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NO MEANS NO: AN FLC LOOK AT SEXUAL ASSAULT
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FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK Dear readers,
HEALTH
I hope this issue finds you in good health and academic standing. I hope you either have grand plans for your Thanksgiving break or designs to do as little as possible and eat as much as you can. I hope that for those of you heading home for this week of rest that the familial drama is at a premium and for those who plan to stay in Durango for break, I hope that you can find something fulfilling to do with your time.
Too Much of a Good Thing: Risks of Excessive Caffeine Consumption - 3
For some of us who attend Fort Lewis College, myself included, this upcoming Thanksgiving represents the final one of our undergraduate career. When we come back from it we will be just a few short weeks from being cast out into a world free of syllabuses (expect for those of us who endeavor to be teachers). We will be just a hop, skip and a jump away from freedom, but hopefully we will take with us more than merely the knowledge garnered from long days and late nights of studying.
Story by Travis Good
CAREERS
This idea of getting more from my college experience than just my degree was brought to my attention by a professor I interviewed for one of my first articles as a reporter for The Independent. He said while the education is the core purpose of college there is much more to our time spent at FLC than merely reading books and meeting deadlines. This is something I have striven to remember since then and something I hope you will remember too.
Get Money, Get Paid: The Many Steps to Landing a Job - 5
Luke Perkins Editor In Chief The Independent News Organization
Story by Luke Perkins
COMMUNITY Tony Holmquist: 2016-2017 Featured Scholar - 6
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Story by Carolyn Estes
Booking Big Names at FLC -12 Story by Chris Mannara
EDITORS & STAFF
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REPORTING
Allison Young Chris Mannara Masheli Thompson Carolyn Estes Travis Good Izzy Farrell
No Means No: An FLC Look at Sexual Assault - 7 Story by Izzy Farrell
DESIGN/PHOTOGRAPHY LUKE PERKINS Editor in Chief
ALEX SEMADENI Print Editor
JARRED GREEN Online Manager
NATALIA SELLS Business Director
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Catie Welch Celeste Matovich Crystal Ashike Drew Lovell Cyril Glaser
Thanksgiving Break: What Do Skyhawks Have To Look Forward To? - 11
VIDEO PRODUCTION
Story by Allison Young
Alison Uralli Meryl Ramsey Gabrielle Silva Drew Lovell
LUCY SCHAEFER ALLISON ANDERSON KEENAN MALONE ALLISON KRUCHELL Photography Editor Design Editor Social Media Video Production
Cover photo by Lucy Schaefer
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Horoscopes, Indy Online Highlights, and Meet an Indy Staffer!- 13
Alicia Koehler
SOCIAL MEDIA Chris Mannara
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Story by Travis Good
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ddiction and substance abuse can come in many forms, from alcohol and tobacco to prescription medications and, perhaps, even the coffee you drink. Caffeine, which is both naturally occurring and synthetic, has been a part of the human diet for centuries, starting with beverages made from the cacao seed in Aztec culture, Marnie Clay, a registered dietitian nutritionist, said. The introduction of the caffeine containing beverage and food were brought to Europe after the ‘New World’ was discovered. The long history of caffeine use has lead to an acceptance of it in mainstream society, Clay said. “Caffeine is widely consumed on college campuses and among youth due to the Central Nervous System stimulant effect,” she said.
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Graphic by Allison Anderson CNS stimulants are substances that speed up the physiological and mental processes of the body. Sodexo management has noted the high demand for caffeinated drinks on campus, as 85 to 90 percent of the beverages Sodexo sell are caffeinated, Cindy Walz, general manager of Sodexo, said. Some athletes also use caffeine as an ergogenic aid, Clay said. Both natural and synthetic caffeine are widely used in consumer products, she said. “Synthetic caffeine is a food additive, primarily being added to beverages,” she said. “Naturally occurring caffeine is found in plant based foods, such as coffee bean, tea leaf, cacao seed and the kola nut.” This leads to almost everything Americans drink containing caffeine to some degree, Walz said
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Effects Caffeine has well known side-effects on the health of the consumer, Walz said. “Too much caffeine can result in difficulty sleeping, irritability, restlessness, nervousness and nausea,” Clay said. ”It is also a diuretic, and can lead to increased losses of water from the body, which could lead to dehydration.” By consuming caffeine late into the night individuals can experience problems falling asleep as easily as it would be if they have consumed caffeine, Walz said. “Caffeine interrupts your sleep flow,” she said. “One of the healthiest things for you is getting a full eight hours of sleep.” The appetite in people who often
ingest caffeine is also reduced causing bad eating habits, she said. While caffeine has not been associated with an increase in chronic disease, such as cancer, diabetes and heart disease, it has been linked to some other health problems, Clay said. “There has been some concern that excessive caffeine intake may contribute to osteoporosis, a medical condition in which the bones become brittle and fragile from loss of tissue,” she said. Sweetened caffeine containing beverages, such as specialty coffees, sweet tea, soda and energy drinks provide additional calories that are unnecessary, she said. “One very real issue with caffeine containing beverages is that they often contain sugar and do not provide any additional nutrients,” Clay said. The additional sugar is associated with an increase in chronic disease, such as heart disease, she said. Cutting caffeine out of your diet can result in some unpleasant shortterm side effects, she said. “Withdrawal from caffeine usu-
ally involves a headache and irritability for a couple of days,” Clay said. “However, as mild stimulants go, caffeine is probably one of the safest.” Some cultures actually forbid the consumption of caffeine, which is partially due to health reasons, she said.
Recommendations “The 2015 US Dietary Guidelines states that caffeine can be incorporated into a healthy eating pattern,” she said, “The recommendation is to limit caffeine consumption to three to five 8 ounce cups of coffee per day, which limits consumption to around 400 mg of caffeine per day.” Clay said individuals who feel they must drink caffeine should consume it in the form of green tea as it contains phytonutrients and antioxidants associated with improving health.
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he process of transitioning into a career from a world of assigned readings and courses with clearly laid-out requirements can be a daunting prospect for college students. “There is no syllabus to life, you get to choose your own adventure,” Jill Kolodzne, Career Services coordinator at Fort Lewis College, said. The good news is that there are steps students can take to set themselves up for success in the post-grad world. Maximizing Your Time A powerful thing students can do while still in college is making the most of their curric-
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ular and extracurricular activities, Kolodzne said. “Get involved on and off campus, work in a variety of places and types of employment during college, utilize the career services office,” Peter McCormick, associate dean of the School of Arts and Sciences and associate professor of environmental studies, said in an email. Students who are willing to actively expand their skill set through different avenues are the ones who are set up for success after graduation, Kolodzne said. “Those students that just come to school and just go to class and don’t do anything else, they tend to be not prepared,” she said. Another important factor is adjusting your expectations to the realities of job searching, which can be a three- to six-month process, she said.
Necessary Documents and Interviewing Career service offers workshops for improving resumes, cover letters and running through practice interviews, Kolodzne said. “You want to put your best foot forward,” she said. “Most students underrepresent themselves.” Some common mistakes on resumes are: omitting senior seminar projects, inappropriate reference selection, failing to update on a yearly basis, and not tailoring the resume to the job applied for, she said. But these documents are one part of the process. “Your cover letter and your resume is step number one to get to the interview,” she said. The interview is a student’s op-
portunity to show what skills they can bring to the workplace, how they mesh on a personal level and why they are the best candidate, Kolodzne said.
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Internships To help students prepare for the professional world, several departments at FLC require them to spend time in an internship before they can graduate. One such department is environmental studies, which sees internships as a critical part of their curriculum, McCormick said. “Students need to have real-world experience working with environmental organizations and agencies so they can learn to apply the skills learned in the classroom,” he said. For the environmental studies major, students have regular check-ins and class sessions along with required readings and assignments, much like a normal class, but are also required to complete 150 hours of interning with an organization in their field, he said. Internships show a prospective employer that applicants have experience in the field of that internship and bring baseline skills to function in the workplace, Kolodzne said. For at the end of the day the real world is not divided by majors but by skills and employers do not care where these skills come from, just that applicants have them, she said.
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ony Holmquist, an art professor at Fort Lewis College, is the featured scholar of the 2016-17 school year. Holmquist was nominated because of his work with new non-toxic printmaking materials, creating prints and exhibiting them around the world. The featured scholar award is an annual recognition of a professor who has gone above and beyond in their own work in addition to being a professor, Chad Colby, chair department of art and design, said. A ceremony was held a couple of weeks ago unveiling Holmquist’s featured scholar award, Colby said. For the featured scholar award ceremony a banner is made to recognize the winner of the award and then placed in a glass case in Berndt Hall, Holmquist said. After winning the featured scholar award nine years ago, Colby joined the committee that selects the recipient of the award for three years, he said. This year Colby helped collaborate with art professor Susan Moss to nominate Holmquist to be selected for the 2016-17 featured scholar award, he said. In other departments, scholarships such as research and publications are seen, while in the art department, scholarships are creative projects, Colby said. There has been many new devel-
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opments with non-toxic printmaking, Holmquist said. Adopting new materials for the experiments with non-toxic printmaking is part of the reason for the award nomination. Holmquist was able to study non-toxic printmaking while in New Zealand with Mark Graver, who wrote the printmaking handbook on non-toxic printmaking, he said. “Traditionally printmaking has used a lot of toxic chemicals for many of the processes,” Holmquist said. The grounds is a thin paint like material that is used on the copper plates for printmaking, he said. The grounds traditionally used is a toxic material. In New Zealand, Graver and Holmquist worked with an acrylic method called clear floor polish, Holmquist said. The research tested how well one could draw through the plate, how fluid it was and how it worked when the plate was being etched, he said. “There was a lot of this adopting new materials,” Holmquist said. “Some of the development was just experimenting, trying to get the
same results or better results with different materials.” Non-toxic printmaking is a small part Holmquist’s research, he said. Creating art work and exhibiting it around the world at different venues is another part. “Creating prints and having exhibitions is a big part of my research,” Holmquist said. “As well as trying to create new contemporary art that people may not have seen before.” Holmquist won an award for a piece exhibited in New Zealand, he said. Holmquist has also participated in arts residencies in Venice, Italy to study printmaking. “I think it is a path to develop a new kind of visual vocabulary by combining these older archaic forms of art with newer software programs,” he said. Through hybrid printing techniques, Holmquist is interested in combining digital and traditional printmaking, he said.
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Story by Izzy Farrell
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olly Weiser is used to having difficult conversations. As Title IX coordinator for Fort Lewis, most of her day is spent talking about and investigating cases of sexual misconduct. Sexual misconduct includes everything from stalking and gender-based harassment to rape, according to the FLC policy. However, a study commissioned by the U.S. Department of Justice found that one in five women will experience sexual assault during their college years, but these numbers could be misleading. “A lot of the time people don’t report it because they’re like, ‘well, maybe it was my fault’,” Monica Maes, president of Indigenous Feminism Rising, said. “Even here at Fort Lewis you see it happen.” To combat this problem, Weiser and other staff members focus on consent education, she said. Weiser has provided consent education for RAs, RDs, Orientation Leaders, the ASFLC, Student Life Center employees, and multiple athletic teams, she said. “Honestly I think that people’s
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Photos by Lucy Schaefer difficulties identifying that an assault has happened or that harassment is occurring is one of the major reasons why any school has low reporting.” Weiser said. However, prevention is not the only purpose behind consent education, she said. “Learning about consent doesn’t just keep you from assaulting other people,” she said. “It helps you know when you were assaulted.” Oftentimes it can be difficult for a victim to accept that what happened to them was in fact sexual assault, Weiser said. “How am I going to break it to you that you were raped?” she said. For those difficult conversations, and for the sake of victim wellness, it is helpful to instead use a more jargonistic term as opposed to rape, she said. Weiser referred to one of the many magnets in her office, this one with ‘non-consensual sexual contact’ printed in bold letters. “It’s there and the definition is written,” she said. Weiser is quick to offer such resources whenever she is tabling in
Design by Lucy Schaefer the student union or when students come by her office, she said. Weiser tries to never turn down an invitation to talk about sexual assault or provide consent education, she said. “Everytime I make myself known, like every time I do something public, more people tend to warm up to the idea of telling me about what happened.” Weiser said.
on the victim can be doubly traumatizing, she said. “They want to perpetuate this person for all the good that he’s done,” Maes said. “But no one should receive a free pass.” The most important thing you can say to a friend who comes forward about their sexual assault is ‘I believe you,’ Weiser said. Seeing a perpetrator walk free can make it difficult to go about daily activities, Maes said. “It makes it harder for some of us to go to class, because then we have to see this person,” Maes said. “It makes it hard for people to attend events or functions on campus because they see that person there.” It is important to remember rape culture affects everyone, not just women, and men, who are much less likely to come forward, can be victims too, Maes said. “If we’re trying to help our women, we need to help our men,” she said. “We’re leaving them out in the cold.”
“We should not be having sex with people who are incapacitated by alcohol.” -Molly Wieser
THE GRAY AREA MYTH People who argue that there are gray areas around consent are incorrect, Weiser said. “Consent should be clear,” Weiser said. “If it’s not, it’s not consent.” Questions such as were either of you drunk? Were you flirting ? How many times did you say ‘no’? All amount to victim blaming, Nicole
Martin, a member of Indigenous Feminism Rising, said.. “It always goes back to, what did you do to make him do that to you?” Maes said. “They’re trying to flip it back on the victim.” In order to raise awareness for the issue of sexual assault to indigenous women, Martin has worked to bring a variety of events to campus, she said.
“I BELIEVE YOU” According to Rape Abuse and Incest National Network three out of every four rapes are committed by someone the victim knows. One of the most difficult experiences a victim can have is coming forward with their story and not receiving the needed support from their community, Maes said. “You think to yourself, do I even matter?” she said. When friends of a victim choose not to believe an assault has occurred, especially if the perpetrator is a mutual friend or admired community member, the resulting effect
”If we are trying to help our women, we need to help our men.” -Monica Maes
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“You think to yourself, do I even matter?” -Monica Maes
COMING FORWARD When a student does end up in her office, Weiser will usually begin by asking them if they would like to talk about the incident that happened to them, or if they would like to hear about Fort Lewis’s procedures for reporting, she said. Providing victims the option of what to talk about and when to talk about it is part of re-empowerment, Weiser said. These conversations are usually held in her office at 232 Miller Student Services, but Weiser is also willing to talk on the phone, or walk with students on the rim, she said. One important trend to observe is that the number of incidents reported at FLC has increased in recent years, she said. This can be attributed to more national media coverage of sexual assault and increased student awareness of how to report, she said.
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When it comes to reporting to the school, unless a perpetrator is a repeat offender, the victim has full autonomy over how to proceed with the case and what details to disclose, Weiser said. Not all students choose to speak to Title IX as their first step, she said. For that reason, Weiser often receives referrals from the Health Center and the Counselling Center. “There’s a conversation that flows pretty organically from where the victim’s at to what the victim wants,” Weiser said. That conversation can go a lot of different ways, she said. “I’ve been through that conversation and then been left with, okay, they don’t really want to tell me anything,” she said. “And then I’ve gone through that conversation, and the next day I’m sending out a notice of investigation to two parties and starting interviews.” FLC’s policy does not include a limit on how long after an incident students can come forward to re-
port, Weiser said. “It’s not uncommon for people to delay reporting.” Weiser said.
LOOKING TOWARDS THE FUTURE The sexual misconduct policy was changed in early October to include amnesty in situations involving drugs or alcohol. This means that victims or witnesses who were under the influence during an incident will not be disciplined for a substance-abuse violation, Weiser said. “We should not be having sex with people who are incapacitated by alcohol.” she said. For the three years Weiser has been here, alcohol amnesty has been the unspoken policy of the office. The official change will hopefully encourage more students to report without fearing repercussions, she said. “I think that if people do their
An informational card on consent that was distributed across campus. Student Empower Training it really goes a little bit of the way towards messaging that intoxication should not be taken advantage of.” Weiser said. Student Empower Training is the online Canvas course that all students and faculty are enrolled in, she said. Ideally, live trainings would work as a complement to what students
have already learned online, she said. Currently, Student Empower Training is only mandatory for certain groups of students, such as RAs, as opposed to the entire student body, she said. During orientation students now see a play called Elephant in the Room, which deals with issues such as sexual assault, Weiser said. While the show does not explore
the topic too extensively, hearing the issue of sexual assault talked about early on is still beneficial, she said. “I hope that what it does is kick off everybody’s experience at Fort Lewis College knowing for us at this college this is not a taboo topic,” Weiser said. “And we really do want to deal with it, we want to prevent it, and if it happens we want to handle it when it comes.”
“Consent should be clear.” -Molly Weiser
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Thanksgiving Plans: What Do Skyhawks Have
To Look Forward To?
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Story by Allison Young Photos by Catie Welch Design by Catie Welch hile many students leave since,” she said. “He wanted to it’s literally house sitting for free,” town for Thanksgivhave an event that gave people the Onumonu said. ing Break, several find opportunity to come together and The trio is not planning on a themselves spending the week off have a meal, especially for students Thanksgiving dinner like most stufrom school here in Durango. that could not go home for the dents will, he said. For those who cannot go home break,” “None of us celebrate Thanksfor fall break, Fort Lewis College Held in the Native American giving because it’s an American provides options to fulfill ThanksCenter the Wednesday before holiday and none of us are from giving traditions and make sure Thanksgiving, around 15-20 stuAmerica,” Onumonu said. “We’ll that students who put stay receive dents bring food and celebrate probably end up playing FIFA.” similar opportunities as those who together, McCabe said. Since they are not from the head home, Lisa Cate, an adminThe Native American Center do- United States, they do not have speistrative assistant for the Native nates a ham and people who attend cific plans for Thanksgiving dinner, American Center, said. are asked to bring side dishes or and instead are just planning meals The Native American Center dessert, she said. like it is a general week off from holds a traditional potluck dinner For students who live overseas, school, he said. every year in Durango, Cate said. going home is not as easy, espe“We split the responsibilities, so “We want this to be a communi- cially for only a week off, Churchill I do breakfast, Sal does lunch, and ty meal where everyone is welcome Onumonu, freshman who is from Robbie does dinner,” Onumonu and people feel like they have a London, said. said. “We each cook for each other.” place of belonging during the holOnumonu is planning to stay in The boys are looking forward iday, Kelly McCabe, who is putting Durango for Thanksgiving break to a fun and relaxing Thanksgiving on the event, said. with his roommates Robbie Young, break and are making the most out “A former student started this who is from Scotland, and Salifu of not being able to go home, he tradition in 2010, and they have Jatta, who is from Gambia because said. been putting on the event ever it was unrealistic for them to travel back to their homes, he said. The trio live in dorms, which close for Thanksgiving break, so they will be spending their break house-sitting for a friend, he said. “We’re staying in a mansion just the three of us because we know someone who lives there and they’re not going to be there, so
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A newspaper clipping from the Durango Herald from 1991 describes Fort Lewis’ plan for building the concert hall.
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lanning an event at Fort Lewis College requires a lot of foresight especially when booking a notable
name. Booking an act at the FLC concert hall can be a struggle because of Durango’s geographic location, Charles Leslie, director of the concert hall, said. “Durango is so isolated and we are not near any big cities or a major interstate, so that makes it difficult,” Leslie said. When booking an artist the concert hall looks at artists who are already on tour, so travel costs is low and they don’t have to pay a premium to fly them out to Durango, he said. The concert hall also does not have a budget for production, so another setback of attempting to book a recognizable name is the expenses needed to cover what the artist is asking for, he said. “Every show has to at least breakeven or make money,” Leslie said. “Our salaries, our overhead expenses, plus the expenses for a show, we have to raise ourselves.” Covering the costs of the production is done through ticket sales, corporate sponsorships, and fundraisers, he said. The concert hall at FLC aims to not only book someone who is recognizable to the general populace, but introduce them to new acts they might not be familiar with, he said. “We are trying to bring artists in that people love, that have some notoriety, but we are also looking to bring artists in
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from other cultures that people don’t find in this part of the country,” Leslie said. Booking an artist also depends on the artist themselves being flexible, he said. “The artists have to understand that we are a small venue at a smaller college in a more sparsely populated area of the country and some are flexible and understand what kind of market we are in,” he said. Recently the concert hall booked The Daily Show correspondent and comedian, Hasan Minhaj, for a show, and the process of booking him was through business connections, Leslie said. “Every other year or so I go to a booking conference in New York City, and this agent said that Hasan Minahj has this show he is doing, and we would like you to go see it,” he said. Agents pitch their artists to concert hall directors at the conferences and eventually FLC ended up booking Hasan Minhaj at a reasonable price, he said. “The booking worked out because Minhaj was looking to explore Western states and see what he could do,” Leslie said. Student union productions also faces a similar problem, especially when planning Skyfest, Elizabeth Calagias, union programming coordinator for Student Union Productions, said. To first book an artist for Skyfest, a student run music festival at FLC, the work begins by finding an artist that students will want to see, she said. Students send out two-fold surveys in
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Design by Celeste Matovich order to see what the student body would like to see at Skyfest, she said. The problem in getting high profile acts to come to FLC comes down to one thing, money, she said. Part of the cost not only comes from getting the guest to FLC, but building the stage and producing the event itself, Calagias said. “Whenever you book a band you also have to do the production, and the production is often times even more costly than the artist themselves,” she said. The students only can use about half of the budget for Skyfest to book an artist, she said. “They spend about $35,000 dollars on Skyfest, so they have about $15,000 to go to artists specifically,” Calagias said. “All the rest has to go to the production.” On the other side of things it is important to book someone who is somewhat recognizable to the student body, she said. “That’s what the students aim for is they want to get a band that isn’t mainstream, but a band that people know about,” she said. Even if the act is not recognizable it is important for FLC students to at least support their peers who put the production together, Calagias said. “The students work really hard on Skyfest and it’s a big deal to book a $10,000 artist and it breaks my heart every year that some people don’t go just because they don’t know the artist,” she said.
Pictured on the left, is an old Community Concert hall program talking about the Richie Haven’s show, On the right is the Skyfest poster diesgned by Naomi Bigbee from 2015 when the Motet came to FLC.
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HOROSCOPES ARIES (March 21-April 19) Thanksgiving break is almost here! Don’t give up hope yet. Keep working hard and your time off will feel much more deserved.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Now is the time to do the thing you’ve been putting off for a while. It won’t be nearly as bad as you thought it was once you start, promise.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20) Learn to be present in the current moment - don’t let excitement for the future or longing for the past distract you from what’s going on now.
CANCER (June 21-July 22) Things may be taking a turn for the stressful at the moment. Don’t let it phase you - Just take things one task at a time and you’ll get through it sooner than you know.
LEO (July 23-August 22) Go with the flow. Something that sounds unappealing at first may wind up being a better opportunity than you think. Keep an open mind and say yes.
VIRGO (August 23-September 22) You are so much better than whatever’s getting you down right now. Keep doing your thing and it’ll pay off soon, in a really big way.
LIBRA (September 23-October 22)
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SAGITTARIUS (November 23-December 21) If you’re feeling a little stressed or overworked, taking a break to sit back and just be happy with what you’ve accomplished lately is a good idea.
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