FISHBOWL MAGAZINE SEPTEMBER 2021

September 2021 - FISSUE #156

Lift

New Paintings by Lisa Lipsett at Salt Spring Gallery page 3

Dr. Hannah Webb N.D.

Anxiety & How To Support Your Physiology to Help Minimize It page 4

Live Music on the Rock page 7

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On Our Cover

Lift

New Paintings

By Lisa Lipsett Sept 24-Oct 13, 2021 Opening Wine & Cheese Reception Saturday Sept 25, 5-7pm Salt Spring Gallery Lift builds on Lisa Lipsett’s current fascination with flight, in particular the free

Who is Salt Spring Gallery?

flow movement of moths and butterflies.

Textured wings dusted with warm pink,

Three words describe our gallery: fresh, local, art

vibrant tangerine, electric purples and cream rise up in bursts and flourishes in her images.

Flight is wild, spontaneous, playful, full of exuberance, luxurious, a potent antidote to feeling pinned down. It lifts the spirit.

Lisa Lipsett’s painting style is expressive and nature based. Fascinated by the within of things, she paints the energetic signature of life. Excavated layers of unconventionally mixed

We represent the best qualities of how

and the work we do. We are proud of our

art is showcased for sale. We are local. We

successes and we motivate and support one

are available. We are present. Our gallery is a place where you can interact directly with the art and artists as there is always an artist available to talk to. We co-own, co-run and co-create together. Because we

and matched materials such as oil, dry pigment,

are self-run we can be spontaneous with

watercolour, gold leaf, graphite and cold

what we display and how we display it. And

wax maximizes creative possibilities. Themes include contemplation, harmony, beauty and belonging. Lipsett is president of the Salt Spring Gallery, an educator with a focus on art and nature, and an avid sailor who loves that extra lift, the boost attained when pointed up into the breeze.

www.paintwithnature.com

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because we are self-run, we all enjoy what we do and how we do it. Here at the gallery, we are dedicated to sharing fresh vision and being a fundamental creative nexus for Salt Spring Island.

We are not just artists but artists who care about each other, our community

another. When you come through our door, it is this positive energy you will experience.

We are artists who are approachable, and we choose to be in the eye of the public. Interacting with the public not only supports our gallery and community, but in turn, we are fed by the enthusiasm and delight of those who visit our gallery. We have art shows and celebrations that invite the public to experience what we do, to not only promote ourselves and sell our fine work, but also because we enjoy sharing our achievements and vision.

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Health with

PRODUCT REVIEWS by: Genevieve Price

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After a long hot and dry summer I did some sunscreen testing. This was by far my favourite. This sunscreen is weightless and offers high protection, for a day outside.

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Anxiety & How to Support Your Physiology to Help Minimize It Anxiety is usually very multi-factorial, meaning that it has many contributing factors that cause it to arise in the body. Early traumatic events that throw off our nervous system and put us into fear, helplessness, and a sense of the world as threatening can be embedded in us in ways we may or may not remember. Anxiety may be actually a totally reasonable response to stressful circumstances. Anxiety may be a signal telling you that you need to move away from something, that something is dangerous, or that something in your life needs to change. Anxiety that you feel may actually beyond the personal and come from you tuning in to the collective anxiety of a challenging time (i.e. the recent year and a half in the world).

And what about very physical causes? There are aspects of our physiology that may become imbalanced that can show up like and be interpreted as anxiety. When working with anxiety it is really important to explore these pieces as they can really really help in shifting the body to a more balanced state, and bring capacity to allow your deep work in other ways (i.e. counselling, meditation, breathe practice and cold water swimming) to be much more effective.

One important example includes chronic sleep deprivation. This can undermine the sanity and stability of even the most balanced of people. Another important example is thyroid function. If your thyroid is in a HYPER functioning state, this ramps up the metabolism and functioning of all your cells. Symptoms of a hyperthyroid condition include anxiety, palpitations, and sweating, among other symptoms.

Sounds a lot like anxiety!

This might be an obvious one, but – caffeine! This stimulates the system and can contribute to anxiety. It is dysregulating, even for those who are used to drinking caffeinated drinks regularly. Don’t get me wrong, I love coffee, but it isn’t good for people with high anxiety.

On a similar note, sugar is also really impactful on the stability of the body. Sugary foods and refined carbohydrates can put us on a rollercoaster of up and down with our energy. Less obvious is if you have insulin resistance, and your body isn’t processing and absorbing sugars very well, which means you may be on this roller coaster despite a relatively low refined carbohydrate/sugar diet (you can do a blood test to assess for this).

Another REALLY important factor (okay, they are all important factors) is progesterone. If your sex hormones (estrogen and progesterone) are not balanced, you can feel anxious. This commonly happens in perimenopause where women often have new onset high anxiety and resulting difficulties sleeping. Because this comes from a hormone imbalance, it is near impossible to address this sort of anxiety without addressing hormone balance.

Other factors that can contribute include high levels of inflammation in the body and lack of gut microbiome diversity and resiliency. I believe it is essential to work on anxiety from a variety of angles, from mental-emotional-spiritual to the physical plane!

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Centre for spiritual living and practice

Star of the Sea Centre for Spiritual Living

September Offerings Tuesday, August 10 Celebrating Aging

ArtSpring Reopens

for the 2021-22 season

Here we go again! After the stop-start of the past 18 months it feels good to be putting the finishing touches to the ArtSpring Presents 2021-22 season. From October - May we’ll be bringing you live music, dance, and theatre from national and international professional touring artists. It’s a smaller, but still mighty, new season of wonderful cultural events.

We’re blessed with four incredible dance companies - two of whom are performing for the first time on the ArtSpring stage. Vancouver-based Wen Wei Dance (Ying Yun) kicks off the season, followed by contemporary Indigenous company Red Sky Performance (Trace) from Toronto. Dancers of Damelahamid (Spirit and Tradition), return to Salt Spring to showcase the bridging of traditional customs with living practice, and the iconic Canadian dance artist Peggy Baker (unmoored) joins us for the first and last time before her retirement with a moving solo piece.

Classical and contemporary music sit side by side in a strong program, starting with Victoria folk trio West My Friend, and beguiling singer songwriter Stephen Fearing. Baroque violin/viola duo Chloe Kim and Joanna Hood continue into the new year, and we finally get to welcome premier concert pianist Angela Hewitt. The early music of Beethoven is celebrated by a ten-strong ensemble The Young Beethoven, and Argentinian soprano María Cristina Kiehr and lute player Ariel Abramovich present a songbook from the Spanish Renaissance. We’re also excited to welcome back the dynamic modern folk quartet The Fretless, and thrilling master of multiple musical styles, pianist Michael Kaeshammer.

We’re proud to present homegrown talent for our theatre offerings too - with Jeffrey Renn’s masterful one-man show, At Your Service: the Life and Yarns of Robert Service part 1 and part 2. And Jeffrey is joined by his partner Christina Penhale for their celebration of Shakespeare’s most iconic love scenes and characters, Lovin’ Shakespeare.

Join us to celebrate the reopening of ArtSpring. Full details of our season, including school shows, youth choirs and art workshops, community music and dance workshops, and creative residencies, can be found on our website artspring.ca Our website will also have updated details of current COVID protocols in place as we move through the season.

Ticket sales start Tuesday September 14 (for ArtSpring members and 2019-20 season subscribers), and Tuesday September 21 for general sales.

Box Office - Tuesday-Thursday 10am-1pm tickets.artspring.ca | 250.537.2102 | tickets@artspring.ca

Online on Zoom 1 to 3 pm This event was originally scheduled for May 11th and May 25th. The second session had to be postponed due to illness. It has now been rescheduled for September 21st. Those who attended the first session are, of course, welcome. Newcomers are also entirely welcome.

The later adult years can be a time of profound personal and spiritual evolution, and of contribution to society. Aging has come out of the closet and is being redefined. Come and celebrate yourself with others.

JayaLynda Cole will guide participants in a personal reflection of aging as a catalyst to meaning, purpose and self-transformation, where soul lessons may be harvested from one’s own experience. Connect with your own source of guidance and inspiration along with others on a path to deeper wisdom and a richer experience of life. Explore spiritual practices for aging well without minimizing the apparent losses and the ‘fierceness’ of aging. There is no wrong or right way to growing older. Aging can liberate us from our old roles and offer a choice of new possibilities for a more authentic way of being.

JayaLynda’s approach is rooted in embodied presence by creating a safe, sacred place, that respects everyone’s experience within the collective “We” space. Meditations, writing/sketching, sharing, and movement are designed to open and free one’s self to enjoy the abundance, passions and gifts your lives have offered.

JayaLynda Cole, psycho-spiritual therapist, has worked internationally for decades with individuals and groups guiding them to discover the hidden gift within their perceived struggles and as their portal to inner peace. Now retired, her background has been private practice in transformational therapy, teaching, meditation, satsang, intuitive energy and body healing, including several years with Eckhart Tolle Teachings.

Recently her focus has been volunteering with Salt Spring Island Hospice facilitating individual and group sessions with the dying and the grieving, as well as facilitating Death Cafes.

Please register at staroftheseassi@gmail.com to receive the Zoom link.

Donations for participation in events are welcome.

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The Salt Spring National Art Prize

The 2021/2022

SSNAP Exhibition

pho t o c re dit br ia n e pps

Gulf Island artist brings timely morse code message to the Salt Spring National Art Prize The fourth biennial SSNAP exhibition opens this month and Pender Island artist Joanna Rogers plans to be there. Her work titled, “Save Our Souls” has a message embedded onto her weaving that’s relevant to today’s world. SSNAP caught up with Rogers and learned about her connection with Salt Spring.

1) As a Pender Island, textile-based artist, you’ve exhibited your work quite regularly, how does this compare to other shows?

SSNAP is not just a show, it’s an event - a happening - and as such is hugely important to both the local and national art scenes. Being selected as a finalist is one of the highlights of my career as an artist.

September 1st – September 29th (Mon./ Wed./Fri. 10AM – 5 PM, Tues./Thurs. 9AM – 5PM, Saturdays 10AM – 3Pm) (Art) Doug McMillin. Covid Faces. Please join us at the library to view Doug McMillin’s photo exhibit, Covid Faces. McMillin’s exhibit will focus on the eventful years of 2020 and 2021 while maintaining his distance. Doug will also be having a brief art talk on Tuesday, September 7th at 12PM about his photography show.

The exhibit can be viewed in the Community Program Room when not in use.

Thursday, September 2nd, 7PM. (Poetry Open Mic) Moe Clark. Please

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2) Your work is titled, “Save Our Souls” and it is written in morse cord, what is the story behind the name?

I was looking for a pertinent message to weave in morse code.

Most of us are familiar with the dot, dot, dot, dash, dash, dash, dot, dot, dot of SOS so I chose this as my starting point. It’s not only recognizable but also has entrenched associations with morse code.

3) The materials used in your artwork include hand woven and hand dyed mercerized cotton, along with natural dyes. How long a process was it to make this weaving?

This particular weaving was very labour intensive and took a huge number of hours from start to finish. The piece is over 15 feet long so it took many hours to weave. I was following a strict pattern so the morse code message can be read both vertically and horizontally.

4) Who has influenced you most as an artist and what are your future plans?

I graduated from the Textile Art program at Capilano College in 1994. It was such a wonderful experience. I was taught weaving

by Ruth Scheuing and Surface Design by Lesley Richmond.

I am currently working on a series of morse code weavings to be shown at the CCBC Gallery on Granville Island in 2023. Save Our Souls is the first piece in this series.

5) Lastly, will we see you on Salt Spring Island and do you plan to attend the SSNAP Finalists Exhibition on September 24?

I’m coming over to Salt Spring on September 24 for the opening and I will probably come back a couple of times with friends to see both the SSNAP Finalist Exhibition and the Parallel show. I am anticipating that both shows will be full of inspiring, thought-provoking and beautiful art and I’m hoping lots of people come out to see it.

join us on ZOOM at 7 PM with featured poet Moe Clark. âpihtawikosisâniskwêw (Métis / nêhiyaw / Norwegian / French / British) multidisciplinary artist Moe Clark is a 2Spirit singing thunderbird. She fuses together vocal improvisation with multilingual lyricism to create meaning that is rooted in personal legacy, ancestral memory and embodied knowledge. Originally from the prairies in Treaty 7, she’s called tio’tiá:ke / mooniyang (Montreal) home for over a decade. Her last solo album “Within” toured across North America and her video poem “nitahkôtan” won best indigenous language music video at the ImagiNative film festival. In 2016 she founded nistamîkwan: a transformational arts organization. Her

work has appeared the world over, including the Lincoln Centre (US), UBUD Writers & Readers Festival (ID) and Origins Festival in London (UK).

To register please email: programs@ saltspringlibrary.com Saturday September 4th, 11th, 18th, and 25th , 1PM – 3PM. (Family) Movie Matinees. Please join us in the Community Program Room on Saturdays, at 1 PM for family friendly Movie Matinees. On the marquee this month is: The Series of Unfortunate Events, The Secret Garden, Cheaper by the Dozen, and The Sandlot.

14 people are allowed in the Program Room so registration is required.

To register please email: kwalter@ saltspringlibrary.com

What’s Happening

Malibu Rising

on the Rock

by Taylor Jenkins Reid

September Live Entertainment

Mishka’s

Book

Reviews with Mishka Campbell

I wish I could predict how much I will love a book before I decide that I’m writing my review. Sometimes it seems like the perfect choice and then I finish it and feel kinda meh…but it’s far too late because deadlines are looming and while I read fast, I can’t guarantee I’ll be fast enough to pivot on a dime and not only READ a whole other book but have time to write a review as well. Have I already said too much?

I’m pretty sure you know where I’m going with this.

Taylor Jenkins Reid or TJR as the fans like to call her, is a good writer. Her books are engaging, and have a universal appeal with a balance of not too much silly fluff or too much heavy drama. They are the ideal summer read, enjoyable but not a huge commitment. You can pick them up and put them down and can follow the relatively uncomplicated plot…even after a few poolside cocktails. All of that said, “Malibu Rising”, is clearly not her best work. I read and liked both “Daisy Jones & the Six”, and “The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo”, and truthfully, I expected more of the same. This novel’s basic synopsis, is as follows: Four siblings, raised in Malibu, throw a yearly bash that is THE place to be. It’s 1983, summer is waning, and the four adult children of a famous singer are all struggling with some sort of crisis that is weighing on them. They love to surf, are all relatively good-looking, and while there has been some serious, painful struggles, this family has also always lived with a certain amount of privilege. The first half of the book has flashback chapters to their parents’ relationship and I’m not going to lie, that was definitely my favourite part. I was far more invested in the emotional roller coaster of their history than what was happening in the present day. There’s no doubt that you have empathy for these characters and that you’re drawn to their story, but it just didn’t culminate in any kind of wow. Perhaps that’s the fault of the fly leaf and the general buzz around a popular author’s new work. I felt I was promised big secrets, shocking reveals, and lives forever changed. Unfortunately, “Malibu Rising” fell a bit short of the mark.

Legion Branch 92 Entertainment Schedule Sept 3rd 8pm The County Line... outside Sept 4th 7:30 The Regulars... inside Sept 6th Labor Day Bash outside featuring, Rough and Tumble, Doug and The Buds and Everyday People... Free and all ages welcome, starts at noon, beer gardens and food Sept 10th 7:30 David Carl Band... inside Sept 11th 7:30 Karaoke Sept 17th 7:30 Blues night with Tom, Dave and Auntie Kate... outside Sept 18th 7:30 Rough and Tumble... inside Sept 24th 7:30 The Seiche... outside Sept 7:30 Karaoke 23rd Annual Music Under the Stars at The Tree House Café starting at 6pm Sept 3 Everyday people Sept 1 Nicky Mackenzie Sept 4 Duck Creak Sept 2 Oliver Swain Sept 5 Tom Hooper

MOBY's Daily Live Entertainment Dancing will begin September 10 pending regulations Sept 1 Vixx (6-9pm); Music Bingo 7:30pm Sept 3 On the deck: Buck Dodgers Band Sept 4 On the deck: Sharon Bailey

Sept 7 Trivia 7:30pm Sept 8 Music Bingo 7:30pm Sept 10 Superfeather Sept 11 Everyday People Sept 14 Trivia 7:30pm Sept 15 Music Bingo 7:30pm Sept 17 Caleb Hart Sept 18 Caleb Hart Sept 21 Trivia 7:30pm Sept 22 Music Bingo 7:30pm Sept 24 Ange Hehr Sept 25 Everyday People Sept 28 Trivia 7:30pm Sept 29 Music Bingo 7:30pm

Salt Spring Arts is thrilled to present the Summer Outdoor Concert Series!

This year’s events feature back-to-back late Summer evenings of live music from September 9-11th. There has never been a better time to support our music community, and here we get the chance to celebrate many local acts with free concerts in the park!

When: Sept 9-11th @ 6-8pm Where: Centennial Park Details: ssartscouncil.com The Summer Outdoor Concert Series presents a diverse collection of musical acts, showcasing genres from punk rock to singer/ songwriter and more. The events will feature artists such as Saltspringunderground and Renée Layla, as well as a special Nashville-style writer’s round hosted by Valdy. We all know how difficult this past year has been for all of us, especially the

arts community. These events are designed to support a broad array of entirely local talent, bringing Salt Spring together in a central location - from families to seniors, tourists and everyone in between. In 2019, Salt Spring Arts hosted six evening concerts in Centennial Park. The series showcased touring BC musicians with local opening arts. This year’s concerts focus entirely on showcasing Salt Spring Island musicians and groups. All concerts are free with donations collected to support the presentation of the series. Bring your blankets, lawn chairs and snacks and enjoy back-to-back evenings of live and local music!

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Sweet Spot with Seth Shugar

From Break-Up to Wake-Up

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Although Statistics Canada hasn’t yet determined how much the rate of separations has increased since the pandemic began, conservative estimates suggest that it has at least doubled. Which means there are a lot of broken-hearts out there, and we all know how painful a broken heart can be.

Or do we? In an fMRI study that asked participants to relive their heartbreak, the exact same areas of their brains lit up as when they experienced the highest degree of physical pain they could bear. Other fMRI studies have revealed the substantial impairments broken-hearts can cause, not only dampening our immune systems but also temporarily lowering our IQ and dramatically impairing our performance on tasks involving logic and reasoning. To make matters worse, our heartbroken brains respond very similarly to the brains of addicts going through withdrawal from cocaine or heroin.

Yet it’s also true that a break-up can become a genuine opportunity to wake-up. Indeed, it is not uncommon for a break-up to lead to a break-through in terms of our relationship with ourselves, not to mention our relationship to relationships.

Here’s one striking example.

One afternoon, at the age of 35, Deirdre Blomfield-Brown was sipping a cup of tea in front of her adobe home in northern New Mexico when she heard a car drive up behind her house. A few seconds later her husband walked around the corner and told her he was having an affair and wanted a divorce.

She was stunned, stopped, shocked.

Everything went silent. She noticed how huge the sky was. She saw the steam rising up from her tea. She heard the sound of the river.

“Then,” she says, “I regrouped, picked up a stone and threw it at him.”

In the months that followed, her anger morphed into rage. She discovered that her husband hadn’t just been having an affair; he’d been having multiple affairs.

She fantasized about breaking all the windows in his house. She thought of burning his house to the ground. She even thought of hurting the child of the woman he had left her for.

Scared by her own rage, she tried desperately to claw her way back to her former life. She felt “devastated” and “annihilated.”

Yet it was this turn of events that gradually, over the course of many years and with a great deal of practice, transformed Deirdre Blomfield-Brown into Pema Chödrön, one of the most celebrated meditation teachers in the West . . . who now regards her ex-husband as “one of [her] greatest teachers.”

Why? Because by leaving her, she says, he helped her realize she had been depending on someone outside of herself for her sense of security and self-esteem.

Because it was his departure from her life that introduced her to practices like tonglen that taught her to relate to painful emotions not by acting them out, nor by repressing them but by welcoming them in with curiosity and kindness.

Because by leaving her, he taught her to open her heart to her own suffering, which gave her heart for all people’s suffering.

Seth is a Registered Clinical Counsellor, Marital and Family Therapist and Board Certified Life Coach. He works with individuals and couples in private practice. You can reach him at sethshugar@.me.com or book a session at www.sethshugar.com

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Jen’ll Tell Ya Featuring Jen Redpath & Jessica Terezakis

Sexual Debut

We don’t know about you, Salt Spring but we are over the term virginity.

Even Merriam’s Webster definition as “someone who has never had sexual intercourse; maidenhood;” and “she lost her virginity to the boy next door”, can be read as problematic. There’s a lot to unpack, so let’s talk about it.

Defining virginity like this often puts the focus on someone who is identified as female losing something, while their male partner takes or gains something. This type of ownership is a little antiquated, wouldn’t you say? Not to mention the focus on power over someone, yikes - what about pleasure, excitement, and exploration?

The other unfortunate implication is that it only refers to penisvagina sex. What about all those folks out there that will never experience penis-vagina sex (by choice!)? Are they then deemed ‘virgins’ for the rest of their days? Do people miss out if they never have penetrative intercourse? Absolutely not! Fun fact: most people with vaginas don’t reach orgasm through vaginal orgasm alone! Or what about those who identify as asexual but enjoy self-pleasure?

For those who don’t know, the hymen (often associated with virginity) is actually just a membrane left over from when the vagina is created in utero. It’s presence or absence is no real indication of whether someone has been sexually active or not! For more information about this topic check out this great scarleteen article, https://www.scarleteen.com/article/bodies/my_corona_the_anatomy_ formerly_known_as_the_hymen_the_myths_that_surround_it.

Losing someone’s virginity is often associated with being “forever changed” and as a loss of innocence, which for some, can attach shame to their sexuality. Especially for those who may have experienced sexual abuse as a child or whose first sexual experience was sexual assault. Shouldn’t they have the opportunity to redefine their sexual coming of age?

Enter: Sexual Debut. The reframing and rebranding creates a new context, one where someone is able to define how and when they experience(d) their first sexual entrance into the world. It could be the first time they orgasm, the first time they orgasm with another person(s), or maybe for those of the demi-sexual persuasion (a person who is only sexually attracted to others when they have an intimate or romantic connection) it’s when they have sex with someone they love.

It also allows for better and more informed decision making from a sex positive context, rather than from one of “losing” something.

A Sexual Debut can be a grand pronouncement or something someone keeps private. The most important part is that the options are limitless and it gives the power of decision to the person. And really, what is the need to define sexual debut for someone else, unless we are actively trying to strip someone of their power?

Redefining virginity loss as something to be celebrated has the potential to mark a new right of passage in our culture. One that is grounded in autonomy, choice, and empowerment. One not steeped in shame and loss. One that could be the start of someone’s journey in pleasure, exploration, sexual expression and identity.

For further discussion: https://www.scarleteen.com/article/ bodies/my_corona_the_anatomy_formerly_known_as_the_hymen_the_ myths_that_surround_it Until next time -

Stay Sexy Salty!

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Allison Brodie & Carolyn Houg

Acrylic Paintings & Sculpture

at Salt Spring Gallery, September 3-22 Carolyn Houg is a Victoria Artist who is mainly working with clay at the moment although she is also a fabulously mixed media Artist.

Her clay pieces of animals are filled with character and whimsy and are sure to delight onlookers! You can see her work at The Avenue Gallery in Victoria or through Instagram @ carolynhoug.

Allison Brodie is a Salt Spring/ Victoria artist and member of the Salt Spring Gallery of Fine Art and the Matticks Gallery in Victoria.

Her work for this show is mainly about the land and the sea with heavy texturing and found metal to produce a somewhat representational piece. experimenting,

Always Allison’s

work continues to delight clients. You can see more of Allison’s work on line at her web site at allibrodie.com or on Instagram @ allibrodie The show at the Salt Spring Gallery runs from September 3rd to 22nd with opening reception on September 3rd from 5-7 pm. Come and enjoy a glass of wine and a visit with the artists!

Scopes Brought to you by our own in-house astrologer who now goes by her numerologically correct name of “Ya Righta”

 Aries

 Libra

Dr. Phil is poisoning your mind.

You got this!

 Taurus

 Scorpio

You’ll turn to religion this week, dislocating your neck, both shoulders, and most of your tendons in the process.

 Gemini Don’t spend the rest of your life wondering “what if?” Dress the dog in full Pride gear, before it’s too late.

 Cancer Turns out it was the butler, in the study, with the candlestick.

But enough about your love life.

 Leo

It might not be today, and it might not be tomorrow, but you’ll soon come to regret.

 Sagittarius

We have no answers for you, please stop asking.

 Capricorn

It will seem as if everyone is avoiding you all week long, which will be odd considering that the engorged leech on your neck, thanks Weston lake, thanks!

 Aquarius

After months of soul-searching, you’ll finally decide to write

Yes you can!

your

No you can’t!

when it takes less than three

Yes you can!

 Virgo The stars fucking give up—if you want another slice of blueberry pie, just go ahead and have

memoir,

unfortunately

days you'll find yourself soul searching again.

 Pisces

You’ve done endless reading on the subject and participated in hundreds of simulations,

another slice of blueberry pie.

but you will still find yourself

See above frustration.

unprepared for actual sex.

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