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Re:“Trunk Trade: Unlicensed food market quietly growing in Richmond,” Aug. 11, 2017.Web Only Sounds like a awesome idea. So long as everyone is aware that the quality may vary. –John H. Oaks

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Re:“New parklets, squares and plazas mean more public spaces inVancouver,” Aug. 9, 2017.Web Only Just look at the lovely “public square” at Comox and Denman. Booze, peeing in public...it’s great.

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Another one bites the dust! Pretty soon there will be nothing left in Vancouver that is older than five minutes!

Truthfully, I feel sad. I had heard about it and felt sad then, but now that I see it in black and white I feel more sad. I am crazy about some of the new buildings coming up because they are wild and out there and beautiful – like nothing we have seen before. But these are not up yet.

Plus, as per a rant in a recent Westender about new buildings from Jervis to Nicola, there will also be new buildings from Cardero to Bidwell on Davie.

Nevertheless I will miss the Empire Landmark Hotel.

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Poem of the week

Welcome to Poetic Licence – a weekly poetry forum, hosted by us, featuring words by local poets. This week? Kimberlee Stirling.

MAELSTROM There’s a collective storm brewing the likes of which we’ve never seen.

Words that whispered through our minds are on news feeds for all the world to hear.

The cacophony cuts like a knife, interrupting peaceful dreams and guiltless sleep, driving us from sylvan glens to roam among the brambles, life’s blood dripping scarlet upon the thirsty ground.

Hope is all we have left, a refuge, burning bright, the eternal flame of a single candle chasing away shadows in the eye of the storm.

Kimberlee Stirling (anotetohuguette.wordpress. com) is a West End resident and blogger, who writes a post each week on the beauty and nature of our small corner of the world.

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Fire season’s human scourge

We can put out the fires, but can we extinguish human stupidity?

Grant Lawrence Vancouver Shakedown @GrantLawrence

By now, you likely have blue skies overhead or sweet rain pouring down. Chances are good you can see the North Shore mountains again. And the smoke, which as of this writing has hung over our city like a suffocating blanket since the first day of August, has finally dissipated so we can have our supernatural Vancouver summer back.

I know, I know, I know: we have to keep it in perspective. For a couple of weeks, Vancouverites put up with hampered views and sore throats. Tourists have lived out a Bruce Cockburn song, wondering where the Lions are.

Meanwhile, many of our fellow British Columbians have spent their entire summer dealing with fire, smoke, evacuations, displacement and massive losses.

Vancouver got off very easy in July. For instance, the Vancouver Folk Festival enjoyed stunningly perfect summer weather on Jericho Beach, but at the very moment Bahamas had the audience swooning, 500 kilometres to the north,Williams Lake was being evacuated.

When the opaque and eerie smoke finally crept over the south coast and lingered like an unwanted stranger, it had an odd impact on us. Besides that StarWars-esque red sun populating every second photo on your Instagram feed (no Kelvin filter required), there was an added intensity.

The smoke trapped the heat, which occasionally boiled over within us.

Last weekend, I was on a desert-dry Gulf island, where I witnessed a young hippie kid in bare feet smoking a cigarette over a patch of dead yellow grass that was more

like straw.The owner of the gas station exploded out of the front door, waving his arms and screaming at the hippie to put out his cigarette.

Not only was he smoking over dry grass, he was just mere feet from a gas station.

Maybe the gas station owner was justified. In 2003, it was a discarded cigarette that caused the devastating Barriere, B.C., fire that de-

stroyed homes. According to the Vancouver Sun, in B.C. this summer, out of 900+ forest fires, over 360 were caused by humans, the rest by lightning.

We can’t do anything about lightning strikes, but we can, at the very least, do our best to extinguish human stupidity when we see it.

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Kudos to the RCMP for fining those belligerent losers

over $10,000 between them.

And what about the hundreds of thousands of people who gleefully enjoy a yearly massive fireworks display next to Stanley Park? Where is the common sense in that?

Maybe it’s time to remind ourselves of our city’s motto: “By sea, land and air we prosper.” That prosperity shouldn’t just apply to humans, but for every living thing. Let’s do our very best to protect the place we love and live, so that this summer isn’t the new normal. W

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Alleyway activations breathe life, purpose into unused public space Amy Logan Hidden City

@AmySnowLogan A nondescript laneway is magically transformed into a quirky vintage living room; a group of skateboarders gather on a set of concrete seats and watch a couple play ping-pong as cyclists whizz past on the bike route; a crowd collects beneath

the Cambie Street Bridge at dusk, mesmerized by a huge projection of salmon swimming upstream.

Across Vancouver, public spaces are being reimagined in ever more creative ways.

Perhaps nowhere are these transformations more apparent than in the Vancouver Public Spaces Network’s (VPSN) recent series of laneway activations.

This summer, VPSN has been working on a proj-

ect called Laneway Living Room, which is “a series of one-day alleyway activations that aims to show how we could use these often underutilized spaces to create cool public gathering areas,” director Andrew Pask says.

Laneway activation involves taking an alleyway – most recently, a 25-metrelong stretch just off Commercial Drive – and “dressing it up with elements that transform it into a space

where people want to hang out and linger.”

At the Grandma’s House Laneway Living Room, pieces of furniture were brought in, lace tablecloths and vintage tea cups were set out, and a selection of art supplies, records and board games drew hundreds of passersby.

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also that we have a lot of potential spaces that could be transformed like this,” Pask explains. “This is especially important in a growing, densifying city like Vancouver.”

He notes that laneways and alleyways make up a good part of the city’s land base, but they are mostly used for garbage or parking.

Pask urges people to be more creative when imagining the potential of laneways.

The VPSN works on a variety of different types of projects, including placemaking events involving activations, research and advocacy. At its essence, its goal is to improve the city’s public spaces.

In the last few weeks, the VPSN has “undertaken a small research project looking at how the three neighbourhood plazas along Bute (at Davie, Haro and Robson) are being used,” says Pask.They are close to releasing an inventory and beta map of all downtown public spaces, and they are working to encourage strong public space planning for new neighbourhoods like False Creek South and False Creek Flats.

“Successful public spaces provide a forum for lively, engaging public life, a welcoming place for a diverse array of people,” Pask says.

Some things he would like to see include a book market and better use of blank walls

– though he credits the Vancouver Mural Fest for “taking things leaps and bounds ahead in Mount Pleasant.”

Still, Pask believes broader changes need to be made, including creative rain-proofing of public spaces so they are usable in the fall and winter.

He also yearns for better night-time uses of space so Vancouver can shed its afterdark ghost-town image.

More support for community groups “to help program and steward public space, a better culture of opportunity,” is also needed, he says.

Pask sees public space as “the thread that weaves together city life,” offering a public forum and a place to hold big events and celebrations, “but it’s also where the theatre of the everyday takes place.”

The next laneway activation takes place Saturday, Aug. 26 at Cordova and Homer in Gastown. VPSN is always looking for volunteers. Sign up at vancouverpublicspace.ca/take-action/ activate.

• Amy Logan is aVancouver writer, editor and English instructor with an ear for trends in the arts, community and environment. She is a regular contributor to Metro News, and joins the Westender for the summer to explore the artists, creatives, environmentalists and adventurers who makeVancouver tick. W

The Vancouver Public Space Network has been rolling out a project that transforms alleys like this one on Commercial Drive into places to sit and ahng out. Amy Logan photo

Space Centre to host solar eclipse viewing party Looking for the most appropriate place to view one of the most anticipated astronomical events of the year? Vancouver’s H.R. MacMillan Space Centre (1100 Chestnut St.) will be welcoming hundreds of people to view the solar eclipse on Aug. 21.

This eclipse marks the first time in 99 years that a total solar eclipse will cross the entire continental USA. In Vancouver, we will be able to observe the eclipse at 86 per cent totality.

The viewing party runs from 8:45am to noon, with eclipse starting at 9:10am.The Space Centre will be offering a selection of solar telescopes, live streams and solar eclipse glasses for safe viewing. During and after the viewing, the Space Centre will be open for special, eclipse-themed shows and activities.

Admission to the viewing party, including solar glasses, is by donation. Regular rates apply to shows and activities in the main building. –Staff

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Millennials stepping up to tackle climate change JAN ZESCHKY @jantweats

The sickly yellow-brown pall has lifted and the skies above Vancouver are blue again, broken only by blissful, billowing clouds.

There’s not a hint of the choking smoke from Interior wildfires that blanketed the metro area for around two weeks – but still lingering is a grim warning that this might be the new normal.

While fires flare up every year in B.C.’s Interior, rarely do they erupt with the aggression they’ve displayed this year.

OnWednesday, the B.C.Wildfire Service announced that 2017’s wildfire season is now the most destructive recorded in the province’s history, with nearly 9,000 square kilometres burned since April 1.

The rising regularity and intensity of these blazes – seen to particularly shocking effect in last summer’s evacuation of Fort McMurray, Alta. – are proven indicators of climate change.Yes, there have always been wildfires, but they’re steadily getting worse.

“More natural disasters like these are prone to happen.

Fires burn larger and more

out of control,” says Vancouver-based journalist and author Geoff Dembicki. “The fires are a reminder in our local context. … Climate change is happening right now.”

Dembicki, who grew up in Edmonton, began writing regularly about climate change and environmental issues for The Tyee in 2010.

His experiences travelling across the world, meeting those tackling climate change and relating their stories in such publications as The New York Times, The Guardian, Vice and The Atlantic have led to his first book, AreWe Screwed?

The book’s subtitle hints at the planet’s potential saviours: How a New Generation is Fighting to Survive Climate Change.

Dembicki believes it’s his own generation, the Millennials, who will begin mitigating the Earth’s warming and its destructive effects.Through stories about a wide range of individuals – including a Victoria student who gave up his degree to go back to the land, and a Fort McMurray resident who chose an art career over lucrative employment in the oil sands – AreWe Screwed? shows how Millennials, who

Journalist Geoff Dembicki’s experiences travelling and meeting people tackling climate change have led to his first book, entitled Are We Screwed? Dan Toulgoet photo are only just pushing into positions of power across the world, are rejecting current economic and political norms and striving toward a system that’s more grounded in ethics and sustainability.

Dembicki believes the political changes are underway.The last chapter of his book details the extraordinary campaign of U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, whose support surged as his message of political change resonated with millions of youth voters.

It’s happening in B.C., too, Dembicki says – witness the ascent to power of the first NDP government in 16 years, aided by the Greens. Already the new government has launched a legal bid to halt the expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline, which would greatly increase tanker traffic in Vancouver’s harbour.

Vancouver itself is a focal point for many of the tensions surrounding climate change, Dembicki says, citing its proximity to wilderness, its many Indigenous peoples, its history

of environmental activism and the fact that there’s “one of the biggest oil industries in the world next door trying to build pipelines to the coast.”

Here, Millennials are leading the fight fight against climate change on many fronts. Even the environmental cause célèbre of progressive Boomers, Greenpeace, which was inVancouver founded in Vancouver in 1971, owes much of its current success to the commitment of the many Millennials in its ranks.

In the organization’s Vancouver office, 80 per cent of its staff are Millennials. They’re using social media and digital strategies to reach out to their peers – and it’s working. According to 2016 figures, a third of Greenpeace donors are in the Millennial age bracket.

For communications officer Jesse Firempong, it’s a sign of how switched-on her generation is, contrary to the stereotype of the selfabsorbed smartphone addict.

“I feel like Millennials often get a bad rap for being politically disengaged,” she says. “But when you realize the civic space is bigger

than the ballot box and the conversation on social media is important to shaping people’s minds and their peers’ minds and the general narrative around things, I think it’s undeniable that [Millennials] are super important and politically active.”

Vancouver’s investment in environmental issues can also be measured in the number of green jobs that the city has created; according to a 2016 estimate, that number stands at more than 25,000, an almost 50 per cent increase from 2010.

These jobs are attracting idealistic Millennials like Patrick Enright, who recently moved here with his wife from Ontario.

Enright has been working with the City of Vancouver’s Planning, Urban Design and Sustainability office as a green building engineer for a little more than a year, supporting the city’s ZeroEmission Building Plan.

He admits he has felt the drive to use engineering to solve problems on a wider scale from an early age.

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The cider house rules in BC Often overlooked in favour of wine and beer, craft cider is on the cusp of a province-wide boom JAN ZESCHKY @jantweats

Not many business owners count tree-climbing among their essential skills. But when you want to produce cider the traditional way, you have to get hands on – and for Katie Selbee and Matthew Vasilev, that means scaling the century-old fruit trees of Pender Island to pick the best apples.

The duo officially opened Twin Island Cider (twinislandcider.com) in May, after teaming up with landowners on the Gulf Island who wanted to see the soil put to good use. But the couple has been picking from old trees on the island for more than a year, as well as planting and grafting with the aim of building up their own 1,300tree orchard.

Although they get a lot of help from family, friends and neighbours – including offers of unused apples from other properties – they still spend a lot of time amid the branches.

“That’s the labour involved with being hyper-local. We have the dream to really stick to these old-growth trees that are really difficult to pick because they’re 20-30 feet tall,” says Selbee,

Top left: Matthew Vasilev and Katie Selbee at UBC’s Farmhouse Fest. Top right: Katie Selbee on Pender Island. Bottom: Cider flight and olives at Orchard and Sea. Jan Zeschky / Contributed photos who estimates that in their company’s short lifespan, they’ve harvested around 35,000 pounds (that’s almost 16 tonnes) of apples between orchards on Pender and neighbouring Mayne Island.

Twin Island is one of the latest producers to enter the cider market in BC as the drink enjoys a renaissance across North America.

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labour-intensive cider operations out there – but the results are worth it, its owners believe, to keep their operation organic, authentic and as local as possible.

The flavour of the heirloom apples from these trees planted by the first European settlers – varieties with mysterious, evocative names like King of Tompkins County, Gravenstein and Grimes

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The ciders aren’t exactly slouching, either.They offer a great foil for the food, with acidity and carbonation providing cutting power and latent sweetness offering both contrast and complement.

The Orchard & The Sea began to bring in more bottles from B.C. as the scene developed and today, the cider menu is full of local options. It provides a unique opportunity to sample a large range of ciders side by side to get a feel for the variety of profiles that the drink offers.

They range from the semidry blends of Okanagan and West Coast apples to the rosé of red-fleshed varietals, and more experimental infusions with other fruits and spices (try the lavender-raspberry by Vernon’s BX Press) (thebxpress.com).

“People make the effort to find us, they come in the door and the first thing they say is, ‘I don’t like sweet cider,’” Pisio says. “And I say, ‘Good, you’re in the right place, we don’t have anything like that.’

Overcoming that and surprising people has been the most fun part,” he adds.

With more fruit coming online from new orchards in the coming years, things are only looking up for local cider. “[In BC] We grow a lot of apples but they’re dessert apples, grocery store apples.

So everybody we know is aggressively grafting and planting cider fruit, but that takes a little while – three to five years – for those to produce,” Pisio says.

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“In keeping to a Pacific Northwest style, it’s sharp but there are some incredible flavours, very aromatic,” Vasilev says.

Yet despite the dizzying potential for flavour and scope for growth, the cider market hasn’t surged in the way it did for Okanagan wine and, more recently, craft beer.

Many in the industry put that down to an issue of education.True cider is radically different from the sweet, additive-laden cooler-style drink favoured by teens in parks.

“In BC there are a lot of sweet, artificial alcopops that

a lot of people think is cider,” says Kate Garthwaite, who opened Left Field Cider Company (leftfieldcider.com) north of Merritt with her sister Theresa Pedersen six years ago.

“So, just educating them that there is craft cider that’s full juice, that’s not using artificial flavours and concentrates, just pressing juice and how that’s different, and getting people to just try it.That was challenging at the start.”

Garthwaite aims to increase education efforts as vice-president of the recently established BC Farm Crafted Cider Association (bcfarmcraftedcider.com), which represents 20 cideries across the province.

Another issue is the relative remoteness of cider producers. Most operate out of farms, which means there isn’t the same opportunity for a high-traffic tasting room as there is with the many breweries bubbling up in B.C.’s cities.

But, similar to what happened with the boom in beer, there are positive signs coming from the south.

“In Portland, Seattle, there are a bunch of cideries and cider bars,”Vasilev says. “…

There’s a presence of cider in the big American cities and that’s a great focal point for cider and a great way to bring cider makers from all over the states and provinces.”

What you might not know is that Vancouver already has its own dedicated cider bar – and it’s already been open for a year.

The Orchard & the Sea (orchardandthesea.ca), which operates on weekend evenings out of The Birds & The Beets space at 55 Powell St., boasts a big list of bottled cider from across BC and the US, with several draught options.

The restaurant is run by the people behind Txotx Imports (txotx.ca) – Shawn and Kelly Pisio, and chef Michael Broadbent – who originally focused on importing produce from Spain’s Basque country, including the area’s compellingly complex sidra.

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When it comes to the environment, plastic straws really suck – but a new local initiative may have found a solution Joanne Sasvari The Alchemist

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It might not actually be the very last straw, but Gerry Jobe hopes it’ll come awfully close.

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Those straws end up in the garbage and our oceans.

And though a straw’s “work life” is less than 15 minutes, its afterlife can linger up to 1,000 years, which is how long it takes plastic to degrade, assuming it ever does.

The Plastic Ocean Foundation estimates that the U.S. and U.K. go through 550 million plastic straws

every day, which join the 20 million tonnes of plastic that ends up in the oceans each year. It’s not just unsightly; it’s killing fish, birds and sea mammals and having untold effects on human health.

And, really, who needs a straw in the first place? Sure, dentists love them because they keep sugary drinks off your tooth enamel and prevent hot and cold beverages

from hurting sensitive teeth.

Business owners love them because they keep lipstick off glassware. Cocktail drinkers love them because they can slurp beverages through crushed ice and from the bottom of narrow Collins glasses.

Which is why even though bars and restaurants have tried to get rid of straws, customers still want them.

True, there are alternatives. But paper gets mushy; pasta gets soggy; bamboo is hard to clean; corn-based plastic is still litter. As for metal, Jobe says, “I don’t like the feel of it against my teeth and I don’t like the way it affects the taste of my drink.”

Enter his friend and fellow bartender Brian Grant, who is in the process of opening Resurrection Spirits distillery. He’d found a glass straw he liked so much, he bought the distribution rights.

Skeptical, Jobe asked what made it so great. “Brian said, ‘I’m going to make you the best drink you’ve ever had,’ and he made me this really fancy glass of water with garnishes and everything. And it was incredible.”

The straws are made from old-fashioned borosilicate, rather than the soda-lime-

silica that comprises 90 per cent of modern glass.

“It can take the heat and it’s tempered in a way that’s three times stronger than regular glass,” Jobe says. “I said, OK, this is next level.”

But what about cost? The cheapest glass straw Jobe could find online was $7.99, too expensive for professional use.

Grant quoted him a buck-fifty.

“I said, let’s just do this.This has got to be done,” Jobe says.

He took the straw back to his business partner Dave Simpson, with whom he worked on Simp’s Serious Caesar Mix earlier this year. “I want 100 of them right now,” Simpson said.

And so The Last Straw Initiative was born. The website just launched this past week; 5.5- and seveninch straws sell for one price, $1.49 each, available in boxes of 100, 400 or 1,000, including shipping.

Right now only clear glass straws are available, but coloured straws, bendy straws and etched straws are in the works.

“We’re not out to make a ton of money on this.We’re just out to solve a problem,” Jobe says. “Do I think everyone’s going to switch to glass? No, but now they have the option.”

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RECIPE // MINT JULEP With its mountain of crushed ice, the mint julep is one drink that cries out for a straw, and a reusable glass one allows for the purest taste of bourbon and mint. In fact, it was because he didn’t like the way rye grass made his mint juleps taste that an American inventor named Marvin C. Stone created the first paper straws, back in the late 19th century.

• 5-6 tender mint leaves • 1 tsp (5 mL) sugar • 3 oz (90 mL) bourbon • Mint sprig for garnish Place the mint in the bottom of a chilled double old fashioned glass or silver beaker. Add sugar and crush gently with a muddler. Fill the glass with cracked ice, making sure to drain any water from the ice first. Pour the bourbon over the ice. Stir briskly – the glass should become nice and frosty. Add more ice, stir again. Gently slap the mint sprig to release its aromas and use it to garnish the drink. Tuck two short straws into the drink and serve with a napkin or small doily. Serves 1.

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@FoodgirlFriday With only a few weeks left in which to squeeze in some summer road tripping, look no further than the Okanagan for food, fun, wine and sun. Last week I explored the area from the Similkameen to Oliver. This week, we continue north through Okanagan Falls all the way to Summerland and beyond for some delicious and refreshing pit stops.

Less than 10 minutes north of Oliver lies Okanagan Falls, home to some fantastic wineries and even more fantastic barbecue at Wild Goose Vineyards (wildgoosewinery.com). What could be better to pair with the excellent Riesling but some house-smoked St. Louis-style pork ribs with cherry barbecue sauce? At nearby Liquidity Wines (liquiditywines.

com), the bistro offers more elevated fare, such as quinoa and spinach cake, and Yakima Valley lamb with cumin seed cavatelli. Don’t forget to stop at Tickleberry’s (tickleberrys. com) for some old-fashioned ice cream, handmade fudge (in both regular and sugarfree flavours), chocolatecovered local fruit (the cherries rock), and assorted handicrafts and sweets.

Next stop is Penticton, where beach days on Skaha Lake reign supreme, along with plenty of good eats.

Craft Corner Kitchen (craftcornerkitchen.com) is where chef James Holmes and his team put together some of the best fried chicken (among other delights) in the valley, not to mention the daily doughnuts.

And, if they’re available, the devilled eggs are not to be missed. The restaurant is practically next door to both Bad Tattoo (badtattoobrewing.com) and Cannery (cannerybrewing.com) breweries, both of which also offer food with their brews. Pick up some pizza at Bad Tattoo or the famous cheese-stuffed pretzel bombs at Cannery.

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The picnic bar at Evolve Cellars in Summerland. Chris Stenberg photo

to Upper Bench Winery and Creamery (upperbench. ca), where the addictive Baby Grey is a perfect match to the estate Zweigelt, a nice light red with cherry and raspberry notes.This is also the only place in the region to try this varietal. Head on out to the patio and order something

made in the wood-fired pizza oven, like the Honey Pie, with tomato sauce, Upper Bench King Cole cheese, mozzarella, prosciutto, chili and honey.

Next stop is Summerland, where Okanagan Crush Pad (okanagancrushpad. com) is home to Haywire and Narrative wines. Visit to

marvel at the giant concrete eggs that act as fermentation tanks, and stay for a tasting and picnic or charcuterie platter on the patio. Evolve Cellars (evolvecellars.com) is another must-visit, not only for its fantastic Rosé and Gewürtz, but also for its new picnic bar, where you can purchase local cheese, charcuterie, breads and more, and enjoy on the expansive patio that stretches to the water’s edge. Sit and enjoy the view over Okanagan Lake or pack away into a cooler for an afternoon of sipping and tasting.

A few miles north lies Peachland and the lovely Fitzpatrick Family Vineyards (fitzwine.com).

Located right off Highway 97 on the water’s edge, the new bistro and sparkling bar is the place to unwind after a day of hard tasting. The sparkling bar offers not only the house bubble, but also comparative flights from around the world, include Cava, Champagne and Prosecco. The Fitz Brut also appears in the house cocktails, including a refreshing Pimm’s Cup and an interesting take on a Negroni.

The bistro, which is open

for dinner Thursday through Saturday, lunch Monday to Friday, and weekend brunch, keeps things casual, local and delicious. Try the lobster agnolotti or tempura rockfish with one the cocktails.

In Kelowna, Summerhill Pyramid Winery (summerhill.bc.ca) is renowned for its organic, biodynamic wines – and yeah, the big pyramid. And, while the pyramid and the story of how it was created is fascinating, you’ll also want to check out the outdoor dining at Sunset Bistro under executive chef Alex Lavroff. Open for breakfast, lunch and dinner, the menu is full of the estate’s own biodynamic produce and herbs. Try the Campari watermelon salad with haloumi, Road 17 arctic char with warm potato salad, Cache Creek steak, nasi goreng and more. At Spierhead Winery (spierheadwinery.com), the patio features a menu of pizzas, charcuterie, cheeses, salads, tapa, desserts, and lots of vegan, vegetarian and gluten-free options, like the recent coconut, blueberry, cashew and ginger pie. W

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CLIMATE CHANGE Continued from page 5 “There are so many ways we can do things better,” he says. “We can take the systems we have and improve them, move beyond them.

To use renewable energy, to transform all of our systems, whether that’s building or transportation.”

It’s apparent talking to engaged Millennials like Dembicki, Enright and Firempong that they feel a certain responsibility to step up and change things for the better.

“Anyone who’s a Millennial has grown up with climate change all their life.

It’s not new to us,” Enright says. “We’ve been hearing about it, for many of us, since the day we were born. [It’s] something that has been known about and has been around our whole lives.”

But it’s a responsibility linked to optimism for the future; the belief that climate change can be addressed, that changing the political and economic status quo is possible.

For Enright, that starts with city projects to provide

ultra-efficient housing, or even simple, personal choices like cycling, taking transit, sourcing local food and eating less meat.

For Firempong, it’s her generation’s support for progressive causes.

“I see people voting with their dollars and choosing to support organizations that can bring the change that they want to see,” she says.

Even as Dembicki’s book ends on a downbeat note on the night of Donald Trump’s presidential victory, there’s an undercurrent of hope.

Since last November, there has been a groundswell of unified opposition against Trump’s policies that Dembicki has found exciting.

“There’s huge energy now in the fight against Donald Trump,” he says. “The real question is whether that energy can be sustained up to the 2018 mid-term elections in the U.S. “I think people all around the world are going to be watching those mid-terms with a lot of interest,” he says.

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Camille Sullivan doesn’t audition for a lot of comedies.

“People generally come to me for heavy drama,” the Vancouver actress observes matter-of-factly over tea in Kitsilano.

“Heavy drama” might actually be a bit of an understatement. Sullivan’s two-decade-spanning filmography is populated by altogether gritty, meaty and gut-punching roles: a volatile drug addict on CBC’s underrated crime drama Intelligence; a grieving woman who might or might not be murdered by her dead sister’s roommates in Ally Was Screaming; a dying social worker desperate to reunite with the biological mom who gave her up at birth in The Birdwatcher; a troubled cop fighting all kinds of demons on the Downtown Eastside in Victory Square; a frantic mom whose daughter goes missing in Geoff Redknapp’s stellar disappearing-man thriller, The Unseen.

She’s scooped up multiple acting awards for her efforts: UBCP/ACTRA Awards for The Birdwatcher and AllyWas Screaming; Leo Awards for Victory Square and Normal; and, on the national level, Gemini nominations for Intelligence and Shattered.

Next month, Sullivan will once again be seen flexing her dramatic muscles in a thoroughly unfunny role: as a mother whose child goes

Camille Sullivan plays a mom whose child goes missing in CTV’s The Disappearance. Contributed photo missing in The Disappearance, a six-part limited series from CTV and NBCUniversal International that reunites Sullivan with her The Unseen co-star Aden Young (Rectify).

“I like to keep my life pretty plain and I like to keep my dramatic life really dramatic,” notes the Vancouver actress.

The seeds for heavy drama were planted back in childhood, when Sullivan would devour films like Woody Allen’s The Purple Rose of Cairo, Lars von Trier’s Breaking the Waves and David Lynch’s The Elephant Man via wellworn VHS tapes.

She attended a Toronto arts high school as a painting major, but found something resonant in theatre classes, and ultimately studied acting at the University of B.C. Painting and acting are surprisingly similar, according to Sullivan.

“When I paint, I primarily do portraits and that’s probably the same thing [as acting],” she says. “You’re looking at someone’s face.

You’re looking into their eyes.You find their story.”

For Sullivan, the best characters are those that “have something that’s off about them. I can’t come at something from a 100-percent place of confidence – I don’t think I’ll ever get there – but I can play a confident character if that character is secretly not confident at all,” says Sullivan, who admits to bouts of imposter syndrome and stage fright. “If that’s in there somewhere or there’s room to put that in there, then I can do that.”

Francine on Intelligence fits this definition to a T. Intelligence – which ran for two seasons on CBC and starred Ian Tracey as a Vancouver crime boss and Klea Scott as the director of a local organized crime unit – recently joined the ranks of Netflix. Francine (the ex-wife of Tracey’s character) remains high on the list of Sullivan’s favourite roles for numerous reasons, not the least of which is that it gifted her with the opportunity to work with famed showrunner Chris Haddock (whose other credits include the Da

Vinci shows and The Romeo Section).

“On my first day shooting the series, there was a big scene with Ian [Tracey] where I’m shouting and I’m freaking out, and I turn to Chris [Haddock] and say, ‘How crazy do you want me to go?’ He’s like, ‘You can’t go crazy enough,’” she recalls.

On Intelligence, Sullivan learned to “just go for it.

It’s scary to just go 100 per cent because some of the time you’re going to go too far, you’re going to look ridiculous. But that character gave me the ability to go far because half the time she was faking,” says Sullivan. “It gave me permission to do, for example, a big cry, and put it all out on the table, and if it doesn’t seem all-out true – well, don’t worry, because it’s not.”

As for the upcoming Montreal-shot The Disappearance, Sullivan doesn’t mince words: “It’s the heaviest I’ve ever done.”

Sullivan plays Helen Murphy Sullivan, a mother whose child goes missing; Young plays the child’s father – a story point that is familiar to viewers who watched Young and Sullivan together in The Unseen.

“Our child goes missing again,” she marvels, before callingYoung a “wonderful, generous actor and so fun. He plays really dark stuff but on set, in between, we’re laughing. It’s not heavy times on set. And he’s such a brilliant actor. He’s coming to the scenes from every direction.”

In The Disappearance, “family secrets unfold. It’s a thriller. It’s exciting. It’s heavy, but a lot happens over those six episodes,” says Sullivan. “It has a drive forward.” W • The Disappearance airs in September on CTV.

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In a stunt gone tragically wrong, a female motorcycle driver died on the set of Deadpool 2 on Monday morning.

The stuntwoman was identified on social media as Joi “SJ” Harris – the first black woman to race motorcycles at a professional level in the United States.

According to reports, Harris was driving her bike down a flight of stairs when she lost control, jumped a curb, and crashed into a window of the Shaw Tower downtown.

She is believed to have been playing the stunt double for Zazie Beets, who plays the character of Domino across from Ryan Reynolds’ character, Wade Winston Wilson, in the popular superhero series.

According to Deadline, Harris was not wearing a helmet at the time of the crash. Production was shut down immediately, but resumed filming on Wednesday.

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agent for the Union of British Columbia Performers and the Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Televisions and Radio Artists (UBCP/ ACTRA), said that the event was both tragic and rare.

“It was a stunt that went tragically wrong,” he said.

“It’s also important to recognize that these sorts of serious injuries and fatalities are exceedingly rare, given the number of film stunts that are performed not just here but in North America.”

The multi award-winning movie starring Ryan Reynolds has been filming its sequel in Vancouver since June, becoming infamous in the city for street closures, during which it films highspeed, action-packed scenes.

Reynolds took to social media to express his sadness and condolences to the family of the deceased.

“We’re heartbroken, shocked and devastated,” he said in a tweeted statement.

Westender connected with a film professional working on a different set in the city, who said her crew stopped working to take a moment of silence in light of the incident.

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“This is obviously a very deeply sad incident that’s happened and the tragedy is certainly reverberating through the community,” Cameron said.

WorkSafe BC regulations dictate the safety standards and required personnel on site, said Cameron, and although first aid crews are mandatory on set, regulations vary as to when

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paramedics are also required.

Conversations about safety and cautionary tales are common among stunt actors, said Cameron, and safety meetings prior to filming are standard practice.

Formal preparations for a stunt include choreography, rehearsals and “multiple safety meetings in advance of actually performing the stunt with the cameras rolling,” he said.

“It’s really about taking something that on screen looks death defying and extremely dangerous, to try to mitigate those risks as much as possible. As tragic as it is we have to also recognize that this isn’t something that happens often, it’s very rare.” W

It was around 10:15am on Monday when the texts and emails started coming in: Did you hear about the stunt performer who died on the set of Deadpool 2? Is it someone from Vancouver? How did it happen? Why? Details about the stuntwoman who died – Joi “SJ” Harris, a trailblazing motorcycle rider from the States – have started to emerge, as have the details surrounding her tragic death. But we don’t need to know the details in order to feel the loss, and also to pause and reflect on the role that stunt performers play in our local film and television industry.

I’ve had the good fortune to count many stunt performers among my friends (including one of the original reel people in my life, the late stunt artist and actor Darren Shahlavi), and also to observe them in action on set.The stunt artists I know share a few things in common: they’re hard-working; they’re daring; they love to train and learn new things; their enjoyment of their work is unparalleled; they’re professional; they’re somehow both

proud of what they’re able to do and also humble, because they’re not doing it for name recognition or glory.They’re crashing through rings of fire and fighting hand to hand combat and pushing their bodies to the max so that they can create something special for the screen, and – particularly in the case of stunt doubles – so that they can keep the non-stunt actors safe.

The stunt coordinators I know make safety a priority. It’s an essential part of the job, and in Vancouver especially, they do it so damn well.There’s a reason that we haven’t had a stunt-related death in British Columbia since 1996: safety comes first.

I honour Joi Harris. I honour the stunt performers who bring it every single day without glory. It’s a small community, and I know they’re feeling the loss acutely. Everyone I know in the stunt world either worked on the first Deadpool film (itself an incredible tribute to our local stunt community), or knows someone who worked on it. Next time you’re watching a film, pay special attention to the stunts section of the end credits.They literally put their bodies on the line to entertain all of us. W

Originally a response to Dîner en Blanc, this year’s Ce Soir Noir stands on its own TESSA VIKANDER @tessavikander

This year’s Ce Soir Noir picnic will once again be competing head to head with the iconic, ultra-posh Dîner en Blanc to see who rules the summer’s monochromatic event calendar.

But, despite the fact that the two rival picnics are once again happening on the same day (Aug. 24), and that Ce Soir Noir was originally a subversive response to Dîner en Blanc, the event page for this year’s scrappy “picnic of darknessness” makes no mention of its swanky all-in-white counterpart. Rather, Ce Soir Noir asserts itself as the established easy-come, easy-go “picnic based art installation” it has become.

“We invite you to do next to nothing,” the event description reads. “Just show up whenever you feel like it, but probably when you’re hungry… and you’ve got a few decent looking friends with you who are dressed

toque to toes in the blackest clothing.”

Ce Soir Noir also returns to the table with legitimacy up its artistically sombre sleeve: organizers have successfully applied for an event permit, finally making it a city-sanctioned event.

“We actually got a permit this year,” the event boasts, “so we’re essentially Airbnb’ing all of CRAB Park for the collective experience of asses on patches of grasses…”

The free picnic, now in its third year, is open to everyone, and a few ground rules from previous years have set the scene for an inclusive social event: attendees must wear black, bring a blanket to sit on, their own food plus a donation for the food bank, and lastly, they must clean up after themselves.

The event seems to stand in stark contrast to the airy Dîner en Blanc – a $50 limited-ticket event, where participants must arrive in elegant white attire, and bring their own folding table and chairs, gourmet picnic food, fine china, silverware and table cloth.

Unlike Ce Soir Noir’s decision to announce its location (CRAB Park) ahead of time, a trademark of Dîner en Blanc is that organizers keep the picnic’s location a

secret until just prior to the start of the event.

First held in Paris in 1988, Dîners en Blanc are staged around the world, but local organizers say the central principles remain the same.

Guests “gather at a secret location for the sole purpose of sharing a gourmet meal with good friends in one of their city’s most beautiful public spaces,” says the Vancouver press release.

So what, if anything, do these unique and snappy picnics have in common?

Aside from the obvious fact that attendees have to bring their own stuff (and submit to a dress code), there is an underlying philosophical similarity. Both events bring Vancouverites together in a calm setting, where they can celebrate one of the few remaining summer evenings. They both bring joy and beauty to a sometimes cold city. Nonetheless, one positions itself as a populist event, while the other veers towards elitism.

But we’ll leave it to you, dear reader, to decide which is which. W • Ce Soir Noir, Aug. 24, at CRAB Park, Free; Dîner en Blanc, Aug. 24, secret location, any remaining tickets $50.

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“He loves a good romp, someone to play chase with and who can keep up with him on hikes,” she says.

“He’s a really good boy who’s looking for a perfect fit – ideally, an active couple with a big yard, big hearts and a big appetite for adventure. After all Polo’s been through he’s not prepared to settle – so he’s shooting for the stars!”

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Though his leash skills “could use some work,” he obeys commands relatively well (even better when snacks are involved).

“He recently discovered water and loves it,” MacDonald says, adding that Polo, a real “ladies’ man,” would love to find a home with a friendly female dog to play with (cats and older

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The average rent for this home type had jumped past

the $2,000 mark last month, reaching $2,090. In August, the median rent for a onebedroom home fell 4.8 per cent to $1,990.Year-over-year, one-bedroom apartment rents increased 13.7 per cent in the city.

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Currently tenanted 1 bedroom 1 bath • David Lam Park, restaurants • Pet friendly (for owners only) High bright suite at the Oscar • 1 parking, 1 storage, 2 bike stalls Rare ‘08’ SW corner, 584 sq. ft.

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THE CARLYLE $628,880 1502-1060 ALBERNI ST

Freshly renovated, Stunning 1st time avail corner, view, extra Lg 1 bdrm + den at the Carlyle, a concrete highrise centrally located in the heart of Vancouver’s Golden Triangle: bordering Robson, Burrard, Thurlow’s high end shops, restaurants, Central Business District. Walk to work, Stanley Park, seawall. This home has A SPACIOUS floor plan & semi encl large patio make this an entertainer’s delight. Tastefully renovated w/high end laminate H/W floors, NEW kitchen, baths, porcelain tiles, quartz counters, stainless steel appls, etc. 1 Parking, additional storage locker can be rented from strata for $25/month. Bldg amenities: indoor pool, hot tub, steam, sauna, BBQ outdoor lounge, gym, pets/rentals OK. Don’t miss this Amazing Opportunity!!!

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CRUMPIT WOODS LOT $899,900 38595 HIGH CREEK PLACE

Spectacular chalet lodge style, 2 bdrm, 2 bath that sleeps 6, tucked away on Blackcomb mountain w/a greenbelt view.

This is the ultimate ski-in, ski-out lodging! Enjoy free continental breakfast, gas F/P, patio, fully equipped kitchen, parking+storage, 2 hot tubs, gym, bbqs and a slopeside heated pool (1 of the largest in Whistler). This is a phase 2 property that allows for 56 days of owner use per year (28 summer/28 winter) with an onsite rental pool manager. Fully furnished & equipped for your personal enjoyment & nightly rental. The phase 2 nightly rental covenant gives you plenty of use + revenues! Free shuttle into the village. GST is applicable, pet & family oriented.

Simply the best building lot in Crumpit Woods! Unobstructed & panoramic views of Howe Sound & the Stawamus Chief are enjoyed from nearly every corner of this 11000 sf property. The land is gently sloping, has a frontage of approx. 146’ allowing one to build an exceptional legacy residence capturing views from all rooms. Entertainers and gardeners delight in this peaceful, tranquil property where expansive yard, decks & patios would be feature as this is not a ‘cliff hanger’. Excavation, blasting and retaining wall costs will be reduced due to the gradual slope of the land.

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THE SHAUGHNESSY $665,000 318-1235 W15TH AVE

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@MyszkaWay I’m a 37-year-old man who recently broke up with his long-term girlfriend. I’ve been single for a year or so now, and it’s been great. I’ve dated a few women, some more seriously than others, but it all feels kind of meaningless.

By no means do I want to get back with my ex, but I’m not young anymore. All my friends have coupled up, and those who are still single are the bachelor-for-life kind of guys. I don’t think I want that. I’m not dying for a relationship, but I am discontent. (I just broke one off with a woman because of distance, and the fact that I just didn’t care enough to take the relationship to the “next level,” or whatever it was she needed.) I also have no interest in using dating apps. I have tried and its just one boring, normal woman after the other.

Not that it isn’t easy to get laid; it is, but the quality is subpar.

I am fine with where I am, but with all my friends coupling up and moving on, I feel like I’m lagging behind. How do I get out of this discontent, weird, half-assed funk?

Have you ever heard that song by the Skyhooks, “All My Friends Are Getting Married?” Probably not, since that band was one of the most underrated glam rock acts of all time. They came from Australia. It’s not easy to make it outside of Australia.

Anyway, the song is all about this sad-sack dude who is jealous that all his friends are putting a ring on it and he’s left at the singles table.

He feels old, alone and in denial, because his friends are all “staying home on the weekends” and “doing what they are told.” Maybe he is “the only fool” for thinking that marriage was lame?

Maybe traveling the world with your glam rock band had a shelf life? Who would have guessed?

The Skyhooks are the shit, and I’m just going to use your question as an excuse to talk about this band.You feel down about your relationships? Pop on a Skyhooks record and let your troubles slip off into the air like a pink cloud of Chanel’s “Allure” perfume. Hits like, “Straight in a Gay, Gay World,” “Why Don’t You All Get Fucked,” “You Just Like Me Cuz I’m Good in Bed” and “Women

in Uniform” will have you air drumming on your steering wheel.

The chorus of “Why Don’t You All Get Fucked” can be your mantra until you cool down and meet a fox on your level. The chorus goes like this: Why don’t you all, why don’t you all, why don’t you all GET FUCKED! It’s catchy, hot and cheeky, no matter how old you are. And you know what? Your married, boring, coupled-up friends can get fucked! They are a snooze and you don’t need them. (That’s not true. It’s actually the opposite from the truth, but let the immaturity ride for the duration of the album.)

We all love to be loved.

Eventually, you will find someone who you can tolerate again. In fact, the odds are stacked in your favor. We couple up because love is the greatest thing we all have access to.

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By Rob Brezsny “To disobey in order to take action is the byword of all creative spirits,” said philosopher Gaston Bachelard.

This mischievous advice is perfect for your use right now, Aries. I believe you’ll thrive through the practice of ingenious rebellion – never in service to your pride, but always to feed your soul’s lust for deeper, wilder life. Here’s more from Bachelard: “Autonomy comes through many small disobediences, at once clever, well thought-out, and patiently pursued, so subtle at times as to avoid punishment entirely.”

Congratulations! I expect that during the next three weeks, you will be immune to what psychoanalyst Joan Chodorow calls “the void of sadness, the abyss of fear, the chaos of anger and the alienation of contempt and shame.” I realize that what I just said might sound like an exaggeration. Aren’t all of us subject to regular encounters with those states? How could you possibly go so long without brushing up against them?

I stand by my prediction, and push even further. For at least the next three weeks, I suspect you will also be available for an inordinate amount of what Chodorow calls “the light of focused insight” and “the playful, blissful, all-embracing experience of joy.”

The coming days would be an excellent time to celebrate (even brag about) the amusing idiosyncrasies and endearing quirks that make you lovable. To get you inspired, read this testimony from my triple Gemini friend Alyssa: “I have beauty marks that form the constellation Pegasus on my belly. I own my own ant farm. I’m a champion laugher. I teach sign language to squirrels. Late at night when I’m horny and overtired I may channel the spirit of a lion goddess named Sekhmet. I can whistle the national anthems of eight different countries. I collect spoons from the future. I can play the piano with my nose and my toes. I have forever banished the green-eyed monster to my closet.”

Your education may take unusual forms during the coming weeks. For example, you could receive crunchy lessons from velvety sources, or tender instructions from exacting challenges. Your curiosity might expand to enormous proportions in the face of a noble and elegant tease. And chances are good that you’ll find a new teacher in an unlikely setting, or be prodded and tricked into asking crucial questions you’ve been neglecting to ask. Even if you haven’t been particularly street smart up until now, Cancerian, I bet your ability to learn from uncategorizable experiences will blossom.

“If you love someone, set them free,” said New Age author Richard Bach. “If they come back, they’re yours; if they don’t, they never were.” By using my well educated intellect to transmute this hippy-dippy thought into practical advice, I came up with a wise strategy for you to consider as you re-evaluate your relationships with allies. Try this: Temporarily suspend any compulsion you might have to change or fix these people; do your best to like them and even love them exactly as they are. Ironically, granting them this freedom to be themselves may motivate them to modify, or at least tone down, the very behaviour in themselves that you’re semi-allergic to.

In 1892, workers began building the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York. But as of August 2017, it is still under construction. Renovation has been and continues to be extensive. At one point in its history, designers even changed its architectural style from Neo-Byzantine and Neo-Romanesque to Gothic Revival. I hope this serves as a pep talk in the coming weeks, which will be an excellent time to evaluate your own progress, Virgo. As you keep toiling away in behalf of your dreams, there’s no rush. In fact, my sense is that you’re proceeding at precisely the right rate.

In accordance with the astrological omens, I hereby declare the next two weeks to be your own personal Amnesty Holiday. To celebrate, ask for and dole out forgiveness. Purge and flush away any non-essential guilt and remorse that are festering inside you. If there truly are hurtful sins that you still haven’t atoned for, make a grand effort to atone for them – with gifts and heartfelt messages if necessary. At the same time, I urge you to identify accusations that others have wrongly projected onto you and that you have carried around as a burden even though they are not accurate or fair. Expunge them.

How many countries has the United States bombed since the end of the Second World War? Twentyfive, to be exact. But if America’s intention has been to prod these nations into forming more free and egalitarian governments, the efforts have been mostly fruitless. Few of the attacked nations have become substantially more democratic. I suggest you regard this as a valuable lesson to apply to your own life in the coming weeks, Scorpio. Metaphorical bombing campaigns wouldn’t accomplish even 10 per cent of your goals, and would also be expensive in more ways than one. So I recommend using the “killing with kindness” approach. Be wily and generous. Cloak your coaxing in compassion.

You know about the Ten Commandments, a code of ethics and behaviour that’s central to Christianity and Judaism. You may not be familiar with my Ten Suggestions, which begin with “Thou Shall Not Bore God” and “Thou Shall Not Bore Thyself.” Then there are the Ten Indian Commandments proposed by the Bird Clan of East Central Alabama. They include “Give assistance and kindness whenever needed” and “Look after the well-being of your mind and body.” I bring these to your attention, Sagittarius, because now is an excellent time to formally formulate and declare your own covenant with life. What are the essential principles that guide you to the highest good?

Here’s a definition of “fantasizing” as articulated by writer Jon Carroll. It’s “a sort of ‘in-brain’ television, where individuals create their own ‘shows’ – imaginary narratives that may or may not include real people.”

As you Capricorns enter the High Fantasy Season, you might enjoy this amusing way of describing the activity that you should cultivate and intensify. Would you consider cutting back on your consumption of movies and TV shows? That might inspire you to devote more time and energy to watching the stories you can generate in your mind’s eye.

In 43 cartoon stories, the coyote named Wile E. Coyote has tried to kill and devour the swiftrunning flightless bird known as the Road Runner.

Every single time, Wile E. has failed to achieve his goal. It’s apparent to astute observers that his lack of success is partly due to the fact that he doesn’t rely on his natural predatory instincts. Instead, he concocts elaborate, overly complicated schemes.

In one episode, he camouflages himself as a cactus, buys artificial lightning bolts, and tries to shoot himself from a bow as if he were an arrow. All these plans end badly. The moral of the story, as far as you’re concerned: To reach your next goal, trust your instincts.

You temporarily have cosmic permission to loiter and goof off and shirk your duties. To be a lazy bum and meander aimlessly and avoid tough decisions.

To sing off-key and draw stick figures and write bad poems. To run slowly and flirt awkwardly and dress like a slob. Take advantage of this opportunity because it’s only available for a limited time. It’s equivalent to pushing the reset button. It’s meant to re-establish your default settings. But don’t worry about that now. Simply enjoy the break in the action.

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BC Grown Organic Corn on the Cob from Secrest, Longview, 2EE

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BC Extra Lean Grass Fed Ground Beef *RWA 18.72kg

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Blue Monkey Coconut Water

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Danone Activia Yogurt assorted varieties

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