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DECEMBER 2017 VOLUME 36 NUMBER 12

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In the Spirit of Itzpapalotl, Venceremos by Ruby Chacon

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his cover art is part of a series that draws from feminist scholarly research by Dr. Sonya Alemán and Flor Olivo. The series of paintings, alongside photographs by Flor Olivo (FLAWURMEDIA.COM), will be on exhibit JanuaryFebruary, 2018 at American River College in Sacramento, California.

The two-woman show highlights feminine leadership exerted by Chicana editors of the newspaper Venceremos, established at the University of Utah in 1993. This particular piece is about Chicana editor Yajairda Katzi, her passion for science juxtaposed with the story she covered during her tenure at Venceremos about the “Black Lives Matter” movement.

We define the driving force and power of these women to carry the paper forward, as a reclaiming of Itzpapalotl. Itzpapalotl Spirit, as we have named this feminine energy, “is grounded in an indigenous worldview that reveres women as fierce protectors of the do-

IN THIS ISSUE 7

SLIGHTLY OFF CENTER DENNIS HINKAMP Death and taxes.

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ENVIRONEWS AMY BRUNVAND Can we save Pando?

Let the buffalo roam in peace. More.

Wonderful and Wildly Important Office Updates:

Nov. 2: One of our cactus plants surprised us with a beautiful yellow flower bloom today!

ON THE COVER

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EDITOR’S NOTEBOOK GRETA DEJONG

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BREATHE ASHLEY MILLER VW deception redux (and come-uppance).

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WARM SPRINGS MICHAEL MCLANE In its heyday, the scarred landscape of SLC’s Beck St. area was a site of physical and spiritual healing.

mains that produce life, ideas, and knowledge” (Aleman and Olivo). To see archived issues: HTTP:// VENCEREMOSUTAH.COM/PUBLICATIONS/ARCHIVED-ISSUES/ Our intention is to ensure that forms of story-telling and art making produce life-affirming realizations and continue to uplift our communities. We seek to create spaces of belonging, shaped by shared histories of marginality and resistance. In our own ancestry we continue to retell herstories of feminine leadership, specifically Chicana feminist leadership, that have enabled spaces of creativity and that have birthed ideas, art and knowledge among systems of oppression. ◆ Ruby Chacón cofounded Mestizo Institute of Culture and Arts. Her art has been published in books, magazines and calendars. Her numerous awards include Utah Governor’s Mansion Award for visual arts, Salt Lake City Mayor’s Award for Visual Arts, Humanitarian Award, Distinguished Alumni, and Utah’s 15 most influential artists. Chacón moved to Sacramento in 2013. Her Sacramento public art projects include the Cesar Chavez Intermediate outdoor mural, Utility box designs in the Alkalai Flats and Meadowview neighborhoods and. upcoming, a design for the light rail and community mural. RUBYCHACON759@GMAIL.COM

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HONORING THE ELEMENTS MERRY L. HARRISON Meditation on a home altar.

LESSONS IN COURAGE DEBBIE LEAMAN Sometimes the saying is true: We teach what we most need to learn.

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INTERSECTIONS OF SCIENCE, ART & FAITH ROBERT LAWRENCE In a universe that is constantly expanding and unfathomably small.

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WHERE IS HOME? JEANNETTE HERNANDEZ HELTMAN Three young Utah Dreamers contemplate their future.

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METAPHORS SUZANNE WAGNER Take a breath; nothing is going to go as planned. So might might as well relax.

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URBAN ALMANAC OLSON, ZUMWALT AND DEJONG A monthly compendium of random wisdom for the natural world and beyond.

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SLIGHTLY OFF CENTER

Death and Taxes T he curse and blessing of living six decades and having serviceable memory skills is that you notice patterns in everything. That and clichés become more irritating.

“Death and taxes” is the slogan most used to convey certainty, but both are less predictable and permanent than the White House staff.

The tax code has been scheduled for cuts and simplification since the first coin was minted. It probably started even before then when you were required to deliver a pig or basket of apples to the feudal lords who allowed you the privilege of living. I believe Bill Clinton was the last president to run on a platform of increasing taxes. Charming devil that he was, he convinced us that lowering the national debt was in the country’s best interest. I don’t think he even invoked the magic word “loopholes.”

Loopholes are the opiates of tax reform. Loopholes will take away the pain of getting more services for fewer taxes. We are addicted to loopholes and we need increasing dosages to get the same tax relief.

“Of course we can afford to put aircraft carriers on the moon if we just close the loopholes in the food stamp program. Why do we need aircraft carriers on the moon? How else are we going to keep the Sea of Tranquility tranquil? Next question.”

Too often taxes and, more importantly, tax cuts have been used for social engineering. If you believe home ownership is a good thing, then you give tax deductions for mortgage interest. Kids are mostly good so you get an extra deduction for each one. Charities and churches are downright heavenly so you get tax deductions for those.

Are we of so little faith that we would not donate to churches if we didn’t get something back? Is the Pope Catholic?

The current administration, like all those previous, has promised to make filing taxes simpler. Recently, some simple person actually held up a post card to demonstrate how simple it could be. This could hap-

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pen if you believe that global warming is caused by concussions and football is the result of carbon emissions. Do you care about accountants? Just as dentists are behind the proliferation of Halloween candy, tax accountants rally for tax loopholes and deductions. Take the facts and shuffle them.

According to our best science death is final, but there is plenty of

Today, a single tweet can deny the research of the entire scientific community. disagreement there as well. Depending on your belief set you may go up, down, sideways or come back for multiple rounds. You may be with your family in the hereafter or you might get to be single again with all your original hair. I don’t know if any of this is true any more than I know the validity of tax calculations.

Does lowering taxes create jobs? Do pigs fly when we’re not looking? Is the national debt actually measurable? Did unicorns just show up late for the launching of the ark? Is the new iPhone worth waiting in line for? These are all faith-based questions that nobody can answer with any degree of certainty.

I guess we could get rid of taxes and make everything pay-as-you-go.

Every road and bridge could be paid for with tolls. Walmart and Amazon could easily take over the education system and ensure two-day delivery.

Black Friday would be a national holiday. The NRA would be the natural replacement for the military and churches could continue to raise funds through bake sales.

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UTAH ENVIRONEWS

Can we save Pando?

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he more we examine the special properties of the quaking aspen, the greater our fascination with the beauty, complexity, and continuing mystery of this tree. If others agree, perhaps we can save clones like Pando from a destiny as firewood.

— Michael C. Grant

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ando, the Earth’s largest known living organism by mass, is dying for lack of large predators in the ecosystem.

Pando, an exceptionally beautiful male quaking aspen clone, is located in the Wasatch Plateau on the Fish Lake Highway in Southern Utah. He covers 106 acres, weighs more than 13 million pounds and has about 47,000 tree trunks all connected by an underground root system so that what appears to be a grove is actually a single organism.

Pando (Latin for “I spread”) was discovered in the 1960s, and was given the name in

By J Zapell

1992 by University of Colorado scientists after they identified him as the world’s largest organism.

We don’t know exactly how old Pando is. He first grew from a seed, possibly at the end of the last Ice Age about 12,000 years ago, but he may be even older than that.

To go on living, Pando needs to keep on sending up new suckers to replace old “ramets” that live about 65120 years. But even though Pando sends up plenty of suckers, cattle and mule deer gobble them up before they can become mature trees.

Utah State University Scientists have been experimenting with fences to keep the browsers out, and that may work. But the root of the problem (pun intended) seems to be a lack of predators to keep the herbivores moving, as they did in the days of the buffalo on the Great Plains before the arrival of human hunters.

In Yellowstone National Park, aspen trees made a comeback

after 1995 when the reintroduction of wolves kept herbivores on the move. However, some think the effect of wolves on Yellowstone aspens is overstated. If that’s the case, it’s even more alarming that Pando is failing to thrive.

If Pando did first sprout at the end of the Pleistocene Ice Age, he has lived through the entire Holocene epoch, a time of fairly stable climate when human civilizations emerged from the Stone Age. Earth scientists are proposing that we are in a new geologic epoch that should be identified as the Anthropocene—the period during which human activity has been the dominant influence on climate and the environment. After tens of thousands of years on Earth, Pando may be signaling that the new climatic conditions of the Anthropocene are beyond his level of tolerance.

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Sustainability report recognizes Utah campuses Innovative programs at two universities in Utah earned special mention in the 2017 Sustainable Campus Index published annually by the Association for Sustainability in Higher Education. Utah State University was recognized for participation in the National Bike Challenge every year since 2013. The Cache Valley Bike Challenge helps combat poor air quality by encouraging people to ride bicycles. The 2016 competition resulted in over 90,000 miles ridden, 32,000 lbs of CO2 avoided, and $20,000 saved.

The University of Utah also earned kudos for institutional support of the Global Change and Sustainability Center as well as for programs to help community members to install rooftop solar and purchase electric vehicles.

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Rob Bishop’s very bad bill Heads up! Rob Bishop (R-UT-1) is co-sponsor of a very bad bill that may soon go up for a vote in the U.S. Congress. H.R. 4239 known as “SECURE Act,” supposedly promotes American energy security, but it is actually a public lands giveaway to fossil fuel industries.

The SECURE Act prioritizes fracking over other land uses, eliminates requirements for public comment under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, and “empowers States” to permit and develop production of oil and gas on available federal land without environmental review.

Climate change in the Western U.S. Utah Clean Energy has launched a campaign for local climate leadership called “Path to Positive Utah.” So far over 40 Utah leaders have signed a declaration to combat climate change, including Salt Lake County Mayor Ben McAdams, Salt Lake City Mayor Jackie Biskupski, Park City Mayor-Elect Andy Beerman and Moab Mayor Dave Sakrison.

Places where people believe the scientific evidence for human-caused climate change are leading the way to a more sustainable and resilient future for Utah.

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Let the buffalo roam in peace

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n November the Ogden Standard Examiner reported that Antelope Island State Park is conducting a feasibility study of motorized trail use, requested by Michael Styler, Executive Director of the Utah Department of Natural Resources.

The Park is home to watchable wildlife including one of Utah’s three public bison herds, pronghorns, bighorn sheep and mule deer, and is also a birding hotspot. It currently offers more than 45 miles of non-motorized trails open to hiking, biking and horseback riding, and in order to protect critical wildlife habitat, cross-country travel is prohibited.

Friends of Antelope Island have sponsored a “Possible Pathways” trail chair so that people with mobility issues can enjoy the experience of non-motorized trails, and visitor surveys show that park visitors value wildlife viewing and hiking. There is no pressure from off-roading groups to open Antelope Island to motorized recreation.

So why bother with such a study? One clue in the article is that Styler proposes “guided tours” which would be a moneymaker for some concessioner. Or perhaps he wants wealthy hunters to be able to drive trophy game animals out on ATVs. In 2010, Styler was involved in opening up Antelope Island to trophy hunting despite strong public opposition. Minutes from a meeting of May 6, 2010 describe his plan of marketing permits through hunting groups “because they bring in the big money.”

Indeed, in 2016 an Antelope Island State Park mule deer permit was auctioned at the Western Hunting and Conservation Expo to a

New SLC chapter of Dark Sky Association Carpe noctem (sieze the dark) is the motto of the new Salt Lake Chapter of the International Dark Sky Association, formed in October by Jessica Dwyer of the University of Utah Center for Science and Mathematics Education.

Light pollution from artificial lights harms dark-adapted wildlife species, throws human circadian rhythms out of whack and squanders energy by beaming light up into the sky.

The good news is that Utah has more darksky designated sites than anywhere else in the world and we can help keep them dark. Outdoor lighting should be no brighter than necessary, shielded to aim light at the ground, turned off when not needed, and designed to minimize blue light emission.

If you are shopping for holiday gifts, Dark Sky SLC has some beautiful hand-printed tshirts by artist Anna Hansen at Hex Press. May your nights be dark and full of stars.

Canadian hunter for an astonishing $410,000.

Where did all that money go? Not into the maintenance budget of underfunded Utah State Parks. By Utah law, 10% of money raised from “conservation and sportsman permits” goes into the pockets of “sponsoring” trophy hunting organizations like Sportsmen for Fish and Wildlife; the other 90% is mandated for “the benefit of species for which conservation permits are issued”—in other words, only to programs that specifically benefit the very same trophy hunting organizations.

Worse, many of these supposed “conservation” hunting organizations have ties to people and organizations with an agenda of privatizing public land and wildlife. In the past, the Utah Legislature has handed over large amounts of no-strings-attached money to such organizations with very little public accountability.

In 2013, a legislative audit of state funds given to Big Game Forever (a spin-off of Sportsmen for Fish and Wildlife) found that from 2011 to 2014, $800,000 had been “comingled” with other funds so that there was no way to tell how the money was spent.

In any case, the proposal of ATV trails where they are not wanted sounds more like a behind-the-scenes personal favor than good stewardship of state parks. A November 9 post on the Utah State Parks blog says there will be a public comment process before any final decisions about ATVs on Antelope Island are made.

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Trump expected to visit and shrink two national treasures President Trump has said he will come to Utah in early December to announce downsizing of two National Monuments, Bears Ears (formed 12/28/2016 by President Obama) and

Grand Staircase Escalante (formed 10/18/1996

by President Clinton). Visit CATALYST’s website for details re. the politics behind this move.

A Rally Against Trump’s Monumental Mistake is scheduled to take place at the Utah State Capitol in Salt Lake City, December 2, from 1:00-2:30 pm. As of this writing, nobody seems to know exactly what date Trump is planning to be in Utah, or where in Utah he will be so keep an eye out for news updates. ◆

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BREATHE

VW deception redux (and come-uppance) Thanks to an allocation of about $35 million from the Volkswagen Settlement, Utah has a unique opportunity to replace some old dirty diesel equipment with new, cleaner models.

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ou may recall hearing about the VW scandal that hit the headlines last year.

After an extensive investigation, VW finally admitted to installing “cheat devices” in about 11 million cars worldwide including 500,000 cars in the U.S. during model years 2009-2015. The affected 2.0-liter diesel cars include the Beetle, Beetle convertible, Golf, Golf Sportswagen, Jetta, Jetta Sportswagen, Passat and Audi A3.

VW intentionally programmed their turbocharged direct injection diesel engines to “cheat” on emissions tests. The “cheat device,” essentially a line of code in the vehicle’s software, was able to recognize when a vehicle was undergoing an emissions test and activate some emissions controls only during the emissions testing. The programming caused the vehicles’ NOx (nitrogen oxide pollution) output to meet U.S. standards during regulatory testing, but emit up to 40 times more NOx when actually driving.

All 3.0-liter turbocharged direct injection diesel engines sold in the U.S. from 2009-2015 were also fitted with emissions-cheating software, in the form of “alternate exhaust control devices.” The affected 3.0-liter vehicles emit up to nine times the federal standard under normal operation. About 85,000 of these vehicles have been sold in the U.S. since 2009 including VW Touareg, Porsche Cayenne, Audi A6 Quattro, Audi A7 Quattro, Audi A8, Audi A8L, Audi Q5 and Audi Q7 models.

So why would a car manufacturer like VW want to “cheat” emissions?

The EPA dramatically raised the bar for emissions standards starting with model year 2004.

This new standard presented a tough engineering challenge to automakers. VW had its eyes set on being the market leader in fuel-efficient diesel passenger cars. They just needed a way around U.S. emissions standards.

You see, diesel cars get more torque, achieve better mileage and hold their long-term value

BY ASHLEY MILLER better than most gas-powered vehicles, but the exhaust contains more NOx. And that is exactly what the EPA targeted when ramping up emissions standards.

NOx is a crucial component of EPA’s strategy for cleaner air due to its negative health and environmental impacts. Suppressing the emissions controls allowed for better fuel economy, power and performance—but at the expense of emitting up to 40 times more NOx than allowed by law, and all at the expense of our health.

To settle these violations, VW agreed to pay $15.7 billion, divided into three components: $10.8 billion for vehicle buyback and emission control modifications on at least 85% of the affected vehicles; $2 billion to promote the use of zero-emissions vehicles and infrastructure; and $2.9 billion for the Environmental Mitigation Trust, intended for NOx reduction projects to compensate for the excess NOx emissions from the affected 2.0 and 3.0 liter vehicles.

Impact in Utah Approximately 7,000 vehicles in Utah were affected by the cheat devices. There are nearly 6,000 2.0 liter VW vehicles (model years 20092015) and about 1,000 3.0 liter diesel VW, Audi or Porsche vehicles (model years 2009-2015) statewide. About 70% of these affected vehicles are registered in the non-attainment counties, the counties that fail to meet the National Ambient Air Quality Standards. Owners of these affected vehicles are able to apply for a buyback, or have the emissions controls fixed at VW’s expense, similar to a recall.

Cheating emissions is especially worrisome in a state like Utah, where we already have troubled air quality. We certainly don’t need any extra, unnecessary pollution entering our delicate airshed. The Division of Air Quality determined that the excess NOx emissions from the affected VW, Audi and Porsche vehicles are estimated to be about 230 tons per year.

If you’re wondering what 230 tons of NOx looks like, consider that on a typical winter

weekday in the Salt Lake Valley the total NOx emissions coming from vehicles is about 72 tons. So 230 tons is roughly three weekdays worth of car pollution. The 2014 inventory shows that the total NOx emissions from vehicles is 23,744 tons per year. The extra 230 tons represents about 1% of the annual emissions.

Either way you look at it, it’s pollution that we didn’t need.

Why do we care about NOx? NOx negatively impacts the environment in a number of ways. When emitted into the atmosphere it contributes to the formation of fine particulate matter pollution, like the pollution we see during our wintertime inversions (PM 2.5), and it also contributes to the formation of ground level ozone pollution that is so prevalent during our hot summer months. NOx also contributes to the formation of acid rain and to nutrient overload that deteriorates water quality.

Human health concerns from NOx exposure include effects on breathing and the respiratory system, damage to lung tissue, increased asthma and premature death. The tiny particles can penetrate deeply into sensitive parts of the lungs and can cause or worsen respiratory diseases like emphysema and even bronchitis (that nagging cough that just won’t quit). Exposure can also aggravate existing heart disease, leading to an increase in heart attacks and strokes.

The silver lining Now, the good news. As a beneficiary under the Environmental Mitigation Trust, Utah can apply for just over $35 million in funds to execute projects designed to reduce NOx emissions in the state. Only certain types of vehicles and engines are eligible under the settlement, and the engines that are replaced must be scrapped. You can rest easy knowing that a dirty engine won’t be replaced and simply reused somewhere else. This money gives the state the opportunity to replace things like

those really dirty diesel garbage trucks that spew black smoke in our neighborhoods, or the local delivery trucks that emit huge plumes of black smoke at every intersection.

The state can also choose to allocate up to 15% of the funds for electric vehicle-charging infrastructure.

Suppressing the emissions controls allowed for better fuel economy, power and performance—but at the expense of emitting up to 40 times more NOx than allowed by law.

The Division of Air Quality welcomed public comment on the eligible criteria in November.

With this information and the recommendation from the advisory committee they will be busy drafting a plan and begin applying for the funds as early as Spring 2018. Under the settlement the state can apply for up to onethird of the funding each year. The money is good for 10 years.

In addition to the $35 million from the Trust, the state was awarded $7.5 million from the consumer fraud portion of the settlement.

Governor Herbert has earmarked this money to replace dirty diesel school buses with cleaner models. This will greatly benefit the health of school children riding the bus, as well as those affected during pickup and dropoff at school.

This money will provide Utah a welcome advantage in the ongoing challenge of reducing air pollution and improving the health of its citizens. ◆ Ashley Miller, J.D., is CATALYST’s new air quality columnist. Miller is program and policy director for Breathe Utah. She was recently appointed to the state’s new Air Quality Policy Advisory Board and is also a member of the SL County Health Department Environmental Quality Advisory Commission.

All original owners should have been sent a notice. If you have purchased a used vehicle that you think may be affected, visit these websites: WWW.VWCOURTSETTLEMENT.COM/EN/VW.UTAH.GOV

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NEIGHBORHOOD HISTORY

Past and present collide at

Warm Springs

BY MICHAEL MCLANE

Hot spring three miles from SLC (Stansbury Survey drawing)

In its heyday, the scarred landscape of Salt Lake City’s Beck St. area was a site of physical and spiritual healing.

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o one dreams of this place anymore,” the city employee told me as we toed the ledge of the main pool in the former Wasatch Warm Springs Plunge building, now empty save a smattering of office chairs, papers and a few dead birds in its deep end. It is spring of 2015 and this visit is the culmination of nearly three years spent studying the history of the Beck Street area of Salt Lake City, of which the Warm Springs Plunge building is the southern terminus. I spent months pushing for this brief access. Now, I am trying to take in as much as possible, as quickly as possible, before he escorts me out again.

I don’t think his comment was nostalgic or poetic. It was a simple observation of the neglect the building has undergone at various times since the mid-1970s. Ever since its last full-time tenant, the Children’s Museum, vacated for the Gateway, it has loomed over Beck Street derelict and ominous, a sorry reminder of its heyday as a resort and recreational haven for city residents.

It is easy to observe the chipping plaster, the boarded up windows and the unkempt landscaping and assume what he says is true— dreams of this kind faded with the onset of the interstate and increased refinery operations.

These springs, like the Pool of Siloam, heal all who bathe, no matter what their complaints. The air is very salubrious, and with these Warm Springss, I can truly say we have found a healthy country. — T. Bullock

Progress will claim Warm Springs as it has its myriad sister resorts along Beck Street and around the Great Salt Lake. This makes it easier to understand why the only proposal for the site currently under consideration by the city is Woodbury Corporation’s plan for a seven-story Map showing Hot Spring Lake )

In the 1800s, Hot Spring Lake, with a four- to fivemile shoreline, was a health and recreation site. But in 1915, city health officials decided to drain the lake. It is now the site of I-15, Hwy. 89 and refineries. Only a few sulfurous ponds remain.

Hot Spring Postcard (Utah State Historical Society)

apartment complex that would dwarf the current building while subsuming its structure— protected by its presence on the National Register of Historic Places—into the project as a space for offices.

However, his statement is also untrue. People have dreamed of uses for the site since its closure as a municipal pool in 1976, and the dreams of the place prior to that are a palimpsest of historically and emotionally rich stories of place and community that go back at least 170 years, and perhaps far longer.

This writer’s connection to the area is no different—my sister was a volunteer at the Children’s Museum and took me there often; my father spent a career as a yardmaster for the adjacent Union Pacific Railroad, his yard tower providing me an aerial view of this steamy, smoky and loud part of the city; and two of my uncles were among the many children treated for polio in the hydrotherapy pools at Warm Springs.

What I found when I began my research in 2013 was that many people had stories of this place, particularly Baby Boomers, but had largely misplaced these memories because proximity breeds familiarity and I-15 had long diverted them away from this industrial corridor. But not everyone takes the shortcut I-15 offers and those with memories of Saturdays spent at the springs needed little coaxing to share their stories.

“Medical geography” The story of Mormon pioneers “making the desert bloom” in the Salt Lake valley is an enduring one, inextricable from the other Mosaic imagery that the group would repurpose for themselves or have placed upon them—a people chased from their homeland, wandering

the desert, settling next to a dead sea, coaxing what little they could from a barren land. It is also convenient myth.

The valley itself was more an oasis on the brink of the Great Basin. Seven watershed creeks poured off the Wasatch and, along with the Jordan River, fed a series of lakes and lakelets throughout the valley prior to emptying into Great Salt Lake. Water quickly became the focal point of the settlement’s municipal and recreational needs.

in circumference in high waters. Collectively, these features constitute the Wasatch Springs Fault geothermal area.

Such abundant geothermal activity did not go unnoticed by early settlers. On July 22, 1847, two days before Brigham Young and company arrived in the valley, Erasmus Snow became the first Mormon to discover the springs while part of a scouting party. Four days later, Snow returned to the springs with Young, and Thomas Bullock, who noted in his journal, “we returned

Warm Springs bath house (Utah State Historical Society)

Among the waters in the valley was a complex series of hot springs and seeps at the foot of the Wasatch, starting just north of Ensign Peak and continuing north to the Salt Lake/Davis county line. Between Warm Springs, the spring nearest the Plunge building, and Beck’s Hot Springs at the far north of this stretch, another four dozen or so springs were documented by early settlers. Most of them drained into Hot Spring Lake—a substantial body of water with a shoreline four to five miles

The story of Mormon pioneers “making the desert bloom” is a myth. The valley itself was more of an oasis, with seven watershed creeks and abundant geothermal activity.

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Warm Springs Plunge (Utah State Historical Society)

to the nearest hot spring and bathed in it. It was very warm, & smelt very bad. After washing we returned to camp, when I had a sweating.” However, it didn’t take Bullock long to change his mind about Warm Springs once Young solicited him to excavate the site. An entry in his journal a short while later states: “…north of the Temple Block is a sulpher spring which I dug out and made into a beautiful place. My fingers rooted out the stones, and a couple of brethren afterwards assisted me with spades to dig out a place, about sixteen feet square, to bathe in—seven or eight persons often bathe in it at a time…”

Bullock was also likely the first to describe the purported healing properties of the springs when he wrote “These springs, like the Pool of Siloam, heal all who bathe, no matter what their complaints. The air is very salubrious, and with these Warm Springs, I can truly say we have found a healthy country.”

By the mid-19th

century, “medical geography” was popular with Americans around the nation. At its heart was the belief that curative properties were inherent to particular places, with hot springs prominent amongst such geographical features. The enduring popularity of sites such as Hot Springs, Arkansas and Warm Springs, Georgia (where Franklin Delano Roosevelt famously convalesced) speak to the power of these beliefs.

Medical geography was as important to Mormons as it was to other Americans, and Young’s directive to Bullock points to his immediate recognition of the importance of the site for the community. The springs provided uses both practical and recreational, though the lack of facilities would necessitate the designation of certain days for men, and others for women and children. However, the site also served a critical spiritual purpose for the community—baptisms. This rite was known as “taking the waters,” and was often undertaken even by those who had previously been baptized. This was especially true for European immigrants who, though they had been baptized in their nation of origin, saw the rebaptism as a means of further assimilating into their new homeland.

Long before the arrival of the Mormons, bands of Shoshone and Utes had used the geothermal area as wintering grounds. It was at the springs that some of the earliest substantial

and long-term contact between Mormons and Native peoples occurred and there exist little documentation during the winters of 1847 and 1848 indicating that relations were strained.

However, early in the winter of 1849, measles arrived in the valley via an immigrant party, and the disease ran rampant at the springs, decimating Ute and Shoshone groups alike. In one particularly haunting account, an early pioneer wrote that they “would rush past our cabin howling and screaming—run and jump into the Warm Springs & then take cold and die…at all times of day or night their howls or mournings rent the air.” It would mark the last winter Mormons and Native Americans would encounter one another at the springs.

Bathhouse, ward house, commingling with gentiles Young recognized the role the springs could play in the economy of the city. In 1848, he commissioned a bathhouse on the site, naming James Hendricks to serve as its overseer as well as the first bishop of the newly formed 19th ward, which utilized the bathhouse as their ward house for a number of years. Completed in 1850, the bathhouse was one of Young’s first public works projects, intended not only to improve the settlement and bring

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What’s next for Warm Springs Park

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n 1999, the Does it still Capitol Hill have its anCommunity cient healing Council fought p o w e r s ? to have the "We're workspace around ing to learn the Warm everything we Spring Plunge can about the designated a water that park and to comes out of have nearby the ground at springs partially perfect soakrestored. The ing temperaconstruction of ture,” says the Marmalade Nibley. "The Library in 2015 indicated a similar pollution test came back squeaky recognition that nearby neighbor- clean.” The water's mineral conhoods have long lacked many of tent includes sodium, calcium, the resources available to other magnesium and sulphur (a test areas of the city. for trace minerals had not yet Likewise, as word of the Wood- been conducted). The group has bury proposal for the Warm also made contact with a UniverSprings housing project spread, a sity of Utah researcher who studnumber of like-minded people ies microbes in hot springs. have come together under the name of the Warm Springs AlAccording to Nibley, about 90 liance with the goal of preserving interested citizens attended last the site as a community gathering month's Warm Springs Alliance place. It is a goal community meetworthy of the hising, including a tory of the site and government emone worthy of the ployee who has neighborhoods it been part of the city would serve. team working on Apartment buildreal estate proposings and townals for the Warm homes privatize Springs site (the space and neglect employee came as the intersectionalan independent obity that Warm server and gave no Springs embraced comments). At the to a far greater demeeting, attendees gree than did the formed working rest of a city often groups to address divided by religion community outThe actual spring and other boundaries. At reach, fundraising, fua time when it seems nearly every ture actions and other needs. site in the city is turned over to Anyone who would like to join in housing development, what do the effort to preserve what’s left of we gain in compromising that his- the Warm Springs Park is warmly tory with one more apartment welcomed. "We are making this complex? happen. We are mobilizing. We are not waiting for someone else to While the land is considered act," says Nibley. ◆ worth saving from a historical For more information and to sign a petition viewpoint, what about the pres- to save the Warm Springs go to ent-day condition of the water? WARMSPRINGSALLIANCE.ORG

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Ongoing expansion of Beck Street’s industrial activities worsened the long-standing air pollution problems in the city. in outside revenue, but to foster cooperation in the fledgling community.

The small resort was popular with travelers, military men, federal agents, and miners, most of whom were “gentiles,” a term appropriated

by Mormons to describe nonmembers. The bathhouse, with its rooms for rent and nearby hotels marked one of the earliest examples of Mormons comingling in an amicable way with the outside world after their arrival in the valley. Though all the early businesses in the area were LDS owned, the location of the resort and its amenities did provide a convenient distance between visitors and the city proper. Gentiles could be kept at arm’s length; nonetheless, proprietors did not fail to cater to the tastes of outsiders, with one hotel even holding a liquor license, the only one in the city at the time.

By 1855, the original bathhouse had fallen into disrepair and was sold to the A.H. Raleigh Golden Tannery. While the owners of the tannery ceased offering rooms for rent, they continued to offer bathing services. Even these reduced amenities quickly fell into disrepair under the new ownership and by 1859, the property had changed hands once again.

The proximity of bathing facilities to a tannery, one of the most noxious and toxic industries of the 19th century, did not improve its situation. This multipurpose venture, along

Beneath the industrial grit of Beck Street, 170 years of history lies dormant, stifled or diverted in much the same way all but a few of the springs have been. It is made up of layer after layer of community, all of whom treated the springs as a focal point.

Becks Street by Michael McLane

with the increasing excavation of nearby gravel pits, marked the first steps in what became a theme for the area—the juxtaposition of recreational and industrial space, a site of both physical and spiritual healing giving way to a scarred landscape.

The Wasatch Warm Springs Plunge building was constructed in 1921 and was one of the first, and one of few surviving, examples of Mediterranean-style architecture in the city.

Unlike other nearby resorts, Warm Springs remained a municipal facility for nearly all its history. In addition to the massive public pool, the facility also featured a secondary deep plunge reserved for private parties, a dozen private soaking tanks, a barber shop, hair dresser, large locker rooms, five private rooms on the upper floor available for rent, and even men’s and women’s masseurs. Though the Great Depression and World War II both threatened closure or a change to private ownership, the community continued to support municipal ownership for the site.

Though it endured the longest, with increasingly larger and more lavish iterations, Warm Springs did not remain the only waterbased resort in the valley for long. It was not even the only resort in the geothermal area.

Local tourism’s emphasis on mountain-based recreation (“The Greatest Snow on Earth,”“Life Elevated”) dates only to the 1930s. The 80-plus years prior were dominated by water-centered recreation in the valley.

Many Salt Lake residents are familiar with Saltair, on the shores of Great Salt Lake, which still exists as a shell of its former self. Far fewer are aware of the string of resorts, such as Lakeside, Garfield Beach and Black Rock that once

lined its shores and catered to locals and tourists alike. Though few traces exist of this history, these resorts once warranted a dedicated “leisure line”—the Great Salt Lake and Hot Springs Railway—with service to Saltair, Garfield Beach, Warm Springs, Beck’s Hot Springs, Bountiful’s Eden Park and finally the Lagoon resort in Farmington.

The aforementioned Beck’s Hot Springs was a short distance from Warm Springs and sat on the shores of Hot Spring Lake. Named for its owner John Beck, who also owned Saratoga Springs in Utah County and was Beck Street’s namesake, the resort was a bastion of recreation for locals and visitors alike. Opened in the mid-1880s and advertised as the “coming sanitarium of the West,” the resort contained the largest and hottest of the springs. It featured a deep plunge that was 30 feet by 75 feet, a “private” plunge 40 feet by 80 feet, and 12 private baths measuring 10 feet by 10 feet. The grounds featured wide lawns and shaded picnic areas, dance floors, billiard tables and other games as well as first-rate lodging. The west end of the Hot Spring Lake had a small stream that joined to the Jordan River, which then flowed into the Great Salt Lake, providing an ideal spot much of the year for boating.

A change in priorities Like many of the other resorts in the area, the constant upkeep of facilities adjacent to brackish waters as well as a series of fires would lead to Beck’s Hot Springs changing hands

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SPIRIT

Honoring the elements Meditation on a home altar

BY MERRY LYCETT HARRISON

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s the bright days of summer fade to soggy, gauzy grey, I wrap my sweater close for warmth and desire to be safely home before early darkness falls.

With comforts all around, I find I have time to reflect and attend to maintenance of more personal things. Besides my closet and the to-do pile of papers, bills and photographs, I examine my altar and notice it needs care and cleaning.

It hardly looks like a religious altar. The assemblage of treasures and finds on top of this small, chest-high bureau feels more like a shrine of an ancient, indigenous culture found under a rock overhang near a constantly flowing spring or in a hole of a gnarled tree where deposits of offerings endlessly accumulate. These items bring me pleasure every time I pass by.

In the center on a handwoven placemat is a small, old Navajo wedding basket which still has cornmeal from the ceremony caught between its fibers. It holds two rattles and a wooden whistle which I use sometimes to shake up my thoughts or break up energy around me that I do not want.

There is a shell for water, a candle for fire, a couple of feathers for air, and a dense, heavy chunk of petrified wood for earth. A pretty handmade clay bowl, given to me in trade for my herbal goods by a man who later got very ill with an incurable disease, lets me remember him.

Humor and whimsy are in the miniature hand-carved dog from Mexico (an alebrijes?) and green plastic soldier with rifle posed in a forward, charge position. They represent safety and protection.

A quartz crystal is for light and clarity. A salt crystal from the Great Salt Lake tells the story of its awesome otherworldy landscape. The random rocks are ones I’ve picked up while hiking and exploring. One is in the shape of a phallus. Another, a smooth, oblong river rock, is split in half so precisely that when I put the two pieces together, I cannot tell there is a break at all. Somehow, it has a lesson for me that I cannot, nor would I care to, put into words.

It is enough just to see and hold it.

The piece of driftwood in the exact shape of a cross caught my eye while walking along a river at a time I was struggling and seeking, if not answers, solace. Scent and smudge sources of incense, a sweetgrass braid and white sage bundle lie nearby for me to light whenever I feel the need.

I hold each item briefly as I dust.

They all still feel precious to me. I have never discarded or replaced, only added more. Most have been free, like gifts, from the natural world from which we all arise. It is a fond ritual to tend my altar. Ever present, it reminds me of my life and connects me to who I am. â—† Merry Lycett Harrison is a registered herbalist, member of the American Herbalists Guild and the author of Herbs for All. HTTP://WWW.MILLCREEKHERBS.COM

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Long before the arrival of the Mormons, bands of Shoshone and Utes had used the geothermal area as wintering grounds. lead to Beck’s Hot Springs changing hands shortly after the turn of the 19th century, and then many more times over the next 40 or so years. The property’s final owners, the HOM

Beck’s Hot Springs Resort (Utah Historical Society)

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Company and chemist Harvey Woodbury (there seems to be no relation between Harvey Woodbury and Woodbury Corporation) purchased it in 1943 in the hopes of developing it into a health center. Woodbury’s plans were defeated by new and stringent Health Department regulations and by the site’s condem- nation in 1953, after which the state took control of the land to use for portions of Highway 89 and later I-15.

Hot Spring Lake had fared worse. In 1915, the decision was made to drain the lake. The reason given by health officials was mosquito abatement, though its demise was expedited by Salt Lake City’s construction of a gravity sewer in the 1890s that drained i n t o

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canals adjacent to the Lake. Over the years, the effluent eventually made its way to the lake causing complaints from boaters and other recreationists. Save a few small sulfurous ponds alongside I15, nothing remains of the lake and few residents ever knew it was there.

By the summer of 1943, 40 cases of poliomyelitis had been reported in Utah. As numbers continued to increase, the Health Department promptly ordered all public pools closed, including Beck’s Hot Springs and the Wasatch Warm Springs Plunge.

The two hot springs facilities were also identified as potential hydrotherapy sites for polio

victims. Wasatch Warm Springs would become an epicenter for such treatment, with physicians recommending patients in Utah seek attention there.

But the massive public plunges in the adjacent rooms were proving to be a problem. Studies commissioned by the State Department of Health in 1947 indicated that bacterial counts in the water were high enough to pose a hazard to swimmers. The Health Department’s recommendation was that the water be heavily chlorinated to kill bacteria.

However, sulfurous spring water cannot be chlorinated without producing precipitates harmful to both swimmers and the facilities themselves. In 1949, after a long closure and repeated debates, it

Inside the Warm Springs plunge main pool area, then and now.

was decided that the two large pools would be filled instead with fresh water, while the small private baths could continue to utilize spring water.

The municipal pool closed in 1976.

Industry wins By the onset of World War II, the petroleum industry along Beck Street was already decades old and had grown by orders of magnitude. Refineries such as Utah Oil Company (later purchased by Tesoro) became an integral part of the military-industrial complex.

With its adjacent railroad corridor, the newly constructed pipeline delivering crude products for re-

fining, and its contributions to American military dominance, this small stretch of Salt Lake City welcomed globalization on a scale that far exceeded the wave of tourists the railroad welcomed into the city’s resorts in the 1870s.

At the same time that the refineries were expanding and growing in number, the city itself was growing exponentially. The need for aggregate materials such as gravel and asphalt increased in proportion to the size and population of the city. What had been a smattering of small-scale gravel pits along the east side of the Beck Street area grew to fill this need. Suburbs, airport expansions and I-15 reconstruction contin-

Children’s Museum April 2015 by Michael McLane

ued to fuel this growth. Initial limits imposed on the growth of extraction were discarded and it is seemingly only the city’s prescient wilderness designation starting at the Bonneville bench of the Wasatch that has constrained their operations. * * * Beneath the industrial grit of Beck Street, 170 years of history lies dormant, stifled or diverted in much the same way all but a few of the springs have been. It is made up of layer after layer of community, all of whom treated the springs as a focal point.

From Ute and Shoshone encampments and the 19th Ward to the Scandinavian settlers in

Swedetown and the young victims of polio convalescing in the pools, the springs were a place where difference was a constant yet the leisure and healing the space allowed was held in common. The Warm Springs Plunge building and the green space that surrounds it remain the last vestiges of a complex history documenting the displacement of the places people recreated by the places they worked. ◆ Michael McLane is the director of the Utah Humanities Council’s Center for the Book.

He is currently working on his masters thesis in Environmental Humanities at the University of Utah.

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COEVOLUTION

Intersections of science, art and faith in a universe that is

Constantly expanding, unfathomably small

BY ROBERT LAWRENCE

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o much of mankind’s history is defined by the scientific discoveries, artistic creations and sacred traditions of faith that have nurtured the human mind, body and soul. Science, art and faith have each painted their colors on the Wasatch Front’s unique canvas, and those colors have bled together in vibrant ways to produce bold innovation, deep communion and unrestrained wonder.

Standing at these points of intersection are several local residents who are invigorated in their work because of it. Their efforts to merge philosophies stimulates and challenges Utah’s unique culture.

ple involved in that process. She reflected on how it found its place in the valley.

“The idea grew that this would be a new kind of museum seeking to blend the arts with the sciences, questioning their usual silos in our thinking and education,” she recalls. “We didn’t have anything like it! We were growing and the creative energy here was on the rise. It was time.”

In contrast to traditional museums that can be two-dimensional and hands-off, everything about The Leonardo is three-dimensional and interactive. Jann says this approach has sparked a trend that is spreading to other museums, offering the public a counterpoint to the virtual world that too often consumes us.

Jann notes that The Leonardo is a work in Science + art = innovation progress that adapts to the community. This or“Art is the queen of all sciences communicat- ganic process guides so many of its exhibits, ing knowledge to all the generations of the and mirrors the experience that is intended for the curious patrons who Ralphael world.”

— Leonardo da Vinci visit. “The arc of development calls Plescia upon the participants to respond, as seen in Atlas Obscura A recent study reported that the most ac- change, enhance, question – all the complished scientists are likely to also have things we ask of ourselves and our artistic interests and hobbies. Scientists who visitors. At best, it is a partnership have won a Nobel Prize, for instance, are almost with our community; at worst, a way three times more likely than average scientists of finding out that mistakes can inand the general public to have artistic inclina- form and create new thinking and new paths.” tions.

Response, change, enhancement Among the distinguished handful of Nobel Prize-winning scientists is Mario Capecchi, who and questioning are embodied by artist/architect Philip Beesley’s has been a professor of biology at the University of Utah since 1973. You could say Maria Capecchi “Hylozoic Veil” exhibit permanently on display at The that Capecchi’s artistic hobby is The Leonardo. The arrangement Leonardo museum downtown on Library of 500,000 small skeletonSquare, for which he serves as an advisor like pieces are suspended to the Board of Directors. together to construe a large The mission of The Leonardo museum piece of living architecture is to “fuse science, technology and art in that spans three floors, and is experiences that inspire creativity and engineered with sensors to move in reinnovation.” Its goal is to embody the sponse to subtle changes in the muspirit of its namesake so that spirit can permeate through the population, and make seum environment, such as the proximity of a human observer. The piece is aptly named in Salt Lake a Renaissance City.

The Leonardo has been open since 2011, but reference to hylozoism, the ancient philosophy the ideas behind it had been simmering in the that life is an inherent characteristic of all matcommunity for about a decade prior to that. ter in the universe.

The Leonardo’s Innovation Showcase highJann Haworth, who now serves as the Creative lights local Leonardo-like innovators like Mario Director for The Leonardo, was one of the peo-

detail of Philip Beesley’s “Hylozoic Veil”

Capecchi and their creations, a whole floor devoted to the science and history of aviation and flight, and the Woman/Women exhibit, recognizing women who have been a catalyst for change in the arts and sciences. The exhibit includes a large collaborative mural of 150 women—the brainchild of Jann Haworth, who is herself a well-known and influential pioneer of the pop art movement.

Art + faith = communion “If beautiful art does not express moral ideas, ideas which unite people, then it is not art, but only entertainment.”

— Immanuel Kant Ralphael Plescia is the owner of a small property sandwiched between a series of older, nondescript buildings that line State Street on the block of 13th south in Salt Lake City. But Ralphael’s property is anything but nondescript.

On the exterior, a relief of religious imagery and symbols emerges from a brick and cement background on which the title “CHRIStIAN SCHOOL” is painted in letters large enough to be read from the other side of State Street.

Near the door is a hand-painted sign that lets the curious know they are welcome to visit on Fridays and Sundays between 11 am and 4 pm to learn more.

No further advertisement exists elsewhere, and there is no fee. Just knock.

Those who enter the Christian School will take part in an ineffable work in progress that resembles a studio more than a chapel or classroom. Three floors are imbedded with sculptures, carvings, drawings and paintings devoted to themes that are apparently reli-

gious, and some themes that perhaps aren’t so rarely do you meet ones like Ralphael Plescia apparently religious. Scattered among the in- and Thomas Child who are so deliberate in terior décor of artwork are books, chairs, a 1931 their pursuit for understanding. For them, creCadillac and other forms of miscellany. ation is communion.

Ralphael’s Christian School is a product of passion that has occupied his sundry talents since the late 1980s, when he first began to ex- Faith + science = wonder plore art as a means of illustrating how scientific “Philosophy is written in the grand book of and religious principles are compatible. Ralphael the universe, which stands continually open to is a student of texts and philosophies from many our gaze.” faiths who feels that the less obvious and most — Galileo Galilei important interpretations are more adequately articulated with a paintbrush than a pen. “I show When 22-year-old Charles Darwin boarded a what is ignored,” he will tell you. crowded ship bound for the Galapagos islands The Christian School is probably not like any- in 1831, his limited luggage included two thing that you’ve ever seen – unless, perhaps, books. One was Principles of Geology, by his you’ve been to Gilgal Sculpture Garden over on mentor Charles Lyell. The other was his per5th South. The creator of Gilgal Sculpture Gar- sonal copy of the King James Bible. den, Thomas Child, asked the question, “Can I By the end of Darwin’s life, he was less fond create a sanctuary or atmosphere in my yard of religion, which in turn became less fond of that will shut out the fear and keep one's mind his theories. Partly because of this, perhaps no young and alert to the last, no matter how per- philosophical divorce has been as bitter as ilous the times?” modern religion and science.

He spent the last 18 years of his life carving “I think there is a lot of misunderstanding behis response to that question in stone before tween the two groups,” observes Steven Peck, he passed away in 1963. The result was Gilgal, an evolutionary biologist and Associate Profesa set of imaginative sculptures that pay hom- sor of Biology at Brigham Young University. age to sacred texts according to Child’s per“I don’t think people of faith need to be afraid sonal and sometimes mysterious interpreta- of science, I think it’s the best way to understand tions of them. the universe that we have,” Steven explains. He Ralphael knows Gilgal Sculpture Garden adds, “On the other side, I think people of sciwell. In fact, in his youth, he knew its creator, ence need to have humility about the questions too. “Child was my Bishop,” Ralphael explained. science can and can’t answer. Science doesn’t “I went to the 10th ward.” handle questions about value and meaning at As a boy of junior high age, Ralphael often all, and religion is very strong on that.” played football with friends near Bishop Child’s Steven has elaborated extensively on the inhome and eventually became aware of the tersection of faith and science in his books tisculptures that Child was making in his yard. tled as well as in his posts on the popular LDS “I’d walk over to see if he was working on it,” blog By Common Consent. He is a prolific auRalphael recalls. “I’d stand there and watch him. thor, and writes novels and poetry, too.

I knew nothing about it. I didn’t know what any Steven became interested in science and of that stuff stood for, I didn’t understand evolution while growing up in Moab, it. I watched him, but I didn’t think I’d be Utah – a city built on sandstone and Jann Haworth doing anything like this.” dinosaur bones. “We had these Like Thomas Child, Ralphael is given books in our house on the to using art to express what cannot early man and dinosaurs, I always be adequately stated with words loved that kind of thing when about life’s most spiritual questions.

I was a kid,” he remembers.

Religious people are common, but

However, the paths of theology and theory did not begin to converge for him until his studies in college at BYU. “There was a teacher named Duane Jeffery who sort of introduced evolution to BYU. He came in the late ’60s and started the evolution classes. He was a big influence on me. He modeled the idea that you could be an evolutionary biologist and a person of faith as well.”

Since that time, Steven believes there has been growing local acceptance of scientific ideas such as evolution that have previously challenged religious thinking. “There’s a big difference between when I was an undergraduate here and when I came here as a faculty member, and I think, in my experience, it continues to grow,” he observed. “Students that are arriving are much better grounded in science, and not as afraid of it.”

As scientific explanations related to man’s origin become increasingly fundamental in our understanding, and religious thinking evolves in response to new discoveries, science and faith can begin to converge rather than conflict.

For the scientific, it may require acknowledgement that the purposes of faith often lie outside the bounds of the material world, and people of faith are varied and complex in their personal beliefs rather than simple caricatures of religious fundamentalism.

For the religious, this may require understanding scriptures to be an ancient account of man’s spiritual relationship with deity, rather than historical documents to be interpreted literally without regard to physical evidence.

For both, Steven Peck hopes that mutual understanding will expand one’s capacity to appreciate the wonder of a human consciousness that exists in a universe that is constantly expanding, and at the same time unfathomably small.

To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour — William Blake, Augaries of Innocence Robert Lawrence is a former research scientist who now writes about science. He is also a person of faith who enjoys taking the occasional pottery class. You can find more of his work at WWW.ROBERTLAWRENCEPHD.COM Woman/Women at the Leonardo

AGING GRACEFULLY

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Lessons in courage

Sometimes the saying is true: We teach what we most need to learn

BY DEBBIE LEAMAN

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've taken ski lessons since the age of seven, and have always hated them. I've been led down chutes, over precipices and through the trees, and have panicked more than once. While I love to ski, and want to improve, I struggle to keep my fear in check.

So why, at the age of 57 did I become a ski instructor?

Five years ago, when my husband decided to become a part-time ski instructor, I was happy to stay home on Sundays, especially when the temperature slid below zero. After his first season, some instructors, including my husband, suggested I become an instructor, too. "You'd be great!" they all said.

"No way, It's so not me."

They persisted. I love to be wanted, and if they thought I could do it....

Then I remembered what I hate about ski lessons: hard-core instructors, feeling captive, and not knowing where I'll end up on the mountain. But I was curious.... Could I do that?

The following season, I realized I'd been skiing for 50 years and wasn't getting any younger. I was afraid of getting hurt. I didn't want to stop skiing; Iwasn't sure I

wanted to continue, either. But there was another option to retain my passion: I could give back.... I could teach.

Teach? I could be the ski instructor I'd always wanted—someone compassionate who understands fear. I wouldn't be captive, I'd be in charge.

By December, I was in instructor training and quickly realized it didn't matter that I'd been skiing for over five decades, I had no clue how to teach it. My head was spinning with information. Was I too old for this?

Then I got my resort jacket and name badge, and it was official; I was a ski instructor.

That first year, I fought my anxiety as my husband and I drove up the canyon every Sunday. I was quiet. No, I was a bitch. Not knowing what my day would look like was more unpredictability than I could handle. Would I be teaching fiveyear-olds, teens or adults? How would I get two squirming kids on the chairlift at once? What if I pull my back out? I obsessed about safety—the students’ and my own.

Within weeks, my first worst fear came true when I observed a class of adults learning to turn. One student had skied years ago and as-

I could be the ski instructor I'd always wanted—someone compassionate who understands fear.

sured us she was fine riding the beginner lift herself. She took the chair in front of me, but didn't stand up in time, and as the chair made its way around, she panicked and jumped. Her agonizing shriek sliced through me. She'd broken her pelvis. As the swarm of ski patrollers descended, I wondered, why the hell am I doing this?

A few weeks later, I co-taught a class of fourth graders from Ski Utah—a program where kids from all over the Salt Lake valley ski free at local resorts. For most of them, it's the only chance they'll ever get to experience skiing. In the chaotic tangle of 10-year-olds, skis and errant mittens, Isabelle and Maddie stood out. Isabelle, timid and afraid, told me, "I can't do this. I'm not strong." Skiing backwards, I guided her down the gentle hill. She kept falling and I kept picking her up. She wanted to quit but I urged her to try again. "I can't do this," she repeated. "You're doing it!" I said. When we reached the bottom, I pointed up the hill. "Look what you just skied!" But she sat on the snow, dispirited. She was done; she didn't care that it takes time to learn something new. Her fear had won over and she felt like she'd failed. I was once that little girl. Maybe I still am.

I trekked back up to help the next in line, Maddie, who lunged for my goggles. "I want these," she said, pulling them from my face.

Then, she grabbed my poles.

"What are these? I want them!" I immediately chucked my poles to the side to avoid someone getting stabbed in the eye, but a few minutes later, Maddie was swinging them around. Then she dropped them and took off on her skis down the hill. "Maddie, stop!"

I yelled, but realized she didn't know how. As she gained speed, I was sure she was going to plow into somebody or end up in the

I love the camaraderie among the instructors —a mix of tattooed 20-somethings, mid-lifers and AARP members, all of us there to help others learn to ski. parking lot. I raced down to help her, but when she saw me, she crouched on the back of her skis, laughing with pure joy. Finally, she fell over to her side. "Again!" she said, "I want to do that again!"

And she did. Many times.

I've often thought of those two girls; they became my teachers: Isabelle, self-critical and ruled by fear; Maddie, unafraid and willing to go for it.

This past season, my husband was hired to teach skiing in a different canyon. Separate resorts?

Weren't we doing this to be together? I stayed put, but often wondered why I was still teaching.

Despite my ambivalence, I went through additional training to become certified as a ski instructor and child specialist. I've taught over 160 students, from the ages of four to 70, making sure that they've all felt safe and comfortable in my lessons. Some days were great, others were awful. But when a frightened student who's never skied before can stop and turn with confidence by the end of the first class, it's worth it.

I never thought this could be a job for someone pushing 60, but with a handful of 70- and even 80-year-old instructors, I've been proven wrong. I love the camaraderie among the instructors—a mix of tattooed 20somethings, mid-lifers, and AARP members, all of us there to help others learn to ski. I love teaching, meeting and connecting with students, and comparing notes with my husband at the end of our teaching days. I love being part of something bigger, to feel young, physically competent and relevant.

Teaching skiing also tested my limits. Sometimes, no matter how many hand warmers I stuff into my mittens, my thumbs are numb from the cold. I have to be up the canyon early, whether it's 10 below zero and snowing or raining. I've taught adults three times my body weight who can't stand on skis, students who end up in the woods, crying children, and teens with an attitude. I've made pleading emergency phone calls to my physical therapist for back spasms, and I've realized that maybe I'm not one of those constitutionally tough women who can handle, or even wants to handle, the physical demands of the job.

Still, because I've pushed far beyond what I thought I was capable of doing, I've changed. I'm more willing to take on new challenges on and off the slopes, channeling Maddie and not letting my inner-Isabelle rule me. I've realized that stepping out of my comfort zone is something I have to remind myself to do, especially as I age. Just show up, be flexible and do the best I can, fear and all.

This year, I've decided to take a break from teaching skiing. I need to protect my back and reduce my self-imposed stress. But maybe it'll be like childbirth. Come the winter, I'll forget the pain and show up for another season. ◆ Debbie Leaman looks forward to skiing when she feels like it and the weather is just right. To find out about her upcoming Creative Aging writing workshops visit: DEBBIELEAMAN.COM

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POLITICS

Where is home?

Three young Utah Dreamers contemplate their future

BY JEANNETTE HERNANDEZ HELTMAN

B

renda Marquez (not her real name) is an 18-year-old student majoring in Communication Studies at the University of Utah. She graduated top of her class at a westside Salt Lake City high school and volunteers parttime at Communidades Unidas while attending college.

Brenda arrived to the United States from Mexico when she was just five months old. She doesn’t know another home. “I knew I was born in a different place but I didn’t know what it was like and I knew that I wouldn’t be able to go there,” she says. “I lived in a United States that I loved and said that I could be anything because it was my home. I also lived in a United States that hated me and wanted to kick me and my family out of the country because we were ‘illegal aliens’ who did not deserve to be here.”

While other Hispanics lived in her neighborhood, she knew her life was different from theirs. For one thing, she knew that crossing the border again to visit relatives may mean never coming back. “I was growing up with two separate identities and didn’t quite fit

in anywhere,” she says. In many ways, Brenda felt too Mexican to be American and too American to be Mexican.

Brenda remembers her parents working long hours just to make ends meet. “[My parents] never had much for themselves. They would spend the little money they had left over on me, even if they needed things.”

Brenda is an only child. However, if she did have siblings born in the U.S., they would be American citizens.

Birth of the Dreamers Then, in 2012, the U. S. Department of Homeland Security announced and enacted the Obama Administration’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. Life dramatically changed for those 30 and younger who’d arrived in the U.S. before age 16 and lived here since June 15, 2007.

For the first time, Brenda and others who’d been stuck in two identities experienced the feeling of safety, knowing they would not be at risk of deportation during the time their DACA privileges were active. As they came of age, they would be able to get work permits and Drivers Privilege Cards.

The DACA program opened the door for un-

documented students, also known as Dreamers, in myriad ways. Knowing they were safe from deportation, many Dreamers began enrolling in higher education. More scholarship opportunities opened up for DACA students.

As awareness over this issue grew, so did the resources for Dreamers. Sallie Mae and Discover allowed DACA students to take out loans with them as long as they could find sponsors who were U.S. citizens or permanent residents.

These two major loan companies have loaned an estimated 280,000 DACA students money for school, according to the New York Times.

In Salt Lake City, another resource has been the University of Utah’s Dream Center, an oncampus resource to help Dreamers as well as

For the first time, Brenda and others stuck in two identities felt the feeling of safety. undocumented people in the community gain access to higher education which they do through individualized mentoring. Implemented by the Office of Engagement and opened this past August, the Dream Center provides trainings campuswide to students, faculty, staff and administration on how to help undocumented students as well as increase awareness throughout the community. The center helps undocumented students find scholarships, answers questions regarding their rights as students and is a place on campus they can feel safe and unjudged.

O

ne Dreamer who hopes to make a difference in his community is 18-year-old Noe Garcia. The Weber State University freshman hopes to graduate with a degree in Business and Marketing. Growing up undocumented has inspired Noe to become a motivational speaker. “I want to give back to the people. Some people wish to achieve fame, riches, or financial security. I want to change the world,” he says.

Death of 800,000 dreams?

But on September 5th 2017 President Trump made an announcement that would affect the lives of 800,000 people across the United States, including Noe and Brenda and 16,084 additional young people living in Utah, according to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Trump announced the end of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. Without DACA these students will face the challenge of repaying their loans without being able to legally work in the country.

As of October 5, 2017 people are no longer able to apply for or renew their DACA status.

Repaying student loans without legal access to jobs will be daunting. Congress must replace or re-enact DACA by March 5, 2018.

Noe was brought to the United States when he was two years old. “I don’t remember the journey. But my grandparents tell me stories about how I got here.” In his quest to change the world, Noe hopes Congress can replace DACA with something that still helps the Dreamers achieve success. “Some of these students are going to college for better employment opportunities to help their families. If these students can’t graduate college to do so, who will help their families? No money, more problems.”

However, as President Obama said in 2012, “This is not amnesty. This is not immunity. This is not a path to citizenship. It’s not a permanent fix. This is a temporary, stopgap measure that lets us focus our resources wisely while giving a degree of relief and hope to talented, driven, patriotic young people.”

For many, gaining permanent resident or citizenship status in the United States is no easy feat. There are certain sets of circumstances where a person is able to get permanent residency. After a set amount of time as a permanent resident, a person is then allowed to apply for citizenship. To receive a permanent resident or green card, a person needs to be immediately related to or married to a green card holder or citizen; have been brought to the United States for employment reasons; be a victim of a crime; or be a refugee. Many undocumented and DACA recipients see marriage as their likely hope for becoming permanent residents. Then, if they are able to get a green card, in three to five years they are eligible for full citizenship.

Diego Pliego with his wife, Alexa.

D

iego Pliego, a BYU Elementary Education DACA student, is currently in the process of gaining permanent residency through petition from his wife, Alexa. Diego understands that without his wife there would be no way for him to get legal resident status. “DACA keeps you in limbo, not yet a legal resident while not being a ‘bad hombre’ meriting deportation.” While their case is still pending, the Pliegos call the process “painstaking.” “We needed to gather enough evidence to convince the government that our marriage [is] valid and that I had merit enough to receive permanent residency; this evidence included joint purchases, copies of our bank statements, written affidavits, pictures, statements, official documents, and finally an interview with a USCIS representative.” There is still a chance their case may be rejected if the government feels there is not enough evidence to support their marriage being valid. For now, it is a waiting game for them.

It is agreed by recipients that DACA was a step in the right direction. DACA was not the final answer. “I am currently paying taxes for

things that do not benefit me,” says Diego. “I pay Social Security, but will never see a dime of that. I cannot even apply for Federal Student Aid, which makes figuring out finances for school very difficult—and stressful, too. My wife can see just how stressful it is not knowing how, or if, the question of legal status will be resolved.”

Many hope Congress’ replacement will include a pathway to citizenship. “We are citizens, if not on paper then at least at heart,” says Diego. “I hope there is some form of immigration reform that makes it possible for us to even dream of becoming citizens. Give us a chance.”

Andrea echoes that sentiment: “It is my hope

that they create a new program which will allow us to gain residency and eventually become citizens.”

Students such as Noe, Brenda and Diego are a part of the future of our country—students who will be going into the workforce and contributing to our society regardless of their citizenship status.

Diego wants others to know: “We are people who are looking to make our lives in the only country that a lot of us have ever known. Our allegiance lies to the U.S. We are here to make this country great. It is by bringing those who desperately seek to be heard into the conversation that we move forward.”

Because not all Dreamers are open about their DACA status, many do not understand how this issue affects the people around them.

This is the daily struggle of these students. As Brenda puts it, “We deserve a chance to live out our dreams and create a better world. We deserve the chance to have the place that we call home actually be our home.” ◆ Jeannette Hernandez Heltman is a college access advisor for the University of Utah. She was a CATALYST intern the summer of 2014.

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tices for Success in the Environmental Movement. You don’t need the book to join in the discussion. Free to attend.

INSIGHT TOCONVERSATION.CLUB. 2292 S. Highland Dr. Dec. 5: Beat the Blues w/ Dave Card @ Dave’s Health & Nutrition (SLC).

Dave Card is a master herbalist, certified homeopath and certified nutritionist. 6:30-7:30 p. (Also Thurs, Dec 7, West Jordan.) Free. 880 E. 3900 S., 1817 W. 9000 S.

Dec. 1-29: The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs @ Salt Lake Acting Company.

There are two sides to every story. In this play, the audience becomes the jury in the trial of Alexander T. Wolf, aka The Big Bad Wolf. Was he improperly framed for his huffing and puff-

Dec. 5: Rumi Poetry Club @ AndersonFoothill Library. 7-8:30p. A celebration of spiritual poetry for our life and community. Free. 1134 S. 2100 E. Dec. 5: One Last River Song: An Evening to Celebrate Katie Lee @ Ken Sanders Rare Books. 7-10p. Known as the grand dame of Western singers and environmentalists, Katie helped cultivate a grassroots movement to restore Glen Canyon with her photography, music, writing and relentless passion.

Music, short films, readings of her work, stories. Hosted in part by Glen Canyon Institute. Free.

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Dec. 4: SoulCollage® Circle w/ Lucia Gardner @ Milagro Art Studio. 5:308:30p. Create a few or a whole deck of collaged cards that speak to your soul. $30, instruction & materials included.

Register: SOULPATHMAKER.COM. Dec. 4: Alta Premiere presented by Alta Community Enrichment @ Our Lady of the Snows Center. 6:30-10:30p. A film by The Faction Collective, THIS IS HOME. $5.

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Dec. 5: Meet The Choreographer: Daniel Charon of Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company @ Fisher Brewing.

5:30-6:30p. Discuss Charon’s newest work: Return, an evening-length science-fiction inspired dance work that imagines our future selves. 21+. Free.

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Dec. 7: Law Rocks: Fundraiser for Rock n’ Roll Camp For Girls SLC @ The State Room. 7:30p. Featuring legal talent from The Salt Lake Lawyers, Salt Lake

Dec. 5: Tools for Grassroots Activists @ Patagonia Outlet. 6:30-8p. Discuss the book by Nora Gallagher, Best PracCounty District Attorney, Spertus, Landes, Umhofer and more. Benefiting Rock n' Roll Camp for Girls, a nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering girls through music education, collaboration, and performance in SLC. 21+. $20. THESTATEROOM.COM.

Dec. 2, 9, 16, 23, 30: Winter Market @ Rio Grande. 10a-2p. The region’s grass-fed meats, dairy, honey, eggs, baked goods and seasonal offerings for the holidays. Free.

Dec. 2-3: Holiday Open House & Art Fair @ Red Butte Garden. 10a-5p. Jewelry, glass art, pottery, fiber art and more by 20 local artists. Free admission. REDBUTTEGARDEN.ORG. Dec. 2: Rally Against Trump’s Monumental Mistake @ Utah State Capitol.

12:30-2p. Pres. Trump plans to shrink vast portions of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments. If you don’t have signs, pick up at Wasatch Touring (700 E 100 S).

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Dec. 6: SUWA’s Year-End Celebration @ Mountain West Hard Cider. 6-8:30p.

Drinks by MWHC & Red Rock Brewing, appetizers by Raclette Machine. Music

by D/J-Rox, silent auction. 21+. $10/$15.

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Dec. 5: Served Like A Girl (doc) @ The City Library. 7p. An often unseen veteran reality faced by female soldiers transitioning to civilian life. Free. UTAHFILMCENTER.ORG.

Dec. 7: Health Care Solutions for Utahns 2017 @ Utah Cultural Celebration Center. 9:30a-3:30p. Utah Health Policy Project Annual Conference. Attendees will learn how regular people, businesses, government and community based organizations can work together to continue to make our health system better. $30. HEALTHPOLICYPROJECT.ORG.

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Dec. 9: Holiday Mini Super Adoption @ The Gateway. 10a-4p. ‘Tis the season to snuggle. Adoptions starting at $25. Free admission. 400 W 100 S. BESTFRIENDSUTAH.ORG. Dec. 8: Skiing and Birds Fundraiser @ Brewvies. 6:30p. The Big Year (film) showing by Friends of Alta, the Alta Environmental Center and Tracy Aviary raising funds for the Alta Bird Monitoring Survey. 21+. $10 includes one beer.

Dec. 12: Science Movie Night | Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World @ The City Library. 7p. A series of provocative conversations that reveal the ways in which the online world has transformed how virtually everything in the real world works. Free.

Dec. 8: Bachata Takeover Social @ DF Dance Studio. 9:30p-1:30a. Bachata class, followed by bachata social w/ DJ CORWIN & DJ NEXAR. $10. DFDANCESTUDIO.COM.

When snow doesn’t fall in the small town of Flåklypa, the inventor Reodor Felgen steps in. Wackiness ensues.

Saturday | December 2 | 11am The City Library 210 E 400 S, SLC

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A Clean Energy Revolution Post-film Q&A with director James Redford, moderated by RadioWest host Doug Fabrizio.

SERVED LIKE A GIRL

An unforgettable group of former service women competes in the Ms. Veteran America contest to raises awareness of homeless women vets.

Dec. 9: Talia Keys and The Love @ O.P. Rockwell. 8-11p. $10. 21+. SHOWS.OPROCKWELL.COM. Dec. 9: Replenishment: The Water Element w/ Valerie Litchfield, LMT @ Dave’s Health & Nutrition (SLC).

11:30a–1p. Explore the internal organs, meridians, diet, and feng shui practices to enhance replenishment during nature’s season of rest. $28. RSVP call/text 801-913-9018. 880 E. 3900 S. Dec. 9: Mark O'Connor's "An Appalachian Christmas" - presented by IAMA @ The State Room. 8p. American Bluegrass, jazz, country, musician from Seattle. 21+.

LOUIS & LUCA AND THE SNOW MACHINE

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Tuesday | December 5 | 7pm The City Library 210 E 400 S, SLC

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Dec. 12: Open Mic Night @ The People’s Coffee. 6-9p. Music, Poetry, Comedy. Second Tuesday of every month.

Presented By CATALYST. Dec. 13 & 14: Companion Rescue Course @ Tues: Brighton, Wed: Solitude. 9a-12:30p. Learn the techniques you need to avoid dangerous avalanche conditions. $50. PRIVALUSA.COM. Dec. 13: Open House & Holiday Market @ Torrey House Press. 5:30-8p. See THP’s new space at Impact Hub. Meet the staff, board and authors and get 25% off on THP books. Free. TORREYHOUSE.ORG. Dec. 13: Tania Libre (doc) @ UMFA. 7p.

The journey of renowned Cuban artist Tania Burgeura through imprisonment, therapy and her decision to run for President of Cuba in 2018. Free.

A colorful journey into the dawn of the clean energy era as it creates jobs and makes communities stronger and healthier across the US.

A journey exploring how the online world has transformed the real one - and the ways we relate to one another.

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Tuesday | December 12 | 7pm The City Library 210 E 400 S, SLC

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Tania Bruguera, renowned Cuban artist, explores repression and corruption in Cuba with the founding father of trauma therapy.

Presented in partnership with Utah Museum of Fine Arts.

Wednesday | December 13 | 7pm UMFA 410 Campus Center Dr, SLC

Love trumps hate in this moving look at how marriage equality in Mexico resonates around the world.

Presented in Spanish with English subtitles.

Official Selection: 2016 International Documentary Festival Amsterdam Tuesday | December 19 | 7pm The City Library 210 E 400 S, SLC

THE UNTOLD TALES OF ARMISTEAD MAUPIN This poignant and funny documentary examines the life of the gay rights pioneer and beloved storyteller.

Winner: Documentary Spotlight–2017 SXSW Film Festival Post-film Thursday | December 21 | 7pm discussion The City Library 210 E 400 S, SLC

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Dec. 14: HAPPENING: A Clean Energy Revolution (doc) @ Rose Wagner. 7p. Explores issues of human resilience, social justice, embracing the future and finding hope for our survival. Free.

Dec. 16: Winter Solstice Celebration @ Red Butte Garden. 10a. Bring your kids to the Children’s Garden and create head wreaths, winter candles and more.

Sip hot chocolate and make a new year wish at the Yule Log. $3/$15 members/GA. REDBUTTEGARDEN.ORG. Dec. 16: Momix @ Eccles Center, PC. 7:30p. From founder Moses Pendleton, the company uses light, shadow and the human body to create illusions inspired by nature. $29-$79. PARKCITY.INSTITUTE. Dec. 16: Annual Candlelight Solstice Concert featuring Kate MacLeod and Phillip Bimstein @ Chapman Library. 7:30p. Light refreshments.

Dec. 16: Utah Blues Society Member Appreciation Holiday Party @ The State Room. 8p. Fundraiser to send William G. Kidd and Tony Holiday and the Velvetones (who will also perform this evening) to the International Blues Challenge in Memphis, Jan, 2018.

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Dec. 16: Blake Spalding and Jen Castle | This Immeasurable Place @ The King’s English. 7p. Clean food, good dirt and food justice. Join the chefs of the renowned Hell’s Backbone Grill (Boulder, Utah) for a reading and signing of their new cookbook, This Immeasurable Place: Food and Farming from the Edge of Wilderness.

Dec. 16 Christmas Bird Count for Kids and Little Chicks @ Tracy Aviary. 9am-1pm. $3. TRACYAVIARY.ORG/CBC4KIDS. Dec. 16: Out of Nothing - Advent Gathering and Mini Retreat @ Cathedral of the Madeleine Women's Society and Council of Catholic Women. 2-4:30p. Talks, silent journaling and prayer, small group discussion questions. Free. Bring a brunch-appropriate item to share.

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Dec. 16: Beethoven's Birthday Bash Presented by the Mundi Project @ Marmalade Branch, SLC Public Library. A birthday weekend for Ludwig Van Beethoven! Help celebrate his 247th birthday with musical activities, games, cake (of course), and performances from the Mundi Ambassadors and the Young Guitar Orchestra.

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Dec. 20: Salt Lake Avenues Community Choir Holiday Concert @ Libby Gardner Concert Hall. 7:30p. Sacred and secular musical pieces to celebrate the holidays. Free.

Dec. 21: Winter Solstice @ The Inner Light Center. 7p. Music, meditation and sacred ritual featuring to honor the longest night. THEINNERLIGHTCENTER.ORG

Dec. 21: The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin @ The City Library. 7p. From the jungles of Vietnam to the bathhouses of ‘70s San Francisco to the front line of the American culture war.

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Dec. 21: Homeless Persons Candlelight Vigil @ Pioneer Park. 5:30p. To remember and honor homeless persons who have died in Salt Lake City in 2017, and to prevent additional loss of life or suffering caused by homelessness through advocacy, education and other initiatives.

Dec. 22: Solstice Meditation, Soundbath & Cacao Ceremony @ Iron & Salt. Cacao ceremony, sound bath, meditation. 7p. With Nicole DeVaney.

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Dec. 19: No Dress Code Required (Etiqueta No Rigurosa) @ The City Library.

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Dec. 21: A Force More Powerful @ Marmalade Branch, SLC Public Library.

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BY NICOLE DEVANEY

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used to think it was inevitable that I would fall ill when my daughter caught cold or flu—not because I catch bacteria or viruses easily but because of the closeness that would occur when she was sick. Little ones with fevers like to be close to their mothers. Late nights of warm baths and back rubs when they have a temperature takes a toll on mom’s immunity. I am currently dealing with a cold that my daughter brought home from school and it has inspired me to share with you the best ways to prevent, heal and recover from the nasty bugs that tend to circulate through the community during this season. Hopefully there are some golden nuggets of information for you the next time you or a loved one experience the cold/flu bug.

Pre-game Do not wait until the flu hits to begin supporting your body and immunity. Be sure to stockpile immunity-building supplements, teas and liquids now, before you need them.

• Using bone broth with lots of garlic, apple cider vinegar and lemon drinks daily not only keeps your immunity strong but also repairs your gut. All disease begins in the gut, according to Hippocrates, the father of medicine. Be proactive and you might even avoid all colds and flu in the first place.

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• Stay hydrated! I can’t stress this one enough. Some 20 billion electric biochemical responses in your body are all dependent upon. Drink half of your body weight in ounces a day with a pinch of sea salt for minerals and electrolytes to support your adrenals and digestion.

• Avoid sugar. Sugar can incapacitate the immune system for up to four hours after consumption. Hugs and kisses can be the perfect storm for bugs to enter your system while its defenses are down.

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• Wash your hands. Frequent hand washing is an effective means of cold prevention. Avoid anti-bacterial soaps or gels —they can do more harm then good in the long run. Simple soap and water will do.

• Sleep! Best preventive and cure. Don’t skimp. Start now.

The protocol If you feel something coming on, begin amping up your system with any and all of these healing and immune-supporting remedies immediately. By using these products in protocol every four to six hours I usually can prevent any cold or flu from really taking hold.

Keep these and other immune-boosting remedies on hand and begin dosing at the first sign of cold or flu.

• Vitamin C. Taking vitamin C before the onset of cold symptoms may shorten the duration of symptoms. There is mixed information as to evidence that Vitamin C really helps colds and flu. I think the reason for this has to do with the dosage taken in the studies. Begin with a loading dose of 3,000-4,000mg, and then dose 1,000mg every one to two hours until you hit bowel tolerance. Bowel tolerance is a polite way of saying diarrhea. Let’s say that you hit 15,000mg and begin to notice more flatulence (gas) and some looser stool. At that point, you would back off your dosing slightly. If you’ve been taking 1000mg every hour, once you are near your bowel tolerance you would back off to 1000mg every two hours, adjusting up or down as needed to stay just below bowel tolerance.

• Zinc. Recently an analysis of several studies showed that zinc lozenges or syrup reduced the length of a cold by one day, especially when taken within 24 hours of the first signs and symptoms of a cold. But read labels—

many cold/flu prevention products now on the market contain zinc and most of them are sweetened with sugar. You can get all the cold and flu prevention love from zinc by simply using an organic food-based zinc supplement.

Plus you will avoid the over-priced sugary lozenges that might build but will also cripple the immune system.

• Medicinal mushrooms. Rishi has been known for thousands of years as the king of immunity. This woodsy little mushroom along with its immune-building buddies maitake, cordyceps, lion’s mane and shiitake have the power to kill viruses, bacteria and yeast; destroy cancer cells; and even assist with nerve regeneration. Chinese have long used mush-

If you feel something coming on, begin amping up your system with any and all of these healing and immune-supporting remedies immediately

The Root of All Things: Pelvic Floor Yoga™ Teacher Training with Leslie Howard*

Jan. 27-30 at Mindful Yoga Collective, 223 S. 700 East, Ste. 4 20-hour advanced training for experienced yoga teachers, healthcare professionals, midwives, doulas, fitness trainers, massage therapists and yoga practitioners who want to deepen their practice. $625 in advance; $725 after Jan. 12, 2018 • Registration/prepayment required for attendance Details & registration:

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rooms for their medicinal qualities. More recently, numerous studies published by the US National Library of Medicine and National Institutes of Health show strong evidence that controlled use of some mushrooms have immune-stimulating impacts on patients (particularly cancer patients). Daily use will help prevent myriad health issues. Ramping up your dosage at the first sign of cold or flu will shorten the duration of most illnesses significantly. Many products on the market offer a blend of these mushrooms in a liquid supplement. Placing the recommend dosage under your tongue and holding it there for 1-5 minutes will super charge your immune system.

• Fermented garlic or fire cider. Garlic is known as the Russian Antibiotic. Some hospitals in Europe that will give you an enema and garlic before even seeing the doctor when you come in with cold/flu symptoms. There are many simple recipes online to make these home remedies yourself and it is best to keep a stock pile of them on hand during the winter months.

• Grapefruit seed extract. Do not confuse grapefruit seed extract with grape seed extract.

Though both are healthy, it is “grapefruit” seed extract (abbreviated as GSE or GFSE) that works as a natural antibiotic with anti-viral, anti-bacterial and anti-fungal properties. Simply add 10-30 drops (it has a bitter taste) to your drinking water. GSE’s antifungal properties may give you a bellyache. If that happens, discontinue or lessen your dosage.

• Oregano oil. The oil has been proven to be an effective antimicrobial agent. Oregano oil contains 50 active compounds with immuneboosting and germ-fighting properties, and antioxidants that reduce inflammation. Its nutrient content includes vitamins A and C, both of which support respiratory health and help fight

*Leslie Howard is an Oakland-based Iyengartrained yoga teacher who leads workshops and trainings nationally and internationally. Healing her own hips and pelvis led her to intense study of the anatomy and physiology of this vital bodily structure.

Leslie has received grants for research in her field. Her book, Pelvic Liberation: Using Yoga, Self-Inquiry, and Breath Awareness for Pelvic Health is now available!

Book included with training. Also available on Amazon.

34 CATALYSTMAGAZINE.NET December, 2017 infection. Oregano oil also contains calcium, potassium, zinc, iron, manganese, magnesium, copper and boron. Oil of oregano helps your lungs recover from a bout with a cold or flu by thinning the mucous, allowing for easier breathing and faster removal of the infecting virus.

• Diffuse essential oils. Thieves, peppermint, eucalyptus and oregano oil have the ability to keep airborne bugs at bay and relieve congested nose and lungs. I personally like to diffuse these and other oils throughout the cold and flu season in my home and studio as a form of prevention and a mood enhancer.

These are just a few of the many items I keep in a little prevention box in my cupboard. Finding the right combo that works for you is key.

The minute a sore throat or sneeze makes its way into my home, the box comes out and the whole family begins to dose the protocol (even if it is 3 a.m. in the morning).

If the cold/flu has got a hold of you Even with all the prevention in the world, sometimes it happens and you just don’t feel good. Here are my mommy go-to’s for easing the duration, body aches and pains during the throes of the cold/flu.

• Rest. This is the number one thing you can do for yourself anytime you are ill. Getting quality sleep and avoiding stimulants such as caffeine and action movies will keep your body in a regenerative state that can help rebuild the system once a bug has taken hold.

• Hot baths/showers. I can’t stress this one enough! They help with aches and pains plus will assist a fever in raising your core temperature to burn out the bugs. You can add Epsom salts to ease aching joints and get a dose of

magnesium to help you sleep or eucalyptus oil to open clogged bronchial pathways. I have been known to use three or four of these a day when resting with the flu. You can keep the same water in the bath and add more hot when you are ready to take another dip to conserve water and Epsom salts.

• Hot tea and broths. Warm fluids help the body with lymph drainage and can unstuff a congested nose and throat. You can purchase organic herbal teas specifically formulated for colds, sore throats, stuffy noses and immunity building. Local raw honey, lemon and cayenne in hot water can instantly relieve a sore throat. Ginger and honey will help stomach aches and pains. Yes, honey is a form of sugar but it also has antibacterial properties that can support healing.

• Neti pots. A neti pot is used for nasal irrigation, usually with a solution of purified water

and salt to clear out mucus and allergens. I keep a solution of Himalayan salt crystals and filtered water next to my neti pot in the shower.

By flushing regularly when sick I use less tissue and prevent the raw dry skin from cracking and becoming painful under my nose.

• Vapor rubs. Choose a vapor rub that is organic and has no toxic ingredients like petroleum. You do not want to cause more work for the body then it already is doing. I love a product called Winter Crest and use it not only for sore muscles but also for sore throats and congestion. It has the power to clear up stuffed noses and alleviate pain from the outside in with vapors of menthol and wintergreen essential oils. The skin is a great pathway to absorb medicines and release toxins.

• Continue with all the immune building supplements and protocols mentioned earlier in this article until the body has recovered and you are feeling well.

• Visualization. Use visualization, meditation and positive affirmation techniques to speed up the process of recovery. Seeing yourself as healthy, happy and whole can have a placebo effect with far-reaching benefits. Any time you use these protocols or other wellness remedies, focus on the work that they are doing in your body and see them working quickly and efficiently to make you well.

Post-game Continue to care for your body and get good sleep even after you are feeling better. Even after cold and flu symptoms have subsided the body is still working with a below-par immune system.

Nicole DeVaney is a holistic health coach and co-owner Iron and Salt studios.

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Resource Directory Abode • Psychotherapy & Personal Growth • Retail • Spiritual Practice Health & Bodywork • Movement & Sport • Psychic Arts & Intuitive Sciences ABODE

AUTOMOTIVE Schneider Auto Karosserie 8/18

801.484.9400, f 801.484.6623, 1180 S. 400 W., SLC. Utah’s first green body shop. Making customers happy since 1984! We are a friendly, full-service collision repair shop in SLC. Your satisfaction is our goal. We’ll act as your advocate with your insurance company to ensure proper repairs and give you a lifetime warranty.

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DESIGN, CONSTRUCTION Ann Larsen Residential Design DA 10/18

801.604.3721. Specializing in historically sensitive design solutions and adding charm to the ordinary. Consultation and design of new homes, additions, remodeling, decks and outdoor structures. Experienced, reasonable, references.

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GREEN PRODUCTS Heritage Natural Finishes DA 11/18

888.526.3275. We are makers of fine, all natural penetrating oil wood finished for timber frames, log homes, furniture and more. Non toxic, high performing and beautiful. Contact us for a free sample! Located in Escalante, UT but ship anywhere. Order online at HERITAGENATURALFINISHES.COM or INFO@HERITAGENATURALFINISHES.COM

HOUSING Urban Utah Homes & Estates DA 9/18

801.595.8824, 380 West 200 South, #101, SLC. Founded in 2001 by Babs De Lay, Urban Utah Homes & Estates is an independent real estate brokerage. Our experienced realtors have skill sets to help first time to last time buyers and sellers with residential sales, estate liquidations of homes & property, land sales, new construction and small business sales. WWW.URBANUTAH.COM

PETS Best Friends - Utah DA 9/18

801.574.2454, 2005 S. 1100 E., SLC. Utah is working collaboratively with animal rescue groups, city shelters and passionate individuals dedicated to making Utah a no-kill state. As part of this mission, Best Friends hosts adoption and fundraising events, runs the Best Friends Utah Adoption Center in Sugar House and leads the NKUT initiative. WWW.BESTFRIENDS.ORG

Desert Raw Holistic Pet 12/17

385.999.1330, 1330 Foothill Dr., SLC. Alternative pet store, feeding pets real food designed for their bodies. We provide healthy, organic dog, cat, and chicken food, including raw, dehydrated, and high-end kibble. We also sell high-quality supplements (including CBD), toys, pet supplies, and gift items. Regular community-outreach teaching about pet nutrition.

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Underfoot Floors DA 11/18

801.467.6636, 1900 S. 300 W., SLC. We offer innovative & earth friendly floors including bamboo, cork, marmoleum, hardwoods, natural fiber carpets as well as sand and finishing hardwood.

Free in home estimates. Please visit our showroom. KE@UNDERFOOTFLOORS.COM WWW.UNDERFOOTFLOORS.NET

DINING Café Solstice DA 3/18

801.487.0980, 673 E. Simpson Ave., SLC. (inside Dancing Cranes). Loose teas, specialty coffee drinks and

herbal smoothies in a relaxing atmosphere. Veggie wraps, sandwiches, salads, soups and more. Our dressings, spreads, salsa, hummus and baked goods are all made in house with love! Enjoy a refreshing violet mocha or mango & basil smoothie with your delicious homemade lunch.

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Coffee Garden DA

801.355.3425, 900 E. 900 S. and 254 S. Main, SLC. High-end espresso, delectable pastries & desserts. Great places to people watch. M-Thur 6a-11p; Fri 6a-12p, Sat 7a-12p, Sun 7a-11p. Wifi.

Oasis Cafe DA 11/18

801.322.0404,151 S. 500 E., SLC. A refreshing retreat in the heart of the city, Oasis Cafe provides a true sanctuary of spectacular spaces: the beautiful flower-laden patio, the private covered breezeway or the casual style dining room. Authentic American cafe-style cuisine plus full bar, craft beers, wine list and more.

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HEALTH & BODYWORK APOTHECARY Natural Law Apothecary 1/18

801.613.2128, 619 S. 600 W. Salt Lake's primier herbal medicine shop featuring 100+ organic/wild-harvested herbs available in any amount.

Specializing in custom, small batch tinctures, salves, green drink and teas.

Also features a knowledge center with books, classes & consultation on herbs, bees, massage/bodywork well-

ness and more! www.NATURALLAWAPOTHECARY.COM

ACUPUNCTURE Keith Stevens Acupuncture 3/18

801.255.7016, 209.617.7379 (c). Dr. Keith Stevens, OMD, 8728 S. 120 E. in old Sandy. Specializing in chronic pain treatment, stress-related insomnia, fatigue, headaches, sports medicine, traumatic injury and postoperative recovery. Board-certified for hep-c treatment. National Acupuncture Detox Association (NADA)-certified for treatment of addiction. Women’s health, menopausal syndromes. www.STEVENSACUCLINIC.COM

Master Lu’s Health Center

801.463.1101. 3220 S. State St. TyeHao Lu, L.Ac, MAOM. Are you struggling with addiction? If so we can help at Master Lu’s Health Center, utilizing acupuncture and Chinese medicine.

We can help you or anyone you know with substance abuse and any other pain you may have. Call today to schedule an appointment! www.LUHEALTHCENTER.COM TYEHAO@LUHEALTHCENTER.COM 6/18

SLC Qi Community Acupuncture 12/17

801.521.3337, 177 E. 900 S., Ste. 101, SLC. Affordable Acupuncture! Sliding scale rates ($15-40). Open weekends.

Grab a recliner and relax in a safe, comfortable, and healing space. We help with pain, fertility, digestion, allergies, arthritis, sleep and stress disorders, cardiac/respiratory conditions, metabolism & more. WWW.SLCQI.COM

ENERGY HEALING Amy Berens, OTR/L, MRT, Reiki Master

801.580.2107. Amy has 24 years of experience in Occupational Therapy and Reiki. Provides energetic healing with Reiki, chakra balancing, myofa-

CATALYSTMAGAZINE.NET December 2017 cial release, acupressure, and reflexolSLC. (enter off 500 E.). All people seek ogy at A New Direction Recovery & balance in their lives…balance and Wellness. Out patient Occupational meaningful expression. Massage is a therapy for migraines, chronic incompassionate art. It helps find healjuries, fibromyalgia, and neuropathic ing & peace for both the giver and diseases. AMYTBERENS@GMAIL.COM receiver. Whether you seek a new WWW.AN EW D IRECTION 4M E . COM 4/18 vocation or balm for your wounded soul, you can find it here. DA Kristen Dalzen, LMT 12/17 www.HEALINGMOUNTAINSPA.COM 801.661.3896, Turiya’s, 1569 S. 1100 E., SLC. IGNITE YOUR DIVINE SPARK! M.D. PHYSICIANS Traditional Usui Reiki Master Teacher Todd Mangum, MD, Web of Life Wellness practicing in SLC since 1996. Offering Center 801.531.8340, 34 S. 500 E., #204, a dynamic array of healing services SLC. Integrative Medicine Family Practiand classes designed to create a baltioner who utilizes functional medicine. anced, expansive and vivacious life.

He specializes in the treatment of chronic WWW.T URIYAS . COM fatigue, fibro-myalgia, digestive disorders, adrenal fatigue, menopause, hormone SoulPathmaking with Lucia Gardner, imbalances for men & women, weight LMT, BCC, PC 12/17 loss, insulin resistance, type II diabetes, 801.631.8915. Individual Sessionsimmune dysfunctions, thyroid disorders, Energetic Bodywork; Spiritual insomnia, depression, anxiety and other Counseling for losses and transihealth problems. Dr. Mangum designs tions; Emotional Expression with personalized treatment plans using diet, Paint. SoulCollage® Circle-1st and vitamins, minerals, nutritional supple3rd Mondays 5:30-8:30 pm. Womb ments, bioidentical hormones, Western Wellness Workshops for women. and Chinese herbal therapies, acupuncRetreats in the Pacific Northwest ture and conventional Western medicome meet the whales! 40+ years cines. WWW.WEBOFLIFEWC.COM, experience caring for the Soul.

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FELDENKRAIS Carol Lessinger, GCTP9/18--

801.580.9484, 1390 S. 1100 E., SLC. “Movement is Life, without Movement, Life is unthinkable,” Moshe Feldenkrais. Carol trained personally with Dr. Feldenkrais and has over 30 years experience. When you work with her, you can expect your movement to be more comfortable, less painful and definitely more aware.

Offering private sessions & classes.

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Open Hand Bodywork DA

801.694.4086, Dan Schmidt, GCFP, LMT. 244 W. 700 S., SLC. WWW.OPENHANDSLC.COM

MASSAGE

Agua Alma Aquatic Bodywork 5/18 801.891.5695. Mary Cain, LMT, MA

Psychology. Announcing an Open House to launch the Agua Alma water massage pool. Call to schedule a complimentary sampling to see what water massage can do for you. Compassionate experienced Bodyworker: Transformational Neuromuscular Massage, Reiki, a massage paired with a yoga session/prescription addressing specific body balancing needs, Yoga, Pranayama, and Meditation: private and group sessions, Yoga Teacher Training, excellent references. www.FROMSOURCETOSOURCE.COM

Healing Mountain Massage School 11/18 801.355.6300, 363 S. 500 E., Ste. 210,

Successful Surgery and HealingFOG 949.648.4436. Successful Surgery and

Healing: A Practical Guide for Patients, Caregivers and Advocates by Lori Mertz is the “how to” for anyone preparing for or recovering from surgery! Full of insights, organization tips & tools, checklists and more. Available at University Pharmacy (1320 E. 200 S., SLC), W W W .L ORI M ER TZ . COM and WWW.AMAZON.COM. Lori is also available for oneon-one coaching. We all need support! LORI @ JUSTBEEINC . COM

NATUROPATHIC PHYSICIANS 11/17 Eastside Natural Health Clinic 3/18

801.474.3684. Uli Knorr, ND, 3350 S. High land Dr., SLC. Dr. Knorr will create a Natural Medi cine plan for you to optimize your health and live more vibrantly. He likes to educate his patients and offers comprehensive medical testing op tions. He focuses on hormonal balancing, including thyroid, adrenal, women’s hormones, blood sugar regulation, gastrointestinal disorders & food allergies.

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MISCELLANEOUS BUILDING YOUR BUSINESS Send Out Cards Mark Holland, Distributor 11/18

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ENTERTAINMENT The State Room DA 1/18

801.878.0530, 638 S. State Street, SLC. A 21 and over, 300 capacity live music venue, presenting nationally acclaimed musicians and the finest local acts. WWW.T HE S TATE R OOM . COM

Utah Film Center/Salt Lake Film Center

801.746.7000, 122 Main Street, SLC. A non-profit continually striving to bring community together through film. UFC curates and organizes three film festivals a year: Tumbleweeds for children & youth, the only festival of its kind in the Intermountain West; Damn These Heels, a forum exploring LGBT issues, ideas, hopes, dreams and art; and TiltShift, organized by and for teens just beginning to discover their artistic potential.

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LEGAL ASSISTANCE Schumann Law, Penniann J. Schumann, J.D., LL.M 3/18 DA 801.631.7811. Whether you are planning for your own future protection and management, or you are planning for your family, friends, or charitable causes, Penniann Schumann can assist you with creating and implementating a plan to meet those goals.

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MEDIA CATALYST Magazine 801.363.1505, 140 S. McClelland St., SLC. Catalyst: Someone or something that causes an important event to happen. WE ARE CATALYST. JOIN US. C ATALYST MAGAZINE . NET FACEBOOK . COM / CATALYSTMAGAZINE I NSTAGRAM . COM / CATALYST _ MAGAZINE

KRCL 90.9FM DA 801.363.1818, 1971 N. Temple, SLC.

Northern Utah’s only non-profit, member-supported public radio station dedicated to broadcasting a well-curated contemporary eclectic mix of music and community information 24 hours a day. WWW.KRCL.ORG

NON-PROFIT Local First 12/16 801.456.1456. We are a not-for-profit

organization that seeks to strengthen communities and local economies by promoting, preserving and protecting local, independently owned businesses throughout Utah. Organized in 2005 by volunteer business owners and community-minded residents, Local First Utah has over 2,700 locally owned and independent businesses. www.LOCALFIRST.ORG.

PROFESSIONAL TRAINING Healing Mountain Massage School

SLC campus: 801.355.6300, 363 S. 500 E., Ste. 210, SLC. Cedar City campus: 435.586.8222, 297 N. Cove Dr., Cedar City. Morning & evening programs.

Four start dates per year, 8-14 students to a class. Mentor with seasoned professionals. Practice with licensed therapists in a live day spa setting. Graduate in as little as 8 months. ABHES accredited. Financial aid available for those who qualify.

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Space available at Center for Transpersonal Therapy 3/18

801.596.0147 x41, 5801 S. Fashion Blvd., Ste. 250, Murray. Two large plush spaces available for rent by the hour, day or for weekend use. Pillows, yoga chairs, regular chairs and kichenette area included. Size: 395 sq. ft./530 sq. ft. WWW.CTTSLC.COM, THECENTER@CTTSLC.COM

TRAVEL Machu Picchu, Peru 6/18

801.721.2779. Group or individual spiritual journeys or tours with Shaman KUCHO. Accomodations available. Contact: Nick Stark, NICHOLASSTARK@COMCAST.NET, WWW.MACHUPICCHUTRAVELCENTER.COM

WEALTH MANAGEMENT Harrington Wealth Services DA 2/18

801.871.0840 (O), 801.673.1294, 8899 S. 700 E., Ste. 225, Sandy, UT 84070.

Robert Harrington, Wealth Advisor.

Client-centered retirement planning, wealth management, IRA rollovers, ROTH IRA’s, 401(k) plans, investing & life insurance. Securities offered through LPL Financial, Member FINRA/SIPC. ROBERT.HARRINGTON@LPL.COM, WWW. H ARRINGTON W EALTH S ERVICES . COM

MOVEMENT & MEDITATION, DANCE RDT Dance Center Community School

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 6/18

MARTIAL ARTS Red Lotus School of Movement 12/17

801.355.6375, 740 S. 300 W., SLC. Established in 1994 by Sifu Jerry Gardner and Jean LaSarre Gardner.

Briefly Noted The Bee moves to Metro Music Hall This month marks three years since The Bee: True Stories from the Hive began gathering community for “lovingly competitive” (& occasionally curated) storytelling in Salt Lake City. Starting at The Urban Lounge, The Bee has taken place in a variety of downtown venues including The Leonardo, the Utah Arts Festival, Church & State, the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art an, most recently, the historic Clubhouse on South Temple (formerly the Ladies' Literary Club).

Now, the new calendar year will bring The Bee to a new space: Metro Music Hall on the 2nd Thursday of each month, with tickets going on sale two weeks prior on The Bee's website (and they do sell out in advance).

That makes Thursday, January 11 the first show of next year, with tickets going on sale Thursday, December 28 at 10am.

Listen to stories from the archives, find out about themes for upcoming shows, put your name in the hat to tell a story and learn more about their Storytelling for Grownups workshops, courses, and more at THEBEESLC.ORG.

Postum: for everyone Who doesn’t like a warm drink in winter?

Postum, the simple and healthful beverage made from roasted wheat bran, wheat and molasses, was marketed in 1895 by C.W. Post, whose cereal company became General Foods (purchased in 1985 by Philip Morris for $5.6 billion, the largest non-oil acquisition at that time), which merged it with Kraft. In 2007, Kraft killed Postum.

Enough people made persistent noise, and in 2013 the product re-emerged with a new owner.

Postum, now non-GMO-certified and organic, is sold in a limited number of stores throughout the country, but of course is handily available in Utah. (We found two places near San Francisco that carry it; three in the NYC area… and 144 stores within 50 miles of Salt Lake City, including even Chevron stations).

Even so, unless you’re a hardcore caffeine tee-totaler, you may not have known of this drink. Cozy and delicious. it has its place in our cupboard. When not in the mood for caffeine, sugar or alcohol, a drink like Postum can fill the need. But it’s also very good mixed with coffee, cocoa or kahlua!

Winter Market at Rio Grande You may be surprised at what edibles grow in Northern Utah in the winter.

Salt Lake City’s Winter Market offers grass-fed, organic locally raised meats.

There are eggs like you’ve never tasted before. Root vegetables, squashes and some greens are still available, as are apples and mushrooms.

Breads, jams, sweets, cultured butter, duck confit, kombucha, bitters, tonics— a person could do a lot of holiday shopping at this market.

In its fifth year, the market now happens every Saturday, outdoors (with heaters) and inside the beautiful Rio Grande Depot lobby, upstairs. Check out the intriguing art exhibit, too, on the first floor.

(And, unlike the Summer Downtown Farmers Market, parking is easy.)

Suzanne Wagner PSYCHIC, AUTHOR, SPEAKER, TEACHER

Now through April 21, 2018. Saturdays, 10am-2pm. Rio Grande Depot, 300 @ Rio Grande St., SLC. HTTP://SLCFARMERSMARKET.ORG/WINTER-FARMERS-MARKET

RadioActive on KRCL 90.9FM Last month CATALYST was a guest on KRCL’s RadioActive, a show for grassroots activists and community builders, weeknights at 6, hosted

by Lara Jones and associates. This is the best show of its kind serving the Valley—smart, humorous, diverse, down to earth and, first and last, informative.

Here’s some of what went down the night we visited: Artist Josh Scheuerman is painting a mural of Bears Ears National Monument in SLC’s Granary District.

Michelle Mileham from Tracy Aviary at Liberty Park explained a guided nature walk happening in the park.

Revitalizing North Temple means ridding the old “north track” of seedy motels in favor of affordable housing. Who gets the final say? We heard from Nigel Swaby, Fairpark resident & chair of the River District Business Alliance; Ivis Garcia, U of U Assistant Professor of City & Metropolitan Planning and Vice Chair of the Planning Commission in Salt Lake City whose students surveyed and inventoried budget motels on North Temple; and Melissa Jensen, SLC Housing & Neighborhood Development Director.

KRCL volunteer Jim Boswell, who lives on North Temple, shared his housing story.

Not around a radio at 6pm? You can find past shows on their website or listen on demand with the KRCL Public Radio mobile app for iTunes and Android.

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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.

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MEDITATION PRACTICES Anna Zumwalt: Sunday Sitting at Dancing Cranes ImportsFOG

801.647.8311. 673 E Simpson Ave. First Sunday of each month is a guided meditation. Other Sundays all styles welcomed for group meditation. Dogs, birds, children welcomed.

Visit our FB page or contact Anna by phone or text.

YOGA INSTRUCTORS Mindful Yoga: Charlotte Bell DA 1/18

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 students to discover their own yoga. Classes include meditation, pranayama (breath awareness) and yoga nidra (yogic sleep) as well as physical practice of asana. Public & private classes, workshops in a supportive, non-competitive environment since 1986.

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YOGA STUDIOS Centered City Yoga 12/17

801.521.9642, 926 S. 900 E., SLC. Yoga for Every Body, we offer 75 classes a week as relaxing as meditation and yoga nidra, to yin yoga and restorative, along with plenty of classes to challenge you, such as anusara and power classes. InBody Academy

1,000-hour teacher trainings also offered. WWW.CENTEREDCITYYOGA.COM

Mountain Yoga—Sandy 3/18

801.501.YOGA [9642], 9343 S. 1300 E., SLC. Offering a variety of Hot and Not hot yoga classes to the Salt Lake Valley for the past 13 years. The Mountain Yoga System is comprised of 5 Elemental Classes EARTH-FIREWIND-FLOW-WATER varying in heat, duration, intensity and sequence.

The 5 classes work together and offer you a balanced and sustainable yoga practice. Whether you like it hot and intense, calm and restorative, or somewhere in-between, Mountain Yoga Sandy has a class for you.

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Mudita—Be Joy Yoga 3/18

801.699.3627, 1550 E. 3300 S., SLC. Our studio is warm and spacious – a place for you to come home and experience yourself! Varied classes will have you move and sweat, open and lengthen, or chill and relax. Come just as you are, ease into your body and reconnect to your true essence.

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PSYCHIC ARTS & INTUITIVE SCIENCES ASTROLOGY Transformational Astrology FOG

212.222.3232. Ralfee Finn. Catalyst’s astrology columnist for 20 years! Visit her website, WWW.AQUARIUMAGE.COM, RALFEE@AQUARIUMAGE.COM

PSYCHIC/TAROT READINGS Nick Stark 6/18

801.721.2779. Ogden Canyon.

Shamanic energy healings/ clearings/ readings/offerings/transformative work. Over 20 years experience.

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Suzanne Wagner DA 1/18

707.354.1019. In a world of paradox and possibility, an intelligent psychic with a sense of humor might as well be listed with the family dentist in one's day planner. Suzanne's readings are sensitive, compassionate, humorous and insightful. An inspirational speaker and healer she also teaches Numerology, Palmistry, Tarot and Channeling.

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PSYCHOTHERAPY & PERSONAL GROWTH THERAPY/COUNSELING Cynthia Kimberlin-Flanders, LPC 10/18

801.231.5916. 1399 S. 700 E., Ste. 15, SLC. Feeling out of sorts? Tell your story in a safe, non-judgmental environment. Over 20 years specializing in depression, anxiety, life-transitions, anger management, relationships and "middle-aged crazy." Most insurances, sliding scale and medication management referrals. If you've been waiting to talk to someone, wait no more.

Jan Magdalen, LCSW 3/18

801.582.2705, 2071 Ashton Circle,

The Infinite Within

SLC. Offering a transpersonal approach to the experiences and challenges of our life cycles, including: individuation-identity, sexuality and sexual orientation, partnership, work, parenting, divorce, aging, illness, death and other loss, meaning and spiritual awareness. Individuals, couples and groups. Clinical consultation and supervision.

Marianne Felt, CMHC, MT-BC 12/17

801.524.0560, ext. 2, 150 S. 600 E., Ste. 7C, SLC. Certified Mental Health Counselor, Board certified music therapist, certified Gestalt therapist, Mountain Lotus Counseling.

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Mountain Lotus Counseling 6/18DA

801.524.0560. Theresa Holleran, LCSW, Marianne Felt, CMHC, & Sean Patrick McPeak, CSW. Learn yourself. Transform.

Depth psychotherapy and transformational services for individuals, relationships, groups and communities.

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Natalie Herndon, PhD, CMHC 7/18

801.657.3330. 1151 E. 3900 S, Suite B175, SLC. 15+ years experience specializing in Jungian, Analytical, and Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy. Are you seeking to more deeply understand yourself, your relationships, and why you struggle with certain thoughts and feelings? Call today for

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Stephen Proskauer, MD, Integrative Psychiatry 10/18

801.631.8426. Ambassador Plaza, 150 S. 600 E., Ste. 3B, 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 treating identity crises, LGBTQ issues and bipolar disorders. SPROSKAUER@COMCAST.NET

Summit Community Counseling3/18

5689 S Redwood Rd. #27, Taylorsville.

801.266.2485. SCC is open to all individuals across the lifespan from toddlers to the elderly population and offer individual, family, couples, and group counseling, medication management and comprehensive psychological/neuropsychological assessments. Most Insurances accepted including Medicaid and Medicare. See our website for our specialties. WWW.SUMMITCOM.ORG. REFERRALS@SUMMITCOM.ORG.

Sunny Strasburg, LMFT3/18

1399 S. 700 E., SLC. Sunny is a licensed marriage and family therapist specializing in Jungian Psychology, Gottman Method Couple’s Therapy and EMDR. Sunny meets clients in person at her office in Salt Lake City. For questions, or to schedule an appointment, please email Sunny at: SUNNYS@JPS.NET.

801.696.5538. 3018 E. 3300 S., SLC. INTENSE PSYCHOTHERAPY. I work primarily with people who suffer from the negative effects of intense life experiences, PTSD, unresolved/complex grief (suicides,etc.) and child sexual abuse.

Talk therapy can be helpful, but it doesn't fix the problem. Free 15 minute consultation, or text/email.

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SHAMANIC PRACTICE Sarah Sifers, Ph.D., LCSW 3/18

801.531.8051. ssifers514@aol.com.

Shamanic Counseling. Shamanic Healing, Minister of the Circle of the Sacred Earth. Mentoring for people called to the Shaman’s Path. Explore health or mental health issues using the ways of the shaman. Sarah’s extensive training includes shamanic extraction healing, soul retrieval healing, psychopomp work for death and dying, shamanic counseling and shamanic divination. Sarah has studied with Celtic, Brazilian, Tuvan, Mongolian, Tibetan and Nepali Shamans.

Naomi Silverstone, DSW, LCSW FOG

801.209.1095. Psychotherapy and Shamanic practice. Holistic practice integrates traditional and nontraditional approaches to health, healing and balance or “ayni.” Access new perceptual lenses as you reanimate your relationship with nature. Shamanic practice in the Inka tradition.

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801.487.1807, 1383 S. 2100 E., SLC. Shopping Made Sexy. Since 1987, Blue Boutique has expanded to four locations, offering the finest in a variety of sexy lingerie, sexy shoes and sexy adult merchandise to discriminating shoppers. We’ve created comfortable, inviting environments with salespeople ready to offer friendly and creative advice.

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Dancing Cranes Imports DA8/18

801.486.1129, 673 E. Simpson Ave., SLC. Jewelry, clothing, incense, ethnic art, pottery, candles, chimes and much more! Visit Café Solstice for lunch, too.

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Golden Braid Books DA 11/18

801.322.1162, 151 S. 500 E., SLC. A true sanctuary for conscious living in the city. Offerings include gifts and books to feed mind, body, spirit, soul and heart; luscious health care products to refresh and revive; and a Lifestyles department to lift the spirit. www.G OLDEN B RAID B OOKS . COM

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Rd., #200, Draper. For rocks and crystals. Everything from Angels to Zen. WWW.ILOVELOTUS.COM

Healing Mountain Crystals DA

801.808.6442, 363 S. 500 E., #210 (east entrance), SLC. A welcoming crystal shop located one block from the “Trolley” Trax station. Offering: crystals, jewelry, essential oils, $2 sage, 50 cent tumbled stones, Tibetan singing bowls, spa products, books, chakra healing supplies, gifts and more. We are known for our low prices. WWW.H EALING M OUN TAIN C RYSTALS . COM

iconoCLAD—We Sell Your Previously Rocked Stuff & You Keep 50%

801.833.2272. 414 E. 300 S., SLC. New and previously rocked (aka, consigned) men’s and women’s fashion, summer festival gear and locally made jewelry, clothing, crafts and decor. M-Sat 11a-9p, Sun 1p-6p. Follow us on Instagram/Facebook/Twitter @iconoCLAD to see new inventory before someone beats you to it! WWW. ICONO CLAD. COM

Turiya’s Gifts8/18 DA

801.531.7823, 1569 S. 1100 E., SLC. MF 11a-7p, Sat 11a-6p, Sun 12-5p.

Turiya’s is a metaphysical gift and crystal store. We have an exquisite array of crystals and minerals, jewelry, drums, sage and sweet grass, angels, fairies, greeting cards and meditation tools. Come in and let us help you create your sanctuary.

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HEALTH & WELLNESS Dave’s Health & Nutrition 7/18

SLC: 801.268.3000, 880 E. 3900 S. and W. Jordan: 801.446.0499, 1817 W. 9000 S. We focus on health & holistic living through education, empowerment and high-quality products. With supplements, homeopathics, herbs, stones, books and beauty care products, we provide you with the options you need to reach your optimum health. Certified professionals also offer private consultations.

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SPIRITUAL PRACTICE line goes here ORGANIZATIONS Inner Light Center Spiritual Community

801.919.4742, 4408 S. 500 E., SLC. An interspiritual sanctuary that goes beyond religion into mystical realms. Access inner wisdom, deepen divine connection, enjoy an accepting, friendly community. Events & classes. Sunday Celebration: 10a; WWW.T HE I N NER L IGHT C ENTER . ORG

Unity Spiritual Community 8/18

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sciousness by practicing the teachings of Jesus. We honor the many paths to God knowing that all people are created with sacred worth. Unity offers love, encouragement and acceptance to support you in discovering and living your spiritual purpose. WWW.U NITYOF S ALT L AKE.ORG, CON TACT @U NITYO F S ALT L AKE . ORG

Urgyen Samten Ling Gonpa Tibetan Buddhist Temple 801.328.4629, 740

S. 300 W., SLC. Urgyen Samten Ling Gonpa offers an open environment for the study, contemplation, and practice of Tibetan Buddhist teachings. The community is welcome to our Sunday service (puja), group practices, meditation classes and introductory courses. WWW.U RGYEN S AMTEN L ING . ORG

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Utah Eckankar 12/17

801.542.8070, 8105 S. 700 E., Sandy. Eckankar teaches you to be more aware of your own natural relationship with Divine Spirit. Many have had spiritual experiences and want to learn more about them.

You will meet people with similar experiences who also wish to share how these improve our daily lives. WWW.E CKANKAR U TAH . ORG

INSTRUCTION Two Arrows Zen Center 3/18DA

801.532.4975, ArtSpace, 230 S. 500 W., #155, SLC. Two Arrows Zen is a center for Zen study and practice in Utah with two location: SLC & Torrey. The ArtSpace Zendo in SLC offers daily morning meditation and a morning service and evening sit on Thursday. TAZ also offers regular day-long intensives—Day of Zen—and telecourses.

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METAPHORS FOR THE MONTH PERFORMING ARTS CENTER

December 2017

A sold out concert last year returns with all new choreography created by RDT dancers and staff.

BY SUZANNE WAGNER

Osho Zen Tarot: Intensity, Thunderbolt, The Source Medicine Cards: Otter Mayan Oracle: Polarity, Men, Harmonic Balance Ancient Egyptian Tarot: The Tower, Nine of Cups, The Wheel of Fortune Aleister Crowley Deck: The Hermit, Queen of Cups, Sorrow Healing Earth Tarot: Death, Woman of Pipes, Nine of Pipes Words of Truth: Allies, Divine Intervention, Nurturing

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ntensity permeates this month’s reading. In all honesty, it is a bit disconcerting. Yes, I know that Mercury is retrograde in Sagittarius December 2-22, making the holiday season more scrambled than you might like.

You may feel like the clean-up batter—you know, the one who comes in when the bases

Take a breath and know that nothing is going to go according to plan. So, you might as well relax. are loaded and you’re expected to hit the home run. No pressure at all in such a situation—not! Expect the high energy, noise and passionate responses to continue—it’s becoming the new norm.

Situations seem to be locking into difficult places, bringing with it a sense of frustration and impatience and a fracturing of the energy, making you feel off base and somewhat out of touch. Mishaps, malfunctions and delays may get in the way. Take a breath and know that nothing is going to go according to plan. So, you might as well relax.

On December 21, Saturn goes into Capricorn for two and a half years. Saturn is a planet that wants to build. Capricorn is the darkest sign in the zodiac. Let’s just say that it’s difficult to build in the dark, especially when Neptune keeps dissolving away all the structure that Sat-

urn keeps attempting to build.

This aspect will make you grow up and take responsibility for the choices and decisions you have made. No one will save you; you will have to find your own strength and connections to others that support you in the evolution of who you came to be. Saturn rewards those who work hard. Laziness and avoidance strategies tend to blow up and it harshly breaks down that which is not real.

That’s what the cards are reflecting. A breakdown in the old order and structures. People and governments that need restructuring. Pipe dreams completely shatter and the intensity of that shift will force each of us to find our own center of truth regardless of the chaos and mayhem happening in the external world.

This may make you appreciate your loved ones even more. And that is a response I believe is greatly needed. It’s time to let go of what you believed was true and the story you made up about that person or situation. Stories are rarely real and life situations are becoming more difficult. The little stuff no longer holds sway over the immense energy that is being asked to shift inside your body and outside in the world.

See the polarity. Let your life roll in the mess and breakdown that has to happen for new growth to emerge. There is harmony in breakdown—it’s the place where the Divine needs to intervene because the mind’s creation has been so destructive. Change happens in ways that are not always pleasant. But they are necessary to get your attention and to learn to appreciate what you have been given up to this point.

Find your center, ground into the reality and look to a higher perspective and meaning. Your ability to nurture others can only happen when you have learned to connect and love all that you are, mistakes and all. ◆ Suzanne Wagner is the author of books and CDs on the tarot and creator of the Wild Women app. She lives in California, but visits Utah frequently. SUZWAGNER.COM

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A monthly compendium of random wisdom for the natural world and beyond

December 2017

by Diane Olson, Anna Zumwalt and Greta deJong

DEC 1 Sunrise. 7:32am. Sunset 5pm. In Salt Lake City, December is the cloudiest month of the year, with only six days where the sky is mainly clear. Most nights are below freezing, but some days reach 50 degrees. Snowfall varies from seven to 17 inches.

DEC 2 Ride your bike in winter! Dress in layers.

Wear good windproof gloves. Use hand warmers on extra-cold days. to a bike shop ded tires and a filter mask. lights!

Head for studgood air And good

DEC 3 Full Super- moon (the only supermoon of 2017) at 8:48am MT. DEC 4 Winter blues setting in? Get outdoors. A regular yoga practice can help keep seasonal affective disorder and stress at bay.

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DEC 5 Master your thermostat. If you don’t already know how to program your thermostat, check your manual (or look for it online). Drop the heat to 60-67 at night. What are those blankets, pets and bed partners for, anyway?

DEC 6 Gingerbread is made with ginger, cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, cardamom and anise. An ancient

form of gingerbread was used by the Greeks and Egyptians for ceremonial purposes. The spices entered European kitchens when 11th century crusaders brought them back from the Middle East. A doctor once wrote a prescription for gingerbreads for the Swedish King Hans, to cure his depression.

DEC 7 “Let us give thanks for unknown blessings already on the way.” — a Quaker mealtime prayer.

From The Whole Heaven Catalog, by Marcia and Jack Kelly.

DEC 8 Have a dry cough? Make your own cough syrups using herbs and honey. Find recipes at EVERYDAYROOTS.COM/COUGHREMEDIES. DEC 9 Feed the birds. A good mix includes large amounts of sunflower seeds and millet but is low in wheat, milo and corn. Water helps, too.

Birdbath heaters cost $20-30 at birding stores, hardware stores and online. Check out the solar-powered versions.

DEC 10 Choose and chop your own CHRISTMAS TREE: WWW.PICKYOUROWNCHRISTMASTREE.ORG/UTXMASTREES.PHP

DEC 11 "Green Monday” was coined by eBay to describe its best sales day in December, because it’s big revenue for them and they market online shopping as greener than brick-and-mortar stores. But online shopping also hijacks a chunk of revenue from the local economy, so think twice and think local, first. LOCALFIRST.ORG DEC 12 Tracy Smith is our country's current Poet Laureate (a position established by the Library of Congress in 1986). She is currently writing an opera about one of our heroes, the legendary urban renewal activist Jane Jacobs.

DEC 13 Geminid meteor shower. Tonight and tomorrow, from 9pm till about 6am, look to the

northeast for meteors. Expect 75 an hour at peak.

DEC 14 The smell of chocolate increases theta brain waves, which triggers relaxation.

DEC 15 “God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.” (J.M. Barrie) DEC 16 When training a new (or old) dog: Instead of just taking a walk, stop and have the dog sit frequently.

Change direction and speed. The point is to unleash the dog's herding instincts and prey drive in an appropriate way.

DEC 17 New Moon 11:31pm MT. The night is darkest at the new moon. Those astrologically inclined consider it the best time to set intentions. Try it.

DEC 18 Thundersnow, a snowstorm with thunder and lightning, occurs when a cold front passes over a large body of water, such as Great Salt Lake.

The snowfall acts as an acoustic suppressor, so only those within a two- or three-mile radius of lightning strike hear thunder.

DEC 19 Need something to do outside? You can put down mulch in your garden, even with snow on the ground.

DEC 20 Goats were among the first animals to be domesticated, around 10,000 years ago. There are over 300 breeds, among them fainting goats, which fall over when they’re startled or excited.

mation, snowflakes are just about identical.

DEC 21 Winter Solstice 9:28am MT. The darkest, longest night of the year. The Sun begins its journey back. Hallelujah! Celebrate with 10 Sun Salutations.

DEC 25 Druids brought holly boughs to snag evil spirits and protect the elves and fairies said to join human households during Yuletide. Wishes written on parchment were hung from its boughs. The Celts planted holly to prevent lightning from hitting their homes. Holly does, in fact, conduct lightning to the ground better than most trees.

DEC 22 If you live along the Wasatch Front, you're likely sharing your home with at least 10 dif- ferent species of spiders, only two of which—the hobo and black widow—are our foe rather than friend.

DEC 26 Starting to think of new year’s resolutions? A visit to CLUTTERERSANONYMOUS.ORG may be in order. "As I let go of what is insignificant to me, I am better able to enjoy those things that are important to me.”

DEC 23 Festivus. Seinfeld writer Dan O’Keefe wrote the episode (“The Strike”) that featured Festivus—a holiday invented in the 1960s by his dad. Traditions include the “Airing of Grievances," “Feats of Strength” and “Festivus miracles” (easily explainable events).

DEC 24 Although every snowflake is unique, during their early stages of for-

DEC 27 Every time you kiss someone, you exchange face mites.

DEC 28 Time seems to speed up as we get older because our brains calculate the perception of time based upon the percentage of time we've lived. When you're two, a year represents half your life. But the years between ages 10 to 20 seem to pass as quickly as those between ages five to 10. The 40 years from ages 40 to 80 fly by at the speed of just five younger years. Today is Greta’s birthday, and she is buckling her seatbelt.

DEC 29 If your wish were the Universe’s command, how would things be different? Again—write it down (on paper). Set it on fire. Onward and upward.

DEC 30 Let it go, let it go, let it go… .Write down your regrets. Set them on fire. (This presupposes you have written them on paper.) Do this alone or in a group, indoors or out, with hot spirits or not. Onward.

DEC 31 Sunrise: 7:51am. Sunset: 5:10pm. Average number of days with snowfall: 8.2. "You have within you unlimited capacities for extraordinary love, for joy, for communion with life, and for unshakable freedom.”

— Jack Kornfield, Buddhist teacher.

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Next Program Begins January 3rd.

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Monday – Friday 9 am–9 pm Saturday – Sunday 9 am–8 pm $5 Yoga Class – Sat. 11 am -12 pm Close at 3 p.m. on Christmas Eve Christmas Day - Closed Close at 3 p.m. on New Years Eve New Years Day - Closed

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Spa Package Discounts!

Choose from Two of our Most Popular Packages.

Buy gift certificates in December and save all year long!

Muscle Recover $55 w/ Student

2 hrs

SAVE $15

Eucalyptus Steam 25 min. Oriental Hot Rocks 50 min. Deep Muscular Massage 25 min.

~ Packages available only in December ~

HEALING MOUNTAIN MASSAGE SCHOOL ®

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De-Stresser $82 w/ Student

3 hrs

SAVE $30

Acupressure Facial 25 min. Euc. Steam or Reiki 50 min. Foot Spa or Salt Scrub 50 min. Swedish Massage 25 min.

SALT LAKE CAMPUS

801-355-6300

363 South 500 East Ste. 210