Edina Magazine - September 2022

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SEPTEMBER 2022 In this issue, we’re looking at the power of creative pursuits—the way they can bring us joy and fulfillment; help us process what’s happening in life; or even think differently about a person, an idea or a room in our home.

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DEPARTMENTS 14 — The Power of Ideas A craving to learn leads the way for TEDxEdina.

16 — When Life Gives You Lemons Ethan Esparza has had a thirst for entrepreneurship from a young age.

18 — Creative Spark Children’s book author Megan Maynor writes stories with humor and heart.

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30 — Out With the Old, in With the Nouveau Artist creates modern pieces inspired by nature and local landmarks.

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o matter how many years it’s been since being in school, September continues to be “back to school” season in my mind. Even in my 30s, it’s hard to shake that feeling of this month being a fresh start.

Honestly, after a summer of activity and a more relaxed schedule, it’s kind of nice to have a reason—even if it’s all in my head—to hit reset and refocus on what I want to tackle for the last four months of the year.

These next four months, I want to prioritize time for creativity. I have a sewing project I’ve wanted to work on, a wedding album to scrapbook and a book idea that I’ve had in my head for years that I finally want to outline.

And, frankly, it’s all the people featured in this month’s magazine who have reinvigorated my creative spark. In this issue—our Arts & Style issue—we’re introducing some of many artists and innovative thinkers who live in this city.

We’re taking a look at the artwork of digital illustrator Cindy Lindgren, who takes inspiration from nature, local landmarks and the Arts & Crafts design movement (page 30). We’re introducing you to children’s book author Megan Maynor, whose 2021 release, Henry at Home, was a finalist for a 2022 Minnesota Book Award (page 18). And we’re catching up with local entrepreneur Ethan Esparza, who last graced the pages of this magazine 15 years ago when, as a child, he was running a successful lemonade stand in the 50th & France neighborhood and has owned his own businesses ever since (page 16).

I could keep going—but instead, I’ll simply encourage you to read through the magazine and meet all of the kind, creative and thoughtful individuals who have shared their talents and life experiences with us in these pages.

Hopefully, it ignites a creative spark in you, as well!

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N OT E WO RT H Y

lo c a l tip s, tidb its & insights

P E R S O N A L G R OW TH

FLUX TO FLOW

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AS A LEAD ER SHIP COAC H, Stephanie Pierce

works to maximize talent to achieve business success.

More specifically, this Edina resident helps individuals recognize their passions and skill sets, so they can foster personal and professional growth.

“It brings me a lot of joy to see people fulfill their goals, whatever they are and at whatever point they are in their life,” Pierce says. That’s why she developed Flux to Flow, a leadership workshop designed to help 20 women find the next chapter in their professional lives.

Broken down into three phases, Pierce says the group will work to build a sense of self-awareness by recognizing their values; create an action plan based on their goals and capabilities; and help foster con-

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fidence to achieve their dreams through a series of discussions, one-on-one coaching sessions and peer learning opportunities. “My way to help organizations be better and communities be stronger is by helping individual leaders be more in touch with their skills and capabilities,” Pierce says. “My goal is to get the people who are participating in the program to feel confident in whatever it is they want to do next … and to have fun while doing it.”

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REA D

TRAVELING SOUTH

Readers and fans of bestselling author Matt Goldman will recall his mystery, Gone to Dust, which took place in Edina.

In his latest novel, Carolina Moonset, Goldman travels south. This familyfocused story is set in the heart of Beaufort, South Carolina. Protagonist Joey Green arrives in Charleston ready to provide respite for his mother, Carol. She has been caring for Joey’s father, Dr. Marshall Green,

C I T I Z EN OF E DI N A

who spent his life running a medical clinic in Chicago.

There, he provided care to the neediest of that city.

Fartun Ismail

And now, Marshall needs care as he faces Lewy

Fartun Ismail is passionate about mentoring

bags serve a dual purpose—reducing depen-

body dementia.

immigrant and refugee women and girls. Draw-

dence on plastic or paper bags while provid-

ing on her experience of coming to America

ing an income stream for the seamstresses.

nothing of the present,

and facing challenges, Ismail founded the So-

but from the moment Joey

mali American Women Action Center (SAWAC)

women-led zero-waste initiative called the

arrives, his father begins to

in 2017. It creates a community for immigrant

Dambiil Challenge. In partnership with Hen-

tell him stories of the past,

and refugee women, providing resources to

nepin County, she is educating East African

some of which start unrav-

build skills and confidence, earn an income and

women about how to eliminate single-use

elling Joey’s perceptions.

gain the respect of their family and community.

plastic bags and how to separate organics

SAWAC currently serves 48 women in Edina

for composting.

There are mysteries among mysteries in this elegantly written family novel.

and 76 in neighboring communities.

Ismail was raised by a strong single moth-

This year, Ismail is dedicated to a refugee

SAWAC helps many people, and Ismail particularly takes pride in being a role model

The descriptions of South

er, who was the breadwinner for her family.

to underserved young girls. “Young girls

Carolina shoreline, food and

Emulating her mother’s entrepreneurial

look up to me,” Ismail says. “I want them to

drink, scent and foliage will

efforts, Ismail began teaching sewing classes

know that they have a brighter future even

persuade readers to book

to help moms struggling with language,

in their darkest clouds. I, too, was a refugee

airline tickets there for the

childcare and transportation find employ-

girl, who beat the odds. They can be inde-

winter of 2023.

ment that fits into their lives.

pendent and strong women, who can thrive

The professions of sewing and tailoring

Contributed by Maureen Millea Smith, a librarian at the Edina Library and a Minnesota Book Award–winning novelist.

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are dominated by men in the Somali culture,

in every sector of life.”

In 2021, The Edina Community Foundation

but Ismail saw the skill as an ideal fit to give

recognized Ismail with a Connecting with

financial independence to women, who may

Kids Leadership Award for her impact on

not have the education or language skills to

our community.

easily join the workforce.

The seamstresses began with a focus on tote bags (dambiil in Somali). Making these

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Marshall can remember

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In a large bowl, combine the oats, almond

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all get eaten in one sitting).

• 1 cup peanut butter (I use natural creamy peanut butter.)

• 1/2 cup honey • 1 tsp. pure vanilla extract

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• 1/2 tsp. salt

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A R T S & C U LT U R E

The Power of Ideas A craving to learn leads the way for TEDxEdina.

By Madeline Kopiecki

TED TALKS HAVE BECOME UBIQUITOUS ONLINE, known for their

engrossing takes on seemingly every topic under the sun. What’s perhaps not as well known is where these talks originate: TED Conferences. According to Cheryl Gunness, the community involvement programs coordinator at Edina Community Education, the TED Conference, originating in the 1980s, is centered around technology, entertainment and design. For the annual conference, admission can’t be secured for the $10,000 ticket price alone. Attendees must apply and be deemed interesting and influential enough to be accepted.

However, there are two ways TED makes the content more accessible,

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Gunness says. One is the aforementioned TED Talks, which are videos from the conferences that are freely available online. The other way is through the TEDx program. “They will give a license to a community group to hold a TED-like event in their community,” Gunness says.

This license comes with a lot of rules for how these events should be run, but it also comes with a lot of support.

Gunness first received her license for TEDxEdina in 2015 after noticing a need the TEDx event could meet. “Adults in our community were just hungry for ideas,” Gunness says.

“Lecture series, anything that we could offer that was kind of like, ‘Go back to college. Get your brain turned on’ or

TEDxEdina 2022 Speaker Melissa Seeley

TEDxEdina 2022 Speaker Erin Zamoff Want to learn more about this year's speakers? Head to edinamag.com to read about two local individuals.

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Nausheena Hussain was a 2018 TEDxEdina speaker. Her topic was, "Not About Us Without Us: Building Equity Through Storytelling.”

‘Be excited about new ideas ... I hadn’t thought of before.’” At the time, her job was connecting with adults in Edina, so she began what was to become a (sort of ) biennial tradition.

“We were on a roll to do it [approximately] every other year,” Gunness says.

But after events in 2015, 2017 and 2018, COVID-19 disrupted the group’s plans for a 2020 TEDxEdina. Now, a large committee of volunteers, along with organizing partner Edina Community Ed, has been working tirelessly to plan not only a new TEDxEdina event this October, but a new feature as well. “TED has a variety of different licenses that they’ll give, and the one we applied for this year is a youth event,” Gunness says.

Although youth have traditionally been featured as both speakers and volunteers on the committee, Gunness says that, for a long time, the group has wanted to have a youth-led event. “For the first time, we have students at Edina High School [EHS] who are organizing a TEDxYouth at Edina,” she says, noting it will be held in EHS’s Fick Auditorium the Friday night before the main event.

For this year’s event, Gunness says a major focus is not only on the 11 speakers (four of whom are from Edina), but also on hosting some audience experiences.

She says the event’s organizers want to help audience members “make connections with like-minded people who believe in the power of ideas to make the community a better place.”

So, outside of the speakers, there will be spaces and time for attendees to connect with each other about what is shared.

“We’ve always had experiences or collaborative art projects or some kind of activity that would facilitate connections between the people [in attendance],” Gunness says. “But we’re amping that up, and we’re going to have a lot more fun, interesting, unexpected ways for people to connect this year.”

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FA C E S

When Life Gives You Lemons Ethan Esparza has had a thirst for entrepreneurship from a young age.

WHEN LIFE GIVES YOU LEMONS,

you make lemonade—and make your dreams come true. In April 2007, Edina native Ethan Esparza was featured in this magazine as a young entrepreneur selling lemonade. Esparza was dressed to impress, wearing a suit and a tie and stationed on the side of the road near 50th & France when he was only 12 years old. His brand? Keeping Edina residents refreshed and hydrated with fresh lemonade on a hot summer day.

At the time, Esparza also wanted to

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fund his lifestyle of toys, baseball cards and video games, but his dad instilled his work ethic in him at a young age. Esparza notes that his dad always told him that if he wanted something, he must work for it—so he did, making a business out of it.

From there, Esparza’s entrepreneurial spirit set sail. But lemonade wasn’t going to quench his thirst for success for too long. Now, 15 years later, Esparza owns his own real estate business and is still determined as ever.

In his current business, he works

on the lead management side of real estate. “I have a team of four inside sales agents, and we go into Realtor CRMs [customer relationship management systems] and help [real estate brokerages] grow, really taking the time to find [individuals who] are looking to buy and looking to sell houses,” Esparza says. “We really utilize our technology to help millions of dollars of revenue come through the door for them.”

Esparza has agents based out of Hawaii, California, New York and

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By Hanna McDaniels

23 Circle West – Edina Virginia, but he works out of his office in Edina. Besides the nitty-gritty side of real estate, Esparza says his favorite part of his job is receiving pictures of his agents’ clients in their new homes, keys in hand and big smiles on their faces.

“Since owning that lemonade stand, everything I’ve done has been in [the] form of owning my own business,” Esparza says. Prior to his current business, he says he also owned his own car detailing business and window cleaning business. “The lemonade stand really made me realize what I wanted to do,” he says. “I think what’s really most important to me, though, is the fact that I’ve helped people create income for themselves.”

While Esparza’s success and dreams of creating his own schedule and helping others are a reality, he mentions he wouldn’t be where he was without his parents’ motivation and support.

(After all, it was his mother who actually made the lemonade all those years ago.)

Esparza says his dad, “has always been the person that inspired me to do whatever I want to do and to never stop believing [in] myself. He really showed me that, no matter the outcome and no matter if my [endeavors] succeed or fail, I should never give up. He’s the one person I really aspire to be.”

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Megan Maynor signs a copy of her book, Henry at Home, at the 2022 Minnesota Book Awards ceremony.

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Creative Spark Children’s book author Megan Maynor writes stories with humor and heart.

EARLIER THIS YEAR, Edina resident and children’s book author Megan Maynor learned that she was a 2022 Minnesota Book Award Finalist for her 2021 picture book, Henry at Home.

The book is based on Maynor’s two eldest children, Chloe and Emmett. “This is the story of two siblings, who do everything together, until Liza starts school, and Henry is left behind,” Maynor says.

“Just like in the book, Chloe and Emmett had always done everything together.

[And], just like in the book, Chloe happily boarded the bus, and Emmett was furious.” She worked with illustrator Alea Marley on capturing the magic of this sibling relationship.

Maynor says she was in shock when she received word that she was a finalist for the award. “We are lucky to live in a state so rich in the arts, including children’s literature, so the pool of candidates and books for this award is deep. I really feel honored by the recognition,” she says.

Maynor began her career in advertising as a copywriter. After starting a family, she worked as a freelancer and also started writing children’s books—a career that brings her so much joy. “It took a long time to learn the craft, find an agent and connect with an editor, who was looking for the kind of story I had written,” Maynor says, referring to her first book, Ella and Penguin Stick Together, which was published in 2016.

Today, Maynor is a full-time author and has seven books under her belt. She credits her inspiration when writing each new book to children. “Each story has its

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Photos: Slade Kemmet; Megan Maynor

By Hillary Streitberger

TRUNK SHOW SEPTEMBER 16–17

WAN T TO MEET THE AU THOR? VI SI T H ER AT THE STATE FA IR !

On September 5, Maynor is the guest author at the fair’s Alphabet Forest.

Throughout the day, she’ll lead free book-themed, literacy-based activities for all ages. There will also be space for reading, taking photos and playing games.

Details: 10 a.m.–2 p.m. September 5 at the Minnesota State Fair, Alphabet Forest (Across from the 4-H building, at the corner of Cosgrove Street and Wright Avenue)

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own original spark, but one guiding question I return to is, ‘What matters in the life of a child?’” Maynor says. She tends to keep that question in mind when she goes through the revision and shaping process, as well.

But it’s not just theoretical children that inspire her work; in-person connections are a driving factor. “This year, I’ve been reminded that one of my favorite parts of being an author is reading and talking with kids,” Maynor says. “I was able to resume some school visits and book events this year, and it is just lifegiving. I love to talk with students about creating books, and I love to hear their ideas and questions. Kids are so perceptive, clever, funny and brilliant.”

Maynor reads her books at events all around the Twin Cities throughout the year. Her seventh book, Not Enough Lollipops, came out earlier this year.

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WHEN KATE HOBBINS and her hus-

band, Brian, started working from home in 2020, their five-bedroom Edina home started feeling very small. Rather than both going into the office and their kids heading to daycare, suddenly the family of four was spending all day, every day in their home together. (Sound familiar?)

To work from home, Hobbins took the 82-square-foot room just off the entryway that had been staged as an office when they bought the home, while her husband beefed up the home office setup he already had in one of the bedrooms.

However, once Hobbins was in that small space every day, she quickly discovered that it wasn’t working. “It was just like, this is not functional. We need more storage. We need more space. This room is completely bare and underutilized,” Hobbins says.

So she talked to Brian about thoughtfully redesigning the space and hired Melissa Oholendt, principal designer behind Oho Interiors. Hobbins and Oholendt first met when the latter was a professional photographer, her decadelong career before stepping into a new role in interior design. Though Oholendt was still in her first year of business— she launched Oho Interiors in late 2019— Hobbins knew she was the perfect fit for her home office redesign.

They launched the project in November 2020, with the final install taking place in June 2021. Oholendt termed the office’s style “Coastal Modern Cottage,” speaking to the light and airy design that featured updated traditional elements. “We wanted to keep it feeling cozy and warm and like a place that you wanted to be,” says Oholendt. “Almost like a reprieve.”

But more than just creating a feeling with the design, Oholendt wanted to give Hobbins a space that was highly functional. The plan was to give her a better work station—a top priority for the project. But Hobbins also wanted plenty of storage space—particularly for the gifts she keeps on hand, as well as wrapping paper, cards and other gifting materials, all of which had previously been stored in the basement. As the technology hub of the home, Hobbins also wanted a space where she could store all of the family’s devices, cords and cables without it turning chaotic. And, finally, she wanted the space to feel personalized, with space for her books, favorite objects and keepsakes and some family photos.

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To give her all of this, Oholendt proposed L-shaped custom cabinetry with a built-in desk. “I went with that one just because of the utility and the beauty of it.

It was really thoughtful,” Hobbins says.

But Oholendt says the design was inspired by Hobbins. “A lot of the inspiration that [Kate] had shared with me [had] beautiful inset cabinetry,” Oholendt says, which inspired the built-ins she designed for the space.

In designing the office, Oholendt also wanted this space to flow with the rest of the home’s design. “The house is very contemporary in style … but it also has the lighter colors, and the more natural materials that are around to speak to a coastal vibe,” Oholendt says. But there are also some traditional elements, like crown molding, which she wanted to carry into the office for a sense of continuity. Brass and gold accents also help ground the space in a more traditional sensibility, while the cabinetry door style mirrors what is in the kitchen. “I knew that we needed to stay true to the style of the house, bring[ing] elements of it to that space, but also customize it toward what [Kate] wanted,” Oholendt says.

Now that it’s all finished, Hobbins says her office certainly does feel like the high-functioning reprieve Oholendt set out to create. “The pandemic obviously was so chaotic and full of anxiety,” Hobbins says. “I needed [my office] to be a calming space. I needed that to be a reprieve because everything else was just madness.” Walking into her home office, Hobbins says she feels calm, and it’s a space where she can be very focused and productive.

“It's really been amazing, emotionally and mentally as well as just physically …

And I did not expect that,” Hobbins says.

“Organization and design really does impact your mentality and the way you can stay productive. It has definitely been a huge mental health space … It helped create some calm and all of the chaos that we were experiencing.”

Oholendt says how her clients feel in a space at the end of a project is “a beautiful part of the career I didn’t anticipate but has become such a North Star for me ... This is why I do what I do. Creating beautiful spaces is wonderful and fun, but I want people to feel safe and loved in their house.”

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Although the COVID-19 pandemic is something we’ve lived with for a couple of years now, it’s still a difficult period in our collective history to confront, much less process. The grief, in many ways, is ambiguous—loved ones we couldn’t see for stretches at a time, deaths that couldn’t be mourned in person, an interruption to our sense of normalcy, school years spent at home and favorite businesses that closed their doors forever.

Big and small, these sources of grief still weigh on us, their burden compounded by the fact that many have no clear resolution, no closure to move toward. “Closure or resolution is not something that can always happen, even in a tangible death or loss,” says Amanda Nephew, LMFT, a Twin Cities-based psychotherapist at Amanda Nephew Therapy Services.

“But it’s even more difficult when there is ambiguity. It can be misunderstood, and, therefore, people experiencing it can feel alone and dismissed.”

Nephew says that most of the losses we’ve experienced during the pandemic won’t have clear meanings, much less clear resolutions. “But we can start broadly by asking some questions,” Nephew says. “What have we learned about our society, our families and ourselves? What has been discouraging?

Where have we shown unexpected resilience, and where have we unraveled?”

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These questions can help us focus on the ways we’ve changed over the pandemic, as well as the resilience all around us, Nephew says. “When we take away the ‘need’ for closure and learn to give meaning to the changes we have experienced, we can embrace the mess without shame of feeling what we are feeling,” she says.

The Power of Creativity

Creative pursuits are one way Nephew has seen patients successfully process their emotions. From journaling and songwriting to drawing and painting, Nephew says the steps to processing grief may remain the same, regardless of the medium. “The first is to identify emotions,” Nephew says. “That sounds simple, but when we are feeling shut down, hyper-aroused or somewhere in between, we often don’t recognize what is actually being felt. Slowing down and taking inventory is a fantastic way to process.”

The second step is to notice the narrative of how it has changed your life, Nephew explains. “What are you thinking about?” she asks. “What are you anticipating? How do you see yourself and your story unfolding? How has your life changed?” A narrative can add a sense of purpose or meaning that wasn’t there before, turning a seemingly catastrophic event into something that yields something with meaning instead of chaos.

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“The third is the ability to look back at past journal entries, paintings, songs or letters and observe the broader picture,” Nephew says. This history helps a person see the darker seasons and worries they held at the time, but it also shows the breakthroughs. “These can serve in the present to process and in the future to remember and honor our stories,” she says.

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Of course, for those of us surviving grief, things do not progress linearly, nor do they follow a predetermined path.

“Grief is not something that we can push through,” Nephew says. “It shows up and has to be attended to. It’s healthier to make a place for it than to deny it or try to curate it.”

Although grief takes different forms— whether the tangible loss of a loved

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one or an ambiguous loss of normalcy, opportunity or security—our attempt to find meaning and purpose through it may offer closure in its own way, even when that resolution doesn’t feel immediately apparent.

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Edina resident and author Lynn Jaffee has experienced firsthand the effects writing can have on the grieving process.

In 2017, what started out as a monthlong road trip would develop into a much longer, more difficult journey than Jaffee could have imagined. The notebook she had been using to keep track of lists and trip details soon morphed into a chronology of this dark chapter of her life.

“About 10 days into the trip, I was in Alamosa, Colorado, when my son Andrew called,” Jaffee says. Andrew, who lived in Boulder, had gone to the emergency room after several days of flu-like symptoms. There, the doctors had discovered an ominous shadow on his chest X-ray. “I realized my trip was over, and I needed to get to Boulder quickly,” Jaffee says. “At that moment, my trip journal turned into something very different. The entry for the next day was, ‘Up at 5 a.m. Drove from Alamosa to Boulder. Andrew is at the hospital.

Can’t process this now.’”

At 27 years old, Jaffee’s son was diagnosed with a rare, aggressive and essentially incurable form of cancer. In the subsequent months, Jaffee says her journal became a space where she could download her sadness, frustrations and traumas. “My entries weren’t regular, but on the days that were particularly hard or when I needed to get something out, I wrote it down,” Jaffee says. “Some days, I screamed on paper. Others, I just processed what was happening. In some small way, it was an outlet that helped me get through the fact that my husband and I were losing our son.”

Over the 15 months Jaffee spent caring for Andrew, she says she noticed a gradual change in her journal entries. “There was definitely still some screaming on paper, but there were also descriptions

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of kindness from friends and strangers, small miracles and astonishing things that happened during that time,” Jaffee says. Her journal became a space for hope and ways to cope; Jaffee reflects that she wrote to get herself through that overwhelming time.

After Andrew passed, Jaffee stopped journaling. It took roughly a year before she returned to her journal, and one of her reasons for doing so attests to Nephew’s advice. “Revisiting what had happened helped me process the devastating loss of my son,” Jaffee says.

“Somehow, writing down my feelings

and memories seemed to help.”

But aside from addressing her grief, there was another reason Jaffee was revisiting her old entries. She had made a commitment to Andrew. “In a conversation with him a week or two before he died, we talked about his writing,” Jaffee says. With a degree in creative writing, Andrew wasn’t a stranger to storytelling. During his illness, however, Jaffee says his stories became even more poignant and provoking. With time running out for Andrew, he and Jaffee agreed that she would get his writing published after he was gone.

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“For a long time after his passing, I struggled with what the format should be,” Jaffee says. It took a long time before she could bring herself to read his journal entries and updates. “Ultimately, I realized that, during his illness, we were both keeping journals and that I needed to tell my story along with his,” she says.

Jaffee initially started writing her book, Love Pain: Stories of Loss and Survival, because she promised Andrew she would.

Over time, however, she says she started to notice that the writing process was also helping her work through her grief. “I was writing about really heavy and difficult times, but I was choosing to do so, which is a little different than being overwhelmed by uncontrollable waves of grief,” Jaffee says, noting that when she finished writing a section and stepped away from the computer, she felt better.

“It was like I had gone really deep, and in doing so, I could let a tiny bit of the sadness go,” Jaffee says.

“When Love Pain was finally done and published, I had this sense that all of those feelings were someplace safe, so I didn’t have to hold onto them so tightly. So, what began as a really painful process actually turned out to be very healing for me.”

Jaffe says she also wrote Love Pain for other people going through a similar situation. “I was completely blindsided, overwhelmed and unsure of how I would ever bear losing my son, and yet I learned that there were moments of incredible love, joy and humor, too,” Jaffee says.

“And my message throughout the book is that, despite being faced with unimaginable loss, those moments help you get through it, and ultimately you survive.”

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For Edina artist Cindy Lindgren, creating visual masterpieces is second nature. She has always had an affinity for the beauty of Mother Earth, but it wasn’t until the past decade, in the second half of her career, where she truly fed into her passions of portraying these characteristics she marvels at as an artist. “[Art] touches every part of my life,” Lindgren says.

She spent much of her career as a freelance illustrator in the ad agency world but longed for more creativity and freedom than client work allowed.

Wanting to create on her own terms, Lindgren began experimenting with her own designs and illustrations, launching an Etsy shop in 2009.

Nature as a Muse

To create her work, Lindgren draws her inspiration from her everyday surroundings—birds, native flowers, waterfronts and even classic landmarks around the Twin Cities, like Minnehaha Falls.

“I was just drawing the places I liked to visit, the nature I liked to see,” she says about her creations.

One of the pieces that sparked her career as an independent artist was her illustration for the Stone Arch Bridge

Festival poster in 2011. Each year, an artist is selected by the festival team to create an original work of art that captures the spirit and energy of the Minneapolis riverfront. That art is turned into a limited-run commemorative poster. And in 2011, Lindgren was the featured artist, which also meant she was supplied with a tent, so she could sell her art at the festival.

“That was really a turning point,” Lindgren says. “Once I did that, I started to do more local landmarks and then worked with Como [Park Zoo and] Conservatory to do more custom art for their shop. Creating that [poster] really put me toward the local track of imagery.”

One of the main locations she is influenced by is her family’s former seasonal cabin in northern Wisconsin. They used to spend every summer up by the water, allowing nature to guide their days.

She also gets inspired by the beauty of Centennial Lakes right here in Edina— a place she values for its walkability and convenience in correlation with the location of her apartment.

A Technical Shift

However, it’s not just nature and landmarks that inspire Lindgren but

the vividness of the colors found in nature. Lindgren, a 1982 graduate of the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, says she learned the basics of color theory and standard practices of mixing paint well before computers. At that time, all of her illustrations were drawn by hand. However, with the advent of the digital age, she jumped into digital illustration, which, while a tough leap, has allowed her to play around with new techniques. While all of her illustrations still start by hand, she now scans them, redraws them on the computer and finishes them digitally.

Despite the technical shift, Lindgren says her process “has always been very hand-crafted. But she deeply appreciates some of the benefits, specifically the wide range and precision of colors. “The digital palettes are ideal and perfect; you can pick your own color-ways and save them,” she says.

Craftsman Nouveau

Beyond nature, Lindgren also looks to cultural elements to guide her style.

Her husband is Swedish, and she also has partnerships with Ingebretsen’s Scandinavian Gifts & Food and the American Swedish Institute (ASI)

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Lindgren refers to her style as “Craftsman Nouveau” because it is rooted in traditional style but also has a modern twist, with its clean and simple linework. “Craftsman” is a nod to the Arts and Crafts movement of mid-19th century Britain, a design era that inspires Lindgren’s work.

Meanwhile, “Nouveau,” references the Art Nouveau or “New Art” movement,

which resulted in an ornamental style that takes inspiration from the natural world. Popularized in the late 1800s and early 1900s in Europe, it took on a more modern approach toward organic lines within architecture and design.

Combining these two design styles with her love for clean lines, bold shapes and muted tones, Lindgren developed her own interpretation of classic design through an architectural and natural lens.

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Swedish dishcloths, fabrics, puzzles and even wallpaper.

But she’s not just on Etsy anymore.

She now wholesales her designs, showcasing her work at her booth at the Minneapolis Mart to collaborate with potential business prospects on custom or ready-made designs. This is what led to her partnerships with ASI and Ingebretsen’s, as well as a Twin Cities puzzle company, Puzzletwist. “It is fulfilling, and it is great to work with small businesses and local people,” she says.

“I have over 100 shops [gift and boutique shops] in the Midwest that have purchased my art for their shops.”

With new concepts, colorways and ever-changing skylines, Lindgren is certain there will never be a shortage of inspiration to guide her work. “There is always going to be new inspiration and old images to revisit,” she says. “I don’t think I will ever run out of personal illustrations to work on.”

Lindgren has no plans of stopping anytime soon, saying she is exactly where she is intended to be. “Right now is where I have wanted to be my whole artistic life,” she says. “I am at the most successful part of my whole career.”

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STYLE EDINA Fashion show showcases retailers from across the city.

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at Style Edina, a collaborative fashion show held at the Westin Galleria. For its sixth year, Style Edina—an event put on

by Explore Edina—will showcase more than 30 retailers from stores across the city, including those at Southdale, The Galleria and 50th & France shops.

Jodi Mayers, personal stylist and emcee for the event, notes how each retailer across Edina has a unique personality that deserves to be showcased.

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a collaborative way to showcase the flavor of each of these retailers,” she says.

“These are retailers that don’t normally work together.” The distinct style differences in each retailer and shops participating in the show offers guests fashion inspiration from all around Edina.

During the show, as the models are walking down the runway, emcees Mayers and Belinda Jensen, chief meteorologist at KARE 11 News, will be describing the outfit, where to find it and how it is styled.

Attendees can shop from a variety of pop-up shops from the showcased retailers before and after the event. Included in the ticket price is a brunch menu item along with a complimentary mimosa, so guests can sip and dine while getting the latest fashion insight from around town.

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09/02 End summer with a bang for your tastebuds in the last week of Pinstripes’ Summer BBQ Series. This event offers buffet-style all-you-can-eat and all-youcan-drink summer barbecue-inspired dishes. While you eat, you can enjoy music from local musician Alex Bartlet.

Ages 21 and over. $40. 6:30–9 p.m.

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Edina Car Show 09/10 Trucks, cars, motorcycles, oh my!

At this family-friendly event, witness some of the best classic and vintage cars in Minnesota. All proceeds from this event benefit the Edina Rotary Foundation.

All ages. Free. Noon–4 p.m. Southdale Center Parking Lot, 10 Southdale Center; 612.501.0252; edinacarshow.com

Fall into the Arts Festival 09/10–09/11 Edina’s annual fall art festival boasts over 250 vendors with an array of shopping attractions. Art enthusiasts can shop fine art products of all kinds—from fiber arts and pottery to glass and more. Proceeds go directly to the Edina Crime Prevention Fund. Free. All ages. 10 a.m.–6 p.m..

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09/17 Take a walk throughout Edina with your mayor and get to know other residents of Edina. The walk will give you an opportunity for your voice to be heard while strolling through the city you love. Dress appropriately for the weather. All ages. Free. 9 a.m. Braemar Arena, 7501 Ikola Way; edinamn.gov

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Full Moon Hike at the Arb 09/10 Come to the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum after-hours for a beautiful full moon hike. Watch the sun set, then celebrate the harvest moon with activities, such as games and moonlit strolls.

All ages. $5 for members and children 15 and younger, $20 for non-members.

7–10 p.m. Arboretum Farm, 3675 Arboretum Drive, Chaska; 612.624.2200; arb.umn.edu

Sociable Summer Market 09/11 Minneapolis Craft markets is partnering with Sociable Cider Werks to give local artists and creators the opportunity to showcase their products in an outdoor, dog-friendly marketplace.

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Spinal Sprint 5K Walk/Run 09/17 Run, jog or walk for a great cause to promote health. Join hundreds of other runners as you raise money to improve access to chiropractic natural healthcare for those in financial need and to provide scholarships for chiropractic students. All ages. $35–$40.

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Twin Cities Harvest Festival and Maze 09/21–10/27 It’s the 10th anniversary of this beloved fall tradition, and the festival is partnering with the Minnesota Lynx to celebrate.

Enjoy Minnesota’s largest corn maze, as well as a corn pit, hay rides, a petting zoo and tons of other family-friendly activities. Discounted ticket prices are available opening weekend. All ages.

Ticket prices vary. 10 a.m.– 6 p.m. Twin Cities Maze, 8001 109th Ave. N., Brooklyn Park; 952.992.9326; twincitiesmaze.com

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Oktoberfest is here … in September?

Written by Madeline Kopiecki Photos by Chris Emeott

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ies and liquor stores alike know, it’s that seasonal beer sells out fast. “It’s important to check early, because the beer releases always precede the season,” says Bennett Porter, certified Cicerone® and manager at France 44. It doesn’t help that a festival named after the month of October actually happens a month early, and Oktoberfest beers start hitting the shelves in August.

“The first [Oktoberfest] celebrations were in October, but the official Oktoberfest was pushed into September because of the warmer weather,” Porter says. “Every year, the official Oktoberfest is basically the last two weeks of September and ends the first Sunday of October.”

Porter says that the festival itself started in 1810 as a wedding celebration between crown prince Ludwig and princess Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen.

In Munich, the celebration was such a success that they turned it into a yearly event with a state fair-like flavor.

“They had local farmers advertise their crops, and soon it included food and drink, and breweries began participating,” Porter says. “Eventually, they had the six main breweries in Munich participating in the festival, and they’d erect these big beer tents for people to enjoy beer and German food.”

Die sechs Brauereien The six breweries:

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Augustiner Hacker-Pschorr Hofbräu Löwenbräu Paulaner Spaten

In Germany, only beers produced by one of the six Munich breweries listed above can be given the name Oktoberfest.

“Other breweries in Germany will produce that style, but they’re not allowed to use that term,” Porter says. “They’ll call it a festbier [style] or a märzen lager.”

Porter describes the märzen style as typically more amber colored. “It’s toastier, breadier, a little bit fuller-bodied,” he says. Festbier, on the other hand, is more golden. He says, “[It] also has this lively, doughy, smooth malt character to it.” In both cases, märzen and festbier is typified by a flavor that implies sweetness,

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but is actually moderately dry.

Also, both styles are lagers. “Most traditional brewing in Germany is lager-style brewing, so [they involve] a colder fermentation and cold conditioning or ‘lagering’ afterward,” Porter says. Lagering is when brewers store the beer cold. Porter explains that this process consumes more sugar, which translates to a drier beer and a crisp, clean flavor profile.

OKTBRFest

If you’re looking to put a bit of the “fest” in “festbier,” Edina’s own Wooden Hill Brewing Company is participating in the tradition, too. OKTBRFest will hit the taps mid-September and stick around until it sells out. “It’s usually only on for three or four weeks because it sells so quickly,” says co-owner and head brewer James Ewen. “Everybody wants Oktoberfest.” (Porter agrees. He says that, if you’re looking to stock up on your own selection of Oktoberfest, start in early September. “We essentially have our full selection at that point,” he says.)

Ewen says he brews an essentially classic festbier-style to give his customers a representation of the type of beer they may taste in Germany. “It’s pretty much as many German ingredients as I can get,” Ewen says. “We’ve got a base of German Pilsner malt, and we’ve got some dark Munich in there. Dark Munich adds notes of caramel and honey and bread.”

For the hops, Ewen says that a bit of a bittering addition offsets the sweetness of the malt. The yeast, a popular German lager yeast sourced from the oldest brewery in the world, brings out a bit of a floral character.

“Ultimately, it just ferments really clean[ly], which is great for that style because you want it to be drinkable,” Ewen says. “I’m shooting for something that, as a festbier, maybe has a little bit more flavor than your average light lager but still retains that drinkability.”

The Wooden Hill taproom will also feature a Bavarian pretzel on its menu to heighten the festive atmosphere.

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SPRICHST DU DEUTSCH? Porter shares some of his favorite takes on Oktoberfest—and translates classic Oktoberfest styles into year-round options.

Die Klassiker The Classics Oktoberfest “My favorite [beer] from those six [breweries] is the Paulaner Oktoberfest beer.

That’s the golden festbier style and that only comes out in the fall.”

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Want to keep the party going beyond Oktoberfest? “You actually have other German styles that are similar—so a Dortmunder-style lager, which sometimes is called an export-style lager, [has] a similar maltiness to it. It’s just a touch lighter-

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Märzen “From those six breweries, Hacker-Pschorr does a really wonderful märzen style.”

Looking for something similar to a Märzen year-round? “A similar style you’ll see on the shelves is the Vienna lager style.

The Vienna lager was developed actually around the same time as the märzen lager, just in Austria, obviously. But we have a lot of domestic examples of that … Or even, if you think about a brewery using the term ‘amber lager.’ That’s also close.”

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Der Konkurrent The Competitor “There’s this brewery called Wagner, also in Germany and Bavaria, that makes a wonderful Oktoberfest märzen ... That’s my go-to every year. It’s not one of the six breweries, but it’s super wonderful.

It’s got this rich depth of maltiness to it.

It’s so smooth [and] has a nice dry finish.”

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“The current Surley Oktoberfest is more of a traditional festbier style. It’s a really wonderful example for a domestic brewery ...

Bauhaus makes a really nice one, as well.”

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RUNNER UP: PLACES IN EDINA

Chasing Sunsets Hobbyist photographer captures nature’s gifts.

LU C AS W I N TE R S , an engineer, hobbyist photographer and nature enthusiast, had been trying to capture a photo of the sunset over the Highway 100 overpass for quite some time. And then one night last summer, along the trail of Fred Richards Park on his way to the overpass, he got his shot. “I would walk this trail close to sunset a lot to get this shot, and once I got a better camera, it was the perfect opportunity,” Winters says. “[After taking the photo], I saw the lens flare and the backdrop of the sunset, and I was happy with it.”

Winters has hiked three fourths of the Minnesota State Parks and plans to hike all of them one day. He wanted a way to remember all of his hikes and the beauty of these parks, so he took up photography. Aside from this type of imagery, Winters enjoys macro photography and capturing all the details and beauty nature has to offer.

Photographer: Lucas Winters

Title: Fred Richards Park Bike Path Equipment:

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