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Porteur de Lumiere

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was created, the crow brought light to the earth. I have the crow on the prow of a Viking ship in front of the Tree of Life and a field of Celtic motifs as flowers.”

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ic Blackerby is a multifaceted visual and musical artist working as a jeweler, sculptor and

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ENVIRONEWS

BY AMY BRUNVAND tors and prey; they eat insects, pollinate plants and disperse seeds.

Consequences of Drying Lake Systems Around the World (Great Salt Lake Advisory Council, 2019) BIT.LY/2KUBQOL. Impacts of Water Development on the Great Salt Lake and Wasatch Front (USU, 2017): DIGITALCO M M O N S . U S U. E D U / WATS _ FAC P U B / 8 7 5 / “Meet the Dust Doctor’: CATALYSTMAGAZINE.NET/MEET-THEDUST-DOCTOR/

Sevier Dry Lake leased for mining The Bureau of Land Management has leased the entire lakebed of Sevier dry lake near Delta, Utah for a potash mine. According to the plan,

There are no sacred and unsacred places.

There are only sacred and desecrated places.

— Wendell Berry

What if Great Salt Lake dries up?

As Great Salt Lake levels fall, more than 750 square miles of dry lake bed have been exposed making Salt Lake City vulnerable to dust storms and air pollution contaminated by heavy metals that accumulated in the lake.

Dust on snow causes faster melting of snowpack which would hurt both Utah’s ski industry and Salt Lake City’s water supply.

Kevin Perry, a professor of Atmospheric Scientist at the University of Utah, recently spent more than 125 days traveling across the dry lake bed by bicycle for a state-funded study to gather data about the potential for dust pollution. (See June 2019 CATALYST: “Meet the Dust Doctor.”) He found that much of the lakebed is covered by a crust that keeps dust from blowing away, and says it is important to limit cross-country motorized travel across the dry lakebed in order to keep from breaking up the crust.

The disappearing Great Salt Lake is a manmade problem, according to scientists at Utah State University who attribute water loss to diversions for agriculture, mineral evaporation industries and municipal water use. In order to stop the lake from shrinking even more it would be necessary to cut current water diversions.

Instead, the State of Utah is proposing to take more water from the Bear River which is the main water source for the lake.

The Utah Division of Water Quality commis-

sioned a study of other drying lake systems around the world to help predict the consequences of the shrinking lake. Some consequences are already becoming apparent.

Antelope Island State Park is no longer surrounded by water so that bison and bighorn sheep can walk away. In 2018, the island’s bighorn sheep had to be destroyed after they became infected with a respiratory illness due to contact with domestic sheep. The State of the whole lakebed—all 125, 000 acres—will be Utah is planning to build a 10-mile fence developed from a remote desert playa into an around the south end of the former island to industrialized fertilizer mine with trenches and evaporation ponds served by rail lines and keep animals from coming and going.

That doesn’t help other former islands that power lines.

Since the lake is dry, the evaporation ponds are used by nesting birds. Coyotes have made their way to Gunnison “Island” which is an im- must use groundwater, but there have not portant rookery for American white pelicans. been adequate environmental impact studies An article published in the journal Science this of how groundwater drawdown would affect September warns that populations of North wildlife or existing water rights holders in the American birds have declined by 29% since area.

The Utah Audubon Council notes that 1970, a net loss of nearly 3 billion birds. flooding Sevier lake will activate dorGreat Salt Lake is classified as a habimant brine shrimp cysts and attat of hemispheric importance for tract migrating birds as migrating birds which means the happened in the 1980s, and cumulative impacts of prothis might actually be a posed water and shoreline debenefit for birds. velopments near Great Salt Lake are a serious threat to global bird populations.

Citizens call for These threats include the inland port Bear River water project, inland port, prison and airport health analysis development in Salt Lake Concerned citizens are City’s Northwest Quadrant, the calling for better information Senator West Davis corridor freeway exabout the human health imLuz Escamilla tension, and a landfill that has pacts of building a massive, inopened on Promentory Point. When dustrialized inland port on 16,000 bird populations decline there are largeacres on Salt Lake City’s Northwest side. scale ecosystem effects since birds are predaA coalition of groups under the umbrella

name Stop the Polluting Port is worried about air quality impacts from increased traffic and industrial activity as well as impacts to the Great Salt Lake ecosystem.

In 2018, when the Utah Legislature passed a bill to form an Inland Port Authority, there were no provisions to consider health or environmental impacts.

In 2019, State Senator Luz Escamilla was able to pass a second bill that requires the Utah Department of Environmental Quality to establish an environmental baseline in order to monitor the impacts of the port development.

However, there is still no plan for any Health Impact Assessment before the project before it is built.

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Horrible GSENM plan The Trump Administration has released a predictably horrible new management plan for lands cut from Grand Staircase-Escalante Na-

native pinyon-juniper forests and re-seeding the areas with non-native grass preferred by ranchers. Lawsuits to restore the original monument boundaries have not yet been heard in court.

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Clearcutting blocked in GSENM An appeal to the U.S. Department of the Interior has blocked Trump administration plans to clearcut more than 30,000 acres of pinyonjuniper (P-J) forests on the Skutumpah Terrace, including areas areas that Trump cut from Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument.

The Interior Office of Hearings and Appeals found that the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) failed to consider cumulative effects of deforestation on migratory birds and erred in approving the use of non-native seed to “revegetate” the area.

Pinyon-Juniper removal is done by “mastication”—driving a giant wood chipper cross country, or “chaining”—ripping up plants with a large chain dragged between two bulldozers.

Groups challenging vegetation removal include Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, Western Watersheds Project, The Wilderness Society and Grand Canyon Trust.

Ski area parking fee addresses congestion, clean air Solitude Mountain Resort has implemented a new parking fee that they hope will encourage skiers to carpool or ride the bus.

The fee is a sliding scale starting at $20 for a single-occupancy vehicle, $10 for two or three to a car , and $5 for a vehicle carrying four or more people. Season passes for Solitude work as a UTA ski bus pass.

Solitude has promised to contribute an unspecified percentage of parking revenues to Breathe Utah to help promote clean air.

Canyon congestion has increased dramatically due to population growth in Utah and sales of the multi-resort IKON pass. Increased traffic is causing pressure to pave over more of

Utah groups file climate change lawsuit

tional Monument boundaries. The plan threatens to open up formerly protected areas to oil and gas extraction, and mining including a back-from-the-dead coal strip-mine on the Kapairowtz Plateau.

When the Monument was formed, Grand Canyon Trust negotiated a deal to retire grazing leases near the Escalante River, but the Trump administration wants to undo the deal and let cows back in to do their damage. The plan also calls for “vegetation removal” on hundreds of thousands of acres, which means clearcutting

A coalition of environmental groups has sued the Trump administration for failing to consider greenhouse gas and climate change impacts when they granted 130 oil and gas leases on public lands in Utah.

Most of the challenged leases are linked to a Trump administration policy of “energy dominance” that has implemented rules designed to fast-track leasing and reduce public input.

A report from The Wilderness Society found that the lifecycle emissions from fossil fuels extracted from U.S. public lands during the Trump administration surpasses the total greenhouse gas emissions from all 28 countries in the European Union.

Groups supporting the lawsuit are Living Rivers, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, and Center for Biological Diversity.

Measuring the Climate Impact of Trump’s Reckless Leasing of Public Lands (TWS, 2019): WILDERNESS.ORG/ARTICLES/REPORTS/REPORT-MEASURING-CLIMATE-IMPACT-TRUMPSRECKLESS-LEASING-PUBLIC-LANDS

the canyons for roads and parking lots.

The Central Wasatch Commission is currently designing federal legislation to designate a Central Wasatch National Conservation and Recreation Area to protect the watershed and limit ski area expansion. However, transportation improvements are more appropriate to handle at the state and local level so they are not included in the proposed law.

Salt Lake students join climate strike On September 20, a few thousand people marched from the City-County Building to the Capitol participating in the student-led Global Climate Strike called by 16-year-old Swedish activist Greta Thunberg. Thunberg, who was visiting the United States, scolded the Senate Climate Change Task Force, “Don’t invite us here to just tell us how inspiring we are without actually doing anything about it because it doesn’t lead to anything.” ◆

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he last time I went house hunting I had a long list of requirements and even longer list of desires. Where those two lists melded into each other was a root cellar. I wanted a real root cellar. The kind that keeps turnips crisp and sweet until Yule and apples edible until the depths of summer.

Old houses often come with some semblance of a root cellar.

I saw hand-dug beauties from the e a r l y 1900s lined with field stone, fridge cold in August. More utilitarian affairs from the 1950s where three-fourths of me could stand upright and the accumulated dust from an ill-placed dryer vent would challenge an archaeologist.

And things that used to be root cellars now called, in a fit of enthusiasm and one short run of heating duct, a bedroom.

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Old fridge in garage – A stripped fridge ($20 on KSL) is my favorite option. It sits in my detached, unheated garage and keeps potatoes just the right amount of warm in January. Until it gets really winter cold I leave the doors open during the day. If your spuds sprout, add ventilation holes in the doors (cover with metal mesh to keep pests out, use magnets to hold the mesh on).

Cooler in perpetual shade – I used this one before acquiring the fridge. Set a cooler (any size you like) any place outside that stays in the shade all the time (no cheating). Leave the lid open at night (cover with metal mesh if pests are an issue) and shut during the day. This will keep potatoes, sweet potatoes, and the like good for an amazing length of time. Pack root veggies in

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sand or straw for even longer storage. Use separate coolers for fruit and vegetables since the gases from one will hasten spoilage in the other.

In an unheated garage – This really only works for onions which don’t care if they freeze, as long as they are kept whole and freeze gradually.

They will be okay in anything that breathes, such as hanging mesh bags or open boxes on a shelf. (Put them on the concrete floor and I will not be held responsible for the resulting rot pile.) Anything you don’t eat in time will sprout and you can use the tops like green onions. Bonus – no pest wants to eat an onion.

In the coldest room – This is why there are cabbages in my bedroom in November. And peppers hastily saved from the frost, alongside boxes of apples, and piles of winter squash. Keep things in a single layer for longest storage time.

If you have a basement, this can be a grand solution – make an unheated room by shutting the vents for as long as your produce lasts.

Temperature controller on a chest fridge – It’s easy enough to make a chest freezer into a fridge with a temperature controller so why not take it further and make the perfect root cellar? If you can stand to use a little electricity, this makes an amazing storage space. Look up the ideal temp for the thing you want to store and set your controller accordingly. Remember to check up on your produce often since the old adage about one bad apple is around for a reason.

Every root cellar and every root cellar alternative is a little different. Be prepared to experiment and eat better. ◆

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For storage, most produce prefers a temperature range of 32-40 degrees.

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COMMUNITY

Salt Lake hosts U.N. Civil Society Conference The goal: to achieve inclusiveness and sustainability at the grassroots level in our communities

BY BARBARA PIOLI

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his August, as a board member-representative of U.S. Servas (pronounced Sir-vahs), I was lucky enough to participate in one of the most important international meetings in the world: the United Nations’ 68th Civil Society Conference.

Traditionally held at the UN headquarters in New York City, this year’s conference was in Salt Lake City. Thousands of people from over 130 countries and almost every U.S. state gathered to address the topic of global sustainability.

On the first morning I headed to the plenary session where dignitaries—from deputy undersecretaries to directors of various UN committees—welcomed the morning crowd. There were also in attendance local and Utah officials including Mayor Jackie Biskupski, UVU President Dr. Astrid Tuminez, and Ambassador John Price (who recently served as the U.S. Ambassador to Mauritius, Seychelles and Comoros).

Nearly every speaker underscored audience members’ role of listening and sharing ideas.

They encouraged us to put the ideas and tools we would acquire over the next three days to use in our communities.

I was eager to find out if the UN might have ideas I might take back to the Servas board.

Servas is a global network for international travelers that connects people for homestays.

It prides itself on being a peace-building organization, using these cross-cultural travel experiences to build peace and social justice.

Sustainability is a top concern for Servas, especially considering the effect of travel on our planet’s resources and health.

The conference schedule was packed, with up to 30 sessions each hour, offering new concepts and networking potential with people from around the world. Topics covered in-

frastructure and natural resource uses, climate change, emerging technologies, social impact investing, creating opportunities and economic success for youth, and recovering from conflict.

One inspirational story came from Amanda Nesheiwat of Secaucus, New Jersey. Ten years ago, as a college student majoring in environmental studies, Nesheiwat took an internship with the town of Secaucus and, while there, wrote three grants for environmental initiatives. They all received funding. No one in Secaucus’s administration better understood the intricacies of the grants than Nesheiwat so she

There is a very real possibility that, some time in the not-too-distant future, we [SLC] will be taking in climate refugees. was hired to oversee the projects. Her initiative turned the town of Secaucus into a leading environmental enterprise. With her guidance, this town of 18,000 residents, in the shadow of New York City, now self-identifies as a sustainable place to live for future generations. Their initiatives include environmental issues and education; community gardens and food waste programs; electric vehicle charging stations; and residential solar access.

Another brilliant idea came from Nabeela Omarjee with ActNow, the UN Climate Action Campaign. Using the ActNow app, Omarjee hopes to establish an online social reward system that encourages individuals to make small

changes to benefit the environment. Users track their daily low-impact consumption choices and share their actions on the app.

For me, as a U.S. Servas board member, I learned that travel, peace-building and environmental stewardship do not have to be at odds with one another. As an organization, we can continue to foster peace through cultural exchange and adopt energy-saving actions to counter the environmental impact of travel.

After the conference I spoke with Vicki Bennett, director of Salt Lake City’s Office of Sustainability. Her main takeaway was to think of sustainability more broadly. “While our department does more traditional environmental programs, we need to remember the other legs of the stool that include the economic and equity components,” Bennett said. “Our department is starting a new program that will be reaching out to our less-advantaged populations to include them in our planning efforts, especially as a part of our food program.”

The city is also seeing potential population impacts from climate change. There is a very real possibility that some time in the not-toodistant future we will be taking in climate refugees. Some may come from other countries but many more will come from cities like Phoenix and Las Vegas as hotter temperatures and fewer water resources force them to seek alternative places to live. While the city is ready to welcome anyone who comes, they also want to help people stay in their homes. “It will affect us in the near future,” says Bennett, “if we don’t slow the rate of global warming immediately.” ◆ Barbara Pioli is a board member of the peace-building non-governmental organization US Servas and a founding member of the Wasatch Food Cooperative.

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Cold starts

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What you can (and should) do to reduce cold start emissions

Tips on how to avoid that moment when cars produce the most pollution

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1. Avoid driving all together if possible. Walk, bike, skate, scoot. Whatever works for you.

BY ASHLEY MILLER

id you know that 75% of the pollution coming from your tailpipe occurs in the first 50 seconds your car is running? In fact, 90% of the VOC pollution and 60% of the NOx pollution your car will spew while driving is emitted within the first 50 seconds.

Cold starts are a major problem when it comes to emissions from passenger cars and trucks. A cold start is exactly what it sounds like: starting your car when its engine is cold. Because of our cold climate, this is especially troublesome for the air quality challenges we face in Utah.

The emissions produced in that first 50 seconds during a cold start can equal the emissions a newer car will produce when traveling roughly 300 miles. Remember, we care about this because VOCs and NOx are precursor pollutants that lead to the formation of both wintertime particulate pollution and summertime ozone that plagues areas of Utah.

No, this doesn’t mean you should idle to keep your engine warm. Idling emits completely unnecessary emissions that should be avoided whenever possible. This is especially true for greenhouse gas emissions. Burning more gas by idling instead of turning your engine off directly results in more greenhouse gas (and other air pollution) emissions.

And no, this doesn’t mean you should “warm up” your car by letting it run in your driveway or a parking lot before taking off.

The fastest and most efficient way to warm your engine is by driving. Remember, a warm catalytic converter will do what it was designed to do. A good catalytic converter can reduce your car’s emissions by up to 99% once

The emissions produced in that first 50 seconds during a cold start can equal the emissions a newer car will produce when traveling roughly 300 miles.

2. If you ride public transit, good for you! You’re certainly doing your part to reduce vehicle emissions. But do you drive to a park and ride or to Trax? Avoid this if you can. That way you avoid two cold starts each day.

3. Trip chain. Consider running your errands during your commute instead of making multiple trips each day. Drive to your farthest destination first and work your way back home. This way your car’s engine will have less time to cool down between stops.

4. Carpool with friends and pick them up at home. If you pick your friends up at home, rather than all of you driving to a parking lot, you’ll reduce that many cold starts every day.

So make yourself an early new year’s resolution and see how many cold starts you can avoid each day! ◆ Ashley Miller, J.D., is the vice-chair of Breathe Utah. She is also the vice-chair of Utah's Air Quality Policy Advisory Board and a member of the Salt Lake County Environmental Quality Advisory Commission.

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COMMEMORATION

Shaping dancers and model citizens

A reflection on the life of arts educator Pearl Wagstaff Garff

BY NAOMI SILVERSTONE AND CALLY FLOX

ter, founded in 1976, was to focus on the creative development of “the Child as the Artist.” She carefully crafted a culture in which each child could find and express his or her own voice. Children at the Life Arts Center playfully engaged in every art form every day—dance, drama, music, visual art and literature. Miss Pearl believed that creative play was both a natural activity for children and a tool through which they could learn.

Early on, Miss Pearl designed a differentiated curriculum that met the special needs of each learner, depending on their age and stage of development. Most importantly, she believed that children need healthy, responsive adults at each stage of life. These adults and care-

“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”

—Pablo Picasso

Pearl was a “duster” of the soul.

A summer night in Murray Park with Miss Pearl and a young Laja Field who grew up to be a professional dancer with her own company in NYC .

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dance, like any great story, has a beginning, middle and end. It begins in stillness. There is a starting shape. Then the story unfolds through sequences of movement with varied timing, energy, shapes. Finally it returns to stillness.

Pearl Wagstaff Garff (December 1941-September 2019) made extraordinary contributions to the arts during her lifetime. Most knew her as a dancer and educator. She was a gifted pianist and could have pursued music studies at the University of Utah but she chose instead to

focus on Dance and Theater Education. In 2011, she was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Utah Dance Education Organization in honor of her contributions to dance education. “Miss Pearl,” as she was known by her students, was also a choreographer, a practitioner of integrated arts therapies and trained in holistic aspects of the healing arts.

But the accomplishment for which Pearl Wagstaff Garff will be most remembered is as founder and director of the Life Arts Center in Sandy. Her purpose with the Cen-

takers at the Center were tasked with not only helping the children learn art but also how to connect to the world. Caretakers modeled healthy emotional responses. They helped grow each child’s self-esteem and emotional literacy. Overall, the atmosphere created by Miss Pearl was warm and caring. The Center felt like a “family” of trained professionals who understood and honored each child.

The children were given opportunities to share their artistic experiences with parents and with the wider community. On parent visiting days at the studio, families danced together. Arts events throughout the community sometimes featured the children’s performances. An annual favorite was dancing at Murray Park. Down the big hill the children would run with large fabric flags, ribbons and double circle skirts. The scene was always joyful, with hundreds of children twirling, rolling, running and jumping on the freshly cut grass. Other performances involved the Center’s non-profit affiliate,

Dancer’s Theater Company. This group performed original plays written by Pearl Wagstaff Garff with support from professional dancers, actors, musicians and artists.

Not to be left out, adults were also able to partake in Pearl’s unique artistic offerings. She called her adult classes Spirit Dancing in the Body.

This process-based experience included movement, drumming, drawing and talking circles to align the mind and body for resilience and personal transformation.

The hearts of many were unleashed within the walls of the Life Arts Center. Thousands of children who grew up there are now serving in our community as business leaders, government officials, health professionals, leaders of non-profit organizations and artists. “Use your voice and your movement to express yourself and to respect the contributions of others,” Pearl and her staff would say, encourage students of all ages.

Miss Pearl completed her own journey on September 8, 2019. Her loss was very sudden. During an annual health check up she received a shocking diagnosis of stage 4 ovarian cancer. She was told she only had three to five days to live. Pearl, true to self, turned to her alternative healers.

With their help Miss Pearl was able to hold on for the next two months.

Of course, it was not Pearl’s style to go in sadness. After mobilizing her healers, she asked her family and friends to throw a “pre-funeral" party. One hundred people and bounteous food appeared. While many were still in shock, Pearl circulated and spread her wisdom.

Speak only love, she told us. As she faced her dying process, one she was determined to do consciously, she remained a teacher to us all. To one old friend who understood the language of dance, she said, “I am looking for my finishing shape.” ◆ Cally Flox was on the faculty at the Life Arts Center for 11 years. She is currently the founding director of the BYU ARTS Partnership and author of A Teacher’s Guide to Resiliency Through the Arts.

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GARDEN LIKE A BOSS

City gardening: Should you be concerned?

No. Just follow these simple precautions (and always wash your produce!)

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he motivation for fresh, clean, organic food gets me out into the garden as soon as I’m off work, and often beforehand. The rewards of this lifestyle are many; the bounty of fresh, clean, organic produce is worth every drop of sweat.

Keeping things fresh and clean is one reason I enjoy growing as much of my own food as possible, as I’m increasingly aware of how difficult it is for organic farmers to maintain their high standards when surrounded by chemical agriculture.

Pesticide drift, water contamination and reckless DNA hidden in airborne pollen are often finding their way onto the land of farmers working hard to provide a higher standard for their customers.

But what about those of us gardening in the city? Like the organic farmer in the countryside being assaulted by agricultural pollutants, are we also under siege from the emissions of traffic and industry, as well as our neighbor who insists on three Chemlawn treatments a year, bees be damned?

In every city, pollution is everywhere. Urban areas are often far more likely than their countryside counterparts to contain contaminated soil.

There is minimal risk of exposure from eating plants grown in contaminated soils. The real concern is in working with the soil itself.

I’m growing a garden as part of my strategic solution to this mess. We urban farmers and gardeners are among the most potent revolutionaries around, quietly cultivating change and re-engineering society for a more fulfilling way of life coupled with a well-balanced pico de gallo.

I need to make sure the food I produce is as healthy as possible, safe for my children, and truly part of the solution. For those of us growing food in the city, it is important we arm ourselves with the information needed to garden safely and successfully.

Detailing every possible source of soil contamination is outside of the scope of this article. Fortunately, unless you are trying to grow on

BY JAMES LOOMIS previously industrial land or near a dry cleaning business, chances are a few simple precautions are all you need to take. And remember, the benefits of eating fresh produce generally far outweigh any of the risks.

While some edible plants do take up and accumulate contaminants, research shows there is minimal risk of exposure from eating plants grown in contaminated soils. The real concern is in working with the soil itself.

Organically grown or not, urban or rural— it is always a good idea to thoroughly wash produce with running water to remove any potential contamination from soil or air.

Routine soil testing for nutrients and organic matter is a good habit for every gardener to have, and helps you make informed decisions when it comes to fertilization. Testing for heavy metals is also easy to do at the same time, and the lab will help you interpret the results.

Lead is the most common residential soil contaminant, most notably because most paint in use before 1978 contained lead. Flakes of deteriorated paint often found their way into soil.

Lead in gasoline was in common use until 1989.

Areas of high traffic saw an increase in the amount of lead pollution from vehicle emissions.

Fortunately, lead does not leach very far from the point of initial contamination. Lead is also not a plant nutrient, so plants do not “take up” or absorb lead. The main point of danger with lead contamination is the ingestion or inhalation of lead dust.

If you have an old home, garage or other structure that you suspect has lead-contaminated soil, the best course of action is to cover the bare soil with plants or a thick layer of wood chips, as the bare soil itself is the most likely to be inhaled or ingested. The EPA recommends incorporating up to 50% compost into the soil, which dramatically reduces the concentration of lead. Top dressing with compost or mulch also helps to contain any lead dust below.

Children are the most likely to be negatively impacted by lead, so if you have a landscape that you share with children, do not leave bare soil exposed. Nature also abhors bare soil, and will go to great lengths to cover it, usually with noxious weeds. Save the children, grow some fun and interesting plants or lay down some mulch—it’s that simple.

Another common contaminant for residential urban soils is chromated copper arsenate (CCA), an inorganic pesticide used to prolong the life of lumber; decks, playground equipment and picnic tables were commonly treated. Containing chromium, arsenic and copper, it was the predominant type of wood preservative until it was banned in 2004. Older “pressure-treated” wood was almost certain to have contained this, and this type of wood was commonly specified in building codes for “ground contact” lumber.

It’s often difficult to tell where wooden structures containing this type of lumber may have once existed.

Plants are extremely picky about what they will allow into their tissues, but they have little choice about what lands on them.

Arsenic was also a common ingredient in many pesticides and other agricultural chemicals, and nearly all urban residential areas were at one point in their history agricultural.

Creosote, the material used to preserve railroad ties, poses similar risks. While old railroad ties are often useful in designing landscapes, they should never be used near areas used to produce food. The long-lasting potential for soil contamination might also be cause to consider an alternative material in your design.

Soils contaminated with CCAs, creosote, arsenic and certain heavy metals are best avoided, and one simple way to do this is to build raised beds. Use untreated lumber or other materials.

Line the bottom of the bed with geotextile underlayment or other heavy duty landscape fabric to prevent the roots of plants from reaching down into the contaminated soil. Make sure to build the beds to a depth of at least 12” to allow for proper root growth of annual vegetables. Fill with clean soil and compost.

One final concern to address: air pollution.

Again hearkening back to the advice of the EPA, as well as the words of common sense: Thoroughly wash all of your produce, regardless of the origins. Plants are extremely picky about what they will allow into their tissues, but they have little choice about what lands on them.

Whether it’s brake dust from traffic on land or bird shit from the traffic in the air, I prefer my produce fresh and clean. ◆ James Loomis is a full-time urban farmer, educator and permaculture hooligan.

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PROSE GARDEN

“Lamb’s Good Food” The patrons of Salt Lake’s iconic Main Street restaurant, seen through the eyes of a young employee

BY COLLETTE HOLMES Way back in 1992, I worked as a cashier at Utah’s oldest restaurant, Lamb’s Grill. Saturday mornings I would cash out oldies with cataracts.

Tuesday nights the Toastmasters met in the back dining hall. Those were my two shifts. I was 18 years old. Little did I know, at the time, the precious slice of Americana I was experiencing.

Sadly, Lamb’s is no longer. But my memories are still with me. For English 101 I wrote a little story about Lamb’s Grill. Many years later, my mom stumbled upon it while going through some boxes. Reading it was a trip down memory lane.

and they each possess their own unique and interesting story.

Les enters for the third time today in an entirely different outfit from the two times before.

Determined to get to his chair at the end of the bar as quickly as possible, he rushes past and avoids the turned heads that wish to greet him.

He slides into his chair and buries his face into

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inding an establishment that shuns the trendy is rare. We have all seen places that have gone as quickly as they came—places trying to keep up with the latest food concepts or looks in interior design. It is nice to find a place that sticks to what works the first time—a place that serves the same time-tested food and still has an atmosphere of the past. That place is Utah’s Lamb’s Grill. Since 1919, Lamb’s has been attracting colorful clientele. There are the old who have been coming since they could remember, neighboring businessmen/women,

Les orders the same thing for breakfast, lunch and dinner—an open-faced cheese sandwich with two slices of tomatoes and a pickle. politicians, the homeless off the street, the weary traveler. Lamb’s delivers a comfortable and familiar atmosphere welcoming anyone and everyone through its doors.

In any restaurant, there is a certain small eclectic group known as “the regulars.” They show up daily for breakfast, lunch or dinner, and sometimes all three. Lamb’s has its share of these regular patrons. Each one claims a seat at the long black marble bar as if it were their own

a menu, although no one knows why. Since Les has been coming here, he orders the same thing for breakfast, lunch and dinner—an openfaced cheese sandwich with exactly two slices of tomatoes and a pickle. All the waitress needs to say to the cook is that Les is here and he immediately slides the bread with a slab a cheese on the grill. Les doesn’t talk much but, like a magnet, he attracts people who want to talk endlessly about the goings-on in the world.

Neil Smith, or Mr. Neil as he is called, is the social one. Always talking about women, Brigham City peaches, or how he is going to win the lottery. He has a grin so wide you get a glimpse of all the gold crowns, and a raspy laugh that comes easily.

Then there is Herb, a small man with big friendly blue eyes that seem naïve to the ways of the world. One day Herb stopped into Lamb’s while he was waiting to catch the bus.

He was dressed extra fancy and clutched a red silk rose poking out of a rumpled paper bag.

Herb sipped at his coffee and tried hard not to smile as people started in with the questions about him having met a woman. With a boyish

smirk on his face, and never saying a word, he paid for his coffee and was off with a wave. His bus had arrived.

A waitress named Iris walks by in her stiffly starched white waitress’s uniform and splashes coffee into the half-empty cups that stare her down as she passes. It’s something she has done hundreds of times during her 15 years at Lamb’s and it shows. She never spills a drop. With a round plump figure and an endearing habit of calling the customer “darlin’” or “luv,” she is a permanent fixture in the place.

Jay, who claims algebraic equations keeps him sane, looks up from an old math text and reaches for the cream and sugar. He can sit here for hours plugging in formulas over cups of coffee and Melba toast, occasionally looking up to have a conversation—which usually has something to do with the correct solution to a math problem.

These people have been coming in here for years. Leaning heavily over the same black bar, over the same cup of coffee and saying the same things day after day, year after year. This has become part of their daily routine.

These folks have come to rely upon the familiarity of Lamb’s in the fast pace and ever-evolving world that you meet when you step one foot out Lamb’s front door. Lamb’s is the bread and butter, the slice of cheese on your sandwich, and the crackers crumbled in your soup.

It is the no-frills, come-as-you-are kind of place where one thing is certain: You will always be welcomed here. That same friendly smile will greet you at the door and bring you a menu as you sink down in your seat. Slide a piping hot cup of coffee in front of you and serve up your “Lamb’s good food,” as it has come to be called.

This, you can expect to see every day. It was seen yesterday, somebody is seeing it now, and lucky for us it will be seen tomorrow, and the next day and the day after that. Lamb’s restaurant… a second home to many. ◆ Lamb’s Grill closed in 2017. Collette Holmes has returned to SLC after a 12-year stint in San Francisco. She likes classic yellow mustard and adjusts the lighting in public places whenever she sees fit. Life is meant to be enjoyed.

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BOOKS & AUTHORS

The Overstory, a novel Pulitzer prize-winning author to speak in SLC Oct. 17 REVIEWED BY AMY BRUNVAND

By Richard Powers.

W.W Norton & Company, 2018

What you make from a tree should be at least as miraculous as what you cut down.

— Richard Powers

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or the past year or so I’ve been telling everyone I know to read The Overstory, Richard Powers’ extraordinary novel about trees and people who love them.

I confess, though, that I almost didn’t make it past the crushing sadness in first chapter which begins, “Now is the time of chestnuts.”

Here in the real life future we know that the American chestnut trees were doomed, wiped

out by a blight imported with Chinese chestnut tress. Half a continent of chestnut forests withered and vanished. Personally, I’ve only ever seen one living American chestnut tree, growing on an isolated historic ranch in the Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness.

The tree was still there last summer and it’s unbearably magnificent.

Powers’ novel, then, is about human relationships with forests in which the trees are also characters, though not magical fantasy creatures like the Ents in The Lord of the Rings. These trees speak in tree language through chemical information spread by root systems or on the wind. Some people in some circumstances are able to hear what they have to say, and when they listen, they are profoundly changed.

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Central to this kinship is Patricia Westerford, a scientist whose work is mocked and marginalized after she writes a scholarly paper that describes trees as “part of a community.”

Here in real life we know that Westerford’s science is correct and the self-important men who reject her data are fools. In the novel, however, Westerford retreats from the hostile attacks on her scholarship.

On her way to a menial Forest Service job, she takes a detour to visit the Pando Aspen clone in Utah’s Fishlake National Forest where the connections that shape the story begin to form: All around her spreads one single male whose genetically identical trunks cover more than a hundred acres. The thing is outlandish, beyond her ability to wrap her head around. But then, as Dr. Westerford knows, the world’s outlands are everywhere, and trees like to toy with human thought like boys toy with beetles.

As the story develops, the trees do toy with human thoughts, turning them towards an ancient and mystical vision of all life intertwined.

In the aspen grove, the novel’s characters are revealed to be connected like a root system deep underground. And “Plant-Patty,” the disgraced scientist, has the seed of an idea to write a book that will convince the public to engage with deep listening to hear the intelligence of trees, perhaps a little bit like the one that Richard Powers has written. ◆ Amy Brunvand is a University of Utah librarian, a poet, and CATALYST’s EnvironNews columnist.

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CONVERSATIONS

The deep ecology of the sacred Francis Weller on the five gates of grief, and the joy that lies beyond WITH ERIN GEESAMAN RABKE AND CARL RABKE ship or a house or a pet. Our grief is given credence by others in those moments.

The first gate is that everything you love, you will lose. That's a fierce way to start. But it's a deep, inherent truth that we get to keep nothing. Everything that we love, we will lose at some point along the way, either by our own disappearance or by theirs.

The other four gates operate covertly. They don't arise to the level of being honored. So we're left to carry in our backpacks, which soon turn into U-Hauls, this enormous legacy of sorrow.

The second gate is those parts of us that have never known love. I don't know about your life, but in my family, my upbringing in the Catholic Church and in the education system, I was told very clearly what parts of me were not acceptable. My wildness, my exuberance, my eroticism, my imagination, my sadness, my anger... these all became pieces of me that I was told in overt ways by punishment or by shame were not allowable, so they had to be gotten rid of. Psyche longs for wholeness. It wants all of its capacities to be manifest and ex-

Everything that we love, we will lose at some point along the way, either by our own disappearance or by theirs.

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sychotherapist Francis Weller, author of The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief, is on the staff at Commonweal Cancer Help Program in Bolinas, California. In his work, Weller speaks of what he calls the five gates of grief. Grief is more than an emotion; it is also a core faculty of being human.

Through the rites of grief, we are ripened as human beings, Weller writes. Grief invites gravity and depth into our world. With experience, we develop the capacity to metabolize sorrow into something medicinal for our soul and the anima mundi, the soul of the world.

Francis Weller spoke with CATALYST writers Erin Geesaman Rabke and Carl Rabke in anticipation of Weller’s forthcoming visit to

Salt Lake City for a meeting with the Jung Society of Utah in November.

CATALYST: Francis, speak to us about the five gates of grief.

Francis Weller: When people arrive at my office, typically the complaint is one of depression. When I sit with them for any length of time, it becomes apparent that what they're suffering from isn't so much depression but oppression. They are weighted down by the unmetabolized sorrows of a lifetime. Not being able to identify them as grief, as losses, it's hard to really mourn them.

Grief arrives at our door in many, many shapes. But culturally, the only one that's really acknowledged is the death of someone or the ending of something that we love—a relation-

pressed in the world. So anytime it loses a piece, that's a loss. And any loss is worthy of grief. But we cannot grieve for something that we've learned to hold with contempt. When those pieces arise in somebody else, we also judge and belittle them—or envy them, at times, as well.

The third gate is the sorrows of the world.

This one is coming at us with such intensity and speed that we cannot duck it any longer—the Amazon fires, the disappearing glaciers. We just held the ritual a month ago for close to 200 whales that washed up on the shores of the coastline from Mexico to Alaska. These whales are starving to death.

These are the sorrows of the world. They touch us every day. For a long time we saw them as something outside of ourselves. But now

The thread of hope I carry, thin as it is, is that grief will save our asses; that the broken heart will have the ability to remind us of what it is we love—and that it stirs what Pema Chodron called “the outrageous courage of the bodhi heart.” we're really beginning to feel how inseparable our experience of psyche is from what's happening in the world. There’s a collective anxiety about what is happening to the fabric of not just society and culture, but to the very fabric of the environment. We're in dangerous straits.

That's the third gate. It doesn't get easier from here.

The fourth gate is what we expected and did not receive. How could you long for something if it's never been there? Well, it's always been there. It's what we expected and did not receive. It's as if we were wired for the whole human experience that our deep time ancestors knew by heart, through experience.

They would gather to share rituals of grief and gratitude. They would sing together. They would share meals together. They would share dreams. They would hunt together. They would gather food and firewood. They would tell stories at night. They knew the myths, they knew the intimacies of the land base that they were on. This is what shaped us over millions of years and most precisely in the last 300,000 years when we became homo sapiens.

And now in the blink of an eye, we've abandoned almost every one of those coordinates.

So we feel lost and empty in this world. We lack a sense of place and direction and belonging.

But it's still wired inside of us.

stand that almost none of the grief I'm carrying is mine alone. Most of the grief I carry began, as Rumi would say, "in some other tavern." It began a long time ago when certain severances began to occur among my own lineage, my own ancestors, when there was breakage in the connection to a place, to a culture, to a language, to traditions, to foods, to plant base, to myth. When all of those began to be eroded and corroded by departure, we began to live a life of sorrow.

Another thread is what happened particularly for you and me. I'm talking of our European ancestors. When they arrived here, they didn't come as humble guests. They came to dominate. The destruction of the native cultures and the landscape—it's something that's still, 500 years later, a deep wound in the psyche of this culture. The importation of slavery is another grievous mark on the soul of this culture that we have failed to honor. We can still hear it every week in the acts and gestures of racism and violence towards people of color.

We have not addressed this to any degree at all, in any satisfactory manner.

Those five gates of grief impact us every single day. And so again, another plug for numbness and denial, unless we're given a container large enough for us to be courageous enough to face them and really acknowledge the grief.

Can we create that container? There seems to be a gap in our cultural connection with ritual, but maybe we can create that container for ourselves or each other.

I think that's absolutely right. We are ritual creatures. Watch children—they're constantly generating rituals of some sort or another.

We're wired for it. It doesn't have to be so grand as going to a grief ritual with somebody leading the way. It can be very modest and humble.

What I've noticed over and over again is people are longing for the permission to speak about it. We're afraid to talk about it because it's become so private and whatever becomes private carries a certain mantle of shame around it.

It's also a secret longing because if you walk down the street and look carefully, you can see it in everybody's eyes. And if we stop anybody and say, "Are you okay?" and if they could really trust the question, they would say, "No, my heart is breaking. I'm utterly lost. I don't know what to do. But thank you for asking."

We need a place. It can be very simple and small: Invite a few friends. Serve good food and drinks. Light a candle, say a poem or a prayer.

Ask for some support and help to face what, at times, feels overwhelming and dense and impossible to carry on our own. I've seen this lit-

The five gates of grief affect us every single day.

The tragedy is we end up blaming ourselves for this feeling of emptiness. “What did I do wrong that I feel so empty?” Well, what if this emptiness isn't a lack on my own personal part, but an absence where culture failed to materialize the things that humans require to stay healthy and alive and exuberant?

The last gate is what I call ancestral grief.

The more I sit with this one, the more complex it becomes, because I began to really under-

Let's not reduce grief to tears.

Grief is also outrage. It's protest. It is an adamant refusal to allow things to proceed as they are. erally thousands of times with people who've come to these gatherings. There is this sense of spaciousness that begins to open around the heart once we can begin to acknowledge fully the depth of sorrows that we carry.

Do you think that doing personal grief work makes one more available to meeting these times and the grief in the world?

Tell me what personal grief work looks like.

Well, just what you're talking about, you know, for example, meeting the places that have not known love.

If you go talk to a therapist, that's the majority of what's happening in that room. You're talking about the places that have not known love. Or you're talking about the ending of your relationship or something like that. It is grief work. Absolutely. To name it as such helps to identify that what you're talking about is sorrow.

We tend to pathologize these things. "What's wrong with me?" And if we can help at all, we can just say, we know what you're experiencing is loss. You're feeling a profound sense of grief.

I'll often say to most of the people I sit with that our work here is learning to tolerate contact in the places where your sorrow lives. But ultimately you are going to need a larger holding space because what psyche wants, and what psyche expects in order to really put the grief down, is a larger vessel with more bodies, more sound, more hands, more engagement, a sideby-side weeping. Even if you've never done it in your lifetime, when you have the experience of it, some part of your psyche goes, "That felt right. I was not alone in my room crying. I was side by side with another one of my kin doing the same thing, expressing their own version of the sorrows."

But we all have sorrows. We have people coming [to California] from Australia and England and I say, "It's wonderful that you're here.

But your presence, itself, is a symptom of the sorrows at the core of our grief. You know this is not happening in every community. Then you have to travel literally 10,000 miles for the privilege of being able to cry next to somebody else without embarrassment.

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NOW LET US FEAST

October 2019

Slow Food Utah Microgrants, awards and the Feast of Five Senses

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began my love affair with Slow Food Utah maybe 10 years ago, when I attended my first Feast of Five Senses. I was drawn in by the name. How often do we honor the fullness of sensory possibilities when we eat?

The high-class cocktails admittedly did heighten the senses. My fellow attendees, few of whom I knew at the time, were convivial; nothing like good food to bring out the best in

raised and distributed over $110,000 to 113 small farms and businesses, schools, and municipalities engaged in helping people grow and eat food that is “good, clean and fair.”

Through the years I’ve come to see up-close and personal the devotion and enthusiasm that motivates both the feast and what it funds.

The all-volunteer board of eight is led by longtime president Gwen Crist who, with rockstar

people. Each course was created by a different chef, who introduced it and shared the provenance of the ingredients—almost all local, from area farms, gardens, fields and streams.

This group, a chapter of the Slow Food movement that began in Italy in 1986, is dedicated to bringing everyone to the table to celebrate the pleasures of good, clean, fair food.

They link producers and consumers, foster community with their farm mob work parties and pot lucks, and promote eating local foods.

The pricey ticket turned out to be a steal. All of the money went to fund the organization’s Microgrant Program. Slow Food Utah has

member Jude Rubadue, rallies a community of chefs and sponsors to pull off a top-notch party.

With funds from last year’s feast, this year Slow Food Utah distributed $13,000 to nine awardees: Sweet Pea Farm, Rockhill Creamery, Moab Youth Garden Project, Ranui Gardens, Green River PACT, Raclette Machine, Iron County USU, SLC Top Crops and Burningham Bees. The grants will provide funding for cold storage, a greens washer, bees and hive equipment, creamery equipment, rabbits, an irrigation workshop and other items essential for these small, local food producers to thrive.

Chefs and restaurants donate their time for

this sumptuous fine-dining experience. Ingredients are procured from local growers. This year’s feastmakers include Shon Foster, Sego Restaurant; Logen Crew, SLC Eatery; Alan Brines, Current Fish & Oyster; Mariah Christensen & Casey Bowthorpe, Harmons; Park City Culinary Institute; Buzz Willey, Pallet; Nathan Powers, Bambara; Adam Kreisel, Chaia Cucina; Romina Rasmussen, Les Madeleines; Millcreek Cacao. Wine by Francis Fecteau, Libation LLC; craft cocktail by Water Witch; Caribbean tonics

by Van Kwartel; coffee by Caffe Ibis.

Sponsors include Harmons, Creminelli Fine Meats, Caputo’s, Beehive Cheese and Laziz Kitchen. The Feast is accompanied by a renowned silent auction, with many of the

items related to Slow Food Utah’s mission.

Winners of the 2019 Snail Awards, the group’s annual tradition to honor those in our community who are dedicated to Slow Food principles and ardent supporters of Slow Food Utah, will be announced at the Feast. ◆ —Greta Belanger dejong

15th annual Feast of Five Senses Sunday, October 20, 2019, 5:30pm Salt Lake Masonic Temple (650 E.So. Temple) $125 (plus $25 for optional wine pairings) Info and tickets: SLOWFOODUTAH.ORG

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CONVERSATIONS

An elder is someone who has digested the bitter tinctures of life and has metabolized them into something medicinal for the community.

So personal grief work, yeah, do it, but as a means to build your courage to step into a larger space with others and become bold enough to say the truth of your own experience. After a while you begin to recognize that it's actually a communal cup—the Shared Cup of Grief that we are holding.

The heroic fiction that I can somehow muscle my way through life alone is abruptly confronted when you get cancer. That diagnosis has a strange grace to it. And if we are honest, we are confronted with that same reality that no, I cannot do this alone. I need others. I need companionship. I need support. I need people to walk this with me.

There’s a part of me that wants to paint it as a kind of grace that's inviting a different outcome.

I don't think any of us know what's going to happen. The thread of hope that I carry, thin as it is, is that grief will save our asses; that the broken heart will have the ability to remind us of what it is we love—and rather than closing down and going paralytic or into passivity, that it stirs something that Pema Chodron called “the outrageous courage of the bodhi heart”; that somehow the shattering of denial and the illusion of heroic responses actually generates a truer, more full-hearted version of courage.

A full-hearted response includes the suffering, the wounding and the damage. There’s that ancient Greek phrase that “in your wound is your genius.”

Hopefully what is generated is a heartfelt response. First, of grief. And maybe out of our grieving, there'll be gestures of affection where we begin to build something small and humble and intimate and close to the soil that isn't quite so arrogant and quite so presumptuous of authority.

It seems like a very organic process to me.

There's this impatient, modern mind that wants to either get to the bright side or DO something, you know? I’ve heard you say before that grief is like the stepchild that's ignored or devalued in our culture. I both want to ask again about the importance of making time for grief and also do you trust that those gestures come out of grief or could we end up just circling the drain and crying together about how it's all going to shit? How do we make that transition into the heart's affec-

tionate gestures without bypassing the necessary descent?

Action devoid affection is partly how we got into this trouble in the first place. Wendell Berry says it all turns on affection. What do we love? If we really listen to what grief is about, it's almost invariably tangled up with what we love.

Another thing I wanted to add before I forget is let's not reduce grief to tears. Grief is also outrage. It's protest. It is an adamant refusal to allow things to proceed as they are.

James Hillman, one of my finest and the most beloved teachers, said, “The surest sign of a soul awake is that it's outraged.” When we do the grief work, we make a lot of room during the weekend for that outrage—for bellowing and sounds that come up out of the viscera.

There’s a protest in us and I can feel it wants to do something, but I have to first acknowledge it. I have to first feel it. I have to get on my knees and scream it.

And something happens. Even in the invocation to the prayer we say before we start the ritual, which is not by rote, but by the moment that's there, I'll often say we're doing this not only for ourselves but so that our hearts might open wider, so we might love this world more fully—that we might commit ourselves more completely to the repair, to the mending, to the healing of our rivers; that we might bring the salmon back; that we might do one small gesture that helps to breathe life back into the anima mundi—to the soul of the world.

Our grief is a gateway into a deeper affection and a more robust commitment to showing up.

It's also, paradoxically, the gateway into a hell of a lot more joy! The heart that's oppressed by untouched sorrow is not a very happy heart. It's a sullen heart, a weary heart. But I have seen so much joy erupt towards the last few moments of the grief ritual. A joy enters the room that is unmistakable. It's not game show joy. It is truly heartfelt. The "oh my God, I’m alive!" kind of joy.

Grief is not just an emotion but it's a human faculty. We need to be skillful in it so that we can keep it moving and keep metabolizing it into some form of medicine that we can take back into the community.

Sorrow has the capacity to reshape you. In a long apprenticeship—let's say your apprenticeship is as a carpenter—you'd be sweeping shavings in the corner for the first year or two, then you might be able to cut a board for your

23 teacher, your master. But over time you would go through the whole process and, in the end, you would be declared a master carpenter. In soul work, the long lineage of apprenticeship with sorrow doesn't lead to mastery. It leads to elderhood. An elder is someone who has digested the bitter tinctures of life and has metabolized them into something medicinal for the community. That's another grief that we carry right now: There are so few people who have really digested their sorrows into something meaningful and something that can really address the bewilderment in the eyes of the young ones.

Francis, tell us more about the fifth gate of ancestral grief. For those of us raised in a culture where not much attention is brought to any kind of living relationship with ancestors, can you offer some ways of doing work around and with ancestors?

We live in a culture that perpetually idealizes progress. We're always moving forward. However, in the process we often abandon history.

In a sense, we abandon the dead. But the dead are still with us. Much of the sorrow that's in our bodies is inherited. There's this new term, the “transgenerational transmission of trauma.”

We are the current curators of the sorrow. It didn't necessarily begin in my lifetime, it began generations ago. It could have begun as a consequence of a rupture of connection to a homeland. Maybe our ancestors began to drink, maybe alcoholism became a way of coping. The wounding of that alcoholism didn't stop in that person's lifetime. It affected their children and they maybe became alcoholic or they learned how to cope with alcoholism by basically abandoning their own lives. And that gets passed on generation to generation.

So why is it useful to talk about the ancestors? Well, in part because we want to understand the depth and breadth of what it is we are being asked to face and to deal with.

There’s another part, too. We need their help.

They need our help. In the ancient ecologies, it was understood very clearly that the dead are not gone. They are still living in our dreams and in our bodies, in our moods and in our feelings, in the places where we struggle. Asking them to participate in our rituals is part of reestablishing that deep ecology of the sacred.

We're one of the only cultures that has a nearly nonexistent relationship to the dead.

But it's become a vital part of my personal work, and a meaningful part of the work we

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In the last minutes of our time together, I want to circle back to what you said about a heart that has suppressed ungrieved sorrows of a lifetime is also not very joyful.

What about joy? Is it okay to feel joy, or is it our obligation? Is that part of an offering? Is it a betrayal of the travesty of what's happening in the world to really be joyful?

No. No. I will not say it's an obligation. I think it's an outcome—an inevitable outcome from living fully into this moment. The intention of the grief work is to get us current. I like that word "current" in multiple ways: "current" in the sense of "in the present moment." Most of our lives is actually spent chewing old bones, old hurts, old wounds, old grievances. We rarely pivot and get into our current life. Another part of that word is to get into the current, the electricity, the vitality of life—and to get into the current like a river, the flow of life. So that word is very rich in its syntax and multiple meanings.

When we really honor our grief, it's inevitable to feel joy. I remember saying to this African

woman in Burkina Faso, “You have so much joy.” And her response was, "That's because I cry a lot."

Joy is a consequence of fully accepting our human nature and not forgetting the exquisite beauty that is still abundantly around us and the sweet gestures that come from our children and our friends, the acts of kindness from strangers. There's plenty of reason to be sad. Yet there's also a parallel number of things to be exceedingly grateful for. To have that erupt into moments of joy is part of what, in turn, inspires us to love this world much more completely. Why save anything to the end? ◆ Erin Geesaman Rabke’s photography was on the cover of the August CATALYST. Carl Rabke’s most recent CATALYST story was “Psychedelics Revisited: Michael Pollan and How to Change your Mind”(Dec. 2018). Both are Guild-Certified Feldenkrais Practitioners and Integrative Embodiment Mentors. To listen to the full, unedited version of this interview as well as other interesting podcasts, visit EMBODIMENTMATTERS.COM/PODCAST/

Francis Weller in Salt Lake City November 8, 2019, 7-8:30pm (doors@6:30) Hosted by the Jung Society of Utah Topic: “An Apprenticeship with Sorrow” Free (donations accepted) SLC Downtown Library (210 E. 400 South) For more information: JUNGUTAH.COM/ NOTE: The weekend Grief Ritual, November 9-10, is sold out.

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Oda Might New Plan-B play explores the perils of existing in a black body (and what happens next)

BY CAMILLE WASHINGTON

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here are some times when the bottom doesn't seem low enough. Then, after surviving a car crash and knocking on a door seeking assistance, Renisha McBride was shot and killed near Detroit. In the midst of those stirring and unrestful early days of the Black Lives Matter movement, it was hard to feel anything but the pull of immediate action. March. Protest. Anything but write. A play.

Oda Might started as an examination of something else. A tangent about black mysticism and religiosity in the American imagination. But the image of an injured, young black woman seeking help and being shot dead instead would not leave my thoughts.

Another instance of the perils of existing in a black body. Devastating loss is always eminent. Present in the most mundane or extreme situations.

The patient in Oda Might is an admitted crook. A grifter and con who spent her adult life breaking the law to make a living. That isn't why she is in a mental hospital, though. She believes she was scapegoated for murder because she's a spiritual medium. Her psychiatrist wants to believe her but isn’t yet convinced.

As a doctor whose specialty is mental health, she has first-hand experience with varying per-

ceptions of reality. More than that, she knows about public mistrust and misconceptions about her field. At a certain point in the play, the doctor divulges to the patient that her mother never believed in a doctor to whom one would divulge their emotions or thoughts.

In this way, there is a relationship with mysticism on both sides. A reliance on faith in a complicated, often misunderstood, system. A constant need to prove, and to explain, and to justify.

So, then, the fact that they are both black women is critical. They don’t have to waste time proving their personhood to each other-a constant and exhausting part of blackness. It is possible for them to move on to more pressing matters. Is the patient innocent of the crime that put her in prison? Is innocence relative?

For Renisha McBride the answer was yes. For us black folks often the answer is yes. Given the right—or wrong—circumstances, our blackness precludes the benefit of any doubt.

Somehow the stage feels like a more appropriate context in which to tell this type of story than through narrative writing or through reportage. The actors take up visual and physical space, and share that space with the audience.

There can be no ambiguity about their race, and it cannot be left up for interpretation. It has to be considered from the moment the play begins.

Whether or not all the above inspiration is immediately apparent when viewing Oda Might, I am sincerely thankful to have theatre as a venue to express these ideas. Most of my other writing to this point has been researchbased articles and historical/critical essays. The fact that this play will have a life outside of just written text is, truly, a thrill.

Oda Might is a play about what happens next. Or, what could happen next. In the lives of two women who have everything and nothing in common, brought together by a fantastical circumstance. It is supernatural and suspenseful in a way that only live theatre can achieve. ◆ Playwright Camille Washington is the co-director of Good Company Theatre in Ogden. Her play Oda Might receives its world premiere at Plan-B Theatre November 7-17; tickets and info at PLANBTHEATRE.ORG/

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The sleep puzzle It’s not so simple

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o you have trouble falling asleep? Or staying asleep? If so, you’re not alone. According to data from the Center for Disease Control (CDC), 30-35% of Americans experience at least temporary insomnia. Ten percent of Americans suffer from chronic insomnia, defined as three sleepless nights a week for three months or more.

Sleep deprivation causes a host of problems in our waking hours, including daytime fatigue, poor concentration, memory problems, low energy that leads to lack of motivation, and a tendency to be more accident prone.

Insomnia is not as easy to define as the CDC suggests, however. Most of us have heard the prescription of eight solid hours as the recipe for healthy sleep. But no two individuals’ bodies are exactly the same. Our sleep patterns vary dramatically.

Alcohol suppresses the deeper, more replenishing brain waves, including dream sleep.

According to a New York Times article by David Randall titled “Rethinking Sleep,” the gold standard of an eight-hour block is a fairly recent prescription, and it isn’t necessarily aligned with what’s natural for

BY CHARLOTTE BELL most people. “In fact neither our bodies nor our brains are built for the roughly one-third of our lives that we spend in bed,” he writes.

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Health p s yc h i at r i s t Thomas A. Wehr, subjects were given a break from traditional work schedules and deprived of artificial light. After a while, most subjects naturally settled into a split sleep schedule rather than a solid eight-hour block.

“Subjects grew to like experiencing nighttime in a new way,” writes Randall. “Once they broke their conception of what form sleep should come in, they looked forward to the time in the middle of the night as a chance for deep thinking of all kinds, whether in the form of selfreflection, getting a jump on the next day or amorous activity. Most of us, however, do not treat middleof-the-night awakenings as a sign of a normal, functioning brain.“

YOGA I can testify to this. Many of my most profound and creative insights appear after I wake up at 2 am. I just need to be sure I channel the energy into something positive.

Tips for better sleep Despite the wide variety of sleep patterns in individuals, consensus says we do need to get “enough” sleep, whatever that looks like for each of us. For me, it’s five to six hours at night and a nap in the afternoon. To optimize my nighttime sleep, I follow certain practices: •Minimal light before bedtime: The blue light radiated by computers and LED bulbs can interrupt the release of the melatonin, the hormone that signals the body that it’s time to sleep.

• Monitor alcohol and caffeine intake: Caffeine can take five

to seven hours to leave your system. Try limiting caffeine intake to before, say, 2pm. While alcohol may make you drowsy, it doesn’t promote high quality sleep.

The sleep you get from alcohol is akin to a form of anesthesia. Alcohol suppresses the deeper, more replenishing brain waves, including dream sleep.

• Minimal evening activity: In general, exercise can promote better sleep. But timing matters. Active exercise in the morning and afternoon can help you sleep. Active exercise—including an active yoga

practice—in the evening can suppress sleep. Exercise raises our core temperature. Cooler core temps are conducive to sleep, so evening yoga practice should cool you down rather than heat you up.

A yoga practice for sleep 1. Breathe easy: Breathing is intimately connected with the state of the nervous system, so certain pranayama practices can help you sleep. Sitali breath is a traditional cooling practice. Sit in a relaxed position. Form your lips in to an “O.” Now curl your tongue and inhale and exhale slowly. Continue for two to five minutes. Practice before bedtime or when you wake up in the middle of the night.

2. Slow, cooling yoga: Most asanas in yoga practice are inherently heating or cooling. The heating category includes most backbends, standing poses and Surya Namaskar (Sun salutations).

The cooling category includes most forward bends, twists and restorative yoga. Your approach can also make a difference. Breathe slowly and deeply, without trying to force your body into extremes. Instead, stay present and allow your body to relax into each pose.

3. Savasana: Even if you’re practicing restorative yoga, it’s important to give your body/mind a nice, long 15 to 20 minutes is optimal.

Ultimately the sleep puzzle, like everything else in life, is highly individual. My partner can drink espresso at 8pm and fall asleep easily an hour or two later. In the same way, the solid eight-hour sleep block isn’t everyone’s cup of tea.

In any case, worrying about your sleep pattern doesn’t help. Experiment with your sleep schedule. Be open to whatever your body tells you is the right amount and the right sleep schedule for your own wellbeing. ◆ Charlotte Bell has been practicing yoga since 1982. She is the author of several books including, most recently, Hip Healthy Asana, and founder of Mindful Yoga Collective in Salt Lake City. CHARLOTTEBELLYOGA.COM/

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DINING Coffee Garden DA

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

Oasis Cafe DA 11/19

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

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HEALTH & BODYWORK ACUPUNCTURE Alethea Healing Acupuncture11/19

801.988.5898, 2180 E 4500 S, Ste 210L, Holladay. Acu, cupping, moxibus-

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Harmony Acupuncture Wellness Center 801-573-2282. 4055 S 700 E,

tory conditions, metabolism & more.

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Wasatch Community Acupuncture12/19

SLC. Offering the best in holistic medicine using Japanese no-pain technique acupuncture and herbal formulas. Our Western culture is very stressful. Acupuncture can harmonize your body, mind and spirit. Specializing in integrative sports medicine, infertility, and women’s health. Contact: Linda Machol MSTCM, L.Ac. WWW.HARMONYACUPUNCTUREWELLNESS.COM HARMONYAWC@GMAIL.COM 11/19

801.364.9272, 470 E 3900 S, Ste 103, SLC. Effective, low-cost relief for pain, anxiety, insomnia, headaches, and many other ailments. $15-$40 sliding scale (you decide), plus $15 intake fee for first visit. We're a nonprofit acupuncture clinic located in the heart of the Salt Lake valley.

Open seven days a week.

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Keith Stevens Acupuncture 3/20 801.255.7016, 209.617.7379 (c). Dr.

APOTHECARY Natural Law Apothecary 12/19

Keith Stevens, OMD, now located at 870 E 9400 S, Ste. 110 (South Park Medical Complex). Specializing in chronic pain treatment, stress-related insomnia, fatigue, headaches, sports medicine, traumatic injury and postoperative recovery. Board-certified for hep-c treatment. National Acupuncture Detox Association (NADA)-certified for treatment of addiction. Women’s health, menopausal syndromes. www.STEVENSACUCLINIC.COM

801.613.2128. 619 S 600 W Salt Lake's premier herbal medicine shop featuring 100+ organic/wild-harvested herbs available in any amount. Specializing in custom, small batch tinctures, salves, green drink and teas.

Also features a knowledge center with books, classes & consultation on herbs, bees, massage/bodywork wellness and more! www.NATURALLAWAPOTHECARY.COM

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ENERGY HEALING Abi J. Bateman, Reiki Master/Teacher

801.521.3337, 242 S 400 E Suite B, SLC. Affordable Acupuncture! Sliding scale rates ($20-40). Open weekends. Grab a recliner and relax in a safe, comfortable, and healing space. We help with pain, fertility, digestion, allergies, arthritis, sleep and stress disorders, cardiac/respira-

801.859.2513. Body-mind-spirit-connection. Abi has over seven years experience helping her clients achieve deep relaxation, which taps into the body’s natural healing process.

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Cynthia Boshard, Reiki Master12/19

NUTRITION Terri Underwood RD, MS, CD, IFMCP 8/20

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

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801.554.3053. Center for Enhanced Wellness, 2627 E Parleys Way. Calm, balance, relieve stress, and support your body’s natural abilities to heal.

Cynthia has 12 years experience in Usui System of Natural Healing. Intuitive aura readings also offered—all to support improved health and wellbeing. REIKISLC.COM

Kristen Dalzen, LMT 12/19

801.661.3896, Turiya’s, 1569 S 1100 E, SLC. IGNITE YOUR DIVINE SPARK! Traditional Usui Reiki Master Teacher practicing in SLC since 1996. Offering a dynamic array of healing services and classes designed to create a balanced, expansive and vivacious life.

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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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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. 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

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.

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STRUCTURAL INTEGRATION 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.

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MISCELLANEOUS ACCOUNTING/BOOKKEEPING Bonnie Moore 301.875.3739. Experi-

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Main St, SLC.WWW.UTAHFILMCENTER.ORG

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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PSYCHIC ARTS & INTUITIVE SCIENCES ASTROLOGY Transformational Astrology FOG

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

CHANNELLING Carol Ann Christensen 3/20

c: 801.558.0824 or h: 801.281.9648.

Clairvoyant, aura reading, psychometry, astrology, numerology, psychic healing, past lives medium, crystal reading. Practicing since 1975.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Natalie Herndon, PhD, CMHC 7/20

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. WWW.HOPECANHELP.NET NATALIEHERNDON@HOPECANHELP.NET

P. Soni, MD 2/20

801-558-4511. Jungian-based therapy using active imagination and dreams to facilitate personal understanding and growth. This is a small practice. I do not take insurance. Salt Lake area.

Stephen Proskauer, MD, Integrative Psychiatry 10/19

801.631.8426. 76 S. Main St., #6, Moab. Seasoned psychiatrist, Zen priest and shamanic healer. He sees kids, teens, adults, couples and families, integrating psychotherapy and meditation with judicious use of medication to relieve emotional pain and problem behavior. Steve specializes in treating identity crises, LGBTQ issues and bipolar disorders. Taking phone appointments.

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

Dancing Cranes Imports DA8/20

801.486.1129, 673 E. Simpson Ave., SLC. Jewelry, clothing, incense, ethnic art, pottery, candles, chimes and much more!

Visit Café Solstice for lunch, too.

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Golden Braid Books DA 11/19

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

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iconoCLAD—We Sell Your Previously Rocked Stuff & You Keep 50% 801.833.2272. 414 E 300 S, SLC. New and previously rocked (aka, consigned) men’s and women’s fashion, summer festival gear and locally made jewelry, clothing, crafts and decor.

M-Sat 11a-9p, Sun 1p-6p. Follow us on Instagram/Facebook/Twitter @iconoCLAD to see new inventory before someone beats you to it!

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Turiya’s Gifts8/20 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.

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

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801.919.4742, 4408 S 500 E, SLC. Interspiritual sanctuary.

Sunday Celebration: 10am.

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Urgyen Samten Ling Gonpa Tibetan Buddhist Temple

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

Utah Eckankar 9/20

801.542.8070. 8105 S 700 E, Sandy. Eckankar teaches you to be more aware of your own natural relationship with Divine Spirit. Many have had spiritual experiences and want to learn more about them and how they can help us in our daily lives. All are welcome.

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INSTRUCTION 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.

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Thoughts while walking the dog

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f this is such a great economy, why do we see so many young women who can't afford pants without holes ripped in them?

The young men seem to be able to afford belts now; I don’t see nearly as many with their back pants pockets around their kneecaps. Kneecap level pockets are what cargo pants exist for; I admire the indifference of the men who wear them. These are the kind of things that keep me amused by my cranky muse.

Most days my muse stalks me when I’m illegally walking our dog Milo on an undisclosed private property. It is one of the few times when I’m simultaneously certain that I am making another living thing happy and I’m away from all my needy buzzing, beeping things.

I don’t take my phone and I don’t wear wired or wireless headphones.

There is enough ambient soundtrack to amuse me. The wind croons in endless variations and sprinklers and lawn equipment add distinctive hums to the chorus. No doubt some selfies and Instagram gems are being lost forever by my short eschew of technology.

The rest of my waking, walking and snoozing life revolves around feeding all the lithium and NiCad stomachs of my rechargeable dependents. They count on me for there daily lives just as much as Milo depends on his allotment of senior dog kibble and affectionate belly rubs. There’s the electric car, phones, iPads, laptops, cameras, drones, watches, flashes, video lights, cyclometers, pedometers, audio equipment and emergency backup things that I often neglect until there is an emergency. I even have a big battery that I use to change smaller batteries like suckling e-piglets.

BY DENNIS HINKAMP Walking the dog also gives me purpose and a use for all those plastic bags we have accumulated from those moments of un-smugness when forgot to bring our own reusable bags. On those days we hang our heads and hide our faces as we quickly exit Smith’s. Maybe this would be a good time to own a burqa? That would give me useful perspective and empathy.

I was shocked on the return from one of our walks by the realization that the presidential election is next November, not this November. Elections are now a revolving ultra marathon rather than 10-round boxing match. Other than the fact that it would require a protracted second amendment debate, I long for the days when politicians settled arguments with dueling pistols and live ammunition.

After my first walk of the season in 45-degree morning temperatures, my muse taunts me that I either put up Christmas lights too soon or took them down too late. I mainly keep some lights up all year to assuage this irrational fear. The advent of LED lights has almost made them an un-guilty pleasure. I want my neighbors to admire me, but also be a little shocked at my next move. I am conflicted between whimsy and practicality most days.

If you are not conflicted about most things, you probably haven’t thought them through. One of the most annoying things about young people, other than their beauty, is their self-assuredness, but I probably should think about that more on the next dog walk. ◆ Though Dennis Hinkamp played three years of high school football he has attended zero college or pro games, making it the longest promise he has kept in his life. #Conflicted.

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October 2019

METAPHORS FOR THE MONTH

BY SUZANNE WAGNER

Osho Zen Tarot: Aloneness, New Vision Medicine Cards: Skunk, Rabbit, Blank Shield Mayan Oracle: Oc, Ix Ancient Egyptian Tarot: Queen of Swords, Ace of Cups, Two of Cups Aleister Crowley Deck: Devil, Ace of Disks, Art Healing Earth Tarot: Eight of Crystals, Man of Feathers Words of Truth: Laughter, Assemblage Point, Dichotomy

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ctober is a train that is building momentum as it moves out of the station, heading directly toward a new goal. Planet Earth is evolving and you are part of a plan.

Three planets that will be aligned in Capricorn in 2020 (Jupiter, Saturn and Pluto) are moving direct again. (They were retrograde since April). Capricorn is the sign of initiation into a new order. And that seems a good idea about now.

Mars turns retrograde on Octo-

ber 2 and will not go direct until mid-December. This gives you time to ease off the gas pedal.

While you may not be braking, you are not speeding up either.

Something is building that needs to not push or be pushed. I suggest you let the momentum carry you forward.

I love getting the Skunk card in the Medicine Cards. It is all about your reputation and others knowing where you stand. Skunks are peaceful animals by nature. Quiet

Being a grown-up means you have to take responsibility to do the hard stuff. and shy, but also, obviously, bold.

A skunk comes to my porch every evening to eat the fallen sunflower seeds. Because it feels safe here, despite its diabolical capacity, it makes no smell.

That duality is being accentuated this month.

The Rabbit is about fear and freezing when something of danger comes its way. That works sometimes but not all the time. So again, the rabbit is also about speed. And when things go...they go big and fast. While some will be frozen in fear, others will be running off in new directions. Expect that type of activity in October.

As the days get shorter and the evenings creep in sooner, major shifts on many levels are happening all at once.

That is what happens when there is a global change in consciousness. By the sheer mass and volume of the intentions (from so many people seeking a new vision for this world), a new reality is taking shape: one based on compassion, care for the earth, and consideration for those in need.

A tidal shift of emotion is motivating the trajectory of this reality that has been stuck in certain dimensions and beliefs.

The new reality is the understanding of stewardship: that this

world is not here for our personal exploitation. Hence we move out of a type of childhood ideology into adulthood. Being a grown up means you have to take responsibility to do the hard stuff.

Oc and Ix in the Mayan Oracle also indicate a new beginning. Oc is that energy that gives you a doorway to take your emotions out of the drama and into choice.

When you are free of the drama, you can find the open connection and support you’ve been seeking.

You each seek to find your companions of destiny. They appear when you step past the emotional triggers.

It is becoming essential that you find those whose eyes you recognize and whose hearts spark a remembrance of a sacred trust.

While others will not have the answers you seek, you will find a common heart to listen to your ideas with an open mind and authentic feedback. Ix attempts to help you look at your integrity and your issues around power.

Can you see the trap that your personal desire for power has ensnared you with? When your will is in alignment with your heart, you will find a place to stand that is balanced and has a clearer connection to who you really are.

We need more than opinions, old ways, and resistance to any change. We need art, music, painting, drawing, sculpture, dancing, athletics, and other amazing expressions to make this world a better place. There must be room for many ways.

So now what?

We try something else.

That is why the other Medicine Card is a blank Shield. You are stretching beyond the known into the unknown and untapped wellspring of possibilities. This could be fabulous. And this could be just scary enough that you might have that nervous laugh. You know— the one that happens when you are not sure if you are really excited or terrified beyond belief.

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HOLIDAYS

Thoughts for “Columbus Day” Giving thanks to the original innovators of the Americas

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am no fan of the Columbus Day holiday that is still unfortunately observed in the U.S. (this year on Monday, October 14). My hope is that, in time, this day will instead honor the memory of the upwards to 200 million inhabitants of the Americas who were here when the European invasion and genocide began, and their descendents.

And so, in recognition that Columbus did not “discover” America, I choose to honor some of the countless, little known innovations made by the wonderfully creative indigenous Americans that have ultimately benefitted the entire planet.

Almanacs: Containing meteorological and astronomical information, these were invented by the Mayans around 3,500 years ago.

Calendars: Developed throughout North America, Mesoamerica, and South America, used since 600 BCE. So precise that by the 5th century BCE, they were only 19 minutes off.

Chewing gum: Made from the spruce tree in New England. The Mayans were the first people to make it from latex gum.

Long-fiber cotton: Its export helped to fuel much of the Industrial Revolution throughout the world.

Embalming: Egyptians began their mummification around 2000 BCE, 3000 years after the Chinchoro of South America began the practice.

Foods, glorious foods! Approximately 60% of the food upon which the world’s population depends was developed centuries ago by American Indian agrarians who domesticated crops including: six species of maize/corn (150 varieties), five major species of beans, hundreds of varieties of potatoes, squash, zucchini, tomatoes, peppers, a range of nuts, avocado, wild rice, and more. Popular snack foods derived from American Indian agriculture include potato chips, French fries and popcorn. And where, oh where, would humanity be without chocolate (Mayan and Aztec) and vanilla?

Gold plating: - The Moche (Peru) dissolved gold using an alum/saltpetre/salt mixture which was then deposited onto copper vessels.

BY VERONICA FROELICH ADAMS Travel: The Incan highway system with roads and bridges all up and down South America and their foot messengers would have put the Greek marathon runners to shame.

and latex around 1700 BCE. Along with the Maya, they discovered the process of vulcanization in waterproofing such items as capes, shoes, bottles, tarpaulins, ponchos and baskets.

Medicine: Aztecs far surpassed simply knowing which bark made good aspirin or could be used for quinine to treat malaria, or which berries treated scurvy. Using their sophisticated obsidian knives, Aztecs knew how to perform a variety of surgeries, from the mundane to brain surgery.

Sports: Field andice hockey and lacrosse (Canadian First Nations). Basketball was played by the Olmec over 3,000 years ago following their invention of the rubber ball.

Anesthetics: American Indians used coca, peyote, datura and other plants for partial or total loss of sensation or consciousness during surgery, whereas non-Indian doctors didn’t have effective anesthetics until after the mid-19th century. Other medicines include novocaine, syrup of ipecac and astringents.

The U.S. Constitution bears more resemblance to the model of the League of the Iroquois than the Greek Senate or English House of Lords.

Political theory: The Iroquois Confederacy of upstate New York represented a union of six tribes. Benjamin Franklin and other founding fathers borrowed heavily from the democratic Iroquois “federal system” of government when they planned the union that became the United States. The U.S. Constitution bears more resemblance to the model of the League of the Iroquois than the Greek Senate or English House of Lords. The whole idea of a balance of powers, of electing representatives, of governing by consensus all came from the Indians who were generally ruled, not by a “Big Chief,” but rather by a council of elders.

Rubber products: The Olmec (Mexico) produced rubber balls by mixing rubber tree sap

Sciences: The science of ecology as well as the American Indian belief system teaches that all life is interrelated and interdependent. This relationship is expressed in American Indian oral traditions and conservation practices.

Mathematics: American Indian mathematic achievements include the development of highly accurate calendars and place value arithmetic. The Mayans of southern Mexico and Central America were the first people to use the concept of zero in mathematical calculations.

Also: diapers, asphalt, megaphones, hair conditioner, hammocks, the spinning top, sunscreen, syringe needles, petroleum jelly, and freeze- drying foods such as meat jerky.

Much is owed the indigenous peoples of the Americas, including acknowledgement for their creative and innovative genius. ◆ Veronica Adams holds a Master of Divinity at Harvard with a concentration on cutural values and comparative religions. A student of Vietnamese Zen Buddhist teacher and activist Thich Nhat Hanh, she teaches mindfulness and meditation.

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he organizations listed below work diligently on behalf of indigenous people and need our support.

Native American Rights Fund: WWW.NARF.ORG Adopt-A-Native-Elder: WWW.ANELDER.ORG Urban Indian Center of SLC: UICSL.ORG National Congress of American Indians: WWW.NCAI.ORG Native Web which lists multiple organizations: HTTPS://BIT.LY/2MO3ELY The American Indian Institute for Innovation: WWW.THEAIII.COM/INDEX.PHP?PAGE=HOME

TIME FOR ACTION

Largest climate protest in history Mother Earth isn’t asking nicely, and neither are we

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n September 20, 2019, four million youth worldwide marched out of their classrooms, skipping their lessons to teach the politicians one on the climate crisis. This Global Climate Strike spread across 150 countries with youth and students taking control over their future. This generation, my generation, is fighting a crisis threatening our quality of life and our dreams of a future.

This protest was not only one of the largest youth-led demonstrations, it also was the largest climate protest in history.

The Global Climate Strike was organized by Greta Thunberg, a 16year-old Swedish environmental activist. Thunberg is passionate about raising awareness of climate change and the ways in which it affects the lives of not only her generation but all generations to come. In an interview at the World Economic Forum, Thunberg stated, “Our house is on fire. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change we are less than 12 years away from not being able to undo our mistakes. Adults keep saying we owe it to the young people to give them hope, but I don't want your hope. I don't want you to be hopeful, I want you to panic.

I want you to feel the fear I feel every day, and then I want you to act. I want you to act as you would in a crisis, as if your house was on fire, because it is.”

In Utah, protests organized in Ogden and Salt Lake City were filled with an energy of burning passion for change. In Ogden, DaVinci Student President Rachel Love and her fellow students stormed out of class, ignoring the downpour of rain, to protest on 25th Street. The DaVinci Academy

students were joined by Weber State University, various local high schools and community members. Following the march, students gathered in front of the Federal Building. They chanted “24-6-8, save the earth it's not too late,” and, “It’s raining, it's pouring, our politicians are snoring.” With the power of community, these students know they are powerful enough to make sure denial is not a policy in our government.

“I am tired of the burden being placed on our generation for a crisis we didn't cause. The climate crisis isn't a goddamn riddle, we know who is responsible, and we know what to do,” Rachel Love exclaimed. “We have taken care of this planet for thousands of years.

The teaching and technology for a sustainable future already exists.

This information only needs to be implemented now!”

People across the globe know Mother Earth isn't asking nicely and they believe the time to unite is now. The student-organized Global Climate Strike is the catalyst for change, but it certainly doesn't stop here. For those looking for ways to stay involved, Aimee Urbina, a student at WSU and head of Sunrise Movement Ogden, has some ideas: Show up to local caucus meetings; get involved with local organizations like Sunrise Movement Ogden, Citizens Climate Lobby, and HEAL Utah; keep the conversation moving by talking about climate change with friends, family, and colleagues; show up to marches.

And, most important, when you become of age: vote. ◆ —Ashlynd Greenwood Ashlynd Greenwood is a junior at Weber State University studying botany and a former CATALYST intern.

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