will be held at the following locations from 9-3p. on April 11: Salt Lake City: Chevron, 2100 S. at 300 W. (just south of Costco and Underfoot Floors). Provo: 1200 Towne Center Blvd.

Layton: Davis Landfill, 1997 E. 3500 N. Ogden: Chevron, 1855 Skyline Dr.

iPods for Shakespeare Do you have an unused iPod lying around? Our beloved and renowned Utah Shakespeare Festival can put it to good use. They need iPod Touches, fifth generation or later, with any amount of memory.

They’re getting new scanners and software which will enable them to issue print-at-home tickets and scan them at the door.The scanner and software operate on the Apple iPod Touch.

If you can help, box up your iPod, include your name and address, and send to: Utah Shakespeare Festival, Attn: iPods for the Festival, 351 W. Center St., Cedar City, UT 84720

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SHALL WE DANCE?

Steampunk Cinderella

A ballet and an opera, too, at the Universtiy of Utah

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he tale of Cinderella is over 1,000 years old. Versions of the story have been found all over the world and even today it is one of the folktales most often told and re-told. One reason Cinderella is still popular after all these years is, like all folktales, it’s a powerful metaphor

BY AMY BRUNVAND practical girl persevering and winning a share of the power,” not a dishrag waiting to be rescued by magic.

Cinderella gets blamed for princess-obsessed little girls (e.g. Cinderella Ate my Daughter: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Girly-Girl Culture, by Peggy Orenstein), and for encour-

Kim’s contemporary take finds a Cinderella story in ballet itself. that means different things to different people.

Folklorist Jan Yolen, writing in the 1983 anthology Cinderella: A Casebook, says Americans love the rags-toriches aspect of the story, but they have it all wrong: Cinderella is a “shrewd and

aging unrealistic romantic fantasies in women who should know better. But really, to call something a “Cinderella story” usually means that someone who has been unfairly neglected has finally got the success she deserves.

So, even if you have already seen the Walt Disney animated Cinderella (1949) and the new Walt Disney live-action Cinderella (2015), there is always room for more Cinderellas. In fact, the sugar-sweet Disney versions practically demand an antidote to the passive heroine who has to be rescued by mice.

This April, everyone’s favorite princess tale will make two appearances at the University or Utah, both as a full-length story ballet and also as an opera. This is an opportunity to see two different interpretations with a twist. The two student productions share artistic elements. Both use steampunk design inspired by the theme of ticking clockwork gears

combined with the aesthetic of 19th-century Paris; both use the same gorgeously painted backdrops selected in a student competition; and both include the same ballet dream-sequence.

The Utah Ballet version of Cinderella (April 3 & 4) uses the familiar music by Sergei Prokofiev but other than that it’s all brand new, including original choreography by University of Utah ballet professor Jong-Hoon “Jay” Kim. Kim, Originally from South Korea, Kim also heard Asian versions of the Cinderella story while growing up. “There are a million different versions of Cinderella,” he says, “But we want to do it in a contemporary way.” Kim’s contemporary take finds a Cinderella story in ballet itself. Like Cinderella, dancers, he says, “are always hoping to go to the ball. If you are living a good life, even with evil forces around, the final outcome has to be a good one.”

The dancers will have brand new costumes reminiscent of the ones in the musical Wicked, thanks to a $17,200 grant from the Thomas D. Dee II Endowment. Due to the expense of costumes and the like, the University of Utah puts on a full-length ballet only every two years or so, and these performances are especially ambitious. Brent Schneider, Chair of the Ballet Department, is particularly excited by the student collaboration. The ballet cast alone includes 60 dancers accompanied by a 65-piece student orchestra. “Playing for a live ballet is wildly different from playing for a symphony,” Schneider says.

“A symphony is the artistic vision of the conductor.

Ballet adds the artistic vision of the chorographer.”

Art students in Professor Kim Marinez’s mural class designed the hand-painted backdrops used in both the ballet and opera productions. Selected from over 100 submissions, the three final designs were handpainted on giant canvases spread out on the floor at the Utah Opera

warehouse. An art exhibit of backdrop design submissions will be on display at Kingsbury Hall during the performances. University film and media students and modern dance students have also been hard at work behind the scenes.

After seeing the Utah Ballet production, don’t pass up tickets for the opera Cendrillon (April 24-25).

You’ll see some of the same steampunk artistic elements, but in a completely different artistic vision. The music for Cendrillon is by French composer Jules Massenet, played live by the Utah Philharmonia Orchestra and sung by students in the Lyric Opera Ensemble. Massenet’s comic opera hasn’t been performed before in Salt Lake City, but, its delicate, ethereal and witty music was extremely popular in its day.

The two Cinderella performances are more than just an educational opportunity for U of U students; they are a gift to the community, says Schneider, who worries that K-12 students lack critical exposure to live art. He hopes the community will take advantage of the offering. “Arts education is especially important in the junior high age group,” he says, “because that’s when kids start forming their adult personalities.”

So, get tickets for yourself and take the kids. These Cinderellas are no Disney princesses; this is about immersing yourself in art. N Amy Brunvand is a librarian at the U of Utah and a dance enthusiast

Utah Ballet: Cinderella.

Kingsbury Hall. April 3 & 4.

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Tickets: General public, $20; U students free with Arts Pass (U ID); other students: $10.

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April 24 & 25, 7:30p.m.

Tickets: General public, $20; U students free with Arts Pass (U ID); other students: $10. Kids under 18, free.

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Naomi Silverstone, DSW, LCSW FOG 801.209.1095, 508 E. So. Temple, #102, SLC. 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.

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Modalities include EMDR, EFT, mindfulness, feminist/multicultural. Individuals, couples, families. WWW.HEALINGPATHWAYSTHERAPY.COM Integrative Psychology, Shannon Simonelli, Ph.D., ATR 5/31/15 385.202.6447. Serving adolescents & adults using Art Therapy, embodied awareness/movement, brain based shifting, imagination, symbol and dialogue for well-being, practical skill building and healing. Specializing in parenting, teen issues, ADD/ADHD coaching, trauma, life transition, dealing with the borderline in your life and being happy. Holladay office or video-conference.

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Stephen Proskauer, MD, Integrative Psychiatry 10/15 801.631.8426. Sanctuary for Healing and Integration, 860 E. 4500 S., Ste. 302, SLC. Steve is a seasoned psychiatrist, Zen priest and shamanic healer. He sees kids, teens, adults, couples and families, integrating psychotherapy and meditation with judicious use of medication to relieve emotional pain and problem behavior. Steve specializes in creative treatment of identity crises and bipolar disorders. STEVE@KARMASHRINK.COM. Blog: WWW.KARMASHRINK .COM Sunny Strasburg, MA, LMFT 2/16 Web of Life Medical Offices, 508 E. So. Temple, Suite 102, SLC. Sunny Strasburg, MA, LMFT is a licensed marriage and family therapist specializing in Jungian psychotherapy. Sunny has completed training in Gottman Method Couple’s Therapy. Sunny meets clients in person at her office in Salt Lake City. She also has a national and international clientele via video Skype.

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n a culture that scorns judgment, comparison between two things is often declared the jurisdiction of the Lord.

Not so at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art (UMOCA), where holdings of Utah’s two main collecting agencies—the State of Utah and the LDS Church— are laid bare for all to see. Church vs. State: Contemporary Collecting Praxis, curated by Felicia Baca and Laura Hurtago, opened in February and runs till April 11.

Levi Jackson’s 2014 photograph Pearly Gate

Continuing the trend for museums to turn the spotlight inward and examine their own institutional navels, the show ultimately begs the question: Which offers Utahns the bigger bang for their buck: taxes or tithing?

On the side of the State, works by Adam Bateman, Brad Slaugh and Amy Jorgensen stand out against an essentially unremarkable group of works. In particular,

Tax or tithe? Church vs. State at UMOCA

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Jorgensen’s hypnotic Red Delicious (2003) video presents the artist staring into the camera, as an apple swings just inches from her face. With blonde hair and bright lipstick, the artist stands as a prototypical everywoman or Eve, while her gingham shirt and braids reference the pioneer heritage that perpetuates her patriarchal shackles.

Contemporary art has often been accused of isolationism. For non-Mormons, one would expect contemporary Mormon art to be even more cryptic and inaccessible. And yet, in Church vs. State, the opposite is true. Though restricted to doctrinal subjects (you won’t find works here extolling the virtues of gay marriage or gun regulation), one encounters a more experimental approach to materials and tropes.

Mark Hendengren’s 2011 photograph A Church Member Cleans the Ward, Gunlock Utah captures an elderly cowboy, pillar of the American West, in an endearingly reverent moment. Levi Jackson’s 2014 photograph Pearly Gate promotes an interpreta-

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state and federal support. In Utah, where tion of “heaven on earth.” Unlike convenprivate collection is also diminutive, the tional depictions of paradise, replete with LDS Church appears to be in the ascenfauna and flora, Jackson locates heaven in dancy. Whether the Church and its artists Utah Valley: both pristine and desolate. will reach the soaring heights of their Finally, Daniel Everett’s 2014 Untitled peels European counterparts, which have comback the outer shell of the (usually sacrosanct) Provo Tabernacle Temple to reveal its soft white underbelly: consisting of profane construction materials usually seen at a construction site.

I can only imagine the impact of this exhibition on young Mormons, as the works showcase a new generation of up-and-comAdam Bateman’s Glen Canyon Dam ing artists who upend the missioned works such as Anthony Caro’s saccharine clichés of the Mormon cultural Choir of Light at Bourbourg or last year’s establishment. The significance of the exhibicooperative installation of To Be In Limbo tion for non-Mormons (such as myself) is in a Viennese Jesuit church, only God also noteworthy. It suggests change within can say. N the ranks of an institution that exerts a nearstranglehold upon the cultural life of the city.

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A philosophical play on modern Mormon polygamy Plan-B Theatre Company’s 2014/15 season of new plays by Utah playwrights concludes with the world premiere of Pilot Program by Melissa Leilani Larson, a play she calls “a supposition.” Toward the end of 2012, she asked herself what one thing would make her consider leaving the LDS Church. Her answer was the restoration of polygamy. So she wrote a play about it.

From playwright Melissa Leilani Larson: Writing is a selfish act.

I’m a writer; I’m a selfish person. I write for myself—to be moved and edified in the creative process. Naturally, I hope that I can lead an audience to a similar experience, but the genesis of a play usually comes out of a question I’m pondering. I write stories that, in the telling, change and inspire me.

The idea for Pilot Program has been percolating for several years. I remember having dinner with a friend back in 2008 and casually bringing up the idea: What if the LDS Church were to bring polygamy back

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into practice? It sounds crazy enough on a global level. But how would it work on a micro level? How do two people successfully add a third to their love story? Or do they even get that far?

My friend was not impressed. He thought I was being liberal and subversive. That I wanted to be edgy and controversial.

Asking questions, even within Mormonism, is not subversive. Asking questions is the beginning of everything. But I didn’t know how to crack the story open, so it stayed on the back burner.

In 2013, I was invited to attend The Lab at Plan-B. I was in awe of the playwrights gathered there and the raw, new work being read. Then there was a day when Producing Director Jerry Rapier said to me, “You know, you’re going to have to bring in a play.”

I may have been a little dumbfounded when he said it. Couldn’t I just go on being a fly on the wall? But The Lab is for writers, and I call myself one. I was expected to play, and I wanted to prove myself. Plan-B is not the place for an Austen adaptation, so I’d have to bring something new.

The polygamy idea resurfaced. I wondered about how Abigail and Jacob, happily married, could justify bringing a second wife into the mix. I thought about myself, a single Mormon woman in her 30s, and how I would react to a proposal from a married man. It was easy to say “No.” In this fictional scenario, I decided to explore what would happen if I in fact said “Yes.” I became Heather, Abigail’s former student and Jacob’s second wife.

I wrote in pieces that summer and fall, bits of scenes and quick exchanges. At first I thought about how I would react and speak in a given situation. But then the characters began to take shape, and they answered for themselves. Abigail took over.

It was her story, and I let her tell it. We were friends at dinner, talking, when she decided to confide in me.

In December 2013, my chronic bronchitis flared up. I lost my voice and coughed for weeks. All I wanted to do was sleep. But I had a deadline: My first draft was due in advance of my Lab reading. I thought about leaving Pilot Program behind in favor of another piece. Oddly enough, my bronchitis didn’t let me be sidetracked by nerves or philosophical arguments. Worktime was precious. I took the scenes I had drafted and stitched them together. I filled holes and cut stray lines. I reordered and revised. The first draft came very quickly and before Christmas I had a play. Despite the fog of DayQuil, I recognized three characters sitting in the front of my mind: Abigail, Jacob and Heather. Three very real people I had pulled into this crazy experiment along with me. It was as if they had been there to begin with.

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April 2015 There are times to be safe. Now is not that time.

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BY SUZANNE WAGNER Osho Zen Tarot: Stress, Existence Medicine Cards: Blank Shield, Horse Mayan Oracle: Tranformer, IX Ancient Egyptian Tarot: Eight of Swords, King of Swords Aleister Crowley Deck: Ruin, Happiness, Prince of Disks Healing Earth Tarot: Four of Pipes, Six of Shields, Temperance Words of Truth: Expansion, Authenticity, Mastery

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pril starts with a Libra Lunar Eclipse on the 4th. Libra is all about relationships. Emotional challenges, memories long buried, are surfacing. There are moments when you know you’re at an impasse: You can’t go forward but you can’t go back, either.

There may seem to be no way around a particular situation.

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You wil be required to do something unexpected, something different, and something outside your usual box of tricks.

This can be that moment when your past no longer holds you back: An unswerving deter-

to your essence to take up space and to include more of who you are in the external world. There are times to be safe. Now is not that time. Let go of whatever apron strings you are still hanging on to and become powerfully autonomous and accountable.

When you act with integrity, things do not always go smoothly. But at the end of the day your integrity will carry you through. If it is right, your heart knows. If it is right and you act in alignment with that, then you know that even if the universe takes you out of the game, you still have your honor intact.

That is very important this month.

Do not act from a place of wanting another’s approval, for you may not get it. When you know the truth in your heart, regardless of circumstances, you will always find the way.

Real magic manifests when you understand that the transparent power of the magician reveals the light of the will of the Divine. Let go of what you think and bend to the power of the will of a force much greater than you. Let your spirit become the window that shines the light for all to see. In that surrender there is no you, only a force of love so bright that it heals all who see it.

Look into the eyes of others; and I mean really look. Let them see all of you and let yourself see all of them. mination to see something through will clear the picture of chaos and stress.

This month you have no time for feeling reflective or muddle-headed. It is time to choose. No more excuses. You have the power, once you decide that you have the power.

Magic happens when you claim it.

Vision happens when you sit in quiet acceptance and ask to see the truth.

Wisdom happens when you embrace your beneficial use of will.

You are magic and magic is your birthright, but your presence in the here and now is what allows it to happen.

You are the answer to the questions you seek. Examine your motivations and actions.

What causes you to respond to certain situations? Does that response work? Is it time to try something else?

When you believe in yourself, your energy naturally expands because you give permission

Expansion is possible, authenticity is what you are seeking, and mastery is the result when you accept all of who you are in this moment. Be gentle with yourself. Take time to go to healers and get the energy that will help you shift. You may feel battle weary, but are still awake and willing to discover the hidden potential power lurking in the shadows.

In the present you will find groundedness if you ask for it. Look into the eyes of others; and I mean really look. Let them see all of you and let yourself see all of them. Join energy through the eyes and exchange the wisdom and understanding that comes from whole souls meeting. This will give you what you need to open. N Suzanne Wagner is the author of numerous books and CDs on the tarot and creator of the Wild Women app. She now lives in California, but visits Utah for classes and readings frequently.

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