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.S. Sen. Todd Young, R-Indiana, says not want to rush to judgment and because he hasn’t ruled out calling for a special doing so can allow senators to evade, or prosecutor to investigate possible ties even abdicate, their own responsibilities. between President Donald Trump’s “We shouldn’t have to subcontract,” he campaign and the Russian government. says, unpleasant tasks that promote the Young and I talked by phone just three common good. days after Trump fired FBI Director James I ask if his stated goal of getting people Comey. The FBI, under Comey’s leaderto pull together isn’t made more difficult by ship, has been investigating Trump-Russia all the upheaval and tumult produced by connections. Comey’s dismissal touched the Trump White House. off a national firestorm.

Young pauses, then says, politely, that a lot Young and I had planned to talk about of journalists ask him questions that ask him his maiden speech to the U.S. Senate, a to comment on Trump’s positions or actions. thoughtful address calling for people to He says he doesn’t want to spend time differwork together for the greater good. entiating his position from the president.

In the spirit of that talk, I say it is diffiDoing so, Young argues, runs counter to cult, if not impossible, to ignore the curwhat he wants to do, which is find places rent furor over the Comey and ways Republicans firing. Young agrees. and Democrats can work [Young] hasn’t I say that I’ve noted that together. Emphasizing difhis response to the raging of opinion, he says, ruled out calling ferences controversy has been muted. “might undermine my abiliYoung says that is because for a special ty to forge a consensus.” he is waiting for the facts I ask if it’s hard to cut prosecutor. to be gathered before he through all the noise generrenders a judgment. He adds ated by the Trump dramas that, “through all the noise,” the chair and to focus on issues that might help people. the ranking member of the Senate IntelYoung’s answer is one word —“Yes.” ligence Committee — Sen. Richard Burr, Although he is unfailingly respectful, it is R-North Carolina, and Sen. Mark Warner, impossible to miss the disdain in his voice D-Virginia — are working together to try as he speaks about hyper-partisans, both to determine what the facts are. Young Republican and Democrat, who “turn up the wants, he says, to support the work of his volume” just so they can “excite the base.” colleagues as they perform their duties as That’s why, he says, he is willing to be members of a deliberative body. patient. He is willing, he says, to wait for his Burr, I note, has been among the colleagues on the Intelligence Committee to relative few Republicans in Congress to do their work. If they need more resources refuse to close the door to calling for a to determine the facts, or if an independent special prosecutor. counsel is needed, Young says he will con“I haven’t, either,” Young says quietly. sider those options in due course.

He then talks about the practical diffiBut he will wait to learn the facts before culties of doing so — the fact that there, at he commits himself, which is not exactly a present, isn’t an independent counsel statvote of confidence the White House might ute on the books that would allow Congress wish for but speaks to Young’s sense of to appoint one. And, philosophically, he duty as a senator. says, he does not want to hurry to appoint “It is always best,” Todd Young says, “to a special prosecutor, both because he does listen a lot before you open your mouth.” N

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INDIANA CRIMINALIZES HIV-POSITIVE HOOSIERS

BY ZOIE RICHEY, THE STATEHOUSE FILE // NEWS@NUVO.NET

CIRCLE CITIZEN/CIRCLE JERK JENNIFER MCCORMICK Superintendent of Public Instruction, CITIZEN McCormick speaks and acts on behalf of Indiana’s education system and the students within it. Her public statement on NPR that it is irresponsible not to review the state’s voucher system con-

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ravis Spoor sits in the Kosciusko County Jail, accused, again, of failing to tell his sexual partner that he is HIV-positive.

The 37-year-old is facing malicious mischief charges in three counties for leaving his partners exposed to the disease without their knowledge. He faces up to two and a half years in prison on each charge.

According to court documents, at least two of his sexual partners found out about Spoor’s HIV status through a news article.

Spoor’s mother, Lisa Holderman, broke down in tears as she said her son isn’t a criminal.

“He’s lost his children. He’s lost his job.

He’s lost insurance. He’s lost his home. He’s lost his car,” Holderman told the crowd attending HIV Advocacy Day last month at the Statehouse. “We’re losing everything just to try to get my son out of jail.”

Indiana has several laws that impact the lives of people infected with HIV. In addition to being required to inform sexual partners, they can face penalties for exposing people to any bodily fluid, even those that do not transmit HIV. Carrie Foote, IUPUI professor and cochair of HIV Modernization Movement, argues these state laws are outdated and research shows they don’t prevent the spread of the disease.

In Spoor’s case, Foote doesn’t believe he intended to harm his partners. She compared Spoor’s actions to contraceptive fraud.

“There are things that can cause life-changing events in adult sexual decision-making that we don’t criminalize in that way,” Foote said.

Foote, along with the HIV Modernization Movement, is working to modernize or re-

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sidering the amount of money being spent, was to and for the people of Indiana, not her political party.

U.S. REP. SUSAN BROOKS R-IN JERK When asked repeatedly by constituents to hold a town hall meeting, staffers with Congresswoman Brooks state she prefers to meet with one-on-one with voters to answer questions. Last weekend constituents held their own town hall meeting in Zionsville and asked Brooks to attend, but she refused.

What’s up with that, Susan?

peal a few of the current HIV laws that she argues turns the disease into a crime.

But to describe it as criminalizing is completely inaccurate in the eyes of Terre Haute based Vigo County Prosecutor Rob Roberts.

“It doesn’t do the criminal justice system any service and it certainly doesn’t do people [with HIV] any service to try and scare them to think that they might be prosecuted just for having HIV,” Roberts said.

During his career, Roberts has prosecuted only one HIV case to completion. He said bringing charges against an HIV-positive person for their actions is rare.

Roberts argued the state punishes other behaviors that put people at risk.

“Criminal Recklessness — where you may be reckless in your actions in driving a vehicle or in discharging a firearm and you have put other people at risk in those situations,” Roberts said. “We criminalize those actions because it’s the action that we’re

talking about, not the status of someone being behind the wheel of the vehicle or possessing a firearm.”

However, Roberts thinks it’s a possibility that disclosure laws are one of the reasons why people don’t get tested in the first place.

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At the Damien Center in Indianapolis, more than 4,000 infected individuals receive care and services from Indiana’s oldest and largest AIDS service organization. For years, Jeremy Turner, director of development and communication at the center, has helped get people tested for HIV. “Disclosure is the right thing to do, but unfortunately HIV is so heavily stigmatized because of things like duty to warn and because of legislation that might not be fair to them, but also because of the social implications of being HIV positive,” Turner said. “Disclosure is a hard thing to do.”

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NUVO.NET/NEWS Stigma is one of the biggest hurdles in and only 43 percent knew the punishending the HIV epidemic, Turner said, ment for lawbreakers. and that’s exactly what the current HIV Those health care providers are the laws do, according to Foote. ones to make sure patients sign a form The HIV Modernization Movement’s acknowledging that they have a duty to main goal is to modernize the duty to warn disclose their condition to partners past and battery by bodily waste HIV laws. Duty and present. to warn is the law that requires HIV-posiJohn Coberg II, an IUPUI research assistive people to reveal their condition to sextant who worked on the survey along with ual partners and needle-sharing partners.

Foote, said he saw a common theme in the The battery by bodily waste law applies results — that the laws are harmful.

In the survey one to a range of acts anonymous providand bodily fluids, er wrote, “It often including spitting makes the client or throwing feces. feel like a criminal, For Foote, the or they’re dirty or main problem wrong when they’re with the duty to in my office for help. warn law is that it As a care coordicharges people who nation person, you have no intention should never want of harming another your client to feel person. She wants any of these things the law revised to when they walk in require proof that your office.” the person had When changing intent to harm. a law, Roberts said “The way these two questions need laws are worded, // DESIGNED BY KATIE STANCOMBE, to be considered: if I was sexually THESTATEHOUSEFILE.COM How is the statute assaulted, I would being used, and have to disclose to is it being used in an unfair fashion? In my rapist that I was HIV positive,” Foote Roberts’ opinion, these laws haven’t been said. “There’s nothing in the law that tells around long enough to answer these that I don’t have to do that.” questions just yet.

The movement is also pushing to repeal Roberts said it’s the job of the legislature the laws that prevent HIV positive people to look at the current laws to see if they from donating blood or semen altogether. need tweaking.

Foote said there’s no risk of transmission “We can take a look,” Sen. Greg Taylor, if a man with HIV was to seek fertility D-Indianapolis, said. services. Additionally, the Food and Drug Taylor’s focus is the current battery by Administration screens blood donations bodily waste law, since research shows for the disease.

HIV is not transferrable by saliva. He UNDERSTANDING AND wants to change the law so that HIV posCHANGING THE LAWS itive people aren’t charged differently for Results of a recent survey of health having the disease. care providers about HIV disclosure “If the chairman of the health commitshowed that the majority of respondents tee is willing to go along with it, we can had little understanding of the law or hopefully put some modern legislation the consequences. Only 58 percent of in place to protect the public but also not the more than 170 respondents said they make a criminal out of people because read the full Indiana duty to warn code they contracted HIV,” Taylor said. N 6 // NEWS // 05.17.17 - 05.24.17 // 100% SUSTAINABLE / RECYCLED PAPER // NUVO.NET

HOPE SPROUTS HERE Flanner Farms to feed Indy’s largest food desert

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MAT DAVIS (LEFT) AND BRANDON COSBY ARE WORKING TOGETHER WITH THEIR COMMUNITY TO BRING FOOD TO INDIANAPOLIS’ LARGEST FOOD DESERT. // PHOTO BY CAVAN McGINSIE

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ou have no idea how long I’ve waited to see that image right there. That, for me, is everything.”

That’s Brandon Cosby, the Executive Director of Flanner House, with a hopeful smile, gazing over an expanse of vibrant green grass.

An audience of about 20 toddlers looks on in awe as the massive orange Kubota loader digs its teeth into the ground and turns the green into brown. Within the hour, there will be no grass left, only freshly turned soil.

The soil may be littered with the bricks and trinkets of homes which were demolished long ago, but for Cosby and the neighborhood his organization takes care of, this upturned lot is a sign of hope.

Flanner House is a non-profit organization focused on helping families and individuals on the city’s near Northwestside come out of crime-ridden and poverty-stricken areas and to become self-sufficient. It also allows for people in the community who have found success to give back through volunteering and mentoring. It is located at 24th and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Streets, which happens to be smack dab in the middle of Indianapolis’ largest food desert, according to Indy Food Council. And that is a major issue, since Indianapolis as a city ranked as the number one worst food desert in the United States in 2014 by Walk Score, which ranks the walkability of cities around the country.

There is no access to fresh, healthy, life-sustaining food for nearly a three-mile radius in Flanner House’s neighborhood.

When Cosby joined the Flanner House team in April 2016, he recognized that addressing and finding a solution to this issue was of the highest priority.

“When I came on board,” he says, “fiscally, the organization was struggling and so we had a lot of internal things to take care of. But at the same time, really trying to get back to a lot of the programming that Flanner House historically used to offer that we had gotten away from for one reason or another over the last 50 years was also of the utmost importance. And we realized that our organization historically was kind of like ground zero for sustainable food NUVO.NET // 05.17.17 - 05.24.17 // THE BIG STORY // 7

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JONATHAN LAWLER OF BRANDYWINE CREEK FARMS IN GREENFIELD, IND. TURNS THE SOIL AT FLANNER FARMS. // PHOTO BY CAVAN McGINSIE

culture in the black community.”

He then turns and motions to the land we’re standing on and says, “Then, it was finally being able to turn and look and see all this green space and saying, ‘We can do this here.’ So, why not? Yes, it’s a beautiful green space adjacent to [Watkins] Park, but when folks don’t have access to food and you have this kind of land and space available, you’re morally obligated to get back to it.”

Cosby and his team set out with a mission to create a community farm that will grow fresh, organic vegetables to feed the surrounding neighborhood. And he knew right away they needed to bring on someone with a greater knowledge of farming in order to bring his vision to life — and he happened to know just the person.

FINDING THE RIGHT PARTNERS Mat Davis is a 24-year-old who grew up in Indianapolis. He grew up in a food desert — the second largest one — on our

city’s Eastside. Davis is known throughout art circles of the city for his artistic endeavors such as his creative space/open mic called Localmotion, and yet Cosby saw and knew a different side of him.

“Mat is a kid I’ve known since he was 14,” Cosby says. “I met Mat when he was a student at Arlington. He’s farmed all over the world and helped build a huge urban farm network in the lower ninth ward in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. And what’s really the amazing part of it is there is this guy walking around with this much knowledge who in the city is primarily known as an artist, but has this vast amount of knowledge that was untapped.”

Davis came on board as the Flanner House’s food justice coordinator and got to work figuring out the logistics of turning the plot of land into a working farm.

Little did they know that a new partner would come on in a serendipitous moment. Cosby shares the story of how a self-proclaimed “redneck farmer” from

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Greenfield ended up joining the project.

“My daughter [Sierra Nuckols] actually through the support of NUVO, is the young woman who started the Community Food Box project. When Jonathan [Lawler] saw the story in NUVO, he reached out to her and said, ‘Hey, I can put fresh produce in all those boxes.’

“When I emailed him [on Sierra’s behalf], he saw my last name and The Flanner House in the email and he asked if I was the guy trying to build a farm on the Westside.” And Cosby was.

Jonathan Lawler is owner and farmer of Brandywine Creek Farms. Lawler made headlines all around the state, the country and outside the country last year when he announced that he planned on giving away his entire harvest to the food insecure in Indiana. Last year he and his family gave away 420,000 pounds of fresh produce; this year he is hoping to give away even more — a million pounds.

(Editor’s note: For his efforts to address

food insecurity, NUVO awarded Lawler a Cultural Vision Award in 2016.)

Cosby continues the story of their meeting: “The idea was originally to do this last summer, but we lost some of what we thought was some secured funding to get our fence up and so we lost our growing season.

“So, as we started talking, he said he could bring some stuff to us. And I was like, ‘Oh, great. When?’ And he said, ‘Tomorrow.’

And the next day Lawler showed up with a thousand pounds of produce. “He came out, we sat and talked and gave stuff away to people in the neighborhood,” Cosby says.

Lawler says he knew he had to help in any way he could. “When I have to sit there and listen to two women who are both over 60, have both lost their husbands and talk about what type of dog food they need to buy that is halfway palatable until their next social security check comes in, you know, I’m done with

NUVO.NET/THEBIGSTORY that,” he says, looking down at the floor and shaking his head in disgust.

“And if you don’t believe those conversations happen, go to Flanner House.”

While other companies had tried to help, they hadn’t had the right vision for the project.

Lawler says, “I think there was a little

He shares a story about an urban farmer he follows on Facebook.

“One day a guy posted they had excess tomatoes and so if you bought five pounds or more, it was only two dollars a pound.

That’s ridiculous, because that farm, on [the farm’s] website it says [they promote] food access. But, food access is not just by location, it’s also financially feasible.

“When I have to sit there and listen to two Two dollars a pound is retail price to women who are both over 60, have both me, but no one in lost their husbands and talk about what this area can afford type of dog food they need to buy that is that.”

Davis shares halfway palatable until their next social Lawler’s sentiments about how the farm security check comes in — you know, I’m will differ from othdone with that.” er farms in the city, — JONATHAN LAWLER, he says “Most urban BRANDYWINE CREEK FARMS farming projects focus on either the bitterness because a couple other compahigh-end foodie market — which is the nies wanted to spearhead it. But [Cosby’s] dominant food culture in Indy — or within vision and their vision were two different the charitable food chain that should just things. He explained that one of the peobe providing relief but ends up enabling ple that was on the forefront of this said inequities as well. We are trying to create a that the number one thing is aesthetics, to middle ground of affordable food access.” draw people to it. And he asked me, ‘When While the farm is the initial project, you do your farm, where do you put the months of conversations have led to aesthetics at in priority?’ I told him I put other developments for Flanner House. production as my number one priority.”

According to Cosby, “It’s amazing. When And when you’re dealing with an entire Mat and Jonathan get together, it’s kind neighborhood of hungry people, producof scary. They nerd out and get really tion is paramount. focused on stuff.”

(Having had many long conversations FLANNER FARMS with Lawler I can only imagine how inAfter a series of conversations, the trio depth and drawn out his conversations conceptualized the concept they’re rolling with Davis could get. During one of my out now. The farm they are building is just interviews with Lawler — one that lasted over an acre and will be filled with vegetaover three hours — he weaved his way in bles including, tomatoes, greens, zucchini, and out of the topic at hand, touching on cucumber, sweet corn and more. Lawler thoughts ranging from the classism that will continue to supply other produce from is harnessed by the local food movement his farm that requires more space to grow. and detrimental side effects that farmers’ Lawler says Flanner Farm won’t look markets can have on farmers to his desire like your typical urban farm — a term he to bring alternative, more sustainable says he isn’t the biggest fan of — it won’t meats into Indiana, including alligator — be aesthetically pleasing and will focus which he now raises on his farm — and purely on production and food access. iguana and the fact that many large-scale That’s two things he believes many urban farms owned by corporations are morefarms don’t pay enough attention to. or-less modern day plantations. Lawler’s NUVO.NET // 05.17.17 - 05.24.17 // THE BIG STORY // 9

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MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY CAME OUT TO VOLUNTEER ANY WAY THEY COULD INCLUDING PUTTING THE FENCE UP AROUND FLANNER FARMS // PHOTO BY CAVAN McGINSIE

thoughts aren’t always appreciated by other farmers, but he truly doesn’t seem to care.)

For Lawler, getting to widen his world view and to meet people and help like Cosby and Davis and the people in their community is the driving force behind what he is doing.

“It’s almost like I relate to them better than I do to the local foodie people,” he says. “Because they truly appreciate the work and the toil that goes into making the earth give you a bounty.”

It is this appreciation that he, Davis and Cosby recognized and hope to embrace and to push people in the neighborhood to not only come and use the farm that they are planting, but to also learn to grow on their own.

Cosby explains this best when he says, “Historically, we, as black folks, have had vegetable-rich meals. That’s one of the things I talk about all the time — that for 400 years black folks were responsible for food

in most of this country and in one generation we lost the ability to feed ourselves.”

Lawler also touches on this same topic.

He and his family host inner-city kids to their farm through school programs and other organizations to teach them how to farm, to get their hands in the dirt and to show that they can make a living doing this, or at the very least they can grow food for their families. He says, “I’ve heard it now from three different black kids on my farm. They say, ‘Well, I’m black, so I can’t be a farmer.’ Why is that even in their thought process? You know, I think the system has something to do with that. You know, you keep the rural guys doing the farm thing and raising the food. It’s like the damn Hunger Games.

The black culture here in Indiana has forgotten its roots.”

Lawler mentions huck patches, which were areas of some plantations where slaves could grow their own food. On some plantations, they were even allowed

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to sell the produce in order to raise funds to buy their freedom.

Cosby, Davis and Lawler all want the community to begin to recognize and embrace its agrarian roots. And Davis is a perfect example of someone who has done this. Davis explains how he got into the farming life: “My interest in urban agriculture came from landscaping stuff for different people growing up and being involved in gardening projects. After high school I was exposed to sustainable agriculture through various training and employment opportunities and have always wanted to be part of effective food systems work in Indy. I have been working the skill of urban farming for seven years along with rural agricultural experiences along the way.”

Lawler says, “I looked at the guy, Mat Davis, who is working there and the kid is so intelligent when it comes to horticulture. He would put most farmers to shame. Why he’s not managing a large

scale production farm somewhere is beyond me. Hopefully he will and we’ll make him a farmer over at Brandywine Creek Farms. (Editor’s note: Davis has since been hired on as the Urban Farm Advisor) [We let the kids] know that there are so many opportunities that they can have to start engaging in commerce right there in their community.”

With this in mind Cosby explains that the farm itself will be run by people in the community.

“Through the summer we will have 15 to 20 kids on the payroll through the Youth Summer Job Program,” he says. “So we’ll actually have kids in the neighborhood that we will not only pay hourly, but they’ll get a basket of produce every week as well.”

BIGGER PLANS The idea of getting people in the community to start working on the farm and learning how to grow is something many people in the neighborhood are very

NUVO.NET/THEBIGSTORY excited about. Brent Rush has lived in the area for over 20 years and when he saw that the work on the farm was starting, he came to lend a hand. Rush owns his own landscaping business called Brothers of Faith Lawn and Landscaping Specialists, and so he knew his expertise in the field could help out.

“A lot of people are coming to do volunteer work,” he says while we’re sitting at a table in Flanner House’s library. “I wasn’t doing anything, just sitting in the house.

My business is kind of slow right now, so I fill up my day with volunteering. I love working with my hands.”

Rush says he likes to volunteer and help out when he can because, “there’s so many hungry people here. By [Flanner

ing. We don’t gotta go to the pantry; we can grow our own. And we’ve got fresh tomatoes and corn.’ Whatever you choose, you can grow it in your backyard. If you got a lot and you’re working a lot… then it helps lower the crime rate and you’ve got people working and their minds [are] focused and you’re keeping them out of trouble.”

“The fact that it’s a novel thing to meet the farmer who grew your food is kind of frightening,” Cosby says. “It should be the norm. … It’s funny talking to Jon, because he is so connected to what he grows. Watching him when he gives it to people, you see him giving part of himself in that. That’s a fundamental difference than just going to a random grocery store and picking up a plastic wrapped package of tomatoes or something that there’s no connection to.

“For 400 years, black folks were “I grew up in a rural community. I’m not from Indianapolis; responsible for food in most of this I didn’t grow up in a big city. We country and in one generation we grew a lot of our own food. My had a huge garden lost the ability to feed ourselves.” grandmother and that was normal for us. It — BRANDON COSBY, FLANNER HOUSE has only been now as an adult living in cities where you see this disconnect from it.”

Farms] giving food and helping out in Cosby looks into the distance at the the community and then getting out in surrounding buildings and realizes this the community and showing them how farm will break down that disconnect. “If to grow their own vegetables, it will help you live in one of these houses and look out. It’s something that has never hapout your window and see the food growing pened before.” and see the effort going in, you see the Rush says he grew up growing his own kids in the neighborhood working on it, food; it’s something he loves to do and you have a deeper sense of appreciation, finds extremely important, especially in you don’t take it for granted.” an area that has so much strife. “I grew That is at the heart of this initiative up poor,” he says in a matter-of-fact way.

— a community banding together to “My mother taught me how to plant the help itself and seeing what it can do if it vegetables, because we were poor and I works in unison. And while it will bring was learning fast, and she showed me how in food, pride and hope, it will also bring to plant beans and water them and then I in jobs, not only through the farm, but started learning from that.” through the distribution of the produce.

Rush goes on to say, referencing life in The produce will be sold at a fair price his neighborhood, “There’s no love out in a farmers market planned for Flanner here — if you show [a child] love and how House which will be held in Watkins Park to plant something, it will help out. It’s like and in a soon-to-come bodega. sowing a wild mustard seed. It’s going to “We’re renovating our other building help. They’re going to want to help, they’re and turning it into a bodega,” says Cosby. going to want to do it, like, ‘Mommy, look “And again those employees will all come what we did; we got some vegetables growfrom the neighborhood. It’s all about

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building an entire sustained food system that is really controlled by the residents.

That is the most exciting part for us with the farm, the market and the store — any one of those pieces is something to be excited about. And we’re putting together all the pieces so this is a sustainable operation.”

The Flanner Farms team has little to no hope that a big box grocery store will be coming to the area anytime soon.

“Our board chair here at Flanner House is the director of human resources for Kroger in Indiana,” explains Cosby. “Her name is Laura Land and she is great [not only as] an unbelievable resource to us in thinking about building a sustainable system, but also in showing us with big box grocery stores what their margins are. Grocery stores’ margins are in pennies. She also shows us what the level of disposable income for a neighborhood or community has to be. For a big box grocery store to be sustainable in the area the median income would need to come up by $17,000 a year.”

By all accounts, a change in income for residents of Riverside like that isn’t going to come any time soon, so they have to build the self-sustaining operation. He wishes that the neighborhood could implement one of the not-for-profit grocery stores that are run well and have been for long periods of time in places like Oakland and Chicago, but he feels that the city isn’t as receptive to change as other some other places.

Cosby feels that the best route here is, “creating a bodega, farmers’ market or farm as an extension of a not-for-profit entity, it’s our way of easing into that. I mean, I have no dreams of us becoming a big box grocery store or anything like that, but I do think the idea of community-owned or community-controlled bodegas is really the way to think about solving the food desert problem. You know, small square-footage, maximize every single inch of that space and getting people over this idea that you have to grocery shop for a whole week or two weeks. Shop for a few days, get your stuff

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and go back in a few days so that you’re cyclically able to do that.”

Lawler agrees this could end the idea of food deserts in this city and he sees an even further extension of this idea. “I would bring in a local system and economy based on food and other goods. They could build an entire economy based on just food, especially the black community. We’re talking about people whose appreciation of food — from what I’ve gathered by sitting down and breaking bread with people — is exactly where it’s supposed to be. It’s sitting around together laughing and talking and enjoying food that tastes so good. Versus what you see in suburbia where most people eat their meals in front of a TV, there’s an appreciation for every ingredient and that’s a big deal.”

During his time spent in Riverside, Lawler sees this as a community ready for change “Just some of the things that I’ve learned in seeing people sacrifice so much,” Lawler says. “Brandon has people that work for him that give up better

careers so they can help their community.

When people talk about food as the one thing that brings people together, you see that happening in real time and you see it actually works.”

The hope is that through this program they will be able to feed the neighborhood, which according to Davis is “Just under 30,000 people in the food desert near and right around Flanner House.” He continues, “In this first year the goal is to yield about 25,000 pounds of vegetable produce, with about another 40-60,000 pounds coming from Brandywine [Creek Farms].” He also says they hope to create around 25 jobs for the community and begin to turn other lots around the city into mono-crop farms that all bring their produce to a central hub that pays the farmers and sells to the community. The hope is that by creating this, much like what Rush said, they will be able to help fix community issues like poverty and crime rates.

“What I see now,” says Lawler, “our school system can make a guess as to

NUVO.NET/THEBIGSTORY what kids — by the time they’re in third grade — will be incarcerated as adults.

They shouldn’t be able to make a guess.

There should be such a variable with the way children are being brought up and able to engage in their community that that should be the last thing you think of a kid.”

able to pass it forward to this generation that — because of a lack of access — now has the stuff available but don’t know what to do with it. They remember what their grandmothers did with it, but they don’t know how to do it, and so being able to create a companion book to go along with it is super exciting.”

While planting hasn’t begun yet due THE WORK STARTS NOW to the deluge that has turned the newly Flanner House has already installed turned soil into a muddy field too soft some small garden boxes for the toddlers for any tractors to drive on, the trio is in the daycare program to work on growstill on schedule. People from around the ing their own plants. neighborhood show up daily to volunteer “You see the raised beds in the toddler by building garden boxes in the front or playgrounds,” Cosby says, as Lawler tears helping put up the protective fence. up the ground in his loader and his sons, The day they started construction, wife and Davis all help pile up the bricks Cosby says, “This morning, we started that are being unearthed. “The kids will getting everything ready, the gentleman be doing their own growing and along you see over there in overalls standing up the fence we will the post, I’ve never grow things like seen him before “They say you give and you until today when he ground cherries, grape tomatoes, something was shall receive. You’ve gotta saw and things they can happening in the water the plant, pull the reach through the neighborhood and fence and pick and walked over and weeds up and nourish it so he we’ll also have a said he wanted to fence through their it can blossom and that’s volunteer. Folks are gate to the farm so so excited and eager how this is.” this will become an to have a reliable — BRENT RUSH, VOLUNTEER and dependable extension of their classroom.” food source that the Another issue number of volunFlanner House has identified is intergenteers from the neighborhood and commuerational communication. Because there nity has been amazing.” has been such a disconnect from fresh Rush was there on day one — he may food in the area for so long, they are worhave even been the man in overalls — and ried that people will get this high quality he was also one of a group of people that produce and have no idea how to prepare helped remove all of the remains of old it. Cosby says they tapped into the people demolished homes. that still have a vast knowledge and love of While seated at the table in the library, cooking with these ingredients.

Rush looks out the window at the field.

“On the back side is our senior center,” “You know, there’s still hope to turn things he says pointing to the Flanner House’s around,” he says. “Help is coming. You just main building. “We own a piece of have to reach out and do what you have to property directly across from it and that’s do and show love and unity. where our seniors’ garden is and we will “They say you give and you shall be growing the things that they remember receive. You’ve gotta water the plant, pull and then collecting recipes from them. the weeds up and nourish it so it can We’re going to create a cookbook that we blossom and that’s how this is. It’s a lot can sell in the community, but it’s based of work, but once it’s all planted it will be off of that historical knowledge and being beautiful.” N

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BY CHANTAL INCANDELA // ARTS@NUVO.NET

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he connection between music and the environment is nothing too terribly new ­— composers over the years have celebrated mountains, the stars, and rivers. The Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra is showcasing the important social issue of environmentalism for the second year in a row, in the aptly named INfusion Festival.

From May 17-20, the ISO will be presenting concerts featuring Time for Three, Amos Lee, Paper Bird, and an evening of talks with some of Indy’s important environmental organizations.

An orchestra, though, talking about the social issue of environmentalism? To Gary Ginstling, CEO of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, it seemed pretty natural.

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“One of our focuses that led to INfusion was how can we find ways to place the ISO closer to the community, in different ways,” said Ginstling. “I think sometimes there’s this feeling that the arts are a little bit removed from the world around them, and we were grappling with that last year.

We quickly came into focus on the issues around environmental awareness. Music is so connected to the environment that it felt like a natural fit, and those discussions snowballed into the inaugural INfusion”.

Kicking off the festival on the 17th isn’t music, but actually a free panel at the Hilbert Circle Theater at 5:30 p.m. Several organizations, including the Hoosier Environmental Council, Earth Charter Indiana, IndyGo, Keep Indianapolis Beautiful, and IPL will be speaking on how they seek to protect the environment.

“We want to help continue the message of environmentalism with our partners”, said Ginstling. “Each of them has a different focus and take on how they approach this issue in the community, and we want to help tell their stories too.”

ISO’s approach to environmentalism isn’t just hosting talks; they too have made changes. In addition to new receptacles for both trash and recycling in the Hilbert Circle Theater, they’ve switched out lighting in the hall and on stage to more energy efficient LED bulbs. They’ll also be installing rapid water bottle filling stations in the Symphony Centre, so to lessen the staff’s reliance on disposable water bottles.

Night two of the festival is a Cabaret Concert with Time for Three, in the lobby of the Hilbert Circle Theater. The venue of the festival changes for the third night, as Time for Three joins the band Paper Bird for a concert at the Hi-Fi in Fountain Square.

“We see the Cabaret Concert as a chance for us to us our theater space in a new creative way, and of course we’re excited about Time for Three,” said Ginstling. “We’ve let them take the lead with the music — they really thrive on that, and they’ll no doubt be showcasing some exciting and creative works. For the concert at the Hi-Fi on that Friday we were interested in seeing if we could take the festival out of the concert hall, and bring it to the community else-

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where. And with Paper Bird, they are kind of the ultimate jam band, and Time for Three is awesome with that; they love collaborating with others.”

The festival ends back at the Hilbert Circle Theater, with singer-songwriter Amos Lee joining the orchestra. Lee’s latest album, SPIRIT, which will be featured in the concert, was inspired by working with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and the Alabama Community Gospel Choir.

“Several things converged in getting Amos Lee on the program,” said Ginstling.

“Of course the name recognition was important; last year we had Ben Folds. But we also saw he had collaborated with orchestras in the past, so the music, the actual charts for the orchestra were there, as was his experience in collaborating with this type of ensemble, and performing to such an audience. It was a perfect storm for us”.

Also featured on the concert is a symphony for electronica and orchestra entitled “Liquid Interface,” by Grammy nominated composer Mason Bates, who recently was composer in residence for the Kennedy Center in Washington DC, and the Chicago Symphony. Bates was inspired by bodies of water. The piece ties in well to the festival, Ginstling explained, along with meeting the ISO’s desire for a newer, experimental piece of music.

“Last year the centerpiece of the festival was a work inspired by global warming, and we’re very excited about the piece this year inspired by similar environmental issues by Mason Bates,” said Ginstling.

“Plus it’s a newer work; it’s not your standard fare. For us it’s a chance to showcase new works that are being created by some of the most important composers in the country right now. ‘Liquid Interface’ fits in with the design and intention of the festival; it feels right.”

To Ginstling, this entire festival feels natural and organic to the orchestra. “The ISO has a long history of wanting to put ourselves in our community and connect with it, in experimenting and innovating, and trying to create new formats,” he said.

“The INfusion festival really feels like a part of who we are. It’s important to us, and that’s why we’re doing it.” N

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MORE THAN JUST A BOOKSHELF Inside The Public Collection’s installation at Horizon House

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here’s ample seating in the day room of Horizon House for the homeless clients (“neighbors” in Horizon House parlance) at 1033 E. Washington St. On any given weekday, the room is filled with neighbors engaging this nonprofit organization’s services.

It’s from the corner of this room that “Table of Contents” — which functions as shelving for books, seating, and even a stage — beckons with its smooth wood surfaces, inviting platforms, and books.

Neighbors can read on “Table of Contents,” recline on its surfaces, or listen to audiobooks at its listening stations.

“Having the library here on site provides neighbors access to books and audio material and a relaxing place to sit and enjoy reading a book,” says Horizon House Executive Director Teresa Wessel. “Our

neighbors see this special unit as a confirAlso on the Public Collection website, mation that people in our community care the creators of “Table of Contents” — about them and their well-being.”

Stuart Hyatt, Janice Shimizu, and Joshua “Table of Contents” is a project enCoggeshall — describe their work as abled by The Public inhabiting a space Collection, a non“somewhere be“Our collaborators might profit dedicated to tween furniture and improving literacy be going to a tent or to an architecture.” through increasing “It was a small underpass. That was what group of artists access of books through the placewho were invited to they were facing at the ment of artist-desubmit proposals signed book stations end of a long day.” and we won the around Indianapomini-competi— STUART HYATT lis. According to the tion for this site,” Public Collection says Stuart Hyatt, website, its mission is “to improve literan Indy-based multimedia artist and acy, foster a deeper appreciation of the musician. “We felt very drawn to the arts, and promote social and educational community, to the neighborhood, and to justice in our community.”

Horizon House’s mission.”

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The project, which began in the Fall 2014 was a collaborative one.

“During the design proposal phase, we met with Horizon House staff, met with the neighbors and discussed visions for what might be needed in that space,” says Janice Shimizu, who comprises one half of Shimizu + Coggeshall Architects. “So the proposal really came out in collaboration with neighbors and staff.”

It was during these discussions that the project began to evolve from simply a place to hold books to a more flexible kind of space, which could also be used for seating, holding classes, or staging events.

“We saw the project as being advocates for educational justice,” said Shimizu. “Access to books — especially age-appropriate books — is one of the largest obstacles in community literacy, especially in neighborhoods like the one where Horizon House is.

And then that became an architectural idea about how could we make space for people in this project.”

All the wood they used in the project was reclaimed. “There were these really beautiful variety of wood types that were then reprocessed,” said Shimizu.

Working with the reclaimed wood — often hardwoods from which nails had to be removed — helped give “Table of Contents” a special character, according to Joshua Coggeshall. “We got to make something that didn’t look like it came out of Lowe’s, something unique,” he says. “Janice, Stuart, and I really have a deep interest in materials and how material goes along with the concept that‘s driving the project.”

They also employed seven neighbors as part of the project, who helped construct the piece.

“We’re on the job site all day, covered in sawdust, totally sweaty,” says Hyatt, “We get to go home but our collaborators might be going to a tent or to an underpass. That was what they were facing at the end of a long day.”

They also came into contact with neighbors who have success stories to tell; a newly found job or permanent housing, with the help of Horizon House. N

HUMANITY IS TOO STUPID TO LIVE Alien: Covenant is a slasher flick with delusions of grandeur.

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WHAT // Alien: Covenant (2017) o you’re part of the crew of a sleeper SHOWING // Thursday in wide-release (R) ship carrying a couple thousand colED SAYS // i onists to begin a new life on a distant planet. One day you hear a message — in English — coming from a nearby planet to add weight to his or her death. that hadn’t shown up on previous scans of For instance, Billy Crudup plays a the area. Oh, and it turns out that the planet Scratchy that becomes Captain for a while. can support human life. What do you do?

We learn that he is religious, and that the Continue with your original plan? Check other Scratchys view him with less respect out the new planet very cautiously because because of that. Interesting, eh? Well forget everything about it seems suspicious? Or about it, because after informing us of the race to land on the surface and start running situation, the screenplay does nothing with around, because you are a dipshit? it. Nada. Zilch.

The message of Alien: Michael Fassbender plays Covenant is that humanity is the only characters that matIf the film took too stupid to live. If the film ter — the android member of took place in the universe of the current crew and the anplace in the the original Star Trek, everydroid member of the previuniverse of the one would wear a red shirt. ous crew. A scene where one If it took place in the world them teaches the other to original Star Trek, of of slasher movies, everyone play the flute is interesting would be a teenager at a sum- everyone would and well-presented. mer camp on the anniversary If Alien was a there’s-a-killwear a red shirt. of some famous murder. er-in-the-house horror story Director Ridley Scott, who and Aliens was a war story, also directed the original 1979 Alien, has craftthen Alien: Covenant is a sorta Frankenstein ed a handsome looking film with reflective story. The cast of too-stupid-to-live humans discussions between an android and those are fine, Fassbender is even better. The speclose to him about the human condition. The cial effects are as good as you would expect message remains the same, however — hufrom a Ridley Scott film, and the score is manity is too stupid to live. effective. As for the titular critters, they are We are Scratchys on a planet full of Itchys. everywhere, and they are just as vicious as I’m not going to go into a lot of detail in the other films. Gore abounds. about the film, because who cares? Don’t My suggestion to you is this. If you’re a fan mistake that statement for callousness on of this series, watch Alien and Aliens at home my part. I went into the theater ready to get and wait for this one until it comes out on to know the characters as individuals and video in a few months. Alien: Covenant is a as representatives of our species. But the slasher flick with delusions of grandeur. It’s screenplay only offers up a tantalizing detail depressing and easy to dismiss. I urge you to or two about each character — just enough do just that. N NUVO.NET // 05.17.17 - 05.24.17 // SCREENS // 17

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ith over a decade of hardcore gigging under their belts, jazz combo Premium Blend has become an beloved institution within the Indianapolis jazz scene. Considering the group’s well-established presence on the live circuit, it might surprise some to learn that Premium Blend’s excellent new disc The Road is only their second recorded effort. But, as the saying goes: what they lack in quantity is made up for in quali-

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ty. The Road is a thoughtfully assembled collection, featuring nine originals penned by saxophonist and bandleader Jared Thompson and guitarist Ryan Taylor.

Throughout a few lineup switch-ups, Thompson’s soulful lead sax has remained a constant, as has the brilliant keyboard work of Steven Jones. Taylor and drummer Brian Yarde round out the group’s current incarnation.

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around a classic post-bop approach to jazz, the group’s playing is informed by more contemporary styles. That balance has been an essential element of the band’s broad appeal, and is very much present on The Road, as the album’s tracklist volleys between Thompson’s reflective melodic excursions, and the earthy grit of Taylor’s soul jazz-influenced creations.

Taylor’s hard grooving “In the ‘Lac” is a highlight, culminating with an invigorating call and response between Taylor’s guitar and Thompson’s horn. The Thompson-composed title track provides another memorable moment, and represents an artistic high water mark for Premium Blend, the delicately constructed ballad recalls the haunting beauty of Coltrane’s classic “Naima”. The Road concludes with “Conveyor Belt Dreams”, a stunning piece of spoken word protest voiced by poet/ MC Theon Lee. I recently caught up with Thompson to discuss The Road and the blend of musical and socio-political concepts that influenced the creation of the disc. See the group live during their weekly Wednesday night residency at Marrow.

KYLE LONG: Before we talk about your new record The Road, I want to ask you about a composition you wrote on Premium Blend’s first album S.O.A.P. (Sum of All Parts) from 2015. You composed a song in honor of one of my favorite writers, the great Indianapolis poet Etheridge Knight.

What inspired you to write the track “Song For Etheridge”?

JARED THOMPSON: Etheridge Knight was a name that I grew up hearing at a really young age, I’m talking like six or seven years old. My grandmother was very good friends with Etheridge Knight’s sister Eunice. I believe Eunice passed two or three years ago. But Miss Eunice would come over when we spent the night at grandma’s house. She was just a regular person, I didn’t know anything about the context of her brother and the significant impact he made on not just literature, but the Black Arts Movement too. We got the full details about him even as little kids, things that would be looked at as a checkered past, a

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drug used and in prison. But I always took way. So I was flushing these ideas out on the perspective that if someone has gone paper, and I said, “You know, I think I want through all that, and submits such an a to put this on the album.” very earnest and scathing view about his I showed Ryan a first draft of it. He said, life and the lives of those that look like him, “This is good. But if you really want to there’s got to be something to that. knock it out of the park, you have to go So I based the song off one of his poems deeper.” So Ryan really encouraged me called “Cell Song” that’s included in Poems to use my brain a little more, and rely on From Prison. The words just struck me. It’s other resources that I had to flush out very short, but with short poems, especially exactly what I was feeling as a person who the one he writes, there’s a lot of informasits at many different intersections of tion. It’s a very loaded poem. I came up minority groups. Being a Black, gay person with the melody and the band just ran with in Indianapolis can be a bit of an ordeal it. It’s sensitive, it’s a little dark, but there’s a sometimes. also some hope, or sounds of resilience in “Conveyor Belt Dreams” hits on everyit as well. thing from the struggles of women, and He’s definitely one of those Black women, of Black men, people that I go back and read of gay men both black and “[‘Pursuit of his work every now and then white. It touches on a very and get inspired. I put him culturally sensitive topic that Happiness’] up there with James Baldwin, unfortunately does not go out Nikki Giovanni and Toni Mor- was kind of my of style. This piece could’ve rison. It was a first glimpse, worked 60 years ago, and middle finger before I even knew it, that here’s hoping that this piece to Mike Pence.” will not be as relevant 50 years there’s so much culture and art from the citizens of Indiafrom now. That’s always the — JARED THOMPSON dream, and that’s the conveynapolis, and most importantly for me growing up, from Black or belt that we’re on. citizens of Indianapolis.

KYLE: The last song I want to ask you KYLE: Since we’re talking about great poets about is the “Pursuit of Happiness”.

JARED: There’s a very distinct purpose I want to ask about the closing track from for this tune. The phrase “pursuit of hapyour new album The Road, “Conveyor Belt piness”, as everyone knows, is part of the Dreams” which features the voice of a brilAmerican credo that we’re free to pursue liant multi-talented artist, poet and rapper “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”

Theon Lee. JARED: Theon is an artist I met last year That’s what we’re told, but if you fall into through the Indianapolis Arts Council’s Art a certain category, that’s just not for you. & Soul event. I’ve always been impressed When Vice President Pence was the goverwith that guy. The way he speaks in front nor here, RFRA was a huge issue, it still is. of a crowd is absolutely amazing. He’s an This piece was something I was asked to amazing lyricist as an MC, and as a poet, write during the year that I was a presenter he’s a very humble, yet thought provoking for the Indianapolis Arts Council’s Art & individual.

Soul series. The theme was the “journey to I have to thank Ryan Taylor for a lot of this freedom” for African-Americans. The last track to be honest. I came up with the conpart of the journey to freedom is marriage cept, I do write – I don’t want to say lyrics, equality, and I fall into that category. I’m but every now and then I just kind of jot my just now able to marry my fiancé. thoughts down on paper. Over the last five This was a direct response to Mike years everyone is aware that there’s been a Pence. To be candid, for lack of a better disproportionate amount of police brutality term, this was kind of my middle finger against the African-American community. It to Mike Pence. I will say that to anybody, takes a toll, and it affects everybody in some including him. N

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Lil Uzi Vert 8 pm., Old National Centre, all-ages

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Bashiri Asad’s Tribute to Maxwell 7 p.m. Jazz Kitchen, 21+

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THURSDAY // 5.18 Conan, North, R’lyeh, Conjurer, Black Circle Brewing Company, 21+ Bedforms, White Wax, Ancient River, State Street Pub, 21+

Heavy Sole, Tin Roof, 21+ James Armstrong Group, Slippery Noodle, 21+ Time for Three, Hilbert Circle Theatre, all-ages Latin Dance Party, Jazz Kitchen, 21+ Andy Davis, The Rathskeller, 21+ DrinkIN Magazine and IN Beer Brigade 2017 Launch Party, The Hi-Fi, 21+ Obtuses with David Peck and Duchess B2B Dillettante, Pioneer, 21+ Diamond Head, Ross the Boss, Savage Master, Sacred Leather, Killzone Headquarters, all-ages Balance and Composure, From Indian Lakes, Queen of Jeans, The Bishop (Bloomington), 18+ Twiztid, Emerson Theater, all-ages

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SUNDAY // 5.21 A Lot Like Birds, Emerson Theater, all-ageas Everett Greene, Jazz Kitchen, 21+ Fastidio, The Slappies, Melody Inn, 21+ Oddisee and Good Company, Olivier St. Louis, DJ Metrognome, The Hi-Fi, 21+

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When you’ve gathered up all the props and accessories that demoralize you, imagine yourself going to a beach where you build a big bonfire and hurl your mess into the flames. As you dance around the conflagration, exorcise the voices in your head that tell you boring stories about yourself. Sing songs that have as much power to relieve and release you as a spectacular orgasm.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): In normal times, your guardian animal ally might be the turtle, crab, seahorse, or manta ray. But in the next three weeks, it’s the cockroach. This unfairly maligned creature is legendary for its power to thrive in virtually any environment, and I think you will have a similar resourcefulness. Like the cockroach, you will do more than merely cope with awkward adventures and complicated transitions; you will flourish. One caution: It’s possible that your adaptability may bother people who are less flexible and enterprising than you. To keep that from being a problem, be empathetic as you help them adapt. (P.S. Your temporary animal ally is exceptionally well-groomed.

Cockroaches clean themselves as much as cats do.)

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Lady Jane Grey was crowned Queen of England in July 1553, but she ruled for just nine days before being deposed. I invite you to think back to a time in your own past when victory was short-lived. Maybe you accomplished a gratifying feat after an arduous struggle, only to have it quickly eclipsed by a twist of fate. Perhaps you finally made it into the limelight but then lost your audience to a distracting brouhaha. But here’s the good news: Whatever it was — a temporary triumph? incomplete success? nullified conquest? — you will soon have a chance to find redemption for it.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): While shopping at a funky yard sale, I found the torn-off cover of a book titled You’re a Genius and I Can Prove It. Sadly, the rest of the book was not available. Later I searched for it in online bookstores, and found it was out of-print. That’s unfortunate, because now would be an excellent time for you to peruse a text like this. Why? Because you need specific, detailed evidence of how unique and compelling you are — concrete data that will provide an antidote to your habitual self-doubts and consecrate your growing sense of self-worth. Here’s what I suggest you do: Write an essay entitled “I’m an Interesting Character and Here’s the Proof.”

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Leonardo da Vinci wrote a bestiary, an odd little book in which he drew moral conclusions from the behavior of animals. One of his descriptions will be useful for you to contemplate in the near future. It was centered on what he called the “wild ass,” which we might refer to as an undomesticated donkey.

Leonardo said that this beast, “going to the fountain to drink and finding the water muddy, is never too thirsty to wait until it becomes clear before satisfying himself.” That’s a useful fable to contemplate, Libra. Be patient as you go in search of what’s pure and clean and good for you. (The translation from the Italian is by Oliver Evans.)

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): My friend Allie works as a matchmaker. She has an instinctive skill at reading the potential chemistry between people. One of her key strategies is to urge her clients to write mission statements. “What would your ideal marriage look like?” she asks them. Once they have clarified what they want, the process of finding a mate seems to become easier and more fun. In accordance with the astrological omens, Scorpio, I suggest you try this exercise -- even if you are already in a committed relationship. It’s an excellent time to get very specific about the inspired togetherness you’re willing to work hard to create.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In ancient Greek myth, Tiresias was a prophet who could draw useful revelations by interpreting the singing of birds. Spirits of the dead helped him devise his prognostications, too. He was in constant demand for revelations about the future. But his greatest claim to fame was the fact that a goddess magically transformed him into a woman for seven years. After that, he could speak with authority about how both genders experienced the world. This enhanced his wisdom immeasurably, adding to his oracular power. Are you interested in a less drastic but highly educational lesson, Sagittarius? Would you like to see life from a very different perspective from the one you’re accustomed to? It’s available to you if you want it.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “You remind me of the parts of myself that I will never have a chance to meet,” writes poet Mariah Gordon-Dyke, addressing a lover. Have you ever felt like saying that to a beloved ally, Capricorn? If so, I have good news: You now have an opportunity to meet and greet parts of yourself that have previously been hidden from you — aspects of your deep soul that up until now you may only have caught glimpses of. Celebrate this homecoming!

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I predict that you won’t be bitten by a dog or embarrassed by a stain or pounced on by a lawyer. Nor will you lose your keys or get yelled at by a friend or oversleep for a big appointment. On the contrary! I think you’ll be wise to expect the best. The following events are quite possible: You may be complimented by a person who’s in a position to help you. You could be invited into a place that had previously been off-limits. While eavesdropping, you might pick up a useful clue, and while daydreaming you could recover an important memory you’d lost. Good luck like this is even more likely to sweep into your life if you work on ripening the most immature part of your personality.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Time out. It’s intermission. Give yourself permission to be spacious and slow. Then, when you’re sweetly empty -this may take a few days -- seek out experiences that appeal primarily to your wild and tender heart as opposed to your wild and jumpy mind. Just forget about the theories you believe in and the ideas you regard as central to your philosophy of life. Instead, work on developing brisk new approaches to your relationship with your feelings. Like what? Become more conscious of them, for example. Express gratitude for what they teach you. Boost your trust for their power to reveal what your mind sometimes hides from you.

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