CATALYST Magazine August 2019

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“Easy Peasy’ by Erin Geesaman Rabke

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rin Geesaman Rabke has been a huge fan of CATALYST Magazine and all it has added to the SLC community since she was a high school student 30 years ago. Erin became a regular contributor to this magazine in 1998, writing the Health Notes column and many other features over many years.

After taking a break from writing for CATALYST during the early years of parenting her son, Mesa John Rabke, who is featured in the cover photo, she and her husband Carl are delighted to return to writing for CATALYST again starting this fall.

This photo of their wilderness-loving boy was taken on a recent trip to the threatened Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, one of their family’s favorite places on earth. They live in

Salt Lake City with a cat, a gecko, a python, 8 hilarious hens, and a permaculture garden with a budding food forest.

Erin is a writer, a mom, an amateur photographer, a long-time meditator, and a passionate learner. By profession, she is a Somatic Naturalist and an Integrative Embodiment Mentor. She and her husband Carl host a podcast called Embodiment Matters, teach embodiment classes in person, online, locally and in various beautiful locations around the world. They also host Grief-Tending rituals, Poetry-appreciation classes, Deep Ecology & Work that Reconnects workshops, Feldenkrais immersions, men’s and women’s groups, Somatic Meditation, and so much more. Erin is currently at work on her first book. ◆

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ENVIRONEWS

August 2019

BY AMY BRUNVAND

BLM headquarters moving to Colorado?

If you take care of it and look after it, it’s going to take care of you. You’re going to get healed from it and you’re going to heal the land, too, like that.

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–Jonah Yellowman, board member, Utah Diné Bikéyah

nterior Secretary David Bernhardt has requested over $20 million to relocate Bureau of Land Management (BLM) offices from Washington DC to Grand Junction, Colorado.

BLM is a federal agency under the Department of the Interior

that manages 245 million acres of public lands, mostly in Western states. The 22.9 million acres of BLM land in Utah include some of the the wildest, most remote places in the state.

The Utah Wilderness Coalition

formed in 1985 in direct response to a poorly executed wilderness inventory of BLM Lands. Since BLM tends to have fewer restrictions than other federal agencies, these are places where Utahns can go without needing to get a permit, pay an entrance fee or board the dog.

BLM lands are also leased for grazing, mining and fossil fuel extraction leading to the old joke that the acronym stands for “Bureau of Livestock and Mining.”

In 2012, the Utah Legislature put Utah at the center of a movement to privatize BLM lands by passing the Transfer of Public Lands Act. Under the influence of the ultra-conservative American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), privatization of public lands found its way into the 2016

tor Cory Gardner (R-CO) who says the move is important so that “decision-makers can live amongst the people and land their rules and regulations affect.”

In fact, BLM is already a highly decentralized agency with many regional field offices so that most BLM employees already live near the lands they manage. The main function of the Washington office is to facilitate interactions with legislators and other land management agencies.

Republican Party Platform.

Since then many Republicansponsored public land bills have contained a hidden privatization agenda.

The idea of moving BLM managers west originated with Sena-

It seems wise for environmentalists to assume that the move to Grand Junction is a cover for bad intentions. The move seems designed to get rid of employees from previous administrations who many not be willing or able

to relocate.

Contrary to a multiple use philosophy, a signature policy of the Trump administration is “Energy Dominance.” Under Trump an Obama-era rule known as BLM 2.0 designed to involve local communities in public lands planning was rescinded, and public comment periods have been shortened or eliminated.

When Trump cut down Bears Ears National Monument the word “local” was widely misused by anti-monument politicians to mean assigning power to county government while shutting out input from other stakeholders.

Grand Junction is a “drill baby drill” kind of place and no doubt Republicans think the move will put the agency under the thumb of oil and gas interests.

However, it seems likely that antifederalist Republicans have vastly overestimated citizen support for transfer of federal public lands in Western states and that the ideology of privatization may actually have less influence in places where citizens know exactly what they stand to lose.

Grand Junction was ground zero of the oil shale bust in the 1980s and rebounded due to retired people who want to live near public lands. It is within driving distance of both Salt Lake City and Denver where support for lands conservation is high, and where citizen conservation groups are active and effective.

So far, thanks to the tireless efforts of citizen activists, Utah’s federal land grab has failed, and Utah’s public lands are still in public hands. From that standpoint, moving BLM to Grand Junction may not be an entirely bad thing after all. ◆

Arches is now officially a Dark Sky park

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rches National Park has been certified as an International Dark Sky Park by the International Dark Sky Association (IDSA). The certification recognizes voluntary efforts to

preserve dark skies from artificial lights that confuse animals and blot out the stars.

The park has installed shielded light fixtures to minimize glare and blue light. Park rangers at Arches are planning to host a ceremony and star party on Sept. 21, 2019 at the newly completed Panorama Point stargazing area.

International Dark Sky Association: DARKSKY.ORG

Climate change and cities By 2050 the climate of Denver, Colorado will be as hot as Salt Lake City, Utah; Salt Lake City will be like Las Vegas, Nevada; Las Vegas will be like Phoenix, Arizona (a.k.a America’s least sustainable city); Phoenix will be like Baghdad, Iraq where heat wave temperatures can climb to over 120 degrees Fahrenheit.

The comparison study was done by a team of researchers in order to help people envision the actual impacts of climate change on daily life.

Globally, heat waves are becoming more deadly, particularly in humid climates. Human survivability in heat waves is determined by a measure called “wet-bulb temperature” that describes the potential for evaporative cooling by sweating.

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No subsidies for uranium

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he Trump administration has inadvertently halted uranium mining near Grand Canyon and within the Obama-era boundaries of Bears Ears National Monument by making it unprofitable.

Trump had called for quotas on uranium imports which would have boosted the price of domestic uranium. However, in July Trump announced that he will not impose tariffs after all.

When President Obama designated Bears Ears National Monument, the boundaries were drawn to exclude the White Mesa uranium mining district.

Nonetheless, journalists at the Washington Post discovered that uranium industry lobbyists met with Trump before the plan to shrink National Monuments was ever announced to the public. Co-chairs of the Utah Commission for the Stewardship of Public Lands submitted comments to the Bears Ears review complaining that “the Monument threatens the existence of the White Mesa mill,” and urging Interior Secretary to rescind the Monument so that San Juan County “can once again be the center of the nation’s uranium industry.”

In the future, high uranium prices could revive the threat. Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-Arizona) has sponsored a bill to permanently ban uranium mining in Arizona near the Grand Canyon. Bears Ears is still vulnerable to the next uranium frenzy.

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Where does Jordan River water come from?

Researchers at the University of Utah studied where water in the Jordan River comes from as a step toward sustainable river management.

The Jordan River is on a state list of impaired waters under the Clean Water Act. The river originates at the outlet of Utah Lake and flows north through heavily urbanized areas before it drains into wetlands of the Great Salt Lake. On the way it picks up human runoff and effluent and

natural water from tributaries and groundwater.

Water managers believe that one way to restore the river would be to keep more water in it, especially in the fall when low water levels cause concentration of pollutants.

Efforts to restore the river are documented on the website of the Jordan River Commission.

Jordan River Commission: JORDANRIVERCOMMISSION.COM

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BY AMY BRUNVAND

Cows are eating Pando

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new report from the Western Watershed Project says that cattle are eating Pando, an aspen clone in the Fishlake National Forest that is consid-

ered the world’s largest living organism.

A 2018 study blamed mule deer because cattle only graze for two weeks. However, the new study says that during the period of intensive

grazing the cows eat as much as mule deer eat in six months. The ability of cows to strip out large amounts of understory vegetation has recently been promoted by Utah politicians as a strategy to prevent wildfires.

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n July the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources reported an unusually high number of calls about bears, probably because Utah’s growing population puts more people in wildlife habitat.

The Wild Aware website maintained by Hogle Zoo, Utah State University and Utah Division of Wildlife Resources has information about how to co-exist safely with big, fierce animals. Bears are attracted to trash, pet food, bird feeders, compost, fruit trees, beehives and barbeque grills. Campers should never keep food stored on picnic tables or inside tents. Backpackers can use a bear-resistant food jar. (Note: I carry a BearVault which did keep a bear from getting my food.)

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Help study black rosy-finches

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he Wild Utah Project is seeking citizen-science volunteers to study black rosy-finches this upcoming fall and winter. The finches live in rugged mountain landscapes and are one of the least studied birds in North America.

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Condor chick in Zion

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pair of endangered California condors nesting in Zion National Park have hatched a chick which has been entered in the official condor “studbook� as number 1000.

This is the third chick hatched by Condor 409 who was herself hatched at the San Diego Zoo and released into the wild as part of a captive breeding program. Sadly, her other chicks did not survive. Baby condors live with their parents for about a year, so condors only hatch an egg every two years or so.

California condors survived the Late Pleistocene extinction that wiped out Ice-Age megafauna. By the time Europeans arrived in Western North America, California Condors lived only in a narrow strip along the West Coast. They seem to have gotten a boost from the introduction of domestic cattle and sheep as a source of carrion, but declined due to lead poisoning from bullets left by hunters. Carrion-eaters like condors and vultures play an essential role in the ecosystem by cleaning up dead animals that can spread disease to human beings.

Biologists have confirmed a California condor chick has hatched in this nest on the cliffs just north of Angels Landing; The National Park Service

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PETS

August 2019

While foxtail-caused death is uncommon, many animals often goes through a tremendous amount of pain and stress due to this rampant weed. And for the owner there’s financial cost, as well.

How do I tell if my pet has a foxtail?

Tale of a wicked weed Foxtails: Don’t let your pet near them

BY KAYLEIGH STOCK

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he barbed grass may look beautiful as it blows in the breeze—particularly in the spring, when it’s supple and green. But foxtail, a self-seeding annual grass, is a serious danger to pets and livestock.

Farmers know this. And urbanites are learning, the hard way. Due to a wet spring, this weed has spread like wildfire and is invading the city as well. Veterinarians are seeing an increase in cases of foxtail. Foxtails are most dangerous right now, in the hottest parts of the year when they start to dry out and seed. If those remain among us don’t already know what a foxtail is, it is time to find out.

What is foxtail?

The term “foxtail” is used by veterinarians as a catch-all term from any type of barbed seeds, or ‘awns’ that get caught in a dog or cat’s fur or skin, explains Utah State University weed science expert Corey Ransom. There are in fact several varieties, including foxtail barley, green foxtail, yellow foxtail, spear grass, cheatgrass (downy brome) and junegrass.

Some strains like foxtail barley (the most common variety in Utah) and Medusahead have longer barbs and may therefore be more treacherous to animals, but none of them are good for your pets, says Ransom.

How is foxtail a hazard to my pet?

Those little spiky barbs are worse than you might think. Foxtail seeds attach themselves not only to dogs’ (and less commonly cats’) fur and paws. They can also get sucked in through their nostrils as they sniff the ground or get caught in the mouth, ears, tonsils, third eyelid, penis, vagina or anus. Once attached, their fish hook-like shape allows them to burrow into and under the pet’s skin. Inside, they do not break down but (yes, this sounds like science fiction) instead migrate through the body. At this point, foxtails often cause infection, and in rare cases are fatal. Foxtails can puncture eardrums, lungs and other vital organs if gone unchecked, and can even migrate into an animal’s brain.

Last year KUTV reported that a local Norwegian elkhound/poodle named Vivian got a foxtail that migrated into her chest where it formed a lump. The veterinarian drained the lump and believed it was no longer of concern, but the pup got an infection that turned into pneumonia. Vivian passed away at just 18 months of age. In another 2018 local case a two-year-old Malinois police dog ingested foxtail. Fluid built-up around the dog’s lungs and he passed away during surgery.

If we must say one good thing about foxtails (besides they’re pretty when young and green): If you’re lost in the wilderness and come across a stand of foxtails that have gone to seed, and you have a lot of time, some water and fire, you can harvest the rice kernal-sized grains from the bushy tails and boil and eat them, according to the survivalist website Wilderness Arena.

Sharmon Gilbert, a local veterinarian and Washington State University graduate ,is no stranger to foxtails. She sees them every day, often several times a day at her clinic.

Gilbert gave CATALYST a few warning signs to be aware of regarding foxtail and our pets: Head shaking can mean that your pet has a foxtail in its ear canal. Excessive sneezing or discharge from the nose or an eye could be a sign of foxtail in the nose or eye. If you find your pet scratching or licking its paws or other areas, this is often an indication of foxtails. Lastly, any “general signs of pain” should always be examined. It is more than a good idea to have your pet checked for foxtails at each vet visit because foxtails can be difficult to find and pets don’t always exhibit warning signs.

What do I do if my pet gets a foxtail?

Gilbert says that if you are able to locate a foxtail in your pet’s paw, you can try to pull the foxtail out with tweezers. If this doesn’t work, or if you find one in your pet’s eye, ear, nose, or

elsewhere, take your pet to the vet right away.

If your vet is unable to see you immediately and your pet has already developed an abscess between its toes, soak your pet’s foot in warm water or apply a warm compress four or five times a day to help with pain and increase blood flow to the area.

Foxtails in the city Despite the fact that they are such a prevalent nuisance and harmful to pets, the most common kind of foxtail in Utah, foxtail barley (Hordeum jubatum), is not listed on the state’s noxious weed list. Salt Lake County’s Bee and Noxious Weeds Program Manager Sage Fitch says that is because “under state law, only nonnative plants can be considered noxious, and

foxtail barley is native to the region.” Because they are not considered noxious by the state, there are unfortunately no specific ordinances to regulate their spread.

Because foxtails can grow from one to three feet tall, Salt Lake City’s ordinance 9.16 gives citizens a way to voice complaint about overgrown foxtails on private property. Under this ordinance, weeds and grass must be cut to six inches or less.

However, particularly where people don’t water their lawns, the plants may have quickly gone to seed before reaching that height. Because the city does not generally intervene when it comes to most foxtail varieties, the job is left to us. (See sidebar for foxtail control.)

Photo by Steve Dewey; Utah State University www.invasivespeciesinfo.gov

Though foxtail barley, cheat grass and junegrass are not considered noxious weeds in Utah, Medusahead (above) makes the list.

How do I identify foxtail?

Fortunately foxtails share a common profile, so no matter the strain, you can typically identify them without pause. Foxtails share their colloquial name because they all have hard tips and spikey, bushy awns that resemble a fox’s tail.

One plant that is sometimes confused with foxtail (particularly on farms) is timothy, a perennial grass eaten by livestock and rabbits.

Foxtails, on the other hand, are annuals that go

to seed in the spring and then die in the fall.

Some varieties of foxtails have seed heads that droop. If you don’t see this dead giveaway, the next most obvious difference to look for are the awns. Foxtails have these barbed seeds, but timothy does not.

What preventive measures I can take against foxtail?

When it comes to your pet, Gilbert says the best thing you can do is learn how to identify foxtail. Be aware of it in your neighborhood and wherever you walk with your dog.

Stick to cleared paths. Ransom explains that while foxtails tend to grow in wild areas like open fields and on mountainsides, they also are found in parks, parking strips and yards if the grounds are unhealthy and unkempt. He says they grow all over the state, and that on a recent visit up north, “they were everywhere.”

For these reasons, it is best to maintain one’s own yard and be aware of the fauna wherever you walk your pup. Just as important, Gilbert says, is to check your dog’s fur and between its toes after outdoor adventures.

If you live in an area with a lot of foxtails and they become a nuisance to your pet, shaving its feet can help prevent foxtails and make them easier to find. Dogs and cats with thick coats of hair are even more at risk of getting foxtails caught in their fur and skin. Gilbert says she had a Great Pyranese in recently who would cry out in pain every time it was touched. When they shaved the pup, they found foxtails all over its body. If your dog’s breed allows, giving your thick-coated pet a shave in the summer will help keep it cool and prevent foxtails.

We animal lovers at CATALYST wish you and your pet a carefree end of summer now that you have expanded your base of pet-care knowledge! Happy trails! ◆ Kayleigh Stock is a recent English graduate from Weber State University and a former CATALYST intern.

How to outfox foxtail

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n our neighborhood, foxtails are appearing in the untended (unwatered, unmowed) lawns of rentals and yards whose owners are trying to conserve water. Xeriscape means low water, and planting vegetation that thrives on little water. It does not mean “no water.”

Zeroscape is not a word, but could mean “the practice of abusing and neglecting your yard.” In which case, foxtail thrives in a zeroscape!

If you spot foxtail in your own yard, here are some suggestions: • Pull up these pesky weeds at their roots. Watering first makes the job easier.

• Vinegar, poured on the root area in sufficient quantity to moisten the soil around the plant, is said to work, particularly on younger plants.

• Time-consuming but free and effective: Repeat applications of fresh morning urine will deliver enough nitrogen and salts to burn any plant. (Take care to not let it touch surrounding vegetation you want to keep.) The super-squeamish can buy “predator urine” in garden stores. But really, why? Put your predator status to good use. Remove the plant, once it weakens in a week or so.

• Mowing foxtails can be helpful, especially if you mow before they produce seed heads. Be vigilant, however, and mow again if they grow back. Clean your mower blades after.

• It is possible to overseed the foxtail and push it out with more desirable cool-season grasses in late summer.

• A heavy mulch may also work. Layer newspapers, then apply leaves, woodchips or straw.

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The air knows no boundaries Prevailing winds carry ozone to Utah from upwind states and from Asia.

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his time of year there is a lot of buzz about ozone air pollution. Ozone plagues areas of Utah every summer when the temperatures rise and the sun shines bright. Ozone also troubles areas of the Uinta Basin in the wintertime—a phenomenon that is not so well understood, since ozone pollution is typically associated with summertime temperatures and sunlight.

plants to produce and store food. This can ultimately slow growth and increase the risk of disease, insect damage, harm from severe weather and effects of other pollutants. Plant species that are particularly sensitive to the effects of ozone on their growth include trees found in numerous areas of the United States—black cherry, quaking aspen, tulip poplar, white pine, ponderosa pine and red alder, to name a few.

What is ozone and what does it do?

Ozone’s impacts on food production

Ozone is a powerful oxidant that can irritate the airways. Even relatively low levels of ozone can lead to health problems. Ozone exposure damages the lining of our lungs, similar to a sunburn on your skin. Exposure over time can lead to numerous health conditions like asthma, emphysema, chronic bronchitis, and COPD. Ozone affects children especially, because their lungs are still developing.

In addition to human health, ozone can also negatively impact environmental health. Ozone pollution affects vegetation and ecosystems, including forests, parks, wildlife refuges and wilderness areas.

When enough ozone enters the leaves of sensitive vegetation, it can reduce photosynthesis, interfering with the ability of sensitive

Agriculture is one of the largest contributors of ozone precursor emissions like ammonia and other nitrogen compounds, which contribute both to PM2.5 and ozone pollution.

There is increasing evidence that food production is greatly threatened by air pollution.

Ozone precursor emissions are particularly concerning because ozone penetrates into the plant structure and can impair the plant’s ability to develop.

Ozone can vastly impact crops during the growing season. Wheat and soybean crops have been found to be more sensitive than others. Rice, potato and corn are also susceptible to problems from ozone pollution. These sensitive crops are all staple foods for the pop-

ulation.

Entire ecosystems can also suffer from exposure to elevated ozone—loss of species diversity among not only plants but animals, insects and fish as well. It can also lead to changes to habitat quality and water and nutrient cycles.

Ozone is, unfortunately, a particularly challenging problem in Utah. There are many manmade sources of precursor emissions that lead to ozone formation locally—vehicles, consumer products like solvents and paints, and industrial sources. States are required to put controls and implement emissions-reducing strategies on manmade sources of ozone precursor emissions, and many of the controls in place to combat PM2.5 pollution should reduce ozone pollution as well. But due to several factors—many out of our control—local emissions are decreasing but ozone pollution is on an upward trend.

Wildfires: a wild card Wildfires are no doubt problematic for Utah’s air quality, and wildfires are abundant in the West. Wildfire contribution to ozone formation is, however, difficult to quantify. A 2016 study from Colorado State University explains that predicting the relationship of ozone and wildfire smoke is tricky due to the fact that some individual smoke plumes have been linked to a

dramatic spike in ozone, but others have seen ozone production actually suppressed within wildfire smoke.

For ozone to form you need a recipe of volatile organic compounds (VOCs), nitrogen oxide (NOx) and sunlight reacting together.

When you add a wildfire, it’s the what and how that matters: what is burning, how hot it is burning, and how much sunlight is penetrating through the smoke. These factors combined determine how much a wildfire contributes to ozone levels. In other words, each wildfire contributes to ozone formation differently.

The CSU study hints that wildfire smoke interacting with pollutants in urban areas helps form ozone. There is no perfect equation to determine how much wildfire smoke in general contributes to ozone formation.

But there is a general understanding that wildfires can, and likely will continue to add to

What about ozone that How do outside sources of comes from other countries? ozone pollution affect Utah?

The troubling information gathered in several studies on international transport shows that although the United States is emitting less, ozone pollution is still rising in the West because of the pollutants released in Asian countries that then drift over the Pacific.

One particular 2017 study of ozone levels from 1980 to 2014 showed that Asian pollution contributed as much as 65% of an increase in Western ozone in recent years. The study points to China and India as the worst offenders.

Scientists say NOx emissions in Asian countries have tripled since 1990. When NOx blows into North America, its impact offsets the measures within the United States to reduce NOx emissions locally. This study, published in the journal Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics,

Air pollution from Asia has contributed as much as 65% to an increase in Western ozone in recent years. Coal-burning power plants are the leading cause of air pollution in China and India. the increasing summertime air pollution problem particularly in Western states.

Wildfires are especially troublesome for Utah because wildfire season has been growing increasingly worse each year within and surrounding the state, and smoke wafting into the valleys leads to elevated PM2.5 pollution. When ozone is high and PM2.5 is elevated, we are hit with a double-punch of bad air.

was led by NOAA and EPA scientists and concluded that manmade emissions in Asia are the “major driver” of rising ozone levels in the Western United States.

According to a study by the University of British Columbia’s Faculty of Medicine, coal is the leading culprit of air pollution in Asia, Earth’s largest continent. In China, 75% of the premature deaths are caused by the 152 coalfired power plants in Hebei Province alone.

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Roughly 50-69% of the local ozone comes from manmade sources within the U.S., which means approximately 22-30% comes from international transport: manmade sources outside of the U.S. Considering how difficult the ozone problem is to address, we all must remember to do our part to reduce the emissions that we personally contribute into the atmosphere. Little things add up. Use electric or hand-powered yard equipment. Drive less and carpool or take transit. Protect your family’s health by checking the UtahAir app or DAQ website to find the current air quality conditions before recreating.

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Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time I get this off my chest My explant story

BY NICOLE DEVANEY

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never really wanted implants. A fan of mother nature, I was a bit of a hippy really, and felt that her creations were better than any surgeon could fabricate. All that changed after having my daughter.

You see, I was an exotic dancer for seven years before she was born and after separating from her father, I knew that dancing would be one of the best ways for me to raise her with enough time, money and energy to be the kind

of mom I always wanted to be. I had other options available to me for work, yet I knew of the struggle for women on an hourly pay scale raising children alone. After witnessing my own mother work two jobs to support a family on

her own, I knew that shaking my way to a better life was the path for me.

When the time neared to grace the stage for the first time after pregnancy, I exercised profusely and ate all the right foods—my body was in better shape than it had been before I got pregnant. Even with a flat stomach and plump tush, there always seemed to be something missing for the “strip club” crowd after taking my top off, and truthfully there was.

I was never a large-breasted woman. But after breastfeeding for two-plus years, my perky little B’s were not quite the bouncy spirits they once had been.

Getting implants for me was a business decision, one that came with a lot of profit and some unexpected loss. I am sharing my story now in hopes of enlightening women and men to the dangers of breast implants.

Also, to guide those considering this surgery to think more deeply about what they may be risking. It is important for you to know that I am not anti or pro plastic surgery. I am all for listening to your heart and making fully informed decisions when it comes to you.

To B or to double-D… That was the question I will never forget my first Victoria’s Secret outing with my new double-D implants. As I said, I was always happy to be a beautiful B cup but when I tried on that first lacy double-D bra, I felt like a Disney princess! It was a whole new world. I called out to the store clerk, “Get me one of everything in every color, please!”

I easily recall the first day when I was healed enough to dance and the reactions I got on stage. A longtime customer came up and

tipped me a $50. He said, “I am not sure what has changed but you are glowing.” I did not know that silicone could have that effect. This was the most I ever received from this customer in a single tip and my first thought was that my investment was already seeing some

dividends.

Later he returned to the stage with a $20 bill and an apology for not noticing that I had new breasts. We both had a good laugh.

My career in the stripping industry changed from that day forward.

I had always made good money before im-

plants. Now I made even more and there was definitely something new about the crowd I was attracting post-augmentation.

In fact, a lot more than my income changed.

The attention that I would receive outside of the strip club was different, too. Every shirt I put on felt like an altar that displayed my new, rather large, rack. At first it was a good time but after a while I realized that much of the attention I was getting led me to shallow connections and a lack of depth in some of my suitors. Was it the implants? I was doing a lot more weeding in the garden o favailable men.

After one year with my new breasts, my upper body muscles that I worked so hard for literally pushed the right silicone bag up into my armpit and I experienced what is called a capsule contracture.

This is when the body forms a harder capsule of tissue around the implant. It can happen whether you have strong pec muscles or not.

Capsular contracture is the most common complication following implant-based breast surgery and is one of the most common reasons for reoperation (15-45% of all augmentations have some degree of contracture). To fix it, I had to go under anesthesia and the knife again.

A year later, the left one did the same thing but this time, during the surgery, they found that it had ruptured. It was under warranty and

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Breast Implants: a history

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reast implants came into use around the 1960s. At the time, breast reconstruction surgery was considered an essential surgery for women, so essential that the new technology, of surgically inserting silicone under the skin, was green-lighted without any studies into the effects or potential hazards.

The FDA did not have the authority to regulate medical devices until 1976 when the “Medical Devices” law was passed. Even then, breast implants were grandfathered in. The FDA did not act to request any scientific evidence from implant manufacturers that would demon-

tightening of the scar tissue around the implant), breakage, micro-leakage (sweating or bleeding of silicone outside the shell), evidence of silicone accumulation in the lymphatic system, interference with the accuracy of mammography, immune disorders and cancer.

Despite the gravity of these concerns it still took another four years before the FDA issued their first official requirement of manufacturers of silicone gel-filled implants to submit information regarding their safety and effectiveness. The initial studies conducted in response to this request were highly inadequate, poorly designed and conducted not by an independ-

strate product safety.

During the decades between 1960 and 1990, women often came forward with complaints about pain or other symptoms associated with their implants with little to no response from manufacturers, the medical establishment or the government. Later, it was found that implant manufacturer Dow Corning was aware of problems with their product. It was later found that, over the course of these same decades, numerous memoranda were circulated internally within the company complaining of the product’s tendency to “leak” silicone from the implant into the surrounding body tissues.

ent research group but by the companies themselves. In one particular study two out of three patients were followed for less than three months after their surgery.

By 1988, the FDA Advisory Panel was starting to pay attention to complaints about implants.

Dr. Nirmal Mishra spoke to the Panel about possible risks associated with breast implants including: capsular contracture (the painful

Today, more than 1.5 million American women have silicone breast implants, yet the condition which some patients are calling Breast Implant Illness BII is still little understood, under studied, and frequently dismissed by both the medical establishment and implant manufacturers. Breast implants are a controversial subject that are still advertised as safe by plastic surgeons, doctors and the medical community. When you hear about breast implants, doctors generally focus on the look and local complications.

By now, implant manufacturers and surgeons acknowledge that there are common complications associated with breast implants

that may require removal. These issues include implant ruptures that leak silicone gel into neighboring tissue and other parts of the body, capsular contraction which causes painful distortion of tissue around the implant, deflation of implants, pain caused by muscular spasms and severe capsular contraction. But talk with women suffering from BII and you may hear a range of complaints that are much more disturbing. In its mildest form, BII sufferers complain of fatigue, cognitive dysfunction (brain fog, memory loss) and muscle aches. But there are also even more concerning complaints of recurring infections, gastrointestinal and digestive issues, anxiety, and problems with thyroid and adrenals.

The American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery dismisses most of these complaints, calling them “self-diagnosed” and thus unsubstantiated. They also point to the various Facebook support groups gaining traction and suggest that any rise in reporting of BII is simply a “symptom” of “social media.”

So far, the only organization that seems to be taking seriously the complains of BII is the National Center for Health Research. In November 2018, the Center began their own study of more than 300 women who had their implants removed. The NCHR reported that, when surveyed about why they wanted their implants removed (and not replaced), “fewer than onethird reported ruptured implants, approximately one half had breast pain, and 84% cited an array of other health issues that can be categorized as autoimmune or connective tissue symptoms, rather than diagnosed diseases. At the time that their implants were removed, approximately three out of five of the women had implants in their body for 10 years or more, and many had these symptoms for years. After having their implants removed, 89% of the women reported that their symptoms improved.”

Silicone is derived from silicon, a semimetallic element that, combined with oxygen, forms silica (think beach sand). Silicone can be a gel, liquid or rubbery substance. It is used in common household items such as sunscreen, hand lotion, soap, chewing gum and hairspray.

Most medical sources will deny the toxicity of silicone.

Breast implants are also more than just silicone. They have a mix of other potentially toxic chemicals and metals including tin and platinum. With the toxicity of implants still up for debate (for some), it is less then reassuring to know that implant leakage can lead to quantities of silicone and other substances to find their way into the body’s lymph nodes and then migrate to distant organs. ◆

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As I searched for a wooden spoon, I glanced down at my “plastic” chest. Light dawned. What difference would it make for me to change my plastic kitchenware when I was living with two bags of plastic in my warm chest?

I never pinned my illness on the surgeries or breast implants until years later when I began to study information I needed to explant. The government keeps no record of illnesses believed to be connected to breast implants but women across the world are now coming together and speaking up about their symptoms and sharing their experiences of healing. Upon finding the Facebook group Breast Implant Illness by Nicole, I was able to read about thousands of women’s experiences that mirrored

my own. Breast Implant Illness by Nicole’s Facebook group has grown from 30,000 when I joined just over a year ago to nearly 88,000 members currently.

In my experience, breast implants are not simply two large foreign bodies composed of 40-plus chemicals, they are devices made of semi-permeable shells that leak “gel bleed”— silicone, heavy metals and chemicals—from the day they are implanted, sometimes causing profound illnesses. I believe that these

I received a new one. I was given no warning to look out for symptoms of silicone poisoning or suggestions as to why it was damaged… just a fresh new bag of silicone because it was warrantied.

This is when my health declined drastically. I started to experience what I thought was adrenal fatigue and thyroid issues. I was chronically tired, cold and my body, which I took such good care of, hurt all the time. My diet was organic. I practiced yoga five times a week. At 29 years of age I should not have felt this sick. I was often found wearing snow pants in the middle of summer because my body was so cold. My hair fell out and became so thin it would not grow past my shoulders.

Worst of all my spine broke (spondyloisthesis) doing yoga, one thing I thought was keeping me healthy! Everything in my body was degrading and it sent me on a journey toward healing— one that I am grateful for because I believe my ill health and the cleanses, diet and lifestyle it led me to saved my life and kept me healthy for the remaining years I had my implants.

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My life only got better after surgery. I have regained a level of energy and strength that I did not even remember was missing. abrasive substances are toxic and inflammatory to our cells and body processes, such as the immune and endocrine systems. The “new and improved” cohesive silicone breast implants also release gel bleed and contain aggressive chemicals and heavy metals. Many scientific studies show that low molecular weight siloxanes are extremely toxic. Although saline implants may seem the safer of the two, they are also encased in silicone shells. Many of them have valve manufacturing defects that cause a leakage and “backwash” effect. Mold can thrive inside saline implants for years, creating biotoxicity, with detrimental health effects.

With the sharing of my explant story, I am amazed by all the women who have come forth asking for information because they, too,

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are ready to remove their implants. I believe the health industry will soon begin to identify BII and we will see more and more awareness of what is happening. There will be waves of women needing to cleanse and clear their bodies of the toxic soup that has been created by boob jobs and other medical implant devices. They will possibly learn through this process that the autoimmune and other health issues they are experiencing are not hereditary and are reversible. It all starts with the removal of the implants but must also include reversing the damage the toxins have done.

Why explant?

Even though I no longer experienced symptoms of BII, after 10 years I wanted my breast implants removed. There were lots of reasons for my desire to explant:

1. Plastic is an endocrine disruptor and does a number on your hormones. Most contain xenoestrogens that mimic our body’s estrogen and in some cases have been linked to men growing breasts and women developing breast cancer.

2. I have not been able to do a proper push up in almost 10 years, not without my breasts parting like the Red Sea, any-

way, due to the implants under my pec muscles.

3. I want to give people hugs without having to concave my chest in to bring my body close to theirs.

4. I am a medical intuitive and read people with my body. The plastic bags in my chest prevented me from fulling feeling with my heart chakra. It was like a cloudy lens over my heart camera.

5. Mostly, I don’t need them anymore. My career no longer is reliant upon the size and shape of my breasts.

The final straw for me came one day as I was stirring soup at a pot luck. Someone had set out a plastic spoon that I did not want to put into the hot liquid. I’d already removed all plastic utensils and storage containers from my own kitchen. As I searched for a wooden spoon I glanced down at my “plastic” chest.

Light dawned. What difference would it make for me to change my plastic kitchenware when I was living with two bags of plastic in my warm chest?!

One of the most powerful experiences in this journey was when I shared my wish to explant with my husband. He looked me in the eye and said, “I cannot wait to hug you chest to chest.” Everything in my body melted in love and I felt so safe and supported. It was the nudge of confidence I subconsciously desired to be able to let go of these four pounds of toxic weight.

The Female Brain, by Louann Brizendine, M.D. is an eye-opening look into a woman’s quest to look good. It comes down to a primal instinct to attract a mate and procreate. It is a cellular, subconscious need to feel and look our best so we can make babies! After reading this book I spent less time telling my daughter that it did not matter what she wore and more time helping her to pick out the best outfit that made her feel beautiful from the inside out. But the question I have to pose here, would be…Is beauty worth dying for? Many women have died due to complications of BII. When you sign on the dotted line for this surgery, the small print says you are willing to take that risk.

The artificial, photoshopped experience of sexual beauty is everywhere, particularly online. For the last three years I’ve co-hosted a woman’s moon circle where we sometimes talk about the issues women face regarding beauty standards. One of my favorite questions we addressed is: “How do you love yourself and feel beautiful when it comes to societal pressure to look a certain way?”

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For me, the way to becoming conscious was to turn it all off. I stopped participating in any media that reinforced those standards. I spent my newfound extra time doing things that made me feel sexy and loved. This, to me, was a way to grow out of second chakra immaturity into the expression of heart chakra love.

I do think plastic surgery is a modern miracle and there are some beautiful things that it has done to help many people. People suffering from extreme weight loss, cancer and birth deformities no longer have to live with emotional and painful body image issues, thanks to advancements made. Sometimes one simple surgery can change a person’s life for the better and I commend the advancements that make this possible.

As for me, my life only got better after surgery. I have regained a level of energy and strength that I did not even remember was

missing. I have shared my story and this information through several interviews and podcasts and have heard from women all over the world how it has changed their lives for the better.

It was not easy, somewhat painful and a bit toxic due to anesthesia. The good news is that I never have to do it again. When you have implants, it is recommended you change them every 10 years or so. That is a lot of surgeries in one’s lifetime. I’m going to use the $25,000 I might have spent on augmentations to invest in all things that make me feel good and that enable me to help others feel healthier, too. ◆ Nicole DeVaney is an instructor for the CHEK Institute as well as a medical intuitive, writer, speaker and self-proclaimed “how-to” healer. She runs a private holistic practice out of Cutting Edge Physical Therapy in Murray, Utah.

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Things that “uplift”

be they shoes, smoke, implants or clean windows

BY GRETA BELANGER DEJONG

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n June, The New York Times reported about a movement in Japan by women who want a law prohibiting dress codes that mandate high heels at work.

“A 1921 effort in Utah was even more drastic,” the Times wrote. “A bill would have criminalized the possession of high heels, punishable by up to $500 for a first offense and up to $1,000 for subsequent offenses, along with possible imprisonment” for possession of any shoe with a heel longer tha n 1.5 inches. This limit was set because even in 1921, Utah’s legislature was primarily a cowboy caucus, I presume, and that was the extent of a cowboy boot’s heel. But the male version is, after all, the original version—high heels are first known to have been worn in the 10th century by men in the Persian Calvary; the heels helped keep their feet in the stirrups.

The proposed bill was the result of a campaign by osteopaths—doctors who focus on the musculoskeletal system, taking into account how environmental and lifestyle factors impact health. The penalty would be per pair of shoes, with imprisonment of 30 days to one year.

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ever, that is not to say the bill was without merit. Muscles in the feet connect to calf muscles, which connect to hamstrings, which connect to the pelvis and low back. The shoe pulls it all askew, while pitching one’s center of gravity forward. Sounds like a recipe for trouble, sooner or later.

I used to have…I forget how many pairs of cowboy boots, in various colors and heights.

It was all I wore on my feet. Then Feldenkrais practitioner Dan Schmidt pointed out what even that one-inch heel (to say nothing of the toe crowding) was doing to my entire body, pitching it this way and that. I stopped immediately, and eventually divested myself of them all, never looking back.

The things we do (or have done—probably in younger and more passionate but less discriminating years) for the look of it. In this issue, there’s Nicole DeVaney’s tell-all tale of fake breasts—why she got them, and what happened (good and bad) as a result.

Then there’s Sophie Silverstone’s piece about a nonprofit started by a local bar owner to care for fellow bar service industry members experiencing health issues. It’s a tough line of work to be healthy in—late hours that screw up sleep patterns, maybe more alcohol than average, often smoking.

Today’s scene is a world away, however, from Utah nightlife prior to the stroke of midnight, 2008, when smoking in bars suddenly ceased, thanks to the Utah Indoor Clean Air Act. In the decades prior, how much secondhand smoke was inhaled by patrons, but especially workers who breathed it night after night—and in years before Utah started taking its air quality problem seriously?

I remember going to the Zephyr, God rest its musical soul, one eerie February night, when the roads were thick with acrid yellow smog—and I, queen of good health who

could easily dance all night, felt myself soon gasping for air.

Utahns’ focus on air quality has begun to pay off as we find more and more ways to reduce PM2.5 pollution. Yet, mysteriously, another pollutant, ozone, is increasing in Utah.

In this issue, Ashley Miller tells us this one is more challenging to fix, because the bulk of it, just like cigarette smoke in a bar, is secondhand, drifting here from other states and even other countries. Much of it, whether domestic or foreign, is from coal-fired power plants.

Today, after 33 years of home ownership, for the very first time, I hired a professional window-washer. Looking at the results of Scott Urtel’s efforts, I must admit I thought of Nicole DeVaney when she tried on her first double-D lace bra after breast augmentation surgery. Standing in front of my big pink house, I stared in amazement at the transformation, as she did at her reflection in the mirror. “I had no idea...!” I said.

If eyes are the windows of a house, my house, which is also the CATALYST office, has just emerged from a long, groggy sleep. It has become alert, vital, inviting. Something to see through, not look at. I guess clean windows really do have something in common with breast implants—in the case of windows, they lift up the soul. ◆ Greta Belanger is the editor and founder of CATALYST. GRETCHEN@CATALYSTMAGAZINE.NET

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Year-long series w/ panelists. Join the conversation to improve our community and make a difference.

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Live entertainment, food, drinks benefiting local bartender, Alejandro Olivares, a pillar of the SLC service industry who continues his battle with cancer.

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grass Boys and more. Free. Sponsored by Intermountain Acoustic Music Assn. WWW.IAMAWEB.ORG Aug. 17: Utah Arts Alliance Gala and Awards Celebration @ Urban Arts Gallery. 6p. Celebration of 16 years of fostering the arts. $100. UTAHARTS.ORG Aug. 17-18: Utah Beer Fest @ Fair Park. 2-8p. 10th Annual event w/ over 200 beers and ciders to sample. $5-$50. UTAHBEERFESTIVAL.COM

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Top C rops A Westside love story

PHOTOS AND STORY BY JAMES LOOMIS

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his is a love story. To be fair, all tales of small farms are to some extent love stories. Ask any member of this new generation of farmer their reasoning behind choosing such a challenging and demanding profession for their livelihood and you are sure to receive a passionate answer.

However, the story of this farm is also a story of romantic love from the beginning.

While taking a food justice class at the University of Utah, Amanda Theobald signed up as a volunteer at BUG (Beckyard Urban Garden) Farms as part of her community engagement component of the class. While there, she met Elliot Musgrove, a farmer with BUG, and the two quickly became enamored both with each other and their shared passion for local agriculture.

Starting a farm and a life together was the obvious next step, and while being rained out on a trip to Joshua Tree they brainstormed the name of their future farm; Top Crops, a reflection of their goal to grow the highest quality produce possible.

Now in their third year as Top Crops, the duo provides produce to several restaurants.

They are also regulars at the Liberty Park Farmers Market on Friday and the Saturday Downtown Farmers Market.

Initially, the vision for the farm was for both of them to work parttime jobs to support their farming habit. At the time, Amanda was working in apparel and was ready to make the leap to something more meaningful. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was helping wealthy people express themselves through leggings,â&#x20AC;? she said.

If they dedicated all of their quarter-acre urban lot to vegetable production, they strategized, they could manage a handful of restaurant clients and pull it off. They began growing in both the front, side and back yard of their home, located just northwest of downtown Salt Lake City.

Not long after that, a half-acre lot across the street became available, and they jumped at the chance to expand. Vacant for 15 years, this new acreage allowed the couple to produce they volume of produce they would need to

If they dedicated all of their quarter-acre urban lot to vegetable production, they strategized, they could manage a handful of restaurant clients and pull it off. They began growing in both the front, side and back yard of their home, located just northwest of downtown Salt Lake City. quit their jobs and farm full time, and that’s exactly what they did.

I recently visited this power farming couple, and was greeted by both Elliot and massive colorful flowerbeds between the sidewalk and their house. Larkspur, cosmos, amaranth and countless other flowers of various shapes, sizes, and colors buzzed with life. “The healthiest [vegetable] gardens I’ve ever been in had flowers on the edges. No two beds were the same,” said Elliot.

“We focus on mostly fast-growing vegetable crops, so it’s nice to have some beds that hang out, that you can pick from for a while,” he added. In addition to supporting both pollinators and predatory insects, these flowers also add a new component to their offerings, the addition of cut flowers, which Amanda spearheads.

Freshly prepared beds in the side yard then gave way to an open air prep and packaging area, with tall bundles of garlic and shallots curing from the rafters. Each square foot of their property is dedicated to their craft, and conveniently located to the home. Not more

than 20 feet from their back door is a small 200square-foot nursery greenhouse, shaded with burlap to protect the delicate seedlings from the brutal summer sun.

“We received a grant from Urban Food Connections, which allowed us to build two high tunnels. With the tools we now owned and some leftover materials, we were also able to build the nursery,” Elliot explained.

As they showed me the farm, it quickly became clear how both resourceful and efficient these two farmers are. They have received a number of grants from both Slow Food Utah and Urban Food Connections, so in addition to the high tunnels they’ve also been able to purchase a number of innovative hand tools, including their most recent upgrade, a fiverow Jang seeder. “There is so much happy support for what we do in this town,” Amanda beamed. They earn this support by being deliberate and thoughtful with each grant application. “We are careful what we ask for. It needs to either increase production or save time,” Amanda said.

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Now in their third year as Top Crops, the duo provides produce to a number of local clients including Yoko, Rose Establishment, Raclette Machine, Blended Table and Laziz. They are also regular fixtures of both the Liberty Park Farmers Market on Friday evenings and the Downtown Farmers Market on Saturday mornings.

“We’re getting a really good idea of matching demand to our supply. We have hardly any waste,” says Amanda. Efficiency is key to a farm this size. “We want to be sustainable; for the soil, for ourselves, for how many hours we put in before we wear our bodies out,” she added.

A testament to this efficiency is that while they have nearly all of their space dedicated to

food production, “we’re still under the neighborhood average for water consumption,” said Elliot. They are also ruthlessly efficient with their space. Their production is so intensive that there is rarely more than a few days between when a previous crop is pulled before the subsequent crop is planted. Their focus on fast-growing crops also allows them to squeeze in the maximum output from their small acreage over time.

The two are always pushing Top Crops forward, trying new things and working to market new crops. “I don’t think I’ve ever done it all right all the time,” Elliot reflected. They are also brutally honest with themselves, and while I

was there I was struck by their complete lack of “hype.” As we walked past their tomato rows we stopped for a taste test. They both pointed out that the earliest of the tomatoes “tasted terrible. Really mushy. We think it was the cold.

Those will definitely not make it to market,” they agreed.

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Fruit comes with beauty and fresh air! The three- to four-hour drive from SLC will land you in a world-class hiking area and you can partake of the “u-pick” practice common of yesteryear, returning home with Utah-grown fresh fruit to preserve for winter.

Hand-held fruit pickers and ladders are provided. (Tempting as it may be, do not climb these historic trees.) Bring your own bags and baskets. You’ll see the self-pay station with scales and signs listing fruit prices. (Eat to your heart’s content for free while you’re picking, however!)

Apricots are running late this year, and should be available into early August. They cost $1/lb. or $20/bushel (approx. 50 lbs.) Expect peaches, pears and plums later this month, with apples in September and October.

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he yuks come easy when someone says, “I’m going to X-place” and you say, “Oh I’m sorry.” Or you can always refer to your birth city as “A nice place to be from.” Completing the rule of comedy thirds, you could also refer to X as the “armpit of Y” for a guaranteed guffaw.

I don’t know a lot about anatomy but given the number of armpit monikers, the United States must have more arms than quintuplets of the Hindu goddess Durga. I’m not close to being a world traveler but I’ve traveled extensively in the lower 48 of the U.S. One thing that seems to tie us together is a sticky okra gumbo stew of love and loathing of place.

For instance, I am going to Newark, New Jersey on Monday. I have gotten multiple thoughts and prayers, a predictable armpit description and suggestions on how to get to New York City as quickly as possible. After all, the lyrics of Bruce Springsteen’s famous Born to Run anthem, which was adopted by New Jersey (“It's a death trap, it's a suicide rap, We gotta get out while we're young”) are about getting out of New Jersey. But still, why so harsh? I’m sure people who live there love their homes, children and dogs.

This brings me to Texas.

Outside a few events in the Austin area, I can’t think of any reason to go there beyond family obligations. But Texas has the most state pride per capita of any place I know. This is what is great about America; people generally create enough cognitive dissonance to support where they live. I still think Cache Valley has

clean air.

Maybe if you say you are going to Hawaii, the Grand

Canyon or to see Hamilton on any big city stage, people will appear envious. Actually I have been to Hawaii a couple times and experienced some of the country’s worst traffic jams and a mugging in broad daylight.

Grand Canyon is getting hard

It’s great that most of us love where we live and by necessity make fun of where others live. It would be difficult to squeeze everyone into Hawaii. to enjoy with so many other people enjoying it at the same time, no matter what time of year you go. And, of course, you have to plan your trip around the serendipitous government shutdowns. But even Grand Canyon is separated from the state because if you just said you were going to Arizona you’d also get a lot of dead space in the conversa-

tion.

As for Hamilton, it reminds me too much of politics.

It’s great that most of us love where we live and by necessity make fun of where others live. It would be difficult to squeeze everyone into Hawaii.

We have adopted Nevada as one of the more interesting places to go, but mainly because not a lot of people say so. We like to be contrarians and we are not going to divulge our favorite spots; Area 51 is not one of them (or, is it?).

Maybe one of the best things you can do for humanity is to come up with a defense for either the place you live now or the place you grew up. I’ll go first. There probably hasn’t been anything good in the news about St. Louis in 10 years, but I’ve taken to wearing a St. Louis Cardinals baseball cap because I still have fond memories and there are still great things about the city. Love it or live it, that’s where I’m from.

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For $5.50 I can go to downtown NYC round trip 20 minutes each way. The airport is a mess but every airport is a mess. ◆ Dennis Hinkamp, a longtime Utah resident, often refers to himself as a common law Mormon.

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801.631.8915. 40+ years experience tending the Soul. Individual sessions; counseling, bodywork, soul art-making. SoulCollage® Circle Mondays; Oct. 8, Nov. 12, Dec. 3. SoulCollage® gatherings with friends–birthdays, baby-welcoming, weddings, funerals.

LUCIAWGARDNER @HOTMAIL .COM. WWW.S OUL PATHMAKER . COM

INSTRUCTION “Energy Codes” Certified Master Trainer, Kathleen A. Bratcher, LMT12/19

801.879.6924. 1555 E. Stratford Ave, STE 400, SLC. Embodiment exercises, meditations and principles from Dr. Sue Morter’s book, The Energy Codes, #1 L.A. Times Bestseller. Awaken health potential—grounded in energy medicine, neurobiology, and quantum physics—through EC teachings & exercises. Classes & private sessions available. Community on Facebook at Energy Codes Utah.

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MASSAGE

Agua Alma Aquatic Bodywork 5/20 801.891.5695. Mary Cain, LMT, YA

500, MS Psychology. Relax in a warm pool supported by floats, explore the transformative balancing potential of water massage, likened to Watsu.

Enjoy table massage using Transformational Neuromuscular technique, hot stones, Reiki and Yoga. We will find the right bodywork blend to meet your specific needs. Wellness coaching, excellent references. www.FROMSOURCETOSOURCE.COM

Healing Mountain Massage School 12/19 801.355.6300, 363 S. 500 E., Ste. 210, SLC. (enter off 500 E.).A www.HEALINGMOUNTAINSPA.COM

M.D. PHYSICIANS Todd Mangum, MD, Web of Life Wellness Center 801.531.8340, 34 S. 500 E., #103,

SLC. Integrative Family Practitioner utilizing functional medicine for treatment of conditions such as: fatigue, fibro-myalgia, digestion, adrenals, hormones, and more. Dr. Mangum recommends diet, supplementation, HRT and other natural remedies in promoting a

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health-conscious lifestyle.

WWW.WEBOFLIFEWC.COM, THEPEOPLE@WEBOFLIFEWC.COM 2/20

NUTRITION Terri Underwood RD, MS, CD, IFMCP 8/19

801-831-6967. Registered Dietitian/Certified Functional Medicine Practitioner. Food-based, individualized diet plans, high-quality nutrition supplements, and counseling. Digestion, Diabetes, Vegans, Cardio-Metabolic, Autoimmune, Cancer, Cognitive Decline, Food Intolerance, Fatigue, Weight Loss, Thyroid, Chronic Health Problems, Preventive Health.

TERI@SUSTAINABLEDIETS.COM

STRUCTURAL INTEGRATION Leighann Shelton, GCFP, CR, CPT, LMT

303.726.6667, 466 S. 500 E., SLC. Helping athletes, dancers, musicians, children and people of all types with chronic pain, autoimmune conditions, arthritis, injuries & stress. Leighann's 7 years of education make her the only practitioner in Utah certified in Feldenkrais®, Rolfing® Structural Integration and Pilates. Providing comprehensive care for lasting results.

WWW.LEIGHANNSHELTON.COM 8/19

Open Hand Bodywork DA

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

YOGA THERAPY Dana Levy, C-IAYT, M.A. 4/20 419.309.1190. A Certified Yoga Thera-

pist (C-IAYT), Dana works through the body, supporting clients with a variety of issues to develop greater awareness of patterns, more effective coping skills, and improved health using not only tools of yoga and meditation, but also modern somatic and embodiment practices.

DANA@DANALEVYYOGA.COM www.DANALEVYYOGA.COM

MISCELLANEOUS ACCOUNTING/BOOKKEEPING Bonnie Moore 301.875.3739. Experi-

enced, knowledgeable accountant in SLC can set up and manage your bookkeeping on Quickbooks on monthly or quarterly basis. Your office or mine, or remote.

SFBMOORE@AOL.COM1/20

ENTERTAINMENT 11/19 Utah Film Center 801.746.7000, 122

Main St, SLC.WWW.UTAHFILMCENTER.ORG

LEGAL ASSISTANCE Schumann Law, Penniann J. Schumann, J.D., LL.M 3/20 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.

WWW.ESTATEPLANNINGFORUTAH.COM

MEDIA KRCL 90.9FM DA 801.363.1818, 1971 N. Temple, SLC. WWW.KRCL.ORG

PROFESSIONAL TRAINING Guild for Structural Integration 8/19

801.696.1169. 150 S. 600 E. Ste 1A. SLC. The Guild exists to train and educate students of all diversities with respect and inclusivity. We uphold our values above all through integrity and tradition in alignment with the teachings of Dr. Ida P. Rolf. Hosting local workshops and trainings in the Rolf Method of Structural Integration. www.ROLFGUILD.ORG DA

SPACE FOR RENT Space available at Center for Transpersonal Therapy 3/20

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

VOICE COACH Stacey Cole 12/19

801.808.9249. Voice training for singing, speaking, and accent modification. Individual and group sessions with Stacey Cole, licensed speechlanguage pathologist and Fitzmaurice Voicework® teacher. Holistic approach. Free the breath, body and voice. Check out singing workhops and drop-in choirs in the “events” section of WWW.VOICECOACHSLC.COM

WEALTH MANAGEMENT Harrington Wealth Services DA 2/20

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

Robert Harrington, Wealth Advisor.

ROBERT.HARRINGTON@LPL.COM WWW.H ARRINGTON W EALTH S ERVICES . COM

MOVEMENT & MEDITATION, MARTIAL ARTS Red Lotus School of Movement 12/19

801.355.6375, 40 N. 800 W., SLC. Established in 1994, Red Lotus School offers traditional-style training in the classical martial arts of T'ai Chi and Wing Chun Kung-fu. Located with Urgyen Samten Ling Tibetan Buddhist Temple.

WWW.REDLOTUSSCHOOL.COM, REDLOTUS@REDLOTUS.CNC.NET

YOGA INSTRUCTORS Mindful Yoga: Charlotte Bell DA 1/19

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.

WWW.CHARLOTTEBELLYOGA.COM

TAI CHI Taijiquan w/ Kayo Robertson08/19

435.563.8272. Skillful response to pressure, tension and stress is a erennial human need. Tai Chi practice offers solution to this need. Principled in nonresistance, nature and unity, Tai Chi cultivates body, heart, mind and spirit.

Senior student of Benjamin Lo, 40 years experience, seeks a few sincere students. BEARRIVERTAICHI@HOTMAIL.COM

YOGA STUDIOS Centered City Yoga 12/19

801.521.9642. 926 S. 900 E., SLC. Yoga is for Every Body. 80 public classes are available weekly, in addition to many special workshops and trainings. Experience relaxing yin, restorative yoga and meditation, or energizing power and Ashtanga yoga, and everything in-between.

Yoga Soul teacher trainings and immersions are available as well.

WWW.CENTEREDCITYYOGA.COM

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 Suzanne Wagner DA 1/20

707.354.1019. An inspirational speaker and healer, she also teaches Numerology, Palmistry, Tarot and Channeling. WWW.S UZ WAGNER . COM

PSYCHOTHERAPY & PERSONAL GROWTH HYPNOSIS Rise Up Hypnosis 10/19

808.755.5224. SLC. Jennifer Van Gorp, QHHT. Past life hypnosis that is truly empowering. Allows the client to realize that they hold the key to every lock they've carried with them - and provides the clarity to unlock it.

One-on-one and group sessions available.

RISEUPHYPNOSIS@GMAIL.COM WWW.RISEUPHYPNOSIS.COM

THERAPY/COUNSELING Big Heart Healing, Dr. Paul Thielking

801.413.8978. SLC. Helping people on the path of personal growth, healing, and self-discovery.

Through workshops and retreats, Dr. Thielking utilizes what he has learned as a psychiatrist, Zen student, and Big Mind facilitator to help others to experience a deeper sense of meaning, fulfillment, and joy in life.

PAUL@BIGHEARTHEALING.COM BIGHEARTHEALING.COM5/20

Cynthia Kimberlin-Flanders, LPC 10/19

801.231.5916. 1399 S. 700 E., Ste. 15, SLC. Feeling out of sorts? Tell your story in a safe, non-judgmental environment. Over 21 years specializing in recovery from covert narcissistic abuse, 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.

Healing Pathways Therapy Center 2/20

435.248.2089. 4465 S. 900 E. Ste 150, Millcreek & 1810 W. 700 N. Ste 100, Lindon. Integrated counseling and neurofeedback services for anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship, life adjustment issues. Focusing on clients’ innate capacity to heal and resolve past and current obstacles rather than just cope. Modalities include EMDR, Neurofeedback, EFT, Mindfulness, and Feminist/Multicultural. Info@PathwaysUtah.COM WWW.HEALINGPATHWAYSTHERAPY.COM

Mountain Lotus Counseling4/20

801.524.0560. Theresa Holleran, LCSW & Sean Patrick McPeak, CSW. Learn yourself. Transform. Depth psychotherapy and transformational services for individuals, relation-ships, groups and communities.

WWW.MOUNTAINLOTUSCOUNSELING.COM

Natalie Herndon, PhD, CMHC 7/19

801.657.3330. 9071 S. 1300 W, Suite 100, West Jordan. 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 an appointment and let's begin.

NatalieHerndon@HopeCanHelp.net WWW.HOPECANHELP.NET

Stephen Proskauer, MD, Integrative Psychiatry 10/19

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 prob-

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COMMUNITY lem behavior. Steve specializes in treating identity crises, LGBTQ issues and bipolar disorders. SPROSKAUER@COMCAST.NET

SHAMANIC PRACTICE Sarah Sifers, Ph.D., LCSW 3/ 20

2019 Trainings: Aug. 16, 17, 18 Sept. 13, 14, 15 Oct. 18, 19, 20

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.

SPIRITUAL ALIGNMENT Kathleen J. Moroz, DSW, LCSW 8/19

801.440.0527. You may be feeling unsettled and dispirited by the winds of change that are buffeting humanity and the planet. With professional wisdom and humor, Kathleen can help you align with spirit to utilize these energies and achieve your soul’s purpose. Call/Email for a consultation. KATHLEENJMOROZ@XMISSION.COM

RETAIL line goes here APPAREL, GIFTS & TREASURES Blue Boutique 10/19DA

Ann Larsen

Residential Design Experienced, reasonable, references CONSULTATION AND DESIGN OF Remodeling • Additions • New Homes Decks and outdoor Structures Specializing in historically sensitive design solutions and adding charm to the ordinary houseworks4@yahoo.com

Ann Larsen • 604-3721

801.487.1807, 1383 S. 2100 E., SLC. Shopping Made Sexy since 1987. WWW.B LUE BOUTIQUE. COM

Dancing Cranes Imports DA8/19

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.

WWW.D ANCING C RANES I MPORTS . COM

Golden Braid Books DA 11/19

801.322.1162, 151 S. 500 E., SLC. A true sanctuary for conscious living in the city. Offerings in-

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clude 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

E., SLC. An interspiritual sanctuary that goes beyond religion into mystical realms. Sunday Celebration: 10am.

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

801.328.4629, 40 N. 800 W., SLC. Urgyen Samten Ling Gonpa offers an open environment for the study, contemplation, and practice of Tibetan Buddhist teachings. W W W.U R GYEN S AMTEN L ING . ORG 12/19

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.I CONO CLAD. COM

Turiya’s Gifts8/19 DA

801.531.7823, 1569 S. 1100 E., SLC. M-F 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.

WWW.T URIYAS . COM

HEALTH & WELLNESS Dave’s Health & Nutrition 7/19

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.

WWW.D AVES H EALTH . COM

SPIRITUAL PRACTICE

Urgyen Samten Ling Gonpa Tibetan Buddhist Temple

INSTRUCTION Lower Lights School of Wisdom 8/19 801.859.7131. Lower Lights is a community that supports human awakening coupled with passionate engagement in the world. We approach the journey of becoming through ancient and modern teachings including mindfulness, Western developmental psychology and the world’s wisdom traditions.

Offerings include community gatherings, workshops and retreats. LOWERLIGHTSSLC.ORG. INFO@LOWERLIGHTSSLC.ORG

Two Arrows Zen Center 3/20DA

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 daylong intensives—Day of Zen—and telecourses.

WWW.T WO A RROWS Z EN . ORG

SPIRITUAL MEDICINE Sacred Heart Kambo 8/19

801.347.4425. Bringing the Heart of the Jungle to you. Kambo is a natural medicine that helps to integrate mind, body and soul, helps with pain, detox, resets the nervous system, inflammation, and more. The call of the frog is not for everyone, call for a free consultation. www.S ACRED H EART K AMBO. COM

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Community Resource Directory CATALYST 801-363-1505 SALES@CATALYSTMAGAZINE.NET

METAPHORS FOR THE MONTH Osho ZenTarot:Projections, Existence, Stress Medicine Cards: Lizard Mayan Oracle: Organic Balance, Caban Ancient Egyptian Tarot: Ace of Disks, Prince of Cups Aleister Crowley Deck: Pleasure, Death, Lust, Strife, Ace of Disks, Abundance Healing Earth Tarot: Four of Crystals, Temperance, Chariot Words of Truth: Seeing, Communion, Childhood

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ommuning with your inner child and revisiting memories of the past are a positive thing. Those moments help you find connection, resolution and energy—a good way to end the summer. Yet, there are still some intense moments to be had and we need to address them. That’s what we’re up to this month. And it looks a bit wild and wooly.

Lizard is the dreamer. He dreams the future so he knows what to do and how to act. The dream to him is more real than the reality. The dream is inclusive and connects to all things.

You may feel uncertain as to what is real and what is the dream. I, personally, feel as if I am in a dream these days, or perhaps am a visitor traveling from the future to the past, shocked at suddenly seeing once again the hate and prejudice that I had already lived through in the 1960s. Hate has the ability to fester and infect generation after generation. I personally know many who cannot even see that they are still holding that generational fear and hate.

I find it interesting that the Mayan symbol Caban is in the mix at the moment. Caban asks you to look at whether you are living in the past or future and not dealing with the “now.”

Change cannot happen without being fully present.

I hate that my country is doing things that actively harm the rest

“Now” is where it’s at BY SUZANNE WAGNER

August 2019 of the world. It is not the country I have believed in and supported my whole life. But here we are. I cannot live in the ideals of the past. I can no longer live in my

You might say this reality is burning itself out. If so, I believe that is a good thing. dream for the future of America because now we are so far from that potential.

Only a change of perspective—an enormous overview— can enable us to see the present dynamic.

With enough time, all things change. Many people are well-intentioned but have lost their meaning and purpose. When they disconnect from the Earth, they lose their footing—their grounding. As they lose their center, they become self-centered.

If you are centered, you are within the natural flow of life. You see it all—the upsets, the suffering, the pain, the mistakes, the losses, the joys, the requests, the needs, the demands.

It hurts to be the witness of human carnage. I understand why we do not want to go there. But it is also the mature place to be. How can you “grow up” and be an effective communicator in the world and really make changes if you are blowing smoke, speaking of ideals and promises that you have neither the intention nor the ability to keep?

One remedy, here, is Temperance. In the language of the Healing Earth, that means we need better balance, balance that comes from an organic center rather than a habituated mind.

You might say this reality is burning itself out. If so, I believe that is a good thing.

We have reached a tipping point—a place that is uncomfortable and stressful for many. Even if we wanted, we could not go back to the stagnant illusions of the past. From now on, no half measures will be enough. We have pushed this world to a breaking point, so now it is all or nothing.

I believe in the All. I believe in the possibility of harmony. I believe if we do not, then humanity will fail and that may be the only way to learn the lessons of consequence. ◆ See more from Suzanne Wagner at WWW.SUZANNEWAGNER.COM/BLOG/

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BY GRETA DEJONG AND DIANE OLSON

URBAN ALMANAC is banned by the FDA for commercial use because of its safrole content, for which there is a toxicity concern. Safrole is also a key ingredient in the manufacture of MDA and MDMA, so imports of the oil are closely watched.

August 7 Working cows: Phragmites australis is an invasive plant that can crowd out native wetland vegetation.

Phragmites currently occupies large areas on the Bear River Bird Refuge. Grazing cattle are part of the plan to control the aggressive plant.

August 8 First thing in the morning and when you go to bed at night, wiggle your toes. According to reflexology, the body’s meridians, which connect with every organ, culminate in the feet. Wiggling your toes stimulates and relaxes your entire body.

August 1 Average temps: high 92º, low 67º. 11% chance of precipitation. Sunrise 6:23am, sunset 8:52pm.

August 2 Spiders serve as food for 8,000-10,000 insect species and 3,000-5,000 species of birds. In turn, spiders consume 400-800 metric tons of other critters (primarily other insects) each year.

August 3 Gokotta (pron. zhoh-KOHtah) is a Swedish word that means “the act of rising early to hear the birds sing.” Perhaps tomorrow you will rise early to enjoy the dawn chorus.

August 4 Vegetables continue to age after they’ve been picked, even if you freeze them. To slow

down that process and retain flavor, texture, color and nutrition, blanche them first. Check online for optimal times for your produce.

August 5 Last year on September 19, a blue-footed booby was spotted at Lake Powell’s Warm Creek Bay. Many birders confirmed this siting with photos. This bird typically lives off the west coast of South and Central America.

August 6 National Root Beer Day. Sassafras root used to be a key ingredient in flavoring root beer but

August 9 If you know how to make wine, and have been “blessed” with too many zucchini, make a dry white country zucchini wine. Instructions at WWW.MISFITGARDENING.COM. August 10 The word “s’mores” first appeared in print In 1956, in a book called The Omnibus Of Fun. The recipe is classic: graham cracker, chocolate bar, toasted marshmallow. Campfires are scarce these days, but you can also toast the marshmallows on a grill or a gas stove.

August 11 Pepper is for more than just flavor. This taken-forgranted spice helps us digest our food and absorb vital nutrients. It also increases the bioavailability of herbal and conventional drugs. Please pass the pepper!

August 12 Perseids meteor

shower tonight and tomorrow.

But don’t wait up for it this year.

This week’s full moon will make the sky too bright to see any but the brightest of “falling stars.”

August 13 Left-handers make up only about 10% of the population. But 60%

of the last 10 U.S. presidents were lefties—Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush, Ronald Reagan, Gerald Ford and John F. Kennedy. Reagan was forced by school teachers to write righthanded, which was the custom of the day.

August 14 The costly saffron, the stigmas of the fall-blooming C. Sativus crocus, likes our dry soil and air. Plant bulbs now for October harvest. Bulbs are about $12/dozen and will multiply.

August 15 Full Sturgeon Moon, 6:29am. In the garden: Time to rest, celebrate and meditate. Pick medicinal herbs and plants.

August 16 Zucchini exhaustion?

Make pesto, substituting grated zucchini (squeeze out the excess moisture) for basil in your usual recipe. Add a kale leaf for some extra green.

August 17 Getting into the back-to-school mode and need some lunch boxes? Look here for green-friendly options: HTTPS://BIT.LY /2JX3QSD August 18 Plant seeds for fall and winter vegetables this month: radishes, lettuce, beets, carrots, peas and spinach. Apply a quarter-inch of mulch; more when seedlings develop.

August 19 How to choose a ripe melon: white “field spot” on the fruit’s underside, hollow sound when thumped and dull skin.

They don’t get sweeter after picked. Store at 45-50ºF. Keeps one to two weeks.

August 20 The eggs of the threeinch-long shield-backed katydids (aka Mormon crickets) can take up to five years to hatch.

August 21 There are approximately 850 million visits each year to American museums. That’s more than the attendance at all major league sporting events and theme parks combined.

August 22 Liquid soap (which first hit the commercial market in 1980) has a carbon footprint that is 25% bigger than bar soap, thanks primarily to plastic bottles and their fancy pumps.

August 23 Ever thought of becoming a fruitarian? Here and now is the place and time. Find local apples, Asian pears, blackberries, tart cherries, nectarines, peaches, pears, plums, raspberries, melons and more at farmers markets along the Wasatch Front.

August 24 Looking for a sun-loving, drought-tolerant, attractive, fragrant, edible deciduous ground cover to replace the tender things that didn’t stand up to this summer’s rising temps? Try the Pawnee Buttes creeping western sand cherry.

August 25 The National Park Service is celebrating its 103rd birthday with a fee-free day today.

Parks, monuments, a recreation area and a historical park are participating: Arches, Bryce, Canyon-

lands, Capitol Reef, Zion, Cedar Breaks, Dinosaur, Glen Canyon, Golden Spike, Hovenweep, Natural Bridges. (Campground and tour fees still apply.)

August 26 Hard to believe but 100 years ago, American women did not have the right to vote. That changed on this day in 1920—the culmination of a massive civil rights movement that began in 1848.

August 27 “I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.” — E.B. White August 28 Cultivate your inner ichnologist: Pick up a copy of Dinosaurs Without Bones by Anthony Martin (Pegasus Books, 2015) next time you head south.

Visit their Stomping Grounds, just outside of Moab and see what you can learn about dinosaurs from their fossilized three-toed tracks.

Get out of the summer heat and check out our cool vibes

August 29 The time for 2019’s lazy days of summer vacation is drawing to a close. Listen to Spanky and Our Gang sing “Lazy Day” (watch the YouTube video for a true taste of the ‘60s) or check out the original Our Gang in their 1929 short comedy film Lazy Days.

August 30 SUPER NEW MOON: 4:37am. In a super moon, the moon is at or closest to Earth in its orbit, even though we can’t see it because it’s overhead in the daytime!

August 31 Av. high: 86º. Low: 62º.

Chance of precipitation: 14%. Sunrise: 6:53am. Sunset: 8:01pm. ◆

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One small miracle in the healthcare crisis

BY SOPHIE SILVERSTONE

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Alejandro Olivares

n the service industry, even a broken arm might mean you can’t go to work. For injured or ill baristas, bartenders, servers, hosts and cooks this may mean weeks, even months of unpaid time. Being unemployed adds a considerable amount of stress to your life, especially when you’re already trying to heal. That’s not considering the bills you’re looking at after a short visit to the hospital, even if you’re insured.

Matt Pfohl, who was working at the time for Copper Onion, suffered a stroke in 2014. He was only 29 years old and suddenly had $39,000 in medical debt. He had $11,000 of that forgiven through Intermountain Healthcare’s medical forgiveness program. “Objectively $11,000 isn’t a lot of money, but for me at the time, it felt like a miracle,” says Matt. Since then, he couldn’t shake the feeling that he needed to do something to help others in a situation similiar to his own.

“Healthcare is a crisis across industries, not just the service industry,” says Matt, the founder of the new nonprofit, One Small Miracle,

with the mission to support members of the service industry who face life-altering medical events while uninsured or underinsured.

Matt has been working on ways to sup- Matt Pfohl port service industry workers, whether it be gift certificates to local supermarkets, a community to turn to for an ear to listen or a helping hand in a fundraiser, and even work as a liaison with property management companies to help pay their rent if necessary. With the guidance of a close friend, Emily Capito, LCSW, and founder of Rockstar Comebacks, an online and in-person community cultivating resilience, Matt launched the nonprofit One Small Miracle on April 15.

Only a few weeks later, three members in the SLC service industry experienced various health crises that threw the organization into high gear. The community

raised $15,000 in eight weeks for One Small Miracle’s first three beneficiaries. One of the three, Alejandro Olivares, the bar manager of Under Current, and president of the Utah chapter of the United States Bartenders’ Guild (USBG Utah) was diagnosed with lung cancer.

The shock of Alejandro’s news rippled through the service industry in Salt Lake quickly, and many industry friends responded with ways to help Alejandro find a way to finance his upcoming battle. Although he’s insured, he’s unable to work during his current treatment.

Through a One Small Miracle fund, local restaurants, bars, and their patrons will be helping Alejandro fight cancer. All summer, Cafe Niche will donate a dollar to Alejandro’s fund for every Niche breakfast, mushroom scramble, deviled eggs, Brussels sprouts, bloody Mary, mimosa and Bellini sold. For the month of June, a portion of proceeds from the ‘Olivares’ cocktail (a Mezcal version of a Negroni cocktail) served at Copper Common, Under CurDAVID LOPEZ rent, Water Witch, Quarters, Tinwell, Nomad Eatery, AC Hotel and Post Office Place, were put towards Alejandro’s fund with One Small Miracle. And on Sunday, August 11, the organization’s biggest event yet, “One Big Miracle of Alejandro” will be at Bar X from 5-11pm. (See below.)

But funding treatment is only one way that Matt wants to fix the

service industry’s healthcare crisis.

Another is through better personal care. Matt admits that in his twenties, he was one of the many people the service industry who did not lead a healthy lifestyle. Now he rarely drinks. Although he still works late hours at the bar in Salt Lake City’s Westside Granary district, Water Witch, of which he is a part owner, he is one of many of the leaders in the service industry who encourages a culture shift— away from binge drinking and more towards the European style of drinking casually and in moderation. This is a big issue for Matt.

Alejandro, too, has been thinking about this for a long time as well. On a personal level, Alejandro quit smoking and drinking earlier this year. The news of Alejandro’s’ diagnosis has also inspired coworkers at Under Current to quit smoking. “It would be a dishonor to Ale if I didn’t,” says the bar’s general manager, Mike Fayad.

It’s starting small. Matt prides himself on the fact that none of the staff at Water Witch smoke cigarettes, and co-owner Scott Gardner started a run club for the employees, where they take weekly runs together. Nonetheless, these small changes from the norm can add up to big benefits for the health of their community overall.

With the rise of popularity in craft cocktails and the more locally crafted fine dining experiences, the service industry is becoming a respected and notable career path for more and more young people. The issue of care for the wellbeing and longevity of those in this young workforce is consistently coming to the table. As such, people like Matt and Alejandro and organizations like One Small Miracle, are pulling up a seat to the table as well. ◆

One Big Miracle for Alejandro Sunday, August 11, 5-11pm

Bar X / Beer Bar—rear patio (155 E 200 S) Fundraising Goal: $50,000 to assist with medical expenses. Food, drinks, opportunity drawings and a silent auction, as well as live music and entertainment with DJs, aerialists and fire dancers. 21+ $35/$25 advance (includes food and three drink tickets) BEONESMALLMIRACLE.ORG

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