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BY DENNIS HINKAMP dyslexic illiterate way so that what I thought they were thinking actually is the reverse of what I thought they thought. I can also make people ignore me just by speaking about climate change. I can make automatic doors open automatically just by passing by them; sometimes I don’t even go in. I can make great parking spaces become available just by driving further away from the store. I can find lost things in the last place I look for them and I can lose my sunglasses on top of my head. On a good day I can find my glasses without my glasses and make coffee without drinking coffee first. I can travel faster than the speed of light but only in a dark room. I can find fault in anything and see silver linings for what they really are, duct tape. I can see every typo, but only those written by other people. As for more practical superpowers, I wish I had the power to make everyone see things my way. I wish I could predict the stock market, the weather and the moods of a few certain people. I’d like to see into the future but only about 10 seconds so that I could avoid tripping over things and running into the people whose moods I wish I could predict. I wish I had the power to control my temper when I don’t avoid running into those certain people whose moods I wasn’t able to predict. I wish I had the power to fall asleep immediately and wake up as happy as those people in mattress commercials. I wish I had the power to forget first so that I wouldn’t have to worry about forgiving. ◆ Dennis Hinkamp has the super power of writing this column for at least 26 years; or maybe longer, he forgets.
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BY AMY BRUNVAND My deepest sorrow is for the degradation of the natural world and the corresponding grief that people feel when they lose the places they love. – Trebbe Johnson
Sierra Club: Coal power is costing consumers Sticking with coal-fired power generation is going to cost Utah consumers a lot of extra money according to a new report from the Sierra Club. An analysis of PacifiCorp, the parent corporation of Rocky Mountain Power, compares the cost of continuing to operate existing coal-fired plants versus replacing them with renewable energy. Currently, PacifiCorp owns 24 coal-fired power plants. As they age, the cost of operation goes up. The out-of-state energy market is drying up. The City of Los Angeles plans to stop purchasing coal-fired power from Utah once its current agreement expires in nine years. The State of Oregon is also phasing out coal power. That means Utah, Wyoming and Idaho will have to pay the entire cost to keep old coal plants running. Meanwhile, the cost of renewable energy is coming down to the point where replacing coal with wind and solar would offer significant savings in the long run. The transition to 100% clean energy will require cooperation from Rocky Mountain Power (PacifiCorp) which currently generates about 62% of power using coal. PacifiCorp Coal Unit Valuation Study (2018) BIT.LY/2KUZPAC. Ready for 100% Clean Energy: 2017 Case Study Report (2017) BIT.LY/2LNBJGV
Alton Coal Mine expansion The Trump administration has released a final environmental impact statement (EIS) endorsing the expansion of an open pit coal mine near Bryce Canyon and Zion national parks that environmentalists have opposed since 2004.
Alton Coal Development, LLC, which has operated the Coal Hollow strip-mine since 2009, has a history of violations. Under the expansion proposal, the Alton Coal Tract would strip about 3,581 surface acres and produce an estimated 44.9 million tons of coal over the lifespan of the mine. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, burning one ton of coal generates about 5,720 pounds of carbon dioxide (CO2), the greenhouse gas that is driving global climate change. The EIS states that it is “necessary” for the coal industry to expand into new coal fields even though demand for Utah coal has sharply decreased due to cheap natural gas. A final decision will be announced after August 12, but a letter from the BLM Kanab Field Office quotes Kane County Commissioners gloating about their expectations of jobs and mineral lease royalties. The wholesale destruction of Utah’s landscape is expected to provide about 100 mining jobs.
Coyote hunters are cheating It seems that hunters have been cheating to get a $50 bounty on coyotes offered by the State of Utah. To receive payment, the State requires hunters to turn in a dry or frozen coyote scalp with ears attached, but people have been turning in coyote pelts from roadkill and possibly from out of state. The Utah Division of Wildlife Resource (DWR) has stopped reporting the number of coyotes submitted per person, but 2014 data indicate that while most participants turned in just a few pelts, a relatively few people turned in more than 25 pelts for cash. In May, a couple who had turned in over 200 coyote pelts for the bounty were found to be paying other people to supply them with dead coyotes. The Mule Deer Protection Act, passed by the Utah Legislature in 2012, established a coyote bounty of $50 per animal. The law is based on a premise that paying hunters will reduce the coyote population and increase mule deer herds, but it’s not supported by scientific evidence. In fact, Utah’s mule deer herds are in decline because human activity is impacting deer habitat, not because of excessive predation.
Wildlife biologists say the bounty amounts to a subsidized recreation program for people who shoot animals for fun. Nonetheless, each year $500,000 in public money is set aside to pay for coyote bounties. DWR reports that in 2017, 11,505 coyotes were killed and the State of Utah paid out $575,250 to 1,214 individuals (that works out to $473 per participant). There is a strong connection between bad wildlife laws like the Mule Deer Protection Act and a right-wing movement to privatize public lands and wildlife. For many years, anti-conservation hunting groups like Sportsmen for Fish & Wildlife have been lobbying to change hunting laws in order to give preference to rich trophy hunters. These groups have strong ties to the Trump administration. Don Peay, founder of Sportsmen for Fish & Wildlife, was Trump’s campaign manager in Utah. In May, Peay was appointed by Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke to a newly formed Hunting and Shooting Sports Conservation Council, an advisory group with a mission to “expand access to hunting and shooting sports on public and private lands.” This group is heavily stacked with trophy hunters and is behind an effort to expand hunting in national wildlife refuges, including the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge in northern Utah.
Mining begins in Grand Staircase Escalante A Canadian mining company called Glacier Lake Resources, Inc. has announced that it will begin exploration for an underground mine on 200 acres that were formerly inside the boundaries of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. In a press release the company boasted that the area “recently became open for staking and exploration after a 21 year period moratorium, due to the reduction of the ‘Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument’ [sic quotation marks] by President Trump in December 2017.” The mining claim is located on Colt Mesa near Boulder, Utah and retains impacts from mining in the 1970s. Groups working to block mining include the Wilderness Society, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance and Grand Staircase Escalante Partners.
A lawsuit to restore the original boundaries of Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument is still pending. In the meantime, Representative Chris Stewart (R-UT-2) has introduced the misleadingly named “Grand Staircase Escalante Enhancement Act,” a bill to create a small national park instead of a large national monument. If Stewart’s bill were to become law, the Trump boundaries would be permanent and it would be difficult to stop industrial development inside the original national monument boundaries. Grand Staircase Escalante Partners: GSENM.ORG
Conservation groups oppose Estonian company’s expansion of its Utah oil shale strip mine A coalition of environmental groups has come out in opposition to a massive expansion of oil-shale strip mining in the Uinta Basin. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has issued a Final Environmental Impact Statement that would allow rights-of-way for the Enefit American Oil Utility Project, a corridor of natural gas pipelines, water lines, power lines and roads to supply proposed mines. The proposed expansion of mining would remove up to 100 billion gallons of water from the already over-allocated Colorado River basin during the next 30 years. It would increase air pollution in an area that already violates federal air quality standards. Oil shale refining emits nearly 40% more carbon dioxide per unit of energy than conventional oil. Enefit (an Estonian company) claims they
Not enough Colorado River water The Upper Colorado River Commission has ended the System Conservation Pilot Program that paid farmers for water conservation. At the end of June 2018, Lake Powell was 52.45% full with the water surface at an elevation of 3,610.27 feet—89.73 feet below full pool. At 3,370 feet, Glen Canyon Dam would reach a state called “dead pool” with too little water to generate hydropower and not enough water to meet the rights of lower basin states Arizona, California and Nevada. corridor would have little additional environmental impact due to the fact that it would supposedly not impact the scope of mining. The circular logic seems to be an effort to avoid environmental review of the project. In Canada, cancer clusters have developed among people who live downwind of oil and tar sands mining. Groups opposing the Enefit permit are Earthjustice, Grand Canyon Trust, Waterkeeper Alliance, Living Rivers, Sierra Club, Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment, Center for Biological Diversity, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance and the Natural Resources Defense Council.
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will expand mining even without the permit, but has refused to supply any information to support that claim. Nonetheless, BLM concluded that the utility
The proposed expansion of mining would remove up to 100 billion gallons of water from the already over-allocated Colorado River basin during the next 30 years.
In July Scott Pruitt, the head of Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency resigned in disgrace due to ethics scandals. Before he left he gave a gift to Utah’s oil industry: an exemption from air quality regulations. Rob Bishop (R-UT1) had been pushing for air quality deregulation in order to “streamline” oil and gas permits. The air pollution will affect portions of the Uintah and Ouray Indian Reservation.
Senator Lee advocates “homesteading” public lands It seems that rural people are catching on that privatization of public lands would mostly benefit corporations and rich people. In an online presentation to the right-wing Sutherland Institute, Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) advocated eliminating federal public lands and opening them up to homesteading. Lee described public lands inaccurately as “the fed-
eral government’s ‘royal forest,’” and “off limits to development of any kind.” In fact, federal lands are open to leasing for grazing, logging, mining and oil and gas development. The public uses federal lands for recreation, hunting and fishing. The idea of privatizing public lands through homesteading seems to have originated in a network of right-wing think tanks financed by the billionaire Koch Brothers. It was proposed in February on Free Range Report, a phony “grassroots” anti-federalist website that often published posts written by Koch-affiliated authors. The author of the homesteading proposal is a board member of the Heartland Institute, a right-wing think tank best known for climate change denial. Mike Lee often posts links to Free Range Report on his social media pages. In his proposal Lee emphasized that homesteaders were ordinary people, not corporate elites. What he didn’t mention is that the Homestead Act started a brutal land grab and displaced Native American tribes. What’s more, most homesteaders failed and their family farms have been consolidated into industrialscale farms.
Nature Conservancy poll: A poll taken by the Nature Conservancy in February found that Utah voters rated a number of environmental problems in Utah as “extremely” or “very” serious including lack of snow (70%), air pollution (67%), water supply (65%), drought (53%), water pollution (52%) and wildfires (50%). Nature Conservancy Utah Voter Survey: BIT.LY/2NP4M0K
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A tale of two trolls
Strange things you see at the Coffee Garden
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fter reading a murder of mysteries by Agatha Christie, Graham Greene and Raymond Chandler recently, I've taken a sleuthsome turn myself. It's interesting, what turns up if you pay attention. I've been wondering what the Russian trolls that threw the 2016 election to Donald Trump are like. Reading accounts of the Internet Research Agency's St. Petersburg operation, where an office full of Russian trolls spent the run-up to the 2016 election blogging and pushing as many people's buttons on as much social media as possible in a cacophonic symphony of support for the things that would get Donald Trump elected, I imagined plump, pasty-faced, ex-junior-level Soviet bureaucrats. One Friday afternoon last month I was at the Coffee Garden, post-Agatha Christie, post-antigravity treatment (a nap), sipping my anti-antigravity treatment (an iced Americano). As my eyes focused, I looked up to see two Russian trolls at the next table. No! Really! I didn't believe it at first. They weren't actually too trollish. A little more Russian than you or me. Like Steve Buscemi as a youngish Nikita Khrushchev in The Death of Stalin rather than Vladimir Putin. They interspersed their slightly accented English with “da” a lot and sat facing each other over late-model 15” Mac laptops opened to what appeared to be chat rooms.
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What really caught my attention was a headline reading “Current Elections” that flashed on the screen of the troll at the screen next to me. (Poor trollcraft!) He was following threads and posting comments. That's not an uncommon activity at the Coffee Garden, but these boys were going at it with a particular industriousness. The reason for their industriousness became apparent later that afternoon when I read that the Justice Department had just indicted 10 Russian intelligence officers on charges of conspiring to hack the Democrats during the 2016 campaign. The trolls were probably under orders (though good trolls don't need orders) to put their fingers on the scales of public opinion by posting on as many alt-reality web sites/forums as possible. In spying/propaganda/politics, one of the most important roles is an “agent of influence,” traditionally highly placed in society, government or the media. The internet has made agents of “mass media influence” possible. They don't need to be highly placed. They just have to have access to as many mass media accounts/forums/threads as they can juggle. According to Wiki, “Agents of influence are often the most difficult agents to detect, as there is seldom material evidence that connects them with a foreign power....
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“Most commonly they serve the interests of a foreign power in one of three ways: either as a controlled agent directly recruited and controlled by a foreign power; as a ‘trusted contact’ that consciously collaborates to advance foreign interests but are not directly recruited or controlled by a foreign power; or as a ‘useful idiot’ that is completely unaware of how their actions further the interests of a foreign power.” I would guess that these boys weren't “useful idiots” like Trump's 400-lb. teenager in New Jersey or alt-right fellow travelers but rather “trusted contacts”—Russian nationals living the good life in America. If the new Tesla I saw them drive off in is any indication,they are living much better than their fellow workers in St. Petersburg. How many Russian trolls are there? During the Cold War, the Soviet Union had thousands of undercover agents in the western democracies. At the end of the cold war they may have all packed up and gone home. More likely they were so comfortably embedded that they stayed here and went back to work when Putin and mother Russia needed them. Could thousands of Russian trolls be responsible for all the illicit internet traffic muddying social media? By illicit, I mean “fake” as in fake Facebook members, fake Facebook members’ “likes” and the like. Virtually all the big internet presences have had to adjust their inflated growth “numbers” downward as they finally admit the extent to which trolls, bots and spam make up their traffic. All of this fake internet traffic is as much a danger to our democracies as it is to the bottom line of companies like Facebook and Google. ◆ John deJong is associate publisher of CATALYST.
EDITOR’S NOTEBOOK I met Arthur Spanjar one snowy Wisconsin morning in 1972, a month before my 21st birthday. I was on my way to Nick’s restaurant, where I had the noon shift between classes. The humid cold didn’t faze me, as I was protected by my mom’s 1920s preDepression era muskrat fur coat. A man, equally warm in a monstrously shaggy hide of a coat (it was buffalo), fell in step beside me. His face was barely visible, what with the coat, a mess of curls on his head and a massive handlebar mustache. Our coats struck up a conversation. Probably about the weather. And thus was the beginning of many adventures. At 16 years my senior, Jewish and Dutch-born, Arthur Spanjar was unlike anyone I’d ever known. As a four year old, he experienced World War II from under the floorboards of a stranger’s farmhouse, emerging two years later to find his brother and parents alive but his town decimated. He migrated to Madison, Wisconsin where ran the Campus Bike Shop (located next to Nick’s), offering Madison’s first imports as well as pro-
viding watch repair-level exactitude in caring for all bikes. Arthur loved old mechanical toys. His modest house was crammed with them, along with music boxes and fine old furniture. A warehousesized shed in the back held more mysteries, from mannequins to early automobiles. He found me my first car: a 1949 Dodge sports coupe. He took an interest in my studies. We drove to Mexico. I learned to bake Dutch treats. He drove me to the airport when I moved to Utah, and flew here eight years later for my wedding. He met the love of his life, Candice, and they shared a life of love until, two weeks ago, Arthur suffered a massive stroke and died. He was 81 years old. As my wise friend Kate put it: When an old friend dies, one with whom you’ve shared so many unique experiences, it’s like a part of you has fallen into the ocean. You are the sole keeper of those memories. Rest in peace, my friend. And thank you for the love and respect we shared. Greta deJong is editor and publisher of CATALYST.
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Arthur and me Remembering a friend who showed me a bigger world
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FEATURE
Beyond a shadow of a drought Range Creek’s cautionary tale BY MAYA SILVER
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hy did several Southwestern indigenous tribes disappear by the end of the 13th century? This is a mystery archaeologists have been trying to solve for decades. And at Range Creek, an active archaeological site in southeastern Utah, the question of what happened to the Fremont people specifically has dictated research every summer since 2003. According to the radiocarbon record, the first evidence of Fremonts living in Range Creek appears around 400 CE in the form of a basket. Archaeological findings indicate that civilization here peaked around 1050. But by 1200, all material marks of people vanish.
The rule of water The lead detective unraveling this enigma is Duncan Metcalfe, an anthropology professor at the University of Utah and chief curator of the Utah Museum of Natural History, where I first met him. He led me through a series of sterile white hallways, past dinosaur bones and framed maps, to his book-filled office. A stocky older man with a shock of white hair and glasses, Metcalfe shared with me his theory about the disappearance of the Fremont. Clues abound, but it boils down to one wellfounded observation: “Moisture runs everything in the West.” The road to Range Creek
Duncan Metcalfe
And out West, during the 12th and 13th centuries, moisture was scarce. According to analysis of tree rings in the area, a severe drought occurred during a summer between 11351180. About a century later, an even longer drought struck the West. The tree ring record shows that this coincided with the biggest mega-drought on record in the United States, which was part of a four-century dry run that endured until around 1300. All this aridity would have spelled disaster for the Fremont in Range Creek. When the eponymous creek dried up, they would have lacked sufficient water to grow enough food to support their growing numbers. Families would have had to depend more on hunting and gathering to survive. Eventually, they might have been forced to consider a more drastic course of action. Simply put, when
water supplies drew thin, the alternative would be to leave. But before the Fremont left, Metcalfe thinks they may have fought over water and food. He has discovered signs of conflict coinciding with the drought, such as defensive towers and granaries hidden high up in sandstone crags, now only accessible using rock climbing equipment. Some Fremont began to inhabit the cliffs overlooking the canyon. This decision may have signified a shift from defensive to offensive posture—and a desperate one at that, since living so high up would also mean living a long, steep hike away from whatever water remained. Yet paleoclimatologists are hesitant to fully chalk migration up to a drought or any environmental change. Eyes squinted in a smile, Metcalfe warned me against relying too heavily on environmental determinism—or, in other words, using the environment as the sole explanation for human behavior. But scientists do acknowledge the complex push-and-pull factors that a drought may cause. Namely, increased tensions over water and food might have pushed people to move, while the lure of more water to the north or south could have pulled people elsewhere. When I learned about this historical nexus of drought, conflict, and migration, I couldn’t help but wonder: Could the case of the Fremont in Range Creek serve as a cautionary tale for us out West as we face drought caused by climate change?
Whiskey’s for drinking, water’s for fighting As a former Coloradoan and current Utahn, I’m all too familiar with this Western gallows humor. If the Fremont had access to grain spirits, they may have invented a similar maxim once Range Creek began to dry up. We, the residents of the Southwestern United States, live in a region where water supplies were recorded and allocated in the early 1900s—during what we now know were un-
Range Creek
usually wet years. This has led us to buy into what is called the Garden Myth of the Great Plains, a region of abundance. However, we Utahns live in the driest state in the nation after Nevada. Will our arid environment one day force us to leave just as the Fremont likely did? Metcalfe suggests that we might indeed be able to use the past to predict the future. Even if drought doesn’t spark an exodus from the parched Southwest, it will radically change the lives of all who call it home. Eventually, southern Utah—like Nevada, Arizona and many other dry places—could reach a point where it can no longer support today’s population levels. In northeastern Utah where I live, lack of winter precipitation could spell the eventual demise of the ski industry, which plays a key role in the region’s economy. That less snow and more wildfires lie in the destiny of the American West should come as no surprise to residents of the region. We’re already complaining about the lack of snow as rocks scratch up our skis and plotting exorbitant water projects so we can play another 18 holes in the desert, as beetles infiltrate forests, which then combust in wildfires that destroy homes. The authors of a recent U.S. Global Change Research Program report declare that “the Southwest is already experiencing the impacts of climate change.”
Two (or three, or four) views The question is whether some combination of climate change mitigation, technology and
smart planning will allow us to avoid the outcomes that drought spelled for the Fremont— namely, conflict and migration. The answer depends on many factors, from timing and foresight to our ability to engineer our way out of water scarcity. The latter is a question that a 2014 Utah Foundation report takes to task. In “Flowing Toward 2050,” the Foundation explains that state views on water supply boil down to two.
We plot controversial water projects like the Lake Powell Pipeline and damming the Bear River when 82% of Utah’s water goes to alfalfa for cows. The first: There’s plenty of water to go around! With a little conservation and efficiency, we’ll be fine. The second is that a troubling gap will soon exist between supply and demand—one that will need to be filled by new water projects. This is the viewpoint overwhelmingly held by the water districts and the Division of Water Resources. But what if there comes a time when reduced water supply caused by climate change, coupled with a growing state population,
means there just isn’t enough water to go around, period? I asked Utah Foundation research analyst Christopher Collard if his organization acknowledges this possible scenario. “There probably are hard limits but our position is that we’re not there yet,” he said. The possibility of demand surmounting supply in Utah grows when we consider climate change and its projected impacts for the Southwest. Yet the phrase “climate change” doesn’t even make a cameo in the Utah Foundation’s report on water. Collard noted that while he was not around to personally work on the report, he suspected that it was because the Foundation values itself “as an independent nonpartisan voice” and therefore “avoids charged language.” Then there’s the elephant—or rather, the cow—in the room, which is who’s consuming most of our water here in Utah. It’s not so much our growing body of citizens, but agriculture, which guzzles an astounding 82% of our state’s water. The water pouring into Utah agriculture is mostly used to grow alfalfa (commonly used as animal feed) and to raise livestock. So, why are we spending time on public awareness campaigns to help urban Utahns reduce their relatively modest water use when it amounts to so little? Simply stated, water rights stretch back many decades and aren’t easily pried from the hands of ranchers— or anyone else, for that matter.
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Thus, we carry on, plotting controversial projects like damming the Bear River or the Lake Powell Pipeline. The alternative, of course, is recognizing that our hard limits here in Utah might be more imminent than we think.
When the creek’s flow slows Since my first meeting with Duncan Metcalfe at the Utah Museum of Natural History, I couldn’t shake the idea that Range Creek held a powerful lesson for today’s inhabitants of the Southwest, myself included. So, when he asked if I’d be interested in visiting Range Creek, I immediately accepted his invitation and began planning a three-day trip in light of the long journey involved. From Salt Lake City, I drove a couple hours southeast to Price, where I met Metcalfe, his wife (who is also the field station cook), and his dogs in the parking lot outside Lin’s Market, the unofficial Range Creek fuel-up stop. Shortly after, vans arrived with Dr. Shannon Arnold
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Boomgarden and the summer cohort of undergrad and PhD students. With long braided auburn hair and rainbow socks up to her knees, Boomgarden initially had me thinking she was a student. But I soon learned she was the assistant director of Range Creek and an anthropology professor at the University of Utah. We loaded up several large coolers’ worth of food and floored it southeast on Route 6, then turned toward the Book Cliffs onto Route 123. Finally, we hopped on the path that would carry us all the way to our destination: Range Creek Road. It’s only a 16-mile journey, but feels far longer. The incline builds and builds until the route devolves into a series of steep switchbacks snaking around blind corners that dispel clouds of red dust when tires round them. On the other side of the narrow road was a precipitous descent into the valley below that I tried to put out of mind. We eventually began a descent down more switchbacks. Finally, Range Creek Road flattened, transforming into a narrow path of tire-sucking sand. A few miles later, the canyon opened up, as if two hands pried apart its tawny walls to make room for trees and thicker vegetation. This difficult access to Range Creek—and historically private ownership of much of it by cattle ranchers—is what makes the area such an archaeological gem: It’s been relatively untouched across centuries. Here, Metcalfe,
Boomgarden and their students attempt to uncover the story of the Fremont. The traditional way to do this is by excavation. Every summer, students wander uncharted hills in heavy heat surveying for signs of ancient humans. On any given summer, somewhere between six and a dozen new sites are discovered. During my visit, a group of students was beginning to triangulate Mojo, one of 484-and-counting established sites. This is indeed what most of us picture when we think of archaeologists at work: a careful eye trained to the ground in search of arrowheads; roped-off sites filled with khaki-clad experts armed with spades and brushes. But since 2013, researchers at Range Creek have also been carrying out a less traditional form of archaeology. The idea is to replicate the behavior of the people who left the artifacts in the first place. Specifically, Boomgarden has been leading an ongoing study designed to identify the costs and benefits of the intensive irrigation required to grow food in such a dry place. Another clue to the past? The creek itself, which supported life here in this valley. Every summer, researchers take careful measurements of Range Creek to better understand it. As Metcalfe explained to me: “Hydrology is incredibly important to unlocking the secrets of this place.”
Water supplies have all but dried up in many rural areas of the middle east causing populations to increasingly burden the burgeoning cities. Carrying water is the daily task for many women and children covering long distances.
The art of imitation
Range Creek research station
When I accompanied archaeology PhD student Liz Baldwin and two undergraduates into the field, we spent half a day gathering data about Range Creek, wading into shin-numbing 50-degree water to measure depth, width and flow rate at several different points. It’s unglamorous and tedious work, but valuable. For the first time since this research began in 2003, Range Creek has dried up in several places. Instead of monitoring water depth and creek flow rate, students are documenting these dry sections. For the Fremont, the decline of Range Creek would have meant insufficient water for irrigation, sending farming to “hell in a hand basket,” as Metcalfe puts it. Hunting and gathering would also have been affected as wild berries and seeds suffered under heat and aridity and deer populations declined. The question is whether drought and its army of impacts really did lead to fighting over dwindling resources and, ultimately, an exodus.
The Fremont of the 21st century While the west is already mired in recurring droughts, the situation is not nearly as dire as it is elsewhere in the world. In 2011, the International Organization for Migration found that one in 10 adults worldwide “expect to move” for environmental reasons. The regions where most of these migrants are expected to emigrate from? Chad, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, and sub-Saharan Africa. By 2071, scientists caution, climate change could cause levels of heat that make many places in the Middle East—like Dubai and Qatar—completely uninhabitable. Imagine year after year after year of little to no rain. An inability to irrigate the crops upon which you depend. A gnawing insecurity over
access to drinking water. These are the threats the world’s dry places face, and the threats that can cause the sociocultural changes that Metcalfe and his team suspect the Fremont underwent. Some link the war in Syria, for example, to a historic drought that forced people from rural areas to cities, where tensions grew. The Nagapattinam district of southern India is another such dry place, where thousands of farmers have committed suicide and many more have abandoned farming and moved. Heat, drought and other factors have devastated agriculture in that area. While drought in the Southwest has yet to devastate us in such tragic ways, it is already threatening people’s homes and livelihoods. As I write, the Dollar Ridge Fire is raging across nearly 50,000 acres in northeastern Utah, swallowing up homes in its path. Across the entire Wasatch, smoke blurs the horizon and makes for ironically beautiful sunsets. On the other end of a lean snow year across the Southwest, this is just one of many wildfires devastating the region. What’s most troubling is that we’re not in an anomalous year. According to NASA, in less than 100 years the Southwest will have a 99% chance of experiencing decades-long droughts. Meanwhile, in Range Creek, things are already beginning to resemble the arid reality that set in for the Fremont. “This is one of the driest years in my 16 years of working in the canyon,” Boomgarden wrote to me from the field. This doesn’t just affect Range Creek’s flow or the rainfall that provides natural irrigation for farming. “The grasshoppers are so bad this year that our plots are taking a huge hit,” Boomgarden says. “This is likely due to the warm, dry winter.” Examples of how drought impacts societies are playing out around the globe. Meanwhile, voices from our own land’s past call out to us.
After we wrapped up our creek measurements, the archaeology students and I drove in a dust-coated Jeep to a plot of maize. Our goal was to water it by constructing a temporary irrigation ditch. First, we had to remove a small dam the students had built several weeks ago to allow water to flow into a shallow trench leading to the plot some 50 feet away. The next task—“desilting” the trench, which basically meant scraping away wet sand with sticks and our hands until we’d forged a ditch deep enough for water to run through. Shovels, of course, would have made this much easier. But that would defeat the point, which was to do as the Fremont likely did. “We’re trying to live like they did to understand them,” Baldwin explained. Once the water flowed through the ditch connecting the creek and the maize plot, we had to coax it toward each individual plant. We gingerly navigated the field with sticks in hand, scraping pathways for water to reach each stalk. We also removed obstructions, like weeds or small rocks that had fallen into this smaller network of ditches. Once we’d quenched each plant’s thirst, we rebuilt the small dam to close up the irrigation ditch for the day. Our feet cooling off in the creek, we recorded our time in logs. All in all, it took four of us about 30 minutes to complete this task. This means it might take one person about two hours. I can’t help but be reminded of how easy I have it today, strolling into a supermarket to buy a cheap ear of corn, which might end up rotting before I eat it. Or, watering something as useless as a lawn with the simple turn of a knob. This exercise in irrigation makes me wonder whether I’ll bear witness to the end of convenient and abundant water in the West in my lifetime. If I do, I’m glad I’ve learned how to irrigate a field using just sticks and my hands. At the end of the season, Range Creek researchers will use the data from this experiment to draw conclusions about the labor costs involved in irrigation. This is just one of many experimental archaeology projects taking place at Range Creek, with many more planned in the near future. This year, the plot of maize I watered has expanded from 500 square meters to half an acre—which is closer to what a Fremont family might have maintained. The summer 2018 research agenda also includes investigating buried farm fields to collect data on actual prehistoric irrigation. So far, this research has shown that rainfall alone is not enough to grow crops in Range Creek—some supplemental irrigation is indeed necessary. And as we learned
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The biggest mega-drought on record in the United States was part of a four-century dry run that endured until around 1300.
through imitation, irrigation is a time-intensive activity, which would have competed with the many other tasks necessary for survival. What the Range Creek team can’t replicate is the visceral experience of hunger that would come from a dried-up creek and failed crops. When I bike or climb around Utah, it’s not uncommon for a friend or myself to become “hangry”—slang for a hunger so intense it leads to anger. Signs emerge quickly. A hangry person might become quiet, then grow short with his or her peers. Once the experience of hanger is acknowledged, a snack usually nips hunger-induced rage in the bud. But what if hanger persists for days or months, exacerbated by heat and thirst? Could it ultimately lead to real aggression?
Following in Fremont footsteps Somehow, climate change still feels more like a problem of tomorrow, even here in Utah and the greater Southwest. In spite of the impacts we’re already facing, we don’t yet have to worry about a Day Zero for water treatment and delivery in Utah. Yet if we fail to anticipate the day of reckoning for the Southwestern faucet, when it arrives, we will be unprepared. How can the narrative emerging about what happened to the Fremont help us prevent the turmoil that we know can result from drought? I don’t have the answer to this question, but I do know that sometimes pictures can move us in a way that statistics and words can’t.
There’s a certain image from my visit to Range Creek that haunted me long after I left: a petroglyph that spoke more powerfully than any statistic or theory ever could. During a lunch break, PhD student Liz Baldwin led me and a couple others on a short hike through thick brush and over boulders to find a petroglyph site nicknamed Falling Man. We arrived at an overhanging band of red rock, where the Fremont made several drawings that have endured for centuries. Beside white marks resembling a tally and an etching that looked like a fern was a simple drawing in umber of a person upside down. In the context of the drought, conflict and disappearance that lie in the past of this remote canyon, I couldn’t help but feel that this enigmatic image of human disorientation was somehow symbolic of the environmental crises that played out here centuries ago. As the research at Range Creek continues, we’ll learn more about the potential environmental exodus in Utah’s past. We might discover details that can help the current residents of Utah and other dry places avoid conflict and survive, even thrive, in spite of our arid nature and climate change, to boot. What we do know about migration— whether it occurs in 1150 or 2030—is that it’s complex. “Migration is a process,” Metcalfe told me and a group of archaeology students sitting in camp chairs in the shade of a willow tree. “It’s not here today, gone tomorrow. It’s a series of decisions like those we might have to make in our own future.” ◆ Maya Silver writes about food, the environment and other topics and is a writing instructor for the University of Utah’s U.S.-Pakistan Center for Advanced Studies in Water. She lives in Kamas, Utah with her husband, daughter and big white dog.
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GARDEN LIKE A BOSS
Intelligent design Great planning and an eye to innovation reap garden bounty at Frog Bench Farms BY JAMES LOOMIS
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’m a permaculture enthusiast cursed with an English garden aesthetic. The duality doubles down once you factor in my love for gadgetry and technology. Often I find myself in the company individuals of one persuasion or another: barefoot raw vegan naturalists with no email addresses, or tech geeks growing lettuce under lights in shipping containers. However, recently I found myself among two kindred spirits, Paula and Joe Sargetakis, when I visited Frog Bench Farm. Located on the east bench of the Salt Lake Valley, their acreand-a-half urban farm is the definition of forward-thinking ecological stewardship in an urban setting, all done with an eye for design. Those values, coupled with a careful use of space, are apparent the moment one approaches the ornate iron gates at the front entrance. No ordinary gate, the vegetable silhouettes relief-cut into steel rides high above dozens of metal leaf rake heads. The entire property is landscaped with generous amounts of beneficial insect-attracting perennials, native shrubs and medicinal herbs. A permeable concrete driveway interplanted with wooly thyme allows rainwater to infiltrate the soil while also greening and cooling the
While labor intensive, the single-leader vine-trellised method of growing tomatoes produces far and away the most yield per square foot, while also providing maximum support and airflow around the plants.
area. In fact, the careful use of rainwater is a focus at the farm. The farm collects a heroic amount of rainwater from the roof of the residence that sits at the top of the property. Salt Lake City code requires this large volume of water to be stored in tanks located below ground. These storage tanks are housed in a massive concrete room beneath the house. The tanks are accessible and easy to monitor. The impressively clean
and cool room also doubles as the perfect place to grow micro greens. Frog Bench produces a wide variety of micro greens. Rack after rack of trays are pampered with ideal temperatures and lighting. Paula was fond of family stories about her grandma’s farm, long ago located at a corner of Seventh East and Fourth South in Salt Lake City. The idea to start her own urban farm came in 1999 after seeing a show about Community Supported Agriculture (CSA). The CSA is a marketing and sales model common with small farms. CusJOHN DEJONG tomers sign up and pay for a season’s worth of fresh vegetables at the beginning of the season. Then they receive a regular assortment of fresh seasonal produce. This model helps to provide investment at the beginning of the season, when the farmer needs it most, and the customers benefit from a direct relationship with the grower. Knowing where your food comes from is valuable information; being directly involved with where it comes from is priceless.
Rain water storage tanks are beneath the house. The tanks are accessible and easy to monitor.
Once inspired by the concept, it didn’t take much convincing to get her husband Joe on board. They spent the next 10 years researching and planning what was to become Frog Bench Farms. Frog Bench, as it turns out, is not a CSA, but instead provides produce for area restaurants. The careful and calculated design of the farm is nothing short of luxurious. From the large underground vault, we wandered out into a storage room that housed their electric sideby-side ATV which doubles as the farm’s tractor. The entire property is solar powered with a massive array on the roof, and using the electric ATV for muscle when needed helps keep the farm clean and green. We then wandered through one of the most impressive on-farm harvest rooms and kitchens I
have yet to witness. Its purpose, says Paula, is to host classes, to “teach the teachers” about harvesting, preparing and preserving locally grown produce. Then there’s the greenhouse. While most greenhouses in the hot Salt Lake summer sun are nothing short of unbearable mid-summer, Frog Bench maintains theirs like a cool and cozy spring that never goes out of style. Shade cloth is automated overhead to filter out excess solar gain as necessary, and a massive “cool wall” utilizes the power of evaporative cooling to keep tem-
Rack after rack of microgreens are pampered with ideal temperatures and lighting.
peratures low while consuming a minimum amount of power. A thin gauged bug mesh filters all incoming air to keep out unwanted pests. Spinach and arugula relax without an ounce of stress in their greenhouse beds, months after the rest of us kicked their heatstressed assess out of ours. Outside the greenhouse the farm continues with raised beds, outdoor growing areas, another small greenhouse, and the couple’s personal vineyard. The grape vines, trellised high off the ground to access more heat, are high-altitude cold-weather short-season hybrids that bud later and mature earlier than other varieties. Trees cleared to make room for the farm are now “pavers” for pathways and a patio. All around, self-seeding herbs and perennials are allowed to wander. Farm manager Stacy Sembroski keeps things tidy and productive, with early tomatoes cranking out fruit from single leader string-trellised vines in the lower high-tunnel greenhouse. In intensive production, growers commonly plant quite close together and trellis a single “leader,” training it with specialized clips to a piece of twine suspended from an upper support. All other side shoots and “suckers” are pruned off of the plant. While labor intensive, it produces far and away the most yield per square foot, while also providing maximum support and airflow around the plants. The farm is now six years old. Standing next to the almond trees while admiring the chicken coop that I would more aptly describe as a “chicken mansion,” we discussed how exciting it is to be able to share so many ideas with fellow growers. “We’re not open to the public, but when people to come, we hope they find ideas to help them find solutions to whatever problems they face. Every farm is different, every one of them valid. By learning from one another each one only becomes stronger,” Paula said. ◆ James Loomis is the Green Team farm manager for Wasatch Community Gardens.
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ABOUT TOWN
Quirky, quaint and über-local
Sugar House’s Wednesday farmers market comes of age at Fairmont Park
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BY LYNNE OLSON
he first Sugar House Farmers Market opened eight years ago on Monument Plaza, next to the eyecatching Art Decostyle limestone obelisk, erected by the Sugar House Business Men’s League and the City of Salt Lake in 1930. The market has since made a few significant changes, both in terms of location and
A goal for the market is to be as close to zero waste as possible. special events and management. These changes, organizers believe, will promote and strengthen the market’s commitment to community building. When the market was conceived at a meeting of the Sugar House Summit, in 2009, residents and merchants discussed how to address issues of common interest and concern. Foremost was the need to provide high quality, nutritious food at affordable prices to everyone in the community. The group explored four strategies: grow their own food; start community gardens; join a food network or a co-op market; and start
a farmers market. Today, while crafts are sold, food and food products are still the central focus of the Sugar House market. This summer marks the third season of the Sugar House market in historic Fairmont Park. After leaving Monument Plaza, the market was held for a few seasons in the parking lot of the now-closed
Deseret Industries on Highland Dr. At Fairmont, the market has been able to better accommodate the number of people who come out every Wednesday, 5-8pm through September, to take advantage of shopping and entertainment, as well as the growing number of vendors—the market has doubled in size since its first year.
Jamaica Trinnaman, owner of Hello!Bulk Market, is introducing market patrons to the concept of using reusable containers at the market. Shoppers can buy jars and boxes already packed with rice, beans and other bulk items, and purchase produce bags to carry home fresh veggies and fruit from other market sellers. She hopes customers will come back each week and remember their containers. Then they can fill up at her booth with body care and cleaning products, and other bulk grocery store items without using new containers and packaging. In addition to the market, Trinnaman has a retail store in the Square Kitchen warehouse (751 W 800 S) where hundreds more products are available.
What’s the same, what’s different Market Director Natalie McHale says that this year, the Sugar House Market is returning to its original vision by increasing programs and events that empower the customers and vendors through education about local food production and sustainable practices. Another goal for the 2018 market is to be as zero-waste as possible. Organizers are urging patrons and vendors to select reusable or compostable containers and to recycle eating utensils and packaging. They consciously chose vendors who already embrace these practices, who are more ecofriendly, and who are happy to teach by example in order to build
Amy Buchanan, market board president, says they encourage participation from neighborhood growers, small urban farmers and local entrepreneurs. on that culture. For its part, the Market provides a condiment station with seasonings and sauces (vendor products, preferably) and biodegradable eating utensils. There is also a station where patrons and vendors can bring items for recycling. The season's main sponsor, Intermountain LDS Hospital, offers a weekly program to promote healthy eating by engaging kids with interactive activities—tasting, then learning where food comes from. There's a different theme for each activity, and when kids complete the activity, they receive a reward of $2 "produce bucks" to spend at the market. Still, the most impressive lessons come when people visit the booths. Amy Buchanan, president of the Market's Board of Directors, uses the phrase "über-local" to describe the Sugar House Farmers Market, and says they encourage neighborhood growers, small urban farmers and local entrepreneurs to participate. While they prefer natural and organic products, they don't require certification. They ask the farmers to be transparent, and
trust that they are honest and forthright. "It's really up to consumers to educate themselves," Buchanan says. She encourages patrons to ask vendors, "What are your practices, and where does your product come from?" Some vendors are backyard gardeners, and all the crafters and artists are local. "Patrons may find that these are their neighbors, and they establish a relationship with them. "There's a quirkiness, a quaintness to this market," she adds. "Lots of customers come at five and stay until eight, and because it's such an enjoyable place to be, they don't feel too rushed to have these conversations with the farmers." To fulfill their mission to be a community gathering space, the market offers an assortment of free entertainments and activities, making it a date night as well as a night out for families. The new beer garden, sponsored by RoHa Brewing Project, makes it possible to buy a craft beer and enjoy it with a meal or take it along while shopping at the booths. Local musicians perform every week throughout the event. Yoga classes take place northeast of the market, between the stream and the Fairmont Aquatic Center, every week from 6:30-7:30pm. (Bring your own mat.) The market has benefitted from Fairmont Park’s recent renovation, says Buchanan. Now with more communal space and activity centers, market patrons can also enjoy the park’s other attractions—soccer field, pickleball courts, off-leash dog park, a pond (stocked with trout to catch!), skateboard park, improved lighting and new benches. "We have great neighbors at Youth City, the Fairmont
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any of the vendors at Sugar House Market sell at other farmers markets, held on different days, around the valley. If you can’t make it to the Wednesday Sugar House gathering, think about showing up to one of the many other local markets. The Liberty Park Farmers Market—held on Fridays, June through October, 4 PM to dusk — began as the brainchild of the Liberty Wells Community Council last year, and its success guaranteed a comeback this season. Eighty-seven vendors, including farmers, artisans, and local entrepreneurs participated in the Market last year. In 2018, the Market
was approved to accept Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and Electronic Benefit Transfers (EBT), as well as Double Up Food Bucks. Valerie Vaughn, co-chair of the Liberty Park Farmers Market Board, says this Market is special because of their focus on farmers and artisans from the Liberty Wells neighborhood. There are food trucks, fresh produce and bread, and live music. Vaughn says it's a good way to bring neighbors out to start off the weekend. On the third week of each month, the market invites artists from the Salt Lake area to show their paintings, pottery and jew-
Madisen Smith, a nutritional health coach, will lead Learn with a Nutritionist! tours of the market, to illustrate how eating local is good for your health, the environment and the community. Each monthly walk will be followed by a short class at market co-sponsor Natural Grocers about the benefits of eating specific vegetables in season, with samples and recipe ideas. Aquatic Center and the Sugar House Boys & Girls Club.” And one of the best parts of being at Fairmont? Being able to access the market by train and trails. As Buchanan points out, “Being next to the S-Line trolley and Parley's Trail Greenway means people are biking and riding transit as well as walking to Fairmont." And there’s no better way to build community than getting out of our cars. ◆ To see which vendors will be at the Sugar House Market each week, go to HTTP://WWW.SUGARHOUSEFARMERSMARKET.ORG
elry. On select Fridays, children aged 12 and younger can participate in "Market Buds" to meet the farmers, sample their products, and earn tokens to exchange for produce. The program integrates nicely with IHC LDS Hospital's "Produce Bucks" program. Downtown Farmers Market at Historic Pioneer Park, 300 S 300 W, SLC, Saturday 8am-1pm June through October. Downtown Tuesday Market at Historic Pioneer Park, 300 S 300 W, SLC, Tuesday 4pm-dusk August through October. Wheeler Sunday Market at Wheeler Historic Farm 6351 S 900 E, Murray, Sunday 9am-2pm, June through October. Murray Farmers Market at Murray Park, 200 E 5200 S, Murray, Friday and Saturday 9am-5pm,
August through October. Millcreek Community Market at Old Baldwin Radio Factory Artipelago, 3474 S 2300 E, SLC, Thursday 4pm-8pm, July through September. University of Utah Farmers Market at University’s Tanner Plaza, 201 S 1460 E, SLC, Thursday 9am-2pm, August through October. West Jordan Farmers Market at Jordan School District parking lot, 7875 S Redwood Rodd, West Jordan, Tuesday 3-7pm, August through October. People’s Market at International Peace Gardens, 1000 S 900 W, SLC, Sunday 10am-3pm June through October. South Jordan Farmers Market, 10610 S. Redwood Road, South Jordan.
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WOMEN OF WISDOM
An innate passion for fairness and justice drives Salt Lake County’s
BY SOPHIE SILVERSTONE
Earlier this year, CATALYST (a 501(c)(3) nonprofit) received a grant from the Utah Women’s Giving Circle to produce a series of interviews by female Millennial writers with accomplished Utah women whose work through the decades has empowered other women. Each published interview is followed by a “Women of Wisdom” Salon: conversation and refreshments at the CATALYST office with our readers, the interviewee and writer. Meet Rosie Rivera and Sophie Silverstone on August 23, 7-8:30pm at CATALYST (140 S McClelland St.). RSVP required: SOPHIE@CATALYSTMAGAZINE.NET Women of all generations are invited to engage in an ongoing dialogue on the posted article. Join the conversation via Instagram: @catalyst_magazine; Twitter: @catalystmag; Facebook: Facebook.com/CatalystMagazine
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eet Salt Lake County Sheriff Rosie Rivera, Utah’s first female sheriff, and currently the only Latina sheriff in the United States. “I may be the first, but I am not the last,” says Rivera.
In 2017, county Democrats' Central Committee voted on Rivera to take up the position of Jim Winder, who stepped down to assume the position of police chief in Moab. Rivera was one of a group of four other active male law enforcement officers for the position in the vote. In a runoff vote between her and Steve Anjewierden, she secured the vote by 70% in her favor. Rivera always wanted to be a cop. She had an innate passion for fairness and justice, and when something didn’t seem right, she talked to her dad, who had been a Marine. He’d tell her, “Right now, that’s just the way things are. If you don’t like it, change it.” He wanted her to be a lawyer, rather than a cop. After a camping trip where her family called law enforcement on a kid who was causing a disturbance in their camp, her aspirations to change “the way it was” were intensified. Instead of addressing the person causing the disturbance, the cop kicked her family, as well, out of camp. The feeling of experiencing prejudice didn’t sit well with Rivera. “I wrote a letter to the editor, and made a complaint about how we were treated that day.” And she made up her mind to pursue a career in law enforcement. *. *. * Rivera grew up in Layton. She got excellent grades, played on the basketball team and sang in the choir. Her future looked promising, that is, until she got pregnant at the age of 14 with her 15-year-old boyfriend. Her father was furious, and wouldn’t speak with her for months. Fulfilling the expectations of her Catholic Hispanic family, she married her boyfriend and had her first baby. Rivera barely finished the 9th grade after her son was born but did get her GED eventually. “It was really hard to go back to school,” says Rivera, “But I did it. After that, doors kind of opened for me.” While earning her GED, Rivera worked a string of odd jobs. She pulled onions (her first born son playing in the fields as she worked), and was employed at a cotton ball factory, earning less than minimum wage. Her drive for “changing the way it was” only grew day by day. “We were judged, we felt that. People looked at us as migrant workers,” says Rivera. However, her mom is from Colorado and her dad from
Rivera’s family has lived in the Southwest for generations. “My ancestors were here when this was all Mexico,” she says. New Mexico, and their families were in the area long before that. “My ancestors were here when this was all Mexico.” Once she was old enough, she worked various jobs on Hill Air Force Base. She drove a garbage truck, worked on yard crew, and eventually did electrical work on F16’s. She and her husband had two more children and for a time Rivera was a stay-at-home mom. Once the family gained financial stability, Rivera, in her mid-20s, decided it was time to follow her dream. She enrolled in the police academy. It was something she felt she needed to do. Working full time at Hill AFB, attending academy classes in the evenings and spending nights with her mom who was battling cancer, Rivera fought for her dream. Her first job out of the police academy was on the Weber State University Police Department, where she worked in undercover case corrections. She received an award for her work there and was encouraged to come work at the Salt Lake County Sheriff’s Office where there was more opportunity for advancement. She was hired on at Salt Lake County in 1994, one of only nine women in the County Sheriff’s office at the time. It was still optional for female officers to wear skirts. “I can’t imagine doing this job in a skirt,” says Rivera, who respectfully declined that uniform option. Not until a few years ago were dress uniforms offered in women’s sizing. Each stripe on a sleeve signifies every five years of service. Women who have served for a long time often don’t have long enough arms for all the stripes. Rivera, at 5’2” and 55 years old, has served 24 years on the force. “My arm is nothing compared to a man’s arm. But that’s where we’re at,” she says. She shows me a recent photo of her small frame in her boxy dress uniform, next to her two grown sons, who followed in her footsteps—one is a firefighter, and the other just retired from the military. “I look like a little man!” she laughs. Rivera’s time working her way up the ranks have resulted in missed Christmases, Easters, Thanksgivings and birthdays over the years.
“Your family gets used to it. Your family sacrifices a lot,” says Rivera. Bee, her youngest, was still at home when Rivera and her husband divorced after 21 years of marriage. Having a single parent who was working in the metro gang unit at the time was tough for her daughter. “I worked every weekend and went to school the rest of the time,” says Rivera, who was earning her college degree. “She still worries about me.” With two sons in the field, it’s Rivera’s turn to worry. Every now and then she’ll hear on her radio about a fire-related call that her son might be on. The worry factor, and sacrifices by her family were not the only hardships Rivera and her family endured for Rivera’s career in law enforcement. Making enough money to support her three kids was always a challenge. In addition to her police job, Rivera worked part time as security for private events. Eighteen years ago, during one of her side gigs, she met one of her greatest mentors, Jon Huntsman, Sr. They got to know each other, and she says he offered advice and guidance throughout her time working for him was among the first to encourage her to aspire to the County Sheriff’s position. Rivera also looked up to her Uncle Lou, who taught her karate, and her father, of course.
“We do not have to pretend that we are men to be police officers. Because we’re not. We bring different talents to law enforcement.” Now, as Salt Lake County Sheriff, it’s her turn to be the role model. The inside of Rivera’s dress suits have these words custom-sewn into them: ‘To see it is to be it. And to be it, you have to see it.’ She reminds herself that whatever she does is for the next generation to see. “If we’re not good role models, that just sets us back another generation,” she says. “We [women in law enforcement] have fought too hard to get where we’re at right now.” One issue she and other women on the force faced when she first started was the need for female officer role models in rank—those above the entry-level officer, deputy, trooper or corporal position who do not wear a rank insignia on their uniforms—and a place to talk
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about the issues of being female in a male-dominated field. In response, Rivera and nine other women founded Utah Women in Law Enforcement in 2009 to support women in law enforcement through recruitment, career, and leadership development. They provide mentoring, networking, training and education and assure younger women in the profession that they do belong there. “We do not have to pretend that we are men to be police officers. Because we’re not. We bring different talents to law enforcement,” Rivera says. While the Salt Lake City Police Department started in 1851, and
females worked in the administration side, there were no female officers on the force until the 1960s. The number of female officers in the U.S. is climbing, to 13% on a national level (a modest improvement from the 7% of female officers in Utah’s law enforcement in 1992), but is still a strongly maledominated field. Over 20 years of research by the National Center for Women & Policing indicate women officers are less likely to use excessive force (which can cost municipalities millions of dollars in lawsuits) and more likely to use communication skills to diffuse situations on the job. “We communicate. We multi-
Women officers are less likely to use excessive force (which can cost municipalities millions of dollars in lawsuits) and more likely to use communication skills to diffuse situations on the job. task well. We can just be ourselves. We don’t have to look like men,” says Rivera. “Women make great leaders, too, because we’re used to doing it all; going to school, working, taking care of the kids.” Qualities that women are more apt for, and the qualities that Rivera comes by naturally— patience and compassion (she says she gets them from her mother)—have helped in her line of work, she says, especially in situations involving death. Her first experience was the SIDS death of a six-week-old baby. “I’ll never ever forget that. The mom couldn’t have been more than 20 years old.” As watch commander in 2014, she was responsible for an entire area and went on a lot of death calls. Rivera recalls a particular car crash death of a child in Herriman. “It’s tough, to know these parents were just driving down the road, and in an instant, it happened. How do you shut that off? Eventually you have to or you can’t function. So you shut it off and move on. There will be another.” Rivera would remind herself to stay in the game because of how important the work is to society. She finds it imperative to continue living her life, even while processing the extreme situations officers witness. For her, this means staying close to her family. “You can’t just live this law enforcement life 24/7. Even though you’re on call all 24/7,” she says. From the teen mom who felt the judgment of the world, whose disciplinarian father was furious to find out his daughter had deviated from the path he thought was leading her to success, to the woman now sitting in the top position at the Salt Lake County Police Department, the first female Sheriff in Utah—Rivera ponders the conversations through the years with her father, who is now deceased. “He just kept saying, ‘If you don’t like it, change it. It is up to you to change what occurs,’” she smiles, “So I did, I changed it.” ◆ Sophie Silverstone is CATALYST’s community outreach director and a staff writer.
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Trebbe Johnson. Radical Joy for Hard Times: Finding Meaning and Making Beauty in Earth’s Broken Places. North Atlantic Books, 2018, 256 pp. $16.95.
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rebbe Johnson thinks that, in order to heal our broken relationship with the Earth, we can’t just protect and visit the most beautiful, most pristine natural places. We also have to pay attention to the sad, gray places where nature has been ruined and depleted. A clear-cut forest, for example, or a fracking drill pad or a neglected urban river sandwiched between busy roads. Johnson wants us to look at these wounded places with a clear, steady gaze and listen without judgment to hear what the place has to tell us. To facilitate this kind of deep listening, Johnson has developed a ritual called an “Earth Exchange.” The principle of an Earth Exchange is to visit a wounded place and engage in “duologue,” a term borrowed from theater to describe a scene between two characters. So yes, Johnson is telling us to talk to rocks and trees. I admit that when I first read about Earth Exchange in the pages of Orion Magazine it
TALKING TO TREES sounded a little crazy. In that article (included in this book) Johnson led a group to meditate in a heavily logged forest. When they arrived, the forest looked dead and mutilated, but after a while perception shifted. The participants began to experience beauty and meaning in the shattered landscape. “Willingness to look turned into curiosity, which turned into compassion, which turned into willingness to sit patiently with the other, which turned into love,” Johnson writes. Johnson’s idea of love for wounded places is compelling. She says that the limitation of most environmental activism — a pattern she terms “scare-blame-rally” — is that the process goes straight from awareness to action without leaving room for emotional response. When a beloved place is injured or lost, people feel grief but they are not allowed to cry. Since there was no formal ceremony to acknowledge place-
based sorrow, Johnson invented one. She was inspired by conversation with David Powless, a Native American engineer working on a plan to clean up a gigantic pile of toxic industrial waste. “I realized that the waste wasn’t an enemy,” he told her. “It was an orphan from the circle of life. My job was not to conquer it, but to bring it back into the circle of life.” Johnson believes healing happens through a mechanism of beauty, but that “love precedes the revelation of beauty, it does not follow from it.” So the ritual ends with beauty in a spirit of gratitude and reciprocity, using objects found on-site to make something beautiful as a gift for the place. An Earth Exchange is not meant to excuse environmental abuse nor to subI joined members of the Warm Springs Alliance, a citizen group hoping to revitalize hot springs on the north side of Salt Lake City. After our visit to the springs we shared our insights and arranged objects into a shrine that resembled a Buddhist wheel of life.
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How to do an Earth Exchange 1. Go to a wounded place. 2. Share your stories about what the place means to you. 3. Get to know the place as it is now. 4. Share what you discover. 5. Make a gift of beauty. stitute for activism. It is a way to establish a personal relationship with a place as it exists. “Seeing and eventually making beauty in sorrow, in damage, in chaos does not deny the dark reality,” Johnson writes. “Indeed it may exacerbate it. But it also opens me to compassion, connectedness, courage, and even joy.” I have participated twice in Earth Exchanges led by Salt Lake City’s own Kinde Nebeker of New Moons Rites of Passage (she’s mentioned in this book). Most recently I joined an Earth Exchange with members of the Warm Springs Alliance, a citizen group hoping to revitalize hot springs on the north side of Salt Lake City. After our visit to the springs we shared our insights and arranged objects into a shrine that resembled a Buddhist wheel of life. After those experiences, I know I’ll be giving copies of this wise book to friends who are feeling sad about the state of the Earth. “Implicit in all our responses must be the recognition of the reality that exists, even as we acknowledge that it’s a reality we do not want,” writes Johnson. But the core of her message is that to heal our relationship with the Earth, we must not just open ourselves to radical joy: We must deliberately create an occasion for it. ◆ Amy Brunvand is a librarian with the University of Utah’s Sustainability Office and a longtime CATALYST contributor.
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Human dignity in the face of conflict Photography, video and drawings tell stories of Indigenous Peoples and refugees BY ANNA ZUMWALT
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hen the images of the Syrian refugee crisis splashed across news and social media outlets two years ago, Kenneth Hartvigsen, curator of American Arts at BYU’s Museum of Art, recalls how, as a new father, the horror of those images hit home. Hartvigsen knew that he had to do something. Mark Magleby, director of the BYU Museum of Art, agreed.
“We felt strongly that we had to be part of a conversation. We couldn’t just sit here and not be,” said Magleby on a recent tour of the museum’s three new special exhibits, which focus on Indigenous Peoples and refugee stories. “We knew that this show would be an opportunity to be a part of an important worldwide discussion,” adds Hartvigsen, “but I don’t think we could have imagined that these three shows would ever have the resonance that they have today.”
These special exhibits at BYU’s Museum of Art find diverse ways to approach the subject of people and conflict—through photography, video and drawings. Albanian Stories, two short films by video and performance artist Adrian Paci (himself a refugee who fled Albania during the country’s civil war in 1997) focus on the themes of separation and nostalgia. In one heart-wrenching video, Paci films his own daughter as she tells a traditional folktale about
farm animals, inserting her own twist into the tale, the entrance of international troops. The triptych Refugee Trilogy, by artist Rick Shaefer, brings the stories of refugees and immigrants to life through three enormous charcoal drawings. The works, created in the style of Baroque paintings, remind us of the long history of human tragedy. And a selection of photographs from Dana Gluckstein, DIGNITY: Tribes in Transition, speaks in support of Indigenous Peoples and their ways of life. The images in the Gluckstein exhibit come from a much larger body of work that the artist created over 25 years. In 2010 the DIGNITY book was published to celebrate Amnesty International’s 50th anniversary. Well before she began compiling these black and white images, Gluckstein was a celebrity and advertising photographer. But her art took on new
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purpose when one day, decades ago, while traveling through Kenya, she was approached by a beautiful young man in a marketplace. “He asked if I would take his picture,” recalls Gluckstein of the close-up, black-and-white portrait which is part of the BYU exhibit. “He still had his tribal marking on his forehead. He was not living with his tribe anymore, nor was he in the city, but just in this limbo land. On some level he knew this image would speak to many people.” That event sparked something for Gluckstein and every couple of
(whom she photographed the year prior) and an introduction by Faithkeeper Oren Lyons was a call to action for the U.S. to adopt the U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples—and, some say, it created the tipping point for that to happen. While the news can overwhelm us and even dull our instincts towards empathy and compassion, art and the stories we tell through art can reconnect us. At least that’s the hope for curator Kenneth Hartvigsen, that we can rediscover our shared humanity. “We’re in big danger,” says
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The triptych Refugee Trilogy, by artist Rick Shaefer, brings the stories of refugees and immigrants to life through three enormous charcoal drawings.
years since, on her own dime, she has taken a pilgrimage to special places to meet special people. On these travels with her camera she falls in love with not only the people, the individuals, but with what is behind them —their traditions, their dignity. The DIGNITY coffee table book with a forward written by Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Hartvigsen, “when we lose sight of the personal experiences that really make up these international tragedies.” ◆ See these special exhibits DIGNITY: Tribes in Transition, Albanian Stories and Refugee Trilogy at BYU’s Museum Of Art now through September 29. Located on the BYU’s Campus Dr. Open Monday through Saturday, closed Sunday. Admission is free. MOA.BYU.EDU
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Aug. 4: WaterRoots Field Trip @ Temple Fork, UT. 10:30a-1p. Learn about the impacts of proposed Bear River development on the Temple Fork River and the spawning habitat for one of Utah’s largest native Bonneville cutthroat trout populations. 801.486.4776. $15. UTAHRIVERS.ORG/EVENTS/
Aug. 2: Consciousness 101 @ Inner Light Center. 10a. Develop a more loving relationship with your inner consciousness. $15. THEINNERLIGHTCENTER.ORG Aug. 3: Late Night in the Garden @ Red Butte Garden. 7-11p. Lawn games, LEGO crafts and The LEGO Movie. $25. REDBUTTEGARDEN.ORG Aug. 3: Highlights Tours @ NHMU. 2p. Guided look at NMHU and the collections. $2. NHMU.UTAH.EDU Aug. 3: Free Kittens: A Stand Up Comedy Show @ Rye. 6p. Ft. local comedians. Free. RYESLC.COM Aug 3: Venture Out! @ Historic Baldwin Radio Factory. 6-9p. Farm to table pop-up dinner, black and white silent movie festival. $35. 21+. VENTUREOUT.ORG Aug. 3-4: TrouBeliever Fest @ Snowbasin Resort. Fri 5p-12a Sat 9a10:30p. The premier song-based music festival celebrating song-centric artists and bands featuring Emmylou Harris, Rodney Crowell, David Pack’s Legends Live, Shawn Colvin & more. $50-$199. TROUBELIEVERFEST.COM
Aug. 4, 11, 18, 25: Downtown Farmers Market @ Pioneer Park. 8a-2p. SLCFARMERSMARKET.ORG Aug. 4: Utah’s Animals @ NHMU. 23p. Learn about the Great Basin gopher snake, North American bullfrog, Great Basin spadefoot and Utah salamander. NHMU.UTAH.EDU Aug. 5: Sunday Writing Sessions @ Cucina. 12:30-3p. Free flowing, unstructured weekly writing circle. All welcome. Free.
Pioneer Park. 4pm-dusk. Small, intimate market focused on fresh produce and locally made food products. SLCFARMERSMARKET.ORG
Aug. 9: Strike a Chord: Drawing to Music @ Salt Lake City Main Library. 1p. Free UMFA.UTAH.EDU
Aug. 7: Greensky Bluegrass Concert @ Red Butte Garden Amphitheatre. 7:30p. $35. REDBUTTEGARDEN.ORG
Aug. 9: The Bee // Healthcare @ Metro Music Hall. 6-10p. An evening of competitive storytelling. 21+. $15. THEBEESLC.ORG
Aug. 7: Big Band Tuesdays @ Gallivan Center. 7:30-9:30p. Bring chairs, blankets, snacks and drinks for this weekly free show! THEGALLIVANCENTER.COM/CALENDAR
Aug. 9: Lost 80’s Live with Flock of Seagulls, Wang Chung and Men Without Hats @ Red Butte Garden Amphitheater. 7p. $48. REDBUTTEGARDEN.ORG
Aug. 5: Shambhala Sunday Morning Meditation @ SLC Shambhala Center. 11a-1p. Group meditation, dharma talk, contemplation, tea, coffee and conversation. Free. Donations welcome. UTAH.SHAMBHALA.ORG Aug. 5: First Sunday Mindful Meditation Group @ Mindful Yoga Collective. 7-8:30p. w/ Charlotte and Marlena. MINDFULYOGACOLLECTIVE.COM Aug. 6: Monday Family Night @ Red Butte Garden. 6-8p. Witness the culture and beauty of traditional African dancing. Free with admission. REDBUTTEGARDEN.ORG Aug. 7, 14, 21, 28: Tuesday Market @
Aug. 8: Adopt a Native Elder presents: The Weavers’ Stories @ Red Butte Garden. 5:30-8:30p. Native American weavers talk about their lives and rugs; traditional Navajo dancers. Free. REDBUTTEGARDEN.ORG
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Aug. 10: Margarita Ball @ Rico. 7p. Hosted by the Utah State Hispanic Democratic Caucus. $35. Aug. 10: Tusk of the Town @ The Falls Event Center. 6:30-9:30p. Benefit for for Wildlife SOS. $75-$800. GOO.GL/RNKC2D Aug. 10: Angelique Kidjo & Femi Kuti @ Red Butte Garden. 7:3010:30p. $45-$52. REDBUTTEGARDEN.ORG Aug. 10-11: Wasatch International Food Festival @ Utah Cultural Celebration Center. Fri: 5-10p. Sat: Noon-8p. $5. FOODFESTUTAH.ORG Aug. 10-12: Yoga for Social Justice Immersion @ Center City Yoga. Fri: 7-9:30p Sat & Sun: 9a-4p. Taught by Sarah Elizabeth Levitt and Erin Meyer. Upon completion, students will be able to demonstrate knowledge of social justice issues & be equipped to apply yoga and meditation in various contexts for social change. Applies for Yoga Alliance® Continuing Education. $249. CENTEREDCITYYOGA.COM Aug. 10-12: Craft Lake City DIY Festival @ Gallivan Center. Fri: 5-10p, Sat: noon-10p, Sun: noon-7p. Demos, food, performances, 250+ exhibitors and more! $5, kids≤12 Free. CRAFTLAKECITY.COM Aug. 11: Fix-It Clinic @ Craft Lake City. 12:30-2p. Hosted by Utah Recycling Alliance. Learn to repair broken items during this festival held at the Gallivan Center. CRAFTLAKECITY.COM Aug. 11: New Moon Woman @ Iron & Salt. 6:30-9:30p. Connect with yourself and your purpose and support women to create a stronger humanity. Free. IRONANDSALT.COM Aug. 11: Science of Invention Festival @ NHMU. 10a-5p. Hands-on design challenges. Interact with technology and meet local inventors. $8-$13. NHMU.UTAH.EDU Aug. 11: Best Friends Su-Purrr Adoption @ the Gateway. Best Friends presents $10 adoptions on cats and kittens. Free. BESTFRIENDS.ORG Aug. 11: Day of Zen w/ Michael Mugaku Zimmerman Sensei @ Two Arrows Zen. 7:30a - 2p. Sitting and walking meditation, Dharma talk and meditation instruction. Lunch provided for pre-registrations. $15-40. T WOARROWSZEN.ORG
Aug. 11: Wire Wrap Pendant Class @ Lotus. 2-3:30p. $15. ILOVELOTUS.COM Aug. 12: Pixie and the Partygrass Boys @ 1443 E. Kensington Ave. Potluck 6p, Music 7p. $20, $15/members. BIT.LY/2MVP1ED
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The untold story of young women who volunteered with the Red Cross to cheer up troops on the Vietnam War front lines. Tuesday | August 7 | 7pm The City Library 210 E 400 S, SLC
LIFE IN THE DOGHOUSE Directed by Ron Davis
Danny & Ron started a dog shelter in their home. 10,000 dogs later, their unique life together still inspires. Tuesday | August 14 | 7pm The City Library 210 E 400 S, SLC
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Aug. 15: $1 Senior Days @ Tracy Aviary. 9a-5p. TRACYAVIARYCONSERVATION.ORG Aug. 15: Yappy Hour @ Liberty Park. 6p. Off-leash areas, food trucks, cash bar, micro-chip and licensing services too. Free. SLCITYEVENTS.COM Aug. 15: Bluegrass and BBQ: Pixie and the Partygrass Boys @ NHMU. 6-8p. Presented by KRCL and NHMU. $5. NHMU.UTAH.EDU Aug. 15: WONDERSTRUCK Screening @ Peery’s Egyptian Theater. 7a. Ben and Rose are two deaf children from two different eras, presented by Utah Film Center. Free. UTAHFILMCENTER.ORG Aug. 15: Psychic Fair @ The Golden Braid. 6-9p. 20 minute readings for $25. GOLDENBRAIDBOOKS.COM Aug. 15: Basecamp Yoga Session with SEEK Studio @ Cotopaxi. 6p. Free.
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Afghan women are pedaling their own revolution, challenging gender and cultural barriers using the bicycle. Tuesday | August 28 | 7pm The City Library 210 E 400 S, SLC
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roots, the festival showcases local and regional talent (musicians, dancers, hula-hoopers, jugglers and comedy). Free. BUSKERFESTSLC.COM
Aug. 25: Rose Exposed: Breaking News @ Rose Wagner. 8p. Short works created by each of the Rose Wagner’s resident companies. $15. ROSEEXPOSED.ORG Aug. 25: WaterRoots Field Trip @ Logan, UT. 10:30a-1p. Learn about the impacts proposed Bear River development would have on the Great
Aug. 20-23: UMFA Welcome Week Patio Party @ Campus Center Drive. 11a-3p. Iced coffee and cookies, photo booth and music. Free. UMFA.UTAH.EDU Aug. 23: Women of Wisdom Salon w/ Sheriff Rosie Rivera @ CATALYST Magazine. Read interview, this issue. RSVP. CATALYSTMAGAZINE.NET Aug. 23-24: Utah Women’s Policy Conference @ Thomas S. Monson Center. 8a-3p. Utah’s first-ever Women’s Policy Conference! $50 registration. YWCAUTAH.ORG Aug. 24: SLC Busker Fest @ Regent Street and Block 70. 3-10 p. Harkening back to the city's rich Vaudeville
Aug. 24: SLC Busker Fest @ Regent Street and Block 70. 3-10 p. Harkening back to the city's rich Vaudeville roots, the festival showcases local and regional talent (musicians, dancers, hula-hoopers, jugglers and comedy). Free. BUSKERFESTSLC.COM
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Aug. 25: Pop Up! CHaRM @ Salt Lake County Government Center. 9a1p. Donate your hard to recycle materials like batteries, bikes, books, car seats, DVDs, CDs, and more. Free. UTAHRECYCLINGALLIANCE.ORG Salt Lake and the many alternatives. 801.486.4776. UTAHRIVERS.ORG/EVENTS/
by Eddie Dawson, registration needed. Free. REDBUTTEGARDEN.ORG
Aug. 25-26, Sept. 22-23, Oct. 20-21, Nov. 10-11, Goddess Class Series @ Turiya’s. Sat-Sun 12-5p. Intimate initiatory journey of discovery and awakening. Price for the series $1700. TURIYAS.COM
Aug. 29: Fruit Tree Budding Workshop @ Conservation Garden Park. 6:30-8:30p. $20. EXTENSION.USU.EDU/SALTLAKE
Aug. 26: Full Moon Meditation @ Dancing Cranes Imports. 2:30-3:30p. Participate in meditation to celebrate the full moon. Free. DANCINGCRANEIMPORTS.COM Aug. 27: Phun with Physics @ NHMU. 3:30-4:30p. Physic demos for kids and adults. Free with museum admission. NHMU.UTAH.EDU Aug. 27: Kundalini Yoga @ Lotus. 56p. $9. ILOVELOTUS.COM Aug. 27: Horticulture Spotlight Lecture: Ornamental Grasses @ Red Butte Garden. 6:30-7:30p. Presented
Taoist & Tibetan Yoga Development of LovingKindness & Compassion Calm Abiding, Direct Insight Meditation, QiGong, Fire Puja
Cost per persom includes vegetarian meals, snacks, tea, 4 nights lodging, and is $565. Cost of meditation without lodging or meals is $350.
For more info and reservations, email ranchkenyon@gmail.com
Aug. 30: Yoga in the Great Hall @ Utah Museum of Fine Arts. 1-2p. All levels are welcome. Free. UMFA.UTAH.EDU Aug. 30: Lecture: Crevice Rock Gardens @ Red Butte Garden. 7-9p. W/ Zdenek Zvolanek. Free with admission. REDBUTTEGARDEN.ORG Aug. 30: MarchFourth Marching Band @ The State Room. 8p. 21+. $24. THESTATEROOM.COM Sept. 1: New Work/ Studio Tour @ Sophie’s Black Sheep Gallery. 10a-4p. Feat. the work of Sophie Soprano / Lynn Farrar. Free. SOPHIESBLACKSHEEPGALLERY.NET
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SPIRIT
A time for action A conversation with Aaron Neal, founder of
Emergence 2018
BY GRETA DEJONG
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Aaron Neal contemplating his vision (or maybe dinner) from above Wasatch Blvd. while on an outing with his old high school buddy, Jason Heaton, who snapped this shot.
ichael Beckwith, Byron Katie and other new thought leaders will gather at Salt Lake City’s Salt Palace this October for what Emergence organizer Aaron Neal describes as an interactive event, with speakers doing more than just speaking. The 40-something Utahn says the event will be not only inspiring but also practical, so people can walk away with tools and practices to use in their daily lives. He’s chosen teachers who have powerful and proven methods to create results to help you thrive, he says. His original idea in 2016 was to host a conference on the convergence of science and spirituality, “a topic dear to my heart.” But he knew it wasn’t the right time and that he wasn’t ready, either. Also, the notion of “emergence” kept arising. “I was thinking two things: There’s a new consciousness emerging. It’s a time of rapid change. Many people are feeling fearful or at least ungrounded. The news is entrenched in reporting from the old paradigm of separation and competition, which causes additional problems. I understand those who feel things are going backward. But I also believe things are coming to light that have always been here, in the dark. And in the dark, you can’t deal with it. “What’s coming to light is the unsustainability of the economic and social models we’ve been working under for hundreds of years.” Last year, in the Center for Spiritual Living library, Neal picked up a book by Lynne McTag-
gert (The Intention Experiment, The Field). He got a clear message: “’It’s time.’ I’ve never wavered since then.” As the saying goes, motivation is when you get hold of an idea. Inspiration is when an idea gets hold of you. He is clearly inspired. Though a self-effacing man, Neal could be a speaker at his own conference. He’s obviously done due diligence in cultivating his own skills in the way of emergence. “What’s ready to emerge in your life? What’s next for me? A lot of people are feeling restless,” he muses. Byron Katie (Loving What Is) will take participants contemplating those que stions through her process known as The Work. Michael Beckwith, pastor of Los Angeles’ Agape International Spiritual Center, a nondenominational church, will lead attendees in a visioning process to see a way through those questions. “There’s a sweet spot between two extremes, between designing your ideal life and surrendering to God. Rather, tune in—to the Mystery, Spirit, Divine; the principles of tuning in are the same, whatever you call it. At that point, you connect to clarity. You can ask empowering questions, like ‘how can I serve? What’s trying to emerge?’ Just start doing something. Instead of embarking on a journey of 1,000 miles, start with a little hike.” Neal describes himself as a curious person. “I’ve always wanted to know how things work.” He was interested in entrepreneurship for years, and in particular enjoyed the creativity involved in working for small companies where
“Just start doing something. Instead of embarking on a journey of 1,000 miles, start with a little hike.”
one gets to do lots of different things. But he has also been on a lifelong spiritual journey. “I was raised a certain way with certain beliefs. It worked for me, for a while, until it didn’t. My beliefs and perspectives changed and suddenly I didn’t know how to navigate my way in the world. Then I got curious again. I started to explore consciousness. I got to see things change and shift. Now, I want to learn everything I can about human consciousness. “People are waking up to our true nature and the Earth’s true nature,” he says. To this end, his vision for himself is to connect people with great spiritual teachers. “I want to create a platform and help them get their useful info out to more people. You need good content, and then know how to get it out there.” Owning this vision took a lot of opening up and letting go, he admits. “This is not what I thought it would look like.” The conference offers a scholarship program as well as a variety of payment options. A fan of mathematician/philosopher and gift economy advocate Charles Eisenstein (Sacred Economics), Neal wants to make sure no one is left out because of their current financial situation. As for his first love, science and spirituality? “That’s next,” he says. ◆ Thanks to Aaron Neal for offering a special to CATALYST readers this month: Use discount code catalyst20 at checkout to receive 20% off on the payment option you choose. Offer expires 8/ 31.
Emergence 2018, October 19-21 Salt Palace, downtown Salt Lake City WWW.EMERGENCE2018.ORG
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Abode • Retail • Spiritual Practice • Intuitive Sciences Psychic Arts • Bodywork • Movement and Sport Psychotherapy and Personal Growth Health ABODE AUTOMOTIVE Schneider Auto Karosserie 8/18
801.484.9400, f 801.484.6623, 1180 S. 400 W., SLC. Utah’s first green body shop. Making customers happy since 1984! We are a friendly, full-service collision repair shop in SLC. Your satisfaction is our goal. We’ll act as your advocate with your insurance company to ensure proper repairs and give you a lifetime warranty. WWW.SCHNEIDER AUTO.NET
DESIGN, CONSTRUCTION Ann Larsen Residential Design DA 10/18
801.604.3721. Specializing in historically sensitive design solutions and adding charm to the ordinary. Consultation and design of new homes, additions, remodeling, decks and outdoor structures. Experienced, reasonable, references. HOUSEWORKS4@YAHOO.COM
GREEN PRODUCTS Heritage Natural Finishes DA 11/18
888.526.3275. We are makers of fine, all natural penetrating oil wood finished for timber frames, log homes, furniture and more. Nontoxic, high performing and beautiful. Contact us for a free sample! Located in Escalante, UT but will ship anywhere. Order online at HERITAGENATURALFINISHES.COM or INFO@HERITAGENATURALFINISHES.COM
Underfoot Floors DA 11/18
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. KE@UNDERFOOTFLOORS.COM WWW.UNDERFOOTFLOORS.NET
table pastries & desserts. Great places to people watch. M-Thur 6a-11p; Fri 6a-12p, Sat 7a-12p, Sun 7a-11p. Wifi.
HOUSING Urban Utah Homes & Estates DA 9/18
Oasis Cafe DA 11/18
801.595.8824, 380 West 200 South, #101, SLC. Founded in 2001 by Babs De Lay, Urban Utah Homes & Estates is an independent real estate brokerage. Our experienced realtors have skill sets to help first-time to last-time buyers and sellers with residential sales, estate liquidations of homes & property, land sales, new construction and small business sales. WWW.URBANUTAH.COM
PETS Best Friends - Utah DA 9/18
801.574.2454, 2005 S. 1100 E., SLC. Utah is working collaboratively with animal rescue groups, city shelters and passionate individuals dedicated to making Utah a no-kill state. As part of this mission, Best Friends hosts adoption and fundraising events, runs the Best Friends Utah Adoption Center in Sugar House and leads the NKUT initiative. WWW.BESTFRIENDS.ORG
DINING Café Solstice DA 3/19
801.487.0980, 673 E. Simpson Ave., SLC. (inside Dancing Cranes). Loose teas, specialty coffee drinks and herbal smoothies in a relaxing atmosphere. WWW.CAFESOLSTICESLC.COM SOLCAFE999@GMAIL.COM
Coffee Garden DA
801.355.3425, 900 E. 900 S. and 254 S. Main, SLC. High-end espresso, delec-
801.322.0404,151 S. 500 E., SLC. A refreshing retreat in the heart of the city, Oasis Cafe provides a true sanctuary of spectacular spaces: the beautiful flower-laden patio, the private covered breezeway or the casual style dining room. Authentic American cafe-style cuisine plus full bar, craft beers, wine list and more. WWW.OASISC AFESLC.COM
HEALTH & BODYWORK ACUPUNCTURE Keith Stevens Acupuncture 3/19
801.255.7016, 209.617.7379 (c). Dr. Keith Stevens, OMD, 8728 S. 120 E. in old Sandy. Specializing in chronic pain treatment, stress-related insomnia, fatigue, headaches, sports medicine, traumatic injury and postoperative recovery. Board-certified for hep-c treatment. National Acupuncture Detox Association (NADA)-certified for treatment of addiction. Women’s health, menopausal syndromes. www.STEVENSACUCLINIC.COM
Master Lu’s Health Center
801.463.1101. 3220 S. State St. TyeHao Lu, L.Ac, MAOM. Are you struggling with addiction? If so we can help at Master Lu’s Health Center, utilizing acupuncture and Chinese medicine. We can help you or anyone you know
with substance abuse and any other pain you may have. Call today to schedule an appointment! www.LUHEALTHCENTER.COM TYEHAO@LUHEALTHCENTER.COM 6/18
SLC Qi Community Acupuncture 12/18
801.521.3337, 242 S. 400 E. Suite B, SLC. Affordable Acupuncture! Sliding scale rates ($20-40). Open weekends. Grab a recliner and relax in a safe, comfortable, and healing space. We help with pain, fertility, digestion, allergies, arthritis, sleep and stress disorders, cardiac/respiratory conditions, metabolism & more. WWW.SLCQI.COM
APOTHECARY Natural Law Apothecary 1/19
801.613.2128, 619 S. 600 W. Salt Lake's primier herbal medicine shop featuring 100+ organic/wild-harvested herbs available in any amount. Specializing in custom, small batch tinctures, salves, green drink and teas. Also features a knowledge center with books, classes & consultation on herbs, bees, massage/bodywork wellness and more! www.NATURALLAWAPOTHECARY.COM
ENERGY HEALING Kristen Dalzen, LMT 12/18
801.661.3896, Turiya’s, 1569 S. 1100 E., SLC. IGNITE YOUR DIVINE SPARK! Traditional Usui Reiki Master Teacher practicing in SLC since 1996. Offering a dynamic array of healing services and classes designed to create a balanced, expansive and vivacious life. WWW.T URIYAS . COM
SoulPathmaking with Lucia Gardner, LMT, BCC, PC 12/18 801.631.8915. 40+ years experience caring for the Soul.
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STRUCTURAL INTEGRATION Carol Lessinger, GCTP9/18--
801.580.9484, 1390 S. 1100 E., SLC. “Movement is Life, without Movement, Life is unthinkable,” Moshe Feldenkrais. Carol trained personally with Dr. Feldenkrais and has over 30 years experience. When you work with her, you can expect your movement to be more comfortable, less painful & more aware. Offering private sessions & classes. WWW.CAROLLESSINGER.COM CAROLLESSINGER@GMAIL.COM
Open Hand Bodywork DA
801.694.4086, Dan Schmidt, GCFP, LMT. 244 W. 700 S., SLC. WWW.OPENHANDSLC.COM
Leighann Shelton, GCFP, CR, CPT, LMT
303.726.6667, 466 S. 500 E., SLC. Helping athletes, dancers, musicians, children and people of all types with chronic pain, autoimmune conditions, arthritis, injuries & stress. Leighann's 7 years of education make her the only practitioner in Utah certified in Feldenkrais®, Rolfing® Structural Integration and Pilates. Providing comprehensive care for lasting results. WWW.LEIGHANNSHELTON.COM 7/19
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Agua Alma Aquatic Bodywork 5/19 801.891.5695. Mary Cain, LMT, YA
500, MS Psychology. Relax in a warm pool supported by floats, explore the transformative balancing potential of water massage, likened to Watsu. Enjoy table massage using Transformational Neuromuscular technique, hot stones, Reiki and Yoga. We will find the right bodywork blend to meet your specific needs. Wellness coaching, excellent references. www.FROMSOURCETOSOURCE.COM
Healing Mountain Massage School 11/18 801.355.6300, 363 S. 500 E., Ste. 210, SLC. (enter off 500 E.). All people seek balance in their lives…balance and meaningful expression. Massage is a compassionate art. It helps find healing & peace for both the giver and receiver. Whether you seek a new vocation or balm for your wounded soul, you can find it here. DA www.HEALINGMOUNTAINSPA.COM
M.D. PHYSICIANS Todd Mangum, MD, Web of Life Wellness Center 801.531.8340, 34 S. 500 E., #103,
SLC. Integrative Family Practitioner utilizing functional medicine for treatment of conditions such as: fatigue, fibro-myalgia, digestion, adrenals, hormones and more. Dr. Mangum recommends diet, supplementation, HRT and
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other natural remedies in promoting a health-conscious lifestyle. WWW.WEBOFLIFEWC.COM, THEPEOPLE@WEBOFLIFEWC.COM 2/19
MISCELLANEOUS BUILDING YOUR BUSINESS Send Out Cards Mark Holland, Distributor 11/18
801.557.710. Building bridges to stronger friendships and better business. Connect with your customers, one greeting card at a time. WWW.MYBRIDGEBUILDER.COM NONCOM144@AOL.COM
ENTERTAINMENT Utah Film Center 801.746.7000, 122
Main Street, SLC. A non-profit continually striving to bring community together through film. WWW.UTAHFILMCENTER.ORG A11/18
LEGAL ASSISTANCE Schumann Law, Penniann J. Schumann, J.D., LL.M 3/19 DA 801.631.7811. Whether you are planning for your own future protection and management, or you are planning for your family, friends, or charitable causes, Penniann Schumann can assist you with creating and implementating a plan to meet those goals. WWW.ESTATEPLANNINGFORUTAH.COM
MEDIA KRCL 90.9FM DA 801.363.1818, 1971 N. Temple, SLC.
Northern Utah’s only non-profit, member-supported public radio station dedicated to broadcasting a well-curated contemporary eclectic mix of music and community information 24 hours a day. WWW.KRCL.ORG
NON-PROFIT Local First 12/18 801.456.1456. A not-for-profit organi-
zation that seeks to strengthen communities and local economies by promoting, preserving and protecting local, independently owned businesses throughout Utah. Organized in 2005 by volunteer business owners and community-minded residents, Local First Utah has over 2,700 locally owned and independent businesses. WWW.LOCALFIRST.ORG.
PROFESSIONAL TRAINING Healing Mountain Massage School
SLC campus: 801.355.6300, 363 S. 500 E., Ste. 210, SLC. Cedar City campus: 435.586.8222, 297 N. Cove Dr., Cedar City. Morning & evening programs. Four start dates per year, 8-14 students to a class. Mentor with seasoned professionals. Practice with
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licensed therapists in a live day spa setting. Graduate in as little as 8 months. ABHES accredited. Financial aid available for those who qualify. WWW.HEALINGMOUNTAIN.EDU DA
SPACE FOR RENT Space available at Center for Transpersonal Therapy 3/19
801.596.0147 x41, 5801 S. Fashion Blvd., Ste. 250, Murray. Two large plush spaces available for rent by the hour, day or for weekend use. Pillows, yoga chairs, regular chairs and kichenette area included. Size: 395 sq. ft./530 sq. ft. WWW.CTTSLC.COM, THECENTER@CTTSLC.COM
TRAVEL Machu Picchu, Peru 6/19
801.721.2779. Group or individual spiritual journeys or tours with Shaman KUCHO. Accomodations available. Contact: Nick Stark, NICHOLASSTARK@COMCAST.NET, WWW.MACHUPICCHUTRAVELCENTER.COM
VOICE COACH Stacey Cole 12/18
801.808.9249. Voice training for singing, speaking, and accent modification. Individual and group sessions with Stacey Cole, licensed speechlanguage pathologist and Fitzmaurice Voicework® teacher. Holistic approach. Free the breath, body and voice. Check out singing workhops and drop-in choirs in the “events” section of WWW.VOICECOACHSLC.COM
WEALTH MANAGEMENT Harrington Wealth Services DA 2/19
801.871.0840 (O), 801.673.1294, 8899 S. 700 E., Ste. 225, Sandy, UT 84070. Robert Harrington, Wealth Advisor. ROBERT.HARRINGTON@LPL.COM, WWW. H ARRINGTON W EALTH S ERVICES . COM
MOVEMENT & MEDITATION, DANCE RDT Dance Center Community School 801.534.1000, Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. Broadway, SLC. RDT’s Dance Center on Broadway offers a wide range of classes for adults (ages 16+) on evenings and weekends. Classes are “drop-in,” so no long-term commitment is required. Hip Hop, Modern, Ballet & Prime Movement (specifically designed for ages 40+). WWW.RDTUTAH.ORG 6/18
MARTIAL ARTS Red Lotus School of Movement 12/18
801.355.6375, 740 S. 300 W., SLC. Established in 1994 by Sifu Jerry Gardner
and Jean LaSarre Gardner. Traditionalstyle training in the classical martial arts of T’ai Chi, Wing Chun Kung-Fu, and Qigong exercises). Located downstairs from Urgyen Samten Ling Tibetan Buddhist Temple. WWW.REDLOTUSSCHOOL.COM, REDLOTUS@REDLOTUS.CNC.NET
MEDITATION PRACTICES Rumi Teachings 5/19
Good poetry enriches our culture and nourishes our soul. Rumi Poetry Club (founded in 2007) celebrates spiritual poetry of Rumi and other masters as a form of meditation. Free meetings first Tuesday (7p) of month at Anderson-Foothill Library, 1135 S. 2100 E., SLC. WWW.RUMIPOETRYCLUB.COM
YOGA INSTRUCTORS Mindful Yoga: Charlotte Bell DA 1/19
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 students to discover their 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 Centered City Yoga 12/18
801.521.9642, 926 S. 900 E., SLC. Yoga for Every Body. We offer 75 classes a week as relaxing as meditation and yoga nidra, to yin yoga and restorative, along with plenty of classes to challenge you, such as anusara and power classes. InBody Academy 1,000-hour teacher trainings also offered. WWW.CENTEREDCITYYOGA.COM
Mountain Yoga—Sandy 3/19
801.501.YOGA [9642], 9343 S. 1300 E., SLC. Offering a variety of Hot and Not hot yoga classes for the past 13 years. The Mountain Yoga System is comprised of 5 Elemental Classes EARTH-FIRE-WIND-FLOW-WATER varying in heat, duration, intensity and sequence. The 5 classes work together, offering a balanced and sustainable yoga practice. WWW.MOUNTAINYOGASANDY.COM
PSYCHIC ARTS & INTUITIVE SCIENCES ASTROLOGY Transformational Astrology FOG
212.222.3232. Ralfee Finn. Catalyst’s astrology columnist for 20 years! Visit
her website, WWW.AQUARIUMAGE.COM, RALFEE@AQUARIUMAGE.COM
PAUL@BIGHEARTHEALING.COM BIGHEARTHEALING.COM 3/19
INSTRUCTION 1/19 Living Light Institute of Energy Healing Arts Safety Consortium 400 W.
Cynthia Kimberlin-Flanders, LPC 10/18
Lawndale, SLC. Offers classes on many topics related to crystals, crystal energy, personal energy management, self-awareness, metaphysics, intuitive development, Crystal Healer Certification, meditation and more. WWW.LIVINGLIGHTSCHOOL.COM
PSYCHIC/TAROT READINGS Nick Stark 6/19
801.721.2779. Ogden Canyon. Shamanic energy healings/ clearings/ readings/offerings/transformative work. Over 20 years experience. NICHOLASSTARK@COMCAST.NET
Suzanne Wagner DA 1/19
707.354.1019. An inspirational speaker and healer, she also teaches Numerology, Palmistry, Tarot and Channeling. WWW.S UZ WAGNER . COM
PSYCHOTHERAPY & PERSONAL GROWTH THERAPY/COUNSELING Big Heart Healing, Dr. Paul Thielking
801.413.8978. SLC. Helping people on the path of personal growth, healing, and self-discovery. Through workshops and retreats, Dr. Thielking utilizes what he has learned as a psychiatrist, Zen student, and Big Mind facilitator to help others to experience a deeper sense of meaning, fulfillment, and joy in life.
801.231.5916. 1399 S. 700 E., Ste. 15, SLC. Feeling out of sorts? Tell your story in a safe, non-judgmental environment. Over 20 years specializing in depression, anxiety, life-transitions, anger management, relationships and "middle-aged crazy." Most insurances, sliding scale and medication management referrals. If you've been waiting to talk to someone, wait no more.
Healing Pathways Therapy Center 2/19
435.248.2089. Clinical Director: Kristan Warnick, CMHC. 4665 S. 900 E. #150. Integrated counseling and medical services for anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship, life adjustment issues. Focusing on clients’ innate capacity to heal and resolve past and current obstacles, rather than just cope. Modalities include EMDR, EFT, mindfulness, feminist/multicultural. Individuals, couples, families. WWW.HEALINGPATHWAYSTHERAPY.COM
Marianne Felt, CMHC, MT-BC 12/18
801.524.0560, ext. 2, 150 S. 600 E., Ste. 7C, SLC. Certified Mental Health Counselor, Board certified music therapist, certified Gestalt therapist, Mountain Lotus Counseling. Transpersonal psychotherapy, Gestalt therapy, EMDR. Open gateways to change through experience of authentic contact. Integrate body, mind and spirit through creative exploration of losses, conflicts and relationships that challenge & inspire our lives. WWW.M OUNTAIN LOTUS COUNSELING . COM
Mindful Yoga Collective at Great Basin Chiropractic
Mountain Lotus Counseling 6/18DA
801.524.0560. Theresa Holleran, LCSW, Marianne Felt, CMHC, & Sean Patrick McPeak, CSW. Learn yourself. Transform. Depth psychotherapy and transformational services for individuals, relationships, groups and communities. WWW.MOUNTAINLOTUSCOUNSELING.COM
Natalie Herndon, PhD, CMHC 7/19
801.657.3330. 1151 E. 3900 S, Suite B175, SLC. 15+ years experience specializing in Jungian, Analytical, and Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy. Are you seeking to more deeply understand yourself, your relationships, and why you struggle with certain thoughts and feelings? Call today for an appointment and let's begin. NatalieHerndon@HopeCanHelp.net WWW.HOPECANHELP.NET
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 Celtic, Brazilian, Tuvan, Mongolian, Tibetan and Nepali Shamans.
Naomi Silverstone, DSW, LCSW FOG
801.209.1095. Psychotherapy and Shamanic practice. 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. NAOMI S ILVER @ EARTHLINK . NET
Stephen Proskauer, MD, Integrative Psychiatry 10/18
801.631.8426. Ambassador Plaza, 150 S. 600 E., Ste. 3B, SLC. Steve is a seasoned psychiatrist, Zen priest and shamanic healer. He sees kids, teens, adults, couples and families, integrating psychotherapy and meditation with judicious use of medication to relieve emotional pain and problem behavior. Steve specializes in treating identity crises, LGBTQ issues and bipolar disorders. SPROSKAUER@COMCAST.NET
SHAMANIC PRACTICE Sarah Sifers, Ph.D., LCSW 9/18
801.531.8051. ssifers514@aol.com. Shamanic Counseling. Shamanic Healing, Minister of the Circle of the Sacred Earth. Mentoring for people called to the Shaman’s Path. Explore
RETAIL line goes here APPAREL, GIFTS & TREASURES Blue Boutique 10/18DA
801.487.1807, 1383 S. 2100 E., SLC. Shopping Made Sexy. Since 1987, Blue Boutique has expanded to four locations, offering the finest in a variety of sexy lingerie, sexy shoes and sexy adult merchandise to discriminating shoppers. WWW.B LUEB OUTIQUE . COM
Dancing Cranes Imports DA8/19
801.486.1129, 673 E. Simpson Ave., SLC. Jewelry, clothing, incense, ethnic art, pottery, candles, chimes and much more! Visit Café Solstice for lunch, too. WWW.D ANCING C RANES I MPORTS . COM
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Golden Braid Books DA 11/18
801.322.1162, 151 S. 500 E., SLC. A true sanctuary for conscious living in the city. Offerings include gifts and books to feed mind, body, spirit, soul and heart; luscious health care products to refresh and revive; and a Lifestyles department to lift the spirit. www.G OLDEN B RAID B OOKS . COM
Lotus DA 12/18
801.333.3777. 12896 Pony Express
Rd., #200, Draper. For rocks and crystals. Everything from Angels to Zen. WWW.ILOVELOTUS.COM
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Turiya’s Gifts8/18 DA
801.531.7823, 1569 S. 1100 E., SLC. MF 11a-7p, Sat 11a-6p, Sun 12-5p. Turiya’s is a metaphysical gift and crystal store. We have an exquisite array of crystals and minerals, jewelry, drums, sage and sweet grass, angels, fairies, greeting cards and meditation tools. Come in and let us help you create your sanctuary. WWW.T URIYAS . COM
HEALTH & WELLNESS Dave’s Health & Nutrition 7/19
SLC: 801.268.3000, 880 E. 3900 S. and W. Jordan: 801.446.0499, 1817 W. 9000 S. We focus on health & holistic living through education, empowerment and high-quality products. With supplements, homeopathics, herbs, stones, books and beauty care products,
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801.307.0481. 332 Bugatti Dr. We are an open, welcoming community— celebrating our Divinity, loving our Humanity and nurturing our Journeys of spiritual discovery. Ours is a spiritual philosophy that is loving, inclusive and accepting of all people. Meditation Sundays at 10am; Celebration Service at 10:30am. Classes, workshops, and more. WWW.S PIRITU ALLY F REE . ORG
Inner Light Center Spiritual Community
801.919.4742, 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: 10a; WWW.T HE I NNER L IGHTC ENTER . ORG
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801.281.2400. Garden Center in Sugar House Park, 1602 E. 2100 S., SLC. Unity principles celebrate the Universal Christ Consciousness by practicing the teachings of Jesus. We honor the many paths to God knowing that all people are created with sacred worth. Unity offers love,
encouragement and acceptance to support you in discovering and living your spiritual purpose. WWW.U NITYOF S ALT L AKE . ORG , CON TACT @U NITYO F S ALT L AKE . ORG
Urgyen Samten Ling Gonpa Tibetan Buddhist Temple
801.328.4629, 740 S. 300 W., SLC. 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.U RGYEN S AMTEN L ING . ORG 12/18
Utah Eckankar 12/18
801.542.8070, 8105 S. 700 E., Sandy. Eckankar teaches you to be more aware of your own natural relationship with Divine Spirit. Many have had spiritual experiences and want to learn more about them. You will meet people with similar experiences who also wish to share how these improve our daily lives. WWW.E CKANKAR -U TAH . ORG
INSTRUCTION Two Arrows Zen Center 3/19DA
801.532.4975, ArtSpace, 230 S. 500 W., #155, SLC. Two Arrows Zen is a center for Zen study and practice in Utah with two location: SLC & Torrey. The ArtSpace Zendo in SLC offers daily morning meditation and a morning service and evening sit on Thursday. TAZ also offers regular daylong intensives—Day of Zen—and telecourses. WWW.T WO A RROWS Z EN . ORG
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icky Chavez, mother of two, came to the U.S. from Honduras four years ago to escape domestic violence and to be with her family. Chavez claims she received death threats from her daughter’s father in Honduras. They are undocumented. Chavez was seeking asylum for herself and her children, and stayed in Utah while the case was being inspected. They were given sanctuary at the First Unitarian Church in Salt Lake City. In January her case was denied. Chavez and her children live in a classroom that has been reimagined as a living space. The church’s congregation, led by Reverend Tom Goldsmith, voted eight years ago to become a sanctuary. Goldsmith says current policies have caused people to take action. “The inhumane immigration policies of the current administration have awakened moral outrage in the wider community, far beyond First Unitarian Church.” Goldsmith has been a minister at First Unitarian Church since 1987. The practice of churches serving as sanctuaries for people in need of refuge has been around for thousands of years. First Unitarian Church is currently the only church in Utah that provides a sanctuary for undocumented immigrants. Kristen Knippenberg, a member of the Utah Sanctuary Network and the Salt Lake Sanctuary Network, spoke recently at the First Unitarian Church for their Summer Forum Series. Knippenberg described the New Sanctuary Movement as doing something that Congress and the Trump Administration won’t: protecting and standing with immigrants. Goldsmith says this situation has brought people of
all backgrounds together to help, “There are more than 200 volunteers working at the church around the clock to ensure as good an experience as possible for the sanctuary family. About 20% of the volunteers are from other faith communities, or have no faith community at all. Everyone is singularly devoted to providing warm hospitality to a family who would otherwise face deportation to their violent homeland.” The First Unitarian Church is always accepting more volunteers. “Although it appears that First Unitarian Church has ample volunteers, there are never enough. If you are interested, please view the church's website and click on “sanctuary.” All volunteers are vetted, have background checks, and are trained by a core of experienced volunteers.” For more information visit: SLUU.ORG/ You may also contribute to support for Vicky Chavez and her children on YOUCARING.COM
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or nearly 10 years now, many community members have worked toward creating a local, community-owned, full-service market that emphasizes local produce and products, year-round. Hundreds of member-owners have made the $300 financial investment in this dream, toward the goal of one day having a real
Avenues Yoga moves to Sugar House After 10 years of serving the Avenues yoga community, this studio is keeping its name but moving to Sugar House—or Sugar Sweet, as owner Chanda Charlesworth calls it. The new 4,800-sq.-ft. space is the former longtime home of Reliable Appliance Repair. The yoga studio space will occupy 1,700 sq. ft., with an addditional 700 sq. ft. for lobby and retail. Classrooms for teacher trainings will eventually be added to the mix. When CATALYST visited in late July,
brick-and-mortar store where they can shop. That goal recently became closer. Last month the Co-op signed up their 600th member—the magic membership milestone that allows the board to start finding a home for the 10,000-14,000 sq.-ft. store. For member-owners, and those thinking Charlesworth was overseeing the installation of bamboo flooring and skylights. She’s enthusiastic about the walkability of the new location, which is situated in the midst of retail, mixed-used housing and residential neighborhoods. Classes will begin at the new location in early August (check website for specifics). A grand opening celebration is scheduled for August 11 with free classes, refreshments, music, giveaways and a chance to win a year of unlimited yoga. Special loyalty passes will be on sale for current Avenues Yoga students. 967 E 2100 S. AVENUESYOGA.COM
about putting their money into a project that aligns with their values and lifestyle, the question of where the store will be located is a big one. Co-op members live throughout the valley and around the state. According to Jodie Grant, Co-op board chair, the initial store search will be concentrated on the central area of Salt Lake City, roughly east of I-15 and north of I-80. “If you are not yet a member-owner, but support the idea of a cooperative market in Salt Lake, now is an important time to show your support in a way that really counts,” Jodie says.. The search process has begun. Building the store site and launching the capital campaign to source funds for construction will happen when membership grows to 750 or more. ◆ Learn more about the Co-op at a market-sponsored backyard garden concert fundraiser on Sunday, August 12. Mingle with member-owners and Co-op board members. Potluck starts at 6 p.m. with music by Pixie and the Partygrass Boys at 7. 1443 E Kensington Ave., SLC. $15 for Co-op co-owners, $20 for non-owners (new members who sign up at the concert will have the ticket price applied toward their membership). You can pre-purchase tickets on their website, search for link under Co-op News. Wasatch Cooperative Market: WWW.WASATCH.COOP
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THE GREAT UPWISING
Swami Beyondananda speaks out on political climate change “We have a deeply divided body politic in America. Half the people believe our system is broken. The other half believes it is fixed.” —Swami Beyondananda
Note: Cosmic comic Swami Beyondananda, whose favorite yoga pose is tongue-in-cheek, is coming to Salt Lake City Tuesday, September 18 as part of his “Great Upwising” tour. In preparation for his visit, we gave Swami some answerable questions, and he obliged us with some questionable answers
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BY STEVE BHAERMAN Catalyst: Swami, you've traveled the country this year. What can you tell us about the pulse of America? Swami: Well, the body politic still has a pulse, and that's a good sign. As for our current political— new word—”shituation,” people are asking, “Is this the Hand of God at work... or just the Middle Finger?” People are even getting nostalgic for the George W. Bush years, when hopeful optimystics said, “Cheer up. Things could be worse.” And see? They were right. Around here we're even hearing talk of the “end times.” Oh yes, it's true. I met someone a few years ago who was depressed because the Rapture didn't happen. I told him, “Cheer up. It's not the end of the world.” But with all this talk of the final days, I decided to go right to the Bible, the book of Revelations, and there it was. A sign that the end times are at hand ... and I quote ... “the last Trump shall blow.” It says that? You could look it up. Now we all know that blowhard Trump blows. But I say that evolution has played its Trump card, for truly Donald Trump represents America's balloon karma payment. We got rear-
ended by our own karma, and we are suffering the effects of whiplash—Snidely Whiplash.
The alarm is a positive thing... and I don't think people will be able to hit snooze this time. Now that the shift has hit the fan, it's time for we the people to shift or get off the pot—unless, you need pot to shift, in which case stay on the pot. Apparently we all have cannabinoid receptor sites in the brain—they're in the part of the brain called the hippiecampus, I believe. SHMUEL THALER
So I take it you're not a Trump supporter? I see his evolutionary role, so I have only compassion for him. Because behind every soulless heel is an unhealed soul. Our job is not only to heal souls, but to re-soul heels. I have a program for doing that—it's called From A-hole to Be Whole. Other than compassion, Swami, what do we do? People are quite alarmed.
So you've tried that yourself? Swami: I tried it once, but I didn't exhale.
Speaking of great shifts, given the current administration, how do we address issues like climate change— I assume you think it's real? Oh, it's definitely real. I do time travel, you know, and I just got back from a vacation in the future. Spent a fabulous week in Tropicanada. So how DO we address climate change? First, we need to have political climate change. We need to change our political climate from dominate-or-be-dominated to we're-all-in-it-together. This is challenging because we have spent the past 5,000 years being ruled by the lowest common dominator. The Golden Rule has been
pre-empted by the rule of gold: Doo-doo unto others before they can doo-doo unto you. Needless to say, that's left us with plenty of residoo-doo—and with a great challenge: Can we undo the doodoo that has been done, or will the done doo-doo be our undoing? And we do this how? In the past, we might have called for a revolutionary uprising to overthrow the system. Now, we need an evolutionary upwising to overgrow the system. We have been divided into two political tribes, the red tribe Republicans and blue tribe Democrats, and the first step is to bring red tribe and blue tribe together in sacred circle to talk until they are purple in the face. Because only by standing together as one purple people will the peeps outnumber the perps. And now is the time—because it is too late to do it sooner. Thank you, Swami. And what can people expect at your show? In these unfunny times, they will find laughter to uplift their spirits—levity to help them rise above the gravity. And please, bring your friends because when it comes to laughter, the more the merrier. ◆ Swami Beyondananda’s wisdom, scribed by Steve Bhaerman, has appeared in CATALYST on and off over the last 36 years. Welcome back to Utah, Swami!
Swami Beyondananda, cosmic comic, pundit, and uncommontator comes to Salt Lake City! Where: First Unitarian Church of Salt Lake City, 569 South 1300 East When: September 18, 7pm. This event is both a fund-raiser for the Social Justice and Environmental Ministry, and fun-raiser to raise the laugh force during serious times. Tickets: HTTP://WAKEUPLAUGHING.COM/EPISTORE
METAPHORS FOR THE MONTH
August 2018 The pressure mounts for breakdown, breakthrough
SUZANNE WAGNER Osho Zen Tarot: Harmony, Healing, Breakthrough Medicine Cards: Buffalo, Hummingbird Mayan Oracle: Ix, Chuen, Realm Shift Ancient Egyptian Tarot: Judgment, King of Swords, The Star Aleister Crowley Deck: Power, Pleasure, The Emperor Healing Earth Tarot: Man of Rainbows, The Sun, Man of Wands Words of Truth: Dreams, Mind, Family, Breakthrough
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ugust brings with it the intensity that can only make great change happen. And that is a good thing on many levels. Such energies have been building up for a while; the pressure is becoming palpable. This is what’s needed to manifest great change. When the world is in great resistance, it takes that much pressure, plus a bit more, to pop the cork of stagnation that’s been blocking the appropriate flow of energy in our world. A force with the power to break down barriers and bring a new, different approach to your world—different than anything previously experienced—is headed our way. Let those walls come tumbling down and find the spiritual and
sacred joy that comes with the freedom your soul feels when it is able to unwind the patterns that restrict you. Honestly I am a bit surprised by these cards. I have six breakthrough or breakdown cards. Three healing cards. One magic card. One card that makes the desires of the innocents finally be heard. And two expressing sacred joy. There’s a destructive type of resistance that
The lower chakras represent our first experiences of safety and grounding.
needs to be broken down globally at this time. As many of you know, I always look to the internal manifestations rather than focus on the external projections. That’s because it’s our internal dynamics that are making the external happen. If you become awake and aware to your own internal patterns, then how you cope with the external shifts will also be different. For sure, old habits are shattered. You are walking on broken glass. But there is power in the sacrifices that you offer up at this time by your willingness to feel the pain on this planet and open your compassionate heart and em-
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pathy to this world’s great treasure, love. Regardless of what manifests, the overall outcome is intended to be a positive shift in a very new direction. Such big shifts usually have a less than pleasant trigger. But I choose to remain optimistic in this new flow that we are cocreating. You will be feeling the changes to your home, your safety and your relationships. As the flaws in your relationships become more obvious, you recognize that you have to keep the larger goals of your community, group or unit at the front of your mind, and look at the power structures that are either egocentric or blocking the expression of your potential. This is a great month to really spend time with your family. Discover the depth of your love. Get out in nature, share meals. Certain things are becoming clearly important. Family is at the top of the list. Family is the basis for how energy moves through our lower chakras. Those chakras represent our first experiences of safety and grounding. Take the time to cultivate those special energies of love that bind hearts and souls together. Those connections are our stability in trying times. Even if you had difficult family childhood patterns, you can become the family you always wanted for your own children. Make good memories for yourself and your loved ones. There’s a lot going on in the world and this month will continue to stir up complex emotions. This is why you’ll want to hold tight to those you love and to the things that really matter. ◆ Suzanne Wagner is the author of. books and CDs on the tarot and creator of the Wild Women app. She lives in California, but visits Utah frequently. SUZWAGNER.COM/
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URBAN ALMANAC
August 2018 A monthly compendium of random wisdom for the natural world and beyond
BY DIANE OLSON, ANNA ZUMWALT AND GRETA DEJONG
Early Cambrian Utah community
August 1 Sunrise;:6:24am.Sunset: 8:42pm. Be good to your skin, enjoy the outdoors and get your vitamin D. The sun is healthiest for humans before 10am and after 4pm. August 2 In some tribal cultures, a bite or sting from an insect is viewed as the transmission of knowledge or power from one species to another.
August 3 Watermelons don’t sweeten after picked—so keep your eye on them. Watermelon will store for a week or two at 45-50ºF. If your melons don’t seem to be sweet enough for you, the cause may be from harvesting too early, wilting vines or high temperatures. August 4 Are grasshoppers decimating your garden? Try this: Pour a mixture of molasses and water (1:10) into a shallow container. The ’hoppers will leap in and drown. For a serious invasion, position a pane of glass vertically, with a vat of soapy water in front of it. Leaping grasshoppers hit the pane of glass, fall back into the soapy water and sink.
August 5 Summer squash are at their peak of flavor and texture when they are four inches long. August 6 Human sweat contains an antimicrobial protein called dermicidin, which protects against a wide range of
pathogenic organisms and fungi, including E. coli and candida. So get out there and sweat!
August 7 National Night Out: Show up for your neighborhood. Walk
your dog in the dark. Hang out on your (or your neighbor’s) porch. Check with your community council (SLC.GOV/ COMMUNITY-COUNCILS) for organized events near you.
August 8 Sneak Some Zucchini Onto Your Neighbor's Porch Night. Or try this: Slice thinly and place on cookie sheets on the lowest temperature (or in the sun, or in a food dryer). Zucchini chips are easy to make and surprisingly sweet. August 9 Deadhead annuals and perennials to keep plants from self-seeding and to encourage more blooms. August
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For the space challenged: Consider a jumping spider as a pet. Check out the Utah-based Phidippus Project on Facebook.
August 11 NEW MOON 3:58am. Start something new!
August 12 Instant freeze water cool party trick. Gather a cooler, rock salt, a thermometer, distilled water, and some buddies you want to impress. Put ice and water in the cooler,
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August 13 The Perseid meteor shower peaks tonight. Annual meteor showers arise when Earth passes through streams of debris left behind by comets and asteroids.
June 14 Mead (honey wine), perhaps the oldest fermented drink known, is made from honey and water. It may be still or bubbly, and sweet or dry, with alcoholic content ranging from 8-20% ABV. August 15 Tomato production can slow as temps rise above 90ºF. Shade them with cheesecloth and your patience will pay off as weather cools and they start production again. August 16 As many as 10 million bacteria and other microbes live in a single teaspoon of soil. A growing body of evidence that suggests that all life is the offspring of bacteria; that
they beautiful, but beneficially packed with vitamin C.
we are all recombinations of their metabolic processes.
August 17 Ants, which are believed to engage in altruism, have been filmed extracting splinters from each other, and performing other minor surgeries.
August 18 Seeing a lot of bird activity in your garden? It could be an indication that you have an overpopulation of the larvae of webworms or grubs—so let them feast!
August 19 Plant seeds for fall and winter vegetables this month: radishes, lettuce, shortseason varieties of beets, carrots, peas (shelling, snow, and snap), and spinach. Don’t let them dry out. August 20 Male mosquitoes don't bite. They are pollinators.
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August 21 To avoid attention from bees, don’t wear bright colors or cologne or drink sugary drinks outdoors. Bees are also drawn to strong body odor.
August 22 According to Emerson, a weed is “any plant whose virtues have not been discovered." August 23 Feed your flora one more time. Don’t wait until September as that could force new growth in time to be blasted by first frosts. If you opt for foliar fertilizer, make sure to spray when it’s cool, such as before 10 am. August 24 Some roses are grown for their lovely hips. Stop deadheading and let those form. Not only are
August 25 Bats are well-known pollinators. And Utah has many species of bats. However, no Utah bats are pollinators. August 26 Float citrus peels in bird baths and other water features to discourage mosquitoes from laying their eggs there. August 27 It’s time again to plant cool weather crops, including beets, beans, carrots, endive, garlic, lettuce, p e a s , radishes a n d spinach. Plant peas and greens between, or beneath, already established crops for shade.
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August 30 Skin experts say cucumber's chilly, anti-inflammatory properties soothe sunburn pain and moisturize peeling skin. (Now you know why cold cucumbers are good for dark circles under your eyes!) August 31 Go hunting — for trilobites! The quarry near Delta, Utah is one of the richest deposits of these 500-million-year-old fossils in the world. Check out U-DIGFOSSILS.COM ◆
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