CATALYST Magazine July 2020

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ative Utahn Rebecca Campbell received her MFA in painting and drawing in June 2001 from the University of California, Los Angeles. She has exhibited nationally and internationally at L.A. Louver Gallery, Ameringer-McEnery-Yohe, Gagosion Gallery, the Phoenix Art Museum, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Cornell Fine Arts Museum at Rollins College, among other galleries and museums. Currently an associate professor at California State University, Fullerton, she has also taught at Art Center College of Design, Claremont Graduate University, Vermont Col-

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lege of Fine Art, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, and the Idyllwild Arts Academy.

Campbell’s work is regularly presented at art fairs including Art Basel, Art Basel Miami

Beach, ARCO Madrid, and ADAA: The Art Show. Her work has been featured in publications including ARTnews, the Los Angeles Times, ART PAPERS, X-TRA, ART-

WORKS Magazine, art ltd., The Huffington Post, and Artnet. She is represented by L.A. Louver Gallery. ◆ http://www.rebeccacampbell.net

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BY JOHN DEJONG

ovid 19 and Black Lives Matter have forced us to reexamine our society's basic assumptions of what is fair and unfair. What is just and unjust. What we need and what we don't really need.

Economic discrimination and racism are needed by tyrants big and small to perpetuate their unfair and unjust dominion.

Locally, two of the most egregious unfair, unjust and unnecessary forms of discrimination revolve around access to health care and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ rescinded but malingering racism against blacks.

Unequal access to health care is one of the most potent levers of discrimination. From cradle to grave, inadequate health care hobbles the social and economic fortunes of those discriminated against. Universal health care is fair, just and something we really need.

For-profit health care is unfair, unjust and unnecessary. No small part of the expense of modern medicine in the U.S. stems from the inescapable logic of capitalism— preventive health care not only prevents disease, it precludes the possibility of exorbitant profit. The more urgently health care is needed, the easier it is to gouge the recipients in their moments of extreme vulnerability.

Univeral health care is the answer to discrimination as well as a robust answer to the challenges of diseases like Covid 19.

Racists are slaves to unjust ways of thinking. It's to certain people's benefit to keep those unjust ways of thinking alive. The biggest impediment to eliminating racism in Utah is the inculcated belief that God favors certain races and the implied assumption that his believers are justified in doing the same. Sure, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints issued a mealy mouthed retraction more than 40 years ago, but there are still members who believe what they learned in Primary 50, 60 or 70 years ago. More pernicious are what the Brits call knock-on effects—the possibility that children and grandchildren may carry some of those racist beliefs.

Certainly, God never intended to discriminate, even though many of His churches style themselves as God's Chosen people. His servants merely misinterpreted His will, to their benefit.

The benefits of discrimination went far beyond the profits of slave ownership. Many societies, particularly conservatives, need a scapegoat to focus and perpetuate their dominion.

Any church that calls itself Christian cannot condone such beliefs or accept such believers into its fold.

When the leadership of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints convincingly clears up this misunderstanding of God’s will, real change will have been accomplished.

John deJong is the associate publisher of CATALYST.

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BY AMY BRUNVAND

July 2020

ENVIRONEWS

Central Wasatch stewardship

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he Central Wasatch Commission is the governmental entity that emerged from the Mountain Accord process, which focuses on transportation, economy, recreation and environmental stewardship for Central Wasatch Mountains. The organization, headed by former SLC mayor Ralph Becker, recently approved funding for short-term projects that were identified earlier this year in their Call for Ideas.

The projects, in collaboration with citizen, business, environmental and government groups, include trailhead potties for Big and Little Cottonwood Canyons; a “wag bag” dispenser at the Jacob’s Ladder trailhead to enable hikers and backpackers to pack out their poo; erosion-abating bridges for the Dog Lake trail; and watershed solvent-safe graffiti removal.

Funding also includes support for Utah Open Lands to purchase a critical link for the Bonneville Shoreline Trail at the mouth of Little Cottonwood Canyon. As of June 20, Utah Open Lands still needs to raise $702,000 for the land purchase. https://cwc.utah.gov/the-central-wasatchcommission-approves-funding-for-short-termprojects/ Utah Open Lands.:

Radioactive waste at the White Mesa Mill

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he White Mesa Mill in San Juan County is seeking permits to import radioactive waste from Estonia, a northern European country with a population less than half that of the state of Utah.

The mill, located near the Ute Mountain town of White Mesa, is the only operational uranium mill in the

United States. Since there have not been any active uranium mines in Utah since 2012, the mill currently processes ore and radioactive waste from out of state. As a consequence, the White Mesa Mill has changed its business model from processing ore to becoming a de facto radioactive waste disposal site.

The Trump administration is trying to jump-start domestic uranium mining in the Bears Ears and Grand Canyon areas.

Comments due on draft EIS for Lake Powell Pipeline

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he U.S. Bureau of Reclamation has released a Lake Powell Pipeline Project Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the multi-billion dollar water boondoggle to send Colorado River water to the Saint George area.

An appendix on environmental justice, submitted by the Kaibab Band of Paiute Indians eloquently opposes the project with these words: “All elements of the Earth are special and have their creation-defined purpose. Some are especially powerful and central in the integration of life. Among these are the Colorado River, the veins of mother earth moving the essential element water. At Creation the Colorado River’s place and purpose was de-

fined. The LPP project proposes to remove the Colorado River from its appropriate place and to move it elsewhere to be used in different ways. This action will make the river angry and confused, the results of which are unknown but clearly a source of imbalance in the world.”

This Indigenous viewpoint corresponds with scientific documentation that over the long term, negative impacts of large water projects far outweigh immediate benefits.

Online public meetings are scheduled for July 8 and 9, 2020 at 6pm MDT. Send comments on the Draft EIS by September 8, 2020 to lpp@usbr.gov Lake Powell Pipeline Project EIS: on.doi.gov/2Yj9ko1

Terry Tempest Williams chronicles Utah environmental history in Erosion Acclaimed Utah author Terry Tempest Williams has previously written eloquently about The Open Space of Democracy (2010), but her new book, Erosion, is a tour-de-force. Williams is a witness to civic erosion and a fierce advocate for citizen engagement. Tied together by themes of political decay, her collection of essays offers an insider’s view of events in Utah’s environmental movement.

Williams sits by a de-watered Great Salt Lake watching starving pelicans search for food; she engages activist Tim DeChristopher in deep conversation; she describes her own purchase of a fossil fuel lease to protest irresponsible fossil fuel development, and the fallout from that action; she analyzes President

Trump’s attacks on Bears Ears, and recounts efforts by white residents of San Juan County to keep Navajo candidates out of elected office. This may be her best work yet.

Terry Tempest Williams. Erosion: Essays of Undoing, Sarah Crichton Books, 2019.

SLC schools to go carbon free In June the Salt Lake City School District Board of Education passed a resolution to go carbon-free by 2050. This fall, the district will form a Sustainability Leadership Task Force to develop a plan and track the district’s carbon footprint.

The resolution also asks the Task Force to consider sustainability initiatives including green purchasing, waste reduction and a farm-toschool program to improve nutrition for the school lunch program.

The goal is to move in incremental steps toward 100% renewable electricity by 2030, 50% carbon neutral energy by 2035 and 75% carbon neutral energy by 2040.

SLC School District, Resolution to Establish Goals for Sustainability: bit.ly/37UVETl

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Missed Air Quality opportunity

The other big problem is that royalties from fossil fuel production on federal lands are the primary source for mineral lease disbursements that fund various state agencies as well as a Permanent Community Impact Fund that is supposed to mitigate negative environmental and social impacts of boom-and-bust extractive industry.

In practice, these royalties are a mixed blessing. A 2020 legislative audit found that the Community Impact Board (CIB) that manages the fund has been using the money improperly to fund economic development for fossil fuel industries.

Royalty money also funds endless

A 2018 U.S. Geological Survey report found that public lands extraction contributes nearly a quarter of all U.S. greenhouse gas emissions.

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n response to a temporary slump in oil prices during COVID-19 stayat-home orders, the Trump Administration gave the fossil fuel industry a huge handout by reducing royalties for oil and gas companies operating on federal public lands.

Royalties are a percentage of the value of extracted fossil fuels, paid back to the federal government with a share for state and local government. In the 2019 fiscal year, Utah received nearly $72 million from a 12.5% royalty on federal lands extraction.

There are two major problems with the royalty reduction.

First, public lands drilling is a

major contributor to climate change. A 2018 U.S. Geological Survey report found that public lands extraction contributes nearly a quarter of all U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. Putting limits on federal lands extraction could offer a regulatory pathway to rein in climate change.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has warned that in order to limit climate change to 1.52℃, carbon-reduction goals must be met within the next 10 years.

The natural contraction of the fossil fuel industry resulting from the pandemic was a squandered chance to permanently reduce emissions.

anti-public lands litigation on the part of the State. Nonetheless, some of the money gets where it should be. In 2019, royalty money was used to pay for things like emergency vehicles, sewer system upgrades, municipal water systems, community centers and hospital upgrades.

The giveaway to industry makes corporate profits a priority over community well-being.

All of Utah’s Republican congressional delegates signed letters to Interior Secretary David Berrnhardt supporting this industry bailout.

Federal Lands Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sequestration in the United States (USGS, 2018): https://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2018/5131/sir20185131.pdf; Global Warming of 1.5℃ (IPCC, 2018) https://www.ipcc.ch/sr15/

Costs, liabilities shift from feds to Utahns with water project transfer

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tah Senator Mike Lee, an advocate for privatization of federal public lands, has been boasting that a transfer of federal water infrastructure is a “minor

miracle” that will give “local control” to Emery County and Uinta Basin water districts. In a news release, Interior Secretary David Bernhardt claims that the transfer will “save

taxpayer dollars due to decreased operating costs and reduced liability.”

Since Bernhardt is specifically talking about federal tax dollars, his statement reveals the fact that costs and liability shift to Utah water districts.

Water districts have no process for public comment. Transfer of infrastructure to local water districts means less public accountability. (There is no reason to think that local managers will consider the interests of downstream users.) A

Oil & gas leasing frenzy near national parks scheduled for fall

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Ironically, Utah oil and gas production has been in decline since spring 2019; the leasing frenzy comes at a time when the Trump Administration is trying to prop up a flagging fossil fuel industry.

Nonetheless, the September lease sale creates a potential time bomb even more destructive than the Bush-era lease sale in December

Bureau of Land Management (BLM) oil and gas lease sale scheduled for September 2020 threatens to drastically alter the landscape of southern Utah, affecting more than 114,000 acres near Canyonlands, Arches, Capitol Reef, Bears Ears, Labyrinth Canyon, Deadhorse Point State Park and the Green River.

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trend of water project transfers is likely to reduce transparency, increase conflicts and make water more expensive.

The two projects scheduled for transfer are Emery County Project in eastcentral Utah and the Uintah Basin Replacement Project in northeastern Utah.

Federal land managers can initiate a transfer of water infrastructure, thanks to a new rule authorized by the 2019 Dingell Act. Congress only gets to vote yes or no.

2008 that led to Tim De Christopher’s act of civil disobedience.

The Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance asks citizens to contact Governor Gary Herbert asking him to tell the BLM to cancel the inappropriate lease sale.

In the past, citizen action and the governor’s intervention have successfully prevented oil and gas leasing near Dinosaur National Monument, Sand Flats Recreation Area, and Zion National Park.

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MAKING THE MAGAZINE

What you’ll find in this issue

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t’s not as if all the regular shenanigans and triumphs that usually make the news are nonexistent, now that pandemics and social injustices and awakenings command the headlines: The environment remains an issue, and governmental sausage-making continues. Amy Brunvand brings you the latest, in context, in her “EnviroNews” column, pp. 6-9.

The numbers are finally in regarding what exactly happened to air quality along the Wasatch Front in March and April. It’s nice to know that science confirms our senses.

Has this enforced “experiment” uncovered the magic bullet for signifi-

BY GRETA BELANGER DEJONG cantly improving air quality? Ashley Miller explores that question in her column “Breathe,” pp. 12-14.

We welcome Yaël Fiedel, “From France to the USA: Two takes on being biracial” (pp. 16-19). Her exploration of communitarianism and universalism lends new insights to the American conversation re. our Declaration of Independence which states “All [men] are created equal.”

Her conclusion was certainly a new and interesting take for me.

Decarcerate Utah co-founder Brinley Froelich declares that “a budget is a reflection of our values” and unpacks the Defund the Police movement’s advised $30 million

News.

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budget cut (pp. 20-21). This is “horizon’’ work, she explains, stressing the importance of envisioning generations ahead so that we can begin building the foundation of a new, more equitable society. We can all participate in holding this vision!

Todd Mangum, MD tells us about “The third-eye chakra: The key to vision” in this installment of the Chakra series (pp. 22-24). Boss gardener columnist James Loomis offers “A novel approach to extending the gardening season,” pp. 28-30 (hint: start planning now!)

And that’s only the first half of the issue! Please explore all we have to offer you!

Let me know what you think. And thanks.

Greta Belanger deJong is the founder and editor of CATALYST Magazine. Gretchen@catalystmagazine.net

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Something good comes from Covid Air pollution decreased dramatically during lockdown BY ASHLEY MILLER

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rom March through April when Utahns were asked to “stay home, stay safe” as much as possible to reduce the number of Covid-19 cases, the Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) saw a decrease in traffic of about 40-50%. As a result of so many fewer passenger cars and trucks on Utah’s roads, pollutants that lead to the formation of both PM2.5 and ozone pollution decreased significantly.

According to Logan Mitchell, re-

search assistant professor from University of Utah Atmospheric Science, the Covid-19 lockdowns represent a unique experiment where emissions have decreased dramatically over a short period of time, presenting an opportunity for atmospheric scientists to understand how emissions affect air pollution concentrations.

Pollution from the tailpipes of cars and trucks is loaded with chemicals that create disaster for Utah’s air. Nitrogen oxides, aka NOx, is a major contributor, or “precursor

pollutant,” to the air pollution we experience in Utah during inversion season. NOx is emitted when fuel is burned, as in cars, trucks, buildings and industrial facilities.

During Utah’s Stay Home, Stay Safe policy, many private and state businesses closed offices and sent their employees to work from home. Several businesses closed completely, and large group gatherings were prohibited.

Mitchell and his team reported a reduction in NOx emissions of 37-

56% on the Hawthorne monitor in Salt Lake City. PM2.5 was 41% lower than it usually is during this time of year. The decreases in emissions could be seen from space.

Satellite imagery showed astounding reductions in these harmful air pollutants, like the imagery in news coverage that showed dramatic decreases in air pollution across China and Europe.

Air quality is typically “good” during March and April, but the stay home policies made the air quality noticeably better. And when it comes to protecting human health, any improvement in air quality is important. Exposure to even the slightest amounts of air pollution can lead to adverse health problems.

In a presentation to the Utah Economic Development and Workforce Services Interim Committee on June 15, Mitchell said the reduction in precursor pollutants and greenhouse gas emissions was so significant it met and exceeded the

30-year goal set out in the Kem C. Gardner Climate Policy Institute’s Air Quality and Climate Roadmap.

A global pandemic is not exactly how we want to reduce emissions.

Yet it has proven that Utahns can do it. And we can do it quickly. These

Teleworking could be one “silver bullet” solution to Utah’s air quality problem that we’ve all been looking for. It’s now a proven solution we can implement immediately. kinds of changes in our daily routines move the needle immediately.

Teleworking for cleaner air One Utah lawmaker is committed to continuing this pattern of improved air quality. Senator Dan McCay is planning to open a bill file, with the Workforce Services committee backing him, that will call upon state agencies to have more employees telework.

Teleworking could be one “silver bullet” solution to Utah’s air quality problem that we’ve all been looking for.

Teleworking has been a recommended policy for improving Utah’s

air for a few years. A pilot project that began in 2018 with a couple hundred state employees was wildly successful, leading to over $6 million in funding in 2019 to expand the program to about 2,500 state employees. The number one goal of the

teleworking program was improving Utah’s air quality. Leading up to the pandemic, the program was slowly expanding to reach the 2,500-employee target, with the idea that more employees could be added as time went on. The original estimate of how many state employees could telework was 38% of the state workforce, roughly 8,500 employees.

Equipment was being purchased, I.T. departments expanded, all the little things that take time to get teleworking for a few thousand employees was underway.

The pandemic hit hard and fast, and in mid-March, virtually over night, state offices shut down and employees were sent to work from home. About 8,500 of them, in fact.

Many other private and public sector businesses sent employees to work from home as well. There were bugs to work out and schedules and habits to adjust in order to make it work. But Utahns made it work. We adjusted. It was challeng-

ing and sometimes painful, but we made it work.

During the Workforce Services committee meeting, Senator McCay pointed out that he was skeptical of the efficiency of teleworking before

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the pandemic, but The decrease in emissions ployees. They can make decisions after experiencing it and seeing the along the Wasatch Front that follow the improved air qual- could be seen from space. forecasting by the Division of Air ity, he wants to see Quality and plan more state employees teleworking. And he wants for their employees to telecommore than the target goal originally mute before air quality starts to deset in the program. He wants the cline.

Developing air quality policy usuUtah Department of Human Resources Management to classify ally involves looking at long-term every state position as either “work- solutions that can take years to imsite essential” or “worksite non-es- plement and even longer to see resential” to start. He believes that sults. Teleworking is now a proven this task will show more than 38% solution we can implement immeof the state’s workforce is worksite diately. non-essential.

Inversion season public health emergency?

We know a lot about air pollution’s relation to respiratory illnesses and we know there is a link to cardiovascular disease. Hospitalizations increase in Utah during red air days for people suffering from acute or chronic lung diseases.

Inversion season doesn’t rise to the level of a public health emergency. But there is a lot we can learn from the current public health emergency. As Mitchell pointed out, we’ve undergone quite the human experiment with the stay home orders, and the results are in.

Maybe now more of our government leaders will consider the PM2.5 pollution that steadily builds up during inversion season, harming human health, to be treated like a public health emergency.

Businesses from both the public and private sector now can better plan for the upcoming inversion season. They can choose to define their employees as “worksite essential or non-essential” as Senator McCay wants to do for state em-

Other individual impacts

The air quality data gathered during the state’s shutdown proves that the air really does get better with fewer vehicles on the road.

Each of us needs to think about this every time we get in our cars. We must ask ourselves: Is this trip absolutely necessary?

We need to also remember that emissions coming from our buildings are currently the second largest contributor to air pollution in Utah.

Buildings emit NOx when we burn natural gas in our appliances. Look for an Ultra-Low NOx model when you need to replace your water heater or look for an electric model.

Keep your air conditioner and furnace tuned up to run more efficiently. Trade in your gas-powered lawn equipment for electric. Never burn wood, or if you must, make sure it’s a “good air” day. It is on us to be a part of the solution. ◆ Ashley Miller, J.D., is the vice-chair of Breathe Utah. She is also the vice-chair of Utah's Air Quality Policy Advisory Board and a member of the Salt Lake County Environmental Quality Advisory Commission.

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RACE

Black woman. Rarest was a Black woman raising two light-skinned children in France’s coastal cities, the most politically and morally conservative regions of the country.

I was six years of age and my brother four when our father put a

BY YAËL FIEDEL halt to his maritime operations and anuary, 2019, Utah. I’d traveled childhood on the outskirts of the moved us away from the French 5,000 miles to a foreign coun- city. coasts. However, instead of leaving While I’m not sure of my dad’s right-leaning cities far behind us, we try that would be my home for the foreseeable future. I’d left background, I have great clarity on stepped into another predomiFrance, my country of birth, to my mom’s. Her mother was born in nantly white and Catholic town, in Martinique, which belongs the suburbs of Paris. My brother and marry the love of my life.

I knew marriage would not be I then spent half a decade in a easy at all times and I had a feelschool where you could count ing my career as a junior jourits people of color on one nalist would probably hand and where we retake unexpected turns. grettably got our first But I did not give taste of racial mimuch thought croaggressions. about being a biraWords started makcial woman in the ing a lot of sense to United States and us, and we did not what that would like everything we mean. heard.

All I knew was that, My Black features according to a quick were a creative inspiraWikipedia search when tion for my little friends.

I‘d previously visited the To them, I was a lion for my Beehive State and saw two rounded nose and for my abunBlack people in seven days, black dance of curly hair, and I was a gipeople represent less than 2% of t o raffe for my height. Sometimes, I Utah’s population. “I can deal with the French West Indies, islands that was Medusa for the braids my mom that,” I thought. In fact, I’ve had to France colonized in the 17th cen- would spend hours fashioning; they navigate primarily white spaces be- tury and that more or less remain apparently looked like scary snakes. colonies. Her father was born in I was never called an ape like my fore.

French Sudan, known as Mali since grandmother was on more than one Not all white with me 1960 when the country and several occasion. Nonetheless, by age seven In 1997, a white officer in the others in Africa reclaimed their indethese experiences were enough for French Navy and a Black aspiring pendence from the Fifth Republic me to want to look whiter by dampsychologist gave birth to little bira- (the current form of French governaging my hair to make it straight cial me. My white father comes from ment, which was established in and dreaming of getting my nose one of those villages in France that 1958 by Charles de Gaulle). surgically “improved.” a tourist would never think to visit.

When my parents started dating I also remember people assuming My mother, on the other hand, un- in the late ’80s, mixed-race couples and implying that my mother was deniably Black and proud to be, was were still rare in France. Even rarer our nanny. Did they also have those born in Paris and spent most of her was a white man daring to marry a

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true in Europe as well.

On that note, I’d like to point out that I do make a difference between them and me. They are Black. I am Black and also white. I’ve always felt like this. That feeling was reinforced when I started studying Black French authors in order to learn more about the impact of racism in my country.

Diving into the works of French Mulattos such as Martinican-born writer Aimé Césaire and Senegalese poet Léopold Sédar Senghor (to name a few) allowed me to understand the power and privileges that A note on France and race: biracial people held over their darkthe universalist argument skinned counterparts in colonial We did face overtly and covertly France. Having a white parent alracist comments but it’s fair to say lowed Mulattos to gain access to that is pretty much all we had to education and noble positions, overcome. My mother always stood which were, in themselves, ways to up for my brother and me and, as affirm their dominance. Possessing such power encouraged them to I remember people assumadopt the same racist codes, morals and behaviors as French settlers ing that my mother was our and their descendants, the békés nanny. (who still control a lot of the French West Indies’ local industries). light-skinned mixed kids, we were Because France is a socialist and seldom robbed of opportunities for universalist country, its constitution the color of our skin. We had access is based on three values that we can to quality education and healthcare still read above the doors of many and we grew up in low crime areas. French city halls: “Liberté, Égalité, If anything, doors would close be- Fraternité” — Freedom, Equality cause our Black mother spoke up and Fraternity. Supposedly, these whenever we faced injustice, and values must be standardized in all educators would punish us for her contexts and must be applied to all protecting her children. humans. We are all equal in the eyes Leave it to our mother, to our of the law, independent of all peraunts and to our grandmother to sonal characteristics such as gentell you about what they experi- der, skin color, origins, age and so enced as Black women. Malcolm X on. In that spirit, the Republic itself rightfully stated that Black women has to be neutral with regard to are the most disrespected, unpro- these attributes. tected and neglected people in However, white French politicians, America. From my family’s experi- philosophers or even journalists will ence, that statement appears to be biases when they saw white mothers raising Black children?

My brother wrote a story about our family’s heritage, as assigned by his fourth grade teacher. In his essay, he mentioned Voodoo and sorcerers, two meaningful elements in both Caribbean and African cultures. Yet, his teacher claimed this was not real, that my little brother was making this up and that his composition was therefore irrelevant. A classmate said my brother was stupid as a consequence of our mom’s blackness.

Diving into the works of French Mulatto writers allowed me to understand the power and privileges that biracial people held over their dark-skinned counterparts in colonial France.

Having a white parent allowed Mulattos to gain access to education and noble positions, which were, in themselves, ways to affirm their dominance. use the universalist argument to accuse anti-racist activists who point out differences of treatment between whites and people of color as triggering racial discriminations.

What I personally hear when they make such a statement is “we claim to not see color and neither should you, because if you do, you’ll realize that we do treat you differently and we don’t intend to do anything about it.” As a biracial woman, I always had to see color. I always had to because people would often remind me that I was one or the other (and not one and the other) but also because it is one of my responsibilities to acknowledge the privileges that I possess and have benefitted from on many occasions in my life.

Then I moved to the United States, and when I started to take interest in race-related issues in this country, I gained new perspectives on what being mixed represents outside my home country.

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From universalism to communitarianism

RACE

class. Contrary to what universalism broadly states, those traits do very It began when I noticed biracial much define us in many aspects of American activists fighting to attain our lives.

On good days, to put it simply, the equal rights and life opportunities for Black people, speaking in the communitarian philosophy gives us name of Black people. It was new to a warm sense of identity and beme, a bit strange to see “half-white” longing. On the worst days, it gives people taking “full-Black” people’s rise to unfair legislations such as the What I hear when it’s said space and telling their own stories instead of amplifying Black people’s we are all equal in the eyes ones. They are partly Black though, of the law is “we claim to I thought. In fact, I am partly Black myself! And what if they were raised not see color and neither only by their Black parent, with a should you, because if you fully Black culture? What if they are dark-skinned? do, you’ll realize that we do I guess the overall question was: treat you differently and we What will my experience as a biracial person be in my new land of don’t intend to do anything residence? In attempting to answer about it.” that ostensibly selfish question and understand the significance of race and its nuances in the USA, my One Drop Rule, a legal principle of reading led me to communitarian- racial discrimination from the 20th ism, a philosophy that emphasizes century which pronounced any inthe importance of community and dividual counting a Black person affirms that individuals do not exist among its ancestors as Black. I was independently from their culture, originally witnessing a Twitter deethnicity, gender, religion or social bate about whether or not we

should still consider biracial kids as Black in America when one user stated that it was time to “drop the One Drop Rule”—never signed into federal law but certainly an element in American politics; how many people refer to President Barack Obama as biracial or “half-white”? It is time, the writer continued, to start holding mixed folks accountable for actively participating in racism and in the further empowerment of white supremacy.

I guess I do feel a sense of pride when I see biracial people being viewed as Black in America. I am happy to belong to a community instead of feeling like I don’t fit in anywhere. However, I still have to check my privileges as the daughter of a white military man. I have the privilege to be academically educated and to have had doors opened to me that wouldn’t have been open if I were a shade darker.

Will life in the U.S. be different?

That had me thinking. While I did have to hear and heal from racist comments in the past, all I really

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My mother always stood up for us and, as light-skinned mixed kids, we were seldom robbed of opportunities. We had access to quality education and healthcare and we grew up in low crime areas. was getting from the curious inhabitants of South Jordan, Utah was some unwelcomed stares. That city, my first home in the U.S., is very white, very Mormon, and apparently very unused to seeing people of color other than the Latinos and Pacific Islanders whose food they absolutely love. So, unless I was completely oblivious to it, I don’t think my physical traits inspired anyone to behave in a blatantly racist way towards my little person.

Because I was raised taking full advantage of the opportunities my whiteness gave me, I don’t feel threatened like dark-skinned Black people do when they see the police or simply walk in a predominantly white space. But because I’m adulting in a country where the One Drop Rule still influences the way we see race, do I also

need to be worried about being put down by coworkers or neighbors or harmed by the police?

Can I still use my body as a shield for oppressed communities? Am I right to take more space in order to share my story?

Conversations about race are complex but this matter holds nothing I can’t decipher. As of now, my devotion to social justice is too great to swipe away all that I’ve learned to start again with a clear mind and fewer headaches. It takes effort to unlearn the biases we are fed from a young age.

And I have learned that my light skin is a power that I can and will use to acquire the long overdue opportunities and equality that Black, Indigenous and People of color deserve. ◆ Yaël Fiedel is a French journalist currently living in Sandy, Utah.

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LATTER-DAY ABOLITIONIST

A budget is a reflection of our values Decarcerate Utah co-founder explains the Defund the Police movement

BY BRINLEY FROELICH

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hen I was first getting into prison abolition in 2016, I wrote a future manifesto for 2021 titled “WE HAVE PEACE! NO MORE POLICE!” to commemorate 50 years since the September 1971 uprising in the Attica, New York prison in response to the killing of George Jackson at San Quentin State Prison.

In my imagination, Departments of Peace and Liberation replaced Police Departments. Peace Protectors ensured that divestments were made from corporations and police, providing resources to invest in selfdetermined community programs.

The likelihood of a near future without police seemed impossible to me at the time, but it felt important to engage in the practice of imagining a better world.

Many people who identify as abolitionists share this understanding— that abolition won’t happen overnight, or even possibly in our lifetimes. The work is seen as a “horizon,” where we can envision generations ahead and start building the foundation of a new society, a foun-

dation of interdependence and solidarity, rather than the one we live in now, based primarily on domination, exploitation and isolation.

toward community programs that are vastly underfunded.

After years of organizing, it seemed like suddenly overnight people were not only listening to us Can it happen in but resonating with our message! I Salt Lake City? was taken aback by the response.

On June 2, I logged on to listen to The meeting went until almost the virtual Salt Lake City Council 1am, with thousands of emails more meeting and to leave a comment to to process. The final budget vote defund the Salt Lake City police de- was pushed back another week, partment. A $1 million funding pro- which I took as a cue that we had posal for public safety overtime and more time for city councilmembers training was on the agenda. to engage with us and try to find out With my organizing work at De- more about our demands. carcerate Utah, which focuses on As protests continue to happen always to decrease the rise of mass in- most daily in Salt Lake and across carceration in Utah and beyond, we the country, I’m seeing more and had put up a Google doc providing more hand-written and printed background information, scripts signs that call for the defunding of and demands to aid and encourage police. like-minded people to call in. I exMy hope for a better world happected a few people would engage. pening within my lifetime has I started fist-pumping when two shifted now, after seeing how much comments came from people who support the community gave to amresonated with our message and plifying this message. shared their own version of it. The comments kept coming, almost all That $30 million figure.... of them reading the demands from After the first public hearing, our script and sharing a unified mes- news reports indicated that the City sage to defund to the tune of $30 Council was seriously considering million, putting that money instead our demands. As we continued to

encourage people to call, email, sign petitions, attend various events and grow our audience, I heard more reports, including radio interviews with the mayor, Council members and the Chief of Police who were wondering: Where did our demands come from?

We’re relatively easy to find and contact. We’d happily answer that question, along with the other common concern: what “defunding the police'' actually means. Instead of asking us how the $30 million figure determined, the common conclusion was that it had come “out of thin air.”

Not so. Over the years, Decarcerate Utah has conducted research on the basics of abolitionist practice, inspired by the work of countless other social justice advocates and black radical feminists.

To clarify: A 30% cut was both an aggressive and reasonable demand and is a necessary first step in transitioning away from our reliance on policing social problems. Defunding the police is as simple as it sounds and would free up much needed funds for services that are overlooked and would contribute to a safer and healthier city, such as housing, schooling and healthcare.

Despite those being shared values by almost everyone, confronting the reality of implementing such a demand is somehow seen as too extreme.

Why are the police receiving more funding than life-saving and supportive services? What does our budget say about where our true values lie? Some have suggested that “defunding” does not mean abolishing the police, an appeal made to quell fears of a lawless so-

ciety where no one is safe. But in fact, defunding is actually only the first demand on the path toward abolition. Most of the people who fear a world without police are the people who are not already targeted by them. For many, especially

A 30% cut is a necessary first step in transitioning away from our reliance on policing social problems. Defunding the police would free up much needed funds for services that are overlooked and would contribute to a safer and healthier city, such as housing, schooling and healthcare. for those who are structurally marginalized, a world with more police is a scarier thought than one without any. That fear is justified when you look at the history of policing in the US, whose roots are based in slave patrols from the South during the 18th and 19th centuries.

The modern abolitionist movement Scholar and abolitionist Ruth Wilson Gilmore says abolition is a presence—not just an absence of policing and prisons. Abolition is a visionary movement that understands that our US society is rooted in white supremacy and the practice of enslavement and exploitation of both land and labor. Reforms will

never go far enough in a system that willfully chooses not to recognize or make amends for its past atrocities.

With abolition as our practice, we plant new seeds, and from them grow supportive and regenerative communities instead.

In order to reduce police violence, we must reduce police power; but simultaneously, we also need promote life-affirming services that will ultimately provide people with the tools they need to conduct their own healthy, creative and vibrant lives. What we understand as “crime” is often a manifestation of where our social structures fail to meet the needs of our community: Poverty, hunger, houselessness, broken interpersonal relationships, underfunded schools or lack of access to higher education and a profit-driven healthcare system make it difficult to live in a way that doesn’t end with being targeted by police. Without confronting these issues and planning how to address these root causes, safety will only be a dream that will never be realized.

Defunding police is a way to transition out of a world filled with violence and heal our communities. As we wrote in our open letter to the City Council and Mayor Mendenhall on June 19, defunding was just our first demand, and it won’t be our last. We owe it to each other to recognize that our shared liberation is worth fighting for in this struggle. ◆ Brinley Froelich is the co-founder of Decarcerate Utah. Find more of her work on CATALYST’s website catalystmagazine.net/author/bfroelich and at www.booforever.com

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CHAKRA SERIES

Ajna the third-eye chakra The key to vision

BY TODD MANGUM, MD

Editor’s note: The Chakra Series, by Todd Mangum, MD, first appeared in CATALYST in 1995 and was repeated in 2009 and 2013. These stories remain among the most read in our online library. In 2020 we are bringing you an updated version, which began with January’s Introduction to the Chakras.

CHAKRA SIX Location: between the eyebrows.

Governs: circadian rhythms.

Main issue: intuition.

Externalizes: as the pineal gland.

Element: light.

When balanced: we feel imaginative.

Color: is a harmonic of INDIGO. Key words: vision, seeing, sleep, dreams, trance, clairvoyance, color, rainbow, psychedelic, holographic.

Influences: eyes, nose, sinuses, forehead, occiput.

Deficiencies: manifest as hopelessness, despair and a lack of vision and insight.

Excesses: appear as hallucinations, schizophrenia and manic behavior.

Imbalances: manifest as sinusitis, allergic rhinitis, frontal headaches, mood disorders, sleep disturbances, insomnia, blindness and eye diseases such as conjunctivitis, keratitis and retinopathy.

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hrough the fifth chakra we experienced the vibrations of sound. Through the sixth, carried on the vibrations of light, we can transcend physical limitation and journey to other dimensions and realms. Here, through meditation, visions and dreams we can summon the power of color and light. Cultures throughout history have understood this possibility.

Since the beginning of time shamans have, with the aid of totem animals and psychoactive plant allies, and through dancing, drumming and music, opened their third eye seeking enlightenment.

The Sun continuously bathes Earth with its entire living electromagnetic light spectrum. These emanations are both information and energy. This spectrum includes the intensely powerful, high frequency, cosmic, gamma, X and ultraviolet rays on one side and infrared, micro and radio

waves on the other. In between ultraviolet and infrared we have the colors of the rainbow, from lower energy red on through orange, yellow, green, blue and indigo to higher energy violet.

How is it we presently fear something so much that energizes every cell of our being, that we in fact owe our very existence to? Extreme sun exposure certainly has its consequences, but now people shield themselves in every way from sunlight with creams, glasses, hats, clothes and staying inside. I do not believe in the inherent toxicity of the sun but instead think we have somehow polluted the effects of its rays the same way we have polluted everything else. Natural light, fresh air, pure water and clean food are the essentials of life.

Stop and think: Do you really believe talking on your cell phone, covered in chemical sunscreens driving 60 miles an hour is safer than a modest amount sunlight?

The endocrine gland which interfaces with the sixth chakra is the pineal gland. The size of a pea, it is lo-

Bright morning light stimulates the brain to produce the mood-elevating neurotransmitters serotonin, dopamine and norepinephrine.

cated in the geometric center of the head in a cavity known as the third ventricle of the brain. In some animals the pineal is still located very near the surface of the forehead and is directly influenced by light radiation. In humans, the influence of light is mediated through the retina of the eyes and propagated along a complex nervous pathway to the pineal gland.

The pineal secretes the hormone melatonin which is responsible for synchronizing our internal rhythms with those of the natural world around us.

Melatonin affects virtually every cell of the body. It plays a pivotal role in regulating hormonal levels, sleep-wake cycles, body temperature, immunity, reproductive capacity and longevity.

Melatonin is a potent antioxidant and has been used in numerous

Melatonin has been named “nature’s sleeping pill.” The amounts needed to successfully treat insomnia vary widely. Some people don’t respond at all. therapeutic regimens from treating cancers to preventing cardiovascular disease. Melatonin secretion is inhibited by light and stimulated by darkness.

Levels are normally low during the day and begin to increase in the evening, reaching their peak after midnight.

Throughout life, melatonin production reaches its peak during early childhood and then declines.

Melatonin’s most familiar and popular usage is for the treatment of insomnia. It has been called “nature’s sleeping pill.”

The amounts needed to successfully treat insomnia vary widely. Some people don’t respond at all. Recommendations range from 300 micrograms to 10 milligrams. There is no universally accepted dosage or schedule for its long-term use. One milligram, however, is generally considered quite safe.

Melatonin has also been used extensively to minimize the effects of jet lag.

Three milligrams taken the first three nights one hour before bedtime at

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The best treatment for SAD, and a fine idea for most everyone else, is to get outside each morning for 30 minutes of bright unfiltered light exposure. your new destination has been shown to be the best regimen.

Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) is a form of depression which occurs most often in late fall and throughout the winter. Melatonin was mistakenly suspected as the cause of SAD. It was assumed that the longer periods of darkness increased the production of melatonin which then caused the depression. The real problem is an insufficient exposure to bright morning light which stimulates the brain to produce the mood-elevating neurotransmitters serotonin, dopamine and norepinephrine.

With our increasing photon phobia, SAD may be an increasing cause of depression all year long.

The cycle of production of both melatonin and the neurotransmitters can be disrupted by stress, many medications and erratic sleep schedules. Chaotic electromagnetic fields from computers, power lines, cell phones and microwaves all can be problematic. Anything which requires electricity to power it will generate an electromagnetic field.

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Luckily most gizmos don’t pose any problems unless they are within inches of the body. This is why sleeping under electric blankets or very close to power cords and outlets is considered unwise. Electrical appliances with spinning motors, like fans, however, can generate fields which can radiate several feet or more, depending upon the size and type of the motor.

Those who are particularly prone to SAD can suffer not only from insufficient sunlight in any season but also from an unbalanced spectrum of light emitted by most indoor lighting. Regular florescent lighting is especially problematic for those who suffer from SAD. Fluorescent lighting has been shown to increase the incidence of

problems from headaches to ADHD. The best treatment for SAD, and a fine idea for most everyone else, is getting outside each morning for 30 minutes of bright unfiltered light exposure. If this isn’t practical or possible there are special light boxes which are both bright enough and balanced to mimic some of the benefits sunlight provides. Look for a lamp (LED or fluorescent) that emits 10,000 lux of fullspectrum UV-free light closer in composition to that of Sun. These lamps are available through catalogues marketing earth- friendly and health-enhancing products.

All seven chakras are associated with one color of the rainbow, from red at the root to the violet at the crown. It is through the sixth chakra, however, that we are able to envision the entirety of their kaleidoscopic beauty.

To activate your sixth chakra and open your third eye, hang prisms in windows to cast rainbows around your home. Practice creative visualization.

Trust your intuition. Use your imagination. Keep a dream journal. Celebrate the solstices.

We need both the light of day and the dark of night to realize our full visual capacity. With one we are able to see the beauty that surrounds us, with the other, during our dreams, we can see the beauty within. ◆ Todd Mangum, MD, of the Web of Life Wellness Center in Salt Lake City, is a holistically oriented physician in practice for 30 years.

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GARDEN LIKE A BOSS

A novel approach to extending the gardening season Ready your supplies now — August 1 is the time to plant your fall garden!

BY JAMES LOOMIS

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’m a huge fan of risky behavior in the garden. The edge is where the action is. Our seasonal weather in Utah is a wild ride to be sure, and you never quite know what the next week will bring.

A boss level gardener strives to bring in a harvest in all eight seasons, but this is no easy feat here in our high-altitude steppe climate (yes, I track eight seasons a year, but that’s a story for another day….)

Perhaps I’m willing to take so many risks because I have plenty of tricks up my sleeve for manipulating the microclimates my plants inhabit. As we say at the OchO, “Safety doesn’t have to be your first priority

but it damn well better be in the top three.”

When most of us think of season extension, we think of cold frames, greenhouses and other techniques for making things warmer in the cool months. This is a fantastic way to get early crops of lettuce and other leafy greens in the spring. Or perhaps, we think of using the these

techniques to extend our harvest into, and even over, winter. This strategy can double or even triple your garden output. If you aren’t already doing this in the spring and fall, then hop on the Boss train and level up.

Bring on the heavies Let’s take it one step further. Cre-

The art of creating conditions for a garden to thrive outside of the natural weather patterns and temperatures at which it normally would is the essence of season extension.

ating warmth in cool months by capturing the power of the sun is simple and straightforward. Simulating cool weather in the brutal dry heat of a Utah summer is much more difficult.

What’s the point? Who in the hell is even thinking about fall gardening in July, when most of us haven’t even gotten our first tomato or cucumber yet? (Not this guy; I acknowledge bragging is tacky, but also want to state for the record that I was harvesting tomatoes, cucumbers, and zucchini by June 15 this year. And no, not with some tacky “Early Girl” tomato bullshit. We’re talking real tomatoes, a Japanese variety, “Sakura.”)

The point? Broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, the “heavies” in the garden in fall. I love my greens, but my kitchen also appreciates some density in the wok once the zucchini and peppers have faded from memory. And with their long DTM, it takes some early work to pull off a successful crop. DTM: days to maturity. This is the number of days from when a seed is planted until the vegetable is harvested.

Now it’s time to speak the eternal language of the universe: mathematics.

Do the math Most full, thick, delicious heads of broccoli have a DTM of 60-70 days.

Most types of cabbage take at least this long as well; some take much longer. Now, we can cheat and grow faster varieties, but these tend to be much smaller; and let’s be honest, size does matter.

Scenario #1: Get an early jump on fall Fall in the northern hemisphere

begins September 22, and we want to get a head start on the “heavies” above. We plant on September 1, when the hot, dry Utah summer finally breaks. At 65 DTM, we can run some simple math and expect a harvest on November 4. Excellent, nice work, high five! Well, not so fast….

The “days to maturity” number assumes growing in ideal conditions, midseason, when the days are much longer. As daylength shortens, the time it takes to grow a vegetable lengthens, as the plant is able to gather less and less sunlight energy each day in the fall. We must now add an additional 20-30% to our DTM to accommodate for decreasing day length.

Our 65-DTM broccoli has now become an 85-day broccoli, pushing our harvest out to November 24. No worries though, right, as that’s just in time for Thanksgiving!

But…I need to rain on your parade once more.

DTM: days to maturity.

This is the number of days from when a seed is planted until the vegetable is harvested. This is critical info for a fall garden!

On November 12, we will cross below a critical day length threshold. At nine hours, 59 minutes and 54 seconds, we fall below the 10 hours of sunlight that vegetables need to grow.

Stuck in a time warp, they are unable to gather sufficient sunlight energy.

While taking advantage of this can be a useful trick for extending your harvest window, unfortunately we will have not matured our head of broccoli, cauliflower or cabbage. In fact, as we approach this date, our plants become less vigorous, an open invitation to aphids and other pests. Fail.

Scenario #2; Get started in summer With the above math in hand, let’s assume an adjusted DTM of 85 days for our “heavy” fall crops. Let’s also aim to have them finished by the mid-October, so we can take advantage of some secondary floret creation in our broccoli and cauliflower.

For a harvest date of October 15, we must start seeds August 1. And for you, dear reader, that means you need to gather your seeds, soil and supplies this month.

The easy method: Start your plants indoors. All fall crops germinate and appreciate growing at the same temperature as a climate controlled human residence. No need for heat mats—it’s much easier than starting heat-loving crops in the spring. Transplant sturdy seedlings

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outside in September, four weeks after germination. For all the info you need on starting seeds indoors, read my very first article written for CATALYST HERE: The “let’s get crazy” method: Let’s do this outside. What hoops and plastic are to spring, shade cloth and misters are to summer. To grow cool weather crops in summer, one must drop the temperature and raise the humidity. The most straightforward approach is with shade cloth and misters.

Choose a spot in your garden that gets ample morning sun, full midday sun, and afternoon shade. If you are starting plants in pots, make sure they are elevated off the ground; I prefer pallets, staked three-high. This ensures air flow and helps keep soil temperatures down, and deters pests such as earwigs who will take full advantage of tight,

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To grow cool weather crops in summer, one must drop the temperature and raise the humidity. The most straightforward approach is with shade cloth and misters. dark, moist spaces such as pots sitting directly on the soil.

Next, erect hoops over your growing area, as if you were building a low tunnel. Cover this with 30-40% shade cloth. (I prefer using white. Black will also work, and is

the easiest to find, but white has a much lower radiant heat transfer.)

The 30-40% shade will lower the temperature substantially, yet also provide plenty of light to grow healthy plants.

Finally, install an appropriately sized patio misting system to the underside of the hoops, beneath the shade cloth. Connect this to a faucet with a timer. I run mine for 20 minutes, three times a day; 11 am, 2pm and 5pm. This further drops the temperature, raises the humidity, and has the added benefit of irrigating the seedlings at the same time.

This season, my fellow gardener, is your time to master the elusive “heavies” of the fall garden. I commend you in advance. ◆ James Loomis is a full-time urban farmer, educator and keeper of the Old Cherry Orachard (aka OchO), a permaculture farm. He lives in Salt Lake City.

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July 2020

Stay Safe, Stay Active Streets

Salt Lake City’s transportation response to COVID-19 challenges us to reconsider what it means for a street to be “open”

BY EMILY SPACEK

“We like to say ‘open’ rather than ‘closed’ because we didn't close the streets but opened them up to bicycle and pedestrian traffic,” says Bergenthal.

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n the early phases of the COVID19 pandemic in late March, we were asked to stay at home and venture outside only to meet essential needs. We canceled plans, worked from home, drove less and itched, every day, to get outside.

Parks and trails became more and more crowded as community members flocked to open spaces.

In the Salt Lake City Transportation Department, a discussion on

recreation quickly broke out: Under these guidelines, was outdoor exercise considered essential? How could the department help residents under stay-at-home orders engage in outside recreation safely?

The city transportation department realized that people needed access to open spaces closer to their homes, but neighborhood sidewalks did not provide the space and ease needed for distanced outdoor exercise.

“This evening someone was doing a music performance in their front yard, someone else had a corn hole game going in the street, teens were playing catch.…

It’s unlike any other space we previously had in the Avenues.”

“Most of the city’s sidewalks are only four to five feet wide. If you’re trying to maintain six feet of social distancing, you really can’t walk past somebody on a sidewalk and maintain that,” says Dan Bergenthal, transportation engineer and Stay Safe, Stay Active project manager.

After studying initiatives from other cities around the country, Salt Lake City decided to invest in a temporary measure to open certain streets for community recreation while maintaining access to local traffic only. They would call the initiative “Stay Safe, Stay Active Streets.”

Exploring possibilities In April, the department conducted a week-long survey asking for resident input on which streets and which portions of streets they would prefer to have opened—“We like to say ‘open’ rather than ‘closed’ because we didn’t close the streets but opened them up to bicycle and pedestrian traffic,” says Bergenthal.

Of course, residents did not get to select from every single street in the city; the options were based on a map constructed with streets that

were determined to have good walkability potential, to make sense for the community vision of the neighborhood and to contribute to equitable access.

The project received over 6,200 responses and 3,700 comments.

While 66% of comments supported or were neutral about the initiative, some of the pushback was strong. Bergenthal says there are almost always very strong positive and negative reactions to any city transportation change.

“Please do not do this,” one respondent wrote. “You are taking away any comfort people have in their own neighborhoods to get out. These are already over-attended areas!”

Another opponent wrote, “On 4th

Ave. between K and L [streets], it is already a big block party. Kids from multiple families play together, ride their bikes in the streets, swing on the swings hanging from trees and adults have happy hour together. In many ways this street is mimicking what you are recommending….I no longer walk on 4th Avenue because I find that I am more at risk of encountering people who are not paying attention to social distancing requirements.”

“It was essentially an experiment,” says Bergenthal. “We didn’t know what exactly was going to happen when we did this. We didn’t think that we were going to get massive crowds just showing up the street

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or anything, but we couldn’t know for sure.”

An interesting experiment The team ultimately decided to try it, knowing they could easily shut the operation down if it got out of control. On April 23, they began by opening 500 North from Redwood Road to 800 West. Since then, nine other city streets have opened plus the outside lane on 900 South. No serious issues have materialized, Bergenthal says; people generally get along with sharing these spaces.

Some have complained that the initiative is not necessary because people haven’t been utilizing the program. However, data collection shows that is not accurate. In the most recent survey, for example, 800 East experienced 108 bicyclists and 23 pedestrians over a twohour period.

The Stay Safe, Stay Active project manager considers 800 East, 600 East and 4th Ave. the most successful streets based on usage counts and neighborhood reactions.

“Different streets have different personalities. But on some streets, we have people asking us to leave this for as long as we can.”

On May 25, on the Next Door neighborhood communication network, Jim Dalrymple suggested making 4th Ave. open permanently.

“For those who haven’t experienced it yet, the street is technically closed to through traffic, but anyone who lives there can of course still drive to their homes. The only difference is that now people are allowed to walk/run/cycle in the mid-

The initiative has been important for building support for other similar projects. dle of the street and cars have to share the space (which planners often tend to see as safer because it forces cars to travel more slowly and drivers to be more aware…). The result of this situation is really kind of remarkable as it opens up the space for kids to play, neighbors to chat, etc. This evening someone was doing a music performance in their front yard, someone else had a corn hole game going in the street, teens were playing catch.… It’s unlike any other space we previously had in the Avenues.”

The Stay Safe, Stay Active Streets initiative runs out of funding at the end of June and, slowly, the streets will reopen to vehicles only. Some community members have suggested it become at least a permanent thing in the summer, perhaps alternating among different streets every few weeks or some other variation.

Bergenthal says the project was intended to be temporary but thinks it’s a possibility, if neighbors are willing and funding can be found.

Either way, he says the initiative has been important for building support for other similar projects.

For example, his department is working on a multi-use trail along 900 South, several neighborhood byways in the Poplar Grove area and general improvements at major intersections to enable pedestrians greater access to walking spaces.

“We’re hoping that people will look back on this and say, ‘Oh, okay, we understand what you're trying to do here—to use our roads for more than just cars—and we’ve seen that yes, that is possible, it does work.’” ◆ Emily Spacek is a CATALYST staff writer.

If you are interested in the sustained opening of your street for greater pedestrian and bicycle usage, Bergenthal recommends that you bring it up with your Community Council. Locate your Community Council here:

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n estimated one million people pass through the doors of the Main City Library every year, logging on to the library’s public computers, checking out the latest display of new books, or simply watching the magnificent glass elevators float up and down while enjoying a warm cup of coffee.

With youngsters dragging parents by the

arm towards the children’s atrium, students and learners of all ages posted in southern-facing tables overlooking the sunlit valley, moviegoers gleefully waiting in line at the Nancy Tessman Auditorium and passersby ducking in to escape a winter’s cold or summer’s heat, the Main Library was always full of life. A place filled with so much more than just books; it was the center of something important.

Since midlibraries, inc braries and tioned their doors remai dented time new ways t needs them

-March, of course, Salt Lake area cluding City Libraries, County Lithe Murray Library, have transiservices to the virtual realm while in closed during these unprecees. Their challenge now: Finding o help serve a community that now more than ever.

The Salt Lake County Public Library System has gone exceptionally well. Usership for these online services and he Salt Lake County Public Li- eBooks has increased dramatically brary is a system of 18 free li- since early March. braries serving the population County libraries have helped throughout Salt Lake serve a gap in our comCounty, Utah. A list of munity resources by their library locations can loaning over a dozen be found on their website 3D printers to the Unihere. https://www.slcolversity of Utah’s Maribrary.org/locations/loriott and Eccles Health cations Sciences Libraries to Sara Neal, marketing help print Personal Proand communications tective Equipment, such manager at the County Li- County libraries as face shields, for Unibrary, says the initial goal versity of Utah hospital loaned 3D for most libraries was to employees. printers to U figure out the best way to On May 26, the replicate some of the County Library began a of U students to more unique experiences pick-up service where libraries offer for home print Personal patrons can reserve use. In addition to an exbooks for curbside colProtective panded collection of digilection. tal eBooks and Equipment, County Library leaderaudiobooks, the County ship is looking at limited such as face Library currently offers vircapacity opening sometual club meetings, a live shields, for time in July. According story time for children, to Neal, this would most online language learning U of U hospital likely involve people modules and other skill employees. making an appointment building courses, and to come in to browse daily phone appointments with li- books or to use library computers. brarians. Wi-Fi accessibility is free to “Libraries are a safe space for so anyone parked or sitting outside many people because they emthe buildings. They offer a virtual power them to learn more and imkids summer reading program and prove their lives in so many ways. other creative summer reading pro- Still, a lot of that rides on us being gramming for pre-readers and able to open up our doors,” Neal said. adults alike.

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The Murray City Public Library https://www.murraylibrary.org/

The Murray Library was founded in 1912, eight years after Murray incorporated, thanks to a grant for construction from Andrew Carnegie. Today, Murray is one of the few municipalities in Utah that still sustains its own public library.

The Murray City Library has embraced technology and change in recent years. The library has a successful YouTube channel full of librarian readings for all ages and a curbside pick-up program that was up and running for over a year before Covid-19 hit.

“Originally, we had put this in place for people who had a hard time getting out of their cars to

Murray Library had a successful YouTube channel full of librarian readings for all ages and a curbside pick-up program that was up and running for over a year before Covid-19 hit. come into the library—older people, people with physical disabilities, busy moms. With this already in place before Covid ever hit, it was easier for us logistically to still provide that necessary service,” Director Kim Fong says.

The next challenge is figuring out a way to safely open the library for computer use, which Fong says is

All County and City Library locations are now arranging curbside pickup of books and other materials by appointment.

Stella Gilmore

the number one request she hears from community members.

“We’re anticipating that there will be a lot of people looking for work and most job applications are primarily online now.” Some people may not have the resources to fill out a job application right now because they don’t have access to either a home, school or library computer.

“Many people think of libraries as a place where you get books or movies, but access to information is something that has changed in our society and for the most part, libraries have been able to change with it.”

Planning for reopening is already underway, Fong says, though the real difficulty is obtaining the massive amount of necessary cleaning supplies to make the plan a safe reality. Still, computer-use appointments may begin by early July, health guidance permitting.

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he Salt Lake City Public Library system is a network of nine public libraries in neighborhoods throughout Salt Lake City.

A list of city library locations can be found Here.

“No one is ever fully prepared for a pandemic,” says Quinn Smith, the City Library’s assistant director of marketing and communications.

“However, I think we were sitting fairly pretty at the beginning of this.

“Our website was incredibly robust already. The big adaptation was adding Covid-specific resources that we knew would help our community—especially to combat any sort of misinformation that was cir-

They added close to 7,800 new titles to their already sizeable digital collections as eBook and audiobook usage rapidly increase by a whopping 50% through May.

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“We know that this is an important time to take a stance and while it is a potentially very polarizing situation, we know that we need to stand on the right side of history,” says Smith.

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guages, the online language learning resource the library offers, has increased by 39%; the library’s online homework help tutoring service, where any student of any age, grade or subject can connect with a certified teacher for help, has increased its usership by 126%.

It is all very exciting that these resources are still available for use via the digital world. Still, physical libraries play a crucial role in our culating in the beginning and to community. connect people to resources that we “We knew there were a number already had or knew about,” Smith of our patrons affected by the digisays. tal divide—one of them being Ultimately, the library would school children, as schools were spend countless hours planning closed: and also the elderly, as so how to address the needs of the many senior centers closed to visicommunity from as many angles as tors,” Smith explains. possible. Executive diWith the support from rector Peter Bromberg Friends of the City Liagrees that the transibrary, a separate 501c3 tion to doing so virtuwhich donated hunally was smooth, dreds of used books thanks to the incredipreviously intended for ble hard work and the annual April book adaptability of the lisale, Quinn Smith has brary staff. been working with variSoon, slcpl.org had a ous nonprofits to dis“Social justice full Covid page topped tribute books to senior with COVID-19 upis baked into living residences, dodates, links to finding them to the foster our professional nate additional health recare system and drop sources, homework them off at shelters ethics,” help options for chilthe city.

Bromberg says. across dren and emotional Currently, Meals on support resources for Wheels is distributing adadults and teens. ditional library-donated books during Bromberg says they added close their lunch services. Neighbors Helping to 7,800 new titles to their already Neighbors has gotten involved with sizeable digital collections as he helping to drop off books to the elderly watched eBook and audiobook or immunocompromised and even inusage rapidly increase by a whop- dividual library staff members have ping 50% through May. picked up books to distribute. Since Aside from reading, online learn- early May, the library has donated over ing more generally has increased 6,000 books to the community. exponentially. Usage of Mango Lan-

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den (at the downtown branch) closed to community gardeners in March but was still getting care from the library’s two employed gardeners. At the end of May, the gardeners pulled their first harvest, donating it to the Women’s Resource Center along with 400 books.

Still, Peter Bromberg says, “The physical library itself is a wholly unique space in the civic community. It is really the only place that is open to everyone, welcoming and free with extended hours and multiple locations. It’s that place where everyone can and does come regardless of socioeconomic status.

It’s where we as residents and community members rub up against each other, connect and meet people that we wouldn’t otherwise meet perhaps in our own neighborhoods.

There’s just no substitute for the space itself.”

The library is crafting a

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also as an action point in diversifying their catalog and recommendations.

“Social justice is baked into our professional ethics,” Bromberg adds.

“We welcome everyone, and we exist in some ways to level the playing field, so equity is just a huge part of the public library ethos.”

Two years ago, The City Library itself began an internal strategic planning reopening plan, though munity from here. “[Libraries] are the num- process. It’s not enough, Bromberg says it is still too early to say when it ber one most trusted Bromberg says, to repremight be implemented. public institution,” says sent ideas such as equity, Computer use access, he Smith. “We are looked to inclusion and belonging; says, certainly prioritizes as a leader, a place and institutions must refocus the need to reopen. A sig- platform that you can their time and resources nificant number of fami- come to for accurate, ap- into effecting change. It is lies and students, propriate information. We their responsibility, he particularly on the West know that this is an im- says, to now recognize the side, rely on libraries for portant time to take a urgency of the situation.

Bromberg recalls the access to computers or stance and while it is a potentially very polariz- 2017 police shooting of broadband internet In the meantime, the li- ing situation, we know Abdul Mohammed in Salt brary is working on a fed- that we need to stand on Lake City. “We used the eral grant to help get the right side of history.” Marmalade library to Within days of Salt Lake bring in a few hundred community members connected with not only com- City’s initial protests call- people to gather in soliputers and Wi-Fi, but ing for justice for George darity. We’ve had those conversaone-on-one digital skills Floyd and police brutal- community training to further increase ity, the library added a tions about immigration, digital equity throughout number of titles to their about profiling, about collection focused on global warming. the Salt Lake area.

“The library is the place Regarding racial in- racial inequality, black reequality and systemic in- sistance and white su- where we bring people together and we have these justices, issues that have premacy.

Once again, Smith says, conversations. We just been brought to the forefront of our minds due to the library must resume its need to do it now with recent events, I asked role of trusted advisor. She much more resolve and Quinn Smith and Peter says the library will make a much more focus.” ◆ Bromberg how they saw heavy shift in money to Emily Spacek is CATALYST’s staff writer. the library’s role in helping provide these reading mato heal and grow the com- terials as a resource, but

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For example, I miss teaching in- hoping will ease our stress. But we person yoga classes, but with infec- don’t have to do that.

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Still, in some ways, this new normal has been inspiring. COVID-related re- That’s because people are strictions require that we step out of walking a whole lot more. our old habits in order to protect ourselves and our communities. It seems Insight meditation (mindfulness) odd, but even though large public gatherings are off for now, I see my practice gives equal weight to sitneighbors more often than I have in ting and walking meditation. On years. That’s because people are mindfulness retreats, we alternate walking a whole sitting with walking meditation throughout the day. Not only is the lot more. practice calming and grounding, but it also allows us to appreciate the simple pleasures of walking in a new way.

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SLIGHTLY OFF CENTER

That’s news to me Print will go away.

I’m far more concerned about journalism.

I

BY DENNIS HINKAMP

’ve debated abortion with evangelicals and politics with demons of all afflictions, but I have never seen the hate, sarcasm and shaming as on both sides of the mask/no-mask issue. It is logic spiraling in on itself. It is like death threats against death threats. So, I’m done with writing about that.

I’m also sitting out another round of good cop, bad cop rallies. My father and uncle were both career police officers in St. Louis.

My father made a nice middle-class living and put up with my hippie shenanigans until I matured enough to graduate from college. He and my uncle would be horrified by what is going on now. They retired without incurring or inflicting bullet wounds in what was a pretty tough city.

What I do want to write about is journalism. I haven’t watched TV news for more than 10 minutes at a time since 19ever. I was the high school newspaper editor who went straight into print journalism in college during the Watergate era. I and my fellow word people openly mocked the TV journalism side of the program. Not that photos and video aren’t key to how we experience the world, but do we really

need a well-dressed visually gifted person to read to us?

On the self-deprecating side, here’s an old joke. Question: “Why are newspapers better than TV?” Answer: “You can’t swat a fly with a TV.” For the sake of journalistic accuracy, yes, you could. But it would be expensive and messy.

All journalism is expensive and messy now. Though I don’t watch it, I gather from the fecal storms on Twitter that the Democrats and

Local journalism entertains but it also pushes back against bad actors.

Reliable journalism is essential to democracy.

Republicans each have their own 24hour TV news channel now. If you are older than 60 you remember a time when television stations, all three of them, went off the air at some point in the evening. Given all the choices of distractions, these TV channels have had to ramp up the

shock and entertainment content.

This is a good infotainment business model, but not a great way to convey vital information. Throw in ratings and you have the perfect platform for incrementally eroding the truth.

I bought my first “eReader” thing 10 years ago when I read that the New York Times could afford to give every subscriber one for free for what it cost to print and deliver one Sunday edition of their paper. This makes sense. Cutting down trees, floating them down the river, pulping them, rolling the pulp into paper, putting ink on the paper, putting stacks of printed and cut paper into trucks and driving them to porches every morning is a glorious miracle, but probably not sustainable. Multiply this by all the newspapers and magazines in the country.

To all my peer group who love the look and feel of print spread across the table or their laps: I really do feel your yearning. But print on paper is going away. I love the large font size and bright screen for my failing eyes.

Print will go away.

I am far more concerned that journalism is going away. You don’t have to dive too deep into psychology to comprehend that people are more likely to do bad things if they think nobody is watching. Local journalism entertains but it also pushes back against bad actors. Reliable journalism is essential to democracy.

Whether in print, on a device or on the radio: Support local journalism.

I know none of this is very funny or off center but, well, look out the window. Even sports writers are tackling more socially relevant topics. ◆

Dennis Hinkamp wishes you serenity wherever you can find it. If you all have to go out to eat for altruistic reasons, do so. He just won’t join you.

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THERAPY/COUNSELING

Big Heart Healing, Dr. Paul Thielking

801.413.8978. SLC. Helping people on the path of personal growth, healing, and selfdiscovery. 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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Natalie Herndon, PhD, CMHC 7/20

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APPAREL, GIFTS & TREASURES Blue Boutique 10/20DA

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HEALTH & WELLNESS

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Utah Eckankar 9/20

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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 day-long intensives—Day of Zen—and telecourses. www.TwoArrowsZen.org

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Questing (solitary introspection in nature)

has been used by cultures, traditions, and mystics around the world for countless generations as a tool to “know thyself”. We facilitate questing programs for people seeking Self-discovery, a purposeful path, and transformation. Information online at: www.SourceWithinQuest.net

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

BY GRETA DEJONG Blue dyed thread getting wrapped on spools for weaving looms after getting dyed on rope dyeing machine.

Variation visible as thread color changes in rope dyeing machine for making denim fabric.

July 1 Average temperatures today: high 90º, low 64º. Sunrise: 6:10am. Sunset: 8:56pm.

food source to its hive mates, during which they give off an electric

July 2 Garlic at a glance: Hardneck and softneck (Allium sativum) and elephant (Allium ampeloprasum). Hardneck garlic has shorter shelf life but larger cloves and more flavor. Softneck garlic, the type usually found in stores, has less flavor but stores well. So-called charge, up to 450 volts. elephant garlic is very mild and Flowers tend to have a negative stores poorly; it is more closely recharge and will release pollen to a lated to leeks. bee even without actual contact.

July 4 Full Moon 10:44pm. Penumbral eclipse begins 9:07pm; maximum 10:29pm. Here is a model of what you’ll see (weather permitting).

July 3 The waggle dance: A figure8 strutting that bees do to communicate duration and direction of a

July 5 Through July 15, plant beets, cucumbers, green onions, kohlrabi, summer squash, chard and sweet corn. July 15-31: plant beans, beets, broccoli, cabbage and cauliflower, carrots, green onions, lettuce, peas, spinach, radishes and turnips. See

more about planting broccoli, cabbage and cauliflower on p. 26.

July 6 You can also plant beans through mid-month. Begin harvesting seven to 14 days after flowering.

If picked regularly, the plant will continue to produce (two-three weeks for bush varieties, five-six weeks for pole beans). Eat fresh, pickle and freeze within five days of harvest.

July 7 Rubber is the main ingredient in tires—both natural, which comes from rubber trees grown primarily in Southeast Asia; and synthetic, from polymers found in crude oil. Make your tires last longer!

Maintain correct air pressure—

check monthly. Rotate them every 5,000 miles. Have your wheels balanced and aligned twice a year or as needed.

dustries stores are taking donations by appointment only. Read about their new “touchless donations” plan here.

July 8 How to test for toxins (from animal feces, contaminated mulch or previous chemical use) in your soil or compost: Plant some cucumber seeds (follow packet instructions) in a pot of the suspect soil; in healthy soil, seeds should germinate in three to 10 days. Mark Vander Meer, founder of Bad Goat Forest Products in Missoula, says sensitive cucumber seeds are a sort of “canary in the coal mine.”

July 12 “Forever is composed of nows.” — Emily Dickinson

July 9 One reason to buy “pre-owned” denim: Growing enough cotton to make one pair of jeans requires about 1,800 gallons of water.

July 10 Zucchini is healthy and abundant now. A simple prep: Slice in half, brush with olive oil and sprinkle with salt (and herbs and

July 13 Cotton, while a natural fabric, is considered the “dirtiest” crop in regard to how many toxins are sprayed on it. About 20% of production is now GMO, with its own potential consequences.

All the more reason to buy carefully (organic cotton and hemp are more enviro-sane choices), consider re-sale, participate in clothing exchanges and, hey, what you’re wearing looks just fine! And no one sees your pants on Zoom.

July 14 What were some of your favorite books when you were a kid? Maybe it’s time to revisit a few. I’m listening to Audible.com’s Chronicles of Narnia set— more interesting than ever.

July 15 Wasps (including hornets and yellow-jackets) are the most common stinging insects. If you’ve been stung, immediately (within 20 seconds) scrape off (don’t pull out) the Parmesan cheese, if you wish). Grill stinger, using a finger nail or credit four to eight minutes per side. Yum. card. Don’t squeeze or tweeze the July 11 Yard sales are happening in stinger—that can release more the Salt Lake Valley, most with re- venom into the wound. quests or requirements for spatial July 16 If you don’t want your distancing and masks. Deseret In- homegrown tomatoes to taste

“store-bought,” keep them out of the fridge. Eat within a few days or can, freeze or dry them.

July 17 This song reminds me of my childhood.

Whole meals came out of our fruit cellar and the freezer, all year ‘round: “Taste a little love of the summer … my Grandma put it all in jars.”

—Greg Brown July 18 All spiders have fangs, and almost all spiders are venomosus. Not to worry, though. They use the venom to paralyze their prey—other insects, not you. The black widow, found in Utah, is dangerous, but slow-moving. Contrary to reputation, tarantula bites are about as lethal as a bee sting.

July 19 Best reason to wash your hands: public door handles. A (preCovid) test found a NYC Starbucks

door handle that had 31 times more germs than the subway.

July 20 NEW MOON at 11:33am.

What will you begin today?

July 21 Smokers add about three billion tons of carbon dioxide to the

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atmosphere each year.

Add in tar fumes, carbon monoxide, heavy metals and hydrogen cyanide and pesticide residues.

Why do we humans do this?

July 22 “Salary” comes from salarium, the Latin word for an ancient Roman soldier’s pay, which included a large ration of salt. Hence the expression “worth your salt.”

tonight. Best viewing is from a dark location after midnight. Meteors will radiate from the constellation Aquarius, but can appear anywhere in the sky.

July 25 The year 46 BC was 445 days long, as decreed by Roman dictator Julius Caesar. July was named after Julius Caesar.

July 29 An open container of baking powder begins to lose strength after six months; after a year, it’s done for. To test, mix two tsp. of baking powder with a cup of hot tap water. If it fizzes immediately, it’s good. If action is at all delayed, toss it.

July 30 The wings of hummingbirds move forward and back instead of up and down. Each wing can do an entire figure8 formation. In addition to hovering midair, it is the only bird that can fly backward and upside down.

July 27 How many pickled peppers did Peter pick? None. You can’t pick a pickled pepper.

July 24 Evidence that poorly managed pandemics take their time: Over 16 years, the 14th century’s Black

July 31 Average temps today: high 93º, low 67º. Sunrise: 6:23am. Sunset: 8:43pm. ◆

July 28 The annual Delta Aquarids meteor shower (July 12 to August 23) can produce up to 20 meteors per hour at its peak, which is

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July 26 The original beer recipe from 8,000 years ago in Egypt was barley and water with some bread to induce fermentation.

About 500 years ago the British added malted barley. Soon after, hops were added.

July 23 Quick and easy insect repellent: Pour some apple cider vinegar onto a paper towel and rub it over your skin. (The smell will fade as it dries.) The slightly acidic surface will make you less attractive to biting bugs. And if it fails... rubbing apple cider vinegar on the bite will decrease itching.

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une was a fury of intensity marked by protests, violence and a deepening divide in this country. July adds to this growing discontent.

Since 2016 astrologers have predicted a major shift that was going to rock our world around this time. You may think I’m talking about the election. I am not.

The global astrology has been clearly indicating a massive movement out of the stuckness of the Piscean Age and the density of so many planets being in Capricorn and finally…irrevocably… moving us into the Aquarian Age. Change is no longer just a choice. It is an obligation.

This month is marked by the intensity of the Ten of Crystals, The Tower, and Cauac. These three indicate that our fate has been sealed; now we must submit to that inevitability.

It becomes clear in the blinding light of transformation that any belief held too tightly reflects dysfunction rather than alignment with Earth’s laws.

A person exhibiting hatred, separation, cruelty and bias is no longer someone to fear, but someone to pity.

Those standing up to hate and bigotry will not be intimidated.

Death is walking among us and I do not mean COVID-19. I mean many

METAPHORS FOR THE MONTH

July

Get ready for some “divine lightning.”

BY SUZANNE WAGNER things that were cherished are going up in smoke. The fires of Cauac will burn away that which never was true, never was you, and that which belongs to another.

The Ten of Crystals, The Tower and Cauac are all about the final surrender: a type of surrender that forces you to admit your bias, your judgments and your selfishness. It forces you to tear off the clothing of your own denial that is

A person exhibiting hatred, separation, cruelty and bias is no longer someone to fear, but someone to pity. now burning.

The core issues that arise this month may feel intense and difficult, depending on how addicted you are to your position. You may lose control over the reality that you’ve so carefully built—illusion upon illusion, denial upon denial, and prejudice upon prejudice.

The raw and real truth of July will dismantle the barriers you’ve built that block your own freedom and the freedoms you’ve denied others.

Through it all, you will feel the power of love, the realization that love is the most precious interconnection among all things. We are all bound together in

a common goal for change.

The people searching for the right motivation have found their voice in one thing or another. Now it finally reveals the true identity of the self—a self that is aligned, not for personal gain, but for a cause that means something in the hearts and souls of those who are touched to confront and move beyond fear.

The speed and clarity with which the change comes is a type of divine lightning. Its intention is to illuminate (and thus eliminate) the illusions fashioned by the minds of people to make themselves feel powerful.

The expression of this indulgence of true-hearted freedom and love is a blessing of enormous proportions because it comes from the resolute will of the people. The true inheritors of this world are finding their kindness and goodness.

The people are finally clear that there is a pit of vipers in our government.

While they will be tremendously difficult to remove, remove them we will.

We have every intention to reclaim what is ours.

And then this country will have its Second Independence Day! ◆ Suzanne divides her time between Salt Lake City and Mendocino County, California. Her Utah visits are on hold till further notice. She continues to meet with clients virtually. Connect with Suzanne via www.SuzanneWagner.com/

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