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Dapper Dan by Lucia Heffernan

This painting is now in a private collection of Harbor Seafood & Steak restaurant at 2302 Parley's Way in Sugarhouse.

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ucia Heffernan's paintings are full of surprises.

Inspired by her fascination with animals, she creates whimsical and amusing works of art in oil. By placing animals in uniquely human situations, Lucia paints a playful world where animals do everything we do. She believes laughter is the best medicine, so her paintings are usually the visual rendering of a common phrase or a silly joke.

Despite the humorous nature of her work, Lucia is a very skilled technical painter. Like many artists, she began as a figurative artist focused on capturing her subjects true to life. Her style has evolved to incorporate a narrative, creating the illusion that animals can, in fact, do human things.

Her imaginative works feature everything from monocled high-society ostriches to rabbits driving carrot cars and trench coat- wearing hound dog private eyes. By portraying animals in human situations, her hope is to give them a voice and personality, and to give her viewers a sense of empathy for them.

Lucia makes fine art fun. Her light and colorful humor have made of her online print shop a worldwide success. She has won multiple local and national competitions and her work is widely collected throughout the world.

A graphic designer by trade and an oil painter by design, Lucia is continually experimenting with different styles of contemporary realism that balance her artistic sensibilities, technique, and unique sense of humor. As she evolves, what remains constant is her respect for the animals that inspire her, and her desire to bring a smile to the face of every viewer. ◆ WWW.LUCIAHEFFERNAN.COM FACEBOOK.COM/LUCIAHEFFERNAN.1 FACEBOOK.COM/LUCIAHEFFERNANARTIST/

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November 2019

BY AMY BRUNVAND Fundamentally, you need to make vehicles pollute less, make people drive less, or both.

– Deb Niemeier

Condor 1000 takes flight!

The baby California condor that hatched in Zion National Park this past spring has fledged! On September 25, bird watchers witnessed the chick’s ungraceful first flight and reported it to Park rangers.

California Condors are an endangered species re-introduced in their former range through a captive breeding program managed by the Peregrine Fund. The chick is entered in the official “Condor Studbook” as number 1000 (affectionately known as Condor 1K or the Zion Centennial Condor Chick since Zion National Park was founded in 1919).

Currently there are about 90 condors soaring over Utah and Arizona, but condor 1K is the first successful wild-hatched condor in Utah.

The biggest threat to species survival is lead

poisoning from eating bullet fragments left by hunters in carrion.

In 2017 the Trump administration repealed a ban on lead bullets despite health hazards for wildlife and people who eat hunted meat.

The Zion National Park Forever Project is seeking funds to facilitate tracking and health checkups for the Zion Centennial Condor.

Peregrine Fund: peregrinefund.org; Zion National Park Forever Project: bit.ly/2MmKNsn

Holladay City adopts clean energy plan Holladay is the latest Utah city with a goal to adopt 100% renewable energy by 2030. In this year’s general session the Utah Legislature passed the Community Renewable Energy Act which allows communities served by Rocky Mountain Power to create a renewable energy program. Communities must opt in by passing a clean energy resolution no later than December 31, 2019.

Throughout the country emissions have been rising since 2013 due to low gas prices and high sales of low-mileage pickup trucks and SUVs. Wasatch Front emissions grow Population growth on the Wasatch Front means that greenhouse gas emissions are rising.

The New York Times used data from the Boston University Database of Road Transportation Emissions to map of greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles throughout the United States.

The data shows that the bulk of emissions comes from driving passenger vehicles in cities and suburbs. Emissions are lower per person in denser cities. Along the Wasatch Front, CO2 emissions from driving have increased 82% since 1990, and the emissions generated by each resident grew by 15%.

Throughout the country emissions have been rising since 2013 due to low gas prices and high sales of low-mileage pickup trucks and SUVs. New York Times Interactive Map: nytimes.com/interactive/2019/10/10/climate/driving-emissions-map.html

Report documents Inland Port concerns A new report from Envision Utah uncovers deep citizen concern about negative environmental impacts from large-scale industrial inland port development within the boundaries of Salt Lake City.

The public is particularly worried about harm to air quality from increased traffic and industrialization, and harm to wildlife and water quality in the Great Salt Lake ecosystem.

Another key issue is “distrust among the public and stakeholders stemming from a perceived lack of transparency from the UIPA [Utah Inland Port Authority].”

In fact, the UIPA bill was passed at the tail end of the 2018 General Session as a surprise attack on Salt Lake City with little discussion and no public hearings. The public engagement meetings held by Envision Utah in February 2019 were the first opportunity for the public to comment on the Inland Port.

After the UIPA was formed, House Speaker Greg Hughes initially appointed himself as a member, but immediately had to step down due to conflict of interest since he owns property within the Inland Port zone.

Hughes, who was recently seen leading a pro-Trump anti-impeachment rally at the office of Representative Ben McAdams, is currently raising money for his “Hughes Leadership PAC” intending to run for governor of Utah.

Construction has already begun in the Inland Port area even though the current UIPA still has done no comprehensive analysis of impacts to air quality, water quality and wildlife habitat.

The Envision Utah report pooh-poohs public concerns that the port will be used for processing, storage and transport of fossil fuels even though the enabling legislation specifically states “the transporting, unloading, loading, transfer, or temporary storage of natural resources may not be prohibited on the authority jurisdictional land.”

Inland Port Authority Public Engagement Report: bit.ly/2IT7lyx

Update: Bears Ears, EscalanteGrand Staircase lawsuits A federal judge has ruled that lawsuits to restore the original boundaries of Bears Ears National Monument and Grand Staircase

Escalante National Monuments can go forward.

In October the Trump administration filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuits, claiming that the plaintiffs had “suffered no injury” since Bureau of Land Management (BLM) planning processes are still operating. This argument is especially disingenuous since the Trump administration has fast-tracked public lands leasing by eliminating public involvement in land-use planning.

Since the proclamations to downsize Utah’s national monuments, the Trump administration has released new land-use plans for both national monuments that open land formerly preserved within National Monument boundaries to oil and gas leasing, large-scale vegetation removal, grazing and other resource extraction and industrial development.

BLM cozies up to industry On September 10 the House Natural Resources Committee held a hearing on Trump administration mismanagement of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) which oversees 22.8 million acres of public lands in Utah as well as 38.6 million acres of subsurface mineral rights.

After interior secretary Zinke resigned amid charges of corruption, Trump appointed fossilfuel lobbyist David Bernhard to replace him.

Bernhard has, in turn, appointed an anti-government zealot named William Perry Pendley as acting head of BLM. Pendley, who was previously a lawyer for the anti-environmental Mountain States Legal Foundation, uses the Twitter handle @Sagebrush_Rebel.

Last summer without consulting Congress, Bernhard announced plans to move the central offices of the Bureau of Land Management to Grand Junction in his home state of Colorado.

The move seemed designed to get rid of career staff members, but it’s worse than that. The Grand Junction BLM offices share a building with oil and gas company offices and lobbyists.

An editorial from the Union of Concerned Scientists calls this kind of corruption “regulatory capture” and warns that once it is allowed to happen, it is very hard to fix.

Edward W. Shepard of the Public Lands Foundation testified, “We believe this plan would require the BLM to serve the shortterm wants of locally powerful stakeholders to the detriment of all other constituents and the long-term needs of the public lands.

The breakup of the Washington Office structure would ensure the BLM promotes parochial, local interests, rather than the national interest.”

BLM Disorganization: Examining the Proposed Reor-

Peekaboo slot canyon

Frac sand mine in Kane County

Environmental damage caused by fracking in the Uinta Basin is spreading to Kane County where a company called Southern Red Sands is poised to strip-mine hundreds of thousands of acres of dunes for “frac sand.” In the fracking process, small, uniform particles of sand are injected into a rock formation in order to prop open a pathway for water, oil and gas.

Mining will begin on School and Institutional Trust Land (SITLA) property about 10 miles outside of Kanab, but the company holds leases for 13,000 acres on surrounding BLM lands near Peekaboo slot canyon, Diana’s Throne cliff formation, Coral Pink Sand Dunes State Park, and Best Friends Animal Sanctuary. The area has relict stands of ponderosa pines.

The Taxpayer Association of Kane County took out a half page ad in the Salt Lake Tribune questioning the involvement of the Gardner Company, a major investor in the fracsand mine since Chairman Kem C. Gardner usually presents himself as a civic-minded businessman. A petition against the mine is on the Keep Kanab Unspoiled website.

Keep Kanab Unspoiled: keepkanabunspoiled.org/ ganization and Relocation of the Bureau of Land Management Headquarters to Grand Junction, Colorado: bit.ly/2lGtBmv

Trump a menace to national parks The National Parks and Conservation Association names three Utah National Parks and Monuments among those most threatened by Trump administration fast-track drilling policies – Hovenweep National Monument, Dinosaur National Monument and Canyonlands National Park.

The report says that “the administration is now offering nearly any parcel that industry nominates for an oil and gas lease, many at only $2 an acre.”

At Hovenweep, only 2% of leased public lands have been surveyed for cultural resources and the report warns, “the area could be industrialized before we even know what we stand to lose.”

Diana’s Throne cliff formation Near Canyonlands, there was no public review prior to oil and gas leasing. Near Dinosaur, industrialization has already led to air pollution that violates federal standards.

Oil and gas industrialization is incompatible with the tourism and recreation economy that has been built around national parks and monuments. As the report says, “National parks are more than iconic landscapes; parks tell the stories of our shared history and cultural heritage.”

Spoiled Parks (NPCA, 2019): npca.org/reports/oil-andgas-report

Trump Administration opens Utah parks to ATVs The City of Moab, Town of Castle Valley and Grand County held an emergency meeting in October to oppose a sudden rule change that allows off-road vehicles to drive on National Park roads in Utah.

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ATVs (all-terrain vehicles, often used for racing), UHVs (utility task vehicles, designed for rougher terrain) and OHVs (off-highway vehicles, including offroad motorcycles and snowmobiles) have been banned from National Parks since 1972 when President Nixon issued an executive order on off-road vehicle use. However, a state law passed in 2008 allows “street legal” ATVs to use state and county roads.

In crowded national parks, off-road vehicles are problematic because of noise, air quality, soil erosion, visitor experience and visitor safety.

Unlike ordinary cars and trucks, they are specifically designed to drive off of constructed roads. In lightly patrolled backcountry areas they are nearly impossible to monitor.

The White Rim Trail in Canyonlands and Salt Valley Road in Arches are particularly vulnerable to impacts from the rule change. The resolution opposing the rule states, “NPS, in directing Superintendents to allow this new use in the Southeast Utah Group without the proper compliance and environmental review including public input, has violated its own policies, undermined this important and successful process, and created controversy where there is currently no controversy.”

The rule change was requested by off-road vehicle groups working with Utah legislator Phil Lyman (R-73), a former San Juan County Commissioner who was convicted of misdemeanor for leading anti-federal militants on an illegal ATV ride in Recapture Canyon in 2014.

Update: Lake Powell Pipeline The Utah Division of Water Resources has withdrawn an application to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) for the Lake Powell Pipeline, a multi-billion dollar project to suck water from the Colorado River system and send it to Saint George, Utah.

The FERC permit was for hydroelectric power generation which was supposed to offset the ultra-high cost of LPP water. The pipeline is not dead since Utah water officials are still applying for water development permits from the U.S. Department of the Interior.

The Utah Rivers Council says, “The Lake Powell Pipeline is the largest new diversion proposed in the entire Colorado River Basin and ignores the last two decades of climate change science which demonstrates that flows of the river are declining under warmer temperatures.” ◆

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Car care = air care

BREATHE

Salt Lake County’s Vehicle Repair Assistance Program helps low-income car owners pollute less

BY ASHLEY MILLER

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assing an emissions test has been a requirement for registering a passenger car or truck in Salt Lake County since April 1, 1984. Nonetheless, pollution coming from the tailpipes of cars and trucks makes up roughly half of the air pollution in the Salt Lake Valley. The exhaust from vehicles contains precursor pollutants like NOx

A failing vehicle can emit 100 times (or more) the amount of pollution it would if it were working properly. and VOCs that lead to the formation of both summertime ozone and wintertime particulate (PM2.5) pollution.

Manufacturers install emissions control

equipment in gasand diesel-run vehicles to reduce the amount of pollutants that end up in the atmosphere.

Emissions testing programs like Salt Lake County’s Inspection and Maintenance (I/M) program test a vehicle’s emissions system to make sure it’s doing its job. This applies to cars older than 1996. Exhaust emissions are also tested. Cars 1996 and newer are also inspected in this way, along with their computers.

Every day the emissions testing program in Salt Lake County keeps tons of pollutants out of the air: 82 tons of carbon monoxide (CO), four tons of hydrocarbons (HC), and four tons of nitrogen oxide (NOx).

Properly tuned and well-maintained vehicles provide better performance and gas mileage, resulting in fewer greenhouse gas emissions as well. Testing for problems with your emissions controls is often the only way you would ever know those controls aren’t working properly— another reason it’s crucial to have your car checked out when the check engine light comes on!

A failing vehicle can emit 100 times (or more) the amount of pollution it would emit if it were working properly, says Corbin Anderson, the Environmental Health Supervisor from the Air Quality Bureau of the Salt Lake County Health Department.

I sat down with Anderson to learn about the County’s three-and-a-half year old Vehicle Repair Assistance Program, where qualifying lowincome drivers can receive help paying for pollution-related repairs.

The most common failure in older cars is with the catalyst, says Anderson. Catalysts, whether a catalytic converter in a gasoline model or the selective catalytic reduction system (SCR) in a diesel engine, break down car exhaust into water, nitrogen and carbon dioxide.

They contain small amounts of precious metals such as platinum, palladium and rhodium, to speed up the reactions of carbon monoxide and NOx within the exhaust and convert them into less harmful gases before being forced out through the tailpipe. Over time, for a variety of reasons, the catalytic converter can break down.

Catalytic converters and SCR systems aren’t cheap—replacements can cost from $300 to $1,000 or more. “It’s imperative that the problem that caused the catalyst to fail is fixed, as well. If it’s not, that same problem will likely destroy a replacement catalytic converter as well,” says Anderson.

What happens when repairs simply cost too much for some car owners?

When repairs are too costly, an owner can

Properly tuned and well-maintained vehicles also provide better performance and gas mileage, resulting in fewer greenhouse gas emissions as well. apply for a hardship waiver allowing the owner, under certain circumstances, to register the vehicle despite the failed emissions test.

While a hardship waiver solves one problem for the owner of the vehicle, it leaves one more car on the road emitting excess pollution that could otherwise have been repaired.

Many of the cars that end up with a hardship waiver have problems that have been identified and can be fixed, but decent repairs simply cost too much for the owners. Sometimes these owners sought quick fixes that didn’t quite do the job, resulting in good money thrown away on bad repairs.

Health Department employees within the Air Quality Bureau and local mechanics wanted to come up with a better solution. “We wanted to find a way to help these people pay for good repairs from facilities we have approved to do the necessary work. We want the repairs to last, not fail by the next year’s test,” says Anderson.

Helping with the repair cost would ultimately reduce emissions and benefit the entire community.

The Vehicle Repair Assistance Program, or VRAP, was initiated as a pilot program in July 2014. The Health Department developed this program, funded by a large grant from a local business, to help low-income drivers who would otherwise qualify for a

hardship waiver apply for financial assistance to make the diagnosed repairs. 100% of the funds are used for diagnostics and repairs, which makes the VRAP such an effective and viable part of the I/M program.

The primary goal of the VRAP is to reduce the number of hardship waivers granted, and the program has been successful in achieving this goal. Since its inception the VRAP has successfully repaired 413 vehicles, roughly 118 per year.

Through this program, qualifying low-income drivers can have the proper diagnostics performed to determine exactly where the problem lies, and then have their cars repaired at an approved, licensed repair facility, and the VRAP pays the bill.

Each year the Department assesses the program and makes adjustments to maximize its success.

“Last year we narrowed the scope of qualifying vehicles based on results from the first three years. We limited the qualifying vehicles to Class 1 light duty passenger cars, 20 years old and newer with less than 200,000 miles, because we knew from our data that cars and trucks outside of these parameters often resulted in repairs that were short-lived, and the emissions reductions achieved were less. We want the program to be as successful as possible, and not invest program money in cars that have a high potential for engine failure.”

The Salt Lake County Health Department anticipates the VRAP to remain an effective and viable part of the I/M program. The program will continue to aid qualifying cars, providing owners access to expert repair service.

Learn more about the VRAP or apply for assistance at SLCO.ORG/HEALTH/AIR-QUALITY/ or in person at the Health Department Environmental Health Vehicle Technical Center in Murray. ◆ Ashley Miller, J.D., is the vice-chair of Breathe Utah. She is 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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FROM A MODERN-DAY ABOLITIONIST

Nonviolence is a way out of isolation

BY BRINLEY FROELICH

Editor’s note: This story is the first in a series examining social issues in our community that lead to incarceration and envisioning positive alternatives.

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n 2011, I was halfway around the world in Japan teaching English at a preschool when Occupy Wall Street started gaining momentum. Despite the presence of my parents, I felt stuck in isolation hell. To help pass the time, I became obsessed with checking the news, feeling invigorated by hashtags and Twitter feeds. I spent my mornings play-

Being white and presenting as relatively financially stable protects me from much of the violence that exists in the world.

ing catch-up on the day’s events that transpired while I was sleeping. Sometimes I would even wake up in the middle of the night to hear sounds of protests blaring from my dad’s office, which was next door to my bedroom. My loneliness, although it felt all-consuming at times, was abated by solidarity with the “99%.”

When I returned to the United States, the movement had dwindled but the energy it left behind was deeply ingrained in me. Videos of police brutality never left my mind. When Trayvon Martin was killed and Black Lives Matter picked up momentum, the weight of what it meant to be black in this country began to sink in.

As the years went on and police brutality only seemed to get worse, I kept reading and watching, absorbing it all. I realized there was so much I didn’t know and will never know. What I do know is that being white and presenting as relatively financially stable protects me from much of the violence that exists in the world.

2011 was also the year I completed a 200-hour yoga teacher training. In yoga, we talk about ahimsa, or nonviolence. When grappling with ahimsa, you first attend to the violence you commit to yourself. That expands to the violence you’ve committed to those close to you, which then expands to your community, and finally to the violence you commit to the world at large. I’ve learned much along the way as I’ve attended to these layers. How I was taught to categorize violence as a Mormon

girl from Utah is very different from the way I see it now.

I understand now how institutional violence has harmed my community. I understand that white supremacy and colonialism play a role in our military. I see how the military harms not only innocent civilians in other countries, but the soldiers, too, who thought they were doing the right thing by serving their country. I see a link between how we idolize the army and how the police can serve as a kind of de facto domestic military. The more I see, the more work I have to attend to.

“How can we organize our communities in ways to make violence unthinkable?”

This question led me to learn more about the prison abolition movement.

Black women such as Miriame Kaba and Angela Davis helped me comprehend that the prison system is not failing. People often say the system is broken and needs fixing. They talk about reform, as if changes within the system are the solution. What they gloss over is how the police and prison system itself is a source of violence, and it’s working as designed. I don’t see how we can solve violence with more violence.

I learned how the prison industrial complex intertwines with the government and other industries to “use surveillance and policing as a solution to economic, social, and political problems,” as Critical Resistance, a prison abolitionist group founded by Davis and others puts it.

Critical Resistance envisions “the creation of genuinely healthy, stable communities that respond

to harm without relying on imprisonment and punishment. [They] know that things like food, housing, and freedom are what create healthy, stable neighborhoods and communities.”

With this knowledge, I started to see where that violence was taking place here in Salt Lake City: Operation Rio Grande was sold to us as a way to resolve a crisis of poverty and homelessness. Our state prison is relocating to a sensitive wildlife area, a disaster only exacerbated now with potential development of an “inland port.”

Utah has the highest number of jail deaths per capita in the nation (at least 357 since 2000), and the second highest incarceration growth rate. 2018 was the “deadliest year on record” for police killings in Utah, according to reports from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).

For a year, I taught yoga in the women’s facility at the Utah State Prison in Draper. I wanted to take my practice to a place that felt overlooked by my community and offer some sort of reprieve in a place where your body is no longer yours to move where it wills. It was not there that I understood the gravity of harm that the cycle of prisons creates, but it was there that it became personal for me.

While my time there was brief, I understand that a yoga program continues there still. I often hope that one day I will be able to practice with them again; except my hope is that it will be here, on the “outside” instead of “in.” As a prison abolitionist, I know their place is in our community, and not secluded away in a different kind of isolation hell. ◆ Brinley Froelich is a writer, yoga instructor and embroidery artist. She is the cofounder of Decarcerate Utah.

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GARDEN LIKE A BOSS

It’s’s all about heaalthy growth Cultivating gardens while sowing “Seeds of Success”

BY JA AMES LOOMIS

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n the summer of 2016 6, Wasatch Commu nity Gardens launched an ambitious new proj oject: to build and grow g a 1.4-acre farm out of a weedy, y, trash-sstrewn lot that hadn’t seen human stewardsh hip in almost two decades. In partnership witth the Downtown Alliance, the Salt Lake Redevelopment Agency (RDA) and Advantage Services, this farm was established to serve multiple functions: to restore the ecology of the property through the power of regenerative agricultural practices, grow high-quality organic produce to be donated to low income families, and do both of the above while also providing employment opportunities for women experiencing homelessness.

As I’m sure all of my astute readers know, a garden is perhaps the most perfect place for finding peace and personal growth. Rich with metaphors and flush with opportunities for small victories and instructive failures, working in the garden provides a perfect way fo for nature to offe fer mentorship and moments of self-discovery.

It was in this spirit that the Green Te Team Farm was born, and it has succeeded in transfo forming

The Green G Team m Farm h suchas ceedeed in transsformingg both the area’’s’s ecoloogy as well as a the lives of the indivviduals cultivvating it.

y the area in which the f farm i located is l d as well as the lives of the individuals cultivating it.

The Green Te Team Farm program provides employment and mentorship for women who are ex-

periencing homelessness. During the 10month program, particip pants study organic agriculture techniques, reediscover and cultivate a solid work ethic, an nd work on restoring their sense of confidence. They T receive one-onone assistance securing housing h and permanent employment and d achieving other personal goals. (To To read more m about this proLY/362SES4:“A S4 ““A At Home on the Farm, A gram visit i it BIT.LY December 1016, CAT ATALY LYSTT.) The farm itself is a demo onstration site fo for regenerative agriculture tech hniques, a method of producing intensive crop p yields while also restoring and enhancing natural ecosystems.

The farm is 100% solar-po owered and off-grid, f hips all produce iin fully compostable ackaging, and h hosts numerous susnable agricultu ure research proj ojects. he majority of tthe farm’s fertility is eled by compost made on site, with any materials coming from local usinesses strivin ng to be zero waste. ost of the farm m’s infrastructure is uilt from repurp posed salvaged marials.

The majority o of the farm’s produce nd cut flowers are donated to lowcome families, local nonprofits and n adult mental health care facility. he farm also prroduces most of the ant starts for tthe annual Wasatch ommunity Garrdens Spring Plant le, the single largest annual ndraising even nt for the organizaon. They also heelp protect our agriltural heritagee by breeding over wo dozen varieeties of vegetables, erbs and floweers for seed producon for Snake R River Seed Cooperave, a regional seeed company. he results of the initial Green Te Team Farm project proved so su uccessful at effe ffecting meaningful change for the th he women it served that in the summer of 2018, Wasatch Community Gardens was approached by a new potential partner. Climb Wyoming, an organization with over 30 years of experience moving families out of poverty through job training and placement, had received a grant from United Healthcare to work with another nonprofit to expand the reach of their model. Both Wasatch

Community Gardens and Climb Wyoming quickly envisioned the power of what could be achieved working together,r, and they launched a second program at the farm, Seeds of Success.

S d off Success Seeds S i a job-trainis j b i ing and placement program for single mothers living in poverty Participants receive free job training through an outside trainer, along with placement assistance in high-demand career fields. The program capitalizes on the positive role that gardening and healthy eating can play in the jou ney from poverty to self-sufficiency f for struggling families. families It incorpo incorpo-

Above and Above and lef leefft pag paagge: Pr Prog rogram ro ram gr graduate aduates.

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rates weekkly skills devel opment days at the farm to help participants devvelop stronge profe fession nal skills and social netw works.

“A gard den is an incre ble learn ning environm not only fo for growing fo for develo oping skills ne personal g p growth as w Patterson,, Wasatch Community Gardens exxec utive direcctor. “It fo fosters patience, planning, decision-makking, nurturing, problem-solving and a other imp portant skills.”

The Seeeds of Success recently finished th heir first 10-weeek training cohort, focusing on CerC tified Nurssing Assistant (CNA) training. Progrram director Susie Marvin explains, “For 10 weeeks, the group p worked together to overcome the demands of rigorous job training while deedi-

ting four hours each week w to working on e Green Team Farm. The farm provided me and space for the group g to engage in orkplace situations and d practice critical job ills like communication, conflict manageent and mindfulness. They T are leaving the ogram one step close l er to self-sufficiency nd are also taking with tthem increased condence and a sense of co ommunity.”

Upon entering the Seeeds of Success proam, participants were making an average of $221 per month w with most experiencment. Some grade already started jobs with benecreasing their ave income to 080 per month. month “This was an aweme launching oint fo for the beginng of my future,” ys Maggie, one gram graduate. e from the CNA learned job and and diff fferent ways It taught me a lot just for work—for p with my kids now and it works so well. I can use u the skills in every aspect of my life fe.” ◆ James Loomis is a full-time urban farmer, educator and permaculture hooligan. He is the Greeen Team farm director, and occasionally gets to write about him mself in the third person in his CAT ATALY LYST gardening column, “G Garden Like a Boss.”

Recruitment for the next cohort begins in December.

To learn more about the progrram, contact Susie MarTo vin, SUSIE@W WASAT ATCHGARDENS.ORG or 801.414.6772.

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November 2019

PROSE GARDEN

Echoes and gatekeepers Is remembering enough?

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see echoes. There is a line of demarcation in my life. There is a before, when the future occupied the bulk of the scenery and the past was, mostly, ignorable. And there is now, when all things are measured by their distance from the Moment. I cannot experience anything without placing it carefully in context with the day my daughter died.

Everywhere I go the past rises up to greet me. Addie spent most of her earnings on dragons, and rings, and dragon rings from that shop. That’s the art school that drove her out when they found out she was transgender. That window was her room on the psyche ward. We spent hours on this street going to and from the residential hospital. Back then, in the before time, when maybe I could

have saved her if….

The echoes bounce around new experiences just as readily as the old. Would Addie have liked this movie? Would she have noticed the misogynistic creep two tables over? What joke would she have made just now, if she were still alive?

There aren’t any new stories to tell about Addie. And still she is with me everywhere I go.

Tiny details expand until they take up all the room there is. Until a full breath will break my hold on functionality.

BY CARRIE BLACK

And the echoes are never alone.

It’s not just a memory flitting by on a brief field trip away from longterm storage. The most capricious of gatekeepers accompanies all my rememberings. At least Scrooge was warned, “You will be visited by three spirits, this is your chance to change.” He gets to the ghost of Christmas Future and a pointing finger, ominous setting and prophetic tombstone are sufficient explanation. Scrooge learns his lesson, satisfies the gatekeeper and goes home.

My gatekeeper did not come with instructions, only a generic demandingness. Every gatekeeper wants something for their services. The story usually says in advance: Pay the toll, answer the riddle, be valiant enough, and you can pass into the future bettered, or unharmed, or at least free to go.

I never know what my gatekeeper will want from me.

Is remembering enough?

Do I cry a little or a lot?

Must I change the bit of the world within my reach?

Shall I be very, very angry?

Will I tell a story about Addie, or tend her grave, or talk to her memory?

What will be the proper acknowledgment that I may pass into the future taking the good with me?

There aren’t any new stories to tell about Addie. No new art pieces. No more clever comebacks. No dance shows or lighting projects. No doctor visits. No lost in thought ramblings. And still she is with me everywhere I go.

Sometimes the echoes and the gatekeeper come smiling. Some-

times I can remember us playing together, laughing until my belly ached, without the smiles being swallowed up by the grief. The space she used to occupy doesn’t consume everything. Most things still, but not all. The echoes, the gatekeeper, and I are learning to live with each other.

I will remember. I will do things just because I would have loved to do them with Addie. I will cry until I am dehydrated. I will finish old projects we started together and begin new ones without her. I will laugh blissfully remembering her humor. I will collapse around the pain her absence generates.

The echoes, the gatekeeper, and I. Together. ◆ Carrie Black is a regular contributor to CATALYST. She has a learning fetish, is a chlorophyll junkie, obsessed with good chocolate and addicted to good company.

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ews flash—rejection hurts. When your brain processes the fact that some part of you is unacceptable to someone else, it uses the same bits that process physical pain information. Smash your finger with a hammer or be told your gender identity is a threat to the human race and the same parts of your brain will activate.

This is not an evolutionary accident. As a social species we require the support of others. Being rejected might not be the absolute death sentence it was a few thousand years ago, but it is still a matter of substantial risk—especially for children and anyone else rendered particularly vulnerable by the structure of our society.

If our needs—nay, requirements—to belong are denied us, then survival demands we diminish ourselves in an attempt to stay within the group we depend on.

The more closed and exacting that group, the more attenuating of self will be required.

There is a reason that 60% of people who are subjected to conversion therapy attempt suicide.

You can only diminish yourself so far before you cease to exist. The need to belong is so strong that death feels like an acceptable alternative when one is consistently rejected.

The good news is that there is effective treatment out there for the damage done by rejection. It is also hard to access and often invisible to those who need it most.

This state of affairs makes it easier for those in power to wield rejection as a weapon, brandished to keep those below them in line.

A group defined by who they oppose is particularly susceptible

to engaging in this sort of manipulation. The threat of being demoted to the rejected class is usually sufficient to get others to join in the persecution. There are so many ways to be unacceptable.

Add to that the codified exclusion of certain types of people, and an easy way to lower your own threat is to attack the Other.

Smash your finger with a hammer or be told your gender identity is a threat to the human race—the same parts of your brain will activate.

There are ways for everyone to help. Get to know people who aren’t like you. On purpose. Spend time and emotional energy on folks you wouldn’t usually interact with. Get an emotional education.

Finding resources to learn basic math is pretty easy and socially acceptable. Emotional intelligence and resilience are less noticed by our culture, but (I think) just as important. Get upset enough to do something when you see injustice in the world. Get in the way of rejection behavior that isn’t aimed at you. Get the help you need to heal. We are social creatures; our independence is illusory and our connectedness inescapable. ◆ —Carrie Black

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November 2019

DIVING DEEP

The Nights of Grief and Mystery Tour in SLC this month

Stephen Jenkinson and Gregory Hoskins are joined on this tour by keyboard/vocalist Lisa Hodgson, bass/vocalist Colleen Hodgson, and drummer Adam Bowman.

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riends are forged on the dark road heading out of town. And so we head there again, sojourning across the continent in the name of psychic sanity and spiritual resolve in these most troubled and troubling of times.

These are nights in which love letters to life are written and read aloud. There’s some boldness in them. They have that tone. These nights have the mark of our time upon them, and they’re timely, urgent, alert, steeped in mortal mystery. They’re quixotic. They have swagger.

What would you call such a thing? We call them Nights of Grief & Mystery.

Part poetry, part lamentation, part book reading, part ribaldry, part concert, part lifting the mortal veil and learning the mysteries there…that’s what’s in store. Concerts for Turbulent Times they surely are.

We aren’t poets—we wouldn’t claim that— but the evenings are poetic. They are musical and grave and raucous and stilling, which probably means they are theatrical. They are ceremonial, you could say. They are nights de-

voted to the ragged mysteries of being human, and so grief and endings of all kinds appear.

The tour is served by the reckless labors of local friends and accomplices who fashion genuine gigs in their home towns from their dreams for a better day, their labors amounting to a love letter of their own that they are writing to their towns or cities, an act of citizenship of the most profound and responsible kind.

That dark road thing? That image is more than an image. That is what we do. That is our devotional act. ◆ —Stephen Jenkinson

About Stephen Jenkinson Stephen is a Harvard-educated theologian, culture activist and founder of the Orphan Wisdom School. He is the author of Die Wise: A Manifesto for Sanity and Soul, the award-winning book about grief, and dying, and the great love of life. He is the subject of a National Film Board of Canada documentary, Griefwalker.

He brings teachings of the ramshackling kind, about honor and grace under pressure, about how we might learn our darkening times. His new book, Come of Age: The Case for Elderhood in a Time of Trouble, wonders about elderhood in an age of age-intolerance, and about the withering of the World Tree.

About Gregory Hoskins Often described with epithets like “best kept secret,” “unsung” and “an artist that has flown under the radar,” Gregory Hoskins’ career spans 11 recordings over 27 years and record deals on three continents. Hoskins’ lyrics and voice tend to break and bind at the same time in songs that are steeped in beauty and a muscular type of sorrow…and he does it over propulsive grooves, brooding electric guitar work and rich sonics. He and the band use those sonic textures to underpin Jenkinson’s readings, too, using swirls of drums, bass, guitar textures and synth throbs along with vocal harmonies, trumpet, and live looping. ◆

THE NIGHTS OF GRIEF AND MYSTERY TOUR Saturday, November 16, 7-9:30pm SLC Main Library, Nancy Tessman Auditorium 210 E 400 South Tickets: $40. HTTPS://BIT.LY/2MGH9P3 Hear a recent interview with Stephen Jenkinson by Erin Geesaman Rabke and Carl Rabke here: https://bit.ly/2BBtFZK

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November 2019

EAT LOCAL

The 100-mile Thanksgiving You can source many of your ingredients locally. Here’s how!

BY ALISON EINERSON

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hanksgiving is the penultimate holiday for food-lovers, with some of the most lovingly prepared and thoughtful food you’ll eat all year. We shop and plan and prepare to make Thanksgiving special, to share a sacred meal, give thanks, and create lasting memories with friends and family. This year, why not make it even more special by having a 100-Mile Thanksgiving and locally sourcing as many holiday table foods as possible?

Let’s look at the some of the traditional items on the Thanksgiving menu: turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, green beans, Brussels sprouts and pie.

Are all these holiday classics available locally? The answer, happily, is yes!

Each year I buy my freerange heritage turkey from Old Home Place Farm, located in Vernal, Utah.

Their delicious birds typically sell out at least a week before the big day so don’t delay. Heritage birds or traditional broad-breasted birds are available for order fresh directly from the farm or at the Rio Grande Winter Market. Old Home Place also offers whole free-range chick-

ens, if you’re feeding a smaller crowd. They do delivery and drop off to several locations in the Salt Lake valley and Park City; visit their website for details.

If a non-traditional protein is more your style, check out Canyon Meadows Beef or Blue Tree Cattle for a lovely roast or brisket. Lau Family Farms offers lamb and beef, and Clifford Family Farms offers a variety of pork cuts to fulfill your holiday vision. Don’t forget local eggs, also available from Clifford Farms, critical to your pumpkin and custard pies, egg nog, and other seasonal baked goods.

If a no-meat holiday is your goal, find a nice big blue hubbard, butternut or spaghetti squash to roast filled with a stuffing of your choice— maybe a traditional bread filling, or mix it up with apples, nuts, quinoa, and onions from Parker Farms.

Many farmers markets have closed for the season, but you can still find an amazing abundance of local produce at the few markets still open in November, including the Rio Grande Winter Market in Salt Lake City, Petersen Fam-

ily Farm Market in Riverton, and Wilkerson Farm market in Orem.

You’ll find local potatoes for mashing, onions, carrots, broccoli, and sweet potatoes (not yams, people!). Beets, kale, radish and other hearty greens are readily available, as are most herbs used in fall cooking such as sage, thyme and parsley. You’ll also likely find fresh pears, ripe for a pear tart or galette that makes a lovely substitute if pumpkin isn’t your thing.

Save the carcass to make tasty, gelatinous bone broth. Long, slow simmering (10 to 24 hours) releases collagen and amino acids for a nutrient-dense beverage or base for soup, stew or sauce.

Let’s talk pie. Central Milling is an excellent resource for local flour, perfect for Thanksgiving pies, cookies and breads. This Logan institution has been supplying the best Utah bakeries with conventional and organic flour for years, much of it sourced from the Inter-

mountain region, and now you can buy it online and in limited retail locations for baking at home.

Local pumpkins abound—you can even use those left over from Halloween décor. Pumpkins can be roasted ahead of time and frozen until you’re ready to create your holiday masterpiece. Apples are also plentiful now—Fuji, Braeburn, Granny Smith and more from Pyne Farms, Smith Orchards, and Riley’s Orchards.

Let’s not forget about the abundance of local wines, beers and liquors that pair with our holiday meals. The Hive Winery crafts award-winning ciders, wines and brandy from local fruit and honey.

Ruth Lewandowski Wines are another highly regarded favorite.

Some of these wines are only available for purchase directly from their tasting rooms, so check their respective websites for more information.

Utah’s many breweries—Uinta, Squatters, Proper, Fisher, Salt Fire, the list goes on— also offer an impressive array of options to fit any taste or pairing. Local distillers also abound, from Sugar House Distillery vodka, to Beehive’s awardwinning Jackrabbit gin, to Waterpocket Distillery’s unique liqueurs, rums, and whiskey. If you prefer an alcohol-free Thanksgiving table, try the lovely handpressed ciders from Pyne Farms, Farnsworth Farms, or Zollingers Fruit Farm in Logan. Those are available at your local Harmons,

the Rio Grande Winter Market, The Store and other local grocers.

Lastly, it’s an unfortunate reality that Americans generally throw away about 40% of their total consumable food. This holiday season, take a moment to think about curbing your food waste and use every morsel. Boil your turkey carcass for stock to use in soups and stews over the coming months. Freeze leftover turkey for future dinners like a turkey pot pie or a hearty turkey tetrazzini.

We invite you to take a moment to consider your carbon footprint, the many miles your food may have traveled, and the environmental impact of your diet. Then use a

100-Mile Thanksgiving to educate your friends and family about the bountiful harvest Utahns produce, and how to turn that into a locally inspired and truly delicious meal. ◆ Alison Einerson is the Executive Director of Urban Food Connections of Utah, a 501c3 nonprofit organization that operates the Downtown Farmers Market, the Rio Grande Winter Market, and is working to open the Rio Grande Public Market in Downtown Salt Lake City. A version of this story appeared in the November CATALYST 2015. This is updated with current information. Last month Alison received the Local Leader award from Slow Food Utah.

A few of our favorite local producers You can find most of them at the Rio Grande Winter Market, Rio Grande Depot, 300 S. Rio Grande St. in downtown SLC. The market opens November 9 and runs every Saturday, 10am-2pm through April 18, 2020.

Petersen Family Farm: Fifth-generation farmer Luke Petersen grows and sells a variety of vegetables directly from his Farm Market Store in Riverton. He also offers educational classes and tours. PETERSENFARM.COM Parker Farms: Located in Hooper, Parker Farms is a 140-year-old heritage farm growing pumpkins, squash, potatoes, onions, peppers and more. Alan and Jo Ann Parker.

Zoe’s Natural Garden: Fresh herbs, squash, onions, beets, apples, potatoes and edible flowers from their farm in Layton.

ZOEGARDEN.WORDPRESS.COM Pyne Apples: Perfect for pie, this Santaquin farm recently took first place in all seven apple categories at the Utah State Fair. They also took home the sweepstakes award. PYNEFARMS.COM Earth First Eco-Farms: Kevin Nash works small

parcels of land across the valley to grow heirloom varieties with organic practices.

grass-fed beef. CMRBEEF.COM

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

Beltex Meats: Beltex Meats is a specialty butcher chop utilizing locally sourced pork, beef, lamb, and fowl, located near Liberty Park. BELTEXMEATS.COM

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

Heber Valley Cheese: This fourth-generation dairy farm makes artisan cheese from grassfed cows. HEBERVALLEYARTISANCHEESE.COM

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

Drake Family Farms: Offering goat cheeses, goat milk yogurt and much more, Drake Family Farms originated in West Jordan in 1880 and is a designated historic Utah Century Farm. DRAKEFAMILYFARMS.COM

Old Home Place: Fresh all-natural turkeys, chickens, llama, eggs, and more. OLDHOMEPLACE.COM Salt Lake County Jail Garden: A 1.5-acre garden adjacent to the Salt Lake County Jail where approved prisoners perform all garden tasks, under the supervision of jail staff and horticulturists. All crops are grown from heirloom seeds and are chemical free.

Blue Tree Cattle: A family owned and operated ranch in Bluebell offering high quality, locally grown, grass fed beef. BLUETREEBEEF.COM Canyon Meadows Ranch: A family operated cattle ranch located near Altamont offering

Beehive Cheese: Based in Uintah, featuring handmade award-winning cheeses sourced from all local dairy. BEEHIVECHEESE.COM Crumb Bros: Artisan organic breads from Logan. CRUMBBROTHERS.COM Amour Spreads: Artisan preserves handcrafted from seasonally fresh fruit. AMOURSPREADS.COM Laziz Spreads: Salt Lake City company featuring Middle Eastern spreads to dress your appetizer table. LAZIZ-FOODS.COM.

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September 2019

This drug may finally change the way we study depression

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BY EMILY SPACEK

n a recent drive to the Home Depot on 2100 South, a billboard with simple blocked letters caught my eye. “Fight Depression, KetamineSLC.com.” I had to look twice. Fight depression. Ketamine.

These were three words I never would have imagined seeing together. On a billboard. In Salt Lake City.

Introduced in the early 1960s, ketamine is known mainly for its medical use as an anesthetic, but also known infamously for its recreational use as the party drug “Special K.” In 1970, the FDA approved ketamine for human anesthesia and it was used extensively for battlefield surgeries in the Vietnam War. Back in the United States, it began to appear in recreational circles when users discovered its powerful dissociative and psychedelic effects. Through the early 1980s, use increased among certain subcultures, as well as by underground psy-

Introduced in the early 1960s, ketamine is known mainly for its medical use as an anesthetic, but also known infamously for its recreational use as the party drug “Special K.”

MENTAL HEALTH chotherapists who believed in its potential for psychological healing.

One strikingly public exposure of the drug came from neuroscientist-psychonaut John Lilly who was running some particularly unorthodox studies on dolphin-human communication. Lilly used high doses of ketamine on both himself and the dolphins, claiming that the drug aided in telepathy between them.

Medical research into ketamine specifically as an antidepressant began in the 1990s at the Yale School of Medicine. In 2006, a breakthrough study from the National Institute of Mental Health showing positive results on patients diagnosed with treatment-resistant depression fully re-ignited the interest of both doctors and the mainstream population.

As I’ve since learned, dozens of free-standing ketamine clinics have opened up in cities across the country in recent years, administering the drug to patients as a hopeful new treatment for conditions from depression to PTSD, anxiety disorders and chronic pain. Despite the drug lacking FDA approval for mental health treatment, doctors (and nurse practitioners with the right licensure and experience) can prescribe ketamine in Utah off-label.

People have long realized that drugs such as LSD, ketamine and psilocybin are capable of altering the mind in ways that bring about psychological healing. The resurgence in ketamine into the mainstream is understandable given that many people are not benefitting from conventional mental health treatments and are in desperate need of relief.

Perspectives from a mental health professional To get a better read on the drug itself, I turned to Dr. Jeremy Kendrick from the University of Utah. Dr. Kendrick, a pediatrician and psychiatrist, works in the Treatment Resistant Mood Disorders Clinic at the University, where he was a pioneer in starting the University’s ketamine program.

“The reason why I’m involved with ketamine is because patients get better,” Dr. Kendrick said confidently. “These are patients who have been on every SSRI, every SNRI—they’ve been through years of therapy. They’ve come to us hopeless and overwhelmed and feeling like nothing is ever going to work. And the fact of the matter is that we see them get better.” (An SSRI— selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor—is a type of antidepressant that works by increasing levels of serotonin in the brain. Some examples are Prozac, Zoloft and Paxil. SNRIs —selective serotonin and norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors— increase serotonin and norepinephrine and are often used for anxiety and pain control. Exam-

“We would love for IV ketamine to be FDA approved for the treatment of depression, and, frankly, it should be if FDA approvals were sought on efficacy alone,” says Dr. Kendrick. “Unfortunately, it’s the drug companies which lead that process.” ples include Cymbalta and Effexor.)

Ketamine’s class is completely different than any other antidepressant that the medical profession has used for the past 40 years, says Dr. Kendrick. Ketamine acts on the receptor that regulates glutamine levels, a neurological phenomenon that was not previously considered a major player in depressive illness. While scientists and researchers are now confident about the clinical effectiveness of the drug, there are still many ongoing hypotheses of why the drug actually helps depression.

Dr. Kendrick’s clinic strictly bases its ketamine treatment procedure on the research protocols that were established and proven in prior research trials. This means they only administer ketamine intravenously at a dosage based on a patient’s weight and always at a 40-minute interval. First and foremost, a rigid consultation must establish that a patient meets the inclusion criteria of suffering from a treatment-resistant major depressive disorder.

This treatment, which is not covered by insurance, can be arduous for patients in time and cost.

“We would love nothing more than to have a safe and effective delivery mechanism for ketamine that was less burdensome. You can get ketamine in an oral form and people have been compounding ketamine as a nasal spray and sending it home with patients to be self-administered every day.” Dr. Kendrick says these alternatives, though cheaper, compromise the drug’s effectiveness and safety.

The average cost of clinically administered IV ketamine typically ranges from $300 to $800 per infusion. According to the consumer mental health site HEALTHYPLACE.COM, “While the cost of ketamine depression treatments may seem high, it is on par with other procedures that require an IV drip. The ketamine itself may only be $10, but the cost of the qualified staff, equipment and the facility needed to administer it are expensive.” No insurance pays for depression-re-

lated ketamine treatment, as it is not FDA-approved for this use, according to the Ketamine Advocacy Network.

This past March the FDA did approve the use of the nasally administered Spravato (esketamine) for depression-related purposes. However, Dr. Kendrick is unimpressed with Spravato as the research shows it is not nearly as effective as IV ketamine.

“We would love for IV ketamine to be FDA approved for the treatment of depression, and, frankly, it should be if FDA approvals were sought on efficacy alone. Unfortunately, it’s the drug companies which lead that process.”

Though he understands that without insurance coverage IV ketamine is simply too expensive for most people, Dr. Kendrick encourages patients to look less at the cost and more at how ketamine is being administered by alternative clinics. Right now, he says, the research shows that the safest and most effective administration of ketamine is through an IV and outcomes can vary wildly depending on how else it is administered.

“There are a number of clinics out in the community doing this right… But the point where you deviate from the established protocol— say, instead of IV I’m going to give it to you in your muscle, or instead of a dose of half a milligram per kilogram I’m going to go up— whenever you deviate from any one of the established variables, you’re outside the parameters which supported the initial outcomes of ketamine.”

Some clinics in Utah administer IV for one hour instead of 40 minutes. Others treat patients suf-

Ketamine is completely different from any other antidepressant the medical profession has used for the past 40 years. fering from conditions beyond depression (chronic pain, anxiety, even obsessive- compulsive disorder). Of course, the successes at these clinics are not any less real. The difference is that their patients are ultimately a part of an experiment without established efficacy and safety backed by randomized, controlled clinical trials, he says. Dr. Kendrick believes patients should be made aware of this and use it to help inform their decisions.

Plus, there may be something else special about IV ketamine that other ketamine treatments compromise. Dr. Kendrick is aware of the possibility that the “mystical” experience of the IV-infusion, the out-of-body feeling that people can have, as well as the supportive environment around them, may lead to further changes and

“The study of mental illness and depression continues to be an ongoing search for its biologic basis, but we also know that depression is much more complex than just biology.” improved depression.

“The study of mental illness and depression continues to be an ongoing search for its biologic basis, but we also know that depression is much more complex than just biology,” Dr. Kendrick says.

Still the Wild, Wild West Ketamine success stories are numerous and exciting. But when one SLC resident was prescribed a daily-use intranasal ketamine spray for pain, she experienced a different side of the “new wonder drug.”

Alice has been dealing with chronic pain for some time now. Around three years ago, the multitude of stressors that filled her life caused her physical pain to spiral out of control.

“Doctors all wanted to diagnose me with fibromyalgia. Basically, my response was f*** that,” Alice said, flashing both middle fingers up to an invisible medical establishment.

Alice was wary of accepting SSRI antidepressants and opioid pain killers. She ended up with a doctor who recommended her an intranasal, low-dose version of ketamine. She used the nasal spray for about a year and a half until her body suddenly developed an extreme reaction to it.

“In the beginning, I’d take it every couple of days. But by the end, it was more like three to four times a day. This was in my prescription, but it definitely led to a habituation until finally my body just shut down. My nervous system was wracked with a new pain that nothing seemed to help.”

Alice had no choice but to quit the ketamine immediately, making her very unstable.

“If all you’re doing is taking a little daily dose of this molecule and hoping for a miraculous new balance, you’re not relieving any of your trauma and it’s not going to actually help you.”

“I thought I was going to end up in UNI [University Neuropsychiatric Institute]. I was paranoid… suicidal… My neurotransmitters were anything but balanced and there was nothing I could do. I was just stuck like this.”

Alice went back to her doctor, accepting a prescription for Valium, a benzodiazepine antianxiety drug to get her through her ketamine withdrawals. After a couple of weeks, though, she became stuck again, now struggling to withdraw from the Valium.

Having had enough, Alice did what few can.

She quit most of her prescription meds, taking the next year to wean herself off of Valium. She started weightlifting and seeing a pain therapist.

Against the pain, against the complications and all of her suffering, she survived.

Intranasal ketamine sent Alice through a medical nightmare. Nonetheless, she retains hope for ketamine as a treatment for depression in some cases. Before her prescription, she actually did have one session of IV ketamine infusion that worked wonders for her.

“My feeling about ketamine is that it needs to be guided. Someone needs to be there working with you so that you go into it with the mindset of ‘I’m going to do this to learn about my body, my feelings, and release some of what’s feeding into my condition.’ I’m a supporter of ketamine in this sense. But definitely not on a daily basis.”

Alice is not alone in her sentiment. Countless users in online ketamine forums remark on their dissatisfaction with the direction the drug may be headed. These individuals focus on the experiential side of ketamine, advocating that keta-

A doctor recommended an intranasal, low-dose version of ketamine. She used the nasal spray for over a year until her body suddenly developed an extreme reaction to it. mine be treated less like an antidepressant medication and more like a vehicle for consciousness exploration and psychological healing in a psychotherapeutic setting.

“If you have experienced depression, you understand that there are traumas in your history that are feeding into the chronic state of anxiety that you are feeling,” Alice said.

“If all you’re doing is taking a little daily dose of this molecule and hoping for a miraculous new balance, you’re not relieving any of your trauma and it’s not going to actually help you.”

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Alice no longer yearns for immediate solutions to her chronic pain. Her journey has led her, finally, to a place where she can live and work without daily drugs.

“I believe that ketamine is a really promising therapy. But it needs regulation and it needs more study.”

When it works Tyler has a movement disorder. His condition is called Willis-Ekbom Disease, also known as restless leg syndrome.

Tyler had been taking a dopamine agonist, Mirapex, to help control his pain and movement until, two years ago, he experienced a rare side effect. His body had suddenly habituated to the drug and developed a physical dependency on it. Tyler was under even more neurological pain and restless leg movement than ever before.

Pain was now seriously interfering with his life.

He was sleeping less than three hours a night and struggled to make it to work. His depression worsened. As Tyler tried other medications for his restless leg, his anxiety and depression only intensified until a new diagnosis made his list: treatment-resistant depression.

Exasperated, Tyler began his own search for a solution. He had seen advertisements for ketamine but could not afford their high prices. His hope nearly vanished until, months later, he ended up at the mental health institute at the University of Utah Health. It was determined that he was a prime candidate for their ketamine treatment, which, at $350 per treatment, also happened to be much more financially realistic.

Just hours after his first infusion, Tyler’s wife noticed a dramatic change in his energy and demeanor.

“The first thing I noticed was my major solemn-

MENTAL HEALTH “When I woke up the next day, I had more energy. I wanted to go do something,” says Tyler. “To listen to music again and do art again and… smile.” ness and despair just kind of go away,” says Tyler.

“When I woke up the next day, I had more energy.

I wanted to go do something. To listen to music again and do art again and… smile.”

When asked to describe the actual experience of undergoing an infusion, Tyler shared the experience of his first appointment: “There was this ’80s playlist on,” he began. “It immediately put me in a place of my youth. It was like I was watching my younger self and could see that the emotional blockages I was having were tied to this kid. I could see my anxiety and depression and all of the severe emo-

Intramuscular injection (IM) is innately less expensive than IV. It does, however, deviate from the research protocols that Dr. Kendrick and other IV ketamine clinicians swear by.

tions that were most present in my life, and I could see that they weren’t me.”

Tyler believes the most helpful part of his ketamine treatment has been this therapeutic edge.

“They’re keeping you at this place where you’re still totally conscious but you’re conscious in a different way and you’re removed from your everyday thought patterns.”

Now after 10 sessions, Tyler feels more optimistic about ketamine than any other treatment he has been on. The greatest hurdle continues to be cost, however, and he worries about having to take longer breaks between appointments due to the financial burden.

And what about that billboard?

Undoubtedly the biggest barrier most treatment-seeking individuals like Tyler face regarding ketamine is its cost.

While the hope is that, with repeated exposure to the drug, its effects will last longer, the fact is that a single dose for an average patient will only result in up to 48 hours of strong response and effects that typically fade in five to seven days. With most clinics recommending at least a six-session series, committed individuals are paying around $3,000-plus for a baseline treatment of two to three weeks.

One local clinic has made it their mission to provide the drug at the lowest cost in the valley.

Ketamine SLC, the clinic I originally saw advertised on a billboard, offers treatment as low as $250 per session.

“I am not here for buy-low sell-high capitalism; my price is low for two reasons. Reason one: To get people out of the depression hole who could not normally afford it. Reason two: To bring down the price of ketamine across the country

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Ketamine SLC administers ketamine through intramuscular injections (IM). IM is innately less expensive than IV; it requires less equipment, staff, clinic space and time.

It does, however, deviate from the research protocols that Dr. Kendrick and other IV ketamine clinicians swear by.

The route of ketamine’s administration—oral, IV, IM, or intranasal—affects a characteristic of the drug known as its bioavailability. A high bioavailability guarantees dosage precision.

When administered via IV, the drug immediately enters the bloodstream, leading to 100% bioavailability and the most control over the amount of medication one is receiving.

Via IM injection, ketamine enters the muscle and then must find its way to blood vessels to become absorbed by the body. This means it has a slightly lower bioavailability and lesser controllability.

Zachery Taylor, a Certified Registered Nurse anesthetist from Utah Ketamine Clinic, explains why the variability of IM ketamine administration worries some professionals in regard to safety.

“What happens if you get a shot of IM ketamine and it isn’t enough to get you to a therapeutic range? You get a second shot— what if that’s too much? Now you are nauseated and possibly having a nightmare dissociation…With an IV you can titrate a patient’s dose as well as stop it if needed… IV ketamine is the gold standard for treatment.”

Nonetheless, Dr. Hiemstra, who has been administering ketamine for depression for three years, stands by the drug and his method of delivery. His claims of success with IM sound remarkable and his mission bold.

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Is it just a question of ideal dose and delivery system?

Can a psychotherapeutic approach enable ketamine to access the underlying causes of depression, for a more sustainable outcome?

The emergence of ketamine speaks to a broader revolution taking place in mental health treatment and understanding. Doctors, therapists and people suffering from mental health conditions alike are beginning to turn away from daily drugs for symptom suppression and instead toward alternative treatments that help deal with root causes. Ketamine’s potential for altering states of consciousness has interested psychologists into looking for ways to integrate it into their psychotherapy.

For example, Innate Path is a growing research and training organization that provides psychedelic psychotherapy and therapist training in Lakewood Colorado. They use both cannabis and ketamine, collecting data that shows a significant difference between ketamine treatment with psychotherapy and treatment without it.

Recent research from Stanford School of Medicine shows a significant portion of the biological anti-depressant effect has to do with ketamine acting upon an individual’s opioid receptors, essentially by numbing pain. Those at Innate Path have a problem with using ketamine in this way, simply to increase dissociation in people.

By contrast, they say, ketamine-assisted psychotherapy has a completely different focus from just the anti-depressant, pain management ef-

fect. “In this type of therapy we make use of ketamine’s psychedelic response where memories, feelings, sensations, beliefs and life experiences that were hidden in the subconscious all come to the surface. Even painful or overwhelming experiences that the mind has hidden in dissociation, which nevertheless generate symptoms of depression, anxiety and trauma, will make themselves known. Because there is much less fear during the ketamine session, your system will let you see and engage these memories directly,” according to their online literature. They claim to have successfully treated anxiety, trauma and even severe cases of dissociative identity disorder with such an approach.

Is it just a question of ideal dose and delivery system? Can a psychotherapeutic approach enable ketamine to access the underlying causes of depression, for a more sustainable outcome?

These and many other questions remain.

While some researchers believe ketamine’s purely biochemical response should not be the focus of treatment, others are forging ahead, making use of the ketamine studies to investigate other drugs with seemingly similar mechanisms.

Its medical success in research trials has also helped legitimize the work of therapists eager to explore the benefits of integrating safe, psychoactive drugs into their psychotherapy practices.

Among clinicians and patients alike, there is a lot of understandable frustration about the way we approach mental health in our current healthcare system. The story of ketamine’s newfound prominence may go to show that despite these frustrations, people haven’t given up their personal searches for health and recovery. ◆ Emily is a recent college graduate from California.

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Nov. 16: KRCL Presents: Son Little @ The State Room. 9p. American rhythm & blues musician performs his new EP, “Invisible.” 21+. $20. SONLITTLE.COM

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Presentation of current scientific research happening at the U of U featuring mathematician George Domat, geneticist Cecile Avery, bioelectric chemist Victoria Russell, ecophysiologist Kelly Kerr and biomedical engineer Tom Riis. Included with museum admission ($5 after 5p). NHMU.Utah.edu

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one-man play follows Stu Richel’s journey as a combat journalist and photographer to, through and beyond his military service in Vietnam. $20. UTAHPRESENTS.ORG

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Renowned artist and designer Maya Lin, whose key works include the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in DC, discusses how history, politics and culture influence her art. Free. UTAHPRESENTS.ORG Nov. 21: Mexican Clay @ Marmalade Branch Library. 6:30p. Presentations, art making and community dialogue surrounding ceramic traditions and folk art. Free. UMFA.UTAH.EDU Nov. 21: Healthcare: Stories of Rebellion @ Kingsbury Hall. 7p. Storytelling event highlighting how we choose to navigate illness, treatment and find our own way. $20. UTAHPRESENTS.ORG Nov. 22: Triggers & Slips Album Release @ The State Room. 9p. SLC local country group debuts their second full length album titled “The Stranger.”

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From being in the moment to

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M

indfulness is trending these days.

Since 2014, mindfulness has made the cover of TIME twice. The practice even has its very own magazine, Mindful, with articles touting the practice’s benefits, including stress management, trauma relief, alleviation of chronic pain and a general sense of contentment; daily life practices—mindful eating, listening and gardening; and practices of self-kindness and compassion. Mindfulness is being offered in corporate settings as a way to “optimize” employee performance. I’m currently one of more than 1,000 people in the class of 2021 of the Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program with Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach.

What exactly is mindfulness? Most people would agree that it entails “being in the moment.” This is true. You can’t be mindful if you are dwelling in the past or the future. But you can be in the moment and not necessarily be mindful. For example, from the mid-’70s to the mid-’90s I attended a whole lot of Grateful Dead shows. While I was dancing to the Dead, I was totally in the moment, but I wouldn’t say I was being mindful.

Knowing that we’re knowing What takes us from simply being in the mo-

ment to being mindful is the observing power of the mind. Mindfulness requires that we know what is arising in the moment. When we are mindful, we are aware that we are aware.

For example, if you’ve ever sat down to meditate, you probably noticed that thoughts are present pretty much all the time. This is, in fact, one of the first insights people have when they begin to practice, just how much the mind is being pulled to and fro by memories, plans, worries and fantasies. The knowing aspect of mindfulness allows us to be aware that thinking is happening and to tune into the actual energetic phenomenon that is a thought, rather than becoming lost, and then often reactive, to the stories our thoughts are telling us.

Mindfulness teaches us to ask the question: What is a thought? This is different from being absorbed in the content of our thoughts. With mindfulness, we can explore thinking itself as a phenomenon. When we observe the thinking process, what we often discover is that thoughts are insubstantial, energetic blips that come and go, just like sights, sounds, smells, tastes and sensations. Their only power is the power we give them.

One of my favorite quotes from mindfulness teacher and author Joseph Goldstein is: “The thought of your mother is not your mother. It’s just a thought.” I use this quote as a mantra when I’m getting caught up in obsessive thinking. It reminds me of the insubstantial nature of thoughts and helps me to unhook from the stories they tell.

Seeing the filters So this knowing quality is an essential part of mindfulness. But there’s more. We can be observing what’s arising and passing in each moment, but still be unaware of filters that are present. These filters—wanting, aversion and

What takes us from simply being in the moment to being mindful is the observing power of the mind. delusion—obscure our ability to see clearly.

They also cause us to identify with what’s happening and then to become reactive.

In general, when our present experience is pleasant, we want to draw it in; we want more.

We want it to stay and try to make it stay.

When our present experience is unpleasant, we want it to go away, so we try to push it

away. When our present experience is neither pleasant nor unpleasant, we can space out and lose presence.

These filters are unconscious, so they operate without our knowledge, unless we are mindful of them. When we’re not aware of filters, our reactions to what’s happening in a given moment can lead us to unskillful actions.

Being aware of these filters is an important part of mindfulness. We can observe thoughts and sensations in the moment, but if we don’t see the filters, we’ll have an agenda. So mindfulness is not simply recognizing what’s arising; it’s also recognizing our reactions to what is arising.

How do we know when we’re not practicing this aspect of mindfulness? Struggle is a reliable clue. When we struggle in our meditation practice, it’s an indication that we are in a state of recognition, but not a state of mindfulness.

Struggle can be a “mindfulness bell.” It tells us that there’s something happening that we’re

“The thought of your mother is not your mother.

It’s just a thought.” not accepting. Mindfulness requires that we be open to what is present without responding with greed, aversion or delusion. So being aware of unconscious filters is a crucial link to reaping the benefits of practice.

Ever since hearing mindfulness explained this way by Joseph Goldstein on a retreat a few years ago, this is my template for practice: being in the moment, knowing what is arising in the moment and exploring what filters, if any, are present. It’s more work than simply being in the moment, but this framework has sharpened both my practice and my daily life mindfulness—after 30 years of practice.

I’ve heard Goldstein say many times that it doesn’t matter what is happening in our experience. What matters is our response to what is happening. This is true in our meditation practice and in our lives. We all experience pleasure and pain, gain and loss. The only thing we can control is how we respond.

This is the power of mindfulness. It gives us tools that can help us live our lives with greater equanimity. Mindfulness will not protect us from life’s ups and downs. But when we practice seeing clearly, without filters, we can navigate the ebb and flow of our lives with grace. ◆ Charlotte Bell has practiced yoga and mindfulness for more than 30 years. See CHARLOTTEBELLYOGA.COM for more information on yoga and mindfulness classes.

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Psychotherapy and Personal Growth • Abode • Bodywork •Movement Sport • Intuitive Sciences • Health • Spiritual Practice • Psychic Arts ABODE AUTOMOTIVE Schneider Auto Karosserie 8/20

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DESIGN, CONSTRUCTION, ORGANIZATION Ann Larsen Residential Design DA 10/19 801.604.3721. Specializing in historically sensitive design solutions and adding charm to the ordinary.

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GREEN PRODUCTS Underfoot Floors DA 11/19

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HOUSING Urban Utah Homes & Estates DA 9/20

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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, moxibustion, nutrition, lifestyle guidance. www.ALETHEAHEALINGACUPUNCTURE.COM

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

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

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

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SLC Qi Community Acupuncture 12/19

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-

tory conditions, metabolism & more.

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Wasatch Community Acupuncture12/19

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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APOTHECARY Natural Law Apothecary 12/19

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

ENERGY HEALING Abi J. Bateman, Reiki Master/Teacher

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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Fire Reiki, and the healing use of crystals and minerals. Reiki - good for life!

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Cynthia Boshard, Reiki Master12/19

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.FROMSOURCE TOSOURCE.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

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other natural remedies in promoting a health-conscious lifestyle.

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

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-

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

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ENTERTAINMENT 11/19 Utah Film Center 801.746.7000, 122

Main St, SLC.WWW.UTAHFILMCENTER.ORG

LEGAL ASSISTANCE Schumann Law, Penniann J. Schumann, J.D., LL.M 3/20 DA 801.631.7811. Whether you are planning for your own future protection and management, or you are planning for your family, friends, or charitable causes, Penniann Schumann can assist you with creating and implementating a plan to meet those goals.

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

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

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

VOICE COACH Stacey Cole 12/19

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

WEALTH MANAGEMENT Harrington Wealth Services DA 2/20

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

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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

CHANNELING 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.

PSYCHIC/TAROT READINGS Suzanne Wagner DA 1/20

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

PSYCHOTHERAPY & PERSONAL GROWTH HYPNOSIS Rise Up Hypnosis 4/20

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

One-on-one and group sessions available. RISEUPHYPNOSIS@GMAIL.COM WWW.RISEUPHYPNOSIS.COM

THERAPY/COUNSELING Big Heart Healing, Dr. Paul Thielking

801.413.8978. SLC. Helping people on the path of personal growth, healing, and self-discovery. Through workshops and retreats, Dr. Thielking utilizes what he has learned as a psychiatrist, Zen student, and Big

Mind facilitator to help others to experience a deeper sense of meaning, fulfillment, and joy in life.

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Cynthia Kimberlin-Flanders, LPC 10/20

801.231.5916. 1399 S. 700 E., Ste. 15, SLC. Feeling out of sorts? Tell your story in a safe, non-judgmental environment. Over 21 years specializing in recovery from covert narcissistic abuse, depression, anxiety, life-transitions, anger management, relationships and "middle-aged crazy." Most insurances, sliding scale and medication management referrals.

If you've been waiting to talk to someone, wait no more.

Healing Pathways Therapy Center 2/20

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

Mountain Lotus Counseling4/20

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

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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 4/20

801.631.8426. 76 S. Main St., #6, Moab. Seasoned psychiatrist, Zen priest and shamanic healer. Sees kids, teens, adults, couples and families, integrating psychotherapy and meditation with judicious use of medication to relieve emotional pain and problem behavior. Specializes in treating identity crises, and bipolar disorders. Sees patients in person in Provo and Moab. Taking phone appointments. SPROSKAUER@COMCAST.NET

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

801.531.8051. SSIFERS514@AOL.COM. Shamanic Counseling. Shamanic Healing, Minister of the Circle of the Sacred Earth. Mentoring for people called to the

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IN THE GARDEN

ast July I received two small sunflower seedlings from a friend—a bit late in the season to be planting, but I put them in big containers in our sunny front garden to see what would come of them.

Sunflowers don’t take kindly to transplanting so I didn’t expect too much.

I needn’t have worried. They settled in and took off like rockets. The college boys next door stopped me to ask the identity of these gigantic plants, leaves as big as my head, which were putting on inches in height every day. “Sunflowers! Right on!”

August arrived and both plants topped out and began to flower. Disks the size of vinyl LPs erupted from the stalks almost overnight, fringed with bright yellow flame-like petals.

Bees of every species wallowed in the rings of pollen—besides honey bees, I saw bumblebees, carpenter bees, and several different species of native solitary bee.

The dog days of summer hit, and I was having to water each container twice or three times a day just to keep everything from terminal wilt. The bees were having a blast. The sunflower heads finished maturing, one after the other, just as daytime temps began to cool out of the low 100s and overnights broke the floor of 80 degrees. Over the next few weeks the heads sloped slowly and somewhat gracelessly until they were both facing the ground.

In the first week in October, I decided it was time to harvest. Both flower disks were heavy and full of mature, grey-and-white stripey seed cases. The backs of the disks were yellow and starting to brown and the leaves were dying off the plant stalks.

But what was this? I opened a seed case and found it empty. Another and another and another, all empty. My magnificent sunflowers had somehow suffered a major pollination failure. There was no sign of endosperm—the seed meat—at all in any of the cases. But yet I had seen the bees at work! This had both myself and my entomologist husband scratching our heads.

I turned to the Internet to seek an answer, and

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Mystery of the empty sunflower seeds Climate change may be coming to a garden near you. Plan accordingly!

BY ALICE TOLER found one on Reddit wheres, after some debate, a person who had apparently done graduate work in sunflowers hazarded that it had been too hot during the critical time when seed was setting.

Sunflower pollen is apparently temperature sensitive, like tomato pollen, and denatures above a certain heat.

This sounded plausible. I realized that if this were true, then there might be some full seed cases in the center of the second flower disk, which had finished maturing after the temperatures had begun to cool off. Bingo.

From two giant sunflowers, we got about a quarter of the expected harvest, all from the center of that second disk.

So, folks, plant your sunflowers early. They’re sure pretty in the August heat, but with temperatures as hot as they’re getting, a nice show is all they’ll be good for if you wait too long. ◆

Sunflower pollen is temperature sensitive, like tomato pollen, and denatures above a certain heat.

Alice Toler gardens, writes and paints in Salt Lake City.

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

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Private Setting, Sliding Scale “What’s Your Healing Worth?”

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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

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 festi-

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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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HEALTH & WELLNESS Dave’s Health & Nutrition 7/20

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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SPIRITUAL PRACTICE line goes here ORGANIZATIONS Inner Light Center Spiritual Community

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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Hawken and Goodall at Park City 2030 Net Zero Summit last month

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ove, says Jane Goodall, is “a very important component” of our quest to reverse climate change. “We tend to go along with our brains, and only when the head and heart are in harmony can we reach our true human potential,” Goodall told those gathered last month at Park City’s Mountain Towns 2030 Net-Zero Summit.

Speaking alongside Paul Hawken, editor of Project Drawdown, her words were often filled with hope.

The three-day gathering welcomed as many as 40 mountain community governments, NGOs and climate-oriented businesses from across the country committed to bold climate action.

“I’m often asked what difference a small town like Park City can make,” says Park City Mayor Andy Beerman. “My answer is, we can show what's possible. We are a progressive community, we have wealth, we have close connections to the environment, and our economy depends on the snowpack. If people as motivated and capable as we are cannot act, how can we expect that of others?” Beerman envisions his city making a global impact on climate change. To that end, Park City has set the ambitious goal of reaching net-zero carbon emissions by 2030.

Clearly, there is something inspiring about what Beerman is trying to start—demonstrated by his ability to attract to his conference notable environmentalists such as Goodall and Hawken. Primatologist and anthropologist Goodall, at the age of 26, changed the way we see the natural world through her work with chimpanzees. In the 1960s, most people still saw humans as separate from and superior to the natural world. It was, and is, the kind of thinking that has gotten us where we are today, she says. Her work created a new vision for the world, one that she

and others are now channeling into climate action.

Paul Hawken has likewise been a key player at the forefront of the effort to reverse climate change.

In 2017 he published Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming and created Project Drawdown, a research organization that identifies, reviews, and analyzes the most viable solutions to climate change, and shares these findings with the world.

Hawken spoke about the biosphere of Earth as a self-regulating system. The fine-tune adjustments the Earth makes to create a balance are what make this place the only known planet in the solar system with an ability for life. But, he says, humans are mistakenly acting as though they can live outside of this cycle. Hawken’s goal is to adjust the way we regulate ourselves to live in harmony with Earth. Using his book’s 100 solutions, Hawken’s goal is to determine if humans can reverse the buildup of atmospheric carbon within 30 years. Hawken asked his audience, “What would it take to do that? Do we have the techniques, technologies, and the tools at hand to practice these solutions? Can we do it? Is it economical? Can we afford to do it?

Can we afford not to do it?”

In closing, Goodall offered this message for all youth. “Nobody can do everything. The problems we are surrounded with today are huge and can be overwhelming.

Although, there may be one part of it that is very interesting to you.

Something you feel you really care about. Maybe it's protecting a certain plant species or animal.

Maybe it's collecting trash. Anything. Focus on that, roll up your sleeves, and take action. Then that will take you into a community of people who want to make a difference.” ◆ —Ashlynd Greenwood

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t is an old but pertinent joke.

Why is there is a highway to hell, but a stairway to heaven?

That should tell you something about music, life, the afterlife and the state of humor. If I can correctly recall my Catholic theology, “Limbo” would be a treadmill, which really is hell on Earth to seven out of 10 people followed closely by eight out of 10 people who think stationary bikes are an oxymoron.

My roundabout point is that one of the top three truths we choose to be self-evident is that we are list oriented. We need to rank things best to worst, shortest to longest and best shortest. The Guinness Book of World Records has thrived on this and now actually helps people design world records. Those of you not attuned to alcohol production might not know that Guinness is also the name of a large brewing company most famous for beer so dark that black holes pale ale in comparison.

The whole weird world record business must have gotten started by a bunch of Guinness drinkers betting on how far they could throw a pint glass—into the wind, downwind, on Tuesday, left- handed, full, empty and a thousand other variations. They then thought, “You know, Americans would really buy into this. They would probably also pay for the documentation of the top 10 places.” This story is only about 20% percent historically accurate.

We love lists. Even self-proclaimed math haters can’t resist numbers. Some numbers are trite, others are profound. There is the Texas two-step but there is also the rule of thirds. You can break through the fourth wall. Whiskey is bottled in fifths. Lucky and weird people have a sixth sense.

Blues music is full of seventh son voodoo.

Seven also seems to be the number settled on by the Covey empire as the number of habits needed to become highly successful. Seven Habits of Highly Effective people has never caught my imagination, maybe because most of its proponents are so certain it works. I prefer friends who are a little more doubtful. In doubt I trust. We don’t have limitless potential; some of us, like the annoying survey question, have “exceeded expectations.”

Having unlimited potential would just be too exhausting. There has to be some way to edit this down to three habits or join a master’s class to get to eight habits.

Eighth grade completion gets you into high school. The Ninth Amendment is the one that nobody understands or practices.

Ten is just an X in Roman numerals and the only time you see it used is in Super Bowl promotions and depictions of Moses holding up stone tablets.

Ten wins the list of lists because, with the exception of careless carpenters, we all have 10 fingers. I know there is a plethora of 10 lists but I actually like most of Burning Man’s 10 Principles most probably because I am a sycophant, having gone 22 times. Look them up.

They don’t fit on tablets.

Why is an emergency always referred to the 11th hour? Wikipedia says it is Biblical. I’ll leave it at that since I’m not in a hurry. Do 12-step addiction programs work for you or a loved one? If so, stick with it, just knowing that there are lots of detractors. Failures don’t usually write books. Could you do it in nine steps or does a dozen just feel more satisfying?

Don’t put those dozen eggs in one basket. And, whatever you do, don’t do it 13 times. ◆ Dennis Hinkamp believes he is the number one columnist in this space today.

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BY SUZANNE WAGNER Osho ZenTarot: Courage, Traveling, Exhaustion Medicine Cards: Crow, Whale, Deer Mayan Oracle: Rhythm, Etznab, Greater Cycles Ancient EgyptianTarot:King of Cups, Three of Disks, Seven of Swords Aleister Crowley Deck: Hermit, The Hierophant, The Universe Healing Earth Tarot: Seven of Feathers, Seven of Rainbows, Grandmother of Rainbows Words of Truth: Overriding, Rejuvenation, Heart

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e all have times when life’s path seems rockier than ever. Sometimes you wait for the perfect moment to proceed. Other times you just deal with the rocks or you take a leap of faith.

Such is the month of November.

In your own way you will be faced with a difficult choice or situation.

It makes no sense to blame others for this moment. Even the rockiest soil can produce some growth.

The passion of life cannot be stopped by the mind for long.

Something within you longs for growth and there is no point in holding back. Now is a time. Perhaps in retrospect, in the future, you will see that it was the perfect time.

But at the first of the month it seems like a lot of work for a little reward. The truth is that life this month is going to challenge you.

It does not matter if your mind has made up a story that life should be easy for you because you are a nice person. Sometimes the most spectacular things arise from being placed in positions of hardship and challenge.

Just like a seed, when you are inside the shell, you are safe and protected. But to grow, you will eventually have to risk everything.

You will have to drop that hard shell which has been your security and choose to soften. That softening is all about opening your heart to what is, opening your mind to the truth that is right in front of you, and recognizing that anything and everything can take you out of the game if you are not paying close attention to the many conflicting factors that are coalescing at this time.

Dangers are everywhere when you are growing. When you decide to grow, you move into the unknown and instantly life becomes chaotic.

This month, the path becomes clear. You recognize that it will be arduous and that you will need all your courage.

November may feel totally exhausting. I find that realization sets

in when you begin to understand how much energy you are using to keep the patterns of self-importance, ego, and productivity together.

Life is not just about protecting what you have (from an ego perspective). It is about being spontaneous, vulnerable and conscious.

And consciousness is naturally soft, flexible and changeable, depending on circumstances.

November is a month where people want a response from you, not a reaction.

The psychic, emotional, physical and spiritual attacks have become so strong that they override our sensibilities. Many of us are exhausted and need some time for rejuvenation. People around the globe yearn for gentleness, kindness, real wisdom, truth-telling and understanding of the shadow.

The Seven of Swords shows robbers at the doorway, prepared to enter. You may feel surrounded by treachery, deception and thievery. You know problems are coming. Enormous ones. But you have to wait for the correct moment—you cannot confront such times head on.

Cunning is needed to avoid the traps set by others to make you feel confused and hopeless. Conventional solutions no longer work. It is essential to take your time to consider all options before

moving. The project ahead will take a long time. Careful planning is important.

This month includes many choices, including some that you have no input on. Those decisions will bring divisiveness, conflict, confusion and a sense of unreality.

Other choices are yours alone.

Those choices require you to be fully on center in order to make sure that your heart is what leads in making this choice.

We live in a world where the stormy waters of the mind seem to control external reality. It is as if there is diesel-powered heavy machinery in our inner meadows where we’ve always found solitude and clarity.

This month, it is time to get those machines out of the meadows and get yourself back to your center. When you are at peace, everything around you will feel calmer. When you are at peace, the birds and butterflies will land on

Sometimes the most spectacular things arise from being placed in positions of extreme hardship and challenge. you, the animals will trust you and come close, and you will have a smile on your face. When you are happy with you, life will reflect that and you will feel happy.

Strive for that place and reality.

It will give you solace and a center from which to reclaim what is most important to you. ◆ See more from Suzanne Wagner at WWW.SUZANNEWAGNER.COM/BLOG/

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NOVEMBER 1 Average temps today: high 57º, low 38º. 18% chance of precipitation. Sunrise: 7:58am. Sunset: 6:24pm.

which have made your life gorgeous and wonderful, and the people and things you'd like around you at the last moment.— Making Friends With Death, by Laura Pritchett.

NOVEMBER 5 If you haven't voted already, today's the day!

Drive / bike / walk-up boxes are open until 8pm. For ballot drop locations, visit WWW.GOT-VOTE.ORG/

NOVEMBER 2 Write a novel this month! Find tools, resources and support at WWW.NANOWRIMO.ORG/ NOVEMBER 3 Daylight Saving Time ended at 2am this morning (Mountain Time). Turn your clocks back one hour if you didn’t do it before going to bed.

NOVEMBER 4 Good advice as one nears the end of a year, a decade or a life: Clean up messes, both in the garage and the heart.

Make a shrine or photo album to your life. Write a love letter, or a goodbye letter, to life. Identify the things you're most proud of

NOVEMBER 6 The Natural History Museum of Utah’s insect collection dates back to the 1890s. Each 2nd and 4th Saturday they invite visitors to handle live bugs to learn about their anatomy, behavior and important ecological roles.

NOVEMBER 7 Gardeners, now is a good time to care for your hand tools. Remove rust and dirt with high-grit sandpaper or steel wool.

Rub linseed oil on wooden handles to keep them from cracking.

Look online for sharpening instructions.

Many hardware stores also offer this service.

NOVEMBER 8 You can compost your kitchen waste all winter. Just keep a supply

of leaves next to the composter to add periodically (you want a balance of green waste and brown, or things will turn smelly).

NOVEMBER 9 The Downtown Winter Market begins today, inside and out at the Rio Grande Station. Buy beets, parsnips, Brussels sprouts, carrots, celery, kale, leeks, lettuce, radishes, spinach, Swiss chard, apples, meats, bread and more.

NOVEMBER 10 Scrubbed, peeled and sliced, rutabagas are nutritious and tasty alternative to crackers. Serve with pesto, hummus or other dips.

NOVEMBER 11 Veterans need our love for more than a Day. Contact the V.A. Hospital to volunteer.

Assistance is needed everywhere.

From labs to laundry, there’s a position for every skillset. Info: SALTLAKECITY.VA. GOV/GIVING/ INDEX.ASP NOVEMBER 12 Full Moon: 6:34am. It sets at 7:06am but rises again at 5:41pm. Clouds allowing, go for a quiet walk in the moonlight. What do you see?

NOVEMBER 13 An English lesson we never learned in school: Adjec-

tives “absolutely have to be in this order: opinion-size-age-shapecolor-origin-material-purpose Noun, “ writes Mark Forsyth in The Elements of Eloquence: How to Turn the Perfect English Phrase. “So you can have a lovely little old rectangular green French silver whittling knife. But if you mess with that order in the slightest you’ll sound like a maniac. “ Try it. It's mostly true!

NOVEMBER 14 You're now using reusable shopping bags, right?

After unloading the goods, put the bag by the door and take it back to your vehicle next time you leave.

NOVEMBER 15 Thinking of pruning those trees and shrubs? Forget it. In our area, it's best to wait until the coldest part of winter has passed before pruning them— usually after mid-February, according to USU. NOVEMBER 16 Caught with an icy windshield but no deicer? Make scraping easier with equal parts water and vinegar in a spray bottle. Spray until the ice starts to melt; it will scrape off a bit more easily. Or try with rubbing alcohol instead of the vinegar.

NOVEMBER 17 “I think the most significant work we ever do in our whole world, in our whole life, is done within the four walls of our own home.“ —June Cotner, House Blessings NOVEMBER 18 According to the French poet Baudelaire, “A multitude of small delights constitutes happiness.“ Make a list of your personal small delights, the easily achievable ones—think of the physical senses, locations, events, activities, quotations...and keep it handy for those times when you could use a little dose of joy.

NOVEMBER 19 MOOP is an acronym for “matter out of place,“ popularized by Burning Man, where festival-goers return the Black Rock Desert to its pre-party pristine state each September. But the phrase itself dates back at least

to the early 19th century, when Harvard property law professor John Chipman Gray said, “Dirt is just matter our of place.“ Anthropologist Mary Douglas' scholarly Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo (2006) turns on that phrase, too. Little could Gray have imagined where his words would travel.

NOVEMBER 20 Thanksgiving remains a homely (in the best sense) celebration, as only an estimated 9% of Americans go out to a restaurant for the big meal.

Maybe make space for a new face at your dinner table this year; not everyone has close friends and family nearby.

NOVEMBER 21 In 1955, there were more canoes in Canada than automobiles. Build your own cedar strip canoe with these instructions: A SHES S TILLWATER BOATS.COM/ NOVEMBER 22 Check out Alison Einerson's inspiring story in this issue on how to have a “100mile“ Thanksgiving. Then make your shopping list and head first to the Rio Grande Station tomorrow morning for Winter Market, where you'll find all kinds of delicious locally grown ingredients.

NOVEMBER 23 Emodiversity: the ability to feel a wide range of healthful, positive emotions (enthusiasm, determination, pride, inspiration, strength).

NOVEMBER 24 Brussels sprouts are the “it “ vegetable. Consumption of this cabbage relative, first cultivated in Belgium about 500 years ago, has increased tenfold in the past five years. For a healthy snack, quick-pickle them with jalapeños and garlic.

NOVEMBER 25 It's time to harvest parsnips (or find them at farmers markets). They grow (and look) like carrots except they’re

white.

Prope r l y cooked (steamed, never boiled), they have a sweet, nutty flavor.

Roman Emperor Tiberius, born this month in 42AD, reportedly had a serious parsnip habit.

NOVEMBER 26 New Moon: 8:05am. What shall you begin today?

NOVEMBER 27 U.S. presidents have been gifted Thanksgiving turkeys since 1873. The first President on record issuing a “pardon“ to his turkey was Ronald Reagan, in 1987, in the midst of the Iran-Contra affair and the potential pardoning of Oliver North.

Reagan conjured the notion of the turkey pardon as a joke to deflect those questions.

NOVEMBER 28 May you always be blessed: with walls for the wind, a roof for the rain, a warm cup of tea by the fire; laughter to cheer you, those you love near you, and all that your heart might desire. — Gaelic blessing NOVEMBER 29 If you’re lucky enough to be stuck with the carcass, make turkey bone broth. A good, simple recipe: HTTPS://BIT.LY/2DOLMD9 NOVEMBER 30 Average temps today: high 44º, low 29º. 20% chance of precipitation. Sunrise: 7:31am. Sunset: 5:01pm. “Sometimes our stop-doing list needs to be bigger than our to-do list. “— Patti Digh ◆

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