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By Nikki Silverstein

San Rafael police officer Kevin Finerty was on patrol Saturday morning when he saw something that caught his interest. Around 3am, he observed a driver throw a lit cigarette from a vehicle. He stopped the car and discovered that the driver was a parolee-atlarge with an outstanding warrant.

Officers searched the car and found over 1,000 rounds of ammunition.

Who needs that much ammo, and for what? Scary.

The officers arrested the parolee and booked him into jail for the warrant and for being a felon reportely in possession of ammunition. As if that wasn’t enough, the passenger was also arrested and cited for alleged possession of narcotics and drug paraphernalia. The subject was later released. What a morning!

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Late on Saturday night, a Mill Valley resident attempted to drive her new truck into her garage.

Unfortunately, she miscalculated the location of the door frame and the truck became wedged in. Try as she might, she couldn’t dislodge the vehicle, which was now blocking a public driveway. Perhaps you think she had one toddy too many to get herself into this predicament; however, she was stone-cold sober.

It seemed like a good time to call the Mill Valley police for assistance.

The officers arrived at the scene and surveyed the situation. You might expect a few laughs or at least a guffaw, but the men in blue were completely professional. They had her get back in the car and instructed her on how to back out of the garage. To avoid another goround with a stuck truck, an officer pulled the vehicle into the garage for her.

The resident said the police were gentlemen and she appreciated that they allowed her to keep her dignity during the comical call.

Through the lab she heads at SJSU, biologist Elizabeth Skovran is harnessing the power of bacteria to develop a cost-effective method for collecting rare earth elements from used tech.

Microbe Machines Harnessing the power of living organisms, scientists, technologists and artists create a greener future By Wallace Baine

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he Bay Area has a recycling problem. It’s true that cities from San Rafael to San Jose have residential recycling services and public trash cans partitioned compartments for both recyclable and non-recyclable waste. But the tech industry—our region’s primary economic driver—has yet to come up with a cost-effective way to reuse the valuable materials inside our handsets, laptops and smartwatches.

It is not impossible to recycle

iPhones, lasers and X-ray machines.

But it is difficult, energy intensive and expensive. So, ironically, products aimed at lowering our collective carbon footprint, like solar panels and electric car batteries, often end up in landfills after they’ve completed their life cycle.

Not only is this practice wasteful, it also poses an existential threat to the tech industry. That’s because the class of metals known as rareearth elements—essential to the functionality of everything from

touch screens to wind turbines—are, as their name would suggest, rare.

“We’re not doing enough recycling of these rare-earth metals,” says Elizabeth Skovran, a faculty member with San Jose State University’s biology department. According to some reports, 95 percent of the 17 rare-earth elements that go into devices like mobile handsets and LED lights wind up in the dump.

“Landfills in developing countries are filled with these metals,” Skovran says. “If we could just recover

biotech can be used to describe any interface between humans and other life forms that incorporates some element of design to make life better for humans, if not always for the other life forms.

Baking and brewing are two of the oldest examples of humans deliberately forming a symbiotic relationship with a microorganism. Though the earliest beer producers and bread makers didn’t know it, they were working with a naturally occurring microscopic fungus—yeast—to create their ales and loaves. Millennia later, in the Victorian Era, an English doctor and inventor by the name of George Merryweather took advantage of leeches’ propensity to seek higher ground when they sensed changes in the atmosphere. His elaborate “tempest prognosticator” used the squirmy parasites to predict coming storms.

Today’s biotech is far more sophisticated than that. A generation of young scientists have grown up in a world where sustainability has been a priority, and innovation the key to success. Underlying many biotech efforts these days is an impulse to find a better way to avoid the environmental degradation wrought by the old-school extraction economy.

There are examples of new approaches to the natural world everywhere. At the Tech Interactive in San Jose, scientists are designing labs to appeal to children and show them how manipulating organic material could make for a viable and rewarding career path. At UC Santa Cruz, a coalition of artists and scientists are shaking up old perceptions of a common, largely unappreciated material of the living world.

In Silicon Valley, a burgeoning start-up called Bolt Threads is developing silk proteins—think spider webs—into durable and sustainable fibers that may make up the clothing of the future. Another company, Zymergen, is creating genetically engineered microbes to replace materials and products of the petrochemical industry.

In so many human endeavors, the old way of doing things is becoming more and more unsustainable. New ways are beginning to emerge.

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them, we wouldn’t have to do so much mining, which is extremely destructive to the environment.”

Soon the worldwide demand for rare-earth elements is likely to outstrip the supply, Skovran says. When that happens, it won’t matter how many more holes we dig. Through the lab she heads at SJSU, she and her team are working on a sustainable solution to this problem. By harnessing the power of bacteria, she hopes to develop a cost-effective method for collecting REEs from used tech.

Skovran has been consumed most of her professional life by a class of microorganisms known as “methylotrophic” bacteria. These bacteria feed on troublesome greenhouse gases such as methanol and methane. But they also have a curious trait that makes them potentially vital to the future of high tech: They consume and store REEs. These bacteria are capable of extracting rare-earth metals not only from post-consumer electronic garbage, but also from waste byproducts such as “fly ash,” a coal product, and “red mud,” a waste product in aluminum production.

The bacteria convert these waste metals into inorganic crystals within their cells. Skovran and her collaborators are working to figure out how to stimulate that process so that harvesting the metals from the bacteria can be commercially viable.

“This process already works,” she says. “We can throw a cell phone in the blender, we can throw in a computer hard drive magnet, or even a mining ore, and our bacteria can eat up the rare-earth metals.”

There’s just one problem. The bacteria are not gluttonous enough; they stop extracting the metals and forming them into crystals when they get full—and they get full quickly. It’s Skovran’s goal to get them to eat more. Our continued use of smartphones and MRI technology, among a thousand other things, might depend on it.

What’s happening in Skovran’s lab is a vivid example of using a natural process for the sake of human progress, an age-old technology that has approached new frontiers in the age of high tech. “Biotech” is too often merely a buzzword—a fuzzy abstraction, referenced in poorly understood practices like DNA sequencing or gene therapy. In fact,

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UCSC’s Algae Society is a collective of researchers and creatives from around the world devoted to the biological wonders of algae and related species.

the BioTinkering Lab at the Tech Interactive.

The place is small but it’s bright and inviting, like the set of TV cooking show. Smocked instructors welcome the young visitors and their families, while Anja Scholze pulls out a rack of cookie sheets covered with brightly colored, gelatinous blobs.

The blobs are cultures made up of bacteria that were assembled by a different group of kids a week ago.

“This is a piece of bio-material,” says Scholze, the program director for biology and design at The Tech. “It can be thick and leathery, or thin and papery, or almost like plastic.”

Today’s kids will work with these bacterial strains to create an elastic, skin-like material for their own use, in anything from keychains to book covers. They will also mix up another batch of cultures to be used by another group of kids.

The material is a kind of cellulose created by a certain class of bacteria as a waste byproduct. The world desperately needs a replacement for ocean-choking, endocrine-disrupting plastics. Cultivating this kind of material might mean we could say goodbye to plastics for good.

As a scientist, Scholze lives in

that middle space between pure research and classroom teaching.

At The Tech, she and her team are engaged in the task of making science comprehensible to the general public—in the case of the BioTinkering Lab, they work to make an incredibly complex subject understandable for 10-year-olds.

“We really want to target the project to be accessible to 10- to 12-year-olds,” she says, pointing to an age group for whom “interactive” often means mashing their fingers against tablets and pressing buttons on audio-visual exhibits. “One of the fundamental changes that we’ve been trying to adapt to over the last few years is: How do we get away from button-pushing?”

What the BioTinkering Lab at The Tech teaches kids is that biotech does not have to be an intimidating and remote concept. “If you have an element that is really tactile and sensory-friendly, that’s a really great way to let young kids participate, by squishing stuff and mashing stuff.

They get to touch something smelly and weird, somebody calls it biology and they get to have fun.”

Over at UC Santa Cruz, artists are determined that they will not be left out of the biotech revolution.

9 measure joy, curiosity, excitement, pleasure, all those things that are integral to human well-being.”

Back at The Tech, Scholze and her team spend an entire year on one specific project. In the Bio-Tinkering Lab’s first year, the focus was on making bricks and building materials from fungus, then the project was creating pigments from bacteria.

“We always try to pick a concept with a lot of real-world relevance,” Scholze says. “We want to tie back to what is happening at the forefront of biotech, not just some canned version of hands-on biology that is replicating someone else’s experiments. We want to explore something that maybe only a few start-ups are exploring, but is not yet an established product, something is actually cutting edge.”

The BioTinkering Lab has the vibe of a kids’ playhouse but with a distinct science-y bent, with petri dishes used as an artistic design element on the walls. Scholze believes that children need to be able to envision themselves working in the sciences.

“If you look around, it doesn’t like any traditional science lab that you’ve probably ever been in,” she says. “The design was intentional—a hybrid between a lab and a children’s bedroom. You walk into a place that’s very sterile, it’s not a welcoming place to experiment. We want them to feel that this is a place for them and not for somebody else.”

There is an undercurrent to the conversations with people in biotech, a sense of urgency that the extractive era of plastics and peak oil is coming to a crashing end and science’s critical mission is to find other, more sustainable materials with which to build and propel our world forward.

“The integration of the humanities and the arts on one hand, and science and engineering on the other is not just about how to benefit human society but, for this project in particular, how we can prevent human extinction,” says Parker of The Algae Society.

“How are we going to support other organisms in a symbiotic relationship so it’s not just us extracting resources for our own use, but making sure that the planet is living in a healthy ecosystem?”

Nick Veronin contributed to this story.

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Sculptor and UCSC faculty member Jennifer Parker co-founded the OpenLab Research Center with physicist Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz explicitly to design collaborations that would be fruitful for both artists and scientists. One of the most prominent projects from OpenLab is called The Algae Society, a collective of researchers and creatives from around the world devoted to the biological wonders of algae and related species.

“It’s the unsung hero of the planet,” Parker says. “When you look at algae, plankton, seaweed and phytoplankton, they’re responsible for about 50 percent of the oxygen produced in the world, and they take CO2 out of the atmosphere.”

The Algae Society counts among its many collaborators not only artists and scientists but the organisms themselves. “Once you start to play with this material and learn more about it and grow different kinds of species like spirulina or bioluminescent algae, they become these characters,” Parker says. “Instead of extracting materials and resources from the planet, what would happen if you thought of these organisms as partners? How would you create art with algae? What would you do?

What would it want to do?”

The Algae Society has evolved into a traveling art exhibit, which just closed a long engagement at the MAXI Museum in Santa Barbara and is now set to open in Spain. It’s also spawned the CoAction Lab, a mobile unit combining scientific experimentation and artistic exploration which this summer is traveling across the United States.

As a kind of throwback to the 19thcentury fad of collecting specimens of seaweed and mounting them as art pieces, Parker and her students have done seaweed pressings, made ink from algae, and used it as inspiration in everything from sculpture to digital art, all in an effort to break tech’s spell over the public.

“This is all in the service of getting off screens and getting back into this mode of curiosity and wonder,” she says. “You know, ‘Why is that like that? How does that work?’—basic fundamental questions we don’t ask anymore because we’ve removed ourselves from nature. We’re not responsible for measuring science only to find specific kinds of measurable outcomes. We’re really trying to

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Whatever you do, do not get out of the kayak!

The Pelican Brief A Labor Day paddle through Stinson Beach and environs By Tom Gogola

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he burning issue of the day is what is going on with those pelicans?

We’re out on the Bolinas Lagoon in rental kayaks from Stinson Beach and the birds are going totally nuts. They’re all over the place, and they’re divvied up into squads of three birds—they keep hitting the water, diving for snacks, but it’s the furious flapping of the wings that has us scratching our heads. There’s three of us, too, and we’re getting hungry.

Donnie over at Stinson Beach Surf & Kayak met us earlier at the kayak put-in located across Highway 1 from the Stinson Beach elementary school.

You can rent a single or tandem kayak from Donnie; our party of three each got our own kayak for a proper cruise of the federally-protected lagoon that spans from Bolinas to Stinson, for $50 a man.

Check the tides before you go.

The lagoon is very shallow in parts and it’s pretty much a no-go if the tide is on the ebb. We had a couple hours of high tide but my colleagues still managed to get fetched up on a sand-bar at one hilarious point during our journey on the lagoon.

Donnie had counseled us to never get out of the kayak—lest one run the risk of stepping on one of the huge rays that populate the lagoon.

And he also gave us the warning about leopard sharks. “Don’t get bit by one.” Okay. And, leave the darn seals alone. Will do. They’re everywhere in the lagoon and fun to watch as they pop up around the kayaks. But keep your distance, as contacts with humans can only end badly for the sea mammals.

Well, what about those pelicans?

It’s starting to feel a little Hitchcock out here with all these swooping

birds. My theory is that the massive birds use their flapping wings to stir up the mucky bottom, and release little worms and crustaceans into the current, that the birds then consume via that characteristic gullet of theirs. Sort of how certain fish do it—flap the muck, enjoy a sea urchin. Sounds like a plan, right?

Well, Donnie says they may just be trying to rid themselves of sea lice, such a buzz-killer.

I’m out here in the lagoon with a very old and dear friend and his son, who’s about to head off to his first year of college after a lateAugust journey to the West Marin hinterlands with dad. When we ran aground on the sandbar, to much hilarity, I’m reminded of a story about Albert Einstein, who was a sailor on top of all that scientific mumbo-jumbo. Einstein, it was said, used to like to deliberately fetch

himself up on a sandbar and didn’t mind waiting out the tide so he could be freed from it. He’d just sort of sit there marveling at astronomy, the tides. Unlike Einstein, we’re on a bit of a clock here, so the boys exit the kayaks in ankle-deep water and drag them into a deeper channel, and we continue apace. The pelicans are meanwhile blowing our collective minds with their airborne gymnastics and loud crashes into the water.

Our Stinson Beach activities were mostly sea-bound but there’s lots of ways to idle away an afternoon in the town-proper, which is known out here as a kind of pricey habitat for big old money.

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The main Stinson Beach drag comes and goes before you know it but it’s jam-packed with possibilities, and the perfect launch point for a day going up and down the Dipsea Trail or one of the other numerous trails that spin out from here and up into the Mt. Tamalpais watershed.

Stop in at the Stinson Beach Market before your hike to load up on deli sandwiches or to just grab a bottled water. The new-ish outdoor coffee kiosk next to the market is perfect for a hot cup of coffee on a cool and foggy morning when you’ve got the top of Tam on the brain.

For sit-down eateries of note, Stinson’s got a couple of standouts for piscatarians, view-hogs or folks out for a romantic turn at a sitdown place. The Siren Canteen serves multiple purposes—it’s at once a quick stop for a beachie lunch of burgers and fries, and it also boasts what’s perhaps the most peace-of-mind inspiring view out the window this side of Tony’s Seafood’s bay-side bounty in tiny Marshall up the coast.

Back at the Siren, the burgers are basic and kid-pleasing, but don’t pass up on the stellar rockfish tacos they pump out of the kitchen here— among other tacos on the menu that include pulled pork and carne asada. My experience is you’ll want to order three tacos, and eat them in rapid succession, without sharing.

The fish version stands out among a Mexican-rich array of items: the pico is piquant, the crema is zesty and luscious—and oh, that view.

For a proper sit-down meal, the Parkside’s got a chair waiting for you right now and an expansive menu that features one of the great breakfast selections in all of Marin County. Yes, there’s avocado toast (live a little with a $4 prosciutto add-on) and $12 for a bowl of steel cut oatmeal may seem a bit on the twee side of the price point—but hey, it’s Stinson Beach. I’m partial to a comainducing platter of steak and eggs and the Parkside’s the place to go after you’ve gotten that big book deal and

feel the need to celebrate over a $28 dollar breakfast of petite fillet, grilled asparagus, etc. etc. etc. and truffle oil too. Wait, what book deal?

With a bellyful of morning beef as your guide, now it’s time for a stroll down the main drag, where there’s a little bit of everything: Stinson Beach Books is a surprisingly capacious shop that not only carries the must-read New York Times beach book of the summer, but covers the tourist base with lots of postcards—along with a big selection of kitchen and table linens. (On that note, the inviting Stinson Beach public library, part of the Marin library system, is a friendly local bookend to the town’s readingmaterials retailer).

On the visual arts front, be sure to keep an eye peeled for the everexpanding and popular Stinson Beach Documentary Film Festival that’s been lighting up the town the past several Novembers and is poised to do so again this year. Until then, Claudia Chapline Gallery & Sculpture Garden offers limited weekend hours (Sat-Sun Noon5pm) and tours by appointment.

This month the gallery features “poet painters” John Brandi and Geri Digiorno, whose collages are up through Sept. 28.

Not to get all corny about it, but there’s an argument to be made that Stinson Beach is itself a poem painted on a dream. That’s heavy thinking man, which is only possible after consuming a breakfast steak and spending the morning at Red Rocks Beach, in the nude. You could say the same about much of West Marin, whether nude or not, and I just spent the past week saying as much to my West Marin visitors.

Back on the lagoon, it’s time to head back to shore to meet up with Donnie. From there, we’d be off to Tony’s Seafood for another godhead meal.

In the end, we decided that our vacation through-line could not, and would not, accept that those wild and massive pelicans were simply shedding sea lice from their feathers.

No, they were doing something much more exotic, free-wheeling, and appropriate for a West Marin that’s brimming with fresh eats: They were hunting for tasty morsels! Hey, pelican, here’s some advice: Try the Sweetwater oysters at Tony’s Seafood in Marshall, or a couple dozen of them. It’s a lot less work than all that flapping. Y

More Kayak, Please Slipping the kayak into the silken water of Tomales Bay feels like sliding into the skin of another animal—a seal or a pelican. The gray cloud cover contrasts with the seawater, eerily warm and blue, almost tropical.

Conditions are perfect for experiencing bioluminescence and exploring the natural history of the bay.

On dark nights from summer into fall, bluish-white flashes of light are emitted in disturbed water by bioluminescent plankton. They’re found mainly in saltwater near freshwater outflow. The luciferase enzyme—derived from the Latin lucifer, “lightbringer”—produces bioluminescence.

This evening holds extra magic for a group of kayakers about to put in on the edge of the tectonic boundary of the San Andreas fault.

Our Blue Waters Kayaking group leaves the North American Plate’s serpentine hills on the bay’s east side by Marshall, and heads westward toward the granitic landmass of Point Reyes and the Pacific Plate—itself moving northwest by inches every year.

Geologic activity, constant for millennia, dramatically manifested when the 1906 earthquake ruptured the fault nearby.

Geology influences plant life, by creating soil. Serpentine soil is rich in iron, but poor in nutrients like nitrogen. It stunts growth, fostering more grassland, as evidenced on the east side; adapted natives include leather oak, manzanita and the rare Sargent cypress. Granitic soil is quartzrich, acidic and nutrient-poor; typical plants include Douglas fir and Bishop pine, seen on the west side.

Coastal Miwok lived here for thousands of years—hunting, fishing and gathering oak acorns, buckeye and bay. The Miwok were brutally disrupted during the 16th to 19th centuries, when English, Spanish and Russian explorers colonized the region. After the 1849 Gold Rush, Ranchers were also drawn to the inviting coastal prairie, nurtured as it was by sustainable Miwok landmanagement practices of burning, weeding, pruning and harvesting.

As we paddle across Tomales Bay, Drew the Guide gives us the history of Hog Island. It’s named for the cormorants that amass in its scant trees. The air is filled with their hog-like grunts as they join in a feeding frenzy with a squadron of brown pelicans.

“Those birds dive-bomb the water,” he explains, “turning their heads just before hitting it.” This ensures they

see their fish prey—but the water’s harsh impact often results in them developing cataracts in their one favored eye.

Harbor seals bask on the beach, tails in the air. They slide silently into the bay, and along with Steller’s sea lions, pop their heads through the water to watch us. We give them a wide berth and head for a cove on the western side.

Tomales Bay comprises 2,000 acres within the Point Reyes National Seashore. One of the most biodiverse and ecologically important areas of the California coast, the bay hosts more than 900 plants and animals—many threatened or endangered. These include three salmonids—coho, chinook and steelhead—and birds galore: egrets, great blue heron and black rail. Even whales enter the bay on occasion.

Tomales Bay State Park was formed to preserve its fresh- and saltwater marshes; several hundred acres that were drained for grazing during the 1940s were restored in 2008.

Dairy and cattle ranches were grandfathered in when Point Reyes became a park. Now, ranchers have a controversy to deal with, involving plans to cull limited numbers of elk from the Drakes Beach herd. The elk are reportedly migrating into cow-grazing territory.

Approaching a cove in the kayak, I hear an eerie shriek and turn to see a blond-backed herd of two dozen Tule elk near shore. The high-pitched screech was the males bugling. It’s the height of rutting season.

The bulls charge each other, antler racks lowered, in a thrilling spectacle.

Bulls of this subspecies of North American elk weigh around 500 pounds, their antlers up to five feet wide. We’ll leave the simmering controversy over their fate for another day.

Closer to the water, a large bird—a great horned owl?—flies low over the bushes, hunting as the sun sinks and the sky turns to night. Someone cries, “It’s starting!”

The show begins.

At first it’s faint, small sparkles.

Dipping hands and oars, we cruise along, and the water droplets light up as if the waves are filled with stars.

Even the fish become photons of light, shooting through the water like showers of diamonds.

We stay in that cove, mesmerized like spellbound children. Maybe if we remain open to such wonders, connecting to and protecting them will bring us closer to the natural world we’re a part of. Now the bioluminescence slowly begins to lose its luster, and it’s time to paddle back. We head toward the dock after an unforgettable experience. —Irene Barnard

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Images & Words

Black Mountain Circle celebrates West Marin when it presents the exhibition, “This Sacred Land,” which pairs Todd Pickering's black-and-white nature photography with essays by community members. A longtime West Marin resident and Mesa Refuge alum, Pickering specializes in capturing his local landscapes and wildlife in every season, and he's been working with the Latino Photography Project. Alongside his images, local residents ranging from farmers to surfers share their stories of living and loving the region in the show, opening with a celebration on Saturday, Sept. 7, at Toby’s Gallery, 11250 Hwy 1, Point Reyes Station. 2pm. Free. 415.663.1223.

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Country and rock ‘n’ roll veteran Junior Brown shows off his custom 6-string/steel guitar when he plays on Tuesday, Sept. 10, at Sweetwater Music Hall in Mill Valley. See clubs & venues, pg 22.

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Art Party One of West Marin’s biggest events, the Bolinas Museum Benefit Art Auction & Party, returns for its 27th year, featuring a live auction of diverse art by local and Bay Area artists and galleries; a silent auction of special offerings from Marin and beyond; and food, wine, cocktails and dancing. Interested art collectors can see the works going on the block right now at the museum's “Art Auction Preview Exhibit,” and tickets to the party, which regularly sells out, are available now. The auction happens Saturday, Sept. 7, at Peace Barn, 70 Olema Bolinas Rd., Bolinas. 4pm. $125$150. 415.868.8809.

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Elemental Films Four-part documentary series “Standing on Sacred Ground” features indigenous communities sharing their ecological wisdom and spiritual reverence while battling government megaprojects, consumer culture and climate change. This month, the series continues with a screening of Standing on Sacred Ground: Fire & Ice, which explores the growing movement to defend human rights and restore the environment. Filmmakers Toby McLeod and Corrina Gould are on hand when the doc screens on Sunday, Sept. 8, at the Dance Palace, 503 B St., Point Reyes Station. 2pm. $20-$30; students are free. 415.663.1075.

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Variety of Fun

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In honor of KWMR’s 20 years of broadcasting on the FM airwaves, the station’s upcoming Vaudevillian Variety Gala promises a mesmerizing array of entertainment and culinary wonders presented in a big-top atmosphere. The acts will delight children and adults of all ages, with an aerialist, a marionette show, ballroom dancers, a guitar-playing minstrel, a tarot card reader, clowns and musical entertainment featuring West Marin-based Avery Hellman. The show happens on Monday, Sept. 9, at Sir & Star, 10000 Sir Francis Drake Blvd., Olema. 5pm. $250; $475 per couple; $125 for kids under 14. 415.309.1542.

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I do think there’s some commonality to what people think of as a good death.

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Acclaimed author Katy Butler appears for a reading and reception in West Marin to support Mesa Refuge.

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A Guide To ‘Dying Well’ Marin journalist and author outlines a less-bleak approach to the end of life By Wallace Baine

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he inevitability of death has always been a source of dread and anxiety, across all ages and human societies. But the modern age has produced a new, very particular dimension to that primal fear.

Many of us fear not so much death itself, but rather the chaotic,

disorienting and often extremely expensive process of dying made common by modern medicine.

But if dying is still inevitable, a messy and inhumane death it does not have to be. That’s the message behind journalist Katy Butler’s new book The Art of Dying Well: A Practical Guide to a Good End of Life (Scribner).

Butler, who discusses the book at a benefit event for the Mesa Refuge on Saturday, Sept. 7 at Point Reyes Presbyterian Church, has crossed this terrain before. Her 2013 book Knocking on Heaven’s Door: The Path to a Better Way of Death was part memoir and part investigation, offering the story of her father’s death as an illustration of what she calls “the Gray Zone,” the suspended state between an active life and clinical death largely created by modern medical technology.

“I felt I had laid out a problem in the first book,” says Butler, a long-time Bay Area reporter and writer. “I felt there was a need for a book that was about solutions, and that’s really the difference—this book says, OK, granted we have a broken medical system that is very fragmented toward the end of life, and we are afraid of death anyway. So given these problems, here are the workarounds—stories of people who have actually risen to the occasion and trusted their own best instincts to create a death that was less bad, or maybe even really good.”

The Art of Dying Well works best as a kind of handbook. Its seven chapters are determined by the particular stages of life, from “Resilience,” when you’re still active and healthy, all the way to “Active Dying,” the moment when it’s time to say goodbye. Along the way, each chapter outlines the attitudes and methods of preparation that can lead to a dignified and emotionally fulfilling end of life. The book’s format, says Butler, allows readers to return to it at different times in their lives.

“If you’re in the ‘Resilience’ part of life,” she says, “where you can still reverse a lot of health conditions, then you might want to read that chapter and call it a day, and put it away until you’re in some very different stage of life. And, if you’re in crisis, if there’s someone in your house who is dying, then skip the early parts and turn to the last two chapters and you’ll get a lot out of that.”

Butler’s inspiration was an antique text called Ars Moriendi, translated from the Latin as The Art of Dying. The text dates back to the 1400s and is a kind of medieval

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guidebook on the best way to meet death. She calls it one of the first bestselling self-help books. “It framed dying as a spiritual ordeal, and it named five different sorts of temptations and emotional struggles at the end of life, and how your attendants or friends could reassure you and help you through that.”

Though the fact of dying hasn’t changed, the circumstances of death have been upended since the Middle Ages. Butler, 70, started the writing process mindful of what links ancient ideas of death with contemporary ones.

“I do think there’s some commonality to what people think of as a good death. Clean and comfortable and relatively free from pain, having people that you love around you, being spiritually at peace,” she says.

“Those things are still the same.”

The new book also offers up practical policy ideas to address what she calls a “technology-rich but relationship-poor” health care system. One such idea is a Medicare program known as PACE, which keeps ailing seniors out of hospitals and nursing-care facilities when it’s practical to do so, while still meeting their needs for home care, therapy and medication. The problem is, PACE is limited in its capacities and its funding. Still, there are many more down-to-earth approaches people can adopt to make a fulfilling end of life better for everyone—approaches that previous generations knew something about.

“You look at the ‘Greatest Generation,’” Butler says, referring to those who lived through the Great Depression and World War II. “They had stronger social networks and more of an understanding to bring a covered dish when someone has a major health crisis. We need to relearn some of those more rural or red-state values of neighborliness and being part of community groups. That stuff matters.”

Katy Butler appears for a reception and reading on Saturday, Sept. 7, at Mesa Refuge and Point Reyes Presbyterian Church. Reception, 5pm; reading, 7pm. $25-$65. Tickets and info at ptreyesbooks.com.

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The California Honeydrops come around to West Marin for this weekend’s Summer Stomp II.

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Parachute Stomp California Honeydrops headline all-day fest at Love Field By Charlie Swanson

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usician and producer Jonathan Korty has spent three decades in the Bay Area music scene, performing in groups like Vinyl and Soul Ska, and offering booking, production and performance services for private and public events with his company Korty Productions.

Meanwhile, his brother Gabriel Korty has been pursuing his art and has become an in-demand creator of custom stage backdrops for such artists as Chris Robinson, events such as Huichica Festival in Sonoma and more. Gabriel's major achievement has been the Parachute Days community project at Love Field in Point Reyes.

“My brother had been experimenting with military parachutes just for fun,” says Korty.

“He put one up (on Love Field) and had a party under it. It attracted a lot of attention.”

What started as a small local event has grown into a summer music series with popular indierock headliners like Explosions in the Sky and Animal Collective.

Gabriel and his team installs a huge cargo parachute over the field with 10 pyramid-shaped supports along with a large stage, backdrop and lantern centerpiece above the soundboard/DJ booth that is a work of functional art.

“Being a veteran of the Bay Area music scene, I can’t imagine a better setting or vibe for a concert,” says Korty.

This weekend, the Korty brothers’ creative endeavors will come together at Summer Stomp II, the all-day music festival under the parachute at Love Field on

Saturday Sep 7 that coincides with Korty’s birthday and features his hand-picked lineup of bands like headliners California Honeydrops, zydeco star Andre Thierry, Korty’s bands Soul Ska and Koolerator, and Bolinas-based reggae DJs Epicenter Sound System.

Ten years after forming as an Oakland busking duo, the California Honeydrops are now one of the most Bay Area’s most popular bands, offering a danceable soul music that draws on diverse musical influences.

Growing up on French Creole and Cajun Zydeco music, Andre Thierry is a virtuoso accordionist and bandleader of Zydeco Magic. “He’s the real deal,” says Korty. “He brings a special type of contemporary soul zydeco to the stage.”

As for Epicenter Sound System, Korty says the act takes the Reggae

knowledge to a whole new level.

The music is the focus of the fest, though Summer Stomp II will also feature delicious local food trucks on site, beer and beverages by Iron Springs Brewery, local arts and crafts vendors, Oyster Bar, kids activities and more. Last year’s event sold-out in advance, so Korty notes advance tickets are recommended.

More than anything, Korty is looking forward to spending his birthday with family, friends and like-minded music lovers.

“It’s really special for me to be able to work with my younger brother,” he says. “And for us to be able to bring our art together.”

Summer Stomp II happens on Saturday, Sep 7, at Love Field, 11191 Sir Francis Drake Blvd, Pt Reyes Station. 2pm10pm. $15-$50. parachutedays.com.

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By Matthew Stafford

Friday September 6-Thursday September 12 After the Wedding (1:52) Remake of the acclaimed Danish drama stars Michelle Williams as the head of a Calcutta orphanage and Julianne Moore as her mysterious benefactor.

Angel Has Fallen (1:54) Rogue secret service agent Gerard Butler dodges feds and fiends to stop a presidential assassination; Morgan Freeman is POTUS. Aquarela (1:29) Victor Kossakovsky documentary immerses the viewer in the awesome power of water, from frozen Lake Baikal to ferocious Hurricane Irma; music by Finnish cello metal band Apocalyptica.

Becoming Nobody (1:21) Documentary tribute to counterculture wit/therapist/ spirit guide Ram Dass features illuminating clips and insightful interviews with the man himself.

Bennett’s War (1:35) A disabled vet risks his future when he enters a motorcycle race to save the family farm.

Blinded by the Light (1:54) A down-andout Pakistani teen gets a new lease on life when he discovers the inspirational working-class poetry of Bruce Springsteen.

Comédie Française: Britannicus (2:05) The venerable theater troupe updates Racine’s insightful study of family politics during the reign of the Emperor Nero.

Don’t Let Go (1:43) Sci-fi mystery stars David Oyelowo as a detective who teams up with his time-traveling niece to prevent her murder.

Downton Abbey (1:30) The veddy British cult TV series hits the big screen with the household in a dither over an upcoming visit by King George and Queen Mary their bloomin’ selves!

The Farewell (1:38) Acclaimed comedydrama about an impromptu Chinese wedding staged so its far-flung family can gather around their dying grandmother one last time.

Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles (1:32) Acclaimed documentary charts the evolution of Fiddler on the Roof from Aleichem to Chagall to Mostel and beyond.

47 Meters Down: Uncaged (1:29) Four skin-diving teens get in over their heads when the submerged Mayan city they’re exploring is infested with sharks.

Good Boys (1:35) Raunchy, sweet-natured comedy about a posse of 12-year-olds enduring a terrifying day of angry cops, stolen drugs and older women.

Honeyland (1:25) Award-winning documentary focuses on the last of the Macedonian wild beekeepers and how her delicate relationship with nature is threatened by the noisy modern world.

Hustlers (1:50) True tale of a troupe of strippers who took on Wall Street sleazoids; Jennifer Lopez and Constance Wu star.

International Ocean Film Tour (2:00) Catch five short documentaries celebrating the beauty and majesty of the world’s oceans and the essential importance of keeping them healthy.

IRIS: A Space Opera by Justice (1:24) The Canadian electronicats present their latest and most immersive audio-visual extravaganza.

It: Chapter Two (2:49) Pennywise the clown is back and badder than ever, terrorizing the town of Derry despite the best efforts of…Bill Hader?

Kinky Boots: The Musical (2:15) Catch the London stage production of the Cyndi Lauper-Harvey Fierstein musical about a failing shoe factory saved from receivership by a flamboyant transvestite cabaret star.

Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice (1:35) Documentary focuses on the überpopular songstress and her multiculti forays into folk, rock, country, Latin and the Great American Songbook; Rob Epstein and Jeffery Friedman direct.

Margaret Atwood (1:50) Direct from London it’s the Handmaid’s Tale author discussing its newly published and longawaited sequel, The Testaments.

National Theatre London: Fleabag (1:40) Hit West End production of Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s one-woman comedy about an oversexed, self-obsessed force of nature.

Overcomer (1:55) Faith-based family film about a down-and-out basketball coach who gets a new lease on life coaching a cross-country runner.

The Peanut Butter Falcon (1:36) Heartwarming tale of a fugitive from justice and a runaway with Down syndrome who elude the law on a ramble through Georgia’s delta country.

Plácido Domingo Gala (2:00) Celebrate the superstar’s half century in the opera business with a gala concert featuring excerpts from Verdi’s Nabucco, Macbeth and Simon Boccanegra.

Ready or Not (1:35) A newlywed learns more than she wants to about her new inlaws and their particularly horrific version of hide and seek.

Rush: Cinema Strangiato 2019 (2:00) Tribute to the fantastical Canadian rock band features concert footage, backstage buzz, band interviews and more.

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (1:48) A group of teens face their fears in order to save their lives in this adaptation of the children’s books.

Where’d You Go, Bernadette (1:49) The Maria Semple bestseller hits the big screen with Cate Blanchett as a self-sacrificing mother determined to reclaim her identity; Richard Linklater directs.

Wilder Than Wild (1:00) Kevin White’s documentary looks at Western wildfires from the Rim to the Wine Country and innovative ways we can deal with climate change, fuel buildup and other culprits.

You Are Here (1:35) Heartwarming documentary about how the people of Gander, Newfoundland housed and fed 6,500 stranded passengers for the five days following 9/11.

Julianne Moore employs plenty of tears in the American remake of a Danish melodrama After the Wedding.

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Comédie Française: Brittanicus (NR)

Lark: Sun 6:30

Downton Abbey (PG)

Fairfax: Thu 7 Northgate: Thu 7 Playhouse: Thu 7 Regency:

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Hustlers (R)

Northgate: Thu 7, 9:45 Rowland: Thu 7, 9:40

Thu 7 Rowland: Thu 7 International Ocean Film Tour (NR)

Lark: Sun 4

IRIS: A Space Opera by Justice (NR)

Lark: Tue 9

It: Chapter Two (R)

Cinema: Fri-Wed 11, 2:50, 6:45, 10:35 Fairfax: 12, 3:30, 7 daily Northgate: Fri-Sat 10:15, 11:35, 12:50, 2:10, 3:25, 4:40, 5:55, 7:15, 8:30, 9:45, 11; Sun-Wed 10:15, 11:35, 12:50, 2:10, 3:25, 4:40, 5:55, 7:15, 8:30, 9:45 Playhouse: Fri, Mon-Thu 3:30, 7; Sat-Sun 12, 3:30, 7 Rowland: Fri-Wed 11:40, 1:30, 3:20, 5:10, 7, 8:50, 10:40; Thu 11:40, 1:30, 3:20, 5:10, 7:10, 8:50 Sequoia: Fri-Sat 11:50, 3:25, 7, 10:35; Sun 11:50, 3:25, 7; Mon-Wed 3:25, 7

Kinky Boots: The Musical (NR)

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Lark: Sun 1

Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice (NR)

Rafael: Sun 3, 6 (filmmakers Rob Epstein and Jeffrey

Friedman in person)

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Margaret Atwood (NR)

The Merry Wives of Windsor (NR)

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National Theatre London: Fleabag (PG-13)

Lark: Thu 11, 6:30

National Theatre London: The Lehman Trilogy (PG-13)

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Lark: Mon 6:30

Plácido Domingo Gala (NR)

Regency: Sat 12:55

Rush: Cinema Strangiato 2019 (NR)

Lark: Wed 7:30

Wilder Than Wild (NR)

Rafael: Thu 7 (panel discussion follows the screening)

You Are Here (NR)

Regency: Wed 7

Because of the Labor Day weekend most show times were not available as we went to press.

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Several charter school parents engage in an eye-opening debate about vaccines in Spreckels’ latest production.

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Laughing Matters Serious subject propels the funny ‘Eureka Day.’ By Harry Duke

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recent New York Times headline asked the question, “Can a Play About Vaccines Be a Laughing Matter?” Bay Area audiences can answer that question themselves by attending one of two current productions of the play in question—Jonathan Spector’s Eureka Day. You can catch it OffBroadway in New York, or you can go to the North Bay’s Spreckels Performing Arts Center in Rohnert Park where it’s running through Sept. 22.

Commissioned and produced by Berkeley’s Aurora Theatre Company in 2018, Oakland-based playwright Spector’s look at how the leaders of a Berkeley charter school deal with an outbreak of the mumps won

that year’s Bay Area Critics Circle Award for Original Script. Not really a debate on the issue of vaccinations (it’s clear in the play where Spector stands), it’s more a look at how the attempt to find common ground on certain issues is an exercise in futility.

Everything you need to know about the school becomes clear in the first minutes. Gathered in the school library, the members of the school’s executive committee are discussing whether to add “Transracial Adoptee” as an option for prospective parents on the school web site. As consensus decides everything at Eureka Day, a lengthy debate ensues between Head of School Don (Jeff Coté), and parents Suzanne (Sarah McKheregan), Carina (Val Sinckler), Meiko (Eiko Yamamoto), and Eli (Rick Eldredge).

This debate and its various amusing sidetracks set you up for the even larger debate to follow.

The school is notified that one of their students has contracted the mumps and the county health department is prohibiting students with no documentation of immunity from returning to school.

How will the consensus-minded board and the parents deal with an issue that has no consensus?

Hysterically, it turns out, as the first act ends with a brilliantly scripted “Community Activated Conversation” (their term for a Facebook Live session) between the executive committee and the parents that is gut-bustingly funny.

So yes, a play about vaccines can be a laughing matter. The second

act shows that it can also be somber, serious, and enlightening. Director Elizabeth Craven and her pitchperfect cast give life to Spector’s infuriating, moving and completely recognizable characters who manage to give us insight into why some people choose to believe what they believe without validating those choices.

Sometimes agreeing to disagree just isn’t enough. Can we all agree on that?

'Eureka Day' runs through Sept. 22 at Spreckels Performing Arts Center, 5409 Snyder Lane, Rohnert Park. Friday – Saturday, 7:30pm; Sunday, 2pm; Thursday, Sep 19, 7:30pm. $12 – $26.

707.588.3400. spreckelsonline.com

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Brickmaiden’s brick-and-mortar location is welcome news to fans of the standout bakery.

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Rising Loafer Brickmaiden opens in Point Reyes Station By Tanya Henry

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any of us first discovered Brickmaiden Breads at one of Marin’s farmers markets or on a local restaurant menu. Point Reyes native Celine Underwood started Brickmaiden in 2000 when she took over the space (and brick oven) where Chad Robertson and Elizabeth Pruitt (of Tartine Bakery) were originally based. Today the sweet yellow farmhouse on 4th Street in downtown Point Reyes Station is now Brickmaiden Bake Shop & Café.

“The business grew up,” says

Underwood, who started selling her breads when she was just 24 years old.

“I originally started with a simple view of baking—nothing fancy—just two types of dough—mostly sourdough.”

Underwood describes how the bakery grew organically—but always with a vision to one day have a retail operation. After a couple of successful Kickstarter campaigns she was able to upgrade her equipment and eventually buy the building from the local Giacomini family (founders of Point Reyes Farmstead Cheese).

With little fanfare, Underwood opened the doors in August to her

efficient new café space that boasts plenty of loaves of bread (of course), a case filled with scones, cookies and pastries, a wood burning stove and a small counter and stools with just enough room for a few customers. An espresso menu features Andytown Coffee Roasters from the Sunset District in San Francisco and a gleaming stainless steel rack holds packaged items like granola and tea cookies to take home.

For now, the newest addition to Point Reyes Station is only open three days a week, but she has plans afoot to change that. Underwood

also hopes to expand her menu offerings by adding lunch items including sandwiches and salads.

Rustic and savory tarts are in the works and seasonal specials will reflect whatever is in season and fresh at the farmers market.

“The whole premise of this style of bakery is to be part of our community—that is what we are about—seeing people enjoying the space and hanging out—that is what motivates us,” explains Underwood, who appears quite happy with the café that she admits is still very much a work in progress. Y

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Buzz off if you think wine is only made from grapes.

This isn’t your fæder’s mead at Heidrun Meadery

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t hadn’t occurred to me that the wine scene in West Marin might have much in common with the wine scene in Ethiopia until I read an article that mentioned tej, the traditional honey wine of Ethiopia.

Then I mentioned this to Heidrun Meadery-founder Gordon Hull, who not only knows about tej, but has also sampled different kinds of varietal Ethiopian honey. Hull says, as he cautiously watches a tank of justbrewed honey-and-water mixture, that he’d love to import some for his own méthode champenoise— sparkling mead—someday.

For now, Point Reyes Station’s Heidrun focuses on making varietal mead from sources located on the West Coast, and in Florida and Hawaii. When Hull talks about “varietal mead,” he means the honey it’s fermented from comes from beehives deployed for the pollination of a particular flowering crop. Take California orange blossom ($25). Growers and consumers want oranges, but to get them they need orange tree blossoms to be pollinated—largely, by European honeybees brought in by professional beekeepers. But who cares about Oregon chicory blossom ($28), since there’s no fruit to eat? Chicory farmers need the seeds, and Oregon does big business in seed farming.

The honey that results, that’s just gravy. Well, honey. This mead has an intriguing juniper-like aroma.

Because each honey, from each region and flower source, has a unique character, Hull explains as he pours a pitcher of clean-fermenting champagne yeast into a sterilized tank, his aim is to preserve that aroma’s expression in the mead, without the influence of native yeasts or souring bacteria.

My favorite mead from this tasting was Marin County wildflower ($40), from Heidrun’s line of “terroir” meads, lately renamed Bee-yond.

The idea here is to express the whole range of flowering plants in the local environment, via bees, in a glass. This is reminiscent of rich, dark clover honey on the nose. But the finish is dry, an unexpected delight.

Set in a greenhouse, the tasting room features a long bar made from bee boxes and Champagne riddling racks. While the estate flower garden is a work in progress, and best to visit in spring and early summer, a curly-leaved willow tree shrouds an enchanted sylvan hideaway for picnics.

Buy a bottle and they’ll bring it to you in an ice bucket. Just make sure to pick up some local cheese on the way here.

On Sept. 22 Heidrun Meadery hosts "Bee, Experienced," a flower-to-flute experience. Don beekeeping suits and then enjoy a tasting. $90.

11925 Highway 1, Point Reyes Station.

Open daily, 11am–4pm; 5pm weekends.

Tasting, $15–$20. Tours Saturday mornings. 415.663.9122.

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Calendar Concerts Summer Stomp Second annual family-friendly outdoor concert features music by the California Honeydrops, Soul Ska and others. Sep 7, 2pm. $15-$50. Love Field, 11191 Sir Francis Drake Blvd, Pt Reyes Station, parachutedays.com.

Clubs & Venues HopMonk Novato Sep 6, Mustache Harbor. Sep 7, John Vanderslice. Sep 8, Ne Monsoon. 224 Vintage Way, Novato, 415.892.6200.

Marin Country Mart Sep 6, 6pm, Lorca Hart Organ Trio. Sep 8, 12:30pm, Suzy Thompson & Squeaky Freaky String Band. 2257 Larkspur Landing Circle, Larkspur, 415.461.5700.

Nazz Coffeehouse Sep 7, 7pm, Alligator one-man band. 5400 Nave Dr, Novato, 415.599.9481.

19 Broadway Nightclub Sep 5, 101 North Band. Sep 6, Ship of Fools.

Sep 7, DJ Carlos. Sep 8, 4pm, Westside Jazz Club. 17 Broadway Blvd, Fairfax, 415.459.1091.

Papermill Creek Saloon Sep 5, Sarah Rodenburg. Sep 6, Stymie & the Pimp Jones Love Orchestra. Sep 7, Jerry Hannan Band. Sep 8, 4pm, Papermill Gang.

Sep 9, Kelly Hafner. 1 Castro, Forest Knolls, 415.488.9235.

Peri’s Silver Dollar Sep 5, Silas Fermoy and Thicc. Sep 6, Idle Joy and Killer Whale. Sep 7, El Cajon. Sep 8, Caleb Ford. Sep 10, Jake Hammerslag and friends. 29 Broadway, Fairfax, 415.459.9910.

Rancho Nicasio Sep 6, French Oak acoustic. Sep 8, Pablo Cruise. 1 Old Rancheria Rd, Nicasio, 415.662.2219.

Sausalito Seahorse Sep 5, flamenco show. Sep 6, Blondiva. Sep 8, 3pm, Pacific Mambo Orchestra. 305 Harbor View Dr, Sausalito, 415.331.2899.

Smiley’s Schooner Saloon Sep 7, PSDSP and People My Dog Bites. 41 Wharf Rd, Bolinas, 415.868.1311.

Sweetwater Music Hall Sep 5-6, the Funkin’ Truth featuring Leo Nocentelli. Sep 10, Junior Brown. 19 Corte Madera Ave, Mill Valley, 415.388.3850.

The Tavern on Fourth Sep 6, Smiling at Strangers. Sep 7, ColdSol. 711 Fourth St, San Rafael, 415.454.4044.

Art Opening Corte Madera Library Sep 7-Oct 17, “Old Favorites & New

Works: Art by Mary Vezie,” awardwinning local artist’s recent works study how light interacts with water, skies, clouds and sunsets. Reception, Sep 7 at 2pm. 707 Meadowsweet Dr, Corte Madera. 415.924.3515.

Vaudevillian Variety Gala KWMR fundraiser features culinary delights and vaudevillian entertainment for all ages.

Sep 9, 5pm. $250; kids under 14 are $125.

Sir & Star at the Olema, 10000 Sir Francis Drake Blvd, Olema, 415.309.1542.

Toby’s Gallery Sep 5-30, “This Sacred Land: Images & Words from Point Reyes,” exhibit showcases masterful black-andwhite nature photos by Todd Pickering. Reception, Sep 7 at 2pm.

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Villa Marin Sep 5-Oct 31, “Best Ideas,” Marin County Watercolor Society’s group show offers an open-ended theme of work. Reception, Sep 5 at 4:30pm. 100 Thorndale Dr, San Rafael.

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Comedy San Francisco Standup Comedy Competition See the first of two preliminary-round shows for the 44th annual event. Sep 7, 8pm. $30. Marin Center Showcase Theatre, 10 Avenue of the Flags, San Rafael, 415.499.6800.

TJ Miller Standup star and actor from “Silicon Valley” appears in Marin for an evening of laughs. Sep 8, 8pm. $67-$72; VIP $92.

Sweetwater Music Hall, 19 Corte Madera Ave, Mill Valley, 415.388.3850.

Events Beyond the Book Bash Mill Valley library’s annual fundraiser features cocktails, delicious bites and a live performance. Sep 7, 8pm. $125. Throckmorton Theatre, 142 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley, 415.383.9600.

Bolinas Museum Benefit Art Auction Art donated by coastal Marin and Bay Area artists and galleries is auctioned off with live music and more. Sep 7, 4pm. $125-$150.

Peace Barn, 70 Olema Bolinas Rd, Bolinas, 415.868.0330.

Becoming Nobody Documentary on holy man and philosopher Ram Dass’ life and teachings makes its US premiere with filmmaker Jamie Catto in attendance for Q&A. Sep 6, 7:30pm. $15-$25. Smith Rafael Film Center, 1118 Fourth St, San Rafael, 415.454.1222.

Chasing the Thunder Documentary on marine conservation group Sea Shepherd screens with filmmaker Mark Benjamin and Sea Shepherd Founder Paul Watson (remotely) on hand for Q&A. Sep 5-6, 6pm. $9. Bay Conference Center, 3152 Paradise Dr, Tiburon, 415.338.3543.

Standing on Sacred Ground: Fire & Ice Four-part documentary series on indigenous communities’ ecological wisdom and spiritual reverence screens with filmmaker Toby McLeod and Corrina Gould. Sep 8, 2pm. $20-$30; students are free. Dance Palace, 503 B St, Pt Reyes Station, 415.663.1075.

Lectures Energy on Purpose Panel discussion features leaders in health and wellness. Sep 5, 7pm. $30$45. Harmonia, 2200 Marinship Way, Sausalito, 415.332.1432.

Heal-All Salve Making Join local herb expert Eden Clearbrook in a hands-on experiential workshop. Sep 8, 9am. $65. Fairfax Backyard Farmer, 135 Bolinas Rd, Fairfax, 415.342.5092.

How to Improve Your Public-Speaking Self Confidence Overcome your fear of speaking in front of an audience. Sep 11, 6:30pm. $25. The Indie Alley, 69 Bolinas Rd, Fairfax, theindiealley.com.

Community Media Center of Marin 10th Anniversary Block party and open house includes live music, a food truck, raffle and other entertainment. Sep 8, Community Media Center of Marin, 819 A St, San Rafael, 415.721.0636.

Learning Unlimited Lecture series presents storyteller Dale Biron to talk about how poetry can provide restful breaks for the mind, heart and soul. Sep 10, 1pm. $12-$16. Osher Marin JCC, 200 N San Pedro Rd, San Rafael, 415.444.8000.

Festival Independencia Salvadoreña Salvadoran celebration of Independence features music, authentic food, arts and exhibitors. Sep 8, 10am. $25-$32; kids under 10 are free. Lagoon Park, Marin Civic Center, 10 Avenue of the Flags, San Rafael, 415.473.6800.

Opera Guild Preview Explore the history and music of San Francisco Opera’s upcoming production, “Billy Budd.” Sep 5, 7:30pm. $10. The Redwoods, 40 Camino Alto, Mill Valley, 415.383.2741.

Marin Volunteer Fair Showcase of 100 local nonprofits representing diverse community includes volunteer opportunities and general information. Sep 7, 10am. Free. Marin Fairgrounds, Marin Center, 10 Avenue of the Flags, San Rafael, 415.473.6800.

Tamalpa Experience Workshop Using movement, drawing, poetic writing and improvisation, participants tap into art’s symbolic language to enliven dialogue between body and imagination. Sep 7, 10am. $45. Mountain Home Studio, 15 Ravine Way, Kentfield, tamalpa.org.

Wildscaping for Songbirds Learn how to create wildlife-friendly gardens for native and migratory birds. Sep 11, 6pm. $15. Fairfax Backyard Farmer, 135 Bolinas Rd, Fairfax, 415.342.5092.

Readings Book Passage Sep 5, 7pm, “River of Fire” with Sister Helen Prejean, in conversation with Mike Farrell. $30. Sep 6, 7pm, “The New Architecture of Wine” with Heather Hebert, includes panel discussion. Sep 7, 1pm, “Wake-Up Call” with Larry Bearg.

Sep 7, 4pm, “Newcomers in an Ancient Land” with Paula Wagner. Sep 7, 7pm, “Wild Blueberries” with Peter Damm. Sep 8, 1pm, “The Vagina Bible” with Dr Jen Gunter. Sep 8, 4pm, “Medicine & Miracles in the High Desert” with Erica Elliott. Sep 9, 7pm, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” with Marin Shakespeare Company. Sep 10, 7pm, “Hitler’s Great Gamble” with James Ellman. Sep 11, 7pm, “Represent” with June Diane Raphael, includes a copy of the book. $22. 51 Tamal Vista Blvd, Corte Madera 415.927.0960.

Marin Art & Garden Center Sep 11, 6pm, "You Can Garden for Life" with Toni Gattone. 30 Sir Francis Drake Blvd, Ross 415.455.5260.

Novato Copperfield’s Books Sep 8, 3pm, “Aloha From Sammi” with Suzanne Mirviss. 999 Grant Ave, Novato 415.763.3052.

Point Reyes Presbyterian Church Sep 7, 7pm, “The Art of Dying Well” with Katy Butler, includes optional prereading reception at Mesa Refuge. $25-$65, mesarefuge.org. 11445 Shoreline Hwy, Point Reyes Station.

Theater The Humans A family copes with aging, illness and a changing economy in this Tony Awardwinning play. Sep 6-29. $15-$27. Novato Theater Company, 5240 Nave Dr, Novato, 415.883.4498.

Merry Wives of Windsor Curtain Theatre celebrates 20 years of free community productions. Through Sep 8.

Free. Old Mill Park, Throckmorton and Cascade, Mill Valley, curtaintheatre.org.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream Marin Shakespeare Company present the magical comedy. Sep 6-29. Forest Meadows Amphitheatre, 890 Belle Ave, Dominican University, San Rafael, marinshakespeare.org.

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ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME CASE NUMBER: CIV 1902964 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA,

COUNTY OF MARIN TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS 1. Petitioner (name of each): Chelsea Adriana Rodriquez, has filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present Name: Chelsea Adriana Rodriquez to Proposed Name: Chelsea Adriana Rodriquez Reyes 2.

THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. if no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING a. Date: 10/3/2019, Time: 9:00am, Dept: E, Room: E. The address of the court is same as noted above; 3501 Civic Center Drive, San Rafael, CA 94903. 3.a.

A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the Pacific Sun, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Marin.

DATED: AUGUST 5, 2019 Andrew E Sweet Judge of the Superior

Court James M Kim Court Executive Officer MARIN COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT By E. Anderson, Deputy (AUGUST 14, 21, 28 SEPTEMBER 4 of 2019) ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME CASE NUMBER: CIV 1903247 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF MARIN TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS 1. Petitioner (name of each): Vanessa Mary Seidler, has filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present Name: Vanessa Mary Seidler to Proposed Name: Vanessa Ester Mary Seidler 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the~name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. if no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING a. Date: 10/21/2019, Time: 9:00am, Dept: E, Room: E. The address of the court is same as noted above; 3501 Civic Center Drive, San

Rafael, CA 94903. 3.a.

A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the Pacific Sun, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Marin.

DATED: August 26, 2019 Andrew E Sweet Judge of the Superior Court James M Kim Court Executive Officer MARIN COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT By E. Anderson, Deputy (SEPTEMBER 4, 11, 18, 25 of 2019) ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME CASE NUMBER: CIV 11903225 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF MARIN TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS 1. Petitioner (name of each): Iuliia Popova, has filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present Name: Iuliia Popova to Proposed Name: Yulia Popova 2.

THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the~name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show

cause why the petition should not be granted. if no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING a. Date: 10/18/2019, Time: 9:00am, Dept: A, Room: A. The address of the court is same as noted above; 3501 Civic Center Drive, San Rafael, CA 94903. 3.a.

A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the Pacific Sun, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Marin.

DATED: August 23, 2019 Andrew E Sweet Judge of the Superior Court James M Kim Court Executive Officer MARIN COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT By E. Anderson, Deputy (SEPTEMBER 4, 11, 18, 25 of 2019) SUMMONS (CITACION JUDICIAL) Number: (Numero del Caso): CIV 1900513 NOTICE TO DEFENDANT (AVISO AL DEMANDADO): JOHN OOSTERBAAN, an Individual; CLOSETS MINI STORAGE, an unknown entity; SPACE MINISTORAGE, LLC, a California limited liability company; and DOES 1-20 YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF (LO ESTA DEMANDANDO EL DEMANDANTE): Hadar Hartshorn NOTICE! You have been sued. The court

may decide against you without your being heard unless you respond within 30 days.

Read the information below. You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this summons and legal papers are servedon you to file a written response at this court and have a copy served on the plaintiff.

A letter or phone call will not protect you.

Your written response must be in proper legal form if you want the court to hear your case. There may be a court form that you can use for your response. You can find these court forms and more information at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/ selfhelp), your county law library, or the courthouse nearest you. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the court clerk for a fee waiver form. If you do not file your response on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages, money, and property may be taken without further warning from the court.

There are other legal requirements. You may want to call an attorney right away. If you do not know an attorney, you may want to call an attorney referral service. If you cannot afford an attorney, you may be eligible for free legal services from a nonprofit legal services program. You can locate these nonprofit groups at the California Legal Services Web site (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), the California Court Online Self-Help

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below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. if no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING a.

Date: 10/4/2019, Time: 9:00am, Dept: B, Room: B. The address of the court is same as noted above; 3501 Civic Center Drive, San Rafael, CA 94903. 3.a.

A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the Pacific Sun, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Marin.

DATED: AUGUST 5, 2019 Andrew E Sweet Judge of the Superior Court James M Kim Court Executive Officer MARIN COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT

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PublicNotices Center (www.courtinfo. ca.gov/selfhelp), or by contacting your local court or county bar association. NOTE: The court has a statutory lien for waived fees and costs on any settlement or arbitration award of $10,000 or more in a civil case. The court’s lien must be paid before the court will dismiss the case.

AVISO! Lo han demandado. Si no responde dentro de 30 dias, la corte puede decidir en su contra sin escuchar su version. Lea la information a continuacion.

The name and address of the court is (El nombre y dirección de la corte es): Superior Court of California, County of Marin. 3501 Civic Center Drive, San Rafael, CA 94903.

The name, address and telephone number of plaintiff ’s attorney, or plaintiff without an attorney, is (El nombre, la dirección y el número de teléfono del abogado del demandante, o del demandante que no tiene abogado, es): Martin Zurada Venardi Zurada LLP, 1418 Lakeside Drive. Oakland, CA 94612. 510-832-4295.

DATE (Fecha): FEB 6 2019. JAMES M. KIM, Clerk By C. LUCCHESI, Deputy.

SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF MARIN HADAR HARTSHORN, Plaintiff, vs. JOHN OOSTERBAAN, Defendant. Case No.: CIV1900513.

STATEMENT OF DAMAGES. To Defendant JOHN

OOSTERBAAN: Plaintiff, HADAR HARTSHORN seeks damages in this action as follows: GENERAL DAMAGES. Emotional distress: $250,000.00. SPECIAL DAMAGES Property damage: $100,000.00.

PUNITIVE damages: Plaintiff reserves the right to seek punitive damages in the amount of $350,000.00 when pursuing a judgment in the suit filed against you. Dated: 08/15/19 By: _____/s/_______ ________________ ___ Martin Zurada.

Attorney for Plaintiff.

SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF MARIN HADAR HARTSHORN, Plaintiff, vs. JOHN OOSTERBAAN, Defendant. Case No.: CIV1900513 STATEMENT OF DAMAGES To Defendant CLOSETS MINI STORAGE: Plaintiff, HADAR HARTSHORN seeks damages in this action as follows: GENERAL DAMAGES Emotional distress: $250,000.00. SPECIAL DAMAGES. Property damage: $100,000.00 PUNITIVE damages: Plaintiff reserves the right to seek punitive damages in the amount of $350,000.00 when pursuing a judgment in the suit filed against you. Dated: 08/15/19 By: _____/s/_____________ _____________Martin Zurada Attorney for Plaintiff NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE

OF: JAY LOREN KAHN CASE NO.: PR 1903129 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: Jay Loren Kahn. A Petition for Probate has been filed by: Randall S. Kahn, in the Superior Court of California, County of Marin. The Petition for Letters of Administration requests that: Randall S. Kahn, be appointed as executor of the estate of the decedent. The petition requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court. Decedent died on 12-29-2018, a resident of Marin County, CA. Bond not to be required for the reasons stated in item 3e. The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows

good cause why the court should not grant the authority. A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: Date: 9/30/2019, Time: 9:00AM, Dept.: J, Address of court: 3501 Civic Center Drive, PO Box 4988, San Rafael, CA 94913-4988. If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the per-

sonal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California~Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate~Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person inter-

ested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Petitioner: Randall S. Kahn, 166 Woodward Ave., Sausalito CA 94965 415-279-4444.

FILED: August 16, 2019, James M. Kim, Court Executive Officer, MARIN COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT By: K. Yarborough. Deputy.

(Publication Dates: September 4, 11, 18 of 2019)

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Q:

I have to go visit my mom, who’s in the hospital in another state. She’s really ill. Her boyfriend told me she’s lost a lot of weight and it might be shocking to see her initially. I want to be strong for her, but I’m a big crier.

I cry on every phone call, and it’s awful. How do I show up for her and not let my feelings overwhelm me so she is not sad or worried about me and can concentrate on getting better?—Emotional

A:

When you’re visiting a friend or loved one who’s seriously ill, it’s nice to show up bearing gifts—like flowers, magazines, and a paper bag you can hyperventilate into.

It’s scary seeing someone you care about all small and frail in a hospital bed.

And this is your mom who’s really ill. Even so, the level of fear you experience when you see her is something you could have some control over. Neuroscience studies find that novel experiences are the most emotionally powerful, having the most intense effect on us. Additionally, psychology research finds that people quickly become acclimated to both positive and negative changes in their lives. Accordingly, seeing your mom for the first time will have the most gutpunchability.

To dial down the intensity of your reaction when you first see her, you could ask her boyfriend to take some video of her and send it to you. He should ask your mom first, of course, so it won’t violate her privacy, and perhaps cast what he’s doing as sending you a hello. If she balks at letting him, he could then tell her the real deal: that it’s to emotionally prepare you for seeing her.

The other major player in how you react to your mom’s condition is empathy.

Neuroscientists Olga Klimecki and Tania Singer note that empathy involves our observing or even just imagining what another person is feeling and having that trigger the same sort of feeling in us. They give the example of hearing that a friend is sad because her grandmother is dying: “Our first reaction would be empathy, which means we would share the feeling of sadness and thereby know what our friend is going through.”

This initial bolt of empathy rises up automatically. But once you experience it, Klimecki and Singer explain, there’s a fork in the road, which is to say you can go one of two ways with your empathy: into unhealthy empathic distress or healthy empathic concern.

Empathic distress is a me-focused response—empathy that turns into emotional quicksand when we just keep “feeling with” a person (feeling and feeling and feeling) without doing anything to try to change their situation. In time, we get overwhelmed by the distress we’re experiencing at their distress. This often leads to what Klimecki and Singer call “withdrawal behavior”: our trying to escape our uncomfortable emotions by ducking out and leaving the other person alone with their suffering.

Empathic concern, on the other hand, is an other-focused response. It starts with our experiencing that initial bolt of “feeling with” a person who’s suffering, but then we shift into “feeling for”—as in “What can I do FOR you?” Empathic concern is basically empathy with an action plan, motivating us to try to make things better for another person.

The important takeaway for you is that you don’t have to let your feelings run the show, dragging you boohooingly along behind them. You can instead control your feelings by shifting from me-driven empathy, empathic distress, to momcentered empathic concern. In practice, this simply takes redirecting your focus from how sad you are to how helpful you can be—emotionally and practically.

Think Warrior Nurse instead of Drama Queen.

Really, your just being there is huge. And once you leave, you can start sending her cards a few days a week. This will help keep you from falling into the swamp of me-focused pointless distress, and it’ll be comforting for her.

Got a problem? Write Amy Alkon at 171 Pier Ave. #280, Santa Monica, CA 90405, or email adviceamy@aol.com. @amyalkon on Twitter. Weekly radio show, blogtalkradio.com/amyalkon

Astrology

For the week of September 4

ARIES (March 21-April 19): John Muir (1838-

1914) was skilled at creating and using machinery. In his 20s, he diligently expressed those aptitudes. But at age 27, while working in a carriage parts factory, he suffered an accident that blinded him. For several months, he lay in bed, hoping to recuperate. During that time, Muir decided that if his sight returned, he would thereafter devote it to exploring the beauty of the natural world. The miracle came to pass, and for the rest of his life he traveled and explored the wilds of North America, becoming an influential naturalist, author and early environmentalist. I'd love to see you respond to one of your smaller setbacks—much less dramatic than Muir's!—with comparable panache, Aries.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Of all the children on the planet, 3 percent live in the US. And yet American children are in possession of 40 percent of the world's toys. In accordance with astrological omens, I hereby invite you to be like an extravagant American child in the coming weeks. You have cosmic permission to seek maximum fun and treat yourself to zesty entertainment and lose yourself in uninhibited laughter and wow yourself with beguiling games and delightful gizmos. It's playtime!

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The ama are Japanese women whose job it is to dive to the sea bottom and fetch oysters bearing pearls. The water is usually cold, and the workers use no breathing apparatus, depending instead on specialized techniques to hold their breath. I propose we make them your inspirational role models. The next few weeks will be a favorable time, metaphorically speaking, for you to descend into the depths in quest of valuables and inspirations.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Renowned Cancerian neurologist Oliver Sacks believed that music and gardens could be vital curative agents, as therapeutic as pharmaceuticals. My personal view is that walking in nature can be as medicinal as working and lolling in a garden. As for music, I would extend his prescription to include singing and dancing as well as listening. I'm also surprised that Sacks didn't give equal recognition to the healing power of touch, which can be wondrously rejuvenating, either in its erotic or non-erotic forms. I bring these thoughts to your attention because I suspect the coming weeks will be a Golden Age of non-pharmaceutical healing for you. I'm not suggesting that you stop taking the drugs you need to stay healthy; I simply mean that music, nature, and touch will have an extra-sublime impact on your well-being.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): If you visualize what

ancient Rome looked like, it's possible you draw on memories of scenes you've seen portrayed in movies. The blockbuster film Gladiator, starring Russell Crowe and directed by Ridley Scott, may be one of those templates. The weird thing is that Gladiator, as well as many other such movies, were inspired by the grandiose paintings of the ancient world done by Dutch artist Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836–1912). And in many ways, his depictions were not at all factual. I bring this to your attention, Leo, in the hope that it will prod you to question the accuracy and authenticity of your mental pictures.

The coming weeks will be a favorable time to get fuzzy and incorrect memories into closer alignment with the truth, and to shed any illusions that might be distorting your understanding of reality.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): I don't know if the coming weeks will be an Anais Nin phase for you.

But they could be if you want them to. It's up to you whether you'll dare to be as lyrical, sensual, deep, expressive and emotionally rich as she was. In case you decide that YES, you will, here are quotes from Nin that might serve you well. 1. It is easy to love and there are so many ways to do it. 2. My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. 3. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something

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marvelous, I let go. 4. Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. 5. It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): "When you're nailing a custard pie to the wall, and it starts to wilt, it doesn't do any good to hammer in more nails."

So advised novelist Wallace Stegner. I hope I'm delivering his counsel in time to dissuade you from even trying to nail a custard pie to the wall—or an omelet or potato chip or taco, for that matter.

What might be a better use of your energy? You could use the nails to build something that will actually be useful to you.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): "I hid my

deepest feelings so well I forgot where I placed them," wrote author Amy Tan. My Scorpio friend Audrey once made a similar confession: "I buried my secrets so completely from the prying curiosity of other people that I lost track of them myself." If either of those descriptions apply to you, Scorpio, the coming weeks will be an excellent time to secure a remedy. You'll have extra power and luck if you commune with and celebrate your hidden feelings and buried secrets.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): "No Eden valid without serpent." Novelist Wallace Stegner wrote that pithy riff. I think it's a good motto for you to use in the immediate future.

How do you interpret it? Here's what I think: As you nourish your robust vision of paradise on Earth, and as you carry out the practical actions that enable you to manifest that vision, it's wise to have some creative irritant in the midst of it. That bug, that question, that tantalizing mystery is the key to keeping you honest and discerning. It gives credibility and gravitas to your idealistic striving.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The coco

de mer is a palm tree that grows in the Seychelles.

Its seed is huge, weighing as much as 40 pounds and having a diameter of 19 inches. The seed takes seven years to grow into its mature form, then takes an additional two years to germinate. Everything I just said about the coco de mer seed reminds me of you, Capricorn. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you've been working on ripening an awesome seed for a long time, and are now in the final phase before it sprouts. The Majestic Budding may not fully kick in until 2020, but I bet you're already feeling the enjoyable, mysterious pressure.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): If you throw a pool ball or a bronze Buddha statue at a window, the glass will break. In fact, the speed at which it fractures could reach 3,000 miles per hour.

Metaphorically speaking, your mental blocks and emotional obstacles are typically not as crackable.

You may smack them with your angry probes and bash them with your desperate pleas, yet have little or no effect. But I suspect that in the coming weeks, you'll have much more power than usual to shatter those vexations. So I hereby invite you to hurl your strongest blasts at your mental blocks and emotional obstacles. Don't be surprised if they collapse at unexpectedly rapid speeds.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In the 13th century,

the Italian city of Bologna was serious about guarding the integrity of its cuisine. In 1250, the cheese guild issued a decree proclaiming, "If you make fake mortadella . . . your body will be stretched on the rack three times, you will be fined 200 gold coins, and all the food you make will be destroyed." I appreciate such devotion to purity and authenticity and factualness.

And I recommend that in the coming weeks, you commit to comparable standards in your own sphere.

Don't let your own offerings be compromised or corrupted. The same with the offerings you receive from other people. Be impeccable.

Go to realastrology.com to check out Rob Brezsny’s Expanded Weekly Audio Horoscopes and Daily Text Message Horoscopes. Audio horoscopes are also available by phone at 1.877.873.4888.

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