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Channeling RBG

Dem apples

Half-baked

In defense of feminism in the Zoom age p4

What to do when life gives you 92 tons of apples p8

Embracing the oxymoron that is arugula salad pizza p10

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4 La Vida Local

Channeling RBG

4 Thumbin’ It

Exploring what it means to be a feminist in the Zoom era

by Jennaye Derge

5 Word on the Street 6-7 Soapbox

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8 Local News

Good pickings

What to do when the world gives you apples (tons of them)

10 Flash in the Pan

by Missy Votel

11 Murder Ink 12-13 Stuff to Do

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Salad days

13 Ask Rachel

It may seem like an oxymoron, but arugula salad pizza is all good

14 Free Will Astrology

by Ari LeVaux

15 Classifieds

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15 Haiku Movie Review

Killer instinct

On the cover: Fall colors reflect off Cascade Creek on a picture perfect day at Purgatory Flats last weekend./ Photo by Missy Votel

The best book from the greatest author you’ve probably never heard of

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friend or dog, we will accept full responsibility in a public flogging in the following week’s issue.

Although “free but not easy,” we can be plied with schwag, booze and flattery.

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Ear to the ground: “I’ve been drinking 18 hours a week.”

– Local man discussing a friend’s 18-hour-aweek pandemic Strava habit

Chalk it up

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If you’re worried about returning to the climbing gym or crag for fear of touching the same holds hundreds of others have touched, hold onto your harnesses. Researchers at CU have found that climbing chalk kills the coronavirus.

But don’t go grabbing for any old chalk. The magical virus-killing properties apply only to 80percent ethanol liquid chalk. For the study, a team at the University of Colorado tested “Secret Stuff Hygienic” liquid chalk, made by Denverbased Friction Labs.

Lead author on the study was professor of immunology Ross Kedl, also an avid climber. He became intrigued when he received an e-mail from Friction touting its 80-percent ethanol Secret Stuff Hygienic and decided to put it to the test.

Kedl, along with his team, started by wiping sterile swabs on unchalked hands and hands covered in Friction Labs’ liquid chalk. Samples were then sent off to the petri dishes, with the chalk samples coming up clean after 24 hours.

Next, they tested the chalk against the actual coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, which they had access to in a biosafety unit. (Do NOT try this at home.)

For this test, the team applied the virus to plastic film and let it dry. They applied the 80-percent ethanol liquid chalk to the film and tested immediately and after five minutes. Within seconds, 99 percent of the virus was gone. After five minutes, 100 percent was gone. They also performed the test using nothing and a sterilizing agent.

Although the test proved the efficacy of 80percent ethanol liquid chalk, Kedl warned against using anything lower than 65 percent.

“You're not going to be sterilizing," he said. It's also important to note that 80-percent ethanol liquid chalk doesn't provide lasting protection.

Instead, think of it like hand sanitizer. If you apply it at the base of a route, you'll need to apply it after lowering to kill anything you'd picked up along the way.

Nevertheless, the news should help ease minds. "If you have a gym full of people who are wearing masks and using this chalk, your chances of getting a wall contaminated with coronavirus are pretty small," said Kedl.

Kedl's team isn't the only group testing chalk's role in preventing COVID-19's spread. The Association of British Climbing Walls published a report last week that found standard climbing chalk also was effective in reducing the virus on a hold by 99 percent. The British team was not able to use the actual SARS-CoV-2 virus, instead substituting a closely related coronavirus. They put samples of the virus on plastic meant to mimic climbing holds and saw a 99 percent reduction of virus within one hour. “We are really pleased that the findings suggest chalk powder is ... unlikely to harbour coronaviruses,” virologist Maitreyi Shivkumar said.

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LaVidaLocal RBG and the ‘f’ word I had a five-person Zoom meeting with four men the other day. That’s four men and me discussing business, which really meant that it was a four-person Zoom meeting: four men discussing business. I, on the other hand, sat muted, listening to the men exchange ideas about a work project that I was supposedly taking the lead on.

I listened to them talk about my project until I unmuted myself to try to speak on my behalf and when I tried, the men continued to talk over me and make a couple jokes until my stuttering and hand-raising just became background noise and my Zoom window faded out and off the screen.

When I thought I’d disappeared completely, I started to put my hair up into that perfect messy COVID-stylish bun and that’s when, for the first time I heard my name and finally all eyes were on me.

“Look, we can all watch her fix her hair!” one of them said. Then they laughed and laughed and waited for my expected encouraging response which was, unspokenly, meant to entertain them.

The best I could do was give a thumbs up which made the men laugh even more and then I waited for them to finish so we could wrap up the meeting and I could start being productive again.

When my screen went black after the call, I was trying not to get mad. I couldn’t be mad because of all the four men, I would put my money on it that they’d all identify as being feminists. Or at least, if they were up against a firing squad they would swear to heaven and hell that men and women should have an equal voice in all Zoom meetings. I’d guarantee that they’d step up to the guillotine plate, maybe without the weighted label of “feminist,” but they would tell the executors that they thought I, too, as a woman, deserved a chance. I really believe they would, but instead, in one way or another, they muted me.

A few days after yet another man-jority muted Zoom call, the Honorable Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died, and I just crumbled. I cracked and shattered. Everything in my heart and soul hurt and I was sad and terrified all at the same time. It’s actually amazing how someone you don’t know can affect you so deeply, but when she died it felt like she was the last and only person on this Earth who was able to crawl into my computer and hit that “unmute” button on the man-jority Zoom meetings.

The last person who could have said, “excuse me gentlemen, please stop noticing her hair and listen to what she has to say.”

Please shut up and let her talk. Listen to her thoughts and ideas and stop noticing her hair and gender. Listen to her needs and rights. Please stop citing your religion and instead, cite her body as her own. Take note of her and her situation and her life and make it just a little bit easier by not forcing it down. Make it mean something; make it matter.

RBG had the ability to turn the words and pleas that have been spoken over and over by women – words that have beaten the dead horse – and she made the words matter. She sat, shoulder to shoulder, face to face with the men who wanted to mute her, and she smiled, ignored their laughter and made laws instead. So when she died in the sea of men, in the hurricane of what is our current political office, my blood ran cold and my hope for feminism grew thin.

The word in itself is triggering, “feminist” – and I guarantee that if I were to put it on my online dating profile I’d lose more potential suitors than the Rump has lost marbles. The word is interchanged with anti-men or angry women; oftentimes both because they go hand in hand.

Apparently, a “feminist” is a woman who hates men and screams about it all the time. A “feminist” takes extreme and sometimes violent actions that can be viewed as “hysterical” and disruptive. A “feminist,” they say is – ironically – very masculine. A “feminist” is loud, stubborn and closed off, but that is not a feminist. None of those things connote a feminist. Those things are just characteristics of some people in an ocean of a lot of different kinds of people.

Being a feminist doesn’t mean that I hate everything that signifies “male,” it actually doesn’t mean that I hate anything. Granted, I’m not too fond of our president, vice president, Mitch McConnell, Kyle Rittenhouse or the guy who stands in front of our local Planned Parenthood every day with a picket sign, but I don’t hate them just because their men. I hate them because they’re racists, murderers and literally running our livelihoods into the burning ground. Also, one of them is trying to stop me from getting affordable female health care. I hate that.

I’m not forcing anyone to be less of a man so I can be more of one. I enjoy wearing skirts and flirting with boys. Some of my favorite nights are snuggling with a glass of wine and popcorn to watch the long list of rom-coms that Netflix recommends to me. I cry when I’m happy, and I squeal when I see a cute puppy. But If I ride my bike faster than a man, have an opinion about anything, or pull the trigger on a joke before a guy does, it doesn’t mean I’m trying to make him feel bad about himself. It simply means that I’m good at riding bikes and I’m funny.

On the day RBG died, we lost a female voice that was listened to and wasn’t muted because she was “challenging” or “intimidating.” No one called her “nasty,” although our president did say she was too small. No one said she was “out of her mind” or called her a “fu**ing b**ch.” No one suggested she “work on her anger management problem, then go to a good old-fashioned movie.” RBG was the kind of feminist that, while the rest of us feminists (men and women) challenge the norm, she hit the unmute button on our country’s Zoom call and said “excuse me gentlemen, we have something to say,” and no one said a thing about her hair.

Thumbin’It The court-ordered removal of “temporary” director of the Bureau of Land Management and outspoken climate change denier William Perry Pendley, who has been serving for over a year without Senate confirmation More certainty for local weather forecasts, with the installation of a new radar near Bondad, a partnership between La Plata County and the Southern Ute Tribe The reversal of Trumps’ attempt to shut down the U.S. Census a month early, with a court ordering the count can continue through Oct. 31

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– Jennaye Derge

Sign of the Downfall: A spike in coronavirus cases around the world and locally in the wake of Labor Day, leading to fears of a second wave of infections and death Tuesday night’s presidential debate devolving into a debacle and mockery, with Trump bombastically blathering on over the other speakers for a very painful hour and a half Last weekend’s Walk for Justine and Peace in Cortez turning ugly when counterprotestors started heckling marchers, hurling obscenities, threats and anti-gay epithets in an attempt to intimidate

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Reused for her pleasure A 34-year-old woman who owns a factory in Vietnam just got arrested for trying to clean and resell 320,000 used condoms. After inspectors came knocking, she admitted to buying the condoms from a man in Hanoi, washing them, reshaping them, and then packing them into plastic bags for resale. But for some reason, everyone is talking about the woman who got arrested instead of the real star of this story, the man from Hanoi. Just think about it. Take all the time you need.

WordontheScreen With the free-for-all that was the first presidential debate over, the Telegraph asked, “How would you like to see the candidates square off next time?”

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“Wipe out.”

Harper

“Naked paintball.”

Cher

“Hide & go seek.”

Bodhi

Nick

“Tickle fight.”

“They should compete in ‘The Floor is Lava.’”

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ReTooned/by Shan Wells

Boebert and deep state satanists To the editor, Just how much demented tripe are we being asked to normalize? Most sources agree that QAnon is a conspiracy theory that teaches Donald Trump is battling “deep state” satanists, comprised of Hollywood figures, the media and, of course, Democrats. These alleged actors are said to be cannibals and pedophiles who, among other things, engage in sex-trafficking of children whose blood they drink.

Trump has said those who subscribe to such nonsense “love our country” (White House press conference, Aug. 19). On the other hand, the FBI has called QAnon a “potential domestic terrorism threat” (New York Times, Aug. 15). And Lauren Boebert, CD3 Republican candidate, was quoted in a July 1 article in The Guardian as saying she is “very familiar” with the QAnon conspiracy theory.

Indeed, Boebert pontificated in a June interview with “Steel Truth,” a podcast that supports QAnon, as follows: “Everything I’ve heard of Q – I hope this is real, because it only means America is getting stronger and better, and people are returning to conservative values, and that’s what I am for. And so everything that I have heard of this movement is only motivating and encouraging and bringing people together stronger, and if this is real, then it could be really great for our country,” (CBS News, July 1) While Boebert’s campaign spokeswoman Laura Carno understandably is anxious to close the book on her boss’ flirtation with QAnon, Boebert keeps opening it up again.

On Aug. 17, Boebert tweeted that Tom Hanks was “a newly minted Greek citizen” in support of the QAnon social media theory that claims Hanks became a citizen of Greece because “it classifies pedophilia as a disability,” (Colorado Times Recorder, Aug. 19.) Ha ha.

Boebert may now want to distance herself from this fringe-iest of right wing fringe groups that is QAnon.

However her initial embrace of Q does not speak well of her judgment or character. The CD3 deserves a serious person as its representative. The CD3 deserves an experi-

enced, reasonable, competent public servant. That person is Diane Mitsch Bush.

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Vote yes on 114 – wolves belong

To the editor, Wolves belong in Colorado. They belong for ethical and moral reasons because citizens want them back, and for their essential role in maintaining ecosystem health and integrity.

I was CDOW’s biological staff lead for the development of Colorado’s current wolf management plan in 2004-05, and along with work since retirement, so I have a pretty strong knowledge base when it comes to wolves.

Wolves and their prey coexisted in Colorado for tens of thousands of years before we eradicated them a mere 80 years ago. That was an action that most folks supported at the time, but in hindsight we can see it was a mistake.

Wolves strongly and positively affect ecosystems wherever they live. The restoration of wolves to Yellowstone National Park is informative. While there’s no question that Colorado isn’t Yellowstone, we can learn a lot from what happened there and throughout the northern Rockies when wolves were restored. Ecologists know that all parts of ecosystems function together in ways that we don’t understand and probably never will. Wolves helped improve ecological conditions throughout the northern Rockies, and they will do the same in Colorado.

Exterminating wolves in the last century removed an influential player in those dynamic ecological processes, and we know that we can restore them. Restoration can be done humanely and in ways that respect all Coloradans, and it’s easy: all it takes is something to eat and human tolerance. Colorado has plenty of prey for wolves, with 280,000 elk and 420,000 deer, many of them on the 16 million acres of public land (over 70 percent of the area) on the Western Slope. People can live with wolves, as folks in the upper Midwest, the northern Rockies, and across Europe and Asia have done. Many of those places have higher densities of both wolves and humans compared to what we would expect in Colorado.

Addressing some myths: • Wolves won’t wipe out elk: Elk populations in Montana, Wyoming and Idaho are higher than they were when wolves were restored in 1995. There have been some changes in distribution and behavior, but there are more elk overall.

• Humans are safe; in the last 90 years, there are only two confirmed human deaths caused by wolves in North America. For comparison, at least 40 people are killed by lightning every year in the United States, or 3,600 people in the last 90 years.

• Livestock won’t be wiped out. Wolves will kill some livestock, but wolves will not cause the livestock industry to fail. In Montana, Idaho and Wyoming, in 2015, there were more than 1.6 million cattle in counties that had wolves, and 148 of them were killed by wolves, or 0.01 percent. That’s one out of 10,000 cattle. Sheep are more vulnerable, but still depredation is at 0.03 percent or 1 out of 3,333.

• The misinformation about hydatid disease is total fearmongering. This disease is indeed carried by wolves, and by foxes, coyotes and domestic dogs, the latter being the most common source of infection in humans. The attempt to brand it as “Gray Wolf Disease” is misguided; if you want to name it after the host it would be better called “Border Collie Disease.” The reason you probably never heard of it before is that it’s not an important health issue. None (as in zero) of the thousands of biologists who have worked on wolves have ever contracted the disease. Best advice: don’t eat poop from dogs, coy-

otes, foxes or wolves.

One of the best reasons to restore wolves to Colorado is that voters want to see them returned to the state. A September 2019 CSU poll found that 84 percent of voters intend to approve wolf restoration, including 79.8 percent of those on the Western Slope, 69.5 percent of ranchers and 62.1 percent of hunters.

Anyone wanting to dive deeper into wolf issues should search “Colorado State CHCC” and spend some time exploring the excellent FAQs and fact sheets in the “People and Predator Series” that the scientists at Colorado State have created regarding restoring wolves to Colorado.

You’ll be a better-informed voter for having done so.

Proposition 114 allows voters to set public policy. When the measure passes, the people will have made their desires clear, and wildlife professionals in Colorado will then use their well-respected expertise and knowledge to implement that direction and restore a native species.

Isn’t that how it’s supposed to work?

– Gary T. Skiba, Aztec

An agent of positive change To the editor, It’s Marsha time! I’m thrilled to vote for Marsha PorterNorton for County Commissioner because she is exactly the judicious, intelligent, pro-community person we need in these times of uncertainty (it’s not as if we can continue to throw money at problems these days). Please join me in electing this salt-of-the-earth person who has dedicated her professional life to working alongside people buried in conflict so that everyone may reach great and timely solutions.

As an elected official, I experienced first-hand the ways she deftly facilitated important intergovernmental conversations. Beyond that, she is an agent of positive change and a source of empowerment in our community.

Need roads and bridges? Personal health resources? Predictable development? Renewed economy? Vote Marsha.

– Leigh Meigs, former mayor and Durango city councilor

Don’t ground the slackliner To the editor, Amidst writing countless postcards to get out the vote, the suffering of the pandemic and the increasing visibility of systemic racism in this country, I’ve come to know spontaneous, enormous joy when I go on my morning run/walk and see one of our own literally walking through the sky at Horse Gulch. Joy is revolutionary!

We need the presence of joy to do what needs to be done for our beautiful and troubled world.

These unexpected moments of delight have been treasures to me – witnessing human confidence, embodiment and love as I take a hike. When I walk from my home on the southside near Horse Gulch, I’ve stopped on my morning trek three times now to notice this man gracing us with his fluid beauty as a sky-walker. Today, I both paused and applauded from the trail below, and learned that a cease-and-desist order had been placed so he would not be venturing into the sky of Horse Gulch anymore. It was fun to shout out to him up on the ridge, as he had just completed his slackline. I’m curious to understand why a cease and desist would be necessary. I celebrate this bright spirit, in all the moments when we might be courageous and surprise each other in ways that nourish our hearts and our lives.

Let’s carry on!

– In kindness, Erin Treat, Durango

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Paging Lauren Boebert To the editor, Please participate in a Zoom forum Oct. 8 featuring candidates running for the U.S. House of Representatives for Colorado’s 3rd District, hosted by the League of Women Voters of La Plata County. The LWV is nonpartisan and dedicated to educating the public so they can be informed voters.

The LWV invited both candidates to participate in the forum. Only Diane Mitsch Bush accepted the invitation; Lauren Boebert declined.

Having reviewed both candidates’ websites to get a better understating of their positions, I was hoping that the forum would provide more details about their specific plans to address the following issues: • The pandemic has been more devastating and fatal to us because our government has gutted our social safety nets. We lack accurate tests that give us results in a timely manner; we have lost over 1,000 health-care workers, primarily from a lack of PPE. If elected, how would you begin to rectify those problems?

• How would you balance environmental protections and minimize our recurring wildfire crisis?

• The pandemic is worsening our housing situation, which is on the verge of a crisis. How would you create new jobs reducing financial hardships in our district?

• How would you make changes and improvements to our badly broken health-care system that serves adequately only those with high incomes?

I am disappointed that Ms. Boebert declined to participate. However, I would welcome responses to the above questions from both candidates.

– Jan Phillips, Durango

The ballots are coming!

The La Plata County Clerk and Recorder’s Office will being mailing ballots to registered voters Fri., Oct. 9. In preparation, the Telegraph has a slew of useful election info coming your way: • Oct. 8: La Plata County commissioner questionnaire. With sitting commissioners Julie Westendorff (District 3) and Gwen Lachelt (Distrct 2) term limited, there are two seats open on the three-person board. This is an at-large contest, meaning voters may select one candidate from each district race. Tune in while District 2 candidates Jack Turner(I) and Marsha PoterNorton(D) and District 2 candidates Charlie Minkler(I) and Matt Salka (D) weigh in on all the pressing issues and burning questions.

• Oct. 15: Ballot Cheat Sheet.

There are no fewer than 11 statewide referendums on this year’s ballot, as well as the local 9-R school bond issue. The Telegraph will try to make heads or tails out of this year’s massive Blue Book in an easy-to-digest, nonsnoozy format. *Please note, depending on available space, writer’s fatigue and carpal tunnel, this may be spread out over two weeks.

And, most importantly, if you haven’t registered to vote, get on it. Colorado offers online voter registration (www.sos.state.co.us) through Oct. 26 or you can register by mail by printing a voter registration form, filling it out and mailing it to your local election office (also by Oct. 26). You can even register to vote in person as late as Election Day, which of course is Nov. 3

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Freshly picked apples fill a bowl on their journey to becoming pie. Southwest Colorado once again is experiencing a bumper crop of apples, and the Good Food Collective is helping to make sure all that goodness doesn’t go to waste. In addition to weekly gleaning happy hours, it’s selling fresh cider in conjunction with Apple Days, on Oct. 10, and helping local residents and orchards deal with the abundance./ File photo

’Dem apples Bumper crop has pickers, growers and gleaners busy by the bushel load

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p to your eyeballs in apples? Or peaches, pears, zucchinis or quinces? The Good Food Collective is here to help. Not only does the local nonprofit offer fruit pickers for hire, it hosts a weekly fruit-gleaning club, where the volunteer fruit-picking angels come and relieve you of all your excess fruit. And, if you’re more of a do-it-yourselfer, fruit-picking kits and even a portable apple press are available for rent.

“It’s been a bumper crop for fruit for sure,” the Collective’s Executive Director Rachel Landis said Tuesday.

“Things are going crazy.”

Just how crazy? This harvest season, the GFC expects to help harvest close to 185,000 pounds of fruit and veggies – that’s more than 92 tons. By comparison, it harvested a relatively measly 118,000 pounds in 2019.

But just what to do with all that food? (For the purposes of this story we’ll stick to apples, just so we’re comparing apples to, well … you know.)

For starters, the bad apples – which aren’t “bad” in a villainous way, just blemished or unfit for human consumption – will be fed to the piggies. The GFC works with local farmers who put the produce to use on their feedlots. Some of the “good” apples will go to local cideries for the hard stuff, and some will be pressed into cider (the light stuff) for the upcoming Apple Days Festival, Oct. 10, at the Farm-

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A picker with the Good Food Collective gathers apples recently. In addition to sending some apples to local food pantries, some apples will be pressed into cider for the upcoming Apple Days Festival. It takes 18 pounds of apples to make one gallon of cider./ Courtesy photo

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ers Market. (A small factoid: it takes 18 pounds of fresh apples to make one gallon of cider.)

As for the rest, it will be given to local food banks and pantries.

“With the pandemic, we went from one in eight people being food insecure to one in three,” said Landis. “There has been a tenfold increase in demand at food banks.”

And that food insecurity is what is at the heart of the GFC, which started in 2018 as a way to shore up the regional food system and make sure good food doesn’t go to waste.

“We’re just trying to get as much fresh, healthy food to people who need it this season,” said Landis.

Part of that equation is a new industrial food dehydrator that is expected to arrive next week from Eugene, Ore. The dehydrator will be housed at Durango Artisan Foods and available for public rental as well as serving the GFC’s needs. She said the dehydrator will help extend the life of apples and other fruit on pantry shelves, which otherwise would go bad.

“There are a lot of programs that are limited to shelf-stable goods only,” she said.

The program will be called “Fruit for Good,” and Landis said there’s a chance the dried produce could eventually land on local store shelves. Proceeds from the fruit sales would be used to finance the GFC and its program. Landis said the income will help offset the organization’s depend-

ence on grants, which are not always a sure thing. “There’s no telling if grants will be available year to year,” she said.

And speaking of income, another tenet of the GFC is to pay farmers and growers for their food – the literal fruits of their labor – when at all possible. This helps keep farmers in business and the local food supply chain going. The GFC is also working to help pantries buy produce directly from the farmers.

“The goal is to get food assistance programs to buy as much produce as possible from local growers,” she said. “We’re helping them with things like, how do you buy from a farmer? It’s different from ordering off a Sysco truck.”

The GFC is also helping to advocate for local food at a state level and tap into the $1 million that is available for local food procurement. Closer to home, it helped land $100,000 in CARES Act funding from La Plata County to go to local food assistance, with a portion of the money to be used to buy food directly from local farmers. Landis said the funds will be a welcome boost to local farmers who saw part of their revenue dry up during the pandemic when restaurants and schools closed.

Although the GFC has taken over the annual Apple Days festival and local gleaning activities, Landis is quick to note these things were all in place long before her organization came along. Rather, the GFC is just part of a bigger movement of pivoting toward local food across the Four Corners and the country.

Local gleaners and pickers have been busy making sure this season’s bounty doesn’t rot on the ground.

The Good Food Collective expects to harvest about 185,000 pounds of apples this season, for use in ciders, dried fruit and even pig feed.

“It’s not just us, there’s a sea change going on,” she said. “We’re just here to help fill in gaps so we have a regional food system that’s healthy and can feed people.”

And speaking of Apple Days, this year will be the 12th annual, albeit in a smaller COVID-era format. “It’s very much Apple Days light,” she said.

Instead of the usual brouhaha at Buckley Park, this year’s Apple Days will take place at the Farmers Market on Oct. 10. There will be an apple press demo, but it won’t be allhands-on-deck as in years past. Instead, folks can pre-order their cider on the GFC’s website (goodfoodcollective.org) and pick it up that day.

And to get ready for the orders, the GFC is seeking volunteers to help harvest apples next week (sign up also at goodfoodcollective.org.)

Landis is hopeful to draw upon people hungry for social (-ly distant) engagement and some positive news for a change.

“We can’t do a massive fest, but at least we’ll get people out there and give them something real and hopeful,” she said. “It may sound silly, but it’s such a simple joy to go out and pick an apple.”

To rent a harvest kit, sign up for next week’s apple harvest or volunteer at a Wednesday fruitgleaning happy hour, go to www.goodfoodcollec tive.org. n

The hard stuff: Now not one but two options Like your cider with a little kick? per year to a friend or family There are now not one, but two opmember. Order deadline for the first tions for locally made hard cider. shipment is Oct. 1 (today!) but new Launched in early 2018, Fenceline members will be accepted throughout Cider (also known as Outlier Cellars) the year on a rolling basis. For more inwas the OG cider maker, setting up formation visit: www.fenceline.co/club base in Mancos along the idyllic banks There is also a new kid on the hard of the Mancos River. cider block, EsoTerra Ciderworks, which Started by Sam Perry and Neal opened last week in Dolores and is Wight, Fenceline uses apples from the owned by husband and wife, Elizabeth region’s storied historic apple orchards Philbrick and Jared Scott. Also capitalizfor its line of hard ciders, which are ing on the embarrassing abundance of available in its taproom or at local heritage and rare apple varieties found liquor stores. For those who don’t like in Montezuma and La Plata counties, to venture out in these pandemic EsoTerra opened in the old Mountain times, Fenceline just introduced its Sun juice factory just east of downtown. new “Cider Club.” Available for shipIn addition to a tap room, EsoTerra ping nationwide or pick up, Cider Club also offers a custom crush facility – a limembers receive three curated bottles censed and bonded winery (technically, of Fenceline ciders every four months, cider is “apple wine”) that lets other based around the seasons. The first brands make their product in the buildshipment debuted for the fall equinox, ing. coinciding with the harvest season.

“This saves them the hassle and cost Each quarterly release will also include of establishing a liquor license and the tasting notes and seasonal field obserexpense of outfitting a building, and vations from Perry and Wight. gives them the benefit of starting Fresh apples pour down the chute en route to “Since opening the doors to our small,” Philbrick said in a news release. the press at Mancos’ Outlier Cellars, which taproom in Mancos, we have always Although they got their cider-makmakes Fenceline Cider./ File photo been inspired by creating a commuing start in Fort Collins, the couple nity around the love of craft cider,” moved to Durango a few years ago and Perry said. “Our Cider Club is a portal to share our cider across launched EsoTerra with the help of the Southwest Colorado Acthe country.” celerator Program for Entrepreneurs (SCAPE). They eventually Memberships cost $59 (plus shipping) every three months and opened up shop along the banks of the Dolores River. include discounts on online and taproom to-go sales, VIP invitaFor more on EsoTerra, go to esoterracider.com. tions to future events and the option to gift one cider shipment – Missy Votel

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FlashinthePan

The raw and the cooked

by Ari LeVaux

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ost dishes are either raw, like salad, or cooked like a cake, but you can find dishes that contain both if you look. Soon, you may discover that this hybrid category contains some of your favorite foods.

The gestalt of a fish taco depends on the co-munching of cooked fish and tortilla with raw cilantro, cabbage and onions, along with sauces and cheese.

Like a good piece of jazz, all of the diverse ingredients in a fish taco all do their own things together, harmoniously.

Or consider the soothing complexity of a bowl of pho, in which the eater drops bean sprouts, herbs and jalapeño slices into the hot soup. The salad adds vibrancy and fiber to the broth, yet isn’t in there long enough to get soggy, and the meal transcends semantic distinctions like “soup” and “salad.”

Pesto on noodles. Lettuce, tomato and onion on a burger or BLT. These hybrid dishes are there if you look. But I was just minding my own business when I discovered pizza with arugula salad.

It was at one of the last parties of the before times, when nobody was wearing masks and everyone grabbed pizza from the same platter without washing their hands before, during and after dinner.

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ciously, been mixed with lemon zest.

Our instructions were to pile the pizza with arugula that had been tossed in lemon juice and olive oil, and then fold the pizza around it.

Arugula is sweet and tender but spicy, and a little can go a long way. Once, I bought a bag of salad mix at a farmers market that was half arugula, and felt cheated because it was too spicy. I don’t want to eat a bowl of arugula, or its cousin the mustard greens, any more than I want to spoon a bowl of Dijon mustard into my mouth.

The brilliance of this pizza is how it uses arugula as a mustard-like condiment, adding spice and crunch as it delivers the perky lemon vinaigrette. When eaten together, pizza and greens form a delicious continuum, bright and crisp like an autumn sunset.

Sweet peppers, spicy greens. Raw salad, cooked pizza. This dish is a study in extremes. It’s also extremely delicious.

Arugula Salad Pizza Serves 4 1 pound store-bought pizza dough 1 10-oz chevre log ¼ cup shredded Parmesan Juice and 1 teaspoon zest from one lemon 3 sweet peppers, cleaned and sliced ½ large onion, sliced ½ cup olive oil ½ pound arugula Let the chevre and pizza dough come

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to room temperature. Mix the chevre with the lemon zest and parmesan cheese in a bowl, and leave on the counter, covered.

Turn the oven to 400, and while it’s heating cut the peppers and onions. Toss them in two tablespoons of olive oil and spread them out on a cookie sheet. Roast them until the pepper skins begin to blister, stirring once or twice – about 20 minutes. When done, remove and allow to cool. Meanwhile, work on the crust.

Sprinkle some flour on your pizza pan – I use a 15 x 10 cookie sheet; a large castiron pan works too – and roll the dough around it so it isn’t sticky. Then work it into a roughly pan-sized piece. I rub it with a little olive oil to loosen it up. Make sure the pan is well oiled and slap, push, prod, squeeze and plead the dough into place.

Sprinkle the cheese mixture atop the pizza dough as evenly as you can. Then add the pepper and onion mix, as evenly as you can. Cook the pizza until the crust is brown around the edges – about 40 minutes. Use a spatula to check the bottom if you’re in doubt.

While the pizza cools, toss the arugula in the lemon juice, and roughly twice that amount of oil.

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MurderInk

Killer instinct An excellent read from an author who should be a household name

by Jeffrey Mannix

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rime fiction books are the most popular of all fiction published. And with all published books – fiction especially – big name authors fill the tent. But don’t carry the show. It’s the midlist authors who pay the salaries and the rent of publishers and foot the cash advances that attract the top names. And it’s the midlist authors who advance the entire literary genre and set the standard that the marquee wordsmiths learn from.

It’s the intention of “Murder Ink” to seek out the sleepers and find the obscure writers and off-Broadway publishers. Foreign publishers, small houses that publish perhaps a dozen or two titles a year, translations from the heart of noir crime fiction in Europe or newfound treasures from South America, Africa and Asia have been seeping into our domestic market. These make up the heart of the “Murder Ink” chronicles.

Of course, the United States has produced quality crime fiction authors, and “Murder Ink” has featured a great many of the truly outstanding ones, like Lou Berney, Greg Iles, Karen Slaughter, Sophie Hannah, John Hart and Walter Mosley, over the past two decades. And today I’d like to introduce an American author of great talent who, from the shadows, makes the show the greatest on earth.

Peter Swanson writes show-burn psychological mysteries that are unlike any others from his home in New England. He’s a writer who knows how to get out of the way and let his characters tell their chilling stories. Before She Knew Him is Swanson’s latest stunning rendering. It was released in March 2020, and like most midlist books, fell smack-dab in the middle of William Morrow’s catalogue.

I’d guess it sold well enough to everyone who has read way too late into the night any of Swanson’s other mysteries, and enough to keep Swanson at it and deserving of a hardcover print run.

The book follows Lloyd and Hen (Henrietta) Harding as they finally move into their dream house in a prideful

subdivision of West Dartford, Mass. At a potluck block party toward the end of an unusually hot summer, the Hardings meet Matthew and Mira Dolamore, their immediate nextdoor neighbors. A dinner invitation is proffered by Mia, and on the obligatory tour of the house, Hen notices a trophy among other knickknacks on the mantel in Matthew’s home office. It was a figure of a fencer in mid-lunge on top of a silver pedestal inscribed with “JUNIOR OLYMPICS, THIRD PLACE ÉPÉE.” Hen, who takes casual but ongoing interest in unsolved crimes, knows immediately that the trophy belonged to Dustin Miller, a student from Sussex Hall who was murdered 2½ years ago. Matthew had then been and was still a teacher at Sussex Hall.

Before She Knew Him is not just a clever whodunit. Matthew has his own parallel story line, admiring himself over getting away with a number of

“grudge” murders. And Hen has a history of bipolar disorder now under control with medication but with a stint in a psychiatric hospital and a criminal conviction of assault during her earlier and worst of times. Swanson has woven a very sophisticated case study of intimidation through discrimination of the mentally ill.

Mental illness – let’s call it cognitive variability – conceivably can enhance rather than distort the thinking and reasoning process, perhaps even presage events from scant clues. So when Hen describes her certainty that Matthew has murdered Dustin Miller and goes to the police and begins following Matthew, Lloyd becomes suspicious of a recurrence of Hen’s hyperactivity. Matthew, so cocksure of his tidy murdering never being discovered, knows Hen is on to him and goes to the police himself for a restraining order and with a complete history of Hen’s painting outside the lines. He then walks in on Hen, wanting to explain why he murders, because who, after all, would believe anything she would say.

Swanson has crafted a refined and enlightened tale of how establishment vilifies behavior and reasoning that doesn’t conform to naive and prejudicial expectations. This is a book that shouldn’t be missed, by a writer who should be a household name. And don’t forget to ask for your 15 percent “Murder Ink” discount at Maria’s Bookshop. n

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Thursday01 Gary B. Walker plays piano, 11 a.m.-1 p.m., JeanPierre Bakery & Restaurant, 601 Main Ave. Adam Swanson plays ragtime piano, 5:30-8:30 p.m., Diamond Belle Saloon, 699 Main. Also plays Oct. 5-10.

Sean O’Brien plays, 5:30 – 8:30 p.m., Office Spiritorium, 699 Main Ave. Meet the authors: local comic book creators Kayla Shaggy and Keith Jim, free Zoom talk, 6:30 p.m.

Sponsored by Maria’s Bookshop. More info at: www.mariasbookshop.com Laugh Therapy Open Mic, comic sign-up at 7 p.m., show starts at 8, Union Social House, 3062 Main. Show up early for seating.

Friday02 Chapman Hill Ice Rink opens for the season, public skating 3:30-5:30 p.m.; outdoor gear swap 3:30-6:30 p.m. Skate and hockey passes for sale at discounted prices.

Women’s Beginner Swiftwater Rescue Course, taught by women, for women, Oct. 2-3, on the Colorado River in Moab, Hosted by Alpacka Raft, 4Corners Riversports, Artemis Sportswomen and OARS. Register at: https://tinyurl.com/y4aus44x

Deadline for “Stuff to Do” submissions is Monday at noon. To submit an item, email: calendar@durangotelegraph.com

The Black Velvet Trio plays, 4-8 p.m., Fur Trapper’s Steakhouse at Vallecito.

Eat Local Month Harvest Dinner, Fridays thru Oct. 16, 5-7 p.m. Each week, pick up a gourmet take-out dinner from a participating restaurant, farm or local purveyor. $75 ticket includes three courses, an alcoholic beverage and a special gift. Proceeds benefit Local First and local food businesses. Tickets at: local-first.org/eatlocalmonth.

Reeder and Spencer female-duo play songs from the ’50s-’80s, 5:30-8:30 p.m., Diamond Belle Saloon, 699 Main. Also play Oct. 5-10.

Terry Rickard plays, 5:30 – 8:30 p.m., Office Spiritorium, 699 Main Ave.

They’re firing up the Zamboni at Chapman Hill Ice Rink, which officially opens Fri., Oct. 2, for a gear swap and open skate. COVID safety measures will be in place this season, including temperature checks for all who enter, social distancing and limits on the number of participants. Hockey players will be expected to pre-dress (as much as possible) and masks will be required for all, except those who are actually skating or playing. For more info., go to www.durangogov.org. the San Juan Symphony. www.sanjuansymphony.org “Dinosaur Discoveries: Ancient Fossils, New Ideas,” a traveling exhibit from the American Museum of Natural History, opening day, Powerhouse Science Center.

Blue Moon Ramblers play Americana/bluegrass, 5:30 – 8:30 p.m., Diamond Belle Saloon, 699 Main Ave.

Carute Roma plays Mancos Brewing Co’s anniversary party, 4-7 p.m., Mancos Brewing.

Joel Racheff plays, 5:30 – 8:30 p.m., Office Spiritorium, 699 Main Ave.

Virtual Road Apple Rally, Oct. 3-17, racers will use Strava or MTB Project to track and record their times on the course. Register online by Oct. 17 at noon. Take a screenshot of your results and submit by Oct. 18. Details at www.fmtn.org.

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Joel Racheff plays, 5:30-8:30 p.m., Diamond Belle Saloon, 699 Main.

Durango Farmers Market, Saturdays, 9 a.m.-12 noon, in TBK Parking Lot, across from the Transit Center.

Facemasks required. www.durangofarmersmarket.com.

Matt Rupnow plays, 5:30 – 8:30 p.m., Office Spiritorium, 699 Main Ave.

Henry Stoy plays piano, 9 a.m.- 12 p.m., Jean Pierre Wine Bar, College Drive and Main.

Gary B. Walker plays jazz accordion, 6-8 p.m., Dandelion Café, 725 E. 2nd Ave.

Free bokken (sword) and jo (staff) lessons, 9-10 a.m., Claire Viles Park. Masks required. www.durangoaikido.com

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Lacey Black plays the Brisket Cookoff, 11 a.m.-1 p.m., Farmer’s Fresh Market, 565 Goddard Ave, Ignacio.

“Black Voices and a Ballet for Martha,” virtual orchestra concert online release, 7:3o p.m., presented by

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The Black Velvet Trio plays, 3-6 p.m., Wines of the San Juan, Blanco, N.M.

Henry Stoy plays piano, 9 a.m.- 12 p.m., Jean Pierre Wine Bar, College Drive and Main.

Powerhouse Plazapalooza, 2-5 p.m., live music and local food, cash bar. Social distancing will be practiced.

Pay what you wish, with suggested donation to support STEM education.

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Rocky Mountain Ukefest Online Jam, 6 p.m., denise@rockymountainukefest.com Meditation and Dharma Talk with Eugene Cash, 5:30- 7 p.m. online at www.durangodharmacenter.org/ Rob Webster plays, 5:30-8:30 p.m., Office Spiritorium, 699 Main Ave.

Tuesday06 “Legal and Tax Considerations When Setting up Your e-commerce Website,” 9-10:30 a.m. Presented by SW Colo. Small Business Development Center. $10/workshop.

Register at: https://tinyurl.com/y57v7xd9 Leah Orlikowski plays, 5:30-8:30 p.m., Office Spiritorium, 699 Main Ave. Zoom with public defender Justin Bogan, presented by Rotary Club of Durango, 6 p.m. Email: mtnman16@gmail.com. 4

AskRachel

Write-offs, four-letter words and free samples Interesting fact: Jupiter and Saturn are going to conjunct in December. That happens every 20 years though, so I’m afraid we can’t blame this year on astrology.

Dear Rachel, I have a sudden and irrepressible urge to lower my annual tax bill. I’m thinking that the spare room of the house is actually an investment property. All these Zoom calls must mean that my haircuts are now deductible. Money’s all made up anyway, so if I drop a zero there and move a decimal point here, who am I really hurting anyway? Besides, there’s somewhat living proof that I’ll never have to pay for my sins.

What other tips & tricks do you have?

– Eternal Revenue Service Dear Tic Tax, I know nothing about taxes, but I’m in! And you’re in! If we each tell two friends, and they tell two friends, and so on, and so on, then soon everyone will be in and there’s no way the IRS can audit us all. That’s basically the herd immunity everyone keeps talking about, right?

Then we can start a huge circle-jerk of deductible expenses. I’ll consult for you, then Jimmy Noname will consult for me, and you consult for him, and we’ll all be rich. Just to be safe, let’s all run for City Council. Because you can’t prosecute a sitting councilmember.

– A non-standard deduction, Rachel

Meet the author and climate change discussion with Laura Paskus, author of At the Precipice: New Mexico’s Changing Climate, and Mountain Studies Institute, free Zoom presentation, 6:30 p.m. Sponsored by Maria’s Bookshop.

More info at: www.mariasbookshop.com

Wednesday07 Girls on the Run Fall Virtual 5k, Oct. 7-11. $15/individual, $50 for a family of four and $10/canine. To sign up or for more info, go to www.gotrwesterncolorado.org Backyard fruit harvesting with the Good Food Collective, Wednesdays, 5-7 p.m. Meet at Manna Soup Kitchen.

Bring water bottle, face mask and boxes/bags for any fruit you want to take home. Info at: goodfoodcollective.org Free bokken (sword) and jo (staff) lessons, 5-6 p.m., Claire Viles Park. Masks required.durangoaikido.com Terry Rickard plays, 5:30-8:30 p.m., Office Spiritorium, 699 Main Ave. Free circuit workout, every Wednesday, 6 p.m. lead by physical therapist Andre Botha. Masks required. Ohana Physical Therapy, 130 Rock Point Drive, Unit C in the Tech Center. RSVP at: 970-247-7895.

“Dangerous Venomous Critters,” free community education class, 4:30-6:30 p.m., Durango Rec Center. Pre-

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Specifically, initialed ones. Does anyone know what AT&T stands for? Or H&M? I happen to know what BMW stands for, but it could mean Big Machine Wheeeee! and it wouldn’t matter. All these names literally mean nothing … and yet they mean something. I say them and you picture their products. It’s freaking wizardry, man. Like, why do we even use words and stuff? Huh? – Clever Acronym Dear Initials, IKR. Except, you know, every word is an abstract construct that applies meaning similarly to people across a swath of the population. You pretty much just described the magic of language with so much wonder that I can practically smell your kush. What next, a letter about how incredible it is that the light we see in stars up in the sky traveled for hundreds of light-years just to land in your cornea?

– A four-letter word, Rachel

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Dear Rachel, It’s SO COOL that right now you can see Jupiter, Saturn and Mars all in the sky at the same time. You know what’s even cooler? I realized, staring up into the sky at the planets last night, and beyond them the Milky Way, just how incredible it is that the light we see in stars

up in the sky traveled for hundreds of lightyears just to land in my cornea. It makes me feel so special, almost chosen. Do you feel that too?

– Child of Stardust Dear Child of the Cornea, Well, what were the odds of that? Did I miss the free sample day at the dispensary or something? Hate to break it to you, but those stars scatter their light particles like buckshot in every direction. The real wonder would be if the light never reached you at all. I can help you achieve that miracle, all for a simple consulting fee that you can write off as a legitimate business expense.

– Twinkle twinkle, Rachel

sented by Durango Fire Protection District and Durango Parks and Recreation. Classes limited to 20; masks required.

Registration: tosh.black@durangofireorg or 382-6014.

Lacey Black/Dale Elliott play ragtime and honky-tonk piano, thru Oct. 5, 12 noon – 2:30ish, daily at the Grand Imperial Hotel’s Lone Spur Cafe in Silverton.

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Upcoming:

Sunnyside and Fort Lewis Mesa libraries are open, providing books, movies, music, audio books and internet service, Mon.-Fri., 2:30-7 p.m. or call 970-375-3816. Curbside service also available.

Fort Lewis College 2020 Faculty Biennial exhibit, viewing every Wednesday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. and by appt. thru Nov. 19. For info: www.fortlewis.edu/art-design/artgallery.

Durango Playfest presents “Actor’s Journal,” free recordings of original works, essays, poems, remembrances by various actors. Six new actors featured every month. www.durangoplayfest.org/actors-journal Durango Public Library Weekly Activity Kits available for curbside pickup every Tuesday. Kits include supplies for one project for preschool, elementary and teen-age students. A new kit is released every Tuesday while supplies last.

Email reference@DurangoGov.org or call (970) 375-3380.

PIVOT: Skateboard Deck Art exhibit, over 100 skateboard decks painted by 30 different Native American artists, on view by appointment through spring 2021, Center of Southwest Studies. swcenter.fortlewis.edu/

Jose Villareal plays, Oct. 8, 5:30 – 8:30 p.m., Office Spiritorium, 699 Main Ave. “Resources for Creative Entrepreneurs to Survive COVID-19,” virtual presentation, Oct. 8, 9-10 a.m. Presented by Durango Creative District, First Southwest Community Fund and Southwest Colorado Small Business Development Center. www.durangocreativedistrict.org.

Jose Villareal plays, Oct. 9, 5:30 – 8:30 p.m., Office Spiritorium, 699 Main Ave. 12th Annual Apple Days Festival, Oct. 10 at the Durango Farmers Market. Visit www.goodfoodcollective.org/ apple-days to pre-order fresh cider.

Deadline to submit items for “Stuff to Do” is Monday at noon.

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by Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): “I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself,” 16th-century author Pietro Aretino wrote. By January 2021, Aries, I would love for you to have earned the right to make a similar statement: “I am, indeed, a royal sovereign, because I know how to rule myself.”

Here’s the most important point: The robust power and clout you have the potential to summon has nothing to do with power and clout over other people – only over yourself. Homework: Meditate on what it means to be the imperial boss and supreme monarch of your own fate.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love.” Buddhist teacher Jack Kornfield made that brilliant observation. It’s always worth meditating on, but it’s an especially potent message for you during the first three weeks of October 2020. In my view, now is a highly favorable time for you to extract uplifting lessons by dealing forthrightly with your knottiest dilemmas. I suspect that these lessons could prove useful for the rest of your long life.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “My business is to love,” poet Emily Dickinson wrote. I invite you to adopt this motto for the next three weeks. It’s an excellent time to intensify your commitment to expressing compassion, empathy and tenderness. To do so will not only bring healing to certain allies who need it; it will also make you smarter. I mean that literally. Your actual intelligence will expand and deepen as you look for and capitalize on opportunities to bestow blessings. (P.S. Dickinson also wrote, “My business is to sing.” I recommend you experiment with that mandate, as well.)

CANCER (June 21-July 22): “I’m the diamond in the dirt, that ain’t been found,” Cancerian rapper Curtis Jackson, also known as 50 Cent, sings. “I’m the underground king and I ain’t been crowned,” he adds. My reading of the astrological omens suggests that a phenomenon like that is going on in your life right now. There’s something unknown about you that deserves and needs to be known.

You’re not getting the full credit and acknowledgment you’ve earned through your soulful accomplishments. I hereby authorize you to take action! Address this oversight. Rise up and correct it.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The author bell hooks (who doesn’t capitalize her name) has spent years as a professor in American universities. Adaptability has been a key strategy in her ef-

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forts to educate her students. She writes, “One of the things that we must do as teachers is twirl around and around, and find out what works with the situation that we’re in.” That’s excellent advice for you right now – in whatever field you’re in. Old reliable formulas are irrelevant, in my astrological opinion. Strategies that have guided you in the past may not apply to the current scenarios. Your best bet is to twirl around and around as you experiment to find out what works.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “Your relationship with yourself sets the tone for every other relationship you have,” motivational speaker Robert Holden says. Hallelujah and amen! Ain’t that the truth! Which is why it’s so crucial to periodically take a thorough inventory of your relationship with yourself. And guess what, Virgo: Now would be a perfect time to do so. Even more than that: During your inventory, if you discover ways in which you treat yourself unkindly or carelessly, you can generate tremendous healing energy by working to fix the glitches. The coming weeks could bring pivotal transformations in your bonds with others if you’re brave enough to make pivotal transformations in your bonds with yourself.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In her high school yearbook, Libra-born Sigourney Weaver arranged to have this caption beneath her official photo: “Please, God, please, don’t let me be normal!” Since then, she has had a long and acclaimed career as an actor in movies.

ScreenPrism.com calls her a pioneer of female action heroes. Among her many exotic roles: a fierce warrior who defeats monstrous aliens; an exobiologist working with indigenous people on the moon of a distant planet in the 22nd century; and a naturalist who lives with mountain gorillas in Rwanda. If you have ever had comparable fantasies about transcending normalcy, Libra, now would be a good time to indulge those fantasies – and begin cooking up plans to make them come true.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Scorpio-born Prince Charles has been heir to the British throne for 68 years. That’s an eternity to be patiently on hold for his big chance to serve as king.

His mother Queen Elizabeth just keeps going on and on, living her very long life, ensuring that Charles remains second-incommand. But I suspect that many Scorpios who have been awaiting their turn will finally graduate to the next step in the coming weeks and months. Will Charles be one of them? Will you? To increase your chances, here’s a tip: Meditate on how to be of even greater devotion to the ideals you love to serve.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22Dec. 21): Inventor Buckminster Fuller was a visionary who loved to imagine ideas and objects no one had ever dreamed of before. One of his mottoes was, “There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.” I recommend that you spend quality time in the coming weeks meditating on butterfly-like things you’d love to have as part of your future – things that may resemble caterpillars in the early going. Your homework is to envision three such innovations that could be in your world by October 1, 2021.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): During World War II, Hollywood filmmakers decided it would be a good idea to create stories based on graphic current events: for example, American Marines waging pitched battles against Japanese soldiers on South Pacific islands. But audiences were cool to that approach. They preferred comedies and musicals with “no message, no mission, no misfortune.” In the coming weeks, I advise you to resist any temptation you might have to engage in a similar disregard of current events. In my opinion, your mental health requires you to be extra discerning and well-informed about politics – and so does the future of your personal destiny.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “Pretending is imagined possibility,” actor Meryl Streep observes. “Pretending is a very valuable life skill and we do it all the time.” In other words, fantasizing about events that may never happen is just one way we use our mind’s eye. We also wield our imaginations to envision scenarios that we actually want to create in our real lives. In fact, that’s the first step in actualizing those scenarios: to play around with picturing them; to pretend they will one day be a literal part of our world. The coming weeks will be an excellent time for you to supercharge the generative aspect of your imagination. I encourage you to be especially vivid and intense as you visualize in detail the future you want.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “My own soul must be a bright invisible green,” author and philosopher Henry David Thoreau wrote. Novelist Tom Robbins suggested that we visualize the soul as “a cross between a wolf howl, a photon, and a dribble of dark molasses.” Nobel Prize-winning poet Wislawa Szymborska observed, “Joy and sorrow aren’t two different feelings” for the soul. Poet Emily Dickinson thought that the soul “should always stand ajar” – just in case an ecstatic experience or rousing epiphany might be lurking in the vicinity. In the coming weeks, Pisces, I invite you to enjoy your own lively meditations on the nature of your soul. You’re in a phase when such an exploration can yield interesting results.

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