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n late fall of 2010 I had just finished a large sculpture for Westminster College. In the spring I was about to start another monument for a college in Orem. For a dose inspiration I thought I’d go visit some of the biggest sculptures on the planet. You know, just to blow my mind. “I'll start with Devil’s Tower in Wyoming, then to the Black Hills in South Dakota and take in Mt. Rushmore and then Crazyhorse.” Wow! Mission accomplished, mind blown. Starting with the seemingly infinite grass plains of Wyoming. Looking skyward at the towers of the Basalt rock columns at Devil’s Tower. Then to the manmade sculptures of Rushmore and Crazyhorse. Definitely the lobes of my brain were being unfolded. Apparently all of this was preparing me for the infinite open spaces called the Badlands. Every direction you look, off into the horizon is a highly eroded, almost melted and other-worldly infinite landscape. Infinite in every way. This image on the cover is a snapshot of what I felt and saw there, with a healthy

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“The Infinite” dose of Photoshop. The distant galaxies seemed appropriate. So the feeling of the infinite on Earth got me thinking about how much space we have traveled in the 30 years of time of CATALYST magazine’s existence. Here we go, Left Brains: In SLC we are traveling on axis @ 600 mph X 24 = 19,200 p/d… orbit around Sun 67,000 mph X 24= 1,608,800 p/d... orbit around galaxy center 540,000 mph X 24 = 12,960,000. Added together we, you and me travel 14,588,000 miles a day. We're not done……Times 365 = 5,310,032,000 miles….times 30…. CATALYST and those who have been with it from the beginning have traveled 159,738,600,000 miles through space. I don't know whether to take a nap or ask for sky miles. Congratulations, CATALYST, on a journey well traveled. u Dan Cummings is a nationally renowned artist specializing in carved glass living in Salt Lak e City. You can enjoy some of his work at WWW.UTAHFINEART.COM/ARTISTS/DAN-CUMMINGS.HTML

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SUSTAINING A SWEET VILLAGE INDUSTRY KATHERINE PIOLI Beehive state native Anthony Baron Kirk has become chief honey-bearer for Ghana’s wild bees.

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WHEN THE WORLD COMES TO UTAH GERALYN DREYFOUS Our picks for Sundance Film Festival, January 20-30. IS CATALYST STILL RELEVANT? GRETA DEJONG CATALYST celebrates its 30th anniversary this year. We visit our original mission statement, and ask our readers, “How are we doing?� NOT TOO COLD TO CONSIDER KAY DENTON Contemplate your gardening future in January. ASTRO PREDICTIONS: BIG CHANGE ON THE HORIZON SUZANNE WAGNER Strong planetary aspects with global consequences.

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ENVIRONEWS AMY BRUNVAND 2011 environmental heroes; bicycling is hip in SLC; activists at work on clean air and dirty coal; Bonneville cutthroats restocked; congressmen dis EPA grant; Utah to squander $$$ on roads lawsuit.

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ob Moss, Utah artist and banjoista extraordinaire, touched a lot of lives in his 58 years. I got to know some of the 150 friends and fans who crowded Bob’s wake last month. An odd lot (and location) if there ever was one—friends from grade school and high school, teahouses and street corners; a California

record producer, fellow musicians, and well-spoken Mormon relatives (with good and abundant homebaked cookies). The memories they shared sketched a heartfelt, playful, principled man who danced a jig to the steady beat of his very own hand-decorated drum. The Visual Art

BY JOHN DEJONG with magazine and newspaper clippings gathered from other times and places. I purchased one of his notorious Valentine’s boxes—pictures of Frankenstein and his bride and other ghouls and their sweethearts, surrounded by “Be my Valentine� in both English and the Brigham Young Deseret alphabet that Bob favored. Inside the box is a bigger-than-life-sized, red rubber heart. I tried, several times, to give the box to Greta for Valentine’s Day but she was not receptive. “Lurid,� she said. Sometimes humor and romance can be dicey business. Maybe this is why Bob wasn’t married. The last two years of his life, Bob lived in an apartment above my studio. Almost every Saturday afternoon I would hear strains of his banjo drifting down from the ceiling. Ever so often music from his collection of old records would replace the banjo concerts. Some days there’d be a double bill. The last time I heard Bob play was a week before he died—around the day his old cat Minnow died. Saturday afternoons will never be quite the same for me. In my imagination, Bob ’s banjo will be playing a counterpoint to the opera my dad used to play on the radio every Saturday as I was growing up. They’re common enough words, but “I wish I’d known him better.� I wish his wake had happened before the fact of his passing, so I could have asked him about “The Tales of Nahman of Bratslav,� a book he loved, and his affection for the mystical children’s author George MacDonald. We could have hung out on the porch and dis-

The last two years of his life Bob lived in an apartment above my studio. Almost every Saturday afternoon I would hear strains of his banjo drifting down from the ceiling . The last time I heard Bob play was a week before he died. Institute’s walls held maybe 30 of his meticulously executed carved, be-glittered, decoupaged “outsider� creations. On one wall rolled videos of Bob playing banjo and guitar and singing. I heard Bob play six or seven years ago during open studio night at the old P oor Yorick collective when it was still located on 700 South. Bob was picking his battered banjo in a cul-de-sac between the studios —entertaining the crowds with music as strange and wonder-full as the art on the walls. Thinking back, I realized I’d heard Bob several times before—me always in a vague, lost “that’s not the way that song goes, but I think I like it� moment, as I took in the art. Around the same time, I became aware of his enigmatic, elfishlooking wood-burned screeds illustrated

cussed the Mahabharata, which he was rereading at the time of his death. I would have known that he had an upcoming recording session in California, and that he’d just sold a painting from his show at the Beehive Tea Room. Bob passed away in his sleep of natural causes —though it may be no coincidence that he left us during one of the W asatch Front’s world-class bad air weeks. He was at his parents’ house in Bountiful, where he’d been caring for his invalid father. As one of his longtime friends encouraged us, “Take Bob forward and live.� No, I won’t take up the banjo. But I get the point. This was a man who loved life, and made the most of it. I’m willing to tak e on that one. u John deJong is the associate publisher of CATALYST and a pretty eclectic guy in his own right.

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s it just me, or is the 2012 presidential race downright depressing? Will it really matter to us “non-corporations” which GOP front-runner captures the White house or if the current occupant hangs around for another four years? Republicans offer little more than tax breaks for those who don’t need them, and most of the “hope and change” that Obama promised in ’08 has been dashed against the rocks of his unanticipated realpolitik. Then there’s the unrestricted flow of money into the political process, thanks to the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision that fully morphed corporations into “persons.” The ability to determine elections with cash has brought America to a level of corruption usually associated with countries where the unfettered rich dominate everything. We could debate their relative shades of gray, but candidates from both major parties depend on sponsorship from corporations and the wealthy to finance their elections. Then they must “repay” those debts once elected. Overturning Citizens United with a Constitutional amendment that includes a mirror-fogging test for personhood, comprehensive campaign finance reform, and perhaps some restructuring of the Electoral College would help clean up the current mess. However, things may not permanently improve until the clout of political parties also gets severely trimmed. Political parties weren’t built into the Constitution and didn’t exist for the first several years of the republic. Washington never belonged to one, and several founders warned against splitting into factions. As much I hate admitting this, having actively participated in them for much of my life, political parties may be among our worst social inventions and international exports. Four times throughout U.S. history, parties have significantly realigned

BY JIM CATANO or coalesced around shifting societal and economic trends, and it’s happening again. The Tea Party amounts to an attempted coup among Republicans, and the Occupy Movement seems to be shouting “A pox on both your houses!”

“Necessary medicine” In a parliamentary system, several smaller parties often simultaneously represent specific constituencies and form coalitions to pass mutually acceptable legislation. We Americans have opted to cram all elected officials into one of two boxes. It’s a defect that keeps everything artificially polarized and highly dysfunctional. Thomas Jefferson advised “rebellions,” meaning sweeping major re-

the concept has merit. Of course, we do have a history of third parties impacting elections. More than getting its own candidates into office, however, third party influence has mainly been to make one of the two major parties more responsive to its positions. A challenge with getting third party candidates elected is that they’re less well known and sometimes perceived as quirky and representing only narrow interests. And while candidates like Ralph Nader have had passionate and loyal followings, they can also siphon off enough votes from the party that’s closer to them to tip the election to the party that’s further away. This is what happened in Florida in 2000.

A coalition candidacy

Political parties weren’t built into the Constitu tion and didn’t exist for the first several years of the republic. Several founders warned against splitting into factions. visions in how things are structured, about every 20 years as “medicine necessary for the sound health of government.” So how’s this for a Jeffersonian rebellion? Let’s elect presidents outside the current party system. An Internet group known as Americans Elect is attempting just that. Anyone can complete an online questionnaire about their social and political values. The survey’s results will be used to attract candidates matching the broadest consensus for Americans Elect to endorse. The system risks being gamed, used or even subverted, but

So why not try something completely new: putting together a coalition of candidates from various points on the American political spectrum that runs together as an alternative to one candidate from one party. They’d run as a presidential administration…an entire cabinet representing a broad range of interests. Imagine a “candidacy” like this. My personal choice would be Vermont’s independent, left-leaning, Senator Bernie Sanders at the top of the ticket, but I’d settle for our former guv Jon Huntsman, a credible, back-of-the-pack, GOP contender who’s moderate and open to progressive ideas. Make Sanders his VP running mate, and fill in from there. Ron Paul would be a fascinating Secretary of Defense. Could there be a better shredder of the Pentagon’s bloated budget? As of this writing, Congressman Paul leads the polls for Iowa caucuses, but most pundits believe he won’t win the Republican nomination. Perhaps this experience will finally convince him that life outside his party can be much more interesting.

Other “cabinet candidates” might be former New Mexico governor Gary Johnson, Louisiana’s Buddy Roemer, Elizabeth Warren, Ralph Nader, Robert Reich, Tim Pawlenty, Charlie Crist, Dennis Kucinich, Eliot Spitzer and Jeb Bush. I’m fighting off a mild gag reflex as I write this, but Michele Bachmann and Rick Santorum should also be considered. And don’t forget some highly qualified non-political technocrats and third party members. Former Salt Lake City mayor Rocky Anderson had an excellent interview with MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow but made what seemed like a Freudian slip. He referred to the new party he’d just formed as the Justice Department rather than the Justice Party. To me, that’s prophetic because Rocky would be an outstanding Attorney General. The problem with Anderson’s new party and him as its sole, presidential candidate is that they probably won’t attract enough support to make his run much more than a protest. He’ll likely get my vote, but I harbor no illusions that it will amount to anything more than a no-confidence gesture against either party’s candidate. All it would take to pull off a real revolution in how presidential politics are done is for several good, prominent people to suppress their egos, relax their narrowly focused agendas, and run and serve this nation’s best interest as a team. Just imagine all the campaigning they could do. If we keep doing what we’ve always done, we’ll always get what we’ve always had, and when the dust settles, it won’t really matter much if it’s Barrack, Newt or Mitt. They’ve all emerged from the bottom of very deep pockets. With some creative thinking, however, we could do better. Much better. u Jim Catano has cycled through both major and some minor parties during his political life. He writes and edits from Salt Lake City.

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2011 environmental heroes Tim DeChristopher, Salt Lake City climate activist and founder of Peaceful Uprising was recognized as one of Yes! Magazine’s Breakthrough 15 and also as Bioneer of the Year by Salt Lake City Bioneers. Since he is currently serving time in prison for civil disobedience, his Bioneers award was accepted by Joan Gregory, who won the same award last year. Gregory, coordinator for the Environmental Ministry of First Unitarian Church of Salt Lake City, was also honored with a Guardian of the Future Award from the Unitarian Universalist Ministry for Earth.

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SLC and Peaceful Uprising staged a “mic check” demonstration at a Utah Air Quality Board meeting. Mic check originated in the Occupy Wall Street protests; in the absence of electronic amplification, audience members repeat a speaker’s words so they can be heard in a crowd. The clean air demonstrators chanted, “We breathe the poison you permit. We envision a cleaner community, but you actively prevent it. Our government must represent us. It must protect our health, but you do not represent us.”

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Talk about wasting tax dollars! The State of Utah has launched what promises to be a multi-million dollar lawsuit against the U.S. Department of the Interior, seeking county control of 18,784 dirt roads that cross land managed by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM). Many of those roads are unquestionably roads (never mind how county governments plan to pay for maintenance if they win the lawsuit), but 16,594 of them are so called “Class D” roads, which are unconstructed jeep tracks not generally recognizable as roads by any standard. These are wash bottoms, abandoned seismic lines, hiking trails, cow paths and surface damage caused by uncontrolled off-road vehicle recreation. Anti-environmental politicians believe they can grab control of public lands by claiming Class D roads are “highways” under R.S. 2477 of the 1866 Mining Act, which was repealed in 1976. The State of Utah has to prove each claimed road was in continuous use prior to 1976 in order to gain ownership. Despite years of trying and millions of tax dollars already spent, Utah has never succeeded in proving ownership of a single Class D road (though they recently made a big deal about claiming some uncontroversial Class B roads in order to save face). As far as R .S. 2477 claims go, former BLM director Pat Shea remarked, “The State of Utah has spent over $9 million trying to defend the indefensible and they still keep on losing.”

Bonneville cutthroats restocked Utah’s state fish, the Bonneville cutthroat trout, survived the last ice age but a Chevron pipeline oil spill in June 2010 wiped out the Red Butte Creek Bonneville cutthroats and the aquatic bugs they eat. In November, the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources restocked the creek with 3,000 baby Bonneville cutthroats. Let’s hope they grow and thrive!

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Are you are noticing more bicycles on the roads these days? The second annual Salt Lake City bicycle count showed a 27% increase in the number of bicyclists over last year. Salt Lake City Bicycle and Pedestrian Coordinator Becka Roolf attributes the increase to “Salt Lake City Mayor Ralph Becker’s commitment to bicycle infrastructure, higher gas prices and a growing ‘hip’ factor for bicycling among urban 20- and 30-somethings.” The top locations for bicycling are near the University of Utah, in the heart of downtown, and on the Jordan River Trail.

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You’d think Utah politicians would be proud of Repertory Dance Theater (RDT) for getting a $25,000 grant from the Environmental Protection Agency in order to build on their “Green Map” program using the arts to help students understand the impacts of air pollution on the environment and their health. Instead Congressman Rob Bishop (R-1) complained that RDT is the “wrong kind of organization” to get EPA funds, and Jim Matheson (D-2) questioned whether it is an appropriate use of tax dollars. Besides RDT, the Utah Society for Environmental Education also received money from the EPA Environmental Justice Small Grants program for a R ose Park recycling project.

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The first Mormon joke I heard 31 years ago was: Q: Why do you always invite two Mormons with you to go fishing? A: Because if you only invite one, he will drink all your beer. This is why I’m glad both Romney and Huntsman are running for president—they’ll keep each other honest. For these and many other 2011 oddities I am thankful. Thankfulness should stretch well beyond Thanksgiving Day because it keeps us grounded during the glitz and mass commercialism of the holiday season, all the way to Valentine’s Day. I’m thankful for the small picture. I’m thankful for plumbers, city utility workers, electricians, waste removal specialists and anyone else who makes it possible for good stuff to flow into our homes and unpleasant things to efficiently flow out. I’m also thankful for all the people at the landfill who mak e so many of our mistakes disappear. Likewise I’m thankful for white elephant gift parties so I can get rid of stuff I can ’t bring myself to throw away. I’m thankful that Deseret Industries takes stuff that should be thrown away and gives us a tax deduction for it. Seriously, I think a lot of people go there just to avoid the tipping fees. We flush, drain, donate and throw so much away that maybe this should be as important an economic indicator as buying stuff; because most of us don ’t have room to buy new stuff until we throw away old stuff . I’m also thankful for the people who patiently paint thousands of miles of white lines, relatively straight and of consistent width, on roads and highways, thus preventing us from running into each other more often than we do. In my imagination, they are art school graduates who didn ’t quite make it. I’m thankful for the self- service checkout lines that most grocery stores have now because they allow me to buy more junk food and questionable items without being subjected to the disapproving stare of the check ers. Scanning and bagging also makes me feel as though I’m training for a backup career. I’m thankful for tech support lines, especially the ones in India because if they can understand the game of crick et, they can probably understand any obscure technical question I could come up with. Even though I didn’t miss them, I’m thankful that the NBA decided to start playing again because we need more highly paid sweaty tattooed guys playing sports to distract us during holiday family gatherings. The Occupy movement makes me thankful that I’m neither as young nor as idealistic as I once was, because I don’t even like to sleep in a tent for fun. Similarly , the Tea Party serves as a cautionary reminder that hate and stupidity are as American as mac n’ cheese and can rise up at any time. To a lesser extent, I’m thankful for pizza, photosynthesis and ibuprofen, not necessarily in that order. u Dennis Hinkamp is perpetually thankful for anyone who still reads.

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martial artist and healer of my acquaintance once explained the human body to me this way: The organs, he said, are all connected systems inside the body, but they are also all quasi-independent, with their own functions and needs and agendas. When you’re tired or hungry or un der stress, i.e. when resources be gin to get low, your body will start to prioritize who gets fed and looked after. The brain always gets top billing, but your liver (for example) is also vitally important to the persistence of life in your body. At some point of starvation or stress, resources become so scarce that “arguments” begin to break out among the organs as to who gets what. Keeping your brain in the manner to which it has become accustomed might shut down your kidneys, but your kidneys don’t intend to go gently into that good night! In the

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flesh should go? The ego, however, says run! and we run. The problem is, self-awareness and intelligence make our egos way too powerful. The ego tends to in flate social discomfort to the magnitude of physical danger, and because it influences our behavior so powerfully, it can actually harm the body by skewing the distribution of re sources over the long term to avoid that social discomfort. We forget, until lower back pain reminds us, that we are made of living meat— and then we admit that we’ve been skipping yoga class for eight weeks now. If you let your ego make all your decisions for you, you’re not achieving consensus with your body.

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If you let your ego make all your decisions for you, you’re not achieving consensus with your body. ensuing squabble, damage accrues to both, and eventually both the mind and the body sicken. I was struck by this explanation, because I had until that point been operating under the assumption that I was a single individual with a single identity. Whether or not my spleen can really be said to have an ego, the idea that all the systems of my body may not always be on the same page resonated. My job, or at least the job of the “me” who appears to be making the decisions when I move my body around and interact with my environment, is to achieve and maintain consensus among all the systems of that body. I eat good food and avoid what pesticides and poisons I can so that I’m taking in enough of the righ t kind of resources to go around. I need to exercise

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because if I don’t, little stagnant, low-energy areas will develop in the labyrinths of my flesh, and toxins will build up there and make me sick. I need to rest because all systems need time to repair their own infrastructure in between serving for the greater good. I didn’t always have this point of view. For years I ate junk food because it was cheap and tasty, and I consistently prioritized intellectual pursuits over exercise because I was born smart but clumsy, and it feels better to your ego when your teacher gives you an “A” than when your

phys ed classmates make fun of you for taking a volleyball to the face.

Not the boss of me The ego, that sense you have of a single, unified self, is what keeps your whole body safe from danger. If we didn’t think of ourselves as “I,” it would be much more difficult to avoid being eaten by lions; If there’s no difference, cosmically speaking, between that tree and that river and that lion and my human body, then who am “I” to make a judgment call as to where the resources contained in my

I realized a few years ago that I had a really combative relationship with my body. It was always sick and broken. I was exasperated with my misbehaving “meat cage.” Things started to get better when I learned to let myself dance, and found a music-loving group of friends who didn’t judge me for whatever grace (or lack thereof) I exhibited as I moved my body to the beat. Kimerer LaMothe, in a great post to her “ What a Body Knows” blog on Psychology Today, lays it out for us: We aspire, in Western society, to sit quietly at a desk job, where our applied intellect is the only thing that gives us value. We are taught that individuality is paramount, and that the mind should always control the body. Dance, she says, combats all of these misconceptions. By moving our bodies to a rhythm in the com-

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Within and without Dance, in other words, fosters consensus both within the human body and among individual humans. Body movement, rhythmic or otherwise, has always been important to group decision-making processes. When we are excited about something, we often “talk with our hands.� If this is done effectively, our body language can make us more persuasive. It can turn listeners off if we become overzealous and stop paying attention to the feedback we’re getting. Some committees even opt to designate an Empath or “Vibe Watch,� whose job it is to keep tabs on group body language at a meeting, helping guide and defuse potentially combative interactions before eye-rolls and sighs can turn to fistbanging and shouting. Bees know all about body talk and consensus; when scouts are seeking a new hive site, they will communicate to the rest of the hive via waggle dances. Different factions of dancing scout bees compete, cross-inhibiting each other with “stop signals� until consensus is reached and the hive as a whole flies off to its new home. Research now shows that neurons in the human brain also em ploy a similar model of cross-inhibitive decision making, lobbing neurotransmitters across synapses in the effort to build a quorum. It turns out, the common quandary of whether to have the hamburger or the salad for lunch really does involve a fair amount of real internal conflict. Even though we’ve let our society persuade us about the virtues of sitting, we can’t keep entirely still. Informal groups

will use common body gestures to communicate to a performer; we clap our hands to show appreciation, and we will stand up to show respect for a really amazing performance. We stand, hand on heart, to recite certain pledges, and in the chambers of court we let the judge sit down first. Hand signals have even been formalized into systems of nonverbal communication for the benefit of consensus seeking organizations. Occupy Wall Street protestors, denied access to sound amplification systems, show reaction to a speaker and conduct debates by “twinkling� their fingers. As we move into another season of political debates, with the global recession grinding painfully along and protests against corporate and governmental misconduct igniting worldwide, it may seem as if the sky is about to fall upon our heads. You may find yourself getting stressed out because the politicians we’re expected to vote for are all so crooked, and the corporations we work for are all so uncaring, and it seems there’s nothing that anyone can do to fix things. The Body of our species is suffering because the Ego has been ignoring feedback pain for way too long! As a paid, professional Optimist, I’m here to point out that all of this upset is the Dance rising up and seeking to return us to equilibrium. The ego, shut away in the control-room of the mind, wants to convince u s that we’re all alone in the Universe. Our bodies know better. To achieve a peaceful, healthy, and dynamic consensus, it is necessary to move! u

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Honey from Ghana’s wild bees in Salt Lake City stores

BY KATHERINE PIOLI Derek Devine

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nthony Baron Kirk paused to look up at the full harvest moon. Dressed from meshcovered head to booted toe in a beekeeper’s suit, he wondered if this was a good night to approach the hives. The darkness wasn’t as deep as he had hoped. The bees would still be active, kept awake by the glow of the false nocturnal sunlight. But Kirk took a breath and stepped forward through the Ghanaian forest towards the rectangular white boxes. Around him, the villagers watched. Opening the first hive, Kirk heard a hum that quickly surrounded him. His white suit turned black. Kirk lifted an arm laden with yellow speckled insects, the indigenous Ghanaian honeybee. Overcoming a wave of fear as the hive surrounded him, Kirk stood still and greeted his new business partners, the worker bees behind his raw honey company, Aseda. Far from Africa, Aseda wild honey is quickly finding space on the shelves of coffee shops around Salt

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Aseda wild honey is quickly finding space on the shelves of coffee shops, health food stores, yoga studios, raw restaurants and even a doctor’s office around the Salt Lake valley.

Lake, not to mention many of the valley’s health food stores, yoga studios, raw restaurants and even a doctor’s office. Foodies snatch up this rich earth-colored honey, won over by its complex palate of natural flavors—sweet like dried bananas, but with a slightly acidic scent, like aged balsamic vinegar. Some health practitioners embrace it as an antioxidant-rich supplement that also aids in digestion and allergy immunity. The story of Aseda wild honey stretches across an ocean and two continents. And while the Ghana connection situates the honey in Salt Lake’s global fair trade niche, it is also a local business. Founder and Salt Lake native Kirk, after all, bottles and distributes his product right here in Salt Lake Valley. For Kirk, the relationship between the two places, Ghana and Salt Lake, is what really matters. Aseda is still evolving. Kirk assures that as it matures the founding values of the company will remain the same: maintaining a business cooperative

built on mutual good intentions, transparency and respect.

Building a brotherhood It was just a spoonful of pure raw honey that Kirk tasted at a friend’s house in the spring of 2009. But it was a taste that proved an inspiration. Kirk finds the moment difficult to put into words. “That food struck a chord in me,” he says simply. “I left that day with a mission.” In northern Ghana, far from the country’s populous and often-visited coast, lies Ghana’s largest protected reserve, Mole National Park (pronounced mo-lay). The AshantiTwii and Dagombas people, known for their extraordinary honey, live in communities dotted around its border. With help from his friends in Salt Lake, Kirk contacted the Ashanti-Twii spokesman, Nana, and offered to help the villagers market their honey in the United States. It was an offer that Nana had been waiting for. Armed with some business savvy

dedicated to the community and the honey-makers. Later, with the help of the village liaison, Nana, Kirk settled the details of the co-op. Together, they negotiated a fair price for the beekeepers. They structured the cooperative and laid down expectations for keeping the honey USDA sustainably and organically certified. When Kirk flew home from his first visit, he took with him 100 gallons of wild honey.

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and a bachelor’s degree in public relations and marketing, Kirk sat down with a jar of the honey and in a few months wrote up his business proposal. Then he boarded a plane. Kirk arrived on Ghana’s modernized, city-lined coast with little understanding of what was ahead of him in the following months and coming years. Almost immediately, Kirk left the cities, traveling with his hosts to meet the beekeepers. Of the 400mile trip north to the villages, Kirk recalls, “we drove for miles and miles and miles into remote territory. More than moving through distance, the Derek Devine

journey into the forest felt like stepping back in time.” He traveled by jeep over rough dirt roads, potholed and crisscrossed by rivers without bridges. The further he traveled, the more unimaginable the idea of modern industry became. The morning after his arrival, Kirk wandered to the center of the village for his first meeting with the chief. Under the shade of an enormous shea tree, the villagers gathered around him. When the chief appeared, he was decorated in full ceremonial dress. Kirk bowed his head, aware of the power of the moment. The two sat down, and Kirk began his proposal. Created over months of dedicated work, written down in various coffee shops around Salt

Lake, Kirk took his seat confident that he had come with a fail-proof business proposal. Dutifully following his training, he had researched demand for superfoods in the local market, studied other honey suppliers and forecasted potential growth and development. In three months, Kirk had perfected a 10-minute pitch he was sure would lure investors and assure Nana and the village chiefs of the business’s success. “Hello. I am Anthony and I am here to create a cultural exchange,” Kirk recited his first line from the shade of the shea tree. The chief and the villagers listened intently. After each sentence, a long delay followed with two translations, one into Twii and then into the local dialect. Upon translation, the gathered villagers applauded. Kirk preceded stiffly, ignoring a growing feeling that the speech was not working. Each scripted sentence felt wrong, better designed for American boardrooms and wealthy investors than this tribal meeting. Finally, Kirk abandoned the script. “It was so interesting as an American to feel the energy of these people. They possessed such openness,” says Kirk, reflecting on the meeting. “I realized that the Ashanti-Twii are relationship people, and it is through creating a brotherhood that contracts are formed. This relationship is more integral than any written contract.” That day, Kirk hid his legal contracts and business models under his hotel bed. At the end of his third meeting, he asked to see the bees. It was without a doubt an unexpected gesture from an American businessman. The villagers, he says, thought he was crazy. Among the Ashanti-Twii and Dagombas, only the trained keepers work with the bees. Kirk had never opened a hive before, yet it proved to be a winning gesture. For Kirk, stepping into the bee suit sealed the contract. It felt like the final proof that Aseda was about more than profit, Aseda was

Kirk calls Aseda many things: a family, an exchange, social entrepreneurialism. “There is exploitation and the corporate model of us versus them,” says Kirk. “Then there is the socially, environmentally conscious business. That is what I am working to create.” The logistics of such a business is at once Kirk’s greatest challenge and his greatest joy. In Ghana, such a model means supporting the beekeepers while promoting sustainable harvest practices. The Ashanti-Twii and Dagombas villagers have a long history of beekeeping. Traditional harvesting practices meant literally burning hives to extract honey. Well before Kirk’s dream of Aseda began, another NGO showed the villagers gentler harvesting techniques that did not threaten the hive.

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Aseda continues to promote modern beekeeping and harvesting practices while investing in the business infrastructure. Just two years after Kirk’s first visit, the number of farmed hives has grown from a couple hundred to 688 with more than 15 villages involved in the Aseda co-op. In the United States, Kirk’s challenge is in providing a sustainable and quality product to his buyers. From the hive and into 680-pound drums, to a Ghanaian port city and onto Salt Lake store shelves, Kirk aims for sustainable handling all along the way, including transporting by ship to lower the carbon footprint. Solving puzzles such as this is never a burden for Kirk. They are wonderful challenges. Through both the good and the bad, Kirk remains grateful for Aseda. It’s no surprise that, in the Ashanti-Twii language, aseda means gratitude. u For more info on aseda visit WWW.ASEDARAWHONEY.COM Katherine Pioli fights fires in the summer, and travels the world and writes for CATALYST the rest of the year.

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undance promises to be exceptional this year. The docket is loaded with romantic comedies, unbought premieres with major talent and sweeping non-fiction essays on problems facing America. The Salt Lake City Library is now an official Sundance venue so look for long lines and crowded café shops in the Urban Room January 20-29. The Beehive Tea House becomes the Sundance House for

BY GERALYN DREYFOUS Lauren Greenfield’s opening night film Queen of Versailles takes a personal look at the mortgage and real estate crash through Westgate tycoon David Seigal’s fall from billionare on paper to fending off foreclosure. Kirby Dick’s incendiary Invisible War will leave audiences enraged as it takes on the Department of Defense and what they are not doing about rape in the military.

val. I’m marking Jennifer Balchwal’s Payback and Malik Bendjelloul’s Searching for Sugar Man. This year the festival offers the new Spotlight category featuring especially strong films that have played at other festivals. Another new category is Documentary Premieres, for veteran filmmakers who have a film that will have wide audience appeal. Happy Sundancing!

Premeires Expect a lot of excitement centered on these films on the sales block. It feels like a strong Lauren Greenfield’ buying year. 2 Days in New York—Dir. Julie Delpy A follow-up to 2 Days in Paris, this romantic comedy stars Chris Rock and Julie Delpy.

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artists and patrons between screenings, hosting music nightly from 9 p.m. to midnight courtesy of the Utah Visitors Bureau. The Utah Museum of Contemporary Art (formerly Salt Lake Art Center) will host the New Frontiers program replete with digital installations, curated panels and conversations. KUER’s RadioWest with Doug Fabrizio will cover the festival live from the Christian Center of Park City so tune in for interviews regarding films you want to see at the festival (or put on your Netflix or Utah Film Center wish list). Documentaries are particularly strong this year.

Notable this year is the number of large essays looking at America’s problems. Facing North examines hunger, In My House exposes a failed drug war, Detropia is a lament from a decaying urban city, and Escaping Fire is prescriptive for health care reform. A Fierce Green Fire looks at the history of important social movements, and three films cover the careers of uncompromising artists Ai Weiwei, Marina Abromovic, and Jim Balog Chasing Ice. Programmers say this is the strongest year for the World Documentary competiiton, already the strongest category of the festi-

Arbitrage—Dir. Nicolas Jarecki Arbitrage—the art of buying low and selling high—depends on a person’s ability to determine the true value of any given market. The talent has made billionaire hedge fund magnate Robert Miller the very portrait of American business success. The outstanding cast includes Richard Gere, Susan Sarandon, Brit Marling, Tim Roth, and Nate Parker. Robot and Frank—Dir. Jake Schreier The Friday night Salt Lake Gala screening, Robot and Frank is a delightful dramatic comedy, a buddy picture, and, for good measure, a heist film set sometime in the future. This tender story about aging ungracefully and family care stars Frank Langella, Susan Sarandon, James Marsden, Liv Tyler, and Peter Saarsgard.

The Words—Dir. Brian Klugman and Lee Sternthal A must see closing-night film. The blurring of fiction and memory, the power of the written word and who has right to claim them is revealed in this tight drama. Starring Dennis Quaid, Bradley Cooper, Zoe Saldana, Jeremy Irons, and Olivia Wilde.

U.S. Documentaries Competition Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry—Dir. Alison Klayman Ai Weiwei is known for many things—among them great architecture, subversive in-your-face art and political activism. This film chronicles Ai’s complex life for three years, beginning with his rise to public prominence via blog and Twitter after he questioned the deaths of more than 5,000 students in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake and continuing through his widely publicized arrest in Beijing in April 2011. Chasing Ice—Dir. Jeff Orlowski This breathtakingly beautiful documentary follows the indomitable photographer James Balog as he brings to life the Extreme Ice Survey (EIS)—a massive photography project that placed 30 cameras across three continents to gather visual evidence of the Earth’s melting ice. The visionary artist, in facing his own mortality, bequeaths the magic of photography and the adventure of the expedition to a new generation while capturing the most visible sign of climate change.

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Seductive, fearless, and outrageous, Marina Abramovic has been redefining performance art for nearly 40 years. Using her body as a medium and pushing herself beyond physical and mental limits, Abramovic creates emotionally provocative work that transgresses boundaries and expands consciousness. She is, quite simply, one of the most compelling artists of our time. Finding North—Dir. Kristi Jacobson and Lori Silverbush One in six Americans doesn’t get enough to eat on a regular basis, and Finding North unveils the human stories behind the statistics. Exposing the costs and causes of this hunger crisis in the richest country in the world, this bracing film explores ways to correct this alarming and unnecessary state of affairs.

armed forces with stark clarity and escalating revelations, investigating the institutions that perpetuate it as well as its profound personal and social consequences.

Violeta Parra was a folksinger and pop culture icon whose songs, like “Gracias a la Vida,” expressed the soul of her nation and protested social injustice.

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Payback—Dir. Jennifer Balchwal (Canada) Based on Margaret Atwood’s book, Jennifer Balchwal does for words what she did for image in Mafactured Landscapes and reveals the shadow side of wealth and debt.

Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare—Dir. Susan Froemke Potent forces fight to maintain the status quo in a medical industry created for quick fixes rather than prevention, for profit-driven rather than patient-driven care. Destined to be hailed as the definitive film on American healthcare, Escape Fire offers a way out—a primer on how to save the health of a nation. Invisible War—Dir. Kirby Dick Kirby Dick’s investigative journalism exposes a rape epidemic in the

When a beloved teacher commits suicide in a middle-class Montreal middle school, the substitute, an Algerian refugee, comes to comfort them by sharing his own grief and gentle soul. Touching beyond measure, this is Canada’s 2011 Oscar submission for Best Foreign Film.

This is the opening night film; the buzz is it is already a contender for the Audience Award. Rodriguez was a rock icon who failed in the US but was legendary in South Africa. Two South African fans decide to look into the mystery of how Rodriguez died and what happened to the profits from his album sales.

World Cinema Dramatic Competition The Last Elvis—Dir. Armando Bo (Argentina) In the unique world of the Buenos Aires celebrity-impersonator scene, “Elvis” Gutiérrez is a star. By day, though, he must contend with a dead-end factory job and an ex-wife who worries about how his obsessive behavior affects their young daughter, Lisa Marie. Violeta Went to Heaven—Dir. Andrés Wood (Chile) An audience pleaser. Like a Chilean Edith Piaf or Bob Dylan,

the South Pacific. Entirely shot in Samoa, The Orator is the first Samoan feature film and has been selected as New Zealand’s entry in the foreign language film category at the 84th Academy Awards.

Documentary Premieres A Fierce Green Fire —Dir. Mark Kitchell In the 21st century, the idea that we are all connected is almost a cliché, though it is little understood and rarely acted upon. One 20thcentury social movement understood this concept at its core. It is, in the eyes of many, the most important ever: the environmental movement.

Searching For Sugar Man—Dir. Malik Bendjelloul (Sweden/South Africa)

The House I Live In—Dir. Eugene Jarecki In the past 40 years, the war on drugs has resulted in 45 million arrests, made America the world’s largest jailer and destroyed impoverished communities at home and abroad. Yet drugs are cheaper, purer, and more available today than ever. Where did we go wrong, and what can be done? This fasci-

nating look at our failed drug policy feels more like Wired than a documentary.

Monsieur Lazhar—Dir. Philippe Falardeau (Canada)

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The Orator—Dir. Tusi Tamasese (New Zealand) Where tradition is law, struggle is constant, and family is everything, director Tusi Tamasese delivers an authentic and intimate view into the complexities of village life. The Orator premiered at the Venice Film Festival, introducing Tusi Tamasese as a fresh and powerful voice from

Bones Brigade: An Autobiography —Dir. Stacy Peralta A skateboarding romp that looks at how six athletes turn recreation into a team sport and became some of the most influential athletes in the world, using awesome archival footage and moving first-person accounts from brigade members Steve Caballero, Tommy Guerrero, Tony Hawk, Mike McGill, Lance Mountain and Rodney Mullen. The D Word: Understanding Dyslexia—Dir. Jamie Redford In this deeply personal look at dyslexia, Redford follows his son Dylan and educator wife, Kyle, as Dylan applies to college and interviews others who have overcome dyslexia such as Richard Branson, Charles Schwab and Gavin Newsom. Ethel—Dir. Rory Kennedy An intimate look at her mother’s marriage to Robert F. Kennedy and how she raised her 11 children after he was assassinated. Ethel Kennedy has never given an interview to anyone, but she does for her youngest in this tender, funny, Rory Kennedy photo by Lyndie Benson poignant biopic. u Geralyn Dreyfous is Founder of IMPACT FILM FUND, which financed and produced QUEENN OF VERSAILLES, DETROPIA and HOW TO SURVIVE A PLAGUE, three docs in competition at Sundance. She is the Founder and Chair of Utah Film Center and she executive produced Kirby DIck and Amy Zeiring's INVISIBLE WAR.

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1982

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was the year of ET, Blade Runner and Olivia NewtonJohn. Ronald Reagan was president. Gas cost 91 cents a gallon. The first CD player appeared. Answering machines used cassette tapes. Time Magazine chose the computer as “Machine of the Year.” A rally opposing nuclear weapons drew 750,000 people to NYC’s Central Park. And, in Salt Lake City, a little magazine called CATALYST hit the newsstands. Ambitious in spirit, it was modest in presentation. Content consisted of an essay ((reprinted here) and a calendar of events: meditation with the Wasatch Zen Group, which was to evolve into the Big Mind Center; a presentation by Brett Nye, Salt Lake’s only Rolfer at the time; meetings for the Audubon Society and the Utah Wilderness Association; a workshop with musician Paul Winter at the Museum of Natural History. New Age singles were invited to meet each other through a local newsletter, “Contact High.” Advertisers included Park’s Goat Dairy (on 5400 South and 9th East; goats long ago gave way to houses), Nature’s Way Sandwich Shop (on 9th & 9th, close to where Pago’s now resides) and the now longdefunct bookstores of renown, downtown's Cosmic Aeroplane and, near campus, Waking Owl. The Salt Lake Food Co-Op on campus at the Newman Center (run by some of the same people supporting creation of the new storefront Wasatch Cooperative Market today) was represented, too, as well as The King’s English Books, Cedars of Lebanon restaurant and Feldenkrais practitioner Carol Lessinger, all still in business (Carol is in the Community Resource Directory of this issue, too, 30 years later!)

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The CATALYST staff approaches less persons who are transcending its task more as an organism than old patterns of belief and behavorganization, adopting a principle ior, breaking through to more creof flexibility in growth responsive ative living and becoming leaven, to readers’ interests and for evermodels, and change agents for changing cultural and political others. patterns. As a catalyst for personal Breakthroughs which compel and social transformation, we rethinking and restructuring of seek to help develop a cohesive force for creative change and to BY GRETA BELANGER DEJONG encourage cross fertilization and support among the diverse nication is transforming through The mission, as you are about to efforts with a common cause. publications, conferences and read, was pretty lofty. I—and probaWe nourish the hope that emissaries, which serves to bly you—can tell it was written by a humankind will survive the strengthen and facilitate this transcommittee, including Lucy Powell, present turmoil; that out of formative movement. Victoria Fugit, Don Ashton, possibly disintegration comes re-formaDiscerning that growing numLezlee Spilsbury and myself. Through tion at higher levels; and that bers of persons and groups in the the years the clarity of the mission the cohesive efforts of the Intermountain area are factors in has ebbed and flowed. But it is a committed few will create the actualizing this process, CATAnoble blueprint. To read it still critical mass necessary for LYST takes shape as a networking inspires me. transformation. Indeed, there is Elmer Green, “Beyond Biofeedback” agent for this region. We address In the intervening years, Salt Lake ample historical evidence that the growing community of those has gone from a handful of massage there is a powerhouse of dynamic long-entrenched paradigms are who share common concerns for therapists to several massage theraenergy within a fully dedicated being announced daily, though too the future we choose. py schools. Yoga, once practiced in minority which, like a powder keg often still in obscure, esoteric jourwhen ignited, can change the nals. The more discerning of the “The forces for renewal are growing out of research in fields course of history. forerunners, however, seek to relate their discoveries to those of other as varied as the biological, physical and social sciences; The national scene disciplines. To name but a few: the transpersonal humanistic psychologies; studies of the George Leonard of the Stanford Signs of hope for global renewal Research Institute and author of are obscured by media reports of dis paranormal; experimentations on consciousness expansion and The Transformation (1981) describes integration and confusion throughout tapping the immense potential of the human brain-body- spirit.” the current period as being “unique the world. Yet it in history,” involving radical change is —CATALYST, April 1982 in the quality of human existence more thoroughgoing than any since CATALYST begins two or three locations, is everywhere. civilization began. “It does not enas a monthly publicaIn 1982 there were two organic grotail throwing over our civilized valtion to meet the need ceries. Now we have two organic ues and practices,” he says, “but for information chains, as well as seasonal farmers subsumes them under a higher exchange not presently markets. The environmental scene order.” provided in a single has changed, as well. Robert Theobald, economistsource. Our focus is on So here’s the big question: Is CATand educator, urges the formation the underexposed events ALYST still relevant to your life? of a new coalition, a linkage of and activities on the foreHow shall we carry on for the next those committed to social change, front of creative change. decade that could prove to be deciin order to benefit from the insights only out of We shall call attention to sive for our civilization? of one another. In his recent the breakdown of outemergent patterns in society as a Write to me. I will respectfully book, Beyond Despair: A Policy moded patterns that the new can whole, and to news briefs from the entertain all thoughts, and report Guide to the Communications Era emerge. For those who see beyond frontiers of research and of back here next month. (1981), he outlines programs for the phases of chaos, powerful action. We seek to be a link GRETA@CATALYSTMAGAZINE.NET. promoting such cross-fertilization, forces set off by research leading between our readers and sources beginning at the local levels. to new knowledge and new of information, rather than From CATALYST, April 1982 Joseph Campbell explores the methodologies are translating it attempting full coverage beyond CATALYST is born of the convicvital link of humans to their myths into action on the frontiers of the local level. tion that humankind is experiencing and the way in which they can the crusade for whole perOur ultimate goals a radical transition in the evoluextend our human potential. He sons on a whole earth. include regular feature tionary process more profoundly states that the only possibility for The forces for renewal are articles, interviews, transforming than any prior our time is “the free association of growing out of research in book reviews and change in human history. The men and women of like spirit… fields as varied as the biologcolumns on special basic nature of the change is an not a handful but a thousand ical, physical and social sciinterests. In the meanexpansion of human consciousheroes, ten thousand heroes, who ences; the transpersonal time, we shall regularly ness leading to radically new ways will create a future image of what humanistic psychologies; offer: a comprehensive of experiencing reality, of knowing, humankind can be.” Fritjof Capra, studies of the paranormal; calendar of events and and of being, as persons and as physicist and author of The Tao of experimentations on conlisting of services; dissocieties. Physics (1975), defines the paralsciousness ex pansion and play and classified Breakthroughs in this process lels between modern physics and tapping the immense potenFritjof Capra, ads; letters to the ediare emerging globally in widely Eastern mysticism. Lawrence tial of the human brain-bodytors; and news items, physicist and author diverse disciplines and cultural spirit. All of these are authenof “ The Tao of Physics” primarily local. institutions. A network of commuContinued on page 23 ticated by reports of count-

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Contemplate your gardening future in January BY KAY DENTON

a basic, all-purpose solution at halfstrength and repeat another six to eight weeks later. Cut the plant back to roughly 8 inches in late April. Move it outdoors during the day when the weather warms up and consider transplanting it into a larger pot. The truly tricky part comes next October when poinsettias enter their vampire phase (my technical term for it) and require 14 hours of continuous darkness daily. Move the plant to a dark room or place a box over it. Simultaneously, they also need six to eight hours of warm, sunny daylight. After two months of this regimen—voila!— bright, cheerful holiday plants.

The tree, after Christmas Both Salt Lake City and Salt Lake County pick up Christmas trees to compost. Placing them by the curbside is one option. Another is to place it in your yard for the birds to use throughout the winter—either propped up, whole, or just the boughs on the ground. Chop it into smaller pieces for your compost pile when spring arrives or to put into the City’s brown yard waste bin.

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anuary is the Monday of months. The holidays have packed themselves into boxes until next year, and the inversion has plumped itself out over the valley for a long stay. However, in the spirit of encouraging optimism, please note that the days are getting longer. With that in mind, here is a potpourri of items for your gardening consideration.

Pointsettia pointers Got a poinsettia (Euphorbia pul-

cherrima) left over from the holidays? These plants actually have a life beyond New Year’s. Originally from southern Mexico and imported to the U.S. with the help of Joel Robert Poinsett, our first ambassador to Mexico, they have become traditional end-of-year decorations. First of all, they really, really like sunlight, but dislike drafts, temperatures below 65 degrees F. and too much water. Keep them in a warm, sunny location with damp soil. Fertilize six to eight weeks later with

January isn’t too early to consider participating in a community garden. Contact Wasatch Community Gardens (WasatchGardens.org) or create one of your own with neighbors.

I never finished my fall clean-up; dead sunflower, bamboo and tall brown-eyed Susan stalks are still standing. If you’re like me, sunny weekend days (after skiing or snowshoeing, of course) are meant for tasks such as this. It tidies up the yard before the next onslaught of snow and decreases the amount you need to do when spring arrives. While you’re at it, check perennials to make sure the mulch still covers them. Tidy up any broken stems and tamp down places that have heaved up due to temperature fluctuations.

Write and reflect Start a garden journal—or find your old one and add a January 2012 entry. Use it to diagram the locations of existing plants and trees, areas that need attention (or, which might after a long winter), and a To Do list for each season. For example, I have a few branches on my Austrian pine that need to come down before they bonk someone on the head. Late winter or early spring are good times for sawing, while moving day lilies around is better a little later in spring. The journal can

also help you consider variables such as height, spread, color and time of bloom so that you begin spring with an action plan.

Contemplate losing the lawn Kill your lawn. Seriously. Kentucky bluegrass may look nice and remind some of us of our Eastern roots, but it gobbles up water and requires a fair amount of maintenance. January is a good time to consider substitutes. Buffalo grass (Buchloe dactyloides) grows up to six inches, doesn’t require mowing and needs watering only every two to three weeks once established. It’s a pale green and very soft to the touch. It grows from seed, sod and plugs and spreads by sending out runners. The downside is that it doesn’t fare well in shade or high-traffic areas. Buffalo grass is often planted in a mix with blue grama (Bouteloua gracilis) that can grow up to 15 inches, is drought tolerant, needs little fertilizer or mowing and produces nice looking seed heads. Like buffalo grass, it doesn’t tolerate much shade or high-volume traffic. But, planted alongside paved or gravel pathways, either or both work well to provide a waterwise grassy scene.

Reevaluate It’s obviously not a good time to plant shrubs, but it is a good month to evaluate the location and look of your current yardscape. A lot of us have dealt with wayward shrubs that grew unexpectedly bushier or in odd directions. Play around with ideas in your gardening journal to determine if another spot would be better for the butterfly bush that suddenly blocks the view outside your living room. While you’re examining shrubs and bushes for damage and dry soil, look over your trees, too. Trees planted in the fall may need some supplemental water, and even established trees with western and/or southern exposure might need a little replenishment. You can also think about what vegetables you want to grow and where. January may seem cold and inhospitable, but it’s really the month to lay the groundwork (no apologies) for all the gardening fun ahead. Enjoy! u Kay Denton writes and gardens in Salt Lak e City. She is a longtime CATALYST contributor.

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LeShan, psychologist and psychic healer, draws similar parallels in The Medium, The Mystic, and the Physicist (1974). Brugh Joy, M.D., left traditional medical practice to develop his own potentials for healing with body energies. His book, Joy’s Way (1979), provides a map for the transformational journey of others. Elmer and Alyce Green of the Menninger Foundation, in Beyond Biofeedback (1977), report their research of many years on voluntary control of normally unconscious functions. After describing the proven therapeutic values of biofeedback training, they enlarge on the implications their research has for non-pathological uses. Jean Houston, director of the New York Foundation for Mind Research, publishes Dromenon —comprehensive, scholarly, and excitingly evocative. Dr. Houston conducts seminars internationally which draw thousands to experience for themselves, under her dynamic tutelage, the further reaches of their own being. The above is but a brief sampling from a possible listing of hundreds. A rash of books has appeared attempting to synthesize the findings reported from the various fronts. Chief among them is The Aquarian Conspiracy (1980) by Marilyn Ferguson. Her interpretations of her research are keen and persuasive. Her implications for the future of humanity are exhaustive and hope-filled. We urge that her book be read and reread for enlightenment, direction and nourishment on the personal journey as well as for the supportive prod it offers in the commitment for action on behalf of others.

The greening of the Wasatch Front It is significant that a number of the leaders and investigators mentioned have drawn large crowds here in Salt Lake City in giving lectures, workshops and seminars during the past few years. Organizations are springing up which focus on particular aspects of the transformative process. New centers and services focus on enabling the expansion of consciousness, evoking creative potential, holistic living and healing, whole-person educational experimentation, environmental protection and sponsorship of spiritual quest. The World Futures Conference

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here last fall attracted persons from a wide variety of professions and institutions, and there was evident a commitment to choosing the future we want. At this and similar gatherings, many began to voice the need for a central networking system for communicating these services and events locally. It is this need that has given impetus to the birth of CATALYST. In the faith that personal and social transformation is possibly and in fact necessary to planetary survival, we invite your involvement in this venture. We are neither sponsored nor funded by any organized group, and the staff begins on a volunteer basis. Our growth, our survival, will depend on the support we receive from the community. We trust there IS a sufficient basis for such support in this area and that our readers will assume initiative in finding ways to cooperate. Immediately these include subscriptions and gift subscriptions; the placement of ads; leads on events, visiting leaders, courses, seminars, group activities and services, and especially by using the contacts and information within. And, oh, yes—name dropping of CATALYST wherever there is the suspicion of fertile soil. ~~~~~ Forgiving its formal demeanor and that last hokey line—overall, it still moves me. Much has changed—within the culture and within CATALYST itself. By the end of the first year, we went from subscription basis to free distribution. Advertisements are still what pay the bills. We still depend on you, our readers, to make our efforts worthwhile. And so we ask the question: Is CATALYST still relevant? To you personally, and to the Salt Lake community? One thing is brilliantly clear to me: Symbiosis occurred. CATALYST has nurtured this community, and been supported by it, for 30 years. Thank you for allowing me to be a part of this endeavor. We’re in that reflective ‘What next?’ stage that all 30-year-olds go through. I’ll be musing on Salt Lake City’s holistic history throughout the next few months. Your input is appreciated. u Greta Belanger deJong is a founder and the editor and publisher of CATALYST. She began it when she was 30, and writes this commentary in the first hours of her 60th year. GRETA@CATALYSTMAGAZINE.NET.

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highlights from a Republican presidential debate on CNN, I realized this is a dreary way to spend time no matter how badly I want my legs in shape for weekend skiing. This is where Zumba® comes in. Zumba, an arbitrary, fanciful word selected by Zumba Fitness, LLC, is the original brand name that identifies their dance fitness pro-

The two big innovations of Zumba over Jane Fonda style aerobics are: real dance moves and music that doesn’t suck. grams and related products, which essentially consist of aerobic dancing to Latin and World music. But those are just the boring technical details. The actual allure of Zumba is its promise to make going to the gym fun. In order to target-market people like me, they have even trademarked the slogan: Ditch the Workout—Join the Party™. Apparently it’s working. A search on the ZUMBA.COM website finds an astonishing 713 classes within 25

miles of Salt Lake City including variations like Zumba Gold for old folks, Zumbatomic for kids, and Aqua Zumba for people who like to swim. You can play Zumba video games, read about Zumba in Z-Life magazine and wear Zumba clothes in clashing neon colors with sparkly Zumba graphics splashed across the chest. Even my gym has a Zumba class. Inevitably, I had to check it out. About 20 people showed up and only one was male, but he was a notably confident dancer who positioned himself directly in front of the teacher. Other than the gender imbalance, the students seemed less blonde than a typical Utah dance class. I believe part of the genius of Zumba is the deliberately eclectic music; it’s not just for skinny white girls in spandex. Though most students were in grungy sweatpants, a few including the instructor were actually wearing neon-colored Zumba outfits, one printed with the encouraging words, “Feel the music. Let yourself go.” So after trying a Zumba class, I’m sold. At least, I was sold about halfway through the class when the instructor motioned everyone into a big circle and led a Zumba polka. The part where students tied belly dance scarves with jingly coins on their hips just clinched it. The two big innovations of Zumba over Jane Fonda-style aerobics are real dance moves and music that doesn’t suck. In fact, there is a charming back-story that Alberto “Beto” Perez invented Zumba when he forgot to bring appropriate disco music to an exercise class he was leading and substituted the Latin mix-tape from his car. Is it easy to learn? Not really. To keep up with the instructor, you have to know some simple footwork like a basic salsa step and a grapevine. It also helps to be familiar with a lot of dance styles. Besides drawing from Latin dance, Zumba folds in sources as diverse as African, hiphop, belly dancing, and Bollywood. But that’s the charm. You look in the mirror and instead of an overweight sweaty woman on a fake bicycle, you see a dancing Bollywood screen goddess. What’s not to like? u Amy Brunvand is a librarian at the University of Utah and a dance enthusiast .

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One of my “pet” causes—so to speak—is advocacy for senior adoptions. A few weeks ago, Friends In Need posted a story on Facebook about a 15year-old yellow lab who was found on the street. Blind, deaf and barely able to walk because of her advanced age, she wouldn't have lasted long on her own. Friends in Need had worked for weeks searching for her family, to no avail. When I read her story and saw her sweet face in the photo, that was it. This old girl now lives in my menagerie of a home and has shown such grace as she unconditionally accepts our help and love that I have named her just that, Grace.

Friends In Need Animal Rescue had its start in the early 2000s when Karen and Kim O’Donnell purchased five and a half acres in the Eagle Mountain foothills. T oday it is home to 160 birds, horses, pigs, sheep, goats, yaks, dogs, llamas, cats and more. Most animals have come here to end their days; they a re either old or, as Karen described, “eatable” (meaning some folks adopt the farm animals for meat). The sociability of the animals at Friends in Need shows they experience a great deal of love and attention. They are highly interactive with humans and other species, and it’s common to see two different species in the same enclosure harmoniously basking in the sun. Volunteers are welcome to help with feeding the animals any time. F riends In Need is operated solely on private donations, which are much appreciated. Karen and Kim have devoted their lives to their non-profit, including their entire home, where they live with their large family of animals (who have several bedrooms to themselves). FRIENDS-IN-NEED.ORG

Lola is a sassy 10year-old Miniature Pinscher who doesn’t let anything keep her down. She even kicked breast cancer to the curb! While she is a go-getter, Lola is definitely more of a lover and prefers to spend her time snuggled under a blanket with her person.

Recommendations Read: The Species Seekers: Heroes, Fools, and the Mad Pursuit of Life on Earth by Richard Conniff. A fascinating timeline of amateur naturalists across the globe and their frenzied quest to discover new species; leading to questions of human origins, evolution, and the age of our planet. Watch: Dog and Horse play. Another example of how dogs befriend all creatures; a valuable lesson for us all. TINYURL.COM/DOGANDHORSEPLAY

Always remember, a cat looks down on man, a dog looks up to man, but a pig will look man right in the eye and see his equal. —Winston Churchill

News bites and special events Wild Wednesdays at Ogden Nature Center (ONC). Every Wednesday at 3:30 p.m., the ONC offers lectures on various wildlife topics. OGDENNATURECENTER.ORG Attention shelters & sanctuaries: Are you aware of grants available through organizations such as ASPCA, Chase Community Giving and PETFINDER.COM/FOUNDATION? In the first six months of 2011, ASPCA alone allotted $5.6 million to 420 recipients. Many organizations and foundations can help. “Like” Catalyst Magazine on Facebook to see up-to-date animal news, stories, tips and advocacy opportunities, along with all our other awesome posts!

With his stunning good looks and awardwinning personality, Furburbia has no idea why Van has been there for a year. This 4year-old tuxedo boy is the life of the party and dreams of the time when can go home with a family. Our animals this month come to you via Furburbia—Friends of Animals adoption center in Park City. The folks at Furburbia are dedicated in finding the right fit between their adoptees and potential families, they will spend as much time as needed to make sure everyone goes home happy. FOAUTAH.ORG

Wake Up! Big Mind Zen Awakening and Integrating Big Mind Zen with Zen Master Genpo Merzel Jewish Community Center Salt Lake City, Utah January 28 and 29, 9 am to 5 pm

Traditional Sesshin with Genpo Roshi and Tenshin Roshi Zen Mountain Center Idyllwild, CA August 5 through 11 For a list of 2012 events, registration and suggested donation see www.bigmind.org

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Get your acoustic music fix at the Unitarian Church with the Booked Coffeehouse, featuring the Red Desert Ramblers, Blue Sage, Small House Strings, Frayed Knot String Band and Midnight Music Factory.

Student Slam Five 10-minute plays are created, rehearsed and performed in 24 hours. Professional writers, directors and designers will join 25 student actors ages 12 to 19 representing a dozen Utah schools. Auditions for “Student Slam” were the largest in five years with over 150 young actors auditioning for roles. Student Slam is a fundraising event for Theatre Arts Conservatory, an educational program of Plan-B Theatre Company. Proceeds will benefit the Theatre Arts Conservatory scholarship fund. Student SLAM, Jan 7, 8p. Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, 138 W 300 S. $12. PLANBTHEATRECOMPANY.ORG

When the Lines Go Down story evening In the manor of The Moth Radio Hour (“True Stories Told Live”), When the Lines Go Down will have their first story evening —true stories, told live, without notes. The theme of the night is: Something New. Participants are encouraged to start developing a story about something new that’s happened in their life. Organizers will randomly draw names for speakers to tell their five-minute story. When the Lines Go Down, Jan. 8, 6-9p. Mo’s Bar and Grill, 358 S West Temple. Free. MOSBARANDGRILL.COM

Booked Coffeehouse, Jan. 27, 8p. First Unitarian Church, 569 S 1300 E. $5 donation. SLCUU.ORG

Kaleidoscope For their family and children’s show, Ririe-Woodbury revisits the magical choreography of Alwin Nikolais. Performed on the stage of the beautiful Capitol Theatre, the dances are selected from among Nikolais’ most delightful works. Giant elastic bands that define space like a huge cat’s cradle give form to the exciting work “Tensile Involvement.” “Noumenon” fascinates with dancers moving in strict unison, creating dynamic forms while enshrouded in silver bags. Garish clowns, frolicking in a blacklight-filled arcade, set the stage to entertain with excerpts from “Gallery.” Kaleidoscope brings strange-footed dancers balancing on discs, men hanging precariously out in space and a pair of dancers on a journey while balancing a long pole between their feet. “Clothes,” a statement on fashion, features outlandish costumes that are changed on a whim by the characters on stage. Performed under the direction of Alberto del Saz, artistic director of the Nikolais/Louis Foundation for Dance. Kaleidoscope, Feb 3, 7:30p; Feb 4, 2p and 7p . Capitol Theatre, 50 W 200 S. $30. RIRIEWOODBURY.COM

Workshops & Classes Sample some dance at RDT’s community classes Dance all morning for just $10 at RDT’s open house. Classes start with Prime Movement, then Ballet, Modern, African and finally Zumba dance. See website for full schedule. RDT Open House, Jan. 7, 9a-1p. Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, 138 W 300 S. RDTUTAH.ORG

Kriya Yoga talk and initiation Learn about Kriya Yoga with Gonesh Baba, advanced disciple of Paramahamsa Hariharananda. Kriya Yoga is a practical, scientifically based technique of meditation and God realization for simultaneous development of mind, body, intellect and soul. Kriya Yoga is non-sectarian and is practiced by people of all religions and spiritual orientations. A Kriya Yoga initiation will be held the weekend after the talk. Kriya Yoga lecture, Jan. 6, 7p. Red Butte Garden, 300 Wakara Way. Free. Kriya Yoga initiation, Jan. 7-8. 801-673-2587

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Science! Samba Fogo drummer training workshop Check out this four-week Brazilian percussion workshop with Samba Fogo musical director Mason Aeschbacher. All instruments are provided to learn everything you need to audition for a spot in Samba Fogo—as well as a 30-minute private lesson with Mason. Samba Fogo drummer training workshop, Sat urdays, Jan. 14-Feb. 4, 1-3p. ArtsHub, 663 W 100 S. $30 (register at BackBeats Drum, 6089 Highland Dr, and get a $20 gift certificate). SAMBAFOGO.COM

Yoga teacher training The Shiva Center is beginning a series of five teacher training modules. Each module can be taken sequentially for Yoga Teacher Certification or individually to grow and deepen your personal practice. This month’s module theme: Life (followed by Practice, Flow, Health and Energy in subsequent months). Taught by Brandi Allen, Andrejs Gailis and Jami Larson. Yoga teacher training, Module One, Jan. 27-29. Shiva Center, 2065 E 2100 S. $650 ($2,900 for whole course). SHIVACENTERSLC.COM

Spirit Look inward at Inner Light Center The long, cold days of January are a perfect time to look inward, to work on your spiritual self. Take a Shamanic Journey on Jan. 4; learn about Sacred Channeling on Jan.

Secrets of the Universe—with Buffalo wings How does the universe grow and evolve with time? How will the universe look a billion years from now? Find out at this lecture by Kyle Dawson, U of U assistant professor of Physics and Astronomy, at the popular Science Night Live! in downtown SLC. Go early if you want a table. (By the way , astronomers at the U are now part of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, and are mapping more than 1.5 million galaxies to better understand dark energy and dark matter.) Science Night Live, Jan. 25, 5:30p. Keys on Main, 242 S Main St. Free. WWW.SCIENCE.UTAH.EDU

Frontiers of Science: Mapping in 3D How many dimensions are there, and how can we describe and understand higher dimensional spaces? In 1905, the leading mathematician of his day, Henri Poincaré, proposed a program of studying higher dimensional spaces. The Poincaré Conjecture was not solved until 2003! What does the solution tell us? John W. Morgan, director of the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics at Stony Brook University knows. How Topologists Describe Three-Dimensional Space, Feb. 1, 7:30p. Aline W. Skaggs Biology Building, 259 S 1400 E. Free. WWW.SCIENCE.UTAH.EDU

Community Seed Swap Love gardening, or plan to soon? Here’s what you do. Step one: Gather your saved vegetable and flower seeds from last

Get Out Bald Eagle Outing Join HawkWatch International’s education director for a day of eagle ecology. Travel to the Greater Salt Lake area to view large concentrations of bald eagles, discuss their natural history and their recovery from the endangered species list. Pack snacks and plenty of water and please remember to wear comfortable walking shoes and dress for the weather. Bald Eagle Outing, Jan. 14, 9a-12p. 2240 S 900 E. Free, but registration req. 801-484-6808 ext. 107, JHAJJ@HAWKWATCH.ORG

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year. Step one-and-a-half: If you have no seeds, come anyway. Step two: Bring yourself and friends to the P eople’s Market Seed Exchange. It’s pretty straightforward from there: Trade or donate your seeds with local gardeners, plant enthusiasts and farmers. Discover unique varieties of what you thought were boring old vegetables last year. Use your new seeds to start fresh, or expand your pre -existing botanical space with new variety. Everyone is welcome—no one will leave empty-handed! People’s Market Seed Swap, Jan 21, 5-7p, The Community Food Co Op of Utah, 1726 S 700 West. Free. www.slcpeoplesmarket.org

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THEATRE INTERVIEW

Keeping it fresh

Find and Sign playwright Wendy MacLeod BY JERRY RAPIER n 1997, playwright Wendy Macleod took the Sundance Film Festival by storm when The House of Yes (for which she wrote the screenplay, based on her stage play of the same name) won the Grand Jury Prize. Exactly 15 years later, she’s back in Utah with the world premiere of her new play Find and Sign. Find and Sign will be the third world premiere produced under Pioneer Theatre Company’s New Plays Initiative in the three seasons since its inception. All three have been by female playwrights. Under Elizabeth Williamson, who heads the initiative, PTC has found itself a champion of female theatre artists. “Macleod is a funny, smart and sometimes brutal writer with an amazing

play and playwriting in general. Jerry Rapier: I find your new play to be one of—if not the—most exciting script selection at PTC in the 16 years I’ve lived in Salt Lake City. How did it come to be part of PTC’s New Plays Initiative? Wendy Macleod: Pioneer’s Associ-

years ago I had the chance to see Othello at Donmar Warehouse, with Ewan McGregor as Iago and Chiwetel Ejiofor as Othello. The mystery that lingered after I saw the play grew out of the scenes between Iago and Emilia. How did they come to be together? Why does this moral woman agree to betray her friend? I was interested in foregrounding a woman character, one that is peripheral in Shakespeare’s Othello, and in exploring race and romantic love in a contemporary context. Give us a little insight into your writing process. When do you know

How long have you been teaching playwriting at Kenyon College? What’s it like teaching at your alma mater? I’ve been teaching there for 20 years so it is unquestionably home.

All three plays by Pioneer Theatre Company’s New Plays Initiative have been by female playwrights. Under Elizabeth Williamson, who heads the initiative, PTC has found itself a champion of female theatre artists. social/political awareness,” says Williamson. “The questions Find and Sign raises about the plight of innercity youth and their limited options to get out of New York’s poorest neighborhoods are very close to my heart—my mother is a Harlem-raised leftist and brought me up on Jonathan Kozol—and the way Wendy deals with them was one of the main reasons I wanted to do the play.” Find and Sign chronicles a lessthan-smooth romance between an on-the-rise young record executive and an idealistic public school teacher. With New York City’s urban music industry as a backdrop, the play is a nod to Shakespeare’s “Othello.” I recently cyber-chatted with Wendy Macleod about her new

hard slog of confronting this lump of material, this raw potential, and turning it into a play. Find and Sign had four different developmental readings along the way, and at each juncture, I’ve realized, or been made to realize, that there’s more work to do. Most recently, I heard certain scenes in auditions for Pioneer and discovered passages that could be pared back. Sometimes research comes first and always continues along the way. I’d read Jonathan Kozol’s Savage Inequalities, a book about the nation’s poorest school districts, and the huge disparity between schools in affluent suburbs and the nearby urban neighborhoods like the Bronx. The play explores how wealthy Manhattan and the entertainment business in particular, is oblivious to, or profits from, the poverty nearby.

ate Artistic Director Elizabeth Williamson read the play and was passionate enough to get people at Pioneer excited about doing it. What’s the skinny on Find and Sign? Inspiration? Process? Frustrations? How much of a nod is “a nod to Othello”? When I was living in England a few

the play’s gonna come? When are you afraid it won’t and how do you get past that? A play often begins with a scribbled one-sentence idea, then it starts to itch, or to switch images, percolate. There’s the honeymoon phase of writing the first draft where the characters themselves seem to propel the story forward. Then there’s the long,

Take us through a day in your classroom. The playwriting class meets in a sort of private clubhouse in an aerie classroom above the Hill Theater. I’m rigorous about structure, whether the piece is a conventional narrative or not. What is the beginning, middle and end of a given play? How do you begin here and make sure the audience arrives there? I also want them to understand how slow the process is, how many rewrites are involved. It’s not simply a matter of “this is good” or “this is bad;” it’s about getting them excited about their play’s “potential.” I know that student impersonations of me often involve the word “fresh.” My highest praise is when someone has come up with a point of view or a structural device that’s “fresh.” I try to get them to activate their characters and often remind them that women want things too. I don’t want them to write “a mother,” I want that character to be this mother. But my classes are not just me holding forth. Students present their work and they critique each other, in a way that is both challenging and supportive. I sat through too many competitive writing classes when I was younger so I try to remind them that their challenge is realizing their own work, not with besting each other. Good advice for any playwright. u Jerry Rapier has been Producing Director of Plan-B Theatre Company since 2000. His next directing project is Elmer Rice’s The Adding Machine for the University of Utah Theatre Department.

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Big change on the horizon Strong planetary aspects with global consequences

by Suzanne Wagner

Earth and Moon from Galileo probe, 1990jan02. Credit: NASA.

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has launched, and it looks like we are in for a wild ride, so everyone find your center and align with the highest self you can muster. Even if you experience bliss and calm, you can be guaranteed that others may not. You might be the one attempting to instill reason into emotional and upset people — employees, family members and mates. Your skills of communication and clarity will be needed to navigate some muddy waters ahead. In 2011, our task was to realize what we had stuffed inside. We needed to admit truths about what has worked and not worked in our lives. As that awareness unfolded, a tremendous amount of energy also was allowed to flow more naturally. Now in January 2012, we are feeling more grounded, more energized, and more willing to tackle issues. Even though there is a lot going on, we feel acceptance and a drive to move ahead and forge into new territories. After the work we did in 2011, our fears have been released and replaced with balanced acceptance and trust. We have a new road ahead, and that is exciting! We cannot completely see where we are going, but we are going nonetheless. Now we need to trust our instincts, skills, wisdom, and energy to carry us forward into the unknown. Let’s have a look at some key astrological aspects for the year ahead.

Neptune In Pisces— Feb 4, 2012 Neptune moves into Pisces on Feb 4, 2012 and will stay in that sign for 23 years. This shift affects an entire generation. Neptune in Pisces will allow a new age of spiritual growth, understanding and compassion. This pattern allows great spiritual leaders and teachers to come into this world. This age brings the desire for

The physicist David Bohm said, “All matter is frozen light.” This transit has the potential to blur the lines between realities and allow things that we perceived as solid to dissolve. For some, that may be wonderful; for others, it may be very disturbing . social justice, harmony, peace, spiritual understanding and knowledge. Because Neptune is the planet of drugs and of pain, I expect great advances in medicine and ways to deal with suffering. In combination with the other aspects, I expect to see very practical applications for treatment of existing diseases. Neptune is also a planet of confusion, creating a feeling of swirling and spiraling energy that you may already be experiencing. You may feel a bit discombobulated or spaced out. It’s going to take all of us some time to sort out this energy and learn how to flow with the fluid patterns of Neptune. We will get the hang of it over time. Just be aware your patterns of structure and organization may not work the way they have in the past. Neptune is sometimes seen as the higher octave of Venus; both planets are about love. Venus rules the feelings that attract us to one thing or another. Neptune’s sense of connection is limitless, much like the oceans, vapors and mists that he rules, an unconditionally loving force that surrounds and penetrates absolutely everything. Neptune wants us to move beyond the tangible, limiting, and physical reality in which we find ourselves. Neptune rules the soul and the illusions of our imagination. Tools such as meditation become very important in navigating the watery depths of Neptune. Neptune inspires us to

find the direction of our highest self and our purpose within this reality. The spiritual lessons of your soul will want to be made into the physical. This is going to be a long journey; Neptune will be in P isces until March 30, 2035. Neptune in Pisces does not come with a clear instruction manual on how to do all of this. Only by diving deep within do we come to understand our higher purpose. Then we have to take that information and learn how to navigate the complex pattern of choices in this human realm to find the best creative expression of that purpose. Only one thing is clear: You will have to let go of any preconceived ideas about outcomes and find a purity of faith within. Then allow that energy to drive all of us forward to find the best possible outcome for the planet. Neptune was in Pisces over a century ago; one year into that transit, Spiritualism was born. Expect to see greater interest in all the intuitive and metaphysical arts during this particular transit. Neptune’s last transit through Pisces also coincides with publication of Darwin’s Origin of Species, which turned traditional beliefs upside down. I expect this will be another time when controversial knowledge and information forces us to look at our world in new ways. As Neptune in Pisces rules the movies and music, I expect to see cutting- edge technologies and riveting films, as well as

heart-opening musicians who transform our reality through sights and sounds. Righting social injustices and bringing awareness to the suffering of others will be an ongoing theme. Gender issues will blur and ethnic issues will dissolve as we finally ask the question, “Whom do these boundaries serve?” These are going to be fascinating times in which we will see the expression of the soul awaken. We will see the dissolving of boundaries in many contexts: sexual, spiritual, fiscal and political. This will be a time for fighting for justice, supporting others in finding the freedom to be heard. We will find new ways to create union, express spirituality, and expand consciousness through movies and music in wonderful and exciting ways. One last thing: With Neptune in Pisces, nothing is quite as it seems.

Pluto Square Uranus— June 24, 2012 This global square aspect lasts from June 24, 2012 until March 16/17, 2015, and we will experience seven exact squares within those years. Usually, meetings between outer planets involve three exact contacts over about nine months. This time, Pluto and Uranus will remain in exact square for three years. This is one strong influence! Uranus and Pluto together are ground softeners for change. Pluto erodes while Uranus explodes. Pluto wants control. What it can’t control, it tries to stop or block. Uranus wants to say “No!” to everything and anything that limits, controls or degrades. Uranus wants to serve all life through new ideas, inventions and solutions. The potential for conflict is clear, and I expect the Pluto/Uranus square to manifest as a battle between freedom and control. The square between these two heavy

hitters represents tests and challenges. It causes stress and is highly frustrating. Even though Uranus and Pluto are distinctly non-personal and emotionless by themselves, their effect together is dramatic and deeply felt. This square creates such stress that sometimes the only way through is outright revolt and revolutions. It will seem as if we are not able to bring about changes fast enough to satisfy everyone. We will strongly want change but feel stymied by the blocked patterns that the square creates, so try to not get frustrated at governments or yourself as you attempt to make changes. Expect that everything will take more time than you want. The last time we had Pluto square Uranus was in the 1930s. The intensity leading up to Hitler and Stalin was no picnic. But this time, we have the mitigating energy of Neptune to soften the forceful push/pull between the controlling, rigid pattern of big government that is Pluto and the freedom-loving desire for change that Uranus brings. Neptune’s energy has the potential to bring a newfound awareness while the Pluto-Uranus energies break down old structures and bring in the new. You can think of the square as a painfully sharp cutting edge and Neptune in Pisces as a balm for those wounds. Neptune in Pisces gives the feeling of fewer boundaries between all of us. We may feel we are aching for the whole world, suffering with their suffering. We may feel a coming together in oneness during times of crisis. We may even discover machines that allow us to see the shimmering energy in matter and to find that there are souls in nature. The expansion of understanding and awareness that Neptune brings is going to be amazing. The physicist David Bohm said, “All matter is frozen light.” This transit has the potential to blur the lines between realities and allow things that we perceived as solid to dissolve. For some that may be wonderful, and for others it may be very disturbing.

Moving forward The best way to face challenges during such radical times is to anticipate them. Those who resist the obvious change and want things to stay the way they were will have the hardest time. Choose change even if you do not know what it will look like on the other side. If you don ’t, you will use up a tremendous amount of energy resisting. Everyone will go through their version of change during the next three years. Hold compassion for others and lend a helping hand when you can. Clearly, the writing is on the wall. We all have been opened and expanded into a new place and reality. 2012 is a beginning, not an ending. u Suzanne Wagner is the author of numerous books and CDs on the tarot. SUZWAGNER.COM

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n 1989 I went to India for a three-week intensive with B.K.S. Iyengar (who had just turned 70) and his daughter, Geeta. During the last week, Because most of us were preparing to board a plane for the long trip home, Geeta led a class designed to prepare us for flight. The class was uncharacteristically mellow— even though it included an active practice with standing poses. The class was so relaxed that when Geeta ended it without Savasana (Final Relaxation—pronounced “sha-VAS-a-na”), I felt completely—surprisingly—clear and at ease. I had experienced Savasanafree classes with American teachers before. Without fail, I felt jagged and edgy after such classes. But Geeta’s class was sequenced with nervous system balance in mind, and for the first—and only—time in my 30 years of yoga practice, no Savasana was needed. Sequencing is about creating an arc that includes a balance of active and passive, heating and cooling, stimulating and calming qualities in the poses, an arc where one pose leads to and feeds the next based on its physiological effects. At the end of a practice, each person should feel clear, energized and at ease, not simply exhausted from a workout. And as a teacher who has not yet acquired Geeta’s sequencing wisdom, I end every practice with a nice, long Savasana. Each asana has multiple characteristics to consider when I think about its placement within a sequence. Here are a few of the questions I ask myself as I move through a sequence: Is this pose heating or cooling? Do I intend for this sequence to lead to a particular challenging pose or set of poses? If so, which asanas, in what order, will lead my students to the most easeful expression of the more challenging ones? What poses do we have time for, considering that I want to make sure there is

YOGA POSE OF THE MONTH

Sequencing How to “choreograph” a yoga workout BY CHARLOTTE BELL

The graphic of bramana to langana poses is adapted from a much more extensive chart authored by longtime yoga teacher Richard Miller. You can use the examples to represent the various classes of poses. I hope this chart will be helpful in sequencing your personal practice or your classes if you are a teacher.

Sequencing is about creating an arc that includes a balance of active and passive, heating and cooling, stimulating and calming qualities in the poses, an arc where one pose leads to and feeds the next based on its physiological effects.

plenty of cool-down time before Savasana? This month, I’ll focus on the first of the above questions. Heating (bramana) poses stimulate the nervous system and generate internal heat. Many standing poses, backbends, core poses (including arm balances) and some inversions are considered to be bramana. Cooling (langana) poses calm the nervous system and cool the core. Savasana, forward bends, seated twists, some inversions and even some standing poses are langana. Both types of poses are essential to a balanced practice. I like to begin a sequence with warm-up poses that gently mobilize the spine and joints. Then I choose poses that move progressively from less to more bramana or challenge. I leave at least the final third of a practice, sometimes more, for langana poses, moving from less cooling to more cooling so students can slide easily into deep relaxation. During Geeta’s Savasana-free class, she talked at length about how, whatever the inherent bramana or langana effects, the intention with which we approach a pose influences its effect on the body/mind. Approaching heating poses with an attitude of calm and curiosity can temper the heating effects. Approaching cooling poses with forcefulness or ambition can shift their effect to heating. For any pose, even those that are inherently neutral, your comfort level, the quality of your effort and the ease of your intention can temper the effect. The wisest way to approach sequencing a practice for its most balancing effect is to practice mindfully on your own—focusing your intention not on accomplishment of poses, but on the present experience of each pose. The art of sequencing arises out of mindful exploration. For the next year, my Pose of the Month column will progress through a sequenced practice. Coincidentally (or not), the sequence will harmonize with the yin and yang seasons of the year. u Charlotte Bell is a yoga teacher, author and musician who lives in Salt Lake City. Visit her at WWW.CHARLOTTEBELLYOGA.COM.

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GREEN SERVICES Five-Step Carpet Care. FB801.656.5259, PC: 435.640.2483. WWW.5STEPCARPETCAREUTAH.COM

INTERIOR DESIGN Designer makeover on a budget! 10/11 801-994-6953 Does your decorating make you so happy you just feel like dancing? No? Do you sometimes wish a fairy godmother would come and ‘pouf’! give you a designer makeover? Wish no more—affordable, instant interior gratification is on the way. WWW.LIVINGSPACESREDESIGN.COM, SARA@LIVINGSPACESREDESIGN.COM

HOUSING Wasatch Commons Cohousing 3/12 Vicky 801-908-0388. 1411 S. Utah St. (1605 W.) An environmentally sensitive community promoting neighborliness, consensus & diversity. Balancing privacy needs with community living. Homes now available for rent or sale. Roommates wanted. Tours 4th Wed at 5p and 2nd Sat. at 1p.m. WWW.COHOUSING.ORG, WWW.ECON.UTAH.EDU/COHO

Interior design in two hours 12/11 Help with selection of paint colors and other finishes, furniture placement or remix of existing pieces and accessories. A two -hour consult is just $125. Full interior design services also available. Over 30 years experience with small and large commercial and residential projects. Rosine Oliver, IIDA. RHOdesigns, llc. 801-971-2136, RHODESIGNSLLC@GMAIL.COM. DESIGN, CONSTRUCTION E. Cook Design Build Services 12/11 801-879-3293, ERIC@ECOOKDBS.COM. Offering a holistic approach to conceptualization, design, and construction. Integrating lifestyle, budget, and environmental sensibility. Experienced in low-impact residential and commercial design; remote, off-grid, grid-tied, and urban construction; cabinetry and furniture; and green, found, and salvaged materials. Intent upon communication, thorough process, and client satisfaction.

Residential Design FB Ann Larson 801-322-5122. GREEN PRODUCTS Underfoot Floors 6/12 801-467-6636. 1900 S. 300 W., SLC We offer innovative & earth friendly floors including bamboo, cork, marmoleum, hardwoods, natural fiber carpets as well as sand and finishing hardwood. Free in home estimates. Please visit our showroom. WWW.UNDERFOOTFLOORS.NET, UNDERFOOTFLOORS@AOL.COM.

HEALTH ACUPUNCTURE SLC Qi Community Acupuncture 6/12 R. Dean Woolstenhulme, L.Ac 177 E 900 S Ste 101D, 801-521-3337. Acupuncture you can afford. Quality acupuncture on low sliding scale rates ($15-$40) makes health care affordable and effective. Relax in comfy reclining chairs in a healing community setting. Acupuncture is good for allergies, back pain and more. Downtown SLC. WWW.SLCQI.COM ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE Cathy Pollock, M.AmSAT 3/12 801-230-7661. Certified Alexander Technique teacher with 17 years experience. Beyond good posture and body mechanics! Develop awareness. Let go of habitual tensions. Calm your nervous system. Embody dynamic ways of moving and performing. Learn to be easily upright and open. Breathe better, feel better, look better. Gain confidence and poise. WWW.ALEXANDERTECHNIQUEUTAH.COM AYURVEDA

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942-5876. Georgia Clark, certified Deepak Chopra Center educator. Learn how Ayurveda can help you harmonize your lifestyle and well being. Primordial sound meditation, creating health workshops, Ayurvedic wellness counseling, Ayurvedic oils, teas and books, Jyotish (vedic astrology). Georgia has trained in the US

and India. TARAJAGA@EARTHLINK.NET Shiva Centre. 2065 E. 21st So. 801.485.5933. WWW.SHIVACENTRESLC.COM. CHIROPRACTIC Dr. Michael Cerami, Chiropractor. 801-4861818. 1550 E. 3300 S. WWW.DRCERAMI.COM FB COLON HYDROTHERAPY Rebecca Diehl, Certified Colon Hydrotherapist & Holistic Health Practitioner. 801-518-5073, 1104 E Ashton Ave. Ste. 108, REBECCA@FOURELEMENTSWELLNESS.COM. Balancing the body, mind, spirit and nature through multiple healing modalities. Optimize your health with colonics, detoxification, nutritional guidance, energetic healing, and inspiriation. I use state of the art colonic equipment and ancient healing methods… my approach is holistic, sensitive, loving, supportive, and professional. 12/11 CRANIOSACRAL THERAPY/COUNSELING Sheryl Seliger, LCSW 6/12 801-556-8760. 1446 S. 900 E., Email: SELIGERS@GMAIL.COM Powerful healing through dialogue & gentle-touch energy work. Adults: Deep relaxation, stress reduction & spiritual renewal, chronic pain & illness, head & spinal injuries, anxiety, PTSD, relationship skills, life strategies. Infants and children: colic, feeding & sleep issues, bonding, birth trauma. Birth preparation & prenatal CST. FELDENKRAIS Carol Lessinger, GCFP 8/12 Private sessions and classes to regain self confidence to recover after injury, alleviate pain, improve posture and balance, move skillfully with ease. Offers excellent help for people with MS and stroke, as well as skilled athletes, musicians, actors, and you too. Carol has over 35 years experience. 805-907-6875, CAROLLESSINGER@GMAIL.COM

Erin Geesaman Rabke Somatic Educator. 801-898-0478. WWW.BODYHAPPY.COM FB Open Hand Bodywork. Dan Schmidt, GCFP, LMT. 150 S. 600 E., #3B. 801.694.4086 WWW.OPENHANDSLC.COM. FB Carl Rabke LMT, GCFP FOG 801-671-4533. Somatic education and bodywork. Feldenkrais®, Structural Integration and

massage. Offering a unique blend of the 10 sessions with Awareness Through Movement® lessons. Discover the potential for learning and improvement at any age, as you come to inhabit your body with ease, vitality and integrity. WWW.BODYHAPPY.COM MASSAGE MJ Jones LMT 03/12 801-898-0299, 5258 S Pinemont Dr #B-135 Murray Utah. MJJONESLMT@GMAIL.COM. Offering a unique blend of Swedish, deep tissue, stretching, breathwork, energy work. Great for pain and stress relief. I am continually exploring new modalities to fulfill my highest healing potential. It's an honor to share my experience with you. Healing Mountain Massage School FB 801-355-6300. New location: 363 S. 500 East, Ste. 210 (enter off of 500 East). MD PHYSICIANS Todd Mangum, MD, Web of Life Wellness Center FB 801-531-8340. 989 E. 900 S., Ste. A1. Dr. Mangum is a family practice physician who uses acupuncture, massage, herbs & nutrition to treat a wide range of conditions in cluding chronic fatigue, HIV infection, aller gies, digestive disturbances and fibromyalgia. He also designs programs to maintain health & wel lness. WWW.WEBOFLIFEWC.COM NATUROPATHIC PHYSICIANS Cameron Wellness Center 3/12 801-486-4226. Dr Todd Cameron, Naturopathic Physician. 1945 S. 1100 E. #202. Remember when doctors cared? Once, a doctor cared. He had that little black bag, a big heart, an encouraging smile. Once, a doctor actually taught about prevention. Remember “an apple a day”? Dr. Cameron is a family practitioner. He takes care of you. He cares. WWW.DRTODDCAMERON.COM

Eastside Natural Health Clinic 9/12 Uli Knorr, ND 801.474.3684; 2188 S. Highland Drive #207. Dr. Knorr uses a multi-dimensional approach to healing. He can help optimize your health to live more vibrantly and support your natural healing ability. He focuses on hormonal balancing, including thyroid, adrenal, women’s

To list your business or service email: CRD@CATALYSTMAGAZINE.NET. Prices: 3 months ($180), 6 months ( $210), 12 months ( $360). Listings must be prepaid in full and are non-refundable. Word Limit: 45. Deadline for changes/reservations: 15th of preceeding month.

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Inner Light Center A Spiritual, Metaphysical, and Mystical Community SUNDAY CELEBRATION - 10:00 am to 11:15 am Empower your week by joining an open, heart-based Spiritual Community to explore metaphysical teachings and invite personal mystical experiences of your own inner light.

INNER LIGHT INSTITUTE Inner Light Teachings - M101; Begins January 9, 2012; by Rev. Drs. Allene Remington and Ellen Vlasic / Foster connection to Spirit and inner sensitivity / Open yourself to “Sacred Channeling” “Significance of 2012 in Numerology;” Presented January 8th from 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm “Significance of 2012 in Numerology;” 5-weeks begins Jan 10. JANUARY EVENTS # # # # #

January 4 - Shamanic Journey January 11 - Sacred Channeling (Prerequisite is Course M101) January 18 - Mayan mysteries and drumming circle January 20 - Spiritual Cinema Circle - “I AM” - A must-see!! January 25 - Eclectic Yoga

Call 801.268.1137, or go to www.innerlightcenter.net for additional information and/or registration details regarding workshops, courses, special events and celebrations.

4408 South 500 East; Salt Lake City, UT 84107; 801.268.1137 www.innerlightcenter.net

Crystal Light Table Kathleen Watts Intuitive 801-675-9039

& Aura Video Photography Come experience our newest frequency

Kim Terry Psychic/Medium 801-695-3280

The Alchemy of 2012 Moving from Time to Space

Other sessions available ... chakra balancing • dna activation • past lives angels and guides • shamanic journeying 3480 Washington Blvd, Studio 101, Ogden, Utah www.studio101online.com

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hormones, blood sugar regulation; gastrointestinal disorders and allergies. Detoxification, food allergy testing and comprehensive hormonal testing available. EASTSIDENATURALHEALTH.COM PHYSICAL THERAPY Precision Physical Therapy 9/12 801-557-6733. Jane Glaser-Gormally, MS, PT. 4568 S. Highland Dr., Ste. 140. Licensed PT specializing in holistic integrated manual therapy (IMT). Safe, gentle, effective techniques for pain and tissue dysfunction. This unique form of therapy works to identify sources of pain and assists the body with self- corrective mechanisms to alleviate pain and restore mobility and function. UofU provider. Now expanding services into Park City and Heber. REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH Planned Parenthood of Utah 6/12 1-800-230-PLAN, 801-532-1586, or PPAU.ORG. Planned Parenthood provides affordable and confidential healthcare for men, women and teens. Services include birth control, emergency contraception (EC/PlanB/morning after pill), testing and treatment for sexually transmitted infection including HIV, vaccines including the HPV vaccine, pregnancy testing and referrals, condoms, education programs and more. VISION CARE Wasatch Vision Clinic FB 801-328-2020. 849 E. 400 S. in Salt Lake across from the 9th East TRAX stop. Comprehensive eye care, eye disease, LASIK, contacts and glasses since 1984. We accept most insurance. WASATCHVISION.COM

MISCELLANEOUS LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION Alliance Francaise of Salt Lake City 7/12 801-501-7514. P.O. Box 26203, SLC UT 84126 International cultural organization conducts French language classes. Beginners through advanced levels taught by experienced native teachers. Three semesters, 10 sessions each. Also offers Children's classes, Beginner and Intermediate levels. Monthly social gatherings. In addition, we sponsor French related concerts and lectures. WWW.AFSLC.ORG LEGAL ASSISTANCE Schumann Law. 801.631.7811, ESTATEPLANNINGFORUTAH.COM. MEDIA Catalyst. 801-363-1505. 140 McClelland, SLC. CONTACT@CATALYSTMAGAZINE.NET.

KRCL. 90.9 FM, KRCL.ORG KUER. 90.1 FM, KUER.ORG MUSICIANS FOR HIRE Idlewild 10/12 801-268-4789, WWW.IDLEWILDRECORDINGS.COM. David and Carol Sharp. Duo up to six-piece ensemble. Celtic, European, World and Old Time American music. A variety of instruments. Storytelling and dance caller. CDs and downloads, traditional and original. IDLEWILD@IDLEWILDRECORDINGS.COM PROFESSIONAL TRAINING Healing Mountain Massage School FB 801-355-6300. 363 S. South 500 East, Ste. 210 (enter off of 500 E.). Morning, evening, & week-

end programs. Graduate in as little as 7 months. 8 students in a class. Mentor with seasoned professionals. Practice in a live day spa. ABHES accredited. Financial aid: loans/grants available to those who qualify. WWW.HEALINGMOUNTAIN.ORG SPACE AVAILABLE For workshops, classes, ongoing groups 801-596-0147 Ext. 41, 5801 S Fashion Blvd, Ste. 250, Murray, UT. Center for Transpersonal Therapy. TWO large plush spaces. Bright & comfortable atmosphere, available for workshops, classes, or ongoing groups. Pillows, yoga chairs, & regular chairs provided, kitchenette area. Available for hourly, full day or weekend use. Two rooms available. 8/12 VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES Adopt-a-Native-Elder 6/12 801-474-0535. Adopt-A-Native-Elder is seeking office/warehouse volunteers in Salt Lake City every Tuesday and Friday 10 am-noon. Come and join a wonderful group of people for a fascinating and gratifying experience. We also need volunteers with trucks and SUVs, donating their expenses, to transport supplies for Spring and Fall Food Runs, Navajo reservation community events in southeast UT and northeast AZ . Contact Joyce or MAIL@ANELDER.ORG, WWW.ANELDER.ORG

MOVEMENT & SPORT DANCE Ecstatic Dance SLC 2531 S 400 E. Dance the way your body wants to, without choreography or judgment! Discover the innate body wisdom you possess. Ecstatic Dance is an authentic, spontaneous, expressive, meditative movement practice. Third Saturdays, 7-9p, $10, Prana yoga at Trolley Sq. and Columbus Community Center. WWW.ECSTATICDANCESLC.BLOGSPOT.COM

RDT Community School. 801-534-1000. 138 W. Broadway. FB MARTIAL ARTS Red Lotus School of Movement 8/12 740 S 300 W, SLC, UT, 84101. 801-355-6375. Established in 1994 by Sifu Jerry Gardner and Jean LaSarre Gardner. Traditional-style training in the classical martial arts of T’ai Chi, Wing Chun Kung-Fu, and T’ai Chi Chih (qi gong exercises). Children’s classes in Wing Chun KungFu. Located downstairs from Urgyen Samten Ling Tibetan Buddhist Temple. WWW.REDLOTUSSCHOOL.COM, REDLOTUS@REDLOTUS.CNC.NET YOGA INSTRUCTORS Mindful Yoga: Charlotte Bell 801-355-2617. E-RYT-500 & Iyengar certified. Cultivate strength, vitality, serenity, wisdom and grace. Combining clear, well-informed instruction with ample quiet time, these classes encourage each student to discover his/her own yoga. Classes include meditation, pranayama (breath awareness) and yoga nidra (yogic sleep) as well as physical practice of asana. Public & private classes, workshops in a supportive, non-competitive environment since 1986. WWW.CHARLOTTEBELLYOGA.COM YOGA STUDIOS Avenues Yoga 1/12 68 K Street, SLC. 801-410-4639. Avenues Yoga is a friendly, down-to-earth place where all are welcome. We offer classes for all body-types and ability levels, from Kids classes to Deep

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Relaxation and Restore, to Flow classes, Power, Pilates and now Yogalates! Free Intro to Yoga every Saturday at 11:30. Introductory Special: $39 one month unlimited. WWW.AVENUESYOGA.COM Bikram Yoga—Sandy 12/11 801-501-YOGA (9642). 9343 S. 1300 East. Local Introductory Offer-$29 for 30 days unlimited yoga (Utah residents only). Our South Valley sanctuary, nestled below Little and Big Cottonwood canyons, provides a warm and inviting environment to discover and/or deepen your yoga practice. All levels are encouraged, no reservations necessary. All teachers are certified. 36 classes offered, 7 days a week. Community Class: 1st Saturday of each month 10am class is free to new students. WWW.BIKRAMYOGASANDY.COM

Centered City Yoga 9/12 801-521-YOGA (9642). 918 E. 900 S. Centered City Yoga is often likened to that famous TV “hangout” where everybody knows your name, sans Norm (and the beer, of course). We offer more than 100 classes a week, 1,000 hour teacher trainings, and monthly retreats and workshops to keep Salt Lake City CENTERED and SANE. WWW.CENTEREDCITYYOGA.COM Shiva Centre. 2065 E. 21st So. 801.485.5933. WWW.SHIVACENTRESLC.COM.

THE SHOP Yoga Studio 10/12 435-649-9339. Featuring Anusara Yoga. Inspired fun and opening in one of the most amazing studios in the country. Classes, Privates, and Therapeutics with certified and inspired Anusara instructors. Drop-ins welcome. 1167 Woodside Ave., P.O Box 681237, Park City, UT 84068. WWW.PARKCITYYOGA.COM Zen Living Yoga. 2021 Windsor St. Ste. A, 801.467.6909, ZENLIVINGYOGA.COM

PETS REIKI Heart and Soul Animal Reiki 3/12 801-278-1270. Certified Reiki III practitioners and Animal Reiki teachers Rick and Nancy Bowen. Reiki helps strengthen an animal’s natural healing; aid in pain management; promote relaxation for animals with emotional issues; ease an animal’s journey into a new environment; comfort a dying pet and its owner as your pet makes its transition. VETERINARIANS Dancing Cats Feline Center. 801-467-0799. 1760 S 1100 E, DANCINGCATSVET.COM. FB

Vedic Harmony—Jyotish Astrology FB 942-5876. TARAJAGA@EARTHLINK.NET

ENERGY HEALING Evolutionary Spirit Shamanic Energy Healing Dee Ann Nichols, Salt Lake City, UT 801-638-0940. A graduate of the Healing the Light Body School of The Four Winds Society, certified in Advanced Client Skills and Mastery of Medicine Teachings, Dee Ann provides healing sessions, teachings and ceremonies in the Peruvian tradition of the ancient Inka. WWW.EVOLUTIONARYSPIRIT.INFO 10/12

Sherrie’s Sacred Healing Space 11/11 801-205-6460. Home, personal and workplace cleansing that works! Let me help you get through this month. Feeling unfocused, anxious, in pain? This is work at the cellular level and facilitates the healing process. Distance and inperson appts. You will feel better! Call for more information or appts. SHERRIESACREDSPACE.COM. Look me up! Studio 101. Crystal light table, aura video photography. Ogden. WWW.STUDIO101ONLINE.COM. FB PSYCHIC/TAROT READINGS Crone’s Hollow 8/12 2470 S. Main St. Have life questions? Get the clarity you need & reclaim your future with an intuitive and personal psychic consultation. $20 for 20 min. We also have metaphysical supplies! Cash/credit cards accepted. Thurs-Sun. Walk-ins welcome. 801.906.0470, WWW.CRONESHOLLOW.COM

Intuitive Journeys INTUITIVEJOURNEYS.NING.COM FB Margaret Ruth 801-575-7103. My psychic and tarot readings are a conversation with your guides. Enjoy MR’s blog at WWW.CATALYSTMAGAZINE.NET & send me your ideas and suggestions. WWW.MARGARETRUTH.COM Suzanne Wagner. 707-354-1019. WWW.SUZWAGNER.COM. MEDIUMS Mateylah—Human Angel for Hire 10/11 Readings & Advice, Divinenergywork with Vocal Toning, Ghostbusting, Demonslaying, Missing Object Pet and People Locating, Communication with the Other-side, House/Business Blessings, Spiritual Teaching, Telepathic Communication, Spiritual Counseling and more. Email M ATEYLAH@YAHOO.COM for full brochure. WWW.FACEBOOK/MATEYLAH Darryl Woods 801-824-4918. WWW.READINGSBYDARRYL.COM. WORKSHOPS, TRAINING McKay Method School of Energy Healing.. 877.767.2425. SAHAJHEALING.COM. FB Monroe Institute Excursion Workshop. 970.683.8194. WWW.CINDYLYN.COM FB

PSYCHIC ARTS & INTUITIVE SCIENCES ASTROLOGY Transformational Astrology FB Ralfee Finn. 800-915-5584. Catalyst’s astrology columnist for 10 years! Visit her website at WWW.AQUARIUMAGE.COM or e-mail her at RALFEE@AQUARIUMAGE.COM

PSYCHOTHERAPY & PERSONAL GROWTH COACHING, FACILITATING Create Your Life Coaching 10/11 801-971-5039. Life Coach Terry Sidford— Balance. Vision. Purpose. Call for a FREE consultation today! WWW.CREATEYOURLIFECOACHING.NET

Just Sit Sitting Schedule Monday through Friday: 7:00 to 7:35 a.m., 7:45 to 8:15 a.m. Thursday evening: 6:00 to 6:45 p.m. Tuesday class: 7:30 to 9:00 p.m. Sunday class: 4:15 to 4:45 p.m. sitting 5:00 to 6:00 p.m.talk

A Day of Zen

BMZ City Center, SLC with Michael Mugaku Zimmerman, Sensei January 14, 2012

Torrey Retreat

Torrey, Utah with Diane Musho Hamilton, Sensei January 19 - 22, 2012

For more information: www.bouldermountainzendo.org

Boulder Mountain Zendo

www.bouldermountainzendo.org 230 South 500 West, Suite 155, Salt Lake City, UT • 801.532.4975

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The Work of Byron Katie 7/12 801-842-4518. Kathy Melby, Certified Facilitator of The Work of Byron Katie. The Work is a simple way to access your own wisdom and lead a happier life. Specializing in developing loving relationships, relieving depression, and improving your outlook on life. Individuals, couples, families, groups and retreats. WWW.THEWORK.COM SUPPORT GROUPS Alcoholics Anonymous 6/12 For the Alcoholic who still suffers: SALTLAKEAA.ORG or call: central office, 801-484-7871.

FREE WORKSHOP Saturday, March 3, 2012 11:00 a.m. - Noon ECKANKAR 8105 South 700 East in Sandy www.eckankar-utah.org ECKANKAR 8105 S 700 E, Sandy www.eckankar-utah.org

SMP Family Medicine and Homecare, PC Dr. Riley, Family Medicine

1220 East 3900 South, Ste 4A Salt Lake City,Utah 84124 (Central Medical Building @ St. Mark’s Hospital) Specializing in preventive medicine, annual/sport/DOT physical exams, medication management, mood disorders, physician supervised weight loss, worker’s compensation follow-up care, homecare services for those who qualify Call 801-619-2167 for an appointment, Saturday appointments available

Most insurances accepted/ Discount for non-insured/self pay patients

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Utah Twelve-Step Intergroup Network WWW.UTIN.ORG, 801-359-HEAL (4325). Salt Lake area meeting schedule. Are you trying to change your life? Looking for a 12-step anonymous (like AA) support group? Meeting schedules & contact information for: Adult children of alcoholics, codependents, debtors, eating disorders, nicotine, recovering couples, sexaholics, sex addicts, love addicts and workaholics. THERAPY/COUNSELING Jeff Bell, L.C.S.W. 4/12 801-364-5700, Ext. 2, 1399 S. 700 E. Ste. 1, SLC. Specializing in empowering relationships; cultivating hardiness and mindfulness; managing stress & compulsivity; alleviating depression/anxiety/ grief; healing PTSD & childhood abuse/ neglect; addictions recovery; GLBT exploration as well as resolving disordered eating, body image & life transitions. Individual, couples, family, group therapy & EMDR.

Center for Transpersonal Therapy 8/12 801-596-0147. 5801 S Fashion Blvd, Ste. 250, Murray, UT. Denise Boelens, PhD; Heidi Ford, MS, LCSW, Chris Robertson, LCSW; Lynda Steele, LCSW; Sherry Lynn Zemlick, PhD, Wil Dredge LCSW, Nick Tsandes, LCSW. The transpersonal approach to healing draws on the knowledge from traditional science & the spiritual wisdom of the east & west. Counseling orientation integrates body, mind & spirit. Individuals, couples, groups, retreats & classes. Steven J. Chen, Ph.D., Lic. Psychologist 801-718-1609. 136 s. Main, Ste. 409 (Kearns Bldg). Healing techniques for depression, anxiety and relationship issues. Treatment of trauma, abuse and stress. Career guidance. Sensitive and caring approach to create wellness, peace, happiness and contentment. WWW.STEVENJCHEN.COM 9/12 Marianne Felt, MT-BC, LPC 9/12 801-524-0560, EXT. 3. 150 S. 600 E., Ste. 7C. Licensed professional counselor, board certified music therapist, certified Gestalt therapist, Red Rock Counseling & Education. Transpersonal psychotherapy, music therapy, Gestalt therapy, EMDR. Open gateways to change through experience of authentic contact. Inte grate body, mind, & spirit through creative exploration of losses, conflicts, & relationships that challenge & inspire our lives. Teri Holleran, LCSW 8/12 Red Rock Counseling & Education, LLC

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801-524-0560. 150 S. 600 E., Ste. 7C. Transformational therapy, consultation & facilitation. Discover how the investigation of loss, trauma, body symptoms, mood disturbances, relationship conflicts, environmental despair & the questions related to meaning & purpose initiate the transformational journey. Jan Magdalen, LCSW 1/12 801-582-2705, 2071 Ashton Circle, SLC. Offering a transpersonal approach to the experiences and challenges of our life cycles, including: individuation-identity, sexuality and sexual orientation, partnership, work, parenting, divorce, aging, illness, death and other loss, meaning and spiritual awareness. Individuals, couples and groups. Clinical consultation and supervision. Joan Magill APRN Adult Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner. 10/11 3802 S. 700 E. Medication managment, psychotherapy with an East/West orientation. Cash only practice. Flexible hours. 25 years experience. 801-209-4705. "Ride the Windhorse.”

Marilynne Moffitt, PhD 11/11 801-266-4551. 825 E. 4800 S. Murray 84107. Offering interventions for psychological growth & healing. Assistance with behavioral & motivational changes, refocusing of life priorities, relationship issues, addiction & abuse issues, & issues regarding health. Certified clinical hypnotherapist, NLP master practitioner & EMDR practitioner. Sanctuary for Healing & Integration (SHIN) 12/11 801-268-0333. 860 E. 4500 So., Ste. 302, SLC. Mainstream psychiatry and psychotherapy with complementary and alternative healing (Buddhist psychology, Naikan, Morita, mindfulness training, energy healing, bodywork, shamanic and karmic healing, herbal and nutritional supplementation). Children, adolescents, adults, couples and families are welcome. Training workshops for professionals available. WWW.SHININTEGRATION.COM Stephen Proskauer, MD, Integrative Psychiatry 8/12 801-631-8426. Sanctuary for Healing and Integration, 860 E. 4500 S., Ste. 302. Steve is a seasoned psychiatrist, Zen priest and shamanic healer. He sees kids, teens, adults, couples and families, integrating psychotherapy, meditation and soul work with judicious use of medication to relieve emotional pain and problem behavior. Steve specializes in creative treatment of bipolar disorders. STEVE@KARMASHRINK.COM. Blog: WWW.KARMASHRINK.COM Steve Seliger, LMFT 6/12 801-661-7697. 1104 E. Ashton Ave. (2310 S.) #203. Specializing in helping people develop healthy loving relationships, conflict resolution for couples, developing powerful communication skills, resolving parent-teen conflicts, depression, phobias, ending & recovering from abuse, conflicts & issues related to sexuality & libido in men & women, sexual orientation issues. Daniel Sternberg, PhD, Psychologist 801-364-2779. 150 South 600 East, Bldg.

4B. Fax: 801-364-3336. Sensitive use of rapid release methods and EMDR to free you from unwanted emotions to allow you more effective control and happiness in your life. Individuals, couples, families, groups and businesses. Treatment of trauma, post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety, tension, stress-related difficulties abuse and depression. 1/12

Jim Struve, LCSW 11/11 801-364-5700 Ext 1. 1399 S. 700 E., Ste. 2, SLC. Mindful presence in relationship based psychotherapy. Specializing in life transitions, strengthening relationships, fostering resilience, healing from childhood trauma & neglect (including male survivors of sexual abuse), assisting partners of abuse survivors, addictions recovery, sexual identity, empowerment for GLBT individuals/ couples. Individual, couples, group therapy. Flexible times. WWW.MINDFULPRESENCE.COM SHAMANIC PRACTICE The Infinite Within 10/12 John Knowlton. 801-263-3838. WWW.THEINFINITEWITHIN.COM 6/12

Sarah Sifers, Ph.D., LCSW, Shamanic Practitioner, Minister of the Circle of the Sacred Earth 3/12 801-531-8051. Shamanic Counseling. Shamanic Healing. Mentoring for people called to the Shaman’s Path. Explore health or mental health issues using the ways of the shaman. Sarah’s extensive training includes shamanic extraction healing, soul retrieval healing, psychopomp work for death and dying, shamanic counseling and shamanic divination. Sarah has studied with Cel tic, Brazilian, Tuvan, Mongolian, Tibetan and Nepali Shamans. Naomi Silverstone, DSW, LCSW FB 801-209-1095. Psychotherapy and shamanic practice, 989 E. 900 S. #B5. Holistic practice integrates traditional and nontraditional approaches to health, healing, and balance or “ayni.” Access new perceptual lenses as you reanimate your relationship with nature. Shamanic practice in the Inka tradition. FB

RETAIL GROCERIES, SPECIALTY FOODS, KITCHEN SUPPLIES Beer Nut. 1200 S State St, 801.531.8182, BEERNUT.COM. FB Cali’s Natural Foods. 389 W 1700 S, 801.483.2254, CALISNATURALFOODS.COM. FB Omni Blender. 801.623.3225. WWW.3BLENDERS.COM. FB GIFTS & TREASURES Arts of the World Gallery 2/12 802 S 600 E, 532-8035. Traditional and indigenous global treasures and gifts. We offer a distinctive variety and nice quality home decor, jewelry, statues, masks, personal accessories and textiles. Handpicked products that showcase the beautiful and creative talents of artists worldwide. Our mission is to connect

these artists with the larger world community. Hours Tues-Thurs 12:00- 5:30, Fri-Sat 11:006:00. Blue Boutique. WWW.BLUEBOUTIQUE.COM FB Cosmic Spiral 10/12 920 E 900 S, SLC. 801-509-1043 Mystical, musical and metaphysical gifts and resources for every persuasion—in an atmosphere that soothes your spirit. Psychic, Tarot and astrology readings, events and classes. Singing bowls, drums, flutes, incense, books, jewelry, cards and smiles. Open noon-6:30 p.m, Monday thru Saturday (and 11-5 Sun. through holidays). Dancing Cranes. 673 E Simpson Ave, 801.486.1129, DANCINGCRANESIMPORTS.COM FB Golden Braid Books. 801-322-1162. 151 S 500 E, GOLDENBRAIDBOOKS.COM FB Healing Mountain Crystal Co. FB 363 S. 500 E. #210, SLC. 800-811-0468, HEALINGMOUNTAIN.ORG. Ten Thousand Villages. 1941 S 1100 E, 801.485.8827, VILLAGESUTAH.ORG FB RESALE/FURNITURE, ACCESSORIES Elemente 11/12 353 W Pierpont Avenue, 801-355-7400. M-F 12-6, Sat. 12-5, Gallery Stroll every 3rd Friday 3-9. We feature second-hand furniture, art and accessories to evoke passion and embellish any room or mood with comfort and style. You're invited to browse, sit a spell, or sell your furniture with us. Layaway is available. A haven for the discriminating shopper since 1988. RESALE/CLOTHING Plus Size Consignment 801-268-3700. 4700 S. 9th East. * Sizes 146X.* New & nearly new CURVY GIRL clothing . As your body changes, change your clothes! * BUY * SELL * TRADE * RECYCLE. *Earn $$$$$ for your Clothes * Not for Bony Butt Broads * Designer accessories and shoes for all* WWW.PLUSSIZECONSIGNMENT.VPWEB.COM

Eckankar in Utah 12/12 801-542-8070. 8105 S 700 E, Sandy. Eckankar is ancient wisdom for today. Explore past lives, dreams, and soul travel to see how to lead a happy, balanced and productive life, and put daily concerns into loving perspective. Worship Service and classes on Sundays at 10:30am. WWW.ECKANKAR-UTAH.ORG

Inner Light Center Spiritual Community

801-268-1137. 4408 S. 500 E., SLC. An interspiritual sanctuary that goes beyond religion into mystical realms. Access inner wisdom, deepen divine connection, enjoy an accepting, friendly community. Events & classes. Sunday celebration & children’s church 10am. INNERLIGHTCENTER.NET

Urgyen Samten Ling Gonpa Tibetan Buddhist Temple 8/12

801-328-4629. 740 S. 300 W. Urgyen Samten Ling Gonpa offers an open environment for the study, contemplation, and practice of Tibetan Buddhist teachings. The community is welcome to our Sunday service (puja), group practices, meditation classes and introductory courses. WWW.URGYENSAMTENLING.ORG

ORGANIZATIONS All Saints Episcopal Church. 801.581.0380. Foothill Dr. at 17th S. WWW.ALLSAINTSSLC.ORG.

The Power of the Integral Approach March 25 – April 1, 2012, SLC, UT In this workshop, you will learn how to:

Diane is one of the most skilled, gifted and compassionate facilitators I know. It’s a deep joy to work with her, and to experience her brilliance. Swami Sally Kempton

• Use the Integral Map as a navigational tool in meetings and collaborations. • Learn what it means to be neutral and unbiased. • Learn to deal with conflict, shadow, power politics, and everything that makes being a facilitator so challenging. • Develop sitting meditation as the basis of wakefulness and responsive presence in a room. For more information and to register: www.bouldermountainzendo.org Questions? Please contact Dori Them at: admin@bouldermountainzendo.org. Scholarships available.

Xuanfa Dharma Center of Utah 1/12 801-532-4833 Gesang Suolang Rinpoche 161 M St., SLC. A learning and practice center for Vajrayana (Tibetan) Buddhism. Our practice emphasizes liberation and the path of the Bodhisattva. Classes Sundays at 10:30 a.m. WWW.XUANFAUTAH.ORG INSTRUCTION

Boulder Mountain Zendo. 230 S. 500 W., #155, SLC. 801.532.4975. WWW.BOULDERMOUNTAINZENDO.ORG New Earth Potentials 4/12

801-231-3702. Kathlyn Collins. Support for the Awakening Human in the New Energy of 2012 and Beyond. Offering retreats, workshops, informal gatherings, individual sessions, and customized retreats for you and your friends or spiritual group. KATHLYN@THEGARDENINGCOACH.NET. NEWEARTHPOTENTIALS.COM

Vedic Harmony 3/12

SPIRITUAL PRACTICE

Masterful Facilitation Skills

942-5876. Georgia Clark, certified Deepak Chopra Center educator. Learn how Ayurveda can help you harmonize your lifestyle and well being. Primordial sound meditation, creating health workshops, Ayurvedic wellness counseling, Ayurvedic oils, teas and books, Jyotish (vedic astrology). Georgia has trained in the US and India. TARAJAGA@EARTHLINK.NET

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D AY B Y D AY IN THE HOME,GARDEN & SKY

January BY DIANE OLSON

JANUARY 1 NEW YEAR’S DAY. The Sun rises at 7:51 a.m. today and sets at 5:10 p.m. The average maximum temperature in Utah this month is 37°; the average minimum 21°. The average snowfall is 13.8”. JANUARY 2 Look for the waxing Moon next to Jupiter tonight. Jupiter’s moon Ganymede is the largest planetary moon and is the only moon in the solar system known to have its own magnetic field. JANUARY 3 January is National Garden Mail Order Month. I’m a long-time fan of Seeds of Change ( WWW.SEEDSOFCHANGE.COM); Peaceful Valley (WWW.GROWORGANIC.COM); and just discovered High Mowing Seeds (WWW.HIGHMOWINGSEEDS.COM). JANUARY 4 Earth reaches perihelion, its closest annual position to the Sun today. During winter, the lower altitude of the Sun means its light hits our hemisphere at an oblique angle, causing the atmosphere to dissipate the heat.

et. It’s about 600 light-years away, orbits a star much like our Sun, has a similar greenhouse effect, and an average surface temperature of 72 degrees. JANUARY 7 Shake the winter blues with a walk outside, whatever the weather. Or go ice skating, snowshoeing or crosscountry skiing tonight under the nearly full moon. JANUARY 8 FULL WOLF MOON. This is the perfect time to notice how different trees grow to give their leaves the maximum amount of sunlight. Some, like pines, spruces and firs, are conical and pointed, so the upper branches don’t block the lower. Others, like oaks, maples and elms have long, spreading branches combined with short, leaf-covered twigs that fill the spaces between branches.

a fellow rat trapped in its cage, the majority of rats (females more than males) chose to first lend a paw, then shared the treat. JANUARY 13 The sodium chloride and other salts found in most ice melt is bad for pets, plants and the water table. Try Safe Paw Ice Melter or just spread sand for traction. JANUARY 14 Perk things up around the yard by setting out different types of bird food to see who shows up. Try saltfree peanuts, suet, fruit, greens, sweet potato skins, bread and pastries. JANUARY 15 If you haven’t been to the new Utah Museum of Natural History, go. Now. It’s open on Sundays until 5 p.m. JANUARY 16 LAST QUARTER MOON. The Moon hangs out with Saturn tonight. JANUARY 17 Snow actually insulates plants and keeps soil from repeatedly freezing and thawing, which can heave plants right out of the ground. Toss extra snow over flower beds or shrubs, as long as it doesn ’t contain chemical deicers. JANUARY 18 A bird irruption is an irregular winter migration that occurs when bird populations can’t be supported in their natural winter range, due to food shortages, harsh weather or overpopulation. Birders along the Wasatch Front have been thrilled by the appearance of snowy owls this winter; past years have brought Bohemian waxwings, northern shrikes, boreal owls, and red-breasted- and white-breasted nuthatches. JANUARY 19 African violets love Epsom salts. Add a pinch every other time you water them.

JANUARY 5 Keeping track of what’s happening in the natural world helps keep you grounded and in touch with the big picture. (That’s why you’re reading this column, right?) Officially, it’s called phenology, which is defined as the study of the timing of the biological events in plants and animals such as leafing, flowering, reproduction, hibernation and migration. Want to become a phenologist? Start a garden journal or blog o r join Project Budburst. WWW.NEONINC.ORG/BUDBURST

JANUARY 9 Keep an eye on your pond if you have overwintering fish; make sure a section is always ice -free.

JANUARY 11 Look for bright, sparkly Venus and pale blue Neptune hanging together for the next two nights.

JANUARY 21 If it’s not snowing, you can spread compost or manure over garden beds now. That is, if you can find any to buy.

JANUARY 6 NASA’s Kepler spacecraft has discovered the first potentially habitable plan-

JANUARY 12 Rats are nicer than most people. Given the choice to eat chocolate or free

JANUARY 22 NEW MOON. Porcupines stay active all winter, searching for acorns, twigs,

JANUARY 10 Want to garden year-round— inside? Try windowfarming, a vertical, hydroponic growing system that lets you grow vegetables year-round, in almost any window. WWW.WINDOWFARMS.ORG

JANUARY 20 This is a nice garden blog, with an excellent list of garden catalogs and other resources: AWAYTOGARDEN.COM

and conifer needles, and straddling trees to feed on bark. They sometimes forage in groups of up to 20, which would be a very odd sight. JANUARY 23 Graupel are small pellets of snow that start out as hexagonal or stellar crystals and become coasted with rime as they fall. Graupel generally fall in short, concentrated showers within a snowstorm, and bounce when they hit the ground. JANUARY 24 Firnification occurs when ice crystals melt, then refreeze, greatly increasing the density of the snow pack. JANUARY 25 Raptors to the rescue: City officials in Green Bay, Wisconsin are erecting nesting platforms for kestrels and other birds of prey, in hope that the birds will control the rats and mice plaguing the downtown area. JANUARY 26 Look for Venus by the waxing Moon tonight and tomorrow night. JANUARY 27 Keep an eye out for dock, with its green or redbrown rosettes, growing strong throughout the winter. Though generally considered a weed, dock is actually an herb in the buckwheat family. Some types can be eaten or ground for flour; others contain high levels of tannin and are used in leather tanning or as dye. JANUARY 28 If you’re out late, look for Mars, rising in Leo around midnight. Saturn, in Virgo, rises around 1 a.m. JANUARY 29 If the weather’s clear, now would be a good time to prune grape vines and storm-damaged tree limbs. JANUARY 30 FIRST QUARTER MOON. Fun app: Scats & Tracks of North America ($7.) I was able to determine that yes, it was a raccoon that left its calling card on my deck. JANUARY 31 The Sun rises at 7:39 a.m. today, and sets at 5:45 p.m. Anyone with the ability to see beauty never grows old. —Franz Kafka

Getting back to the gym? Trying to break a bad habit or two? Spirituality and living a meaningful life doesn’t just happen either ... it takes a habit of mindfulness and a community within which to practice. All Saints is a place where you are free to explore the spiritual side of life within a community that practices radical acceptance, intellectual integrity, and a progressive spirituality that is both ancient and post-modern. Make a resolution to better know the Divine and come to All Saints. For more information check out www.allsaintsslc.org Sunday Worship at 8:00 a.m., 9:15 a.m. & 11:15 a.m. Adult programs of inquiry offered regularly on Sunday at 10:20 a.m. Spiritual Education and Formation for Children & Youth offered on Sunday at 9:00 a.m. Infant & Toddler Care offered from 9:00 a.m. - Noon On the corner of Foothill Dr. & 1700 South Learn more at www.allsaintsslc.org or call (801) 581-0380

All Saints Episcopal Church

How about a resolution for your spiritual health?

KINGSBURY HALL PRESENTS “Featuring some of the best songs from the best Broadway shows, all sung by some of the most talented performers working today.” Photo by John Bruno

—KABC, San Francisco

January 19 Peter J. & Michelle B. Morgan

Winner of the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Solo Show and nominated for Outstanding Solo Performance by both the O INNING ITY]! C ARD-WCircle! Drama Desk and the Outer Critics T R E S THE AW [IN

January 20

Celtic

Surprise your valentine with this celebrated Irish performance filled with traditional music and dance this Valentine’s Day!

Nights February 14

An Irish Valentine

George Q. Morris Foundation

“[Goode’s work] does everything good art is supposed to do—touch viewers’ souls and minds—and make them want more.”

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February 25

Performance Group

Photo by RJ Muna

—San Francisco Examiner

This performance contains mature content and themes; it may not be appropriate for all audiences.

Sorenson Legacy Foundation

Tickets: 801-581-7100 | www.kingtix.com U of U Discounts Available

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