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Armed with truth and oral traditions, the descendants of famed Lakota warrior Crazy Horse rewrote the fabled history of their acclaimed kin with help from a prophetic figure from the West.

Now, the predestined collaborators bring their book to Jackson.

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Now, the predestined collaborators bring their book to Jackson.

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This week is officially the hottest week of the summer in Jackson Hole. It has the highest average temperatures, both for the daily high and low, as well as, the all-time record hottest temperature ever recorded at the Jackson Climate Station. You could say, “it’s all downhill from here”, as far as temperatures go.

Average temperatures will gradually be getting cooler and days will also gradually be getting shorter the rest of the summer season.

The average low temperature this week is 42-degrees. As mentioned, this is the warmest overnight low temperature average that we see in Jackson, all year. Countering that, the record low temperature in Jackson this week is 24-degrees.

That exceptionally chilly July morning occurred back on July 24th, 1954. You could contrast that morning low, with another record low temperature during this week, when on July 23rd, 1994 it only got down to 61-degrees overnight.

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The average high temperature this week is 83-degrees, which is as hot an average high as we have during the whole year. The record high during this week was a blistering 101-degrees, set back on July 20th,1934. This record actually tied for the hottest temperature ever recorded in Jackson, from just a few days before, when it was also 101-degrees on July 17th, 1934.

Contrast that to the record coolest daily high temperature during this week of 57-degrees, from July 20th, 1972 and also July 23rd, 1993.

NORMAL HIGH NORMAL LOW RECORD HIGH IN 1934 RECORD LOW IN 1954

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THIS MONTH AVERAGE PRECIPITATION: .94 inches RECORD PRECIPITATION: 3.26 inches (1933) AVERAGE SNOWFALL: 0 inches RECORD SNOWFALL: 0 inches

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ummer is flying by and we haven’t had significant rain in quite some time. While this allows for unfettered riding opportunities, it also means that our trails are getting dry, dusty and blown out. This requires some modified technique and heightened awareness.

To improve traction, ensure your front tire is fairly fresh and inflated correctly. If your side knobs are torn and the center knobs have lost their square edge it may be a good time to get a new tire. Tire pressure is probably the most important aspect of getting your bike to handle correctly.

When traction is low, decrease the pressure to gain more grip. Just don’t go too low or you run increased risk of pinch flatting or rolling a tire off your rim if you run a tubeless setup. Remember that tire pressure increases as the temperature rises so you may try inflating to 1-2 psi lower than your optimal pressure before you start your ride.

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Skidding the rear tire is not an efficient way to slow down. It can be used to slightly alter direction but skidding in a straight line into a corner does nothing except destroy the trail. Go ride Black Canyon to see examples of people skidding into a corner creating a deep rut. You can follow these skidmarks past the apex out into the bushes.

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nation in legalizing recreational or medical marijuana, or even decriminalizing it. This is despite drug convictions fueling our incarceration rate at great human and fiscal cost.

Upwards of 80 percent of Wyomingites favor legalizing medical marijuana, and just a toke fewer don’t want to see people locked up for weed. It’s unlikely we’ll see legislators taking bold steps to follow the public’s desires. But there’s nevertheless movement toward incremental change— and even incremental change can’t come soon enough.

In June, a petty dealer named Kenneth Walters sold small amounts of marijuana and “spice” to an undercover cop in Cheyenne. Since the deal took place at Walters’ home near a school, he faces a mind-blowing maximum penalty of 55 years in prison.

Prosecutors regularly use the threat of absurd sentences like this to fast-track young men to prison. In this case, the DA surely knows Walters is represented by a public defender who can’t dedicate much time to his case. The defender will tell Walters to take whatever plea deal is offered him—maybe two to four years.

This might seem like a pittance compared to five and a half decades, but it’s still plenty to wreck a young man’s life.

Stripping prosecutors of their ability to use the threat of insane sentences like this might be dissatisfying for folks hoping for total legalization. But slowing down the machine that churns up young men like Walters would do great good.

During each of the past two Legislative sessions, young conservatives like Olsen have sponsored bills to decrease cannabis sentencing, which have done well despite falling short of passage.

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He’s the pastor who, in 2017, co-sponsored what would have been the worst anti-LGBTQ law in the nation. Despite his bigotry, Winters is sympathetic to criminal justice reform. This is due at least in part to his odd-couple friendship with Rep. Charles Pelkey (D-Laramie), a former Bernie Sanders delegate. Two pro-life libertarians, Bo Biteman (R-Ranchester) and Tim Salazar (R-Dubois), joined Winters and Pelkey in opposing the edibles bill.

The two generally vote to reduce government in all its forms unless it involves policing women’s bodies. Jared Olsen (R-Cheyenne) rounded out the coalition—I’m guessing the young Christian conservative attorney just likes to smoke a joint after work.

Despite the pleas of police lobbyists to pass the edibles bill, which would have levied strict penalties against anyone caught possessing “non-plant forms” of marijuana, the five lawmakers voted not only to scrap the proposal—they went one step further.

With a 5–3 vote, they executed a tricky legislative maneuver in which they swapped one bill for another—it’s called introducing a “substitute bill.” In this case, the committee swapped the edibles proposal for a bill that would have actually decreased penalties for simple possession of all forms of cannabis. It wasn’t something they earnestly hoped would become law—despite a very similar bill having gained some traction in 2017, “substitute bills” face steep challenges. Indeed, this one was never introduced for a vote in the full House.

But swapping the bills sent a message to the rest of the Legislature: Don’t expect any proposal that increases marijuana penalties to get past the House Judiciary Committee.

As this newspaper has reported, Wyoming’s marijuana laws are among the harshest in the nation. The state has neglected to join 39 others across the

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hat’s one thing an anti-gay pastor, two anti-abortion gun nuts, a former Bernie Sanders delegate, and a young Christian conservative attorney can agree on?

No joke: They all want to reform Wyoming’s marijuana laws.

The motley crew in question is a group of lawmakers on the Wyoming State Legislature’s House Judiciary Committee.

During the 2018 session, they voted en bloc not only to throw into the garbage a proposed bill that would have criminalized edible cannabis—they sent a strong message to their colleagues in support of marijuana reform.

The Wyoming Legislature has grown increasingly conservative in recent years.

Far-right newcomers tend to toe the party line when it comes to things like cutting public services and letting oil and gas companies run roughshod. But they often split with traditional Good Ole Boy lawmakers when it comes to weed.

Left-leaning legislators have been pushing cannabis reform in Wyoming for years. But they lack the clout to make anything happen without support from their Republican counterparts. As younger libertarian-types replace crusty cowboys in the state GOP, the Legislature is becoming more and more prone to ditch some of the War on Drugs’ dumbest components.

It helped that Rep. Dan Kirkbride (R-Chugwater) was absent the day the edibles bill came in front of the House Judiciary Committee. The committee’s chairman seems like the type of fuddy-duddy who wears a Wee Willie Winkie-style cap to bed. Kirkbride told WyoFile: “I’m not very friendly toward marijuana getting its foot in the door in Wyoming. One of the things they talk about is how the strength of this stuff has increased since the ’70s and ’80s. I’m a bit old-school. I feel threatened by that.”

In Kirkbride’s absence, Rep. Nathan Winters (R-Thermopolis) ran the meeting.

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heers and applause filled a crowded Town Hall and rainbow flags emerged from backpacks and purses on Monday evening when Jackson Town Council unanimously approved an LGBTQ non-discrimination ordinance.

The law makes it illegal for people to discriminate against someone based on sexual orientation or gender identity in employment, housing and public accommodation. Offenders could be fined up to $750 per day.

Nearly 80 people crammed into town chambers and stretched into the lobby in anticipation of the council’s vote during the ordinance’s third reading.

Weeks before, councilors showed no sign of resistance during the first and second readings, voting unanimously to move the ordinance forward even amid increased opposition at the second reading.

“Tonight I am proud of our community. We are standing up for equality in the Equality State,” Councilor Jim

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Stanford told the crowd on Monday.

The three readings drew a mix of locals and people from across the state— civil rights advocates from Laramie and Cheyenne, religious and Republican opponents from Thayne, Cody and Evanston.

Twenty-five citizens delivered 70 minutes of public comments on Monday.

Those comments were largely in support—18 spoke in favor and seven were against, often citing religious freedom and the fear that the ordinance would create a “special class” of people.

The ordinance’s third reading happened during Town Council’s regular Monday night meeting, which meant other items were on the docket. When it was time to discuss the ordinance, the audience makeup shifted from predominantly older people to a diverse mix of 20- to 50-somethings. It signaled both Jackson’s increasing faction of civically-engaged young people and the community’s broad appetite to see the ordinance’s passage.

Councilor Don Frank described those attendees, some who discussed enduring violence and harassment for being queer in Wyoming, as “loving, beautiful, shining hearts.” They have respect and understanding for each other, he said.

He also addressed opponents, saying he respects and understands that not everyone can embrace the ordinance.

But Town Council is “doing what we are charged to do and that is to come together and sincerely express our hopes and dreams. I will protect the rights of all people, of all dispositions, and I do not feel that I am creating a special class.”

Special rights, civil rights and Wyoming

That the ordinance would create “a special class” of people was a key concern raised by critics at all three readings. “I’m worried about discriminating against others,” Dan Brophy told the council on Monday. “Special rights of any group diminish the rights of someone else.”

Advocates answered such critiques

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by explaining what laws are on Stech, who delivered to the the books in Wyoming and what council a Change.org petition local and state statutes lack. that garnered 1,799 signatures in It is already illegal to dissupport of the ordinance, spoke criminate against someone for of working in human services for race, religion, sex, disability, 20 years. As a counselor serving age or veteran status, advocate young people, “some of the topMatt Stech said. This ordinance ics that came up were coming would simply add sexual orienout to parents, verbal harasstation and gender identity to that ment for not conforming to genlist. der norms, suicidal thoughts In Wyoming, advocates say and behaviors, being sexually local NDO ordinances hold assaulted by a group of peers.” additional weight. There are These conversations speak to no federal anti-discrimination the damage and discrimination protections for LGBTQ people, that LGBTQ people face, he said. so the onus falls on municipalOpponents worried that ities and states to enact laws, the ordinance would infringe Sabrina King, of the Wyoming on their religious freedom.

Civil Liberties Union, told Planet Reverend David Bott of Jackson’s Jackson Hole.

Redeemer Lutheran Church said Kenzie Reed and Mark Houser of Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays embrace. Houser was instrumental in placing the council’s moral code was In the “Equality State,” the a proposed ordinance in front of Town Council. He researched ordinances in other towns and mobilized residents and Wyoming Legislature has repeattaking priority over some citibusinesses to support it. edly struck down statewide zens. “You’re voting in moralinon-discrimination ordinance, Claudia sharing an East Jackson apartment.” legislation to protect LGBTQ ties—your moralities over mine, Members of the LGBTQ communi- your world view over mine, your religion people. Wyoming is one of five states, Mauro spoke about being attacked meanwhile, that also lacks a hate crime “nearly to death” at the age of 17 because ty like Jody Donovan, vice president over mine.” law. Yet the 1998 homophobic murder of her attackers perceived her to be a les- of operations at Teton Science Schools, Anne Marie Wells, an LGBTQ perWyomingite Matthew Shepard is what bian. To say “‘I am a lesbian’ is a not a said she and her wife are “vibrant” son, said morality should be common spurred landmark federal hate crime safe thing to do anywhere in Wyoming,” members of the community, but liv- ground, but history shows how long it she said. ing in Jackson as an LGBTQ person is takes for everyone to stand on the same legislation.

She was responding to Jim Genzer, a “tenuous.”

President Obama signed into law the soil. She quoted Evangelist preacher longtime valley resident who opposed Passing the ordinance is just a step, Bob Jones Sr., who said in 1960: “If you Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act in 2016, 18 language in the ordinance about a she said. “It’s not a destination but your are against segregation, then you are years after the University of Wyoming person’s “perceived” sexual identity or support makes us more likely to stay.” against God almighty because he made Healthcare and social service pro- racial separation in order to preserve student was beaten, tortured and killed orientation.

He worried that such language would fessionals weighed in on the deleterious the race... God is the author of segrein Laramie, the only other Wyoming encourage someone to take action effects LGBTQ people endure when it gation... He drew the boundary lines municipality with a non-discrimination ordinance on the books. That legislation against an employer or landlord who comes to harassment and safety. Elisa between races… Why can’t good, solid, Stephens, a psychiatric nurse practi- substantial people see this?” largely passed without Republican sup- simply did not like them.

Mauro also addressed the notion tioner, spoke about arguments made by port, including from Wyoming’s conAt the time, Jones’s words representgressional delegation: Sens. Barrasso that the ordinance would afford LGBTQ opponents during the first and second ed Christian beliefs for a lot of people, and Enzi and former Rep. Cynthia people special rights. “In some ways readings—that the ordinance would just as some today “are calling upon I believe that that is in fact true,” she embolden sexual predators to enter their Christian beliefs” to discrimiLummis.

During a recent gubernatorial said. “Right now there is a special right bathrooms of the opposite sex. nate against “LGBTQ individuals, like “There is no data suggesting that myself,” she said. Wells called the ordidebate, all Wyoming candidates aside to exempt me and any other LGBTQ from Democrat Mary Throne rejected people from any non-discrimination LGBTQ individuals are more likely to nance a bare minimum in the realm of the need for LGBTQ state protections. clause. That’s not true of race, religion commit sexual crimes; research sug- human decency.

Jackson’s own Foster Friess described or any other thing like that. Right now gests that heterosexual males are” more Mayor Pete Muldoon agreed. likely, she said. Instead, it is LGBTQ Shepard’s murder as just “one incident” you can exempt me.”

“I am impressed by and proud of our Kenzie Reed, an LGBTQ person who individuals who are the most likely community for coming together and and compared it to the episode at the Red Hen restaurant in Virginia where graduated from Journeys School in minority group to be victims of violent showing empathy and love and comthe owner asked White House Press 2016, said that as a nation “we are doing hate crimes, she said. passion for everybody. The support you Stephens said the people making are all giving to each other is impressive Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders to embarrassingly little” to protect LGBTQ leave. Both incidents, he said, damaged people. Transgender teens are 15 times “incorrect and discriminatory ‘safe- and makes me really happy to live in the credibility of the towns in which more likely to attempt suicide than their ty’ arguments” about the ordinance Jackson,” he said. “This ordinance, as peers, she said, and one-third of home- demonstrate the need for it. they occurred.

Anne Marie said, does only protect our Longtime valley pediatrician Dr. Lisa most basic rights, so I am looking forIndeed, many state lawmakers and less youth are LGBTQ. She said she has friends whose fam- Ridgeway discussed the uncertainty ward to the day when [it] is completely those vying to rest their head in the ilies have “thrown them out” for being young people face when considering useless. Until then, we need it today.” governor’s mansion are diametrically opposed to non-discrimination legisla- gay, and knows lesbian coworkers who how and when to come out to their fam- PJH tion. But LGBTQ people in Wyoming are were evicted “on an innocuous noise ilies, how it is as much a choice to be gay complaint one week after they told their as it is to be straight (in other words, it is insistent about its necessity.

During the third reading of the landlord they were not just gal pals not a choice at all).

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Armed with truth and oral traditions, the descendants of famed Lakota warrior Crazy Horse rewrote the fabled history of their acclaimed kin with help from a prophetic figure from the West.

Now, the predestined collaborators bring their book to Jackson.

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When the legendary warrior Crazy Horse was 18 years old, the Buffalo Nation gifted him with a pipe in the Black Hills. The pipe represented truth, said Floyd Clown, one of Crazy Horse’s descendants. More than a century later, the family still has that pipe, and they value what it represents as much as they cherish the artifact itself.

The truth is important and even sacred. But for years Clown and the rest of his extended family listened to the stories about their ancestor Crazy Horse.

They began in hushed whispers, but the lies and myths grew and spread and became fact. And even though Clown and others in the family knew they weren’t true, they were unable to speak up and correct the record.

Crazy Horse was many things, including a target of

the federal government, which was so threatened by the leader, his family went into hiding after a military guard killed him in 1877, Clown said.

The family’s concern about retribution from the government meant they quietly endured the stories that people—too young to even be alive at the time— inserted themselves into, or changed the outcome.

Everyone in the Crazy Horse family was taught from an early age to simply listen and walk away.

“Sometimes it made us laugh—what they assumed and how off-track they were,” Clown said.

The family knew the truth. The stories of Crazy Horse were handed down as an oral history from generation to generation, known only in the family.

In 2016, the family decided to share the truth with the world. That year, William Matson published Crazy Horse: The Lakota Warrior’s Life & Legacy, a book he wrote with the blessing and input from the family. It is more than a sanctioned biography, Matson said. It is a family’s history, told through their voices and put into print.

Matson and family members like Clown tour together to promote the book, and share the truth about Crazy Horse. They will speak in Jackson from 4 to 6 p.m. Tuesday at Valley Bookstore.

Julia and Amos Clown, parents to Edward Clown. Julia was also known as Iron Cedar and was Crazy Horse’s youngest sister. The photo was taken by a newspaper photographer upon the return of their eldest son’s body from the WWI battlefields of France in 1921. They were thefirst Gold Star family of South Dakota. (left) Black Shawl, Crazy Horse’s wife. (right)

down orally through the generations, Clown said.

It was time to share the truth with the world. But the family knew they needed help. They needed a writer they could trust, who would tell their story.

The grandfathers said help would arrive from the West, Clown said. The family prayed and Matson arrived one day from Oregon. The partnership was predestined.

“There was a purpose for him to be there with us,” Clown said.

It took Matson more than a decade to write the book. It’s now been published in foreign languages including Norwegian and German. Matson and the family have traveled the world to talk about it and Crazy Horse.

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TRUST, TRUTH AND TRADITION No matter where they go, the No. 1 question the family and Matson receive at book signings is how the partnership came to be, how a white man gained the trust of Crazy Horse’s family to tell the story.

For Matson, the book project began before he was even born. His father was in the seventh cavalry in World War II. A drill sergeant asked him who won the Battle of the Little Bighorn and Matson’s father said the Native Americans. The drill sergeant always told him he was wrong and punished him for the answer.

Matson’s father wasn’t swayed from what he knew to be the truth. He vowed one day he would write a book about the battle and make sure the truth was widely shared.

But life moved on and when lymphoma ravaged his body in 1998, he hadn’t yet written the book. Matson was at his father’s bedside as he died. He asked his son to take up the task and Matson promised he would.

It was a much harder task than Matson expected. As he began his research, Matson realized immediately

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“We made this book for our children and grandchildren,” he said. “This is so they know where they come from. It was also about waking up our nation, reminding them of the truth.”

The first thing the family wanted to clear up was to which Lakota tribe Crazy Horse belonged. People for years said he was Oglala. He wasn’t, Clown said. He was Miniconjou.

Crazy Horse is perhaps most famous to the world for his efforts against George Armstrong Custer and the Seventh Cavalry in the famous Battle of the Little Bighorn. It was the greatest defeat of the U.S. military on American soil. But what most people don’t know is that off the battlefield Crazy Horse paid attention to the tribe’s children and listened to the wisdom of its elders, and tried to lead by example, Clown said.

Crazy Horse led his people to other victories, until the U.S. government convinced Crazy Horse to turn himself in. He did so in exchange for the freedom of his people. When he realized it was a ruse, he tried to escape, Clown said. He was killed fighting for his freedom. Crazy Horse’s family went into hiding, fearful for their lives. Some changed their names.

In hiding, the family listened to the untrue stories about Crazy Horse take root. The family remained quiet and elusive until a brewing company released “The Original Crazy Horse Malt Liquor,” and the family sued the company to stop it from using the name or Crazy Horse’s likeness to sell products.

Part of the suit required the family to prove they were related to Crazy Horse, so they created a blood tree, a family tree whose branches reached 3,000 people as descendants of the Lakota warrior, Clown said.

The truth was out. People who had falsely claimed they were descendants were outed. Some of the people on the tree didn’t even know they were related to Crazy Horse and didn’t know the stories handed

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ORAL HISTORY WRITTEN DOWN Unlike other historical books, “this has no reference section, because everything in this book came directly from the blood family,” Clown said. There is an appendix with a family tree and testimony from hearings related to the family, but other historical texts and accounts weren’t used or even needed for the book. In fact, much of what had been written before about Crazy Horse was totally wrong, Clown said.

Most of those accounts weren’t written maliciously, but the stories and facts came from other sources and not directly from the family, Matson said. Writers often had preconceived ideas about Native American culture and didn’t truly understand it. There was also a language barrier. The documents many historians referenced were written by the soldiers, not the members of Crazy Horse’s tribe, Matson said.

Things were lost in translation, with people interpreting something incorrectly, but passing it off as fact.

There were complicated familial ties that people outside the tribe might not understand. Men had multiple wives, and sometimes people changed their names to mark significant occasions. They didn’t use suffixes like junior or senior. It’s not surprising people got it wrong, Matson said.

“Would the United States accept the French or Chinese version of American history?” the book asks.

“So why must our people continue to be defined by other cultures?”

The book was a chance for the family to tell their story. The family shared their stories with Matson and double checked the manuscript and gave it final approval before it was published. Crazy Horse: The Lakota Warrior’s Life & Legacy is the family’s oral history written down, Clown said.

A drawing of Crazy Horse (there are no photos ever taken of him). The drawing was made by an artist based on the description of his sister Julia Clown or known to her tribe as Iron Cedar. (far left)

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Amy and Edward Clown (parents of Floyd and pipekeeper for the Crazy Horse family). Edward was Crazy Horse’s nephew and grandson to Waglula, or Old Man Crazy Horse. (left) Left to right: Crazy Horse family member Don Red Thunder, Crazy Horse family member Doug War Eagle, author William Matson and Crazy Horse family member Floyd Clown. (right)

that there were few Native voices in history and even fewer primary sources telling the Native Americans’ stories. There were books about some of the major battles, but rarely told from the Native American’s perspective and some stories about the warriors, but the children and elders were mostly ignored. There was little about the culture of the different tribes.

One book he did find and like was about Crazy Horse, written by Mari Sandoz. The book intrigued Matson and fostered a deeper curiosity about the warrior, beyond just the Battle of the Little Bighorn.

He’d set out to truthfully document a single battle, but it became something bigger.

He read about 300 books in his research, but certain things just didn’t seem to come together or timelines or scenarios didn’t quite add up.

Matson began a quest to find Native Americans who would share their stories, but in the meantime, he continued his research and drafted a screen play about Crazy Horse based on what he’d read.

He didn’t give up on trying to find primary sources and traveled to Montana and South Dakota hoping to meet with Native Americans who might know the history of Crazy Horse, but it never quite worked out.

On a fact-finding trip to South Dakota, Matson climbed Bear Butte. On his way up the hillside he heard the voice of his deceased father telling him he needed to open his heart. Matson realized before he could demand the facts and stories from the Lakota, he needed to understand their culture and spiritual aspects to it.

After the hike, he met a park ranger who knew some of Crazy Horse’s family. When he heard why Matson was in South Dakota he offered an introduction.

Doug War Eagle, a descendant of Crazy Horse, met Matson at the door and said he knew Matson was coming—the grandfathers had said help would come

from the West and Matson had traveled from Oregon.

War Eagle introduced him to several other family members, including Clown. Matson shared his screen play script with Clown who read only part of it before he said it was “garbage” and that he would tell Matson the true story if he had a true heart.

Matson prayed with the family in a sweat lodge and passed the first test. For the next decade, Crazy Horse’s family shared their stories.

It began slowly.

And the family continued to test him at first. They told him Crazy Horse didn’t have a sister, but then weeks later told a story about a sister. Matson immediately caught the discrepancy. He passed. It meant he was listening.

The family took Matson to historical sites, like the battlefield where Crazy Horse fought in the Battle of the Little Bighorn and Fort Phil Kearney, a former military outpost in Wyoming. They also visited sites where the Native Americans once spent the winters and places that were still considered sacred. At each site they would share stories.

Matson watched in wonder as the family members would act out stories using different tones of voices to represent the different characters. If he asked to hear a story later, the same lines were repeated word for word, he said.

“I got to witness oral tradition,” he said.

Matson was a trusted family friend when Clown and others finally asked him if they wanted to write the book that would share their stories with the world.

Matson wrote the book in first person, as though the family was telling the story, because even if they didn’t write the words down, they are the ones telling it; it is their story, Matson said.

The book was vigorously fact-checked by many in the extended family who looked for discrepancies

in how stories might have been told or remembered.

With 3,000 family members, some had different versions of the narratives. Some had even started to believe some of the lies told by outsiders, Clown said.

The book took on the unexpected role of settling the final versions of stories within the family, too.

Clown loves that now everyone in the family is passing along the same stories to the next generation.

Matson and the family promote the book together.

They answer questions about the book, Crazy Horse and their own lives. The family also runs a Facebook page where they answer questions. No longer do they rely on other people to try to tell their truth. It’s their story and their history and now they share it in their own voices, Clown said.

When Matson’s father asked him to write about the Battle of the Little Bighorn, he wanted the truth to be known, Matson said.

“That was his desire,” he said. “And that is what fueled my desire, finding the truth and sharing it.”

For Clown, the book has even more significance.

Normally oral histories aren’t shared in written form, where the emotion behind the words can be lost.

“We carry our oral history in our hearts,” he said.

“It is sacred to us.”

But the book was a way to share the family story, handed-down as truth with the world, as well as other members of the family. Crazy Horse has hundreds of descendants.

This is a chance for everyone to share, defend and know their truth, Clown said. Because as Crazy Horse knew when he received the pipe more than 100 years ago, the truth is what matters. PJH

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n 1931, Glenn Exum was 18 and in a borrowed pair of leather-cleated football shoes two sizes too big the first time he climbed what would become known as the Exum route on the Grand Teton. Today the route is the most popular one on the peak.

Kim Schmitz, who would later become an Exum mountain guide and Jackson resident, made the first ascent of the Great Trango Tower in Pakistan in 1977, and claimed other significant first ascents as well.

Chuck Pratt, another former Exum guide, was a renowned Yosemite big wall climber whose resume includes the first ascent of the North American Wall on El Capitan, among other historic climbs.

They are legends in the climbing world. The pictures of them in bulky shoes, or climbing with hemp ropes are iconic, documenting their feats.

The photographs Jim Herrington took, decades after their crowning achievements, are different.

The alpinists have aged. They are posed for a portrait instead of focused on a rock. Herrington didn’t try to capture athleticism or physical prowess in his black and white images, he wanted to document the person behind the legend.

“I think modern things are documented quite often—like modern music and modern climbing,” Herrington said.

“There is no shortage of people documenting who the ‘now’ people are.”

But not many people are documenting older climbers, he said. “They were a little forgotten.”

Herrington spent nearly two decades photographing legendary alpinists like Exum, Schmitz and Pratt. The images

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resulted in the 2017 book The Climbers. It features 60 portraits of seasoned climbers like Fred Beckey, Yvon Chouinard and Bradford Washburn.

Herrington limited the project to those who climbed in the 1920s to 1970s.

He wanted to capture the generation of climbers before his time. It was a way to document the past, but also meet his childhood heroes.

“I just always wanted to time travel and exist in that world,” he said. Since time travel isn’t an option, Herrington said meeting them and learning their stories is the next best thing.

Herrington’s fascination with climbing began when he was a child growing up in North Carolina. His father kept a stack of old Life magazines, and somewhere in that pile Herrington thinks he found an issue with a triumphant mountaineer atop a peak on the cover.

Herrington became especially interested in the Sierra Nevada. He studied the history and photographs. By the time he started climbing as a teenager, he idolized the climbers of the 1920s and 1930s who put up some of the most famous routes in the region.

It was also his father’s Life magazines that inspired Herrington to pursue photography. When he finished high school, he moved to Los Angeles to study with talented photographers. He primarily shot the music and entertainment business and portraits became his specialty.

When offered a chance in 1998 to meet Glen Dawson, who made the first ascent of the east face of Mt. Whitney in 1931, he also photographed him. That same year Herrington met and photographed Doug Robinson and Jules Eichorn, California

climbing legends of the same era.

He thought he might turn his personal photography project into a magazine article one day. He planned to keep it “Sierra-centric” until he met Bradford Washburn in 2002. Washburn was the first to climb the West Buttress route in Denali and notched other notable ascents in Alaska. It became an international project when he photographed climber Ricardo Cassin in Italy in 2009, one week before he died.

The subjects in his book are people who chased and achieved greatness, sacrificing relationships and money along the way. The stories included in the book show the climbers lived their passions.

“They are people who chose a path in life and lived it really hard and enthusiastically,” Herrington said. “Now they are on the other side of something in their lives.”

The project made Herrington think about his own life. The photos are a reminder to stay present in whatever he’s doing and the images inspire him to live his life as fully as he can.

Herrington wanted to capture the climbers as they are now—old men and women.

“I think these people are beautiful,” Herrington said. “Of course they no longer have tan, ripped, fit bodies, but this is where we are all headed—if we are so lucky.” PJH

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he incident itself was startling and horrifying, but barely made the news outside of Salt Lake City. On a sunny afternoon in late April 2012, a homeless man born in Vietnam bought a knife and began attacking white men in a shopping mall, screaming, “You killed my people! Why did you kill my people?”

Kiet Thanh Ly was indeed born in Vietnam, but three years after the war ended. He came here as a baby. As mass attacks go, his was relatively minor; he stabbed and critically injured two men before he was subdued by a man with a concealed weapons permit. Today he is serving two long prison terms for attempted murder, and has been all but forgotten.

But poet Paisley Rekdal was haunted by the incident and has used it as a basis for a profound meditation not only on the continuing legacy of Vietnam, as the subtitle says, but on a wide variety of issues in many forms, from the immigrant’s place in the world to the profound nature of trauma to the shabby treatment the American society too often provides the mentally ill.

“What if trauma and violence are not psychic breaks with history, but violent attempts to reengage with it?” she asks. Rekdal, a professor of English at the University of Utah, is also an

award-winning poet, who uses a poet’s disciplined economy of language to convey more in barely 160 pages of text than another book might at twice the length. The author knows something about living in two worlds; she herself is half Chinese.

But, as she quickly notes, she was not an immigrant and never felt torn between two nations, though she was always aware she was different; as she notes here, “understanding your identity is not … .as simple as looking to other groups to choose your race and gender roles.”

Indeed not—especially when it comes to Vietnam. Virtually all of those who came from Vietnam, or whose parents were part of the flotsam of that war are torn, often in multiple ways, scarred as this nation itself remains scarred by what was our longest, most unsuccessful, and most traumatic conflict.

There are many facets to this deceptively simple-appearing book, including some stunning evidence that it may be possible to inherit the effects of trauma and PTSD. In the end, while Rekdal’s quest to understand the riddle of Kiet Thahn Ly and our continuing relationship with the Vietnam War raises more questions than answers, any reader is bound to come away richer for having experienced her meditation on these events.

“How when war turns into war into war, am I to find its final resting place?” she asks. There may not be an answer we’ll find in our lifetimes. PJH

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his weekend marks the Utah Film Center’s annual Damn These Heels LGBTQ Film Festival. We think it’s decidedly worth the drive from Jackson. But if the open road hasn’t come a-calling, here are capsule reviews of several of the feature films that you can view on your own time.

1985: The words “gay” and “AIDS” are never spoken, but their significance hangs heavy over this restrained drama from writer/director Yen Tan. Adrian Lester (Cory Michael Smith), a 20-something man, travels from his new home in New York to his family home in Fort Worth, Texas, to spend Christmas 1985 with his conservative Christian parents (Michael Chiklis and Virginia Madsen) and younger brother, who don’t know he’s gay. As easy as it might have been to turn this into a melodrama full of shouting and recriminations, Tan opts for a kind of mournful silence through black-and-white cinematography and authentically awkward conversations.

The tone and performances might have benefited from slightly more energy, but there’s still so much that’s communicated through one long two-shot of a father and son who barely know how to talk to one another.

Close-Knit: The narrative arc feels familiar, but writer/director Naoko Ogigami builds enough grace notes into it that the emotional connections come together. Rin Kakihara plays Tomo, an 11-year-old girl whose single mother takes off with a boyfriend, leaving Tomo to stay with her uncle Makio (Kenta Kiritani) and Makio’s live-in girlfriend, a trans woman named Rinko (Tôma Ikuta). Ogigami makes Rinko a bit too much of a saintly character—she works as a hospice nurse on top of her surrogate mothering of Tomo—and there’s not much doubt about where the specific turns of the story will lead. But individual character moments are gentle and heartfelt, as Ogigami explores a variety of different mother-child

relationships and how those mothers live out their responsibilities. Tomo and Rinko communicating via cups and a string might be old-fashioned, but at least it’s communicating.

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Mr. Gay Syria: Director Ayşe Toprak’s documentary explores the unique dynamics of being gay in a repressive culture in a way that also underlines hard truths about the way we think of immigrants and refugees. The focus is on Husein Sabat, a Syrian refugee living in Istanbul, who becomes the expatriate representative in the Mr. Gay World pageant, partly to draw attention to the unique plight of gay Syrians.

Toprak finds compelling material in Husein’s double-life—remaining closeted to his parents, even being married with a young daughter—and the fear of violence that drove him from his home. We also see, through Husein and other secondary stories, the challenges of being unwanted anywhere, whether it’s because of nationality or because of sexual orientation, as anxious nations refuse people entry or asylum. It’s a narrative that puts a face on the way that going to a new country can be a matter of life or death. PJH

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Ideal Home: There’s a minimum threshold of comedic enjoyment you’re going to get out of anything starring Steve Coogan and Paul Rudd, but it’s a shame they’re propping up a plot that already seems quaint and dated. Coogan plays Erasmus Brumble, a cooking-and-lifestyle TV show host whose contentious relationship with his producer/boyfriend Paul (Rudd) is complicated by the arrival of the grandson (Jack Gore) Erasmus didn’t know he had, in need of a home after his dad is jailed. Coogan’s in his wheelhouse playing a self-absorbed minor celebrity, stealing a bit of the jokey thunder while Rudd plays non-straight straight man amiably.

But their relationship with their unexpected child too rarely feels like more than a set-up for the well-intentioned notion that “see, gay parents can be good parents, too.” The closing-credits shots of same-sex-parented families

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famous candy man once said, “If you want to view paradise, simply look around and view it. Anything you want to do, do it; want to change the world… there’s nothing to it.”

Willy Wonka isn’t just a man about sweets, he inspired children to follow their dreams and relish in the simple joys of life.

Walking into Mursell’s Candy Shop is like walking onto the set of the classic film.

Tucked into Gaslight Alley, this recent addition to John Frechette and Christian Burch’s artisanal shops transports you to the past. The brightly colored candies stand out against stark, thickly painted white and black stripes that run along the floor, drawing you into the depths of the candy-filled paradise.

After the death of the shop’s namesake

Mursell McLaughlin this spring, Frechette and Burch remodelled the store, but decided to keep the name in remembrance of the longtime owner and chocolatier. One thing they didn’t touch, however, was the kitchen.

“It wasn’t up to code,” explained store manager Sara Nicholson. The kitchen was grandfathered into the spot over 20 years, and the town turned a blind eye to her production of delicious chocolates, fudges and toffees. However, the story was different when ownership changed hands..

Instead of pouring copious amounts of money and time into renovations and jumping through hoops to get their kitchen up to code, the team decided to continue in the vein of their other stores.

So, Frechette, Burch and Nicholson

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and Tony’s Chocoloney, whose chocolates are fair trade and ethically made, the shop is filled with unique brands that you’ve likely never seen or heard of before.

“It’s been a lot of fun,” Frechette said, “going to research and source for the shop has been, well, a treat.”

Their house-packaged chocolates and candies are sourced from Albanie’s in Indiana. They make everything from peanut clusters to gummy bears to chocolate-covered cookie dough balls and licorice.

Other unique treats include cotton candy (with flavors like pina colada) from Oakland, California, and fudge from Utah.

They even carry sodas from Brooklyn, New York, to sweet, effervescent beverages from across the pond in France.

Given Jackson’s perennial expansion, it’s refreshing to see an old favorite with new vigor. PJH

Serving the world’s most exciting cuisine. Teton Thai offers a splendid array of flavors: sweet, hot, sour, salt and bitter. All balanced and blended perfectly, satisfying the most discriminating palate. Open daily. Located at 7432 Granite Loop Road in Teton Village, (307) 733-0022 and in Driggs, (208) 787-8424, tetonthai.com.

THAI ME UP Home of Melvin Brewing Co. Freshly remodeled offering modern Thai cuisine in a relaxed setting.

New tap system with 20 craft beers. New $8 wine list and extensive bottled beer menu. View our tap list at thaijh.com/brews. Open daily for dinner at 5 p.m. Located downtown at 75 East Pearl Street, (307) 733-0005, melvinbrewing.com.

CONTINENTAL ALPENHOF

Serving authentic Swiss cuisine, the Alpenhof features European style breakfast entrées and alpine lunch fare. Dine in the Bistro for a casual meal or join us in the Alpenrose dining room for a relaxed dinner experience. Breakfast 7:30 a.m.-10 a.m. Coffee & pastry 10 a.m.-11:30 a.m. Lunch 11:30 a.m.-3 p.m. Aprés 3 p.m.-5:30 p.m. Dinner 6 p.m.-9 p.m. For reservations at the Bistro or Alpenrose, call (307) 733-3242.

THE BLUE LION A Jackson Hole favorite for 39 years. Join us in the charming atmosphere of a historic home. Serving fresh fish, elk, poultry, steaks, and vegetarian entrées. Ask a local about our rack of lamb. Live acoustic guitar music most nights. Open nightly at 5:30 p.m. Reservations recommended, walk-ins welcome. 160 N. Millward, (307) 733-3912, bluelionrestaurant.com

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MANGY MOOSE Mangy Moose Restaurant, with locally sourced, seasonally fresh food at reasonable prices, is a always a fun place to go with family or friends for a unique dining experience. The personable staff will make you feel right at home and the funky western decor will keep you entertained throughout your entire visit. Teton Village, (307) 733-4913, mangymoose.com.

Opened in Jackson Hole by Tom Fay and David Fogg, Moe’s Original Bar B Que features a Southern Soul Food Revival through its awardwinning Alabama-style pulled pork, ribs, wings, turkey and chicken smoked over hardwood

Come down to the historic Virginian Saloon and check out our grill menu! Everything from 1/2 pound burgers to wings at a great price! The grill is open in the Saloon from 4 p.m.-10p.m. daily.

Located at 750 West Broadway, (307) 739-9891.

SNAKE RIVER BREWERY & RESTAURANT America’s most award-winning microbrewery is serving lunch and dinner. Take in the atmosphere while enjoying wood-fired pizzas, pastas, burgers, sandwiches, soups, salads and desserts. $9 lunch menu. Happy hour runs from 4 - 6 p.m., including tasty hot wings. The freshest beer in the valley, right from the source! Free WiFi. Open 11 a.m. - 11 p.m. Loacted at 265 S. Millward. (307) 739-2337, snakeriverbrewing.com.

ITALIAN CALICO

A Jackson Hole favorite since 1965, the Calico continues to be one of the most popular restaurants in the Valley. The Calico offers the right combination of really good food, (much of which is grown in our own gardens in the summer), friendly staff; a reasonably priced menu and a large selection of wine. Our bar scene is eclectic with a welcoming vibe. Open nightly at 5 p.m. Located at 2560 Moose Wilson Rd., (307) 733-2460.

MEXICAN

EL ABUELITO

Serving authentic Mexican cuisine and appetizers in a unique Mexican atmosphere. Home of the original Jumbo Margarita. Featuring a full bar with a large selection of authentic Mexican beers.

Lunch served weekdays 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Nightly dinner specials. Open seven days, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Located at 385 W. Broadway, (307) 733-1207.

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PINKY G’S

The locals favorite! Voted Best Pizza in Jackson Hole 2012-2016. Seek out this hidden gem under the Pink Garter Theatre for NY pizza by the slice, salads, strombolis, calzones and many appetizers to choose from. Try the $7 ‘Triple S’ lunch special. Happy hours 10 p.m. - 12 a.m. Sun.Thu. Text PINK to 71441 for discounts. Delivery and take-out. Open daily 11a.m. - 2 a.m. Located at 50 W. Broadway, (307) 734-PINK.

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served with two unique sauces in addition to Catfish and a Shrimp Moe-Boy sandwich. A daily rotation of traditional Southern sides and tasty desserts are served fresh daily. Moe’s BBQ stays open late and features a menu for any budget. While the setting is family-friendly, a full premium bar offers a lively scene with HDTVs for sports fans, music, shuffle board and other games upstairs. Large party takeout orders and full service catering with delivery is also available.

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researched ardently to stock their shelves with the best of the best from around the world.

“Our truffles come from Glacier, a store in Tulsa, Oklahoma,” explained Nicholson. (A portion of that store’s profits are donated to American veterans.)

When McLaughlin gave them chocolate from the shop for Christmas, Burch and Frechette fell for the scrumptious treats and eventually decided they had to be featured in their new shop. Their flavors are unique, including a delicious watermelon-feta truffle and huckleberry truffle made just for Mursell’s.

Owners of MADE and Mountain Dandy, Frechette and Burch’s taste is rooted in unique, hip goods. This new endeavour has been an opportunity for them to marry their tastes with flavor. Between artfully decorated and manufactured OmNom chocolate bars from Iceland,

Featuring dining destinations from breweries to bakeries, and continental fare to foreign flavor, this is a sampling of our dining critic’s local favorites.

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25 Stimulate 26 Petroleum source 27 Legendary rock guitarist 28 2018 Pyeongchang org.

30 Author Ferber 31 Bolt of lightning?

33 Caulking crew?

37 Building where things are taken back?

42 Within reach 43 How some dares are made 44 Major arteries 46 Impressive groupings 49 Seed cover 50 Flier’s choice 52 Sign on an available boutique?

55 Braun competitor 57 Director DuVernay 59 Comply 60 Joint for jumping 61 __-Cat 62 “Yikes!”

64 Empathetic comment 66 More than wondered 67 Serf surrounded by whales?

71 Leaves painfully 75 Wonder’s “My Cherie __” 76 __ game 77 Chemicals giant 80 Colorful fish 81 Levee 83 Org. that often strikes 85 Holiday candle holder 87 Fort Bragg lodger?

90 Crèche figure 92 Swelter 93 Bit of information 94 Avis rival 96 Former Disney CEO 98 One of a cube’s 12 99 Director Oliver to the rescue?

101 Never-used part of the house?

106 It’s stunning 107 Denny’s competitor 108 “__ who?”

109 Bowls over 111 Capital of France 115 Recovered from a knockout 118 Godzilla and friends solemnly recite?

122 Did away with 123 Taft-Hartley Act subject 124 Prurient material 125 Dinged 126 One who’s really hot 127 Inexperienced 128 Iditarod segment

24 Defender of Troy 29 Cocktail hour nibble 32 Embassy employee 33 Arrange dinnerware on 34 Time spans 35 Brazen 36 Fictional Civil War novel setting 37 Colorful horses 38 Ill-fated Houston company 39 Capital on the Nile 40 Mardi Gras acronym 41 Two-time British Open champ 45 Fleeced 47 Civil War soldier 48 Dagger of yore 51 New Rochelle campus 53 Caribbean sorcery 54 Fictional newsman Baxter 56 Cuts short 58 Cause trouble 63 Japanese seaport 65 Shot that misses everything 66 Gulf between Yemen and DOWN Somalia 1 Zeroes in 68 Tweak, perhaps 2 Uninspired 69 Apple or pear 3 Common mixer 70 Dishes from a “station” 4 Land adjoining a manor house 71 Assignment 5 Wearer of a “Y” sweatshirt 72 Tech debut of 2010 6 Like most sonnets 73 Operate using a 7 “High Voltage” band beam 8 Criticism 74 Shakespeare play 9 Canyon part featuring Ariel 10 Doc bloc 77 Clog clearer 11 Wrestle suffix 78 Like some buckets 12 Laud 79 “__ Everybody 13 Untouched serve Knows Your Name”: 14 A penalty may be served in “Cheers” theme one song 15 Triple Crown venues 81 Stoop 16 Rust, for example 82 Bays, e.g.

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ith all that competes for our attention every day, it is easy to overlook some quiet paradigm-shifting developments. There is a lot happening on two different fronts relating to a quantum leap in our evolution.

On the one hand, there are scientific discoveries related to our built-in ability to program our own DNA. On the other, there are insider reports from our secret space programs confirming research on and collaboration with non-terrestrial humanoids and their advanced technologies. The combination of the internally-sourced evolution of our consciousness and what we learn from ETs is moving us rapidly toward becoming galactic citizens.

Pushing Forward with Grace Learning such mind-expanding information may be daunting at first. Not many people are fans of discovering their core beliefs and/or much of what they learned in school are obsolete and require an update.

Yet, we are totally capable of experiencing more than one internal response at the same time. We can feel deep discomfort and at the same time be resilient enough to move forward with grace to the next level of our evolution.

Our part in becoming galactic citizens is to raise our vibrational frequency.

The key to doing this is by intentionally choosing love over fear as consistently as possible. This means opening our hearts to each other, to all living things on this planet, and to the Earth herself.

We are urged to live and act knowing all life is intelligent and sensitive. We are called to experience deep compassion for all beings everywhere including ourselves, and to practice forgiveness. It is not accidental, and it is a privilege to be living now on the threshold of an unprecedented evolutionary opportunity. Get hip to these paradigm-shifting developments.

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On the technological side, a growing number of insiders from secret space research programs are speaking out. Some of these people include Corey Goode, Emery Smith and the late William Thompkins. According to them, the following is true: the secret programs have ongoing collaboration with non-terrestrial humanoids. They have learned to travel off-planet and have established human colonies in our solar system. And these programs have a repertoire of advanced ET technologies.

The humanitarian purpose motivating disclosure by the many courageous insiders is to give us the knowledge about repressed ET technologies for life extension, healing all diseases, increasing intelligence, expanding psychic abilities and cleaning up the environment. Insiders continue to testify that all of this already exists and needs to be made available to the public.

A reassuring note from insiders who have spent decades interacting with ETs in these programs is that most (not all) ET races are interested in helping us to upgrade. These scientists report that many of the non-terrestrial races with whom they have interacted see humans as very special beings with untapped potential even greater than their own.

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scientists writing best sellers and teaching workshops here and abroad about how to advance our evolution using our own consciousness. These researchers have revolutionized what we know about our origins, our biology, psychology and more. You might enjoy the work of these men, including Gregg Braden, author of Human by Design; Dr. Bruce Lipton, author of Spontaneous Evolution; and Dr. Joe Dispenza, author of Becoming Supernatural. They concur we all have the ability to reprogram and upgrade our DNA using the powerful energy frequencies which occur when the heart and brain are in a state of coherence.

From a more metaphysical perspective, our soul’s journey is all about the impetus to know more in our ever-evolving universe. Every time new discoveries are made about what more is possible, we have the opportunity to evolve beyond our current limitations.

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BY ROB BREZSNY

CANCER (June 21-July 22) Self-described skeptics sometimes say to me, “How can any intelligent person believe in astrology? You must be suffering from a brain dysfunction if you imagine that the movements of planets can reveal any useful clues about our lives.” If the “skeptic” is truly open-minded, as an authentic skeptic should be, I offer a mini-lecture to correct his misunderstandings. If he’s not (which is the usual case), I say that I don’t need to “believe” in astrology; I use astrology because it works. For instance, I have a working hypothesis that Cancerians like myself enjoy better-than-average insight and luck with money every year from late July through the month of August. It’s irrelevant whether there’s a “scientific” theory to explain why this might be. I simply undertake efforts to improve my financial situation at this time, and I’m often successful.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) Here are some of the fine gifts you’re eligible for and even likely to receive during the next four weeks: a more constructive and fluid relationship with obsession; a panoramic look at what lies below the tip of the metaphorical iceberg; a tear-jerking joyride that cracks open your sleeping sense of wonder; erasure of at least 20 percent of your self-doubt; vivid demonstrations of the excitement available from slowing down and taking your sweet time; and a surprising and useful truth delivered to your soul by your body.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) “If people aren’t laughing at your goals, your goals are too small.” So says bodybuilder Kai Greene. I don’t know if I would personally make such a brazen declaration, but I do think it’s worth considering—especially for you right now. You’re entering into the Big Bold Vision time of your astrological cycle. It’s a phase when you’ll be wise to boost the intensity of your hopes for yourself, and get closer to knowing the ultimate form of what you want, and be daring enough to imagine the most sublime possible outcomes for your future. If you do all that with the proper chutzpah, some people may indeed laugh at your audacity. That’s OK!

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) You will never find an advertisement for Nike or Apple within the sacred vessel of this horoscope column. But you may come across plugs for soul-nourishing commodities like creative freedom, psychosexual bliss, and playful generosity. Like everyone else, I’m a salesperson—although I believe that the wares I peddle are unambiguously good for you. In this spirit, I invite you to hone your own sales pitch. It’s an excellent time to interest people in the fine products and ideas and services that you have to offer.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) Would you do me a favor, please? Would you do your friends and loved ones and the whole world a favor? Don’t pretend you’re less powerful and beautiful than you are.

Don’t downplay or neglect the magic you have at your disposal. Don’t act as if your unique genius is nothing special. OK? Are you willing to grant us these small indulgences? Your specific talents, perspectives, and gifts are indispensable right now. The rest of us need you to be bold and brazen about expressing them.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19) “Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic.”

Whenever that quote appears on the Internet, it’s falsely attributed to painter Frida Kahlo. In fact, it was originally composed by poet Marty McConnell. In any case, I’ll recommend that you heed it in the coming weeks. You really do need to focus on associating with allies who see the mysterious and lyrical best in you. I will also suggest that you get inspired by a line that Frida Kahlo actually wrote: “Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are a bourbon biscuit.” (If you don’t know what a bourbon biscuit is, I’ll tell you: chocolate buttercream stuffed between two thin rectangular chocolate biscuits.)

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Here’s what author Franz Kafka wrote in his diary on August 2, 1914: “Germany has declared war on Russia.

I went swimming in the afternoon.” We could possibly interpret his nonchalance about world events to be a sign of callous self-absorption. But I recommend that you cultivate a similar attitude in the coming weeks. In accordance with astrological omens, you have the right and the need to shelter yourself from the vulgar insanity of politics and the pathological mediocrity of mainstream culture. So feel free to spend extra time focusing on your own well-being. (P.S.: Kafka’s biographer says swimming served this role for him. It enabled him to access deep unconscious reserves of pleasurable power that renewed his spirit.)

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20) Am I delusional to advise a perky, talkative Gemini like yourself to enhance your communication skills? How SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) This mini-chapter in your epic life story is symbolically dare I even hint that you’re not quite perfect at a skill you ruled by the fluttering flights of butterflies, the whirring were obviously born to excel at? But that’s exactly what hum of hummingbird wings, the soft cool light of fireflies, I’m here to convey. The coming weeks will be a favorable and the dawn dances of seahorses. To take maximum time to take inventory of how you could more fully develadvantage of the blessings life will tease you with in the op your natural ability to exchange information. You’ll coming weeks, I suggest you align yourself with phenom- be in robust alignment with cosmic rhythms if you take ena like those. You will tend to be alert and receptive in action to refine the way you express your own messages and receive and respond to other people’s messages.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) A reader asked Libran blogger Ana-Sofia Cardelle, “How does one become more sensual?” I’ll ask you to meditate on the same question. Why? Because it’s a good time to enrich and deepen your sensuality. For inspiration, here are some ideas that blend my words with Cardelle’s: “Laugh easily and freely. Tune in to the rhythm of your holy animal body as you walk. Sing songs that remind you why you’re here on earth. Give yourself the luxury of reading books that thrill your imagination and fill you with fresh questions. Eat food with your fingers. Allow sweet melancholy to snake through you. Listen innocently to people, being warm-hearted and slyly wild. Soak up colors with your eager eyes. Whisper grateful prayers to the sun as you exult in its gifts.”

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) I swear the astrological omens are telling me to tell you that you have license to make the following requests: 1.

People from your past who say they’d like to be part of your future have to prove their earnestness by forgiving your debts to them and asking your forgiveness for their debts to you. 2. People who are pushing for you to be influenced by them must agree to be influenced by you. 3.

People who want to deepen their collaborations with you must promise to deepen their commitment to wrestling with their own darkness. 4. People who say they care for you must prove their love in a small but meaningful way.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) During the last three months of 2018, I suspect you will dismantle or outgrow a foundation. Why? So as to prepare the way for building or finding a new foundation in 2019.

From next January onward, I predict you will re-imagine the meaning of home. You’ll grow fresh roots and come to novel conclusions about the influences that enable you to feel secure and stable. The reason I’m revealing these clues ahead of time is because now is a good time to get a foreshadowing of how to proceed. You can glean insights on where to begin your work.

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