Santa Fe Reporter, February 22, 2023

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PICTURE OF HEALTH 8

HSD Secretary Dr. David Scrase bids farewell to state government

FREE SPEECH PARADOX 9

With a lawsuit looming, New Mexico lawmakers must decide between possible mud dragging and the state constitution

COVER STORY 11

IT’S IN THE WATER

Missed cues grow Native distrust around a New Mexico research project on oil well byproduct

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NO PRECONCEIVED IDEA

Thank you for your recent article about my new art gallery, Miniatura. However, I was disappointed that your writer, Alex De Vore, injected race and politics into it. My gallery doesn’t feature political art; just art that I find beautiful and intriguing, and hope that others will as well. Alex noted that, “She chooses her artists by going on Instagram and finding art she likes, then inviting the artists to be a part of her gallery.” But then he posed the question, “Is it a little disappointing that all her artists are white? Well, yes.”

So, it’s disappointing that I don’t choose the art I carry based on the artist’s skin color? I have virtually no preconceived ideas about the artists I represent until they send me head shots and bios (and likely neither did Alex, until he saw that section on my website).

I realize there are those who think my first objective should be the diversity of those I represent. There are galleries in Santa Fe that

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fit that bill, and I respect that. But my main goal at Miniatura is to make excellent original art affordable to all. Artists of any color, gender, race, religion, sexual orientation etc. can contact me, and if I like their work, I’ll be thrilled to represent them.

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have neglected, probably, my family and my kids and my grandkids for almost a whole career. I’ve been increasingly looking forward to spending more time with them and being more involved in their lives, grandkids in particular…and traveling more.

At the end of January, HSD announced it was canceling the Medicaid procurement process in light of your and Medicaid Director Nicole Comeaux’s departures so new leadership could ‘assess the design of the procurement.’ Can you speak to what’s happening there?

ed purpose of ‘establishing a single, unified department responsible for health care purchasing, regulation and policy.’ Do you support this move?

BY JULIA GOLDBERG @votergirl

On Feb. 24, Dr. David Scrase will end his time as Human Services secretary for the State of New Mexico, a position he has held since 2019. For the better part of the last two years, Scrase, 70, also served as secretary for the Health Department. A board-certified internist and geriatrician, Scrase previously worked as interim division chief for general internal medicine and the chief of geriatrics at the University of New Mexico, where he also was a professor of internal medicine and geriatrics at the School of Medicine. SFR caught up with him right before his final week on the job at the state. The following interview has been edited for concision and clarity.

SFR: About year ago, you said you were having a good time running HSD and DOH. Did anything change?

David Scrase: Well, I got a year older. I don’t know if it was adrenaline or what, but I didn’t fully realize what a challenge it was to run two departments until I stopped running DOH. I went back to just HSD and I thought, ‘This is pretty manageable. I can do this.’ But it was even to the point where I just realized what a toll it had taken on my whole body doing both. I was already thinking—and I had talked to the governor last summer—about retiring the first half of this year. It’s been a great honor to serve the public and serve New Mexicans. It’s been the capstone of my career. But at the same time, I only have so many days left—I’ll go get the number.

(Note: During a preamble to the interview, Scrase discussed his interest in the demographics of aging in New Mexico, and mentioned that he tracks the number of days he has left to live—a figure he calculates based on the combined average age his parents lived; at the time of the interview, he said he had 6,378 days left based on that number. He also “for fun” keeps track of how many days he has left should he live to be 100, which was 10,698.) So, I only have so many days, and I

But you’ll still be practicing medicine?

I plan on being back [at the University of New Mexico] about one quarter time… I’ll see my own patients about half that time; I’ll supervise residents…and I’m sure other duties as assigned in terms of geriatrics and helping out with the program. I’m looking forward to that, too. I love taking care of patients. And I feel as though they need more of my time as well, [though] I did see patients all throughout the pandemic.

Do you consider your role steering the COVID-19 pandemic your most important work?

No, actually not. When I applied to be a cabinet secretary, in the interview, the governor and I talked about both [DOH and HSD]. I was attracted to HSD because of the ability to change health care. We’ve brought an additional $2.5 billion into health care in New Mexico [through Medicaid] since 2019. Another problem I sought to try to solve is that New Mexico has the highest percentage of Medicaid members as a percent of population of any state in the country…and raising the Medicaid rates has made a significant difference [in expanding the number of providers]. In behavioral health, we doubled [the number of visits]. Everything we’ve done to strengthen and put together a solid behavioral health community…is super important. And it’s long-lasting. COVID was long… and it was one of those things where I was able to make really important and meaningful contributions—at least to me—in a relatively short period of time. But I don’t think that will be as sustained in some ways as the efforts in Medicaid, behavioral health and other things that we’ve done.

I think the emergence of the desire to have a health care authority in the state that consolidates purchasing is a factor that makes a difference. I’m not as sure Nicole and my departures are the driving forces for canceling the procurement. I do want to go on record as saying the team at Medicaid that did the procurement did an amazing job… [and] their recommendations were solid… but they may not have completely conformed to…the future vision of where we want to go with health care in the state. We may have a lot more information from the legislative session about what sorts of major health care policy [and] frameworks will be introduced and passed and signed by the governor.

As you note, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham recently announced legislation—Senate Bill 16—that would transform HSD into the Health Care Authority Department with a stat-

I think anything we can do to streamline the purchasing of health care in the state is worth doing, particularly in a state like New Mexico.

You’ve taken questions on long COVID throughout the pandemic. Can you speak as both a physician and public policy overseer about what comes next?

The federal government lay down $1.1 billion [in December 2020] and a lot of that research is underway. I think we’re facing a couple more years of just research about what exactly long COVID is. I have a couple patients with long COVID…it’s very devastating. One is a therapist who can’t do therapy anymore with people because her memory isn’t sufficient to track the conversations. So first, defining the disease—which I have been talking about for two years: What is it? What are the criteria? And then we have to understand what the physiologic basis of it is. Is it like Lyme disease where you get chronic symptoms? Or is it like another virus, like EpsteinBarr? Is it like something else? Until then, we won’t really be able to do much in the way of focused treatments. So it’s:

‘What is it? Why is it? And then how do we treat it?’ I think we’re in the middle of the, ‘what is it’ phase. You can do random trials and just throw medicines at it but, traditionally in the history of medicine, those are never as effective as understanding the etiology of the disease and then targeting that—like we’re doing much more in oncology now.

Any advice for your successors?

Number one is to make sure every single decision you make is based on your certainty that it will benefit low-income people in New Mexico. Two is to use the financial resources that we have to always drive improvements in quality of care and access to care. Three would be to serve the people of New Mexico with energy, intelligence, imagination and love. The predominant one for me was really love. I just love the work. I love the opportunity to take all these resources and bring them to people in their hour of real need in their lives.

COURTESY OF HUMAN SERVICES DEPARTMENT

HSD Secretary Dr. David Scrase bids farewell to state government

For much of the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. David Scrase led both the Health and Human Services departments.

Free Speech Paradox

Senate Republican leaders did not re spond to requests for comment for this story, making it difficult to say how they’ll receive HB169. Based on last week’s House floor de bate, concerns about besmirched political reputations are bipartisan.

Rep. Larry Scott, R-Hobbs, claimed leg islative ethics complaints contain an “asymmetry” and that accused legislators have more at stake than an accuser who might bring a baseless claim.

“I see the potential for, if you’ll call it, political mischief, or weaponizing of these complaints,” Scott argued.

Szczepanski has tried to remind naysayers that accusers sign affidavits when filing legislative ethics complaints and argued they have plenty to lose themselves.

BY ANDY LYMAN andylyman@sfreporter.com

With great power comes great risk of ruining your reputation and image. That’s the message delivered by some New Mexico lawmakers last week: Passing House Bill 169 could upend political careers.

The bill, sponsored by freshman House Whip Reena Szczepanski, D-Santa Fe, aims to nix a portion of state law that requires those who file ethics complaints against lawmakers when the Legislature is not in session to stay quiet about their claims.

It passed the House last week on a surprisingly narrow margin—with several Democrats voting against it and a handful of Republicans in favor—and now faces an uncertain path through the state Senate. To move along the measure, lawmakers in the upper chamber must favor transparency when it comes to their own actions, which they’ve often chosen against doing.

Passing HB169 would also head off a court challenge from a lobbyist who accused a senator of sexual misconduct. Her claims of free speech violations are on pause in the First Judicial District Court while the Legislature debates Szczepanski’s bill.

Marianna Anaya, the lobbyist, accused state Sen. Daniel Ivey-Soto, D-Albuquerque in early 2022 of sexual harassment and assault, pushing the issue into public view. Ivey-Soto claimed in a September Albuquerque Journal op-ed that he’d been cleared in an interim Legislative Ethics Committee inquiry, but SFR obtained a copy of an independent counsel report that found probable cause he’d violated the Legislature’s anti-harassment policy.

“I think we have to keep in mind the fairness that we need to extend to the members of the public as they confront the high bar to bring complaints in this process,” Szczepanski told the full House Feb. 15. “And know that if they’re doing so, that they are hopefully seeking justice and fairness in the same way that we are seeking justice and fairness.”

Eight Democrats voted against the bill—including Reps. Patricia Lundstrom of Gallup and Patricia Roybal Caballero of Albuquerque—and four Republicans voted for it. The final House vote was 39-28, meaning six additional dissenting votes would have killed Szczepanski’s bill.

Rep. James Townsend, R-Artesia, told his colleagues he’s lost trust in the State Ethics Commission, which would not be impacted by the bill. Echoing some Senate Republicans from a previous hearing, Townsend bemoaned the leak to SFR of the report in the Ivey-Soto case.

“We’ve had charges where things have been leaked, which was against our law, against our Ethics Commission and there wasn’t a darn thing done,” Townsend said.

But, Townsend added, he thinks lawmakers should be held to “high, high, high standards” and that if “someone steps out of line, we ought to boot their fanny out of here and start over.”

It wasn’t just Republicans who shared their anxiety over damaged reputations, especially in instances in which allegations prove untrue.

Democratic Rep. Dayan Hochman-Vigil of Albuquerque cited her own experience facing an ethics complaint. She said her name was dragged through the mud after someone filed a sworn affidavit alleging Hochman-Vigil’s professional relation-

ships within the New Mexico Spaceport violated state ethics laws. Hochman-Vigil, who ultimately voted for HB169, said she’s still working to rebuild her political reputation.

“What happens to people like me?” she asked rhetorically. “How am I supposed to rehabilitate my image? How am I supposed to feel safe?”

The Legislature has struggled to balance the rights of constituents against its own self-interest. It took the same body years to approve a state Ethics Commission, with many legislators expressing concerns that complaints would tank their political careers. Lawmakers even exempted their own correspondences from the state’s Inspection of Public Records Act, although some legislators comply.

One potential surprise has emerged on the Senate side.

Ivey-Soto tells SFR he plans to vote in favor of HB169.

“There never should have been a gag provision on the complainant,” Ivey-Soto says in a text message.

Unlike with provisions for the State Ethics Commission, state law required Anaya to stay tight-lipped about her com-

plaint while Ivey-Soto was free to talk about it as much as he wanted. And he did.

The Albuquerque senator, now stripped of his leadership positions, says the law needs to change.

“The confidentiality should be on the staff and the investigative body to allow them to do their work, just like in the [ethics commission] and just like a grand jury,” he says.

Ironically, Anaya had more freedom to share her allegations before she filed a complaint with the Interim Legislative Ethics Committee.

Anaya filed a petition in state court last fall, claiming the law that kept her silent violates the state constitution’s free speech provisions. Weeks before the session started, Anaya’s lawyer and a contract attorney for the Legislature agreed to pause the case and give lawmakers a chance to change the law. If HB169 fails, the court case will likely move forward.

While Senate Republican support is unclear, Chris Nordstrum, a spokesman for Senate Democrats, told SFR late last year that Majority Leader Peter Wirth, D-Santa Fe, was “all in for getting the confidentiality statute changed during session.”

With a lawsuit looming, New Mexico lawmakers must decide between possible mud dragging and the state constitution

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In the Water

To understand how this grew into a statewide controversy, first it’s important to know that the term “oil well” is itself an aspirational label and a kind of misunderstanding. Production companies want oil when they drill in New Mexico, but super-saline water—”produced water”—is what they mostly get because, on average, wells here produce four times as much of this naturally occurring, briney, mineral-laden soup as they do oil.

BY JERRY REDFERN @capitalandmain

In October 2021, workers from a water treatment company irrigated a 10 x 20 foot test plot of scrubby grass on an oil well site near a Navajo Nation chapter house in northwest New Mexico. The grass thickened, grew and later shriveled under the high desert sun. Even so, it nourished a statewide, petroleum-based controversy when locals learned that the company was researching “produced water,” a toxic byproduct of oil and gas development, as part of a program to search for new methods to treat and dispose of the industrial waste.

Daniel Tso, who was chairman of the Health, Education and Human Services Committee of the Navajo Nation Council at the time, says that since hearing about the test plot, he and others have worked to stop all use of produced water from oil and gas production on the Navajo Nation, “through the courts if necessary.”

But the companies at the center of the issue and the head of a New Mexico group studying produced water are wondering what all the fuss is about, because they say no produced water was used. It’s all a big miscommunication, they say.

The tension highlights the sharp divides between state agencies tasked with protecting human health and the environment, an industry trying to treat and reuse toxic waste, and the people who live amid wells in oil and gas fields and feel left out of crucial conversations about regulation and enforcement.

That produced water brings problems for everyone involved with, or adjacent to, oil and gas production. Nobody really wants the salty water because it ranges from toxic to fantastically toxic; if you’re really unlucky, it’s also radioactive. If it spills, it can ruin your land, and there are few legal places to put it. New Mexico law offers oil and gas producers just three possibilities: Reuse it in drilling operations, inject it back underground (which can trigger earthquakes), or use it to test new desalination processes through the state’s highly regulated Produced Water Research Consortium (PWRC). All other uses are illegal.

A small producer named HPOC owns the wellsite in question. It has just five oil wells in New Mexico, dotted in the sage- and chamisa-covered hills of the far eastern edge of the Navajo Nation around the Ojo Encino Chapter House. The grassy test plot was on the company’s Eagle Springs 8 well site, whose name is a reference to nearby Eagle Springs, where Navajo families have collected drinking water for generations.

Standing next to the oil well, you can see the water tower at the chapter house (a traditional, local form of Navajo government) poking over the northern horizon, a few miles away. A pipe from the wellsite runs east for a half mile over a small hill and ends at Eagle Springs 9, a produced water injection well. It’s a busy well, because according to state records, Eagle Springs 8 is arguably a 6,000-foot brackish water well with a small amount of oil mixed in. In 2022, it produced 100 times more water than oil.

HPOC’s four other oil wells aren’t doing any better. A second well on the site pulled 115 barrels of produced water for every one of oil. A pair of wells three miles away pulled 318 to one. The company’s fifth well, Torreon Wash 36, hasn’t produced anything since 2018, when it drew a paltry five barrels of oil and 100 of produced water.

“We’re a small oil company,” Nyle Khan, co-manager of HPOC, said in a call from his base in California, “and we produce a

Missed cues grow Native distrust around a New Mexico research project on oil well byproduct

heck of a lot of water.” Khan says the company looked around New Mexico and had an idea. “Everywhere you read: ‘Shortage of water, shortage of water, shortage of water.’ So we said, ‘Hey, we’ve got a lot of water…Can it be used for anything?’”

He brought in another company, called Kanalis—where he used to work—to find out. And in October 2021, Kanalis employees irrigated the patch of test grasses on the Eagle Springs 8 site, igniting the storm.

When Tso at the Navajo Nation first heard of the project, he fired off an official letter to state agencies asking why produced water was being used illegally on or near Native American lands. The agencies scrambled to find out.

When Mario Atencio, a member of Diné CARE, an environmental protection group on the Navajo Nation, learned about the project and the grassy patch, he thought it was an “experimental use of toxic waste” on Native lands. If the company thinks its water is safe, he says, “They should drink it.”

The New Mexico Produced Water Act of 2019 tightly circumscribed what can be done with produced water, and it also begat the PWRC. That research program, the only framework in which a company can legally use produced water outside of reinjecting it in the ground, is composed of some 200 state and federal agencies, oil and gas companies, water treatment com-

panies and academics all looking to answer one question: Can produced water be used for anything beneficial?

It’s an urgent question. Oil and gas producers pulled up and reinjected more than 75 billion gallons of produced water in the first 11 months of 2022. By comparison, New Mexicans used less—61 billion gallons—for everything in and around their homes in 2015, the last year with complete data. As the state faces increasing aridification from climate change, state leaders are hurrying to find new sources of water and more efficient ways to use what New Mexico already has.

“With targeted research, proper regulation, and determination of appropriate treatment levels, potential use of produced water outside the industry is possible,” reads a New Mexico Environment Department handout describing the Produced Water Act. The catchphrase, used by everyone involved, is “beneficial use”—that’s the PWRC goal.

The consortium’s program manager is Mike Hightower, previously a research professor at the University of New Mexico’s Center for Water and the Environment. He’s pretty sure that properly treated produced water can have beneficial uses, and he’s also pretty sure that the Kanalis project using water from Eagle Springs 8 is a great place to start checking. First off, the well isn’t in the Permian Basin where the water is, on average, 10 times saltier.

“So you start off with a better quality of water,” he says. And second, HPOC runs conventional wells, meaning they haven’t been hydraulically fractured, or “fracked,” which shatters the rock and introduces a sand and chemical cocktail into the result-

ing fractures to help oil and gas flow out.

Those cocktails are considered trade secrets, but recent reports show that among other chemicals, they can contain PFAS “forever chemicals” that contribute to a slew of health problems and are extremely difficult to remove from water.

Local reporting over the past four years has uncovered PFAS contamination across New Mexico, polluting groundwater and agricultural sites. But the liquids from nonfracked HPOC wells shouldn’t have them, Hightower says. “It’s really just oil and water.”

In 2021, according to both Hightower and Khan at HPOC, Kanalis began treating and testing produced water from Eagle Springs 8, sharing results with and following the protocols of the PWRC: filtering the water at a facility in Alamogordo; testing it at a lab in Albuquerque; watering grasses at a New Mexico State University agricultural test plot in Los Lunas; and discarding whatever remained in a licensed disposal well in the Permian Basin. They say all the water was accounted for, from the oil well through the testing to the disposal well. No produced water returned to the wellsite. The test patch at Eagle Springs 8 was used to determine which grasses grew best in the wellpad soil, and they were watered with tap water.

Hightower says that as far as he knows, Kanalis and Khan have done everything asked of them. “We don’t work with anybody that doesn’t follow our regulations and our guidance documents,” he says. “There’s no lone wolf out there doing it.”

Hightower’s explanation seems straightforward, but the politics clearly weren’t. And he knew it.

In a January 2022 email about the project sent to people at NMED and the state Oil Conservation Division—New Mexico’s primary industry regulatory agency— Hightower wrote, “I do not think this could be a more complex jurisdictional site.” He continued, “I have directed [Khan] to work with all three agencies NMED, OCD, and BLM [the Bureau of Land Management] to look at the current requirements before he moves forward on anything.”

NMED and OCD are members of the PWRC, so they knew Kanalis was working with the PWRC. But according to an email from John Rhoderick, director of NMED’s water protection division, tribal governments including the Navajo Nation did not respond to invitations to join the group. He also says, “Reality is that this project caught us flat-footed.” Adding to the confusion: Jurisdiction over produced water changes from OCD to NMED when it leaves a wellsite.

The grassy test plot next to HPOC well site Eagle Springs 8. HPOC claims no “produced water” was used here, despite the company’s plans to conduct future such experimentation near its wells.

R ainfall makes the grass grow. Water makes the grass grow. So what’s the experiment? The experiment is chemically infused, hazardous waste ma- terial...applied to rangeland.

-Daniel Tso, Navajo Nation activist

Furthermore, no one got in touch with one key group—the Ojo Encino Chapter House.

In an email, an NMED environmental scientist even told OCD’s general counsel, “I don’t believe Mr. Khan’s field project will be possible without local Chapter House support.” That didn’t happen.

These emails and dozens of others surfaced via an Inspection of Public Records Act request made by a group including Atencio, Tso and others opposed to the Kanalis project. They show state agencies surprised by Tso’s allegation and rushing to figure out their responsibilities in what appeared to be the first instance of treated produced water being used outside a laboratory setting.

The emails also show that Khan did contact the agencies Hightower recommended, but he never got Ojo Encino Chapter House support. Khan says he tried contacting the chapter several times in 2020 before starting the grassy test plot, but received no response. In hindsight, that’s not surprising. The chapter, along with the rest of the Navajo Nation, had shut down because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Navajo Nation was, tragically, the epicen-

ter of the deadliest per-capita outbreak in the United States. Most activity across the Four Corners ground to a halt.

Much of the Navajo Nation stayed home to slow the spread of the virus, and reservation-wide mask mandates ended only in January this year.

Despite the lack of response from the chapter house, Khan went ahead with the project because none of HPOC’s wells actually sit on Native American-owned land; they’re tucked on federal property managed by BLM. Traveling from west to east, the Navajo Nation’s Eastern Agency fades from solid Native lands into what’s called the checkerboard, for its land-ownership mix of private, federal and Navajo Nation off-reservation trust lands, chopped up in rectangular blocks. The jurisdictional hodgepodge leads to differing rules operating side by side every mile or so across the region, and Eagle Springs 8 sits about 2,600 feet from the closest tribal land.

Khan briefed officials from the Navajo Nation’s Water Quality Program. After that, one of those people wrote a letter to members of the Navajo Nation Division of Natural Resources, titled “Treated Produced Water Used for Irrigation,”

PRODUCED WATER AND NEW MEXICO

saying that an oil company was treating produced water with a reverse-osmosis system and had a test plot of grasses not too far from the chapter house.

That letter quickly made its way to people living in Ojo Encino, and it alerted Tso and Atencio of the project and triggered their angry letters to state agencies. To them it looked like someone irrigated with produced water, and they weren’t happy.

The reaction surprised Khan. “We’re on federal land,” he says. “BLM was notified.”

He also says the water used on the grassy plot at Eagle Springs 8 was fresh water from a local supply—not treated produced water from an HPOC well. “The fact that they’re upset about something, I honestly scratch my head a little bit,” he says.

“I think people got that mixed up,” Hightower says. “If you use fresh water, you don’t have to tell anybody about anything…You don’t go ask NMED if you can drink your tap water either.”

For Atencio, Tso and others on the Navajo Nation, the wellsite and the letter reflect the collision of three issues.

They aren’t convinced about the water’s source. Then, after reading the letter,

“produced water” comes out of wells with each barrel of oil. On average, wells in New Mexico produce four times as much of this naturally occurring mineral-laden soup as they do oil. On the left, a comparison of HPOC’s specific well sites; on the right, the amount of “produced water” in 2022 compared to domestic water consumed statewide in 2015.

Atencio and Diné CARE found a page on the PWRC website saying Kanalis wanted to run an agricultural test using treated produced water on 10,000 square-feet near the HPOC wells. The entry was soon removed from the website—Hightower says it shouldn’t have been posted in the first place. “That was proposed. That never took place,” he says, because the PWRC and Kanalis realized it would be illegal. Kanalis didn’t have permission from NMED to use produced water for irrigation.

Second: Atencio and others view the lack of consultation with the chapter house government as an insult to Native sovereignty. State agencies should have done a better job of monitoring the PWRC and clearly informing local Navajo people of the project, Atencio argues. “It’s a cornerstone of basic state-tribal collaboration,” he says. “This is why we’re incredibly angry.”

Third: History offers a harsh record of what happens even when there is clear local consultation.

For decades, extraction companies have come to the Navajo Nation to drill oil or gas wells or dig coal or uranium mines, always promising jobs and riches, often leaving people sick and vulnerable. Uranium mines left a legacy of health catastrophes. For 50 years, coal-fired power plants polluted the air. Coal mines and oil and gas operations filled a massive, climate-warming methane cloud over the Four Corners. Those oil and gas operations contributed to increased air pollution and led to poisonous spills of all kinds—including produced water. In one example from 2019, an oil company spilled 1,400 barrels—nearly 59,000 gallons—of produced water from a fracked well near Mario Atencio’s grandmother’s home, releasing a toxic stew into a creek where grazing sheep and cattle drank. A week later, a neighboring well exploded.

For these reasons, Atencio and Tso are opposed to any new oil and gas production or associated work on any tribal land or anywhere within the traditional Navajo homeland. They no longer trust the systems that are supposed to protect them. And the promise of a new water source in a dry land doesn’t sway them.

Meanwhile, testing continued.

Hightower says the first laboratory tests of the treated water from Eagle Springs 8 came back very clean. He says that when he saw the first results, he thought, “Man… this test really came out well.”

Dan Mueller of the Environmental Defense Fund is a member of the consortium’s technical committee, which he says

Those outside the oil industry might be suprised to learn how the byproduct of super-saline

WATER WATER USED BY NEW MEXICANS

SOURCE: NEW MEXICO OIL CONSERVATION DIVISION

acts as a peer review council on testing procedures. He says he can’t comment on testing results before they are made public, but the committee looked at the early Kanalis results and asked the company to redo them because there wasn’t enough data in what he called a “very draft document.” He thought Kanalis had been “very forthright” in its dealings with the consortium.

Mueller was referring to the first set of tests Kanalis conducted in 2021. Hightower says the consortium will soon publish a second set of Kanalis test results. “I can’t tell you whether it’s going to be a good enough quality for drinking water. But I do know that the regulations currently for livestock watering and for ag are significantly less restrictive,” he says.

And he thinks that could be an eventual local use for treated produced water from HPOC wells. Hightower says, “I have tons of Navajo friends that are always talking about, ‘Yeah, you’re doing the right thing, Mike. We need more water…We can use it on the rez.’”

In an email in early 2022 to NMED and OCD, Hightower wrote, “The Navajo may or may not want the water, but the BLM might, or the Jicarilla or the Utes might. While [HPOC’s] lease is near Ojo Encino, the operations are on BLM land, and the uses currently will be on BLM land.”

He finished, “How can I withhold support for a potential application part way through the process from a person that might not be impacted by the application?”

Atencio shrugs at this defense. “The

road to hell is paved with good intentions, right?”

The idea that the water would be spread on nearby non-Native lands doesn’t make him feel any better. The Navajo Nation leases neighboring BLM checkerboard land for grazing: He worries that contaminated water could affect those grasses, and groundwater doesn’t follow the checkerboard boundaries. Atencio says, “There’s a potential to contaminate already pristine water in the local aquifers, which has been serving as the main source drinking water—the sole-source drinking water—in the area.”

In the Navajo horse creation story, Sun Bearer created the original four horses, each a different color, each for a different

compass point and for riding in different conditions. He gave Turquoise Boy a talisman to create more horses for the Navajo people. This happened atop a mesa in Dinetah, the Diné homeland in today’s Eastern Navajo Agency, possibly near Ojo Encino.

If Sun Bearer had ridden around Dinetah on Sept. 23, he would have taken either his abalone or jet black horse, because they are best in rough conditions. The night before, a pounding rain turned the roads around Ojo Encino into mud bogs. For decades, oil and gas operations have taken fossil fuels and profits out of the area and left dirt roads behind. Now, many were washed out and impassable, even to high-clearance trucks.

That day, Rhoderick from NMED, OCD Director Adrienne Sandoval, Atencio, Tso and a small crowd of state workers and others gathered at Ojo Encino Chapter House to tour the Eagle Springs 8 site in person and try to clear the air.

At one point during the tour, the convoy of state and private trucks and cars followed a pickup truck carrying 55-gallon barrels of water as it threaded through mud slicks and craters on the way to a house sitting alone in the green sage-covered hills. Kendra Pinto, the Four Corners Indigenous Community field advocate for Earthworks, later tweeted of the day, “Driving the muddy, rutted dirt roads around Ojo Encino and the shield under my truck ripped off at the corner.”

After several mucky detours, the convoy ended up at Eagle Springs 8. Under a brilliantly clear blue sky, the view stretched 60 miles from Mount Taylor—a massive, extinct volcano to the southwest that marks the southern boundary of the Navajo homeland where it is known as Tsoodzil— to the water tower at Ojo Encino to the north, to the bluff where the original Eagle Spring still flows to the northeast. During

Kendra Pinto, an Indigenous Community Field Advocate with Earthworks, and Daniel Tso, a former Navajo Nation Council member, use a camera to look for emissions from an HPOC well.

a walkaround, everyone passed the grassy test patch that spawned the controversy.

“Well, I see that they’ve proved that they can grow a nice plot of weeds,” Rhoderick joked of the scraggly plants there now.

Early in 2022, soon after hearing the allegations of produced water being used at Eagle Springs 8, OCD hired an outside firm to sample and test the soil there. The group gathered in a circle on a patch of scraped ground next to one of the sample sites and kicked the dirt and talked through the situation. Sandoval (who left OCD at the end of December) explained that the soil tests found nothing out of the ordinary and that her division didn’t have any other information to pursue. Rhoderick seconded her thoughts. “This whole Kanalis thing, we’ve found ourselves a step behind,” he said, and before he can go after anyone— much less start a prosecution—he needs evidence. “We have to be able to prove it,” he says.

Events inside and outside the Navajo Nation are accelerating the need to verify new produced water disposal solutions and systems. Last year, the state Legislature resoundingly squashed Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s plans for a massive natural gas-based hydrogen development project in the area. After that defeat, she revived and enlarged the proj-

ect in partnership with Colorado, Utah and Wyoming, aiming for billions in federal dollars to make hydrogen from natural gas from the Four Corners region, on and around the Navajo Nation. That project cleared its first major federal hurdle at the end of December. Energy giant EOG has plans working their way through the BLM permitting process to drill 14 new, fracked wells just north of Ojo Encino—each of them will need to dispose of millions of gallons of contaminated water from the drilling process and then millions more from production. Furthermore, the state’s continuing oil and gas production boom in the Permian Basin has led to increasing amounts of produced water being reinjected there, triggering an uptick in the number and magnitude of earthquakes.

At the wellsite, Tso, facing the well and its tanks, said, “There are folks who don’t care about what happens around their operations.” He spoke of watching oil and gas development increase year after year in his homeland. He told of watching cattle drink water pooled in the containment ponds built to capture waste surrounding wells and tanks in the Ojo Encino area.

Eventually the conversation died away and the group saddled up to check out the injection well a half-mile away before turning back toward home.

To prosecute a company for a spill or other unauthorized use of produced water, OCD and NMED need proof that would stand up in court. “If I have evidence to prove [someone] put produced water on the ground, I’m coming after them,” says Rhoderick from NMED. But in this case, he doesn’t have it. And following the soil testing, neither does OCD.

Khan says the reason is simple: Kanalis didn’t use produced water on the wellsite.

Rhoderick thinks that may not solve the problem for Khan and Kanalis at this point.

“I don’t care how good the science is [or]

what it shows,” he says. “If the public is adamantly opposed to it, then you’re not going to get it anywhere. And that’s probably the bigger risk to them, is public perception.”

Last year, his office issued a memorandum to Hightower and the PWRC reiterating that “off-field discharges of produced water or treated produced water associated with Consortium pilot projects or other non-Consortium pilot projects are not allowed.”

Tso left the Navajo Nation government in January, and he remains dubious about what happened with the test plot at Eagle Springs 8. He says, “Rainfall makes the grass grow. Water makes the grass grow. So what’s the experiment? The experiment is chemically infused, hazardous waste material…applied to rangeland.” He continues to ask state agencies for answers and says, “When you’re dealing with hazardous materials, a community has a right to know.”

“Nyle [Khan] did everything that we asked him,” Hightower says. “He followed all of the rules that we set up.” Hightower pinned the problem on misunderstandings starting with the letter from the Navajo Nation EPA and the redacted page on the consortium website mentioning a 10,000-square-foot test on an HPOC wellpad.

Can produced water be cleaned? Can that cleaned water grow crops? Can cattle drink it?

Hightower and Khan are sure the answers are still yes. Hightower says that at a consortium meeting in December, Kanalis presented data showing that the treated water from HPOC’s well was exceptionally clean—but that further rounds of testing are needed before the process could be submitted to NMED for a permit to use the water outside oil and gas production. How clean was the treated water? Khan says, “There is no PFAS in my water. The water you drink out of your tap can’t make that same claim.”

Atencio says he doesn’t care how clean Kanalis’ produced water is. He thinks that if people want to test produced water or use it outside a well, they need to do it elsewhere.

“To have those people down in Las Cruces [where the PWRC is based] rule on this without even inviting us to the table, that’s what colonial governments do,” he says. And as a drying state continues to search for ways to treat colossal amounts of water waste from the state’s biggest industry, he sees more fights ahead.

“Water colonialism is probably going to be the theme of the 21st century,” Atencio says.

From left, John Rhoderick of NMED, Mario Atencio, Adrienne Sandoval of OCD, Daniel Tso and others meet at the HPOC well site.

JERRY REDFERN

T here is no PFAS in my water. The water you drink out of your tap can’t make that same claim.

-Nyle Khan, HPOC oil company co-manager

FILM THU/23

HERE COMES THE SUN

You probably think jazz is this one thing when in reality, it’s often some other thing altogether. Take the inimitable Sun Ra, an artist and musician who not only slays the keys, but whom we can probably best describe as a weirdo in just the most creative ways. Ra’s 1974 film Space is the Place, for example, is a strange and complicated journey to say the least. But as a vehicle for his music and activism, it remains a poignant stunner. The broad strokes are that Ra himself plays some sort of cosmic creator/clown who lands his spacecraft in 1970s Oakland, whereupon he uses the power of assembly and music to make socio-political statements, play some absolutely killer jamz and, ultimately, leave the viewer with an altered or renewed perspective. Jazz fans should take note, sure, but the cinephiles and those who fancy themselves avant-garde should take the opportunity to check out this one-off screening from CCA’s Amplified series and add another lesser-known gem to their lexicons. (Alex De Vore)

Space is the Place: 6 pm Thursday, Feb. 23. $15. Center for Contemporary Arts, 1050 Old Pecos Trail, (505) 982-1338

EVENT SAT/25

YOU BET YOUR GLASS

Anyone who has watched a skillful glass blower at work knows that glass is one of those mediums that still feels magical. And we love it here in Santa Fe—just look at the recent Clearly Indigenous show at the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture, or any of the glass-based shows at Blue Rain Gallery—which could be why the New Mexico Museum of Art is getting in the game with its new show, The Nature of Glass. In the new temporary show within the museum’s Goodwin Gallery, find examples of glass artistry you both know and don’t, myriad techniques across a variety of styles representing some of the institution’s best and lesser-seen works. Even if you think you’ve got a handle on what’s possible, we’re betting you’ll be surprised. If nothing else, something in there’s bound to blow your mind. (ADV)

Community Day For Nature of Glass: Noon-4 pm Saturday, Feb. 25. Free. New Mexico Museum of Art 107 W Palace Ave., (505) 476-5072

MUSIC TUE/28

THE ATMOSPHERE!

We’ve been to Tucson, Arizona, which is how we know it makes perfect sense for that city to have produced the atmospheric black metal act, Suicide Forest. It’s just, like, so hot there, but if that spawns bands like Suicide Forest, we’re down. Named for Japan’s Aokigahara forest, the band composes deeply unsettling and atmospherically dense numbers that settle someplace between hauntingly beautiful and downright evil. Songs are lush on 2021’s Reluctantly, for example, and unlike many bands of the black metal ilk, never outstay their welcome. Suicide Forest’s sound feels like a celebration of the reasons metalheads are drawn into the fold in the first place, an ethereal blend of dark ephemera, screeches and growls tailored to those in love with the darkness. Taos’ Terra Damnata and Albuquerque’s Voidskull open alongside Santa Fe one-man brutality machine, Ruiner. (ADV)

Suicide Forest: 7 pm Tuesday, Feb. 28. $10-$15

Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery, 2791 Agua Fría St. (505) 303-3808

COMEDY SAT/25

Second That Emotion

Legendary Second City comedy troupe comes to town with a Santa Fe guy in tow

Take it from a local guy who is living the dream: Comedy troupe The Second City doesn’t stop much in Santa Fe, so when it does, it’s a don’t-miss.

Saturday’s performance of The Second City Swipes Right: An Incomplete Guide to The Ultimate Date Night is special for a number of reasons. Not only will guests hear piano accompaniment from the show’s live music director and Santa Fe native Ryan Miera, but it’s also Miera’s final show after several years with the touring company. Starting in March, he’ll be back in Chicago full-time, playing in one of The Second City’s two permanent rooms—the place where comedians including Dan Ackroyd, John Belushi, Joan Rivers, Tina Fey and Stephen Colbert honed their crafts and launched into fame. Miera has come a long way from catching the touring act at The Paramount when he was a teen, then working his way up from usher and bartender after moving to the Windy City.

“I think I even remember asking one of the performers after the show, ‘What would one have to do if you wanted to get involved with this?’ and I think she was like, ‘Well, do you live in Chicago?...That’s a good start,’” he tells SFR. “But she was super cool and it definitely looked really

fun. I do not perform theater/comedy anymore as an actor. I like being on the side now much, much more.”

In addition to playing any sung works in the show, the music director designs the sound for the performances and cues recordings and other auditory details. Swipes Right, he says, is typical of The Second City in that it features some pre-written skits and some planned audience improvisation with its six actors—Bill Letz, Jenelle Cheyne, Yazmin Ramos, Maureen Boughey, Preston Parker and Tina Arfae. Perhaps obvious from its title, the show takes on themes of modern romance. Miera hopes for a packed house.

“It’s an unbelievably funny and talented cast who I am really, really going to miss because I’ve been touring with them for a while,” he says. “As many people as possible should watch them perform because they’re just next level funny.”

(Julie Ann Grimm)

THE SECOND CITY SWIPES RIGHT: AN INCOMPLETE GUIDE TO THE ULTIMATE DATE NIGHT 7:30 pm, Saturday Feb. 25. $35-$55

Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., (505) 988-1234

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Aurelia Gallery

414 Canyon Road (505) 501-2915

Abstract paintings probing the aesthetics of decay.

11 am-5 pm, Mon-Fri; Noon-5 pm, Sat-Sun, free

STILL BEAUTY

Obscura Gallery

1405 Paseo de Peralta (505) 577-6708

Photographing winter.

11 am-5 pm, free

THE NEW VANGUARD

Keep Contemporary

142 Lincoln Ave. (505) 557-9574

Mixed media artists push genre.

11 am-5 pm, Weds-Sat; Noon-5 pm, Sun, free

THE PLEIN AIR EXPERIENCE

Strata Gallery

418 Cerrillos Road

(505) 780-5403

Ephemeral moments in oil.

10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free

URBAN GODDESS

Alberto Zalma Art Shop

407 S Guadalupe St.

(505) 670-5179

Painter Pyara Ingersoll explores nature and the feminine.

11 am-7 pm, Tues-Sat, free

WES MILLS: DRAWINGS

5. Gallery

2351 Fox Road, Ste. 700 (505) 257-8417

New works on paper.

Noon-5 pm, Thurs-Sat, free

WINTER FESTIVAL PART ONE

LewAllen Galleries

1613 Paseo de Peralta (505) 988-3250

Selected abstract painters.

10 am-6 pm, Mon-Fri; 10 am-5 pm, Sat, free

WINTER GROUP SHOW

Chiaroscuro Contemporary Art

558 Canyon Road (505) 992-0711

Sculpture, photos and more.

10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free

FOOD

SF VEGAN CHEF CHALLENGE

Various locations

veganchefchallenge.org/santafe

Vote on special vegan menus.

11 am-5 pm, Mon-Fri; Noon-5 pm, Sat-Sun, free

RESTAURANT WEEK

Various locations

nmrestaurantweek.com

More than 30 eateries offer prix fixe lunch and dinner menus.

All Day, $20-$65

WED/22

EVENTS

BILINGUAL BOOKS AND BABIES

Santa Fe Public Library

Main Branch

145 Washington Ave. (505) 955-6780

Tiny tots, big language learning.

10-10:30 am, free

GEEKS WHO DRINK

Second Street Brewery (Railyard)

1607 Paseo de Peralta (505) 989-3278

Don’t call it trivia.

8-10 pm, free

HISTORY CHAT

35 Degrees North

60 E San Francisco St. (505) 629-3538

Walking tour guide Christian

Saiia invites locals to discuss history and geo-politics.

Noon-2 pm, free

INSTRUMENTAL JAZZ JAM

Club Legato

125 E Palace Ave. (505) 988-9232

Bring your own instrument and join the jam.

6 pm, free

OPEN MIC COMEDY

Chile Line Brewery

204 N Guadalupe St. (505) 982-8474

Wayward Comedy welcomes you to the stage weekly. Better make 'em laugh.

8-10 pm, free

SING ALONG WITH TEACHER B

Railyard Park Community Room

701 Callejon St., (505) 316-3596

Queen Bee Music Association invites kids up to age 5 to jam.

10 am, free

WEE WEDNESDAYS

Santa Fe Children's Museum

1050 Old Pecos Trail (505) 989-8359

This week the kiddos are testing materials to see if they float.

10:30-11:30 am, free

FILM

ON GOLDEN POND (SCREENING AND Q&A)

Violet Crown Cinema

1606 Alcaldesa St. (505) 216-5678

Paul Lazarus presents the Katharine Hepburn and Henry Fonda classic.

6:30 pm, $15

SANTA FE FILM FESTIVAL

Jean Cocteau Cinema

418 Montezuma St. (505) 466-5528

santafefilmfestival.com

Art and the Collector shorts program

4:30 and 7 pm, $10-$250

FOOD

DATE NIGHT FEBRUARY

Terra Restaurant

198 NM-592, (505) 946-5800

Parrillada Mixta for two, with an optional wine add-on.

5-9 pm, $100-$135

THE CALENDAR

MUSIC

ADAM O'FARRILL QUARTET

GiG Performance Space

1808 Second St., gigsantafe.com

The Brooklyn-based jazz trumpeter and his crew.

7:30 pm, $25

COUCH OF ETERNAL REVERB

FEAT. LYRA MUSE AND LADY URANIUM

Meow Wolf

1352 Rufina Circle (505) 395-6369

Singer-songwriter and experimental synthpop in a venue-within-the-venue.

7 pm, $23

DON CURRY Cowgirl

319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565

Acoustic rock with one half of the Curry Springer duo.

4-6 pm, free

JOHN FRANCIS & THE POOR CLARES

El Rey Court

1862 Cerrillos Road (505) 982-1931

Acoustic storytelling songs.

8-10:30 pm, free

WEDNESDAY NIGHT FOLKS: MINERAL HILL

Second Street Brewery (Rufina Taproom)

2920 Rufina St., (505) 954-1068

Guitar guaranteed. Banjos possible.

6 pm, free

WORKSHOP

CREATING FINANCIAL

WELLBEING

Fruit Of The Earth Natural Health

909 Early St., (505) 310-7917

Shift your unconscious beliefs towards financial abundance.

6-7:30 pm, free

POI EXPLORATION WITH ELI Wise Fool New Mexico

1131 Siler Road, (505) 992-2588

Get those fiery poles spinnin'.

7-8:30 pm, $23-$168

THU/23

BOOKS/LECTURES

AUTHOR NIGHT

Iconik Coffee Roasters

1600 Lena St., (505) 428-0996

Four local authors read their poetry, comics and more aloud.

7-9 pm, free

EVENTS

FREE AURA HEALING CLINIC

Nancy Rodriguez

Community Center

1 Prairie Dog Loop (505) 992-9876

Drop-in energy tune-ups, first come first served.

5:30-6:30 pm, free

OPEN MIC POETRY AND MUSIC

Chile Line Brewery

204 N Guadalupe St. (505) 982-8474

Be a modern-day bard.

8 pm, free

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WINTER LECTURE SERIES

Ron Duncan Hart

New Mexico’s Hidden Jewish Heritage

February 28th, 6:00–7:00 pm

St. Francis Auditorium, New Mexico Museum of Art $10, free for Las Golondrinas and MNMF Members

During 300 years of Spanish control (1521–1821), Jews in Mexico and New Mexico had to hide their identity. Any Jews caught in Spanish territories faced the death penalty. Thousands of Spanish conversos migrated to Mexico and New Mexico during that period. Join us for this informative lecture on a little-known piece of New Mexico history.

Advanced tickets suggested: $10 non-members, free for Las Golondrinas and MNMF Members. Go to golondrinas.org to reserve.

Grownups, after a certain age, tend to forget what it was like to be a teenager—a “yute,” as everyone’s favorite cousin from New York would say. They’re all too often viewed as apathetic and unaware of the big scary world around them, or uninformed or inexperienced. Enter four teens from the Albuquerque Academy.

Noor Ali, Sophia Liem, Mireya Macias and Marly Fisher have been making headlines recently for their advocacy on House Bill 134 that would, if passed, require free menstruation products in school bathrooms. The four girls have been racking up unexcused absences to lobby legislators and testify in committee hearings. Their take on missing school is becoming somewhat of a catchphrase: They’re missing school so others don’t have to.

SFR pulled Fisher, who wants to get a degree in political science and maybe try law school after that, away from the stacks of papers she’s catching up on to ask her a few questions about the life of a teen who’s arguably more engaged than some adults we know. This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

(Andy Lyman)

You all have seen a lot of attention, particularly because we don’t often see people your age getting involved like this. Walk us through how it all started. The initiative began in our own school, just from a personal standpoint of wanting menstrual products in our bathrooms. We’ve all felt the stigma and the shame of not having products available...having to choose between discomfort and missing class. It was a pretty universal issue for all of us, but it was kind of an invisible one. It took a quick conversation with our headmaster, and a week later, the bathrooms were stocked. We walked into the [sixth grade] bathroom to see how the system was going, and we saw a bunch of sticky notes covering the mirrors. They were sticky notes of gratitude, saying, ‘Thank you so much for doing this. We

really appreciate it, you have no no idea how much it means to us.’ We realized that there was something more to be done with this issue. It’s not just an issue that affects Albuquerque Academy. It’s an issue that affects the state and even the country.

We don’t often get to see people your age concerning themselves with local politics, and there’s this long-running idea that kids just don’t care. What’s your read on others your age and their level of civic engagement?

I think as a whole, teenagers don’t have a whole lot of civic engagement, because they believe that politics is kind of this intangible and uncontrollable force. But the civic engagement that we’ve been involved in has taught us the power of our voices. As we’ve learned from personal experience, the legislators are more inclined to listen to young people. I don’t think our bill would have gotten past the [House] Education Committee so soundly, if not for this outpouring of voices of the youth. I think we realized that teens don’t care because they don’t realize what they care about. When you start talking about an issue that matters to them, they become interested. We had been telling all of our friends and teens around the state about this issue, and it was only then that we were able to get so many testimonies because these people cared enough to do something about it. I do think that teens care. I do think that they want to be civically engaged. They just have to learn about an issue that matters to them. I think a lack of access to that is what stops them from doing something about it.

Many adults who have made the decision to do what you and your classmates are doing walk away disillusioned by the whole process. How are you all faring now that you’ve got a peek behind the curtain? We definitely started the most naive I think we ever were. We saw an issue we cared about, and we thought we could bring it to the Legislature and everything will be fine and dandy. Our story kind of began that way, because the bill passed through the Education Committee unanimously. We got $1 million in funding secured, and we thought, ‘Oh, this is easy. I don’t know why more people don’t do this.’ But as we’ve gotten farther in the process, as we’ve asked for a bigger budget, as we peek behind the curtain, as you’re saying, we started to realize the truth about politics. It’s often said that politics is the art of compromise, but we didn’t realize that until recently. I think it’s easy to become disillusioned in the face of skepticism. But part of the reason we’re able to change that narrative, I think it’s because we’re the youth and because we care so much about an issue...But it’s definitely difficult. It’s not as easy as it might seem

with Albuquerque Academy Senior Marly Fisher COURTESY MARLY FISHER

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OPEN MIC WITH STEPHEN

Mine Shaft Tavern

2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid

(505) 473-0743

C'mon, guys, do it for Stephen!

7 pm, free

PAJAMA STORYTIME

Santa Fe Public Library Southside

6599 Jaguar Drive (505) 955-2820

This week's theme is "islands and ocean."

6:30-7:30 pm, free

PLANNED PARENTHOOD

TOAST OF THE TOWN

TBA upon registration (303) 321-7526

Celebrate New Mexico's status as a safe haven for reproductive health care while raising funds to solidify protections.

6:30-8:30 pm, $50-$10,000

SEEDS AND SPROUTS

Santa Fe Children's Museum

1050 Old Pecos Trail (505) 989-8359

Kiddos enjoy fresh-baked treats straight from the horno.

10:30-11:30 am, free

FILM

'90S MOVIE NIGHTS

La Farge Library

1730 Llano St., (505) 820-0292

Onscreen this month is Hook, accompanied by free treats.

5:30 pm, free

AMPLIFIED: SPACE IS THE PLACE

Center for Contemporary Arts

1050 Old Pecos Trail

(505) 216-0672

Sun Ra's kaleidoscopic Afrofuturist sci-fi, based on his album of the same name. (See SFR Picks, page 17)

6-7:30 pm, free COMPASSIONATE COMMUNICATION, WHAT'S THAT?!?

Violet Crown Cinema

1606 Alcaldesa St. (505) 216-5678

Kindergarteners from the SF School for the Arts and Sciences explore productive communication through grasshoppers.

5:30 pm, $8

SANTA FE FILM FESTIVAL

Scottish Rite Center 463 Paseo de Peralta (505) 982-4414

santafefilmfestival.com

Various showings, including a screening of music doc Roots of Fire followed by a performance.

All Day, $10-$250

FOOD

DATE NIGHT FEBRUARY

Terra Restaurant

198 NM-592

(505) 946-5800

Spanish-inspired dinner for two.

5-9 pm, $100-$135

SUSHI POP-UP

Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery

2791 Agua Fría St. (505) 303-3808

It’s sushi, OK?!

5-8 pm, free

MUSIC

ALEX MURZYN QUARTET

Club Legato

125 E Palace Ave. (505) 988-9232

Bay Area saxophonist Murzyn and his fellow jazz aficionados hold court.

6 pm, free

BOB MAUS

Cava Lounge, Eldorado Hotel

309 W San Francisco St. (505) 988-4455

Bluesy takes on singer/songwriter classics.

6-9 pm, free

CHESSA PEAK

Cowgirl

319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565

Americana, folk and blues.

4-6 pm, free

DAVID GEIST

Osteria D'Assisi

58 S Federal Place (505) 986-5858

The piano maestro plays a medley of originals, pop hits and American Songbook standards.

7-10 pm, $5

DOGS IN A PILE

Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery

2791 Agua Fría St. (505) 303-3808

The psychedelic quintet from Asbury Park pays a visit to Santa Fe.

7:30 pm, free

KODO: TSUZUMI

Lensic Performing Arts Center

211 W San Francisco St. (505) 988-1234

The Japanese drum ensemble celebrates its 40th anniversary with an evening of visceral beats.

7:30 pm, $39-$79

MONTHLY FOLK JAM

El Rey Court

1862 Cerrillos Road (505) 982-1931

All levels and instruments are welcome. Songbooks provided by Queen Bee Music Association.

7-8:30 pm, free

¿TÉO?

Meow Wolf

1352 Rufina Circle (505) 395-6369

Neo-soul with touches of reggaeton, bossa nova and jazz rap.  8 pm, $25-$40

WORKSHOP

CLARIFYING MEDITATIVE WORK Online

bit.ly/3K8d586

Forty minutes of quiet group meditation followed by gentle group discussion.

7-8:30 pm, free

SLACKLINING WITH ELI

Wise Fool New Mexico

1131 Siler Road, (505) 992-2588

Practice your aerial balance skills—it's good for cognition!

All levels welcome.

7-8:30 pm, $23-$168

FRI/24

ART OPENINGS

AMALGAMATION: BEHIND THE STUDIO DOOR (OPENING)

Vital Spaces Midtown Annex

1600 St. Michael’s Drive vitalspaces.org

A group show featuring printmakers, painters and more.

5-8 pm, free ARRIVALS 2023 (OPENING)

form & concept

435 S Guadalupe St. (505) 216-1256

A sneak peek at the gallery’s upcoming exhibitions, ranging from ceramics to textiles.

5-7 pm, free

BLAIR: TECHNICOLOR GLASSES (RECEPTION)

Iconik Coffee Roasters

1600 Lena St., (505) 428-0996

Artist BLAIR shares acrylic portraits of the women in their life.

4-6 pm, free EBENDORF AND THE USUAL SUSPECTS (OPENING) form & concept

435 S Guadalupe St. (505) 216-1256

Selections from famed jeweler Robert Ebendorf alongside pieces by his students and mentors.

5-7 pm, free

INSIDE OUT: THE MENAGERIE ESCAPES (OPENING)

Railyard Plaza

Market and Alcaldesa Streets (505) 982-3373

Shakti Kroopin presents chromatic abstracts at Axle Contemporary.

5-7 pm, free

PRESTON SINGLETARY & JODY NARANJO: A COLLABORATION IN GLASS IV (OPENING)

Blue Rain Gallery

544 S Guadalupe St. (505) 954-9902

European glass-blowing traditions meet Northwest Indigenous designs.

5-7 pm, free

SITE SANTA FE'S YOUNG CURATORS PRESENT: BREAKING CHAINS (OPENING)

SITE Santa Fe

1606 Paseo de Peralta (505) 989-1199

An exhibition curated by local teens exploring growth, healing and intergenerational trauma.

5 pm, free SOFT (OPENING)

Smoke the Moon

616 1/2 Canyon Road smokethemoon.com

Eight artists share multidisciplinary takes on the word "soft."

6-8 pm, free

STARR HARDRIDGE: RENEWAL (OPENING)

Blue Rain Gallery

544 S Guadalupe St. (505) 954-9902

Abstract pointillism meets imagery from Southeastern woodland beadwork.

5-7 pm, free

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Bread and Circuses

Santa Fe’s Bread Shop has killer sandwiches now—plus lots more

BY ALEX DE VORE alex@sfreporter.com

After SFR staffers found ourselves working in an area of Midtown that practically requires driving for lunch following years on Marcy Street—where restaurants are plentiful—we realized eating good food would be a bit of a challenge. For that and a slew of reasons, I’m happy to report Bread Shop’s new location on Lena Street feels right; like the space was always meant for a bakery. Thanks to co-founders (and married couple) Mayme Berman and Jacob Brennan, we can all sigh in collective relief and get about the important business of stuffing our faces. Thank God.

If you somehow didn’t know, Bread Shop opened in January 2020, just months before the pandemic began. Brennan, a Santa Fean, had spent the bulk of his previous years in Portland, Oregon, attending Lewis & Clark college—where, btw, Berman, also attended classes, though that’s oddly not where they met. There, Brennan worked as a chef and line cook at various eateries. He also became obsessed with bread and baking. Berman worked in beverage distro (think wine and beer) and today continues to slay in a more managerial space—what a power couple!

Together, they moved back to Santa Fe, after which Bread Shop opened just across from Iconik Coffee Roasters. Thanks to Berman’s business savvy and Brennan’s weirdly pre-

ternatural ability to bake just the best damn bread at high altitudes, the bakery’s following developed at an accelerated rate. Business was excellent almost straight away; the global disaster, however, was not. But, with a bit of a luck and a rabid fanbase, Bread Shop sur vived the lockdowns and such without the assistance of PPP bucks (the business was too young to even apply, Berman tells SFR). In fact, it thrived.

“We were busier than I ever thought right off the bat,” Brennan tells SFR. “It was awesome, but we grew quicker than I anticipated.”

Turns out what was meant to be a small bakery with a service window needed to grow quickly to keep up with demand, and Bread Shop was selling out fast. Still, Brennan had never pictured a larger-scale business. Back when Bread Shop first opened, he even told SFR, “I want it to be, as small as it is, a place where people could come hang out, a mini commu nity space.”

Much has changed, though, and the bakery has taken over a bigger space within a building owned by Brennan’s parents—who also own the nearby Lena Street Lofts and some other neighboring buildings. Bread Shop stands on its own merits easily, though, and now includes a comfortable sun-soaked seating area (and a patio for warmer months). It remains a community space. Berman and Brennan boast six full- and part-time employees, and and have started offering more types of bread alongside a concise sandwich and pastry menu, a robust selection of deli goods and, thrillingly for some of us, coffee

from Portland’s Heart Roasters. The space is not only welcoming and clean, but begging to become a regular haunt for folks who live, work or otherwise travel into Midtown.

Just last Thursday, a co-worker and I popped in to grab a couple takeaway sammies—both salami with mortadella, spicy olive relish and red onion served on Bread Shop’s proprietary focaccia ($12). It’s not

and hadn’t gotten sweaty—a testament to Bread Shop’s testing period, which Berman describes as making sandwiches they themselves would want, then seeing if they’re still good the next day. Spoiler? They are.

And since the salami sando treated me so right, I returned the following day for another, as well as the roasted cauliflower sandwich on a crusty sesame seed baguette ($12). The bread was an excellent marriage of flavorful and crunchy, and manchego, green salsa and romanesco made with red pepper and hazelnuts catapulted it into the divine. This is a sandwich that would wow even the most devout carnivore and, like its brother, was ready to go when ordered. A stiff cup of coffee from Heart ($3.25) worked wonders, too, and it was everything I had to not order the roasted beet sandwich and hazelnut brownie before I left.

For now, Bread Shop is open Wednesday through Saturday, but Berman and Brennan say they hope to expand the hours come summer. “We don’t want to do stuff unless we feel really ready, and we can do it right instead of throwing it up and seeing what sticks,” Berman explains. “It’s a joy to see people sit and eat your food [in the new space] after watching them take it away for so long.”

“We want to grow deliberately,” Brennan adds.

often that the bread becomes the star of the sandwich show, but with Brennan’s soft and chewy focaccia, which makes use of a sourdough base, as do all his breads, it just about does. Still, the high quality salami and the salty bite of the olive relish work so well together that a proper bit of bread only seems right. Even better? The sandwiches were ready to go. And despite having been prepared earlier in the day, they still tasted fresh

WILL 2023 BE THE YEAR YOU GO SOLAR & LOCK IN ENERGY SAVINGS?

From left, salami and mortadella on focaccia and roasted cauliflower on a sesame baguette.

ALEX DE VORE

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BY ANNABELLA FARMER @boeinbrief

We’ve all encountered the hero’s journey—Odysseus’ return to Ithaca, Luke Skywalker’s destruction of the Death Star, Spider-Man’s defeat of the Green Goblin. But what about the heroine’s journey? This is the question Jocelyn Davis poses in her forthcoming book, Insubordinate: 12 New Archetypes for Women Who Lead (Amplify Publishing, March 21).

Davis is an internationally recognized leadership expert and former head of R&D for a global leadership development consultancy who lives and writes in Santa Fe. The seed for her latest book was sown a decade ago, when Davis was fired from a job for “insubordination.” She carried that experience with her, and tells SFR she “always really wanted to write something about how we can use insubordination to our advantage.”

Throughout her career, Davis says, she’s seen women employ many different strategies to succeed—even when those strategies aren’t recognized as assets.

“I think women’s biggest strength is our ability to tap into a much wider variety of ways of being, ways of leading, than we give ourselves credit for,” Davis says.

But even as she recognized these different leadership styles in herself and her colleagues, she didn’t yet have the language to describe them. It wasn’t until she was researching the four classical elements—fire, earth, water and air—while working on another book that the 12-archetype framework occurred to her. For Davis, the qualities of leadership fit naturally into the schema of the elements, and her academic background gave her a rich cast of characters from legend and literature who exemplify these different styles: the famous storyteller Shaharazade embodies the archetype of the Mesamerist;

the diplomatic Princess Savitri is the alliance-minded Amiga; and Odysseus’ wife, Penelope, is the wily Escapist.

Davis wanted to present a wider range of leadership styles than is typically en couraged in women; mantras like “lean in,” popularized by Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead, are only a small piece of the puzzle.

“There’s a lot more to say—and frankly, leaning in isn’t always the best strategy,” Davis explains. “I wanted to write a book that celebrated multifarious ways of lead ing and being for women.”

The 12-archetype model thus aligned with the types she’d seen in the workplace and in literature, and it encompassed far more ways of being than are widely accepted for women.

“We’re either told, ‘You gotta be tough, you gotta play hardball, you gotta be badass,’” Davis says, “or we’re told to use our softer talents: ‘Don’t try to be a man, be empathetic and tap into your supposedly more feminine side.’”

In Davis’ model, these modes are typified by the Amazon and the Empath.

“Those styles certainly work for many people,” she notes, “but what I saw both in the literary sources and in real-life women was a wider range of approaches.”

Davis herself identifies with the Snow Queen, her “home archetype,” which exemplifies the strengths she’s most comfortable exercising.

“I realized I could rely on the strengths of that archetype. The Snow Queen is introverted, very prepared, very intellectual and

not terribly emotional. But I also realized that I needed to branch out and develop some other strengths.”

That’s where the full range of the archetypes came in. Looking to her role models in life and literature, Davis was able to see a fuller picture of herself and her strengths.

“I had role models who were almost my opposite—a Mama Bear, a Temptress, a Claimant—and I’m very grateful for that because I was able to see other ways that I can be, and talents that I can bring out that are actually in me,” she says, “but I don’t have to abandon who I am. I don’t have to abandon my Snow Queen nature to bring out these other sides of me.”

Insubordinate’s archetypes are useful beyond the corporate world, too. Davis tells the stories of women in various fields, including a nurse who’d cared for her in the hospital, a graduate student and even Davis’ own mother, who was the wife of a diplomat.

“We all are leaders in one place or another—with our families, with our friends, with our nonprofit work. There’s so many ways that we lead,” she tells SFR. Insubordinate isn’t just for women, either. Davis says people of any gender identity can benefit from looking at themselves and others through the lens of these archetypes.

“It’s not about saying who’s better,” she says. “What matters is that we look to be inspired by women’s archetypes, because for thousands of years, the leadership models have been men.”

This lens can help you appreciate different strengths in others, too, Davis opines. One example she cites in the book is a colleague named Caroline, who embodies the Temptress archetype.

“I was a little bit like, ‘What’s she doing wearing fishnets and being sparkly and sexy at work? That’s not appropriate.’ But she was very successful and a great leader who made others feel like stars, that was her particular talent,” Davis says. “We often have a tendency to look askance at women who are not like us and who are using different strengths.”

What many people resonate with, Davis says, is the idea of using the archetype framework to embrace the totality of their gifts, even if they don’t track with convention. It breaks down perceived limits: One woman who blurbed Insubordinate credits this more expansive way of thinking with her success in switching between different industries and jobs. It celebrates identity as shapeshifting, fluid: from the vivacious Temptress to the ruthless Witch, Davis says, “we contain multitudes.”

JOCELYN DAVIS

“It’s not about saying who’s better,” says Jocelyn Davis. “What matters is that we look to be inspired by women’s archetypes, because for thousands of years the leadership models have been men.”

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Jocelyn Davis’ Insubordinate is a leadership paradigm beyond “lean in”

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania Review

The turning point

BY ALEX DE VORE alex@sfreporter.com

Remember this point in the Marvel cinematic universe, everybody, because it will likely—or should—go down as that critical mass moment when we collectively looked up at the screen and said something like, “Jesus, how many times can we watch the same fucking movie?!”

For some, that time has come and gone. For those who see the new Ant-Man—well, let’s just ask if you’re familiar with the reasons one might shoot an injured horse?

In Quantumania, we rejoin Scott Lang, aka AntMan (Paul Rudd, who is always likable, even in shit movies), and Hope Van Dyne, aka The Wasp (a painfully forgettable Evangeline Lilly), after the events of the last movie wherein...actually, wait; what happened in that movie? Anyway, they’re living normal-ish, post-Thanos lives when Scott’s daughter, Cassie (Kathryn Newton), unveils a science project she’s been working on. Wouldn’t you know it, though, the thing sucks everybody into the quantum realm— which is that subatomic world where Hope’s mom, Janet (Michelle Pfeiffer), found herself marooned for 30 years, according to the first film. It’s the same place her husband, Hank Pym (Michael Douglas), has theorized for decades while making his tech that makes things real big or real small and through which the Avengers time traveled or something a bunch of movies and shows ago.

KNOCK AT THE CABIN

Oh, M. Night Shyamalan, you’ve done it again!

You’ve taken a mega-intriguing premise and let it fizzle out with an ending that can’t possibly live up to the elements you put in place along the way. You did it with Old when the payoff was that one beach just plain made people old somehow; you did with it with Mr. Glass when Bruce Willis’ nouveau-superhero just kind of died; and now you’ve done it with Knock at the Cabin, wherein the ending just kind of rolls up on the viewer leaving us to be like, “Huh...”

Based on the Paul G. Tremblay novel, The Cabin at the End of the World, Shyamalan’s newest finds a couple of dads (Spring Awakening/Hamilton originator Jonathan Groff and Ben Aldridge, Pennyworth) on vacation in some Pennsylvania cabin, where they become the victims of a quartet of home invaders led by hulking teacher/b-ball coach Leonard (Dave Bautista, Guardians of the Galaxy). With the dads is their 7-year-old adopted daughter, Wen (Kristen Cui), which kind of makes things more tense, even if her presence feels like a plot device rather than a meaningful addition; Leonard leads a forgettable cadre of over-actors, save Harry Potter alum Rupert Grint, who at least tries to summon some intensity. Seems Leonard and his gang have been experi-

It turns out Janet’s insistence she was alone for those 30 years is false. Heck, there’s a whole-ass civilization down there, and it’s presented in the most boring Star Wars-esque/vague technology/weird “aliens”/you’ve-seen-this-so-many-times-before fashion possible. This is where Scott and the gang learn Janet is responsible for some bad stuff and was subsequently part of some uprising against a despotic über-villain named Kang (Jonathan Majors, who is about the only one to actually try acting in this movie). Under this guy, the quantum realm’s denizens are so oppressed it’s nuts, only we don’t super care because the movie doesn’t bother to make us care. Everybody runs someplace. Explosions explode. Someone says something about family being important.

Toss in some exhausting jokes about cultural differences, some pathetic lines about civil disobedience as presented by the Disney corporation and a whole lot of indiscernible CGI visual soup, and you’ve got yet another paint-by-numbers Marvel outing that proves they make too many of these things and release them too often—and Michael Peña, being the funniest parts of the other two, isn’t even in the damn thing. Wait a sec. Did he die in the last one? Sincerely can’t recall. Aw, who cares?

encing convincing visions about the end of the world, and those visions have led them to this very cabin where they’ll need to ask the unwitting inhabitants to make the worst decision ever. If their captives don’t do the unthinkable, Leonard and the gang believe, it’ll usher in the end of the world, courtesy of God himself. Creepy stuff happens as our leads teeter between disbelief and belief, and we’re meant to question how we’d behave if we, too, became participants in the worst camping trip ever.

As with most of his work, Shyamalan’s cinematography is stunning and inventive. Still, he once again establishes narrative threads that just kind of go nowhere. While Groff and Aldridge do their best with clunky dialogue and fleeting flashback vignettes—not to mention the vaguest hint of ill-considered “queer-bashing is wrong!” rhetoric. Yes, it is, but once again we’re trapped in a trauma loop and it feels more manipulative than vital to the story. Bautista, meanwhile, proves he’s come into his own as a performer. The dichotomy of Leonard’s imposing presence and soft-spoken portends of terror is as unsettling as it gets, but anytime he’s not on screen one longs for his return.

And then it ends, not with a bang but a whimper. Those who’ve seen movies before will no doubt predict what’s coming, even through some intensely enjoyable plot beats. If the moral is that belief and faith are something-something, then cool. It’s just the whole getting there part that feels tedious.

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Rudd’s a national treasure, obviously, and will always be lovable for shirking a career as a dimensionless handsome dude for weirder roles and goofball movies. Majors, meanwhile, is one of the best actors currently going, even if his deep dive into Kang can’t save the overall movie. Pfeiffer and Douglas exist as expositional cyphers, meanwhile, and Newton’s turn as Scott’s daughter is... what do you call it when a character only exists so another one does something? There are cameos, too, and surprise characters; William Jackson Harper from The Good Place can grace our screens any time. Mainly, though, Ant-Man feels like a Marvel commercial, a tepid entry, the peak toomuch-CGI turning point in a cinematic universe that comes at us too fast and too furious while refusing to break new ground. One recalls a time when we almost never got comic book movies. One now longs for that time.

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Though Bill Nighy’s performance in Shaun of the Dead should be considered one of the finest pieces of acting in film history, the man is dominating Oscars conversations for his performance in Living, the new ultra-British drama from director Oliver Hermanus and writer Kazuo Ishiguro. The piece is adapted from Akira Kurosawa’s Ikiru—itself a sort of adaptation of Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Ilyich—wherein a man with little time left to live decides he’s gonna do some good while he still can.

Oh, it’s not that Nighy isn’t excellent in the film. As a stuffed-shirt über-fop working for London’s public works department in the 1950s, he’s perfectly flat and emotionless. As a dying guy who realizes propagating red tape kind of sucks, Nighy’s Mr. Williams is...well, he’s still pretty staid. Still, though, the message about trying to do good is pretty nice as messages go, and Living certainly cuts a pretty picture thanks to cinematographer Jamie Ramsay.

Here we find a repressed and aging British gent grappling with a terminal cancer diagnosis. None of his co-workers (über-serious Brits, all) know of his troubles, but they do seem irked when he stops showing up for work for just two days. See, he’s pulled out half his savings and set off for the coast, where, under the tutelage of some kind of poet or

something (Jamie Wilkes, whom we know is artsy because he monologues briefly about how Paris is cool) he drinks a bunch, buys a new hat and falls in love with the art of the arcade claw machine. Oh, he returns to work shortly thereafter, only between his oceanside exploits and a growing platonic relationship with former employee Margaret (Aimee Lou Wood, Sex Education), he decides he’ll help some poverty-stricken mothers build a middling playground in, like, Whitechapel, probably.

The rest is either told through flashbacks that prove how dedicated Mr. Williams was in the end or painfully polite exchanges between his son, his underlings, his boss, the intriguing young Margaret and so on. Living is a little bit about happiness, a little bit about living and a whole lot slow. It would be so tempting to cite Nighy’s stirring rendition of a man literally re-discovering his voice as enough, but this is otherwise a run-of-the-mill drama that seemingly confuses swelling, dramatic music and tearful funerals as fine filmmaking. In fact, had any other actor undertaken the role of Mr. Williams, it might be a different conversation altogether. As it stands, the best you can say is that Nighy’s always good, so we can forgive the kind of slow pacing that kills cinema newcomers’ interests before they can blossom. Still, as Mr. Williams says in the film, if even the things without longevity can help someone, that’s enough— maybe Living will convince someone to live or be nice to people or something. (ADV)

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Philosopher John O’Donohue wrote a prayer not so much to God as to Life. It’s perfect for your needs right now. He said, “May my mind come alive today to the invisible geography that invites me to new frontiers, to break the dead shell of yesterdays, to risk being disturbed and changed.” I think you will generate an interesting onrush of healing, Aries, if you break the dead shell of yesterdays and risk being disturbed and changed. The new frontier is calling to you. To respond with alacrity, you must shed some baggage.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Rightwing religious influencers are rambling amuck in the United States. In recent months, their repressive pressures have forced over 1,600 books to be banned in 138 school districts in 38 states. The forbidden books include some about heroes Nelson Mandela, Cesar Chavez, and Rosa Parks. With this appalling trend as a motivational force, I encourage you Tauruses to take inventory of any tendencies you might have to censor the information you expose yourself to. According to my reading of the astrological omens, now is an excellent time to pry open your mind to consider ideas and facts you have shut out. Be eager to get educated and inspired by stimuli outside your usual scope.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): I think we can all agree that it’s really fun to fall in love. Those times when we feel a thrilling infatuation welling up within us are among the most pleasurable of all human experiences. Wouldn’t it be great if we could do it over and over again as the years go by? Just keep getting bowled over by fresh immersions in swooning adoration? Maybe we could drum up two or three bouts of mad love explosions every year. But alas, giving in to such a temptation might make it hard to build intimacy and trust with a committed, long-term partner. Here’s a possible alternative: Instead of getting smitten with an endless series of new paramours, we could get swept away by novel teachings, revelatory meditations, lovable animals, sublime art or music, amazing landscapes or sanctuaries, and exhilarating adventures. I hope you will be doing that in the coming weeks, Gemini.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): The scientific method is an excellent approach for understanding reality. It’s not the only one, and should not be used to the exclusion of other ways of knowing. But even if you’re allergic to physics or never step into a chemistry lab, you are wise to use the scientific method in your daily life. The coming weeks will be an especially good time to enjoy its benefits. What would that mean, practically speaking? Set aside your subjective opinions and habitual responses. Instead, simply gather evidence. Treasure actual facts. Try to be as objective as you can in evaluating everything that happens. Be highly attuned to your feelings, but also be aware that they may not provide all facets of the truth.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Is there anything in your psychological makeup that would help you do some detective work? How are your skills as a researcher? Are you willing to be cagey and strategic as you investigate what’s going on behind the scenes? If so, I invite you to carry out any or all of these four tasks in the coming weeks: 1. Try to become aware of shrouded half-truths. 2. Be alert for shadowy stuff lurking in bright, shiny environments. 3. Uncover secret agendas and unacknowledged evidence. 4. Explore stories and situations that no one else seems curious about.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The country of Nepal, which has strong Virgo qualities, is divided into seven provinces. One is simply called “Province No.1,” while the others are Sudurpashchim, Karnali, Gandaki, Lumbini, Bagmati, and Janakpur. I advise Nepal to give Province No. 1 a decent name very soon. I also recommend that you Virgos extend a similar outreach to some of the unnamed beauty in your sphere. Have fun with it. Give names to your phone, your computer, your bed, your hairdryer, and your lamps, as well as your favorite trees, houseplants, and

clouds. You may find that the gift of naming helps make the world a more welcoming place with which you have a more intimate relationship. And that would be an artful response to current cosmic rhythms.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Are you aimless, impassive, and stuck, floundering as you try to preserve and maintain? Or are you fiercely and joyfully in quest of vigorous and dynamic success? What you do in the coming weeks will determine which of these two forks in your destiny will be your path for the rest of 2023. I’ll be rooting for the second option. Here is a tip to help you be strong and bold. Learn the distinctions between your own soulful definition of success and the superficial, irrelevant, meaningless definitions of success that our culture celebrates. Then swear an oath to love, honor, and serve your soulful definition.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): The next four weeks will be a time of germination, metaphorically analogous to the beginning of a pregnancy. The attitudes and feelings that predominate during this time will put a strong imprint on the seeds that will mature into full ripeness by late 2023. What do you want to give birth to in 40 weeks or so, Scorpio? Choose wisely! And make sure that in this early, impressionable part of the process, you provide your growing creations with positive, nurturing influences.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): I recommend you set up Designated Arguing Summits (DAT). These will be short periods when you and your allies get disputes out in the open. Disagreements must be confined to these intervals. You are not allowed to squabble at any other time. Why do I make this recommendation? I believe that many positive accomplishments are possible for you in the coming weeks, and it would be counterproductive to expend more than the minimal necessary amount on sparring. Your glorious assignment: Be emotionally available and eager to embrace the budding opportunities.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Actor Judi Dench won an Oscar for her role as Queen Elizabeth in the film Shakespeare in Love—even though she was onscreen for just eight minutes. Beatrice Straight got an Oscar for her role in the movie Network, though she appeared for less than six minutes. I expect a similar phenomenon in your world, Capricorn. A seemingly small pivot will lead to a vivid turning point. A modest seed will sprout into a prismatic bloom. A cameo performance will generate long-term ripples. Be alert for the signs.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Most of us are constantly skirmishing with time, doing our best to coax it or compel it to give us more slack. But lately, you Aquarians have slipped into a more intense conflict. And from what I’ve been able to determine, time is kicking your ass. What can you do to relieve the pressure? Maybe you could edit your priority list—eliminate two mildly interesting pursuits to make more room for a fascinating one. You might also consider reading a book to help you with time management and organizational strategies, like these: 1. Getting Things Done by David Allen. 2. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey. 3. 15 Secrets Successful People Know About Time Management by Kevin Kruse.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “What is originality?” asked philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. Here’s how he answered: “to see something that has no name as yet, and hence cannot be mentioned though it stares us all in the face.” Got that, Pisces? I hope so, because your fun assignments in the coming days include the following: 1. to make a shimmering dream coalesce into a concrete reality; 2. to cause a figment of the imagination to materialize into a useful accessory; 3. to coax an unborn truth to sprout into a galvanizing insight.

Homework: What’s something you would love to do but were told never to do by someone you loved?

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