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ENVIRONEWS AMY BRUNVAND Environmental news from around the state: You need to know this.

EATING THROUGH THE SEASONS ALISON EINERSON The 100-mile Thanksgiving: Source your holiday locally!

SLIGHTLY OFF CENTER DENNIS HINKAMP The little dog that saved the day.

CLIMATE: GLIMPSE OF AN AWAKENING WORLD VAUGHN LOVEJOY Only mass social movements can change us now; are we capable of changing the course of history?

GARDEN LIKE A BOSS JAMES LOOMIS Build good soil with these overwintering techniques.

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CLIMATE: FOSSIL FUEL— KEEP IT IN THE GROUND PAUL WICKELSON A campaign encourages natural history museums to divest.

NIGHTTIME JAZZ AT KCPW KATHERINE PIOLI Steve Williams, Utah’s own legendary walking jazz brain trust, is back on the air—at a new station.

TRANSGENDER ALICE TOLER Therapy, drugs and surgery offer hope to those suffering from gender dysphoria.

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inholdings in the Wasatch Mountains. Even though a bill to reauthorize LWCF would have easily passed with bipartisan support, Bishop simply sat on the bill and let the fund expire on September 30. Bishop says he merely wants to reform the LWCF and accuses “special interests” of trying to hijack LWCF to “continue to expand the federal estate” (by “special interests” he seems to mean citizens who enjoy public lands recreation, not industrial special interests that lease public lands for mining, oil and gas, cattle grazing and such). Bishop and other opponents of LWCF claim that the federal government should not buy

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Tim DeChristopher calls for end to public lands oil leasing Climate justice activist Tim DeChristopher, who famously went to prison for protesting oil and gas leasing in Utah in December 2008, has become the public face of a coalition of activists who are calling on President Obama to end all new fossil fuel leasing on public lands. DeChrisopher is a cofounder of the Climate Disobedience Center, a new organization with a mission to “provide logistical, legal and spiritual resources, on-the-ground assistance and advice to climate activists engaged in civil disobedience across the country.” Scientists say burning existing reserves of the world’s fossil fuels would lead to a 200 ft. rise in sea level. The obvious way to avert a crisis is “keep it in the ground.” CLIMATEDISOBEDIENCE.ORG

Ski resorts demand climate change action Ski Utah, the marketing arm of the Utah Ski & Snowboard Association, is getting worried about the effects of climate change. A letter to Utah Governor Herbert warned that a predicted four degrees of warming by the end of the

new public land since there is already a deferred maintenance backlog on existing public lands. It is true that as of September 2014, the National Park Service alone had a deferred maintenance backlog of more than $11 billion, but the shortfall is because the U.S. Congress has refused to adequately fund parks, not because the parks are unmanageable. Since 2011 the so-called “sequester” has triggered harmful automatic budget cuts which caused the federal government shutdown in 2013 (and incidentally demonstrated that national parks are essential to Utah’s economy). LWCF Coalition: HTTP://LWCFCOALITION.ORG

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Bear River dam permit denied The federal government has recommended denial of a permit for a 109-ft.tall hydroelectric dam on the Bear River in Idaho. That’s good news for the Great Salt Lake ecosystem (and Ski Utah as well) since Bear River is the largest tributary to the lake. Great Salt Lake is currently at record low levels, and Utah’s snow pack (our drinking water) and ski industry depend on lake-effect snow.

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ome days are doomed. Road construction has slowed traffic to dial-up modem speeds, young people are surly because they are back in school, you’re getting work-related emails at 10 p.m. and the St. Louis Cardinals are blowing a nine-game lead dropping three of four to the last place Reds. These are all First World problems, to be sure. It would be easy to melt into a self-pity puddle. Then you see this furry black blur run by at hubcap height at the intersection of 200 South and 1000 West. I’ve never understood why there is so much traffic at mid afternoon in Logan, but there is. So this would seem like a death dash for an unleashed micro-mutt. There is nothing all that urgent or meaningful waiting for me at the end of my drive so it only takes about 1.4 seconds to decide to turn right and follow the developing drama. I am not alone; all manner of people are stopping to chase a little dog because, heck, it has to be more meaningful than what we were all headed to. The anonymous black pooch is now running down the middle shared turn lane on the four lanes of 1000 West with tongue out in an apparent hurry to get to or away from something. A couple others and I park and take chase on foot. Men and women are jumping out of cars everywhere along this half-mile stretch, trying to grab the dog or standing in front of muscular trucks to stop them from creating canine road kill. The dog, though crazed, definitely has been working out because neither I, a long time runner, nor much younger crazy people seem to be able to catch up. So we run back to our cars and try to head the dog off farther up the road. Several of us, including a Logan City truck make illegal U-turns and park in inappropriate spots in hot pursuit. Finally, the dog makes its first miscalculation and runs into a fenced yard. I grab it by its girly looking collar and the chase is over. I hand it/her over to one of the other pursuit vehicles that promise to take her to animal control to get checked for an identification chip. The dog is saved along with 30-50 human strangers who went home with a great story and a feeling of accomplishment. Dogs are our best imagined selves and are perfectly designed to trigger our empathy. It was a good week for dogs. We really can be better human beings; sometimes it just takes a dog to make us do it. ◆ Dennis Hinkamp very much hopes all these stories have happy endings.

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Glimpse of an awakening new world Only mass social movements can change us now; are we capable of changing the course of history?

BY VAUGHN LOVEJOY

n September 15, I welcomed my new grandchild into the world. As I gazed into his eyes, which seemed to focus on some other mysterious plane, the last vestiges of my denial about the future of our world, the world he had just entered, shattered. In spite of the noble efforts of many wonderful caring individuals, humanity is not coming close to making the fundamental changes necessary to save Earth from rising temperatures, melting glaciers, dying forests, rampaging wildfires, extreme weather events and the extinction of countless species. We have been insane enough to ignore the increasing number of scientists who publicly acknowledge the approaching irreversible threshold of climate change. We have lost our deep sense of being part of a sacred living cosmos. Looking at my grandson, I felt all of these realities no longer separate and outside of me but acutely within my heart. The necessity of breaking out of denial as the beginning step toward healing addictive patterns is universally acknowledged in countless stories of

Tuesday, November 10 Award-winning journalist and author Naomi Klein will be the feature Tanner Lecture speaker at Salt Lake Community College. Klein’s works such as The Shock Doctrine and This Changes Everything, along with her long career as a journalist and columnist, will fuel the kind of Tanner Lecture experience that has made the series a sought-after event for the community. 7-8:30pm. SLCC Grand Theatre, 1575 S. State St. Free.

recovery. How, then, can we break out of climate change denial and begin a global healing and transformative journey? I believe some critical components to the answer to this question can be found in Naomi Klein’s critically acclaimed new book, This Changes Everything. Klein writes, “…the thing about a crisis this big, this all-encompassing, is that it changes everything.… One of the reasons climate change is so deeply frightening [is] because to confront this crisis truthfully is to confront ourselves— to reckon...with our vulnerability to the elements.” Only mass social movements, she argues, like the civil rights movements of the past, which changed for entire societies the sense of what was possible, can save us now. While we should acknowledge that the visions of social

We realize we are capable of awakening a new world and we discover as Gandhi did that “there is force in the universe, which, if we permit it, will flow through us and produce miraculous results.”

Tuesday, November 17 On Tuesday, November 17, the Federal Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is putting on auction nearly 74,000 acres of Utah public lands for more exploratory oil and gas drilling. According to 350.org, we already have five times more known fossil fuel reserves than can safely be burned if we wish to avoid global average temperatures rising above two degrees centigrade. Gather in front of the BLM offices, 3 Gateway Bldg, 440 West 200 South, at 8:30 a.m. People are encouraged to bring pictures of their children or grandchildren.

movements —led by people like Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., and Nelson Mandela—have not been completely fulfilled, they certainly changed the course of history for the better. Are we capable of similar change now? In 1983, I had a chance to visit with Dr. Paul Ehrlich just after his book Extinction: The Cause and Consequences of the Disappearance of Species had been released. I asked him if he thought there was any hope of preventing a mass catastrophe. I have never forgotten what he told

me. “We need a quasi-spiritual revolution, similar to what Gandhi accomplished in India in order to save this planet.” How did Gandhi start a nonviolent revolution that not only liberated India from the most powerful nation on Earth but inspired the likes of Martin Luther King Jr., Cesar Chavez, Joanna Macy, the Dalai Lama, Thich Nhat Hanh, Desmond Tutu and so many other social activists? I think Thomas Merton, whom Pope Francis expressed his admiration for in his recent address to the Joint Session of the U.S. Congress, gave an illuminating answer in his book, Gandhi On Non-Violence. Gandhi, wrote Merton, “realized that the people of India were awakening in him. The masses who had been totally silent for thousands of years now found voice in him....But the message [was] not for India alone. It was for the entire world. Hence Gandhi’s message [represented] the awakening of a new world." When our hearts break open deeply enough, as mine did upon the birth of my grandson, the world with all of its joys and sorrows enters and becomes part of our very being. We realize we are capable of awakening a new world and we discover as Gandhi did that “there is a force in the universe, which, if we permit it, will flow through us and produce miraculous results.” Gandhi demonstrated the power of these teachings to transform the world as no one else has in modern history. Gandhi demonstrated that this love is not passive; it stands courageously to protect the humblest and most downtrodden of beings. At this time those beings are our children, grandchildren and future generations of countless other species. When we allow our hearts to break open, we can discover the love and courage necessary to liberate ourselves from collective denial. This awakening is already in its early birthing stage. The emerging global climate justice movement 350.org is a leader of this awakening. Of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris, France November 30 through December 11, 360.org writes, "We want to have the last word as the climate talks conclude and we’ll get it by speaking in the language of movements: by putting tens of thousands of people into the streets of Paris and making sure business as usual cannot proceed as long as world governments fail to do what’s needed. If enough people agree that it’s time for the world to move in a new direction, and push together, the world will begin to move.” ◆ Vaughn Lovejoy was a cofounder and then project coordinator of TreeUtah for 20 years. He is now retired and lives at Wasatch Commons Cohousing Community.

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Memo to the Museum: Fossil fuel—keep it in the ground

n This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate, author Naomi Klein cites Lakota solar engineer Henry Red Cloud: “He tells his students that there are times when we must accept small steps forward—and there are other times ‘when you need to run like a buffalo.’” When it comes to averting the worst impacts of climate change, it’s time to run like a buffalo. With international talks coming up in Paris in December, we have a challenging road ahead of us. Six years ago, in Copenhagen, world leaders agreed to limit global warming by two degrees Celsius. But while scientists tell us that achieving this goal means keeping 80% of proven fossil fuel reserves in the ground, companies still spend billions of dollars looking for new sources. The upshot? Fossil fuel companies, aided and abetted by an economic system that sanctions profit over and above human well-being, should be stigmatized as rogue actors. Let’s start putting our money where our values are. The Keep It in the Museum divestment petition, an affiliate of the acclaimed activist organization 350.ORG, is encourag-

ing five American natural history museums that are leaders in sustainability to divest from fossil fuel stocks. Their list includes our Natural History Museum of Utah. To that end, they and the campaign’s local affiliate, Fossil Free NHMU, are encouraging our museum to divest from fossil fuel companies.* This is not an attack on the museum. I have two young boys, and we started attending the museum the week it opened. We love its beautiful architecture, its thought-provoking exhibits, and its celebration of critical thinking. But precisely because the museum stands for science and humane culture, we want to give its leaders a chance to stand up for these values. Science tells us that the earth is warming, that climate disruption is largely humancaused, and that people, especially the poor, will have terrible problems if we keep burning carbon. Over 55,000 people have signed the nationwide petition. On November 10 at noon, the public is invited to join Naomi Klein and Fossil Free NHMU to deliver the petition to the museum’s executive director.

Klein, who will speak at the event and again that evening at SLCC, makes a counter-intuitive argument: that climate change is not simply a problem, but perhaps our best opportunity to build a better world. The documentary This Changes Everything, based on Klein’s book will be screened at the Salt Lake City Main Library on December 5. Together, we can stop making baby steps and start running like buffaloes. It’s about time. ◆ —Paul Wickelson Paul Wickelson has a PhD. in American Studies from the University of Utah and is co-founder of the Fossil Free Utah Natural History Museum Divestment Campaign. To sign the petition: BIT.LY/206I4HI FOR MORE INFO: GOFOSSILFREE.ORG/MUSEUMS/

*Editor’s note: Executive director Sarah George tells us NHMU is the state’s museum of natural history, assigned by statute to the University of Utah. As part of the University, it does not have an investment portfolio separate from the University’s. According to Erika George (no relation), U of U law professor and co-director of the Center for Global Justice, $43 million (approximately 7% of the University of Utah’s current holdings) are in the energy sector; names of the specific companies or institutions and return on energy investments are unknown. The better recipient of this petition might be the University’s Investment Office and its advisory board. However, there is a moral case to be made for engaging the Natural History Museum of Utah. “Educational institutions must be understood to have special obligations with respect to future generations,” says Erika George. If the museum and its supporters, as well as faculty staff and students, declare they want no part of fossil fuels, it could stir a dialogue—and perhaps a decision to investigate alternatives. Considering coal is our state rock, and our legislature includes climate change deniers, that would be a highly successful outcome.

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Untangling Transgender

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From the transgender actress Laverne Cox on Orange Is The New Black to the famed transformation of Bruce Jenner to Caitlyn, the spotlight is on gender identity and transgender issues right now. This is no fabrication of the popular media; transgender people really are everywhere. And the culture is scrambling to play catch-up.

BY ALICE TOLER

EVE ALAS (ALSO PICTURED ON THE COVER):

“I'm an artist, I was on a successful career path in the military that was cut short.I like to skydive and dance. I have so much life experiences that there are very few things I could say have not happened to me or that I haven't tried. That can make life feel a little dull.”

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he number of Americans who report knowing a transgender person has doubled in the past seven years. An estimated 700,000 Americans (0.3% of the population) are transgender, with a full 1% of millennials (those born 1980-2000) identifying as such. What does it mean to be transgender? I’m a really friendly and openminded person —but I was shocked at my own vertigo upon realizing that not only was one of my good friends transitioning to a different gender, but a niece of mine— now my nephew—was, as well. I felt like my sense of reality had been totally upended. How was it that other people’s sense of themselves could be so different

from my perceptions of them? I hadn’t realized how much I just didn’t know. I decided the best way to begin to understand the transgender experience was to hear people’s stories. My nephew Kyle and three transgender friends of mine (Henry, Eve and Dominique) all talked with me, as did therapist Breeze Hannaford, LCSW, who works with transgender people at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs; also Dr. Rixt Luikenaar, a local surgeon who specializes in transgender medical care and who is also the mother of a transgender child.

Gender vs. sexuality Most of us were raised in a culture that conflates gender and sexuality, and sees only strict binaries in both of those

areas: In gender, you are either a man or a woman. In sexuality, you are either gay or straight. Even though transgender people are usually identified with the gay population, as in the common acronym LGBT, being transgender isn’t at all the same thing as being gay. Homosexuality and heterosexuality are terms that define who you are attracted to, but transgender describes who you are in yourself. If you are a man attracted to other men, you are gay; but if you have a man’s body but you feel like you are really a woman, you are transgender. There is also no absolute relationship between gender identity and sexuality. A transgender man attracted to women will still be attracted to women even if

he starts to present as a woman. This can be hard to wrap your head around, but there’s more: As with sexuality, gender has its spectrum. Just as you can be bisexual or even asexual, you can also be genderqueer (somewhere between male and female) or even without gender. The younger generations—digital natives who have always been able to compare notes over the Internet—have much less of a problem than the over-40 population handling these concepts. Indeed, the experience of being transgender has been profoundly different for Kyle, 19, than it has been for Dominique, 59. How do you know you’re transgender? The transgender people I talked to

The word “transgender” didn’t even exist until the 1990s. “In those days there was no difference between gender identity and sexuality,” says Dominique. “You were just a sexual deviant, and they wanted to find some kind of pill to fix you.” all knew that there was something different a cultural emphasis on gender conforming. about them, even as little kids. There’s someOnce hormones start to kick in, though, things times a perception that transgender people quickly get serious. make a “choice” to be that way—but this is not Until very recently, transgender kids had no how they experience things. As my nephew choice but to go through the body changes that Kyle puts it, “Being Nicole never felt right to their genetics dictated, and for many this felt me. It felt like I was backed into a corner. I intolerable. It’s at this age that suicidal ideation knew when I was at least five, because I remembecomes common among transgender people. ber running around the house saying ‘I’m a These days, transgender kids have the option of boy! I’m a boy!’ and my siblings making fun of being treated with hormone blockers that delay me for it.” puberty long enough for them “I knew when I was four or to really consider how they feel, five that I was different,” says and to fully understand the KYLE TOLER: Eve, 34, who was assigned male consequences of medical transiThe author's 19 year old gender at birth. “I knew there tion: Surgery to become transnephew, Kyle, hails from was something I had to hide, sexual is irreversible, and Tampa and is on a because I had behaviors that results in sterility. pre-med track at adults were correcting me over. While still debated in the Hillsborough On my sixth birthday I asked if medical community, the stanCommunity College. I could have a pink dress, and I dard of care is that suppression was punished for asking! I of puberty should be offered learned that whatever the reawhen the long-term conseson I asked and wanted the quences of delaying treatment dress was what was wrong with are likely to be worse than the me, and that part of me had to likely long-term consequences be squashed.” of treatment. If your kid is franHenry, 43, grew up in a tic and self-harming at the idea deeply Mormon household in of going through puberty, the Utah. “I was adopted but generkindest thing is to delay puberally fit in and had a pretty carety and to take them to therapy free childhood. My family was to help work through things. dysfunctional in many ways, Generally, a strongly gendernothing over the top. But I was dysphoric child can be put on always different. I attributed hormone blockers at the first most of my feelings of being out signs of puberty, usually around of place to the adoption thing age 11. Around age 14, if they for many years. I did have a lot are still strongly dysphoric, they of ‘tomboy’ behaviors: I premay be offered replacement horferred BMX racing to Barbie, and I played war mones. Many of the body changes that replacewith stick guns with the neighborhood boys ment hormones create are reversible if the child and got into fist fights. I was not interested in goes off hormones, but some (like breast develplaying house or any of the other activities that opment) are not reversible without surgery. little girls gravitate towards.” Finally, surgical intervention can be appropriDominique, 59, is part of the transgender old ate for some transgender people once they reach guard. Growing up male in a Brigham City adulthood and have been through thorough family of eight kids, she knew she was different. counseling to confirm their ongoing dysphoria. “In Mormon-speak I was a sinner, and I was Transgender kids now have a chance of having these temptations—that’s all I knew. I avoiding the trauma of going through a puberty played sports and was a really active kid, but I that will only magnify their bad feelings about remember getting caught sneaking into my sistheir bodies, but older transgender people had ters’ clothes and getting the crap beaten out of no choice and often no real concept of what me. I remember my mom breaking a broomwas happening to them, because they didn’t stick over my head!” have language to describe it and had never met Things have gotten easier for transgender anyone else like them. kids over the decades, but it has perhaps always In fact, the word “transgender” didn’t even been a little easier for trans boys than it has for exist until the 1990s, and Eve and Dominique trans girls. Our culture accepts “tomboy” girls both report that they didn’t know there was much more blithely than it accepts “sissy” boys. such a thing until they were adults. “I always thought it was some kind of a curse growing Gender dysphoria up, because of the temptation to cross dress and the religious judgment I had,” Dominique says. Puberty is a particularly rough time for trans “I was 27 before I even heard the word ‘transpeople. Up until that point, all little kids’ bodies look largely the same, and there is much less of Continued on the next page

Glosssary of terms The profusion of terminology around trans issues can be confusing, and the myriad ways that transgender people present themselves and identify can be even more disorienting to those of us accustomed to having only two genders, male and female. Here are some useful terms and their definitions: Homosexual, gay, lesbian, bisexual, heterosexual, straight: These well-known terms describe sexuality and sexual attraction. Although sexuality is part of your identity, it isn’t descriptive how you experience yourself in your body. Being transgender has nothing to do with being gay! Being gay is about who you are attracted to. Being transgender is who you are. It is possible to be asexual and also be transgender. Transgender: A term describing people who experience their sense of self as a different gender from the one assigned to them at birth. Cisgender, cis: Describes people who identify as the gender they were assigned at birth. Transsexual: A transgender person who has undergone a medical transition to be the gender they identify with. Trans man (or transman): A female-to-male (FTM) transgender person. Trans woman (or transwoman): A male-to-female (MTF) transgender person. Trans (sometimes written trans*): An umbrella term that refers to all of the identities within the gender identity spectrum, including those that do not fall into the gender binary. Transitioning: Starting to present on a regular basis as a gender different from the one assigned to you at birth. Gender binary: The arbitrary system of strict male and female identities in culture. Many trans people do not fit into the gender binary. Genderfluid: An identity that refers to a gender which varies over time. A genderfluid person may at any time identify as male, female, without gender, or any other non-binary identity, or some combination of identities. Genderqueer: An umbrella term which can be used to describe any gender identities other than man and woman, thus outside of the gender binary-imposed by society. Gender dysphoria: The deep psychological distress experienced by a trans person who feels alienated by the physical gender of their body, and who is expected by society to present as cisgender. Asexual: The lack of sexual attraction to anyone, or low or absent interest in sexual activity. It is also considered the lack of a sexual orientation alongside heterosexuality, homosexuality and bisexuality. Asexuality is not the same as voluntary celibacy, in which a person with a sex drive decides not to have sex. Asexuals are not interested in sex. Drag Queen, Drag King: “Drag” is descriptive of over-the-top costuming and performance as the opposite gender, usually as part of a show or festival. Transvestism, transvestite: “Transvestite” literally means “cross dresser.” It does not necessarily mean that the person performing the cross dressing has gender dysphoria. Intersex: People who are born with ambiguous genitals are intersex (this was formerly known as hermaphroditism). This is not the same as being transgender—transgender people are born with normal genitals, but feel themselves to be a different gender. "Top” surgery: Mastectomy (removal of breasts) for transmen. "Bottom” surgery: Phalloplasty (surgery to construct a penis) or metoidoplasty (clitoral repositioning) for trans men, or orchiectomy (removal of the testes) and vaginoplasty (surgical construction of a vagina) for trans women.

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Father, Civil Rights Activist, Sales Consultant, Corporate Trainer, Writer, Feminist, Educator, Actress. Dominique Storni was reared in a devout Mormon family. Her life has been filled with travel, education, jobs, teaching, tragedy, affirming and healing experiences. She was married for 17 years and fathered six children. She transitioned from male to female and has lived as a single mom since 1996.

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sexual.’” [A transsexual is a transgender person who has undergone a medical transition to be the gender they identify with.] In those days there was no difference between gender identity and sexuality. You were just a sexual deviant, and they wanted to find some kind of pill to fix you.” For Eve, things were similar: “I didn’t find the word ‘transgender’ or any other people like me until I was in my 20s. I would dress in secret, purging often— that’s when you get rid of all the clothes you’re not supposed to have. Finally, I wanted to be myself so badly that I made a new Myspace account as a female, and I found similar people… cross dressers, drag queens and so on… but after a few months I met a girl named Kathy and I knew I was like her when she told me what she was: trans-

gender. I was shocked. I didn’t want it to be real. I studied and researched, because I wanted to make it go away, to fix myself.” Kyle, at 19, has a different life course in front of him than his older peers had at his age. He’s had parental support and acceptance from his high school friends and the adults around him. “Even my teachers have supported me in ways that amaze me,” he says. “When I was running for prom king, I had one teacher I really liked, but I didn’t want her to sign the paper for my campaign because I didn’t want her to get in trouble. She said to me, ‘I don’t care, I’ll go to bat for you and you know it, too!’ I loved that, and it meant so much to me.” Acceptance for Henry, Eve and Dominique was a much longer time coming. Henry lived for years as a les-

bian, where his butch behavior wouldn’t mark him out as different, and found some refuge in that community. Dominique, a good Mormon boy at the time, went on a mission, came home, got married and had six kids.

Transgender and the military Eve took a common route in trying to manage her dysphoria. “The Army came along when I was at the end of my high school career, doing their recruiting, and I thought wow, this might fix whatever’s wrong with me! Because of course I didn’t know there was such a thing as transgender until years later. So I joined up, and went to basic training during the first summer after I joined.” Breeze Hannaford, an LCSW who works with trans veterans at the VA, says that Eve’s reasoning is pretty typical for transgender people, both trans men and trans women. “For trans women, the military is seen as an organization that’s going to ‘make them a man’ because of the emphasis on conformity and hypermasculinity. For trans men, too, it’s attractive because it’s one of the few places in society where they can be as masculine as they want. They can cut their hair short, act like a dude, and nobody’s going to look at them sideways because acting that way just means they’ll be a better soldier. By percentage, there are five times the number of trans vets than there are transgender people in the general population, so you can see that the military is very alluring to them.” According to the National Center for Transgender Equality, at least 134,000 U.S. military veterans identify as transgender (that’s about six out of every 1,000 vets), and more and more of them

“There are five times the number of trans vets than there are transgender people in the general population,” says VA therapist Breeze Hannaford, LCSW. (and their civilian cohorts) are coming out of the closet. “In general, trans people enter the military because they crave community, and also because they have a very strong need to be of service to a community,” says Breeze Hannaford. Of course, the ideal of joining the military and the actuality are often quite different. “Trans women who presented a bit more effeminate have been more likely to be a victim of some kind of assault while they’re in the military,” Breeze continues. “And then they would blame the part of themselves, their ‘trans-ness,’ for the attack, rather than blaming the perpetrator or the environment in which that kind of attack was permissible. Trans women who don’t present effeminately often suffer a different kind of trauma, where they will volunteer for absolutely the most dangerous missions possible; partly to prove masculinity, and partly because there’s a death-wish because of the dysphoria and they think ‘at least I can die a hero this way.’” Unfortunately, Eve was one of those trans women who suffered an assault. “I tried really hard to fit in, but the military is so conformist, and they could just tell I was different. I was a good soldier, though, and good at defending myself. I got attacked a lot of times, but

in a one-on-one situation nobody ever got the best of me. However, finally, when I was posted in Colorado, a group of soldiers drugged me and then tied me down and tortured me. I remember them yelling ‘don’t ask don’t tell, faggot!’ and ‘you’re not the boss of us!’ because at the time I was a sergeant in the commander slot, in charge of 200 people plus a unit of 10 specialists. “And no, I never reported the attack. Don’t ask, don’t tell, remember? And it wasn’t just because of that, but in the culture, you see anyone report anything and it gets pushed back on them. If the brass have to admit that this happened in their unit, it makes more work for them and it makes them look bad because they can’t control their unit. After I was attacked, I transferred myself to St. George, to a small unit, and just kept my head down. I did my time and got my honorable discharge two years later. Before the attack, I was ambitious. I wanted to be a warrant officer. After that, whenever I was offered a leadership position I turned it down. After I got out, I wanted nothing else to do with the military. I am still dealing with PTSD today.”

Transitioning The older cohorts of transgender people often did not attempt to transition to the gender they identify with until after they’d gone through years of attempting to fit into society in different ways. The process of first learning about being transgender, and then accepting it and deciding to act on it, usually took a long time. Henry, living as a lesbian, found it difficult to disentangle what exactly was going on for him. “There are so many feminist, philosophical reasons that I had to not want to fit into the role of Continued on the next page

Are there really more trans people now?

re there really more trans people nowadays, or does it just look that way because they’re in the media so much? Dominique thinks there’s a reason for all the trouble she went through as a kid: “I’m pretty sure I am a DES baby,” she says. Diethylstilbestrol (DES) is a synthetic estrogen and known endocrine disruptor (it interferes with normal human hormones). It was given to many pregnant women in the 1950s and ’60s in the mistaken belief that it would reduce the incidents of miscarriages. In the 1960s DES was also used as a growth hormone in the beef and poultry industries. Indeed, DES exposure has been implicated in a higher incidence of intersex babies (formerly called hermaphrodites), and also in a higher percentage of male individuals who self-identify as male-tofemale transgender. “Why are we seeing so many transgender people now? I think it’s partly because it’s safer for us to transition publicly, but I think it’s also chemical,” Dominique concludes. Henry, a doctor, is more equivocal. “Awareness is huge,” he says. “Being able to get the right recognition through counseling is something that my generation missed out on. There were a few brave souls who paved the way for us to be able to get more standards of care in place for mental health, primary care, hormone therapy and surgery such as the World Professional Association for Transgender Health…a maturing of these things, the media coverage, and in some ways I think it might be a generational thing.” As to whether there may be a chemical reason? “I don’t think it’s useful to speculate. The fact is, this is us, and this is who we are.”

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“Starting hormones was an amazing experience,” says Henry. “It was probably only three days after I took my first shot of testosterone that I felt the release of the physical dysphoria I’d felt since puberty.” female, and I needed to figure out what was driving me. It took a long time to figure it out. Finally, the physical discomfort [of the dysphoria] was the

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tipping point that made me realize I am fully transgender, and that I wanted to go through the expense and trouble of medically transitioning. “Starting hormones was an amazing experience. It was probably only three days after I took my first shot of testosterone that I felt the release of that physical dysphoria that I’d felt since puberty. If you’ve ever experienced chronic pain and had it treated, you may understand what this feels like. You’ve sort of gotten used to the bad feeling, and it becomes this background noise that you just try to live through. When it dissipates you wonder —how the hell did I live with that for so long? And this…just feeling normal…this is awesome!” Dominique was in the trenches as part of the first wave of trans women to seek hormonal and surgical transition. “It started when I was still married, and I would sneak my wife’s birth control pills,” she says. “I finally was able to start taking some hormones in 1995, but it was tricky, because even if you could get a prescription, you couldn’t find anyone to fill it. And the hormones cost $100 to $200 per month. But I felt so much better on estrogen that I kept trying. I found this doctor at Hill Air Force Base who was also a trans woman, though of course she couldn’t transition because she was military. But she wrote me some prescriptions and gave me a diagnosis of male gynecomastia (breast enlargement) so that I could get my insurance to cover the hormone bloodwork. Finally I just made a run for the border—I went to Mexico for myself and a bunch of other girls. For $800 I got enough hormones for a year for six of us!” Hormones in Mexico were available without prescription and, over the years, Dominique made many trips to get them. Hormonal therapy only goes so far in treating severe gender dysphoria, though. In 2003, Dominique decided it was time to have surgery. “My breasts developed naturally, but for my bottom surgery I went to Thailand. This Thanksgiving will be my 13th birthday of that! I was on the Internet in some

Growing up trans

he struggles of trans children for acceptance, and the difficult journeys of their parents in understanding and supporting them, have been featured by many news outlets and on social media lately. Eri Hayward—This beautiful locally produced mini-doc of a transgender Mormon child in Utah County has gotten a lot of attention nationwide. VIDEOWEST.KUER.ORG /TRANSMORMON

Dr. Rixt Luikenaar with transgender actress Laverne Cox made famous by the Netflix hit “Orange Is The New Black .”

transgender AOL chatrooms, and I found the name of this surgeon. It turns out I chose the wrong one, because he didn’t do a very good job. I’ve had six surgeries here in Utah to fix things and it all works great now. At the time I did the surgery I could have gone to Oregon, Wisconsin, Montreal or L.A., and it would have cost me from $18,000 to $25,000. In Thailand, the whole thing including travel and lodging was $7,500. I spent every penny I had on it. It was such a relief to have the surgery. Even though my surgery wasn’t that good, I don’t regret it. I’d do it again in a second. I knew I couldn’t cope with life in a male body.” Dr. Rixt Luikenaar, a gynecological surgeon in South Salt Lake, also performs female-to-male (FTM) procedures such as hysterectomy, and she says that surgery is tricky for transgender people. “It’s covered by insurance in only a handful of states, so it’s too expensive for most. Top surgery is more affordable at about $6,000 currently, but hysterectomy is over $20,000 and so is a vaginoplasty. Phalloplasty—creating a penis—is even more expensive.” Still, surgery can be key in addressing dysphoria. “For trans females, bottom surgery is usually very important, but unfortunately they often can’t afford it. On the other hand, most trans men don’t really care about bottom surgery, but they will want top surgery (mastectomy) because that’s the most major issue for them, as it’s the breasts that cause the primary dysphoria.” Luikenaar doesn’t perform mastecto-

my, phalloplasty or vaginoplasty, but she does help her patients prepare for surgery and offers post-operative care. “For example, trans women who are healing from a vaginoplasty have to dilate five times a day. I make sure they do it right, so that their wounds are healing correctly and they are achieving good vaginal depth and width.” She has prescribed hormone therapy for the transition of over 1,000 patients. She works closely with mental healthcare providers, a plastic surgeon and a urologist. In conservative Utah, it hasn’t always been easy to be a trans-friendly surgeon. “I’m in solo practice because of my transgender clinic,” Rixt says. “Former partners of mine, often LDS and male, were not comfortable with me treating these patients. My practice now, however, is doing very well. I have over 1,700 patients after having had my practice for a year and a half. Most of my cisgender [gender conforming] patients are openminded and for equality and diversity.” Rixt has a very personal reason for having gone into working with the trans population: She has a trans son. “My youngest child was born female, and we named her Sophia. She never had any desire for skirts or dresses or wearing ponytails in her hair, though. Five years ago she refused to wear any further girl clothes—she wanted boy’s underwear and clothes, and to wear her hair short. In 2014 she told us she wanted to go by Alix, and for us to use ‘he’ pronouns, which we now do. Of course I am a supContinued on the next page

Jonas and Nicole Maines—identical twins, 18 years old, were recently featured in People magazine. Nicole was born “Wyatt” and was involved in a groundbreaking civil suit that established rights for transgender kids. Jazz Jennings—15 years old, American transgender girl, YouTube personality, spokesmodel and LGBTQ

rights activist. She was interviewed in 2007 by Barbara Walters for 20/20 and since then has done many other appearances raising awareness of trans issues. Josie Romero—14 years old. Josie’s story was featured on Dateline NBC in 2012 and shared in a viral YouTube video. Wren Kauffman—In April 2014, Wren received an Alberta Great Kid Award. He was involved in a landmark Alberta lawsuit that changed the legal requirements for amending gender on a birth certificate. His story has been covered internationally, and is featured in the documentary Transforming Gender. Penel Adjua Ghartey—Born Penelope, Penel was recently featured in Cosmopolitan and Essence, and is the subject of a Facebook viral video narrated by his mother, Jodie Patterson.

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Local transgender advocacy group Candice Metzler is the new executive director of the Transgender Educational Advocacy of Utah (TEA), replacing Connie Anast-Inman who held that position for the past four years. TEA offers community classes (e.g. Trans 101, a basic understanding; Trans 201, beyond the binary; trainings for employers and schools), employment resources and transition resources including legal/identity issues. CATALYST: What are some of the challenges of being transgender that are specific to Utah? Candice Metzler: You know, everyone thinks it would be the LDS Church, but I have to be candid—it’s the fact that we’ve been overshadowed by the LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) movement. The “T” part of that always has just been tacked on there at the end, but now that the [gay] marriage issue is out of the way, people are starting to tune in to the transgender community. It’s been a big frustration for us to feel like we haven’t had a voice, because the issues of transgender people are quite dire; the levels of homelessness, unemployment and underemployment have been a serious issue in Utah. We are just looking for a chance to be heard. What’s your relationship with the Pride Center? Historically it’s been a little tenuous, but we are enthusiastic about Marian [Edmonds-Allen] coming on board as Executive Director last August. Her leadership and awareness around these issues are great, and they’ll foster a better relationship between the transgender community and the Pride Center. We are working with them on a number of projects already, and look forward to expanding that work. What is your relationship with the LDS Church? We don’t actually have any kind of relationship with the LDS church, and it would be great if we did. The church has a sort of “no policy” policy when it comes to transgender people in their membership, and they leave a lot up to individual pastors and bishops. What changes have you seen in Utah over the past five years or so? What does the future hold? People are just starting to come on board with the idea of transgender, but their minds are blown when you start to talk about gender fluidity. In the youth group I’ve facilitated at the Pride Center for almost five years, most of my youth by far identify as genderqueer rather than transgender. This is not a blip on the screen—it’s actually probably the future. What makes people nervous is that we have a system set up to serve people on the basis of binary gender. Genderqueer people don’t fit this system.

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portive parent, and he knows I love him no matter if he is Sophia or Alix. I take him to a club at the Pride Center for gender variant kids called Kids Like Me.” Transitioning as a kid is very different from transitioning as an adult, and parents of trans kids have some very specific struggles. “That has got to be one of the hardest things for any parent,” Breeze Hannaford says. “Parents want to do whatever they can to make the world safe for their kid, and to realize that no matter how much you try to protect them, they’re going to struggle…that’s got to be terrifying.” The good news is that kids who transition, even with all of those struggles, suffer less psychological trauma than people who transition later. “Kids are allowed to play,” Hannaford continues, “and play is the most important piece of this. As adults we rarely give ourselves the opportunity to play. But how do you know if something’s going to work for you if you don’t try it on first?

Gender fluidity “The reality is, it’s a spectrum, and we need to allow for gender fluidity, not just the traditional man/woman binary. Maybe your trans kid really is the completely opposite gender, but maybe they might be comfortable somewhere in between as gender fluid or genderqueer. Even with adults, we start with the least invasive methods. It’s not necessary for everyone to be on hormones or to have surgical intervention in order to feel comfortable in their own skin.” These sentiments are echoed in Kyle, Eve and Henry’s advice for people who might just now be realizing they are transgender. “I’d tell others who are going through this to first do as much research as possible because you can stop the physical changes at any point, but some things aren’t reversible,” says Kyle. “They also have to know there’s a whole world out there and no matter what, they can always find support.”

Eve echoes this need to research. “Look up the DSM [Diagnostic and Statistical Manual] psychological diagnostic tests, and be honest with yourself. Take baby steps, start slow—you might be surprised where you end up! Some people flow in both genders. Find what’s right for you. Make yourself happy to be alive. And if you’re a trans woman, do your nails! Those little things are really what make you feel good.” “The best advice I think I’ve heard during my own transition process was just be awesome,” says Henry. “No matter the awkwardness of the stages of transition or the likely dramas that will infiltrate your life while you go through this, people will still notice more your level of awesomeness in whatever else you are doing in your life. Going through puberty twice is not something anyone would choose to do if they could help it. Making the decision to transition is a long road and there are many barriers—financial, emotional and physical. You have to be committed to get through those things and you have to have some stability in order to keep healthy on all those levels. Community can help. It can also hinder. You have to be self-reliant and just keep being awesome; you’ll get through it.” ◆ Alice Toler is a regular CATALYST contributor, a visual artist and a DIY architect with a mad passion for reading, research and discovery. She is awesome.

Resources:

Transgender Educational Advocacy of Utah (TEA): TEAofUtah.org Utah Pride Center: utahpride.org Parents and Families of Lesbians & Gays (PFLAG): PFLaG.org Human Rights Campaign: HRC.org Transgender Support (world wide): Facebook page Center for Gender Sanity: GenderSanity.com Trans Lifeline (a hotline run by transgender people) 877.565.8860. TransLifeline.org Gender Wiki: Gender.Wiki.com

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s the traditional season of thanks and giving nears, we may consider approaching it with the same heart as was demonstrated for us by our brothers and sisters from the Sikh faith at the Parliament of World Religions, held last month in Salt Lake City. For the Parliament, 70 Sikhs from England along with 100 volunteers from Utah and California hosted and served Langar, a sacred institution of sharing food. In Punjabi, a language originating in northern India and Pakistan, Langar (pron. lan-gar) is the name of the community kitchen or common kitchen at a Gurdwara, the Sikh place of worship. This is a space open to people of all faiths. At Langar, food is served uncon-

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ditionally, regardless of caste or gender, from royalty to the homeless. People from all backgrounds become equals; they sit at the same level and share the same food. And, here, all meals are free. Langar was started by the first Sikh Guru, Guru Nanak (1469-1539). As the story is told, he was given 20 rupees by his father to do sacha sauda or â&#x20AC;&#x153;true business.â&#x20AC;? On his way to begin his business, young Nanak passed hungry sadhus, ascetic holy men, and instead spent his 20 rupees to feed them. When he returned home and told his father, his father was angry and scolded him. Nanak replied that he had done the â&#x20AC;&#x153;true businessâ&#x20AC;? by feeding the hungry holy men. Thus began the tradition of Langar, serving food for free. A message in compassion. To the Sikh community, there is no greater work than that of compassion. At the Golden Temple in Amritsar, India, 100,000-200,000 meals are served daily and many more thousands of meals are served daily at Gurdwaras all across the globe. Last month, during the Salt Lake meeting of the Parliament, the Sikhs and volunteers served 7,000 free meals each day of the gathering. Meals consisted of legumes, green salad, yogurt, chapatis, fresh fruit, chai and dessert. The Sikh Temple of Utah in Taylorsville along with help from the Utah Food Bank, Catholic Community Services St. Vincent de Paul Soup Kitchen, Parliament of the Worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Religions, Salt Palace Convention Center Food Service and Thomas Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Donnell of Cabrini College (an expert on food waste recovery) distributed to area homeless shelters. Leftovers of Langar totaled nearly 4,000 pounds of food and fed 3,100 people. This is not an unusual act of giving for a faith in which its practitioners commonly give a 10th of their income to charitable causes. For Sikhs, prayer and service go hand in hand and it is an honor, not an

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act of charity, to serve the Langar. Prayers and acts of purification are integral to the preparation of the meal. Participants remove shoes to outwardly signify the entering of a sacred sanctuary. Hands are washed and heads covered, acts that symbolize humility and modesty and the purging of bad traits in preparation to receive spiritual blessings. While preparing and serving the food, the Sikh workers recite prayers. Service makes us humble, prayer makes us wise, and everyone participating in Langarâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;preparing, serving and eating â&#x20AC;&#x201D;is blessed. My four days spent at the Parliament of the Worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Religions were made

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The 100-mile

Thanksgiving Source your ingredients locally

hanksgiving is the penultimate holiday for food-lovers, with some of the most lovingly prepared and thoughtful food you’ll eat all year. We shop and plan and prepare to make Thanksgiving special each year, to share a sacred meal and create lasting memories with friends and family. This

A few of our favorite local producers You can find most of them at Salt Lake’s Winter Market at the Rio Grande Depot, 300 S. Rio Grande St. (opening November 7 and running alternate Saturdays till spring, 10am-2pm). Peterson Family Farm: Fifth-generation farmer Luke Petersen grows and sells a variety of vegetables directly from his Farm Market Store in Riverton. He also offers educational classes and tours. PetersenFarm.com Parker Farms: Located in Hooper, Parker Farms is a 140-year-old heritage farm growing pumpkins, squash, potatoes, onions, peppers and more. Alan and Jo Ann Parker, 801.540.0277 Zoe’s Natural Garden: Fresh herbs, squash, onions, beets, apples, potatoes and edible flowers from their farm in Layton. ZoeGarden.com

BY ALISON EINERSON year, why not find make it even more special by having a 100-Mile Thanksgiving and locally sourcing as many holiday table foods as possible? Let’s look at the some of the traditional items on the Thanksgiving menu: turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, Brussels sprouts and pie.

Pyne Apples: Perfect for pie, this Santaquin farm recently took first place in all seven apple categories at the Utah State Fair. They also took home the sweepstakes award. pynefarms.com

Each year I order my free-range turkey from Wight’s Family Farm (WIGHTSFRESHTURKEYS.COM) located in West Haven, Utah. Their delicious birds typically sell out at least a week before the big day so don’t delay. They’re available for order fresh directly from the farm and at a few local stores in the Salt Lake Valley. Normally, another option is to bid on a locally raised 4-H turkey. This year’s avian flu scare canceled the auction usually held the second week of November in Bothwell, Utah. However, birds will probably be available for direct purchase. If you are interested, contact Lyle Holmgren, the USU 4-H agent, at 435-695-2545. If a non-traditional protein is more your style, check out Canyon Meadows Beef (CMRBEEF.COM) or Blue Tree Cattle (BLUETREEBEEF.COM) for a lovely roast or brisket. Locally raised chickens are somewhat difficult to find, due to

myriad regulations under the Utah Department of Agriculture. Utah Natural Meat (WWW.UTAHNATURALMEAT. COM) is one of the only local sources. If a no-meat holiday is your goal, find a farmer’s market blue hubbard, butternut or spaghetti squash for stuffing. You can make a traditional bread stuffing, or mix it up with apples, nuts, quinoa and onions. Many farmers markets have closed for the season, but you can still find an amazing abundance of local produce at the few markets still open in November, including the Winter Market at Rio Grande Depot in Salt Lake City, Petersen Family Farm in Riverton and the Wasatch Front Winter Market at Wheeler Farm. (See UTAHSOWN.GOV.) You’ll find local potatoes for mashing, onions, carrots, and Brussels sprouts, sweet potatoes (not yams, people). Many fresh herbs are likely to still be thriving even in the chillier weather, and can be used fresh to flavor

Wights Family Farm: Fresh all-natural turkeys raised by the Wight Family in West Haven. WightsFreshTurkeys.com

Heber Valley Cheese: This fourth-generation dairy farm makes artisan cheese from grass-fed cows. HeberValleyArtisanCheese.com

Earth First Eco-Farms: Kevin Nash works small parcels of land across the valley to grow heirloom varieties with organic practices. 801-783-7822

Salt Lake County Jail Garden: A 1.5-acre garden adjacent to the Salt Lake County Jail where approved prisoners perform all garden tasks, under the supervision of jail staff and horticulturists. All crops are grown from heirloom seeds and are chemical free. 801-974-7700

Asians and Heirlooms: Unique varieties of cucumbers, fresh herbs, carrots and more grown with all-natural methods in East Millcreek. 801-891-8944

Blue Tree Cattle: A family owned and operated ranch in Bluebell offering high quality, locally grown, grass fed beef. BlueTreeBeef.com

Blue Spring Farm: Randy and Tamara grow potatoes, garlic, herbs, onions, carrots and more on their five-acre farm in Tremonton. 435-279-0563

Canyon Meadows Ranch: A family operated cattle ranch located near Altamont offering grass-fed beef. CMRBeef.com

Clifford Family Farms: Pastured pork, bacon, honey and cage-free eggs from Provo. cliffordfamilyfarm.com/

Beltex Meats: Beltex Meats, soon to open a retail shop near Liberty Park, is a specialty butcher chop utilizing locally sourced pork, beef, lamb, and fowl. BeltexMeats.com

Riley’s Farm Fresh: Three generation orchard offering apples, peaches, and fresh-pressed cider. RileysFarmFresh.com

Epicurean Chefs: Sells fresh cultured butter, buttermilk, duck fat, duck breasts, and demi-glace at farmers markets and by custom order.

Drake Family Farms: Offering goat cheeses, goat milk yogurt and much more, Drake Family Farms originated in West Jordan in 1880 and is a designated historic Utah Century Farm. DrakeFamilyFarms.com Beehive Cheese: Based in Uintah, featuring handmade award-winning cheeses. BeehiveCheese.com Crumb Bros.: Artisan organic breads from Logan. CrumbBrothers.com Amour Spreads: Artisan preserves handcrafted from seasonally fresh fruit. AmourSpreads.com Laziz Spreads: Salt Lake City company featuring Middle Eastern spreads to dress your appetizer table. Laziz-Foods.com.

GARDEN LIKE A BOSS your turkey and stuffing. Let’s talk pie. Central Milling is an excellent resource for local flour, perfect for Thanksgiving pies, cookies and treats. This Logan operation has been supplying the best Utah bakeries with conventional and organic flour for years and now you can buy it for baking at home. They source much of their grain from the Intermountain region. Local pumpkins abound—you can even use those left over from Halloween décor. Pies can be prepared ahead of time and frozen until needed. Apples are also plentiful now— Fuji, Braeburn, Granny Smith and more from Pyne Farms and Riley’s Orchards. Let’s not forget about the abundance of local wines and beers that pair with our holiday meals. The Hive Winery crafts award-winning ciders, wines and brandy from local fruit and honey. Ruth Lewandowski Wines are another highly regarded favorite. Kiler Grove Winegrowers in Salt Lake handcrafts their Rhône-style wines from grapes grown on 15 acres near Paso Robles, California, but also makes wines from grapes taken from select Utah vineyards. Some of these wines are only available for purchase directly from their tasting rooms. Utah’s many breweries—Epic, Uinta, Squatters, Wasatch and more—also offer an impressive array of options. If

Let’s not forget about the abundance of local wines and beers that pair with our holiday meals. you prefer an alcohol-free Thanksgiving table, try the lovely hand-pressed ciders from Riley Farm, Farnsworth Farms, or Zollingers Fruit Farm in Logan. Lastly, it’s an unfortunate reality that Americans generally throw away about 40% of their total consumable food. This holiday season is a great time to curb your food waste and use every morsel. Boil your turkey carcass for stock to use in soups and stews over the coming months. Freeze leftover turkey for future dinners like a turkey pot pie or a hearty turkey noodle stew. Discover the bounty of Utah’s harvest this season with local turkey or some delicious local apples. Consider your food miles and the environmental impact of your diet. Then use a 100-Mile Thanksgiving to educate your friends and family about the bountiful harvest Utah enjoys. Alison Einerson manages Salt Lake’s Winter Market at the Rio Grande, teaches canning and food preservation and spends the rest of her time in the garden, the kitchen or the wilderness.

Build soil from now till spring! The making of deep mulch, sheet mulch and leaf mold JAMES LOOMIS

Future leaf mold

all me a dirt perv, but few things are sexier to me than luscious, rich, fertile garden soil. When it comes time to plant next spring, this beautiful,weed-free soil is where you’d like to start, yes? Embrace the cycles of the season, get on Momma Nature’s team, and be ready to win. As a permaculturist, my first mode of action is to observe natural cycles and mimic and enhance them to achieve my goals. As I look forward to next year’s plantings, a soil that is friable and free of weeds is a great place to start. By working with nature, I can achieve that goal with a minimum amount of work and purchased inputs. Despite the fact that the trees have dropped their leaves and the perennials have gone dormant, there is a tremendous amount of activity going on under that layer of fallen organic matter. Where spring and summer are cycles of growth, late fall and winter are cycles of decay and regeneration. This is the season to transform the year’s plant growth into nutrients and humus for the following spring, and the billions of organisms in residency will eagerly go to work facilitating this process. The following techniques will help you get there.

Deep mulching This technique is as simple as covering your garden soil with a thick layer of hay, straw or other mulch. This will facilitate a high level of activity in the duff, that point where the upper layer of soil meets the lowest point in the mulch layer. Here you’ll find the highest level of microbial activity, regardless of the season. In addition, the deep mulch will protect your soil from compaction due to the weight of heavy snows and errant roomates/pets/children.

If you’ve planted garlic already, make sure to use this technique to keep it insulated and protected through winter. The process: An effective layer of straw or hay is two to four inches; up to 12 inches is a boss move. For a bark mulch or coarse compost, two inches is great, four inches or more gets you extra credit.

Leaf mold Leaf mold is partially decomposed mulch made from fallen leaves. This process invites mycelium to break down the lignin in leaf tissue, resulting in mulch rich in beneficial fungal biomass. Since most garden soils are lacking in fungal biomass, adding this mulch to your garden is quite useful if you are trying to remediate a garden ravaged by years of tilling. Finished leaf mold mulch is especially good when applied to trees and perennials. If you constantly battle bindweed, then focusing on getting the fungal biomass up in your soil should be a priority. Since we are not adding any nitrogenrich material (green material) to our pile, we intentionally avoid the thermophyllic composting process, so make sure that you only add leaves to your pile, no animal manures or weeds. This is not the same as making a traditional compost. The process: As the name implies, the only ingredient is leaves from trees and shrubs. The more variety you can compile, the better. A pile at least four feet cubed is the minimum size for an optimum pile, but by all means whatever you can get together is great. The keys to a successful leaf mold are proper moisture and aeration. Aim to keep the moisture like that of a wrung-out sponge, and fluff the pile occasionally to keep it light an airy. Perform this process directly on a garden bed or two for maximum benefit.

Sheet mulching This is a staple of permaculture design, and is used most often to simultaneously build soil while suppressing and killing weedy areas or lawns. Quite similar to “lasagna” composting, it is the process of layering cardboard and compostable materials so that they form an impenetrable layer to the weeds or lawn you are trying to get rid of. While the weeds or lawn are being smothered by the layer of cardboard, the layers above are a festival of microbial activity, actively breaking down the materials into soil. This is a great technique for expanding your garden into areas that are currently being wasted as lawn, or conquering that weedy, neglected area of a larger yard. Sheet mulch an area now, and you’ll have a garden bed ready to roll in spring. The process: In the area to be sheet mulched, mow or trample any tall weeds, and spread a layer of manure down (half-inch to an inch). Moisten this (and every following layer) with water as you build it. Aim for the feel of a wrung-out sponge. Top this with a solid layer of cardboard, any seams generously overlapped. Then put down another half-inch or so of manure, followed by eight to 12 inches of mulch. A boss move from there is one to two inches of high-quality compost, done right so the weed seeds have been cooked out of viability. The worms will go bonkers for the cardboard, and this thick cake of compostables will eagerly progress into soil by spring. James Loomis operates Salacia Farms, a Lehi organic farm offering winter CSA (community-supported agriculture) shares. Some shares are still available. SALACIAFARM.COM

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cians ½ off, excludes dinner. Cottonwood Presbyterian Church, 1580 E. Vine St, Murray. SALTLAKESCANDIDANCE.ORG Nov. 6 -Dec. 20 Glass Art show @ Red Butte Garden. 9am5pm. REDBUTTEGARDEN.ORG Nov. 7-8, Orchid Show@ Red Butte Garden. 9-5 Sat.; till 4 Sun Dazzling display, troubleshooting advice, orchids for sale. REDBUTTEGARDEN.ORG Nov. 7-8 YART Sale 2: Revenge of the YART. Sat. 10-3. Sun. 12-4. The YART SALE is like a yard sale but with more art, art supplies, music equipment, event supplies, props, costumes, lighting supplies and other arty type stuff. SLC Arts Hub, 663 W. 100 S. Nov. 7-8: E.F.T. (Emotional Freedom Technique or Tapping) Training. 9a-5p. Rob Nelson expert certified EFT trainer from "Tapping the Matrix academy". Level 1 Workshop Nov. 7-8, Level 2 Workshop Nov. 9-10 and Level 3 Matrix Reimprinting Dec. 5-6. $350. 2516 W 3995 S, West Valley City. 707.280.8134 or email ROBNELSON.EFT@GMAIL.COM Nov. 7 & 21: Living Mindfully in Our Speedy World. 10a1p. Two-session workshop. Learn mindful meditation, eating, walking and communication. $145. Vitalize Community Studio, 2154 South Highland Dr. Email Donna Dinsdale: DONNADINSDALE.SLC@GMAIL.COM Nov. 7: Winter Market. 10a-2p. Free. Rio Grande Depot, 300 S Rio Grande St. SLCFARMERSMARKET.ORG Nov. 7, 14, 21 & 28: NaNoWriMo: Write a Novel in a Month. 1-3pm. 4-part workshop. Nov. is National Novel Writing Month. Techniques for writing 50,000 words in 30 days. $60, SLCC Community Writing Center, 210 E 400 S, Suite #8. SLCC.EDU

Nov. 10 Sustainable Startups Series: Impact 4 All. 5:30pm. $15. See how social entrepreneurship is transforming our community. The Leonardo, 209 E 500 S. SUSTAINABLESTARTUPS.ORG Nov. 3: Orixa Movement Workshop. 6:30-8p. Learn the traditional dance movements of the Orixa (O-ree-sha), Brazilian deities that represent different facets of nature. Open to all levels. $12 drop-in or $60 for the 5-week workshop (Tuesdays Nov. 3, 10, 17, 24 and Dec. 1). Salt Lake City Arts Hub, 663 W 100 S. SAMBAFOGO.COM Nov. 4 & 11: Race Perspectives Writing Workshop. 6-8p. Two-part workshop. As part of the Utah Race Perspectives Project, writers explore micro-stories, poems, and essays about race, ethnicity, and cultural identity. Free. SLCC Community Writing Center, 210 E 400 S, Suite #8. SLCC.ED

Nov. 5: Rumi Poetry Club. 7p. Participants welcome to read their favorite poems from Rumi or other inspirational poets from around the world. Free. Anderson-Foothill Library. 1135 S 2100 E. RumiPoetryClub.com

Nov. 8: Phutureprimitive, Bass Physics, Synaesthetic @ Urban Lounge. 8p. 21+. $13 ADV/ $15 DOS. 241 S 500 E. THEURBANLOUNGESLC.COM Nov. 10: Art Talk: Mel Ziegler, Chair of the Department of Art at Vanderbilt University. 7p. Ziegler’s work encourage alternative understandings of how Americana—as symbol, material, and motif—is represented and experienced throughout regions across the globe. Suggested donation. UMOCA, 200 S West Temple. UTAHMOCA.ORG

Nov. 5: PitchNic Premiere. 7:30-9p. Presented by Spy Hop Productions, a collection of four short films written, directed & produced by Utah teens. $8. Rose Wagner Performing Arts, 138 W. 300 S. SPYHOP.ORG Nov. 5 Years of Living Dangerously, Episode 1: Dry Season, starring Thomas Friedman, Harrison Ford and Don Cheadle. Special screening series, with discussion following. Panelists: Susan Soleil of Utah Interfaith Power & Light; Soren Simonsen, cofounder & president of Impact Hub and former SLC council member. 7pm. Nov. 5: Public Darshan with Louix Dor Dempriey. 7-9p. Darshan, music, meditation, all welcome. Donation. Salt Lake Center for Spiritual Living, 332 Bugatti Drive. Louix.org. Nov. 5: 3Hattrio CD Release & Signing. 7p. 3Hattrio , a trio of musicians release the “Dark Desert Night.” Free. Ken Sanders Rare Books, 268 S 200 E. KenSandersRareBooks.com Nov. 5: Zion I @ Urban Lounge. 8p. 21+. $10. 241 S 500 E. THEURBANLOUNGESLC.COM Nov. 6: Celebrate Live PC Give PC with Swaner. 1-3p. “Protecting the Places We Play.” Free. Swaner Perserve and EcoCenter. 1258 Center Drive, Park City. SWANERECOCENTER.ORG

Nov. 4: Rusted Root @ The State Room. 7p. 21+. $28. 638 S State St. THESTATEROOM.COM Nov. 5 Years of Living Dangerously, Episode 1: Dry Season, starring Thomas Friedman, Harrison Ford and Don Cheadle. Special screening series, with discussion following. Panelists: Susan Soleil of Utah Interfaith Power & Light; Soren Simonsen, cofounder & president of Impact Hub and former SLC council member. 7pm. Nov. 5: Traditional Lakota Sweat-Lodge Ceremony. 11a7p. Led by Grandmother Barbara Threecrow. Call Siraj Paletta to register at 435.659.0761 or email siraj@spiritofguidance.org. Free and open to all, space limited to 20 participants. Park City area, location will be given at registration. SPIRITOFGUIDANCE.ORG

Nov. 6: Dubwise 9th anniversary with Illoom and Congo Sanchez (of Thievery Corporation) @ Urban Lounge. 9p-1a. 21+. $5 before 10:30p, $10 after. 241 S 500 E. The URBANLOUNGESLC.COM Nov. 6-8: Sandi Fall Fest. Norwegian and Swedish dance and music workshops, dinner and party. Guest instructors/musicians are Mikkel Thompson, Valerie Thompson and John-Anders Persson of Sweden and Minnesota. $15 Friday evening introduction, beginners free, Workshop: $70, Saturday Scandinavian dinner: $14. Students under 18 & musi-

Nov. 10: Naomi Klein – SLCC Tanner Lecture. 7-8:30p. Award-winning journalist and author of The Shock Doctrine and This Changes Everything. Free. SLCC Grand Theater, 1575 S State St. SLCC.EDU Nov. 10: Pancreatic Cancer, Diabetes & Gut Health: Free Class @ Real Foods Sugar House. 6:30-7:30p. Presented by The Forbidden Doctor. Tune in to hear the secrets modern medicine is keeping from you. Free. 2209 S. 1300 E. FORBIDDENDOCTOR.COM Nov. 11: Free Massage Honoring Veterans @ Healing Mountain Massage School. 9a-9p. Veterans day: free 50 minute student massages to Vets and active members of our military with valid military ID or Military insurance card. $10 off any spa service for their family members (50 min. or longer). 363 S 500 E, Suite 210. HEALINGMOUNTAIN.EDU Nov. 12: In Football We Trust film. 7p. Free. Viridian Event Center, 8030 S 1825 W, West Jordan. UTAHFILMCENTER.ORG

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CATALYSTMAGAZINE.NET 21 Nov. 13: Opening Reception Tyrone Davies: IN CAMERA @ UMOCA. 7p. Through IN CAMERA's selection of fragmented narratives and televised programming, Davies reveals the ways by which our screens, just as powerfully as our beliefs, can dictate our worldviews. The artist will be in attendance to chat about the exhibit. Free. Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S West Temple. UTAHMOCA.ORG

Nov. 12: The Case Against 8 film w/ Q&A with directors. 6p. Sundance Film Festival Directing Award Winner. Documentary: legal battle to overturn Proposition 8 in California (the case that led to legalizing same-sex marriage in the U.S.) Free. Broadway Center Cinemas, 111 E 300 S. SALTLAKEFILMSOCIETY.ORG Nov. 12: Caputo’s Market & Deli 4th Annual Chocolate Festival featuring Solstice Chocolate. 7:15p. Proceeds donated to the heirloom cacao preservation. Five chefs (from Current, Provisions, Pallet, 3 Cups, & Rye) and local mixologists will use one of Solstice’s five bars to showcase sweet, savory, and boozy applications of the Salt Lake City craft-chocolate maker. $35 food, $50 with alcohol pairings. Caputo’s Downtown, 314 W. 300 S. CAPUTOSDELI.COM Nov. 13: Soulection presents Sango @ Urban Lounge. 9p. Fice Lords, Type Funk, Chris Wright. 21+. 241 S 500 E

Nov. 14 17th Annual Vegan Thanksgiving. 5pm. Wasatch Presbyterian Church, 1626 S 1700 E. Fundraiser for Ching Farm Rescue. 5pm. $30. BROWNPAPERTICKETS.COM Nov. 14 Glow Yoga with James Hardy. Tonight’s music: Nahko & Medicine for the People. 8:30-10:30pm. Centered City Yoga, 926 E 900 S. $20/15adv. MINDBODYONLINE.COM

Nov. 14: Get Out The Funk! Breathe Utah's Fifth Annual Gala @ The Gallivan Center. 6p. Celebrate Five years with Breathe Utah, improving our air quality through collaboration, policy, and education. Food, drinks, and dancing. $25. 239 S Main St. BREATHEUTAH.ORG Nov. 14: Greensky Bluegrass w/ special guest Tom Hamilton’s American Babies @ The Depot. 7p. $17 adv./$20 day of. 400 W. South Temple. DEPOTSLC.COM Nov. 15: The Gifts of the Four Agreements Workshop w/ Don Jose Ruiz, co-author of The Fifth Agreement. 2-4p. Presented by the Salt Lake Center for Spiritual Living. Don Jose Ruiz shares personal experiences and how the Four Agreements helped him through his life. $65. The Complex, 536 W. 100 S. SPIRITUALLYFREE.ORG

Nov. 14: A Day of Zen with Michael Mugaku Zimmerman. 7:30a-1p. Learn about meditation in a supportive atmosphere. Posture and breath instruction. Healthy lunch provided. $20-$35 donation. Two Arrows Zen at Artspace. 230 S 500 W. TWOARROWSZEN.ORG

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Nov. 14: Basics of Ayurveda & Daily Living @ We Are Yoga. 2-4p. Learn Samkhya philosophy, gunas & doshas. $35 Adv./$40 Day of, Free for We Are Yoga members. 2645 Parleys Way, Suite 100. WEAREYOGASLC.COM

Nov. 17: Suzanne Massie on “What We Don't Know About Russia Today.” UCCD World Affairs Lecture Series. 7p. Suzanne Massie’s lecture will address some of the important facts ignored about Russia and the Russian people today. Free. Westminster College Vieve Gore Concert Hall, 1840 S. 1300 E. UTAHDIPLOMACY.ORG

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he lesser-known little sister of Salt Lake City’s progressive public radio family, KCPW (88.3FM and 105.5FM), is trying harder than ever to define itself as the city’s preeminent source for important local news and entertainment. This October, the station scored a crown jewel for their line-up of local programming: Jazz Time with Steve Williams. For 31 years, Steve Williams hosted nighttime jazz, Monday through Friday from eight till midnight, on Utah’s NPR-affiliate station KUER (90.9). In July, Williams played his last show and, with his departure, KUER retired evening jazz programming. Now, three months later, Williams is partially coming out of retirement. Every Sunday 6-10pm, KCPW lights up with Jazz Time with Steve Williams. “People like me who grew up in Utah grew up with Steve,” says Roger McDonough, KCPW host and producer. Having jazz at the turn of a dial, says McDonough, created a whole new generation of jazz listeners. “It was the best way for a new listener, who wouldn’t be looking for jazz on their own, to have casual introduction to a uniquely American art form.” The future of jazz, in Utah and around the country, hasn’t looked good for a while. Most surveys show the numbers of listeners shrinking. A 2009 survey by the Jazz Audience Initiative showed that, of a random survey of jazz ticket buyers in 19 cities and 13 universities, only 17% of the jazz audience was under the age of 45 and 80% was white. For a media outlet wanting to expand listenership and attract more diverse and younger demographics, these numbers don’t look good. “We are nonprofit public media and we try to keep an ear to what the community says,” explains KCPW Station Manager Lauren Colucci. “In commercial media the bottom line is very important. They need to get the highest listenership possible. Our bottom line is there, too, but we fill a niche for a local audience and we heard from our listeners. ‘What are we going to do in the evenings? Where will we find jazz?’ We felt there was enough support from the community to sustain this program, but it’s definitely an experiment. We will see how it goes.” With Jazz Time with Steve Williams just barely on its feet—thanks in large part to technical support and music archives donated from KUER—it’s too early to tell how the new once-a-week Sunday program will affect numbers for KCPW. If response is good, Colucci and McDonough both agree, the option is open for expanding jazz to other evenings. Feedback from the community will be a critical part of that decision. “The larger philosophical conversation we’ve been having at the studio,” says McDonough, “is that jazz is like any art: You have to build the audience in order to preserve the art form. If there is no unifying outlet for jazz, it will start to disappear from our community.” At least for now, jazz, and Utah’s own legendary walking jazz brain trust, Steve Williams, is back on the air. —Katherine Pioli

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wrote the first draft of the abandoned project that eventually became Booksmart in 2003, sitting at the bar of a brewpub where I was working at the time. I used to spend a lot of time at that bar, not always writing. Booksmart is a comedy about someone who is fed up with his retail job at Christmas. But it’s not just the rude customers and the corporately dictated chronic understaffing, it’s the wages and the lack of benefits and not enough hours to make ends meet. It’s like that old vaudeville joke Woody Allen tells: Two old ladies are at a restaurant complaining to each other about the quality of the

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ast month I had the good fortune to attend the Parliament of the World’s Religions. I presented both a yoga class and a musical performance there, and attended quite a few panels and workshops. Leading panels and workshops were Catholics, Protestants, Mormons, Jews, Hindus, Sikhs, Muslims, Buddhists, Humanists, agnostics and atheists. The purpose of the Parliament was to bring people of all faiths—or no faith— together to talk about how to solve very real issues in our world: climate change, environmental degradation, human rights and the promotion of peace. Every single interaction I witnessed was respectful, curious and collaborative. In this divisive time, it was heartening to see people from all religions, and no religion, finding common ground, inspired to work together for a more sustainable, more compassionate future. The scholars and religious leaders who spoke were, without a doubt, completely committed to their respective philosophies. Most had dedicated most of their lives to their practices and philosophies. And yet all were open to hearing how others’ ideas could augment their understanding. As I return to my computer and the yoga blogosphere after a few days off, I am struck by the continuing divisiveness in our community. One of the first Facebook posts I encountered described an online yoga instructor training. Traditionalists decried the training as yet another commercial cheapening of the teaching tradition. Apologists for modern yoga decried traditionalists for being “judgy” and “unyogic.” Same old, same old. This rift has been widening for more than a decade now. Perhaps some people have switched camps, but the argument remains the same. In a way, it’s quite similar to what we hear on both sides of the mainstream religious argument: Mine is the true yoga with all the answers. This is a far cry from what I encountered at the World Parliament, whose members included people from traditional, millennia-old religions that many modern yoga practitioners might decry as too restrictive. Yet, practitioners of these traditions displayed much more respect and openness to radically different ideas than what I often read in yoga culture. As a practitioner of more than 30 years, I’m not immune to having opinions about the direction of yoga in the past decade. I’ve often found myself lamenting the commercialization of a system I once thought could never be seduced by Madison Avenue. Of course, yoga is still yoga, but its mainstream definition has, in my opinion, become rather confused. Think chakra panties, celebrity teacher misconduct and the trademarking of phrases such as “yoga butt.” And then there’s the wild world of unregulated yoga teacher trainings and increased yoga injuries.

On the other hand, I understand that if we truly wanted to be yoga purists, we would not be living in the world, writing blogs on computers, interacting on Facebook and holding down jobs. Of course, the way we practice yoga has had to change in order to be of practical value in our Western lives. I heartily agree with modernists who realize that yoga practice, even if it’s not completely true to its ancient roots, can be an invaluable tool for helping us negotiate our complicated lives. While many of us prefer to explore and practice all eight limbs of yoga, many yoga practitioners only want to gain the benefits of physical practice. My practice was purely physical for the first three years, and at the time it suited me. Some practitioners will never embark on the other eight limbs, and it’s really okay. Some people’s path will not include any yoga at all, and that’s also okay. How other people’s paths look is entirely up to them. So how can we all get along? Here are some of my thoughts—and I’m sharing these things as a reminder to myself, too!

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• Stop taking possession of yoga. Yoga doesn’t belong to anyone. The philosophy and practices of yoga are available to anyone who commits herself to practice. The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali were written in a neutral way so that they could be interpreted in the context of an individual’s life. • Know that every person’s yoga will be different. We all came into the world with different genetic inheritances and grew up in vastly different families, cultures and communities. We all have different needs, and our yoga practice will reflect these differences. This is why yoga was, until the 20th century, handed down one-on-one from teacher to student. • Don’t get attached to your ideas about what yoga is and is not. My experience is that over 30 years, my practice and ideas about practice have changed radically. My practice now looks nothing like it did when I was in my 20s and 30s. If you’re paying attention, yours probably will look different, too, as you age and evolve. • Keep your beginner’s mind. As Suzuki Roshi famously wrote, “In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities. In the expert’s mind there are few.” No matter how long you’ve practiced, there will always be a vast amount more to learn. Be humble and curious. I will continue to reflect on the grace and kindness I witnessed between representatives of traditional religions last month, religions that in some cases have been at war with each other for centuries. And I will continue to hope that the yoga community can grow into a similar maturity and respectfulness as it ages and evolves. ◆

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MOVEMENT, MEDITATION DANCE RDT Dance Center Community School FOG 801.534.1000, Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. Broadway, SLC. RDT’s Dance Center on Broadway offers a wide range of classes for adults (ages 16+) on evenings and weekends. Classes are “drop-in,” so no long-term commitment is required. Hip Hop, Modern, Ballet & Prime Movement (specifically designed for ages 40+). WWW.RDTUTAH.ORG RemedyWave: Dance your own dance, Shannon Simonelli, Ph.D., ATR 5/31/16 385.202.6477, 300 W. 403 N., SLC. Tuesdays 7-9p. Grounding, pulsing, wild, uplifting, rejuvenating journey through music and dance. Unlock your expression, passion & joy. Love to dance? ‘Used to’ dance? Remember your heartful, responsive, embodied Self...Come dance! Workshops & special classes. WWW.REMEDYWAVE.ORG MARTIAL ARTS Red Lotus School of Movement 9/15 801.355.6375, 740 S. 300 W., SLC. Established in 1994 by Sifu Jerry Gardner and Jean LaSarre Gardner. Traditional-style training in the classical martial arts of T’ai Chi, Wing Chun Kung-Fu, and Qigong exercises). Located downstairs from Urgyen Samten Ling Tibetan Buddhist Temple. WWW.REDLOTUSSCHOOL.COM, REDLOTUS@REDLOTUS.CNC.NET MEDITATION PRACTICES Rumi Teachings 6/16 Good poetry enriches our culture and nourishes our soul. Rumi Poetry Club (founded in 2007) celebrates spiritual poetry of Rumi and other masters as a form of meditation. Free meetings first Tuesday (7p) of month at Anderson-Foothill Library, 1135 S. 2100 E., SLC. WWW.RUMIPOETRYCLUB.COM YOGA INSTRUCTORS Mindful Yoga: Charlotte Bell DA 12/15 801.355.2617. E-RYT-500 & Iyengar certified. Cultivate strength, vitality, serenity, wisdom and grace. Combining clear, well-informed instruction with ample quiet time, these classes encourage each student to discover his/her own yoga. Classes include meditation,

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xperiencing “issues” these days? You can pin some of that distress on Saturn in Sagittarius and the square between Saturn and Neptune. The question to ask yourself is: “What side are you on?” Notice the broadness of that question; that’s because it needs to cover all the things that you believe. Saturn in Sagittarius (2015-2017) is lighter than what we have lived through with Saturn in Scorpio (2012-2015). But it will show you where you are lazy and not in alignment with truth or where you are willing to grow, change, learn and evolve. Historically, Saturn in Sagittarius has been one of those patterns that caused religious wars and upsets. It’s a good time to ask yourself: “Do my beliefs and my internal gut sense actually match?” Saturn wants to do the old school, the old ways, the old wisdom. Neptune in Pisces wants to dissolve old structures and beliefs. Saturn wants to build reallife structures that will stand the test of time. Saturn in Sagittarius is all about getting real about what you believe, getting grounded about your mission and purpose, and recognizing that it is time to learn some new skills so you can showcase your talents and abilities. Under this aspect, you will be sorting the real from illusion and dreams from delusion. The tendency to want to fall into the illusion of Neptune is strong but the struggle that Saturn brings makes you want to revisit what can and will work. Saturn will square Neptune on November 26, just in time to cause problems for Thanksgiving. I advise a quiet, small celebration; at least, go out of your way to avoid dinner table discussions about politics or religion. A tremendous amount of change will happen by the end of the year. To add to the drama, the North and South Nodes (points or poles of the moon) are going to be in the Virgo/Pisces flow throughout most of 2016. Here, the universe is demonstrating that you can traverse all over the place to gather up the information you need to expand. What you need to do is find the place that brings true happiness and true storybook adventure. See where you are unconscious about cer-

tain aspects within yourself and where you need to learn to use your skill sets better. 2016 may feel pretty chaotic, as you are challenged to see if you can truly live up to your beliefs. Having a belief is no longer going to be enough. You will have to prove your point and position. If you can’t, your reality may get torn apart by those who can see past your delusion. What’s interesting is that if you sincerely want to open and you believe in your ability to adapt and change, then you will find that doors will open. But if you believe that you can’t or refuse to change—if you believe the world is falling apart—then you will find your world falling apart. If you believe that all doors are closed, then you will find those doors locked. Thank Neptune for that one. I compare Saturn’s movement from Scorpio to Sagittarius to the transition from Gandalf the Grey into Gandalf the White. Here is Gandalf slipping into the abyss with the demon. He fights all the way down, never doubting himself, never doubting his power and gifts, not thinking about living or dying but being fully in the moment. At the bottom he finally slays the demon and becomes his masterful self. That is the journey we are all on at this time. It feels like we are falling into the abyss. And we are. So what are you going to do about it? Are you going to collapse and just allow yourself to die or are you going to fight with the internal demons that keep you small and hidden from the magnificence of your life? It’s time to wrestle with your dark beliefs that are from another time and place and finally lay them down. Trust your core feelings and allow them to guide you. You’ll discover in this journey where you have been being an idiot. But when you understand that you have the opportunity to step into your mastery, only then from an illuminated place can you open the right doors to the greater reality.◆ 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. SUZWAGNER.COM

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