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Supporting Obamacare: A War Worth Fighting

ealth care, as we experience it today, adds dollars to every product we buy. If we don’t do something to bring down the forever-escalating cost of health care, the United States will become less competitive in the world market. Capitalists need to be reminded about the reality of health care’s effect on our economy, which can be understood by even the smallest business. Many economists have run the numbers and determined the overall effect of the continued rising costs of health care. It is imperative that we acknowledge these costs and that we sacrifice where we must to win the long-term war for better, less expensive, and more accessible care. I want to make this point very clear: Health care is worth fighting for. If you’re not standing up and fighting for it, you will continue to lose. We must win the war to support Obamacare, and when we win it, the result will be a win/win for our nation. There are many forces pushing the rise of health-care costs. The belief that fair competition is enough to curb increasing costs is based on an oversimplification and misunderstanding of the large-scale economy. This belief puts too much faith in people who are more interested in profit than responsibility. We have been told that health-care cost increases are Medicare’s fault. The way Medicare pays its providers is an issue, but this is not the only cause of the cost increases. Other causes include prescription drug prices, equipment prices, and the trend toward highly paid medical specialists. If one were to ask a medical-equipment company to lower its prices, the response would likely be, “Sorry — developing a product costs too much.” What they are thinking but not actually saying is, “My stock prices are high now and must stay high. If prices drop, I will likely see a quick stock sell-off.” Many companies today have multiple streams of income. Share price is one of these streams, and money from investors goes into other sources of profit-making that are not necessarily the company’s own products. This is a self-perpetuating nightmare that has proven to be resistant to change. As a result of the demand to keep stock prices soaring, many businesses focus on cutting expenses, including putting more health-care costs on the backs of employees. In halls everywhere, people discuss how

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important it is to cut expenses and live within our means. This value is important but, like all things in life, it is only part of the solution. We must expand if we are going to progress. This is a reality all of us can understand. There is a larger picture to grasp. Under Obamacare, health-care expenses will increase for some people. These expenses will cause a swap from an old economy to a new economy in which more dollars are cir-

Health-care initiatives will allow more Americans to earn more money by creating more accessible products for more people.

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culated. It is this movement of dollars that builds economies. It takes the involvement of people to keep dollars moving and thereby create greater value in chosen economic sectors. Health care and warfare are two choices. Which would you prefer? When economists refer to “retraction,” they are simply saying that people aren’t spending money. So yes, health care will cost more. But at the same time, healthcare spending will increase dollar availability in the general population. This in turn will move dollars into all sorts of other businesses. As more dollars move, more people will have the opportunity to gain. In simple words, health-care initiatives will allow more Americans to earn more money by creating more accessible products for more people. Do I even need to remark on how important it is to value micro-economies today? Health care is an economy that is not necessarily reliant on mass manufacturing. It is important to have a health-care provider in every community across our nation. Obamacare is a pathway we must be ready to

accept if we are willing to fight this war. It is an alternative that is relevant to today’s needs. And, like anything manmade, it has problems that will need to be worked out.

Health care: the root of a larger, healthier economy For our country to effectively compete in global markets, the health of our people must be a primary concern. Imaginative and effective health care will create a country of secure people. When people know in their hearts that, no matter what happens, the country is working in their favor, they will work harder. I can hear the negative thoughts: “Oh my . . . we’ll turn into a welfare state. All I need is a bunch of lazy people living off my back.” In reality, there are a lot more people who would rather contribute to society than sit around and watch terrible T.V. And, if people don’t worry so much about their personal health, they are more likely to focus on initiatives to help themselves grow. Even though it has become more difficult these days, individuals can advance upward in our nation with enough sensibility. Upward mobility is a concept that conservatives hold dearly. What are conservatives doing to increase jobs? Don’t conservatives like to expound on the jobs issue? People need to put their money where their mouths are. A healthful economy can be a uniting economy — something our country desperately needs — if the opponents can see beyond their purposeful fear tactics. The first challenge is to step into the future. There was a time when we didn’t question the money being asked by higher educational institutions — we paid it, and our kids hopefully enjoyed the lifestyle that a good education was supposed to supply. Today is different — as is the nature of our everchanging investments. Not only do we need to work with our educational institutions to advance health-care training, we need to build the means to create a broader economy from the ground up. If we broaden health care, we move toward a future in which increased numbers of people support their lives by providing healthcare services to others. We must support the battle for Obamacare. It will help create a sustainable, constructive economy. And caring for each other will carry us forward for a very long time.

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Championing a New Life for Captive Chimpanzees By Debra Rosenman

ach time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.”

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— Robert Kennedy Imagine how life on Earth would be if we championed every species of animal. . . Imagine recognizing all beings as part of God’s astonishing tapestry. . . Imagine responding to life with infinite reverence and reciprocity. . .

has an extraordinary story to tell. I speak for the captive chimpanzees and other animals who are suffering and need a voice in today’s world. From the rape of lush green African and Asian rainforests that turns native soils to dust, to the melting of Arctic ice caps that polar bears call

home, recent changes in native habitats are causing many thousands of diverse species to live in peril. The blatant neglect and abuse of both animals and our Earth are undeniable. A vast number of animals today are living on the edge, their species either threatened or facing extinction, as a consequence of human greed, power, and unconscious action. Countless people are driven by the bottom line of turning a profit, with no empathy for the animals they are neglecting, exploiting, abusing, torturing, and killing. Elephants, rhinos, white lions, dolphins, monkeys, chimpanzees, orangutans, mice, seals, dogs, rabbits, cats, horses — to name but a few — are all innocent animals forced to endure pain, suffering, and death, whether in biomedical research labs or at the hands of poachers and other individuals who are insensitive to the sanctity of life.

Chimpanzees Surviving in a Human World “All the arguments to prove man’s superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: In suffering, the animals are our equals.” — Peter Singer

We have forced chimpanzees to exist in our world with little, if any, consideration or respect for who they are as individuals or as a culture. Human beings have broken their spirits. It is widely known that the DNA of chimpanzees is 98 percent identical to that of humans. Chimpanzees’ astounding similarity to humans is the reason they have been kept as prisoners in a foreign world. At the present time, there are close to 1100 chimpanzees living in six research laboratories in the United States. Great Britain, New Zealand, Sweden, Austria, The Netherlands, and Japan have either banned or significantly limited the use of chimpanzees in medical research. The United States is the only country in the world that continues to “store” a large number of chimpanzees for experimental testing, even though the majority of the chimpanzees are not even involved in active research. The wild Central and West African Great Apes are vanishing off the planet at an alarming speed. The driving forces behind their impending extinction are loss of habitat due to deforestation, the bushmeat trade — which is the commercial hunt-

ing and slaughtering of animals for meat consumption, and poaching. When poachers want a baby, they have to kill the mother and at least five or six other chimpanzees in the process. A century ago there were approximately two million chimpanzees living in over 20 countries in Africa. Today, less than 250,000 wild chimpanzees remain in about four countries. As Jane Goodall has so poignantly said, “We are silencing the songs of the wild, chord by chord, instrument by instrument, note by note, until all that will remain is a mere echo of what was once the music of life.” We are the

don’t know they are chimpanzees. If they are lucky enough to meet one of their own species, they haven’t a clue about proper chimpanzee etiquette. This puts them in danger of getting hurt because they don’t understand the hierarchy and social graces of that world. The adorable tuxedo-clad chimpanzee actors and entertainers you see with cigarettes dangling between their teeth, or riding bicycles, are always forced into submission in order to learn those unnatural acts. When you see them “smiling” in a movie or a television ad, showing their upper and lower teeth, they are actu-

A vast number of animals today are living on the edge, their species either threatened or facing extinction, as a consequence of human greed, power, and unconscious action. ones to take the necessary steps to save them. If not us, then who? What is life really like for our sister species? Chimpanzees are raised as babies in human families, used as actors in the entertainment industry, and exploited as subjects in medical research. Happily ever after is never a reality for chimpanzee babies who are cross fostered and live as full members of a human family, typically until they are around five or six years old, when they become too strong to be managed. As adults, their strength is seven times that of a man, and they can innocently cause great bodily harm and physical damage because of their brawn. For this reason, most chimpanzees are eventually abandoned and sold to either research labs or trainers in the entertainment industry. Some chimpanzees do end up staying with their families; however, they usually live in small, substandard cages, never again enjoying the freedom they had growing up. Given up by the only families they know — the clans with whom they have a deep identification and long-lasting bond, these chimpanzees never understand why they are separated from their families. Chimpanzees raised as “human” children complicate matters because they

ally presenting a fear grin, not a happy face. Chimpanzees have endured the brutal “teaching methods” of severe beatings, cigarette burns, and electric shocks for as long as there have been circuses and performing animals — countless decades. In biomedical research labs, too many chimpanzees have lived solitary lives, some for over 50 years, in tiny 5 x 5 x 7foot steel cages, with no room to jump or play. Imagine living in a world void of touch, companionship, natural light, and enrichment. Chimpanzees are very social animals and in the wild live in large family groups. Just like human babies, chimpanzee babies need their mothers and extended families in order to grow into healthy, strong, well-adjusted adults. Most biomedical research lab chimpanzees live in abject fear with a stress level that would drive any human to the brink of madness. They are prodded, probed, stunned, tranquilized, and injected with infectious diseases like HIV and hepatitis C. Knocked down (anesthetized) for countless exploratory surgeries, each individual experiences unspeakable amounts of physical and emotional trauma. Sorrowfully, the experiments performed on >>

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chimpanzees have not been medically beneficial to humans. Many, if not most, of the chimpanzees held in laboratories for decades exhibit symptoms reminiscent of the emotional suffering experienced by human prisoners of war and survivors of abuse. The humans with such symptoms are diagnosed with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. The chimpanzees suffer through isolation, unrelenting high anxiety, panic attacks, crying, and depression. Some chimpanzees rock all day and night, some self-mutilate, and some experience full nervous breakdowns and leave their bodies because the torment is just too much to withstand. These chimpanzees sit and wait, day after day, year after year, for someone to listen and extend a helping hand. Chimpanzees are not actors, substitute human children, or science projects for medical research. They are sentient, intelligent beings who are emotionally complex and capable of feeling and expressing the same emotions we do: sadness, grief, excitement, anger, depression, joy, and love. They share our capacity for selfrecognition, perceptive awareness, and sympathetic understanding, and they have highly sensitive and benevolent hearts.

Chimpanzees Speaking American Sign Language There are quite a few captive chimpanzees, gorillas, and bonobos who have learned to communicate using American Sign Language. Their utilization of this human-based communication system indicates an advanced language capacity parallel to ours. The story of Bruno is just one example of chimpanzees’ abilities for profound thought and emotion. Bruno was born in captivity and raised for a short while as a human child, learning to communicate using American Sign Language. Eventually, he was dumped at LEMSIP, a medical research lab in New York, enduring the misery of life behind bars as a human science project in an isolated, depressing, dark place, without his family. Many years after Bruno arrived at the lab, Dr. Mark Bodamer, who is currently an associate professor of psychology at Gonzaga University and involved in outreach and education for Chimfunshi, a chimpanzee sanctuary in Zambia, was 8

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introducing an enrichment program at LEMSIP when he passed by Bruno’s cage. Dr. Bodamer signed to him, knowing that Bruno knew American Sign Language. When asked his name, Bruno didn’t sign his name back; instead, he signed to Dr. Bodamer, “Key out” and continued signing, “Out. Out. Out.” Bruno spoke clearly and directly, and in our own language! How much proof of a being’s great suffering is enough for us? No one saved Bruno. He died in the lab decades ago.

Awakening to Compassion “When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.” — John Muir

We are sacred guardians of our Earth. To ensure that animals, and all aspects of nature, have equal value to human life, our own hearts must have the capacity to draw on empathy and compassion. Compassion is born out of our open hearts and requires of us a willingness, at times, to move out of our comfort zones in order to meet the needs of others. It is undeniably difficult to witness the abject misery that millions of animals endure on a daily basis. One of my favorite women, ecophilosopher, author, Buddhist, and environmental activist Joanna Macy, speaks to this very point: “Compassion literally means to feel with, to suffer with. Everyone is capable of compassion, and yet everyone tends to avoid it because it’s uncomfortable. And the avoidance produces psychic numbing — resistance to experiencing our pain for the world and other beings.” When we are not able to feel empathy toward non-human animals and each other, we tend to lose our way. The Buddhist teacher and author Nyanaponika Thera speaks about the importance of compassion: “It is compassion that removes the heavy bar, opens the door to freedom, makes the narrow heart as wide as the world. Compassion takes away from the heart the inert weight, the paralyzing heaviness; it gives wings to those who cling to the lowlands of self.” We all experience our moments of waking up — when things touch our hearts and our souls in such ways that we will never be the same. This happened after the famous heart surgeon Christian Barnard performed a heart transplant using a chimpanzee donor. Here is his description of his epiphany: “I had bought two male

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e have a long way to go before Congress passes the Great Ape Protection and Cost Savings Act (GAPCSA). Please contact the U.S. representatives and senators from New Mexico to encourage their sponsorship of GAPSCA. Every phone call, e-mail, fax, and postal letter counts! • Tom Udall: U.S. senator (D). Washington office phone: (202) 224-6621, fax: (202) 228-3261. Santa Fe office phone: (505) 988-6511. • Jeff Bingaman: U.S. senator (D). Washington office phone: (202) 224-5521, fax: (202) 2242852. • Ben Ray Lujan: U.S. representative, district 3 (D). Washington office phone: (202) 225-6190, fax: (202) 226-1528. • Steve Pearce: U.S. representative, district 2 (R). Washington office phone: (202) 225-2365. • Martin Heinrich: U.S. representative, district 1 (D). Washington office phone: (202) 225-6316, fax: (202) 225-4975.

Other Organizations that Support the Bill • Animal Protection of New Mexico (APNM): If you would like to get involved to help the New Mexico chimpanzees, get on their mailing list, or make a donation, please visit Retire TheChimps.org or call (505) 265-2322 ext. 28. • Humane Society of the U.S.: HumaneSociety.org • New England Anti-Vivisection Society / Project R & R: Release and Restitution for Chimpanzees: ReleaseChimps.org. • The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM): PCRM.org Check out the chimpanzee sanctuaries in the U.S. and Canada. They also need your support. Fauna Foundation.org, ChimpanzeeSanctuaryNW.org, SaveTheChimps.org, CenterForGreatApes.org, ChimpHaven.org, PrimateRescue.org, Chimps Inc.org, FriendsOfWashoe.org.

chimps from a primate colony in Holland. They lived next to each other in separate cages for several months before I used one as a [heart] donor. When we put him to sleep in his cage in preparation for the operation, he chattered and cried inces-

santly. We attached no significance to this, but it must have made a great impression on his companion, for when we removed the body to the operating room, the other chimp wept bitterly and was inconsolable for days. The incident made a deep impression on me. I vowed never again to experiment with such sensitive creatures.â&#x20AC;? The most crucial question we can ask ourselves is how we can be of service. Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas states in his lovely little book, Flight of the Hummingbird, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Solutions to the numerous challenges in our lives are not usually delivered by a thousand warriors marching to a hundred drums and led by a grand general. Effective responses are often small and immediately appropriate â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the acts that we as individuals are entirely capable of undertaking.â&#x20AC;? Waking up to the issues happens one individual at a time, one classroom at a time, one community at a time. Each one of us makes a difference. Implicit in compassion is awareness, respect, responsibility, and care â&#x20AC;&#x201D; for nature and all her living creatures. Mahatma Gandhi worked to promote peace and understanding for all beings, employing empathy and tolerance as a

way to build moral character. We all have the capacity for compassion, and if we are not using it, then we can grow into it. The only way to live our best as human beings is to include all animals in the equation.

Ending Invasive Research on Chimpanzees â&#x20AC;&#x153;He who would be no slave, must consent to have no slaveâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Abraham Lincoln

The Great Ape Protection and Cost Savings Act (GAPCSA: H.R.1513/S.810) sits now before Congress. This bill is unparalleled in history, proposing to stop a nonhuman species from harm. GAPCSA recommends banning invasive testing and research on all five great apes: chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, orangutans, and gibbons. It also recommends stopping all research funding in and out of the U.S. and prohibiting the breeding and transportation of great apes for research, in addition to retiring all federally owned chimpanzees. Project R&R: Release and Restitution for Chimpanzees in U.S. Laboratories, says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;As of May 2011, the U.S.

government owned or supported 735 of these chimpanzees.â&#x20AC;? A great number of individuals and organizations have been tirelessly working to bring this bill to the floor, including the New England Anti-Vivisection Society and its offshoot, Project R&R: Release and Restitution for Chimpanzees; The Humane Society of the United States; Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine; Animal Protection of New Mexico; and chimpanzee sanctuaries, animal organizations, senators, and representatives from around the country. New Mexicoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s U. S. senators, Tom Udall and Jeff Bingaman, and New Mexicoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s U.S. representatives, Ben Ray LujĂĄn, Martin Heinrich, and Steve Pearce, along with hundreds of other New Mexicans, are all speaking out on behalf of the chimpanzees and supporting this critical bill.

New Mexico Chimpanzees Animal Protection of New Mexico (APNM) is running a campaign called â&#x20AC;&#x153;Chimps to Sanctuaryâ&#x20AC;? that addresses the >>

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A Photographer’s View into the Eyes of Nature By Gershon Siegel

“You don’t take a photograph, you make it.” — Ansel Adams

when the saying “one picture happened before 1826. That’s is worth a thousand words” was coined, it’s safe to say it

the year the French inventor Joseph Nicéphore Niépce is

credited with producing the first permanent photograph. Soon after that, the value-ratio of pictures to words inflated well beyond a mere thousand to one. The fledgling advertising industry at the turn of the 20th century,

assigned to transform a culture of producers and savers into a society of consumers and debt slaves, quickly realized photography’s ability to deliver a powerful, evocative message in just an instant. In 1920, less than 15 percent of illustrated advertisements in mass-circulated magazines employed photographs. After just a decade, that figure had risen to almost 80 percent. Modern advertising, now thoroughly informed by psychology, has, with a vengeance, continued this trend of “show — don’t tell,” with photographs continuing to displace words as devices of exposition. Pick

The keys were patience, intense concentration, and the ability to wait calmly for the moment to come together.

up almost any magazine and look at the ads. The absence of text often leaves you wondering what is being sold. The line between commercial and art has become blurred. Subconscious, atmospheric vision has taken primacy over product. Alfred Stieglitz was famous long before he married Georgia O’Keeffe. Thanks in large part to the work of pioneer Stieglitz over a hundred years ago, photography has long been accepted as fine art, right along-

side painting and sculpture. Santa Fe’s Brad Wilson carries on this tradition with his remarkable and very personal studies of the human and animal form as well as his engaging landscapes. For years, his stark renderings of these images have been steadily gaining worldwide recognition. In 2011, Wilson’s work was on display in five separate galleries scattered through Switzerland, Belgium, and England. In 2012, Wilson will have seven exhibits,

with those in China, Germany, and Singapore adding to his international exposure. While Wilson’s commercial work for such magazines as Esquire, GQ, Time, Men’s Health, Discovery, People, and Money and his long corporateclient list give him frequent road trips and pay a lot of bills, it is his fine-art photography that is most satisfying. I spoke with him recently between his latest assignments. Gershon Siegel: When you first started studying visual arts, you were drawn to painting, sculpture, drawing, and architecture. What got you interested in photography? Brad Wilson: I knew by the time I started my higher education that I wanted to do something >>

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creative with my life. I loved all the visual arts studies I had pursued early on in college, but felt no real affinity for any of the individual disciplines until I picked up a camera and discovered photography. Suddenly all of my training up to that point made sense, and I knew I wanted to focus my attention exclusively on that medium. Gershon: Do you remember when you first got paid to take a picture? Brad: I can’t remember my first paid assignment, but it certainly took place in New York City in the mid-1990s. A very early and very memorable job that I recall was through Paper magazine. They hired me to do a portrait of Robert Altman, the famous film director. I was excited and mildly terrified, but in the end the shoot went quite well. I think I was paid all of maybe $150 for the job, but it didn’t matter. I was working and doing what I loved.

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I wanted to find some moment of deeper connection. Would the animals let me? Would they try to eat me?

Brad: There wasn’t really a big, defining moment, but I definitely felt I was on my way to some level of professional success after I started receiving consistent assignments from major national magazines like Esquire and GQ. Gershon: Did you start off using film and doing your own developing? Brad: Yes, I did. And I’m glad I did. There’s something very organic and satisfying about the ritual of processing film and making prints in a darkroom. It connects you to the whole history of the medium. That being said, once digital cameras surpassed the quality of tra-

ditional film, I was happy to give up all the chemistry and make the transition.

Gershon: How was the transition to digital technology for you? Brad: It was a fairly seamless transition for me. I waited quite awhile to actually do it, so I knew which digital camera and options were going to work best for my way of shooting. I had a lot of experience with programs like Adobe Photoshop, so I already understood the digital image and how to refine it.

Gershon: What brings you the most joy in photography? Brad: Photographing the things I want to photograph, without worrying about any commercial concerns or outside art direction.

Gershon: What is the most frustrating thing about photography? Brad: The crazy amount of equipment required to produce the type of photographs I want to produce. I’m often traveling with six or more heavy cases of lighting, grip, computer, and camera gear, and then renting more at the

location where I’m working. The set-up time can be two hours or more, just to get started.

Gershon: What’s your favorite compliment you’ve ever received regarding your photos? Brad: I would say my favorite compliment happens every time an individual buys one of my fine-art prints. It means they were in some way moved by the work and wanted to enjoy it in their home environment on a regular basis.

Gershon: On your website, BradWilson .com, you exhibit a range of fine art as well as commercial art. Do you prefer one to the other? Brad: I like both, but I prefer fine art at the moment. It’s a little more pure. The style and execution of an image is solely up to me, and the resulting photographic print is refined and produced under my supervision. The final product of all this is exactly in accordance with my original vision.

Gershon: Your fine-art series called Affinity, consisting mostly of photographs

It is still possible to make a living in the field if you’re very passionate, very creative, and, above all, very hard working. taken in Los Angeles, features intimate shots of elephants, chimps, monkeys, several tigers, an orangutan, lion, leopard, cheetah, mountain lion, giraffe, kangaroo, zebra, bull, alligator, and arctic fox. Can you talk about how that series came about and how you were able to get such intimate portraits? Brad: The idea started quite simply as a desire to photograph a single animal — a chimpanzee — in the same style as that of the studio portraits I had done of human subjects. While the concept seemed easy enough to execute, the production proved far more difficult than I imagined, and the project nearly

ended before it began. After many pointless phone calls to various agencies and a number of other dead ends, I finally found an animal coordinator working in Los Angeles who agreed to help me. He said that getting a chimp was no problem, and added that he could arrange for almost any animal. Suddenly the idea took on a whole new scope. I booked a chimpanzee, a capuchin monkey, a tiger, a lion, a zebra, and an elephant to come into a studio over a three-day period — each for half a day. There was one catch: To secure the final booking, all the animals and their accompanying trainers (sometimes three or four) had to be paid for in advance. No refunds. I was diving into the deep end of the swimming pool, right from the start. I didn’t sleep very well in the days leading up to the first shoot because I had no idea if the images I wanted to ultimately create would even be possible. For me, the photographs would only be successful if I was able to go beyond the obvious, pretty pictures so often seen. I wanted to find some moment of deeper >>

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Language Barrier I sit across the table from once familiar faces. We smile and try to make conversation, but we live in different worlds now. We speak different languages. My words are the language of dust and wind. Of stars, sparkling along distant horizons. They hover like smoke, scald like sun, and bake like heat. They inch forward on the backs of the multi-legged. They slip between narrow cracks in low, brown walls and whisper around corners. They sleep beside you for 100 years. And then 100 more. I strain to remember their language, built of fog and freeways, metering lights and bridge tolls and ocean. All that water — as wide as the sky and deeper than any constellation. I can hear its waves humming in every word — including those unspoken. I used to feel the crash of that water each night outside my bedroom window, each morning in my own veins. I used to be that water, rushing against the shore, then back again. The air was thick with it. I was thick with it, becoming soft and slow, unable to stand. But not now. Not now. Now I am as dry as a bone. As prickly as a cholla. As grey as the mountains in the distance. I wear my skirts long and folded, in the shades of this desert, knowing that despite our thorns, even the cholla blooms clear and bright each summer, its blossoms as bold as the sun. — Lauren McLean Ayer, © 2012

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connection. Would the animals let me? Would they try to eat me? I wasn’t sure what would happen. Once the work started, it became clear that I was not in control. You have an animal for perhaps four hours, but if you get five or ten good minutes during that time, you’re doing well. The keys were patience, intense concentration, and the ability to wait calmly for the moment to come together. Another important factor that helped create the intimacy of the portraits was my proximity to the animals — usually a few feet or less — and the absence of cages and restraints. While this was not always possible, the animals were off-lead for at least part of the shoot so they could move around freely in our pre-arranged area.

Gershon: In that same Affinity series, you have a variety of photos of birds of prey taken in Espanola at The Wildlife Center. Was not being able to shoot them in a studio problematic? Brad: Actually, I was able to set up all my lighting in a large room at The Wildlife Center, so effectively it was a studio — just a much smaller version than the space in Los Angeles. This worked fine for the birds of prey, given their size.

Gershon: Another intriguing series in your fine-art section is called The Glass Wall. It features nude studies obscured behind what looks to be a shower glass. What were your thoughts in doing that series? Brad: I was trying to create a series of nudes that had a more narrative quality — something with mood and depth — and something that asked a few more questions than it answered. I had done some previous experiments in this setting, but excessive reflections in the glass had ruined the images. The models in the photographs had contacted me regarding work, so I spent some time refining the lighting, and resurrected the concept specifically for them.

Gershon: Do you have an all-time favorite photograph? Brad: That’s a tough question. I think the notion of “favorite photograph” is more of a fluid concept for me. I like certain images at certain times, so no one image stands out as a consistent favorite.

Gershon: Do you have a favorite photographer? Brad: Not an absolute favorite, no. I like some of the early street photographers like Henri Cartier-Bresson, and a little later on, Josef Koudelka. As far as more contemporary artists go, I admire the work of Gregory Crewdson.

Gershon: In the commercial-art section of your website, I saw some celebrity portraits. Brad: Yes, a couple images are of film director Robert Altman and of the actor/boxer Randall Tex Cobb. In general, I stay away from celebrity photography — you’re forced to work with people who have been photographed hundreds of times and are a bit jaded about the whole experience. Plus there are layers of personal assistants, publicists, managers, and so on who are firmly positioned between you and the subject you want to connect with. This scenario can make your life very difficult.

Gershon: What advice do you have for someone wanting to pursue a career in photography? Brad: Photography as a professional pursuit has changed dramatically over the last few years with the rapid rise of the Internet and digital technology. It bears no resemblance to the career I begin in the early 1990s. That being said, it is still possible to make a living in the field if you’re very passionate, very creative, and, above all, very hard working.

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Gardening? There’s an App for That

A Crop of Mobile Apps and Online Resources for the Technology-Happy Gardener

poiler Alert: If you are a gardener who treasures your time in the garden partly because it involves no technology, read no further.

It used to be that technological advances in the garden were focused on timers for drip irrigation or motion-sensitive patio lights. These days, gardening technology is about mobile software applications for your smart-phone and tablet, and tons of available downloads for them and your desktop. What kind of downloads? Well, everything from zone charts to garden mapping, and companion planting guides to pest control. In fact, there’s really very little about gardening — with ornamentals or edibles — that isn’t available as a free or inexpensive app or download. There are more than 200 apps that are either gardening specific or gardening related, and this doesn’t include methods for downloading nearly every garden magazine (or book) in the world on either your phone or your tablet. I zeroed in on 10 software apps that I think are worth looking at if you are inclined toward finding your information with a click and a scroll rather than a page turn. At a cost of $0.99, the Pocket Garden by At Media is an A-Z (make that asparagus to zucchini) guide to vegetables, from choosing the right variety for your zone to ex16

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TheAlternativeHouse.com pected harvesting date based on planting time and weather. Available at iTunes. If you are already a big fan of Botanical Interests seeds, you’ll want to check out Netframe’s Botanical Interests app for edible gardens, which lists over 300 varieties. You can zero in on those varietals you want to try, figure out what to plant next to what, and determine harvest times for succession planting. $5.99 at iTunes. iPlant by Lundgren Consulting is a plantidentifying app that offers both common and Latin names of more than 150 plants, including non-edibles. This makes it an interesting take-along to the nursery or on a hike. $1.99 at iTunes For flower lovers, Flower Pedia by Muli Mobile is flower specific, offering more than 1,500 images of, you guessed it, flowers. It’s handy at the nursery when you’re trying to figure out what to plant where. Even more impressive, it allows you to look up that great-looking flower you saw but whose name you have no idea of. $4.99 at iTunes. Come late summer, want to know what to do with that bumper crop of cucumbers or tomatoes? The venerable Mother Earth News magazine has come out with an entire line of apps, including one called How to Can. It’s free at either iTunes or the Android Marketplace and gives extensive details on how to can your produce using either the hot-water-bath or pressure-canning method. Also free from the folks at Mother Earth News is their Food Gardening Guide. With sections such as Crops, Techniques, and Resources, this is a comprehensive yet free guide that walks even newbie gardeners through what to plant and how to deal with pests. Available at the Apple Store or Android Marketplace. Garden Tracker by Portable Databases is, at $0.99, an inexpensive

way to plot out your garden using a square-by-square grid system. The app offers a sunrise/sunset calendar, a pest database, and a zone chart along with a system for taking notes on the year’s garden success. Bonnie Plants are everywhere. For those gardeners who would rather begin their gardens with plant starts as opposed to seeds, Bonnie Plants can be found at almost any nursery or big-box store. Now, with your phone or tablet, you can learn more about the plants before you buy them — or even after you buy them! — by scanning the QR code located at the bottom of each identification tag. The Bonnie Mobile site offers information in both English and Spanish, and you’ll find everything from planting depth and spacing to amount of sun/shade and maturity span. The mobile site is M.BonniePlants.com, and it’s free.

You can zero in on those varietals you want to try, figure out what to plant next to what, and determine harvest times for succession planting. Need help organizing your to-do list for this year’s garden? Garden ToDo by Building Rainbows Software is, for $1.99, a virtual flow chart of what you need to do when and in what order to get the garden you want. Frankly, the app’s premise — flow charting tasks in an order that makes sense — is just as good for tasks outside of the garden walls. Available at iTunes. Last but not least, if you would rather work at your computer after the sun goes down than carry a smart-phone in your jeans pocket, Mother Earth News offers a software program for desktops — both Apple and PC — called the Grow Planner Gardening App. At $9.99 it is the most expensive on this list, but it allows you to plug in your zip code to determine when to plant. You can then literally map out your garden after inputting whether you are planting in rows, in raised beds, or trying out square-foot gardening. Want to know how the people at the White House mapped out their Victory Garden? The answer is in here, along with a database of more than 140 fruits, vegetables, herbs, and cover crops.

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Alan Hutner’s Out-of-the-Box Conversations

Brad Blanton

rad Blanton is a best-selling author, psychotherapist, seminar leader-trainer, and founder of The Center for Radical Honesty. His first book, Radical Honesty: How to Transform Your Life by Telling the Truth, published in the mid-nineties, was translated into nine languages. In this interview, Brad discusses his latest book, Some New Kind of Trailer Trash: The Story of an Outsider’s Inside View of the Revolution of Consciousness. I have often referred to Brad as The Truth Doctor, a nickname with growing traction. This most recent of Brad’s writings is a self-imposed exposé in the name of authenticity. As noted author Gay Hendricks says, “Read this book, and find out how you, too, can become an enlightened hillbilly spiritually-evolved atheist pure-truth bullshit artist who is focused night and day on waking himself and the rest of us up from the Big Trance.” Alan Hutner: As you may know, I love you for who you are and for my own loving of truth as an essential ingredient of 18

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self-realization and living in wholeness. To my perception, love and truth are interdependent, and bonded like two sides of a coin. What do you say about the relationship of love and truth, and how they’re inseparable? Brad Blanton: Actually, I’d like to think of it as evolutionary. When we evolved from reptiles and became animals that burst our children out of our bodies rather than hatching them, we also developed a brain on top of the reptilian brain that had to do with caring — that had to do with taking care of the young so they could survive. If reptiles laid eggs and they happened to be around when the babies

“It is an exemplary union of idiocy and brilliance — flat-out truth telling about everything.” hatched, they would eat them. Mammals began caring for their young. The end result is that the young that need to be cared for the most are human beings. The furthest extension of that caring, which comes from the limbic brain, is what we call Buddhist compassion. Then, on top of that, we have these immense frontal lobes that are about calculating and counting and doing things that allow for corporate capitalism to destroy the world! (laughs) So right now, with the Occupy movement, we seem to be trying, en masse, to synthesize the message of the limbic brain. This message has to do with caring — with the ability and technical skill of the frontal lobes. People need to start with love and then use their minds, rather than starting with their minds and forgetting about love. Unless that integration occurs, it’s all over. Alan: So you’re saying that love and truth can be co-opted and corrupted by the mind.

Brad: Yes. So the truth is about “noticing.” Radical honesty is a very simple thing. It is not about a high moral value of the truth. It is about noticing and describing what is going on right now in front of you — what is going on right now in your body, and what is going through your mind. You just tell the truth about what you think, about what you feel, and about what you’ve done — and you let the chips fall where they may. That’s where love comes from. Alan: Okay. And “noticing,” which is a term you use a lot, is described in other traditions as pure awareness, or the presence of self or the witness, without compromise of . . . what? Mind or dogma? Brad: Right. It’s that we all suffer from mistaken identity in the culture in which we grew up. We are told that we are our performance. We are the grades we make, and what the teacher thinks of us, and what our peers think of us. This is a false identity, and the source of almost all anxiety, all depression, and all conflict with couples and groups. It is the source of war. Alan: So we are entrained to these false identifications. But when you’re “noticing” or meditating in a way that is designed to increase your awareness, you can see how your mind works. Brad: Right. Like Fritz Perls said, “You lose your mind and come to your senses.” And to this I’ve added, “And then you get your mind back.” Instead of having your mind be your identity, though, you are grounded in your identity as a present-tense “noticing” being. You use your mind rather than be used by it. That is basically what transformation is about. Alan: Where did the book title come from? Brad: Well, I grew up in a hillbilly life. My mother and stepfather were alcoholics. I had to raise my little brother from the time he was born until he was four and a half. When I left town, I fractured my stepfather’s skull and broke three of his ribs. I tried to kill him, but I wasn’t quite big enough. I took my little brother and my other brother and got them distributed to other family members.

When I was 15, I went back and did it one more time just to make sure my stepfather understood. He wasn’t supposed to beat anyone anymore, and he quit. I was pretty much out there. I was living with my sister for a while, but I was also out there on my own, making my way in the world from about the age of 14. I had a good beginning until my father died when I was five. Then I had a really rough time until I was about 14. This was basic training for me, and it turned me into a sensitive psychotherapist. I didn’t ever have any doubt about what I was going to do. So I got my doctorate when I was 25, and I was a psychotherapist in Washington, D.C., for about 35 years. Alan: Let me read what Casey Hayden has to say. Brad: She was married to Tom Hayden. He was a member of Congress, and was also married to Jane Fonda. Casey was the founding member of SNCC, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. She was a radical white woman in the civil rights movement. Alan: She says this about your book: “In print as in person, Brad Blanton is at ease in this first volume of his autobiography, Some New Kind of Trailer Trash, telling any tale about himself, including the most intimate, demonstrating the interior security and self-deprecating humor that would seem to support his international reputation as a Gestalt therapist, seminar leader, and writer, published all over the world. He owns his life in all its aspects and finds in his weirdness his salvation, demonstrating the Radical Honesty he has made famous — rooting his self-understanding, which is considerable, in his childhood. I love this model so much, I’m thinking about stealing it. “It’s a great read in the growing body of memoirs about the American upheavals commonly known as the sixties. You won’t find another to rival this one for a wild ride. It is an exemplary union of idiocy and brilliance — flat-out truth telling about everything: irreverent rants, hard-earned self-discernment, and the existential creation of meaning and purpose. Read it and weep as I did for the cost and the promise of living one’s truth and finding there the one heart we all share. In the days to come, when we and our children face

the results of our political choices, Brad Blanton’s work against artifice and subterfuge and in support of deep democracy in all situations will be widely read as a guide from the dark to the light.”

That’s the first negotiating point. Apparently he missed that. (laughs)

Brad: I just love her. It just moves me to tears to even hear that — not just because it flatters my ego, but because she got it.

Brad: Basically, when true believers reinforce each other’s enforcement of true belief, they are the enemies of love and compassion. This is true of all fundamentalism, whether it is Christian or Islamic — doesn’t make any difference. These people are trapped in the jail of their minds. They are not willing to transform their relationships with their own minds. They think they’ve got the answer, and I think I’ve got the answer. So what we are is “us versus us.” But whenever I can unload my attachment to my righteousness, even though it’s very difficult in relation to those righteous idiots (laughs), I can say, “I’m a righteous idiot just like you, although I’m not nearly as bad as you.” Or at least that’s a step in the right direction. (laughs again) What we are after is a conversation in which people get to a deeper level of relating because they are more honest about what they resent, about what they appreciate, about what hurts their feelings, about where they’re coming from, about how they learned what they learned, and about how attached they are to being right. I think the people in the Occupy movement understand this. They’re saying, “We don’t want to be forced into a better formulation of what we’re about because we’ve got all these people who have lost their houses, people who can’t make their mortgage payments, and people who don’t have any health care. People get sick because they don’t have health care. Students borrow $80,000 and then can’t get a job after they get their degree. We have dozens and dozens of these issues.” These people have one thing in common: They — we — are all trying to figure out a way to build up a resistance and to take power away from gigantic corporate capitalism, which is the biggest enemy of individual capitalism in the world. Now, that comes out of some psychological transformation. A lot of people across a lot of age groups have fought hard to become more honest than usual. But there is this continuum of psychological personal growth within which you lose your mind and come to your senses. You stop

You stop identifying with your story and your performance and you start identifying with your “noticing being.” Alan: I love what she says because I also “get it.” So, given her description, I would like your current overview of the current “paradigm shift.” Some people are waking up or “noticing” that what they believed, up to this point in their lives, was mainly illusory. Others are still firmly entrenched in ego, persona, and dogma, particularly in polarized politics. There are the haves and have-nots, the plutocrats, democrats, and republicans, divided by money and power as their gods. And there is the somewhat smaller critical mass of lovers and truth tellers who are working to create a shift, or to be part of the shift. What would you prophesize for the evolutionary or revolutionary times ahead? Brad: I think we have to get to “us versus us” rather than “us versus them.” Although most of the time I think right wingers are just so stupid. I don’t want to have anything to do with them. I think I’m really mad at Obama for even listening to those idiots. Trying to compromise is no way to negotiate. You start out by saying, “Hell, no, I’m not going to do anything you want. You’re full of it, and I’m going to tell the whole world you’re full of it and exactly how you’re full of it. I’m going to give you a bigger load of crap than you can possibly generate yourself.” That’s the beginning.

Alan: We had faith. A lot of people had faith in him to stand in that truth.

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identifying with your story and your performance and you start identifying with your “noticing being.” You transform your relationship so that you use what previously used you. Then you affiliate with other people. And you come up with this wonderful thing that Tom Atlee talks about in The Tao of Democracy: These creative genius groups come forth with greater ideas and better solutions than any individual genius can possibly come up with. This comes from the depth of sharing and the depth of connection and the brilliance that emerges from loving, co-hearted co-intelligence.

Creative genius groups come forth with greater ideas and better solutions than any individual genius can possibly come up with. Alan: It is very difficult to shut down the viral spread of digital information. So, overall, are you optimistic? Brad: It depends. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, I’m depressed and angry and want to kill rich people. (laughs) And then on Tuesdays and Thursdays and Saturdays, I’m sort of enthusiastic and positive. And then on Sunday, I try to take a day off and not be positive or negative. Alan: I’m happy that you’re doing the fifty-fifty thing, because that will probably keep you from killing anybody. (laughs) In your book jacket quotations, Gay Hendricks acknowledges you for helping to wake us out of our Big Trance. If your “BS detector” is co-opted, it can get you into trance. So talk about the dynamic of trance from a psychotherapist’s standpoint. How does one best recognize that somebody is not telling the truth? Brad: Well, you have to listen with your eyes and you have to listen with your ears. You listen for a tone of voice. You listen to how quickly people speak, and changes in voice patterns and tone of voice. Observe expressions on the face and gestures of the body. Observe how people breathe and when they hold their breath. I get a sense if they’re trying to do a sales pitch. I say, “Well, that sounds like a sales pitch.” And they say, “What do you mean?” I say, “If you don’t know that’s a sales pitch, then how can I trust you?” And they say, “Go to hell.” And then maybe we have a good honest conversation. Brad’s website is RadicalHonesty.com.

f Alan Hutner is the founder of Transitions Radio Magazine (TRM), and cohosts and co-produces the show with Elizabeth Rose. TRM airs at 98.1 FM, Radio Free Santa Fe (KBAC FM), 8 to 11 am Sunday mornings, and streams live on the web, with all programs archived by hour at TransRadio.com.

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Cosmic Comedy with Swami Beyondananda

ere’s what the all-time greats are saying about Swami Beyondananda’s new show:

“Thou shalt see this show!” — Moses “Love thy neighbors – bring them too.” — Jesus “Life is suffering, but this show will make you laugh.” — Buddha “Six thumbs up!” —Shiva “ ” — Meher Baba (A silent yogi) “Uh huh huh, uh huh huh, uh huh huh. Oh yeah.” — Elvis In these serious times — when there’s definitely something funny going on — laughter keeps us sane. This heart-opening, mind-expanding show featuring the cosmic comedy of Swami Beyondananda comes to Santa Fe to help you wake up laughing and leave laughter in your wake. For more than 25 years, the Swami has been a fount of comedy disguised as wisdom – or is it wisdom disguised as comedy? Noted author Marianne Williamson has called him “the Mark Twain of our times” because his comedy isn’t just hilariously funny but offers sharp social commentary and spiritual perspective. Billed as “one of the biggest names in comedy” (“Beyondananda” alone has 12 letters), Swami keeps the audience in hysterics with his mixture of word play (“I studied in the Punjab,” Swami says, “and learned the language of word play, “punjabber”), seriously funny political and spiritual commentary (“We have a deeply divided body politic . . . half the population believes our elections are broken, the other half believe they are fixed”), and playful silliness. Then Swami comes back for a second set in which he takes live questions from the audience (“If you have an answerable question, the Swami will have a questionable answer for you”), and may at any given time “channel” George Gershwin’s song for peace in the Middle East, the late Richie Valens’ message to President Obama, or healing messages from beyond from the likes of Bobby Darin and Sam Cooke. Oh, and he’s the only guru to channel both Elvis and Bullwinkle – at the same time! Over the past 23 years, Swami has authored such classic books as Driving Your Own Karma; When You See a Sacred Cow, Milk It for All It’s Worth; Duck Soup for the Soul; and Swami for Precedent: A 7-Step Plan to Heal the Body Politic and Cure Electile Dysfunction. Swami is the alter ego of author and humorist Steve Bhaerman, whose latest “serious” work is a book with cellular biologist Bruce Lipton called Spontaneous Evolution: Our Positive Future and a Way To Get There from Here. Steve will be signing copies of this book at the event. Join the fun as “turban-powered” Swami Beyondananda creates a field of hearty laughter and inspired celebration. And tell all your friends, because when it comes to laughter, the more the merrier! Presented by Transitions Radio Magazine (TRM) and the Santa Fe Center for Spiritual Living. Also listen to Swami on TRM May 27, June 3, and June 10 .

Date/Time: Wednesday, June 20, 7:00 pm Location: Santa Fe Center for Spiritual Living, 505 Camino de los Marquez Admission: $20 in advance, $25 at the door Information: (505) 983-5022

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By Robert Genn

PS: “Many of our failures in life and art come about because of the lack of strategy. This is the facility which is needed to produce better-than-average results.” — P. Papadopoulos.

Strategic Patience “

trategic patience” is popular jargon these days. It’s the strategy of letting time take care of at least part of the process. It precludes running off willynilly in a knee-jerk reaction — a reaction that often does more harm than good. Artists should at least consider the system.

Half-finished paintings left deserted and grumbling in studio corners are often busy mending themselves. Pulled into the light, they re-boot the artist’s neural pathways. Solutions are often clearer, easier, and less painful than originally thought. “All things come round to him who will but wait.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

You might imagine yourself as a big corporation. Big corporations regularly stop for bouts of strategic planning in which they ask themselves questions like “What do we do?” “For whom do we do it?” and “How do we excel?” These inquiries often result in better plans and future successes. Artists need to pause and ask, “What am I doing?” “Who am I doing it for?” “What

am I good at?” and “What do I need to work on?” As you work on your art, you need to be thinking ahead. In other words, you need to take workman-like actions that are setups for what is to come later. As you delay the gratification of the fun parts, patience is required. You may also need to wait to see what your work suggests. Just as in a game of chess, early minor moves prepare the way for later major ones. This is perhaps a more deliberate way of working than you might be used to — particularly if you’re a spontaneous, intuitive painter who works fast in the hope that things will work out. “Hope,” says Brian Tracy “is not a strategy.” Looking around among my limited number of acquaintances, I feel that many artists need to shuck off the popular romance of inspiration and acting on the spur of the moment. They need, among other things, strategic patience for making better decisions. The result will be higher quality work.

Esoterica: Strategic patience also applies to the business side of art. Getting work out of the studio and into galleries is basic to our business. What puzzles me is how some artists expect instant action from their dealers. I knew one guy who, as a young man, routinely sent a painting to a dealer and waited until it was sold before starting another. This is an example of the wrong kind of patience. When his paintings began to take a year to sell, he had already forgotten how to paint. Artists need to think of galleries as places to store their products. When you do this, you will find yourself simply wallowing in joyous creativity. Get a million dollars worth of strategically placed art in storage, and you can go where you want and do what you like. This is a strategy you can eat.

Half-finished paintings left deserted and grumbling in studio corners are often busy mending themselves.

Reprinted with permission from Robert Genn. Robert writes a twice-weekly letter to subscribers at PaintersPost.com. He can be reached at rgenn@saraphina.com.

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By Susie Arnett, Idea Coach

Big and Small

have noticed something about myself. Whenever I feel really big and powerful and confident, this feeling changes after a few hours and I begin to judge myself. This pattern was particularly clear over a recent weekend. I attended the Tadasana Festival, an urban yoga and music festival in Los Angeles, during which I practiced four to six hours of yoga per day. Although I used to have a strong yoga practice, when I had children nine years ago it fell by the wayside. I had barely taken a class over the last decade. During the weekend festival, though, I got my yoga back. It changed my body and my mind. The festival reminded me how yoga can be a powerful technology to shift consciousness. I was lucky to get into Baron Baptiste’s Power Yoga class. He is an inspiring teacher. Although his path of asanas is physical, he is actually teaching students to move past our limitations. I was able to hold the crow pose for the first time in my life, not because I had gotten stronger or more flexible in one day, but because he helped me believe I could. The next morning, I started the day with Seane Corn’s Detox Flow Yoga class. For those of you who are not familiar with Seane, she is one of the best teachers out there, in my opinion. Like Baron, she expands beyond the physical practice, discussing the process of detoxing not only our bodies but our minds, our hearts, and our planet. Her line is: “It’s 22

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not what you eat, but what’s eating you.” In other words, you can eat all the right things, but if you’re continually stressed, miserable, and negative, all the glutenfree, organic, free-range, locally grown stuff will marinate in your misery and your body will still suffer.

How do I get back to that wonderful space where synchronicity occurs — where resources easily show up for my projects, and where stuff happens?

Leap about conquering what he calls your “upper limit.” I had clearly hit mine and was looking for tools to move through it. The first step for myself was identifying an inner voice of parental energy that says I cannot take up very much space or be very big. I experience this voice so clearly in my body that I need to breathe through it on a physical level. No amount of analysis or mental activity can touch the energy at this physical level. I must ask myself, How do I get back to that wonderful space where synchronicity occurs — where resources easily show up for my projects, and where stuff happens? In the past, my success came through hard work, perseverance, and what I would have called luck. However, now I understand that luck is just another word for a specific state of being. Yoga helps me get there. I’m excited to try GaiamTV.com so I can do yoga at home any time I lose my way. It all comes down to self-mastery — understanding yourself well enough to know how to get to that place inside you where anything happen. I’m sure many of you readers understand this concept. I certainly did. But are you taking the steps to get there daily? I have not done so often enough. Are you actively cultivating that energy right now? This is as crucial an aspect of the idea-development process as calling distributors and writing up business plans. How do you get to that place inside you? How often do you practice getting there?

After Seane’s class (and, by then, 12 hours of yoga in three days), amazing things began to happen. I began to feel big and powerful. I was taking up space. I visited a friend and her husband afterwards, and I had no self-doubt. At their home, I met someone with funding who is very interested in two of my projects. But then, later that day, after my last yoga class of the weekend, I began to contract. I began judging myself and judging others. I wondered, Is it possible to continually expand without any contraction? Or is contraction a necessary part of the process, like exhaling? That night, at dinner, an understanding friend recommended Gay Hendrick’s book The Big

Susie Arnett loves ideas and the process of making them real. As a producer and programming executive for companies like MTV, Lifetime, Warner Brothers, and Studios USA, she spent almost 15 years developing and bringing to air documentary and non-fiction programming. Now she works with individuals and businesses, coaching them through the process of bringing their unique ideas to market. She is passionate about bringing good ideas to the masses, and about helping the masses bring their good ideas to the world. For more information, contact her directly at e2mama@mac.com.

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Thrive or Not

have a fundamental problem. I believe in our constitutional government. I believe in the wisdom of our nation’s Founding Fathers, and I trust the experiences they acquired during years of oppression. I believe they had to struggle to create a government composed of checks and balances to form a more perfect union. For 236 years our nation has stood through thick and thin. However, just because I believe in our government doesn’t mean my eyes are closed to humanity’s imperfections. Democracy, as we’ve all read, is an imperfect human structure. Being involved in a democracy is a guaranteed aspirin investment. It involves the art of diplomacy and a game of balance. And a game it has certainly become.

These people have a very rightwing agenda, which they’ve managed to cover up with a velvet glove of diplomacy.

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I confess I haven’t kept up with the movement called Thrive, started by Foster Gamble and his wife, Kimberly. Recently I viewed the film Thrive they supposedly sponsored and had a brief introduction to the Gambles. My first impression was pretty mixed. As time passed, I began to assemble a strong opinion about the film as some of its clouded secrets revealed themselves. It is my personal conclusion that these people have a very right-wing agenda, which they’ve managed to cover up with a velvet glove of diplomacy. Their goal is to divide and conquer by appealing to a very liberal base. They consider themselves both liberal and conservative, but their agenda speaks more loudly about conspiratorial government. For the political science set, this movement represents a merger of very conservative and liberal forces. The members consider themselves centrists; in fact, this claim is far from the truth. One cannot be centrist while expounding on the elimination of long-standing government ideals and validating flying saucers. It would be worthwhile to discover the Gambles’ political affiliation. I managed to catch Ms. Gamble off guard with a trick comment. I phrased my statement to her this way: “I’m writing about Obamacare.” I waited a second as she smiled at me. Then I continued, “I’m supporting Obamacare.” Her smile quickly faded. She retorted, “What the government gives can easily be taken away.” True, but this was an interesting response from someone trying to appeal to a more ‘liberal’ base. The film Thrive talks at length about following the money trail. I personally don’t have time to dig up information about the Gambles and their movement. Are these folks funded by right-wing supporters or organizations? We shall see. If you or others you know are considering getting involved with this group, I recommend care. You might not get what you want. I regret paying $5 to see their propaganda film, which is full of promises and harbors an agenda based on the fear of a militaristic, over-controlling government. What is Thrive’s solution? To thrive unencumbered by large government. An honest conversation would reveal a lot more solutions not dependent on false hopes. I’m standing on the circumference of a large circle. On the opposite side sits Thrive. All of us want to participate in good things. But be careful of becoming vulnerable to clever vultures.

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The Horking Sound of Trouble

he transition between my sleep state and waking state is a delicate time for me, as it is for all of you. My dream is to be gently awakened by the sound of birds, a little classical music, and the smell of coffee brewed by my loving wife. Apparently, that is never going to happen.

For example, take last week. Monday morning began with the horking sound of a puppy’s dry heaves. Try it yourself. With a bit of guttural intonation, as loud as you can, repeat “Hork, hork, hork.” Then “Gak, gak, gak.” Finally, “Garumph.” Now imagine that sound is about five inches from your ear. This was our alarm clock. This was how our Monday began. An existential footnote: Why can’t our reality ever match — even just once —our dreams? Really? Is that too much to ask? Apparently, the answer is, “Ha ha! Never!” But that’s a topic for another day. That morning, I stumbled out of bed. It was still ridiculously early. I led Nellie, the offending puppy, outside, thinking it was just typical puppy indigestion. The Bernese Mountain Dog puppy made straight for the little tufts of grass that grew between the stones of our walkway. She hungrily started to chomp. I thought, “What are you, a cow?” Still, every few minutes she’d start the horking again, and the dry heaves would come back with a little bit of whining. Laurie, my wife, and a wise and more compassionate person than I am (and The Woman Who Will Be Obeyed), watched me watching Nellie and said one word: “Vet.” 24

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Of course, that meant I was to take the dog to the vet. I am a freelance writer. By definition, that means I am free to pick up the kids, free to get the car fixed, and free to do the vet run. So I dressed, called the Eldorado Animal Clinic, and headed over.

Dr. Liz called me in, pointed to the X-ray, and said, “Wow, what a garbage gut!” Nellie’s symptoms typically go away by the time we walk in the door. But that day, after I described the symptoms, Dr. Liz (Dr. Liz Davis) said, “Let’s get an X-ray.” Nellie went in. I waited outside the Xray room. A few minutes passed, and then Dr. Liz called me in, pointed to the X-ray, and said, “Wow, what a garbage gut!” I immediately covered Nellie’s ears. What girl wants to hear that! But, looking at the X-ray, it was clear this puppy had been up to no good. Her stomach and intestines were a mash-up of “stuff,” including bright white spots that had the same density as bone. “Could be bones, could be stones,” Dr. Liz said, “but definitely a belly of garbage.” We talked about care. The key was to keep a watchful eye on Nellie and make sure she was pooping. What we wanted to see was that all the garbage was passing through and not stuck in her stomach. This meant a night with a flashlight watching her and inspecting her poop. Fun! Nellie seemed to calm down that night. The retching and gagging subsided. But the next morning it started up again. About 11:00 in the morning, it got worse. Plus,

Nellie was clearly anxious. She would lie down, get up, circle, and lie down again. She was whining and salivating. I knelt down beside her, and the first thing I noticed was that she suddenly seemed fat. I felt her abdomen and she yelped — it was swollen and rigid. Right away we knew we had an emergency. Nellie had bloat. Bloat in a dog is the build up of air, food, and fluids in the stomach. The stomach distends and puts pressure on the other organs in the abdominal and chest cavities. Bloat is the second leading cause of death in dogs. (The first is cancer.) It is a disease of healthy dogs, and especially of larger breeds. The mortality rate for bloat can be up to 50 percent, even with treatment. Fortunately, the Eldorado Animal Clinic is only minutes from our house. We brought her in and Dr. Liz did another Xray. It was easy to see that Nellie’s stomach and large intestines were huge. She still had a lot of “garbage” in her stomach, but the bloat was caused by gas. The good news about Nellie’s X-ray was that her stomach appeared as a single large organ. A serious complication of bloat can occur when the stomach twists, forming two separate pockets of gas. This condition, called volvulus, requires immediate surgery, not only to repair the stomach, but in some cases to remove organs (like the spleen) that have had their blood cut off long enough to cause tissue death. Nellie was sedated and a rubber tube was inserted down her throat into her stomach (gastric dilation). This immediately relieved the pressure in a whoosh of gas and fluids. It also relieved her pain. We took her home with instructions to put her on a bland diet, keep her indoors, and carefully watch her. (And, as always, her poop.) The gagging and horking were still present. The next morning she ate and began to bloat again. We took her in. The bloating was not as bad, so Dr. Liz said to just keep an eye on her.

It took a couple of days, but Nellie eventually returned to her princessy, thinks-she’s-the-alpha-dog self. And she farted a lot. There is a lot of information online about bloat. Some of it is contradictory. For example, some people recommend that you feed your dog from a raised bowl. Other people suggest feeding from a bowl on the floor. Depends on who you ask. But here is what we learned. First, bloating is a life threat to a dog. It is not something about which you should think, “Let’s see how he looks in the morning.” If you suspect bloat, your dog needs to be seen now. Tomorrow morning might be too late. Here are some signs to look for:

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A late sign (read “urgent”) is the distended and rigid belly. Normally a dog’s belly is loose and relaxed. With bloat, the belly becomes hard and almost percussive, like a drum. It might only be rigid on one side, but this is still serious.

With bloat, the belly becomes hard and almost percussive, like a drum. Finally, this condition needs to be treated by a vet. No home remedies, please. We go through a lot for our pets. Sometimes we take them for granted until they experience some illness, they go missing, or they are in pain. We were lucky. We knew the symptoms, we live close to a great animal clinic, and we had the time and resources to take care of the puppy. So, this is one more thing to add to your worry list: Your dog bloating. But if it makes you feel any better, just remember that a farting dog is a healthy dog.

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Mound-builders of the Ancient Southeastern Woodlands Opening Reception May 25 isit this twoperson art exhibit inspired by a journey to explore the ancient Native American mounds of the Southeast United States. Linda Lomahaftewa (ChoctawHopi) and America Meredith (Cherokee Nation) display their prints, paintings, photography, and mixed media inspired by the sites. Thanks to the online funding platform Kickstarter, Lomahaftewa Top: Year of the Dragon, Linda Lomahaftewa, and Meredith took a monotype, 2012. two-week trip to visit Bottom: Grand Village of the Natchez, Mississippi, 15 mounds and other America Meredith, digital collage, 2012. archaeological sites, including Spiro Mounds in Oklahoma and Echota Mounds in Georgia. Both artists were able to visit the mother mounds of their respective tribes: NanihWaiya, origin of the Choctaws in Mississippi, and Kituwah, mother mound of the Cherokee in North Carolina. Lomahaftewa, an instructor at the Institute of American Indian Arts and an artist who has exhibited internationally, says, “It was the trip of a lifetime.” Painter, printmaker, and arts-educator Meredith concurs, adding, “It was great to learn how contemporary tribal people maintain such vibrant and living relationships with these mounds.” Mounds are colossal hand-built earthworks created by Native Americans prior to European contact. The Native American mound-builders flourished during the Mississippian Era, from 800 to 1400 A.D., a period characterized by city-building, hierarchical governments, intensive maize agriculture, and a unique iconography that spanned from Oklahoma to Florida. Several of the sites Lomahaftewa and Meredith visited, such as Poverty Point, date back much further. Poverty Point, a planned community in present-day Louisiana, is marked by elaborate earthworks and predates agriculture.

Kindred Spirits: Open House Celebrates Senior Animals

Dates/Times: Opening reception Friday, May 25, 6 to 9 pm. Exhibit open to the public May 26 and 27, and June 2 and 3, from 1 to 6 pm. May 28 through June 1 by appointment only. Location: Ahalenia Studios, 2889 Trades West Road, Unit E, off Siler Road (street parking only) Admission: Free Information and Appointments: (505) 699-5882 or ahalenia@yahoo.com. Website and blog: Ahalenia.com/Woodlands

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f you love old dogs, horses, and poultry, then come celebrate senior animals at Kindred Spirit Animal Sanctuary’s Spring Open House. Dogs like Geoffrey, a sweet 12- or 13-year-old Newfie-mix, will meet you at the gate with wagging tails. Geoffrey and his friends — many senior dogs, three horses, and a wide variety of poultry — are celebrating their collective birthdays during the Open House. Visitors are invited to tour the peaceful, serene, eco-friendly grounds, meet all of the senior dogs, and learn about the wellness programs that help keep them happy and healthy. Enjoy free presentations in the Angel Room by knowledgeable health-care providers. The informative, educational presentations include: Saturday, 11:30 am – 12:30 pm: “Managing Pain and Disabilities” by Mike Dobesh, DVM Saturday, 1 – 3:30 pm: “Investing in Health vs. Illness” by Mary Anne Schadler, DVM Sunday, 11:30 am – 12:30 pm: “Animal Communication” by Leta Worthington Sunday, 1 – 2 pm: “TTouch for Wellness” by Jessica O’Donogue Sunday, 2:30 – 3:30 pm: “Acupuncture for Health” by Audrey Shannon, DVM All of the speakers are happy to share their expertise and answer questions to help you provide your own senior dogs with the best of wellness care. Kindred Spirits provides a safe, healing environment for old, formerly unwanted dogs, horses, and poultry. In addition, our educational programs focus on the beauty of animals as teachers of unconditional love. Especially beautiful in the spring, with flowers and trees in bloom, the Sanctuary is a welcoming, warm place to visit any time of year. All of the animals, particularly the senior dogs, look forward to meeting you at the Open House. They hope you’ll spend some time with them and enjoy a tour with one of the dedicated volunteers. Remember to sign the dogs’ big birthday card!

Date/Time: Saturday and Sunday, May 19 and 20, from 10 am until 4 pm Location: Kindred Spirits is located 20 minutes south of Santa Fe on Highway 14, one-half mile south of Lone Butte General Store (Shell Station). Look for the signs and balloons on the mailbox. Information: KindredSpiritsNM.org or (505) 471-5366

Southwest Barter Club

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hen the economy is in a slump, business owners must find new ways to manage their cash flow and reach customers. Members of the Southwest Barter Club have found a different currency and a different way to do business through a tried and true method — bartering. “We are not letting this weak cash economy take the joy out of our lives,” says Shirley Schaan, owner and founder of Southwest Barter Club. “My vision for the club is to have a network of business owners enjoying new-found ways to enrich their lives by using the age-old bartering system.” A new economy is emerging as business owners are starting to think outside the box. Bartering has been a proven success since the beginning of time, and now, in today’s tough economic times, bartering is making a strong comeback with a modern twist. To barter today, you no longer have to trade straight across the board in a system with individuals deciding if the products or services are a fair exchange. With third-party barter exchange, Southwest Barter Club members list what they have to offer in an online store. Other members then select the item or service and purchase it with Barter Bucks, the club’s currency. Each Barter Buck is equal to $1. “When a member barters, the Barter Bucks are transferred from their SWBC account into the other member’s account,” Schaan says. “It’s just that easy.” Club members can buy locally or from any of the 50,000-plus members in other barter exchanges around the world that use the DoBarter Online Software as Southwest Barter Club does. Southwest Barter Club members can select from $193 million worth of items for sale. Members can use their Barter Bucks for advertising, house cleaning, dining out, alternative health care, parties, massages, car and home repair, lawn care, jewelry, pet care, real estate, or luxury vacations all over the world. Through bartering, friendships are forged. Luxuries are once again enjoyed. New ideas take form, and hope is reintroduced to the marketplace. “Bartering takes the focus off just making money and puts the focus back on the business owner’s product and service. When you barter the product or service, it seems to have more value, and you have more pride in what you are doing. You are not just doing business for the Almighty Dollar,” Schaan says. Bartering puts fun back in doing business. The Southwest Barter Club has free events four times per year, at which members gather to display their products or offer their services. The next event will be “Barter in the Park — Featuring Local Artists.” The public is invited to attend and enjoy live music, food, and booths of Southwest Barter Club members.

“Barter in the Park – Featuring Local Artists” Date/Time: Sunday, June 17, 1 to 5 pm Location: Rio Rancho’s Haynes Park, across from Intel Information: (505) 715-2889 or SouthwestBarterClub.com.

on’t miss the season finale! Gold medal winner of the International Violin Competition of Indianapolis, Clara-Jumi Kang, performs Lalo’s virtuosic Symphonie Espagnole on violin. Also enjoy Copland’s Billy the Kid and Stravinsky’s dramatic Firebird. Clara-Jumi Kang was born in Mannheim, Germany, to a musical family. She started playing violin and piano at the age of three, and entered the Mannheim Musikhochschule at the age of four as their youngest student ever. There she studied with Prof. Gradov. At the age of five, she moved to Luebeck to study under Zakhar Bron. Kang had her first debut at the age of five with the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra. When she had just turned seven, she auditioned at the Juilliard School. She was accepted with full scholarship to study under Dorothy Delay and Hyo Kang. During this period, Kang had many performances in the United States as well as in Europe and Asia. Her debut concert in Korea was at the age of eight, performing the Mozart Concerto no.5 at the Seoul Arts Center with the Korean Chamber Ensemble. At that time, the media discovered her and she became known throughout Asia. She created her first recording at the age of nine for Teldec, performing the Beethoven Triple Concerto with her sibling. In spring 1998, just before her 12th birthday, Kang auditioned for Daniel Barenboim and fascinated him with her performance. At 15, she entered the Berlin Hanns Eisler Hochschule to study under Christopher Poppen. Kang is currently studying under Nam Yun Kim at the Korean National University of Arts. Clara-Jumi Kang has won many prizes in international competitions, including: third prize at the 2007 Tibor Varga Competition, first prize at the 2009 Seoul International Violin Competition, second prize at the 2009 Hannover International Violin Competition, and first prize at the 2010 Sendai International Violin Competition. In September 2010 she won the first prize in the prestigious International Violin Competition of Indianapolis.

Date/Time: Sunday, May 20, 4:00 pm Location: The Lensic, Santa Fe Admission: $20 to $70. Contact the Santa Fe Symphony at (505) 983-1414 or (800) 480-1319, or The Lensic Box Office at (505) 988-1234. Tickets are also available online at SantaFeSymphony.org or Lensic.org.

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“ t was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us.” — Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities (1859)

or three inspiring, informative, and valuable days, this conference features some of the country’s leading authors and experts on conscious living and wise aging. It is presented by AgeNation and Empower New Mexico. The conference offers valuable insights, practical tools, inspiring messages, and heart-opening musical celebrations to help Santa Feans harvest the wisdom of the

Dickens’ words ring true today. According to 2007 statistics from the New Mexico Coalition to End Homelessness, approximately 1,500 Santa Feans are homeless. That was before the recession hit. You see some of them holding signs outside your supermarket. However, most are invisible – doing their best to look “normal,” sipping coffee in a café, walking purposefully down a street, sleeping discreetly any place that feels safe. They are trying to trust, trying to believe in the goodness of the world. Most would not ask you for help. When they do ask, we often don’t want to get involved. We think, Pull yourself up by your bootstraps. Take care of your own problems. I have plenty of my own. Life sucks. Get used to it. We imagine we know their story. Or, we just don’t care. Sometimes we stop, dig into our pockets, unsure if our money will be spent on liquor, or if it matters. What’s $1 or $5 anyway? We try to connect, exchange a few words, squeeze a hand, offer hope. But we walk away unfulfilled. The script was loaded. The exchange, flat. We are the haves. They are the have-nots. We cannot find a way to stand on common ground. Santa Fe Need and Deed is a new, non-profit organization dedicated to shifting this paradigm. It is run by those who have experienced homelessness firsthand. The founders invite other Santa Feans to meet them face to face — to learn what it is to be homeless from those who know best. The mission of Santa Fe Need and Deed is to match the deeds, donations, and services of givers with those Santa Feans who are homeless and in need of financial, spiritual, and emotional support or short-term housing and transportation. The organization provides emergency assistance while developing a deeper understanding of homelessness from a one-on-one caring perspective. Since February, Santa Fe Need and Deed has met weekly to create a “Circle of Compassion” around those experiencing homelessness. “We don’t assume we understand what the homeless person needs,” says Martha, the group’s founder. “We ask them, and we listen.” Recent requests included rent money, study help, transportation, moral support, and phone calls to identify resources. The circle creatively tackles problems together. Each person gives only what they choose to contribute, from the heart. You are invited to join.

Santa Fe Need & Deed is a non-religious, non-political organization. Date/Time of Open Meetings: Every Wednesday, 5 pm Location: Christ Church of Santa Fe, 1213 Don Gaspar Ave. Information: On Facebook at “Santa Fe Need & Deed” or (505) 920-2227

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Age Nation past, live more successfully and joyfully in the present, and chart a sane and sustainable course to celebrate the future. Specifically designed for the City Different, where 62 percent of our residents are 50 and older, the conference speaks to older GenXers (ages 40 to 47), Boomers (ages 48 to 66), and Elders (age 67-plus), as well as people from younger generations who want to improve the quality of their lives, create stronger relationships, improve career and financial aspirations, explore alternate lifestyles, reconnect with their personal dreams, deepen individual spiritual practices, and learn how to leave behind a legacy of genuine value to those who come after us. Special guest presenters include a truly outstanding collection of world-class authors, innovators, and experts who are voices of wisdom and truth: Jean Houston, Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, Ram Dass, Michael Mead, Julia Cameron, Dr. Hyla Cass, Michael Gelb, Kelly Howell, Camille Adair, Francis Phillips, Robin Fisher Roffer, and others. They present engaging and informative talks and programs. The event is hosted by George and Sedena Cappannelli, co-founders of AgeNation, who also give a talk on their new book, Do Not Go Quietly: A Guide to Living the Life You Were Born to Live. Navigating Your Future also includes a number of special musical performances by well-known local performers, excerpts of films and videos, unique slide shows, and much more. A special Saturday-evening program features wonderful entertainment and the presentation of special AgeNation Life Achievement Awards to Zalman SchachterShalomi, the author of Ag-ing into Sag-ing and the man who launched the conscious aging movement in America, and Ram Dass, guide and teacher to millions and the author of Be Here Now and Still Here. A portion of funds from the evening goes to the support of Empower New Mexico and Kitchen Angels. There are still opportunities for organizations wishing to participate as title, presenting, and major sponsors as well as featured booth presenters. Early-bird tickets go on sale May 15.

Dates: August 24 to 26 Location: Scottish Rite Center, Santa Fe Information: Sedena Cappannelli, (505) 982-5754, AgeNation.com, Sedena@agenation.com

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Portions of this article were adapted from Debra Rosenman’s upcoming book, The Chimpanzee Chronicles: Personal Narratives Revealing the Heartache, Grace and Truth about Captive Chimpanzees and Their Humans. This book is the first in the heart2heart series, to be published in 2013. Debra Rosenman has an unyielding passion for chimpanzees and has been speaking out on their behalf for over a decade. Always holding to a higher vision, Debra instills a message of hope in all her animal advocate work. She is a writer, media consultant, workshop leader, and the founder of Project Sweet Dreams, an innovative program that teaches children about compassion and humane ethics through the study of Great Apes with a focus on education, fundraising, and community relations. As a certified Rubenfeld Synergist and Somatic Archaeologist™ in private practice in Santa Fe, Debra specializes in somatic-based healing of generational trauma. Debra leads “Journey into the Animal Heart” circles using collage, prayerful ceremony, guided meditation, and an ‘I and Thou’ dialogue with the animal world to assist in unearthing the powerful voice within and to support our ability to effect change in the world.

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Finale By John Cole Karen and John Cole, publishers, Santa Fe oneheart

oday’s realities have forced Karen and me to make the hard decision to close the door on Santa Fe oneheart magazine. It is a sad day, but necessary. Both of us must move on. The issue you hold in your hands is our last. It is hard to believe how far our little magazine has traveled in such a short time. Two years ago, a cover from SF oneheart was published in Kolkata (Calcutta), India, in an English newspaper called the Telegraph. A year later, some of our articles were reprinted for the women’s detention center in Silver City. From Albuquerque to Denver, Las Vegas to Española, and well beyond the border, people responded to our creation. I will always be proud of the little magazine that could. Karen and I send a thank you to all of our readers for three richly experienced and enjoyable years. Many readers have loved this magazine, and they can continue to do so by visiting our website. In the coming months, I will be uploading all 36 past issues in digital form. Thank you to all our advertisers, who knew we were giving them the visibility they needed. We always had a partnership with our advertisers, and we are very grateful for every hard-earned cent they contributed to our business in the belief that we would succeed each month. Thank you to all the people who spent time sharing their stories with us and, in some situations, furthering their own successes. The people we encountered through this project enriched our lives. I wish we could have shared more stories. We barely scratched the surface of the characters and fascinating people in our community. Thank you to all of our writers and poets, and to those who offered submissions for the calendar and Incentivos sections. Thanks to our feature writers: Cindy Bellinger, Gershon Siegel, Tina Boyle, and all the others we were so fortunate to have. Thank you to our columnists: Betsy Toon by JohnCole, Model, Hersch Wilson, Alan Hutner, Robert Genn, and Susie 2012© Arnett, all of whom turned in invaluable copy every month. Thanks to Gail Vivino, whose editorial contributions crafted all of our written works into some of the highest quality articles found in Santa Fe; also, her past astrology columns enlightened us all. Thank you to my son, Nat, who hung in there delivering magazines diligently every week. Thanks to Willie Barela of Distributech, who honored his contract, even when pressured by others, and The Santa Fe New Mexican and Signature Offset for their valuable print skills. Mostly, thank you to my wife, Karen, who helped get the magazine off the ground and whose heart was always at the core of every issue we published. Karen and I deliv-

ered the magazine throughout Santa Fe for all three years, and for three months we delivered to every driveway in Eldorado. We know how big a job it is to deliver, and to know where the magazine is, and where it isn’t. As for myself, well, I got really good at invoicing, balancing the checkbook with credit-card bulk deposits, taking out the garbage, saying yes or no to proposals, and, in general, honing skills in ways I could never have imagined, such as writing and drawing my little cartoons. Stressful and fun the whole thing has been.

Our Future We came very close to publishing an ABQ oneheart (in Albuquerque), and could have done so if SF oneheart had built itself a more favorable financial foundation. Everywhere I went in Albuquerque, the magazine was viewed positively. We would have had little problem being accepted. Not to be hindered in any way, I may continue with a much smaller online presence at SANTAFEoneheart.com, ABQ oneheart.com, and our two Facebook positions. By the time this last issue hits Santa Fe’s streets, Karen and I will have participated in 2012’s first Santa Fe Society of Artists show behind the First National Bank. I will have completed some freelance graphic-design projects, including a book of Jane Lipman’s very richly projected poems. I plan to continue my graphic-design work, as last year was a good year for me. I received two gold awards from the New York Book Club, and a bronze from the Ben Franklin Awards for a book I designed titled A Passion for Tarpon by Andy Mill. I also finished working on Steven Counsell’s coffee-table compilation titled Illuminations: Paintings, Poetry, and Drawings. So far this year, I have another book nominated for a Ben Franklin Award that has already taken first place with the Independent Publishers.

Departure I leave the publishing business with relief. The experience of publishing SF oneheart has truly taught us many lessons and allowed us to experience many desires, hopes, losses, and successes. Karen and I would never have experienced what we did had we not crossed the gate. Now we’re on to another, more rewarding life. Both of us thank everyone deeply. It is time to move forward. It is time to change once again.

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