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Changing Our Thinking About Policing

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f you’ve been watching the news for the past two years, you know that it’s a tough time in our history to be a cop. It may be years before the dust settles and we are able to understand the convulsions of violence that have swept the country.

Some communities have experienced unfair treatment at the hands of their police.

Some police have faced an increasingly hostile and well-armed set of criminals and responded defensively. With only fragments of any situation circulating virally via cell phone video, it’s hard to say for certain what actually happened. Sometimes, when it feels like things are going insane, in actuality, a new kind of sanity is struggling to assert itself. It seems that as a nation, we are going through some huge consciousness shift around policing, on all fronts.

So why not take this opportunity to change our thinking about policing here locally?

We’ve recently hired a new police chief, Lori Luhnow. She hails from San Diego, where’s she’s well regarded. The Milpas Community Association and la Casa de la Raza recently held an event for the police chief to welcome her to the community, and as it turned out, her new neighborhood.

Instead of the usual police/community meeting, where the police stand before a seated audience, often with arms across chests, we put on a potluck dinner and informal meet-n-greet. In that setting, anyone could have a one-on-one conversation with the new chief. Anyone could attend, and in turn, a lot of people came who didn’t reside or work in the Eastside. That was okay – there was plenty of room and food.

Four police officers accompanied the chief. They carried in a heavy ice tub for us.

They ate with us, hugged neighbors, and discussed problems in the area with us.

The Eastside community already has solid working relationships with the police.

Sergeant Holtke has long served on the Milpas Action Task Force to deal with issues in the lower Milpas area specifically related to homelessness and the operation of PATH. Officers Hove and Burleigh help on the Milpas and State Outreach projects, to get

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the most chronically homeless off the street. Officer Gutierrez deals with numerous neighborhood issues, and is also our school campus resource officer. He handed candy out of his patrol car on Milpas last Halloween and knows more about establishing good relationships with community than anyone. Officer Kerr works waterfront and industrial zones.

They’ve helped us start up neighborhood watches, get pedestrian safety improvements, and consulted with us on environmental changes that reduce problematic behaviors.

We approached the police years ago with this question: We know you can’t be everywhere at once. So how can you help us to help ourselves?

Over time, that question has shifted in this direction: how can we partner with you as a community?

Our new chief is getting fully immersed in the workings of this department, and she’s got some big issues to deal with: aged buildings and equipment, loss of personnel, and more.

We as citizens can offer our police a lot of support and help. We can invite them in to our community, let them get to know us, our streets, our children, our parks, and our businesses. If we are concerned about racial profiling, can we open doors in our community so our police feel welcome to learn about our cultural nuances? If we live in a neighborhood that sees little crime, do we really need a patrol car to feel safe? Or can we form a neighborhood watch, get to know our neighbors, and create a more cohesive community?

If we’re pulled over, are we hostile because we will be late to work, or do we answer questions politely and let the police do their job? If we see the police giving a homeless individual a ticket, should we go over and give him $10 to pay it, and sneer in the officer’s face? Should we assume we know what’s happening in a police situation?

Perhaps we can ask some open-ended questions to gain better understanding, as there are always two sides to every story.

Chief Luhnow said that post-9/11, policing moved to becoming warriors focused on fighting terrorism. Now she sees policing moving to a guardian role. Many of us would welcome police as friendly guardians of our community.

Egregious behavior needs addressing, but returning it with egregious behavior only throws gasoline on the fire. We’ve got some great officers serving here and a terrific new chief. Santa Barbara is famous for our volunteerism and activism. Let’s leverage that can-do spirit in building a productive, collaborative partnership with our police that benefits everyone in our community.

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by Jeff Harding

Jeff Harding is a real estate investor and a writer on economics and finance. He is the former publisher of the Daily Capitalist, a popular economics blog. He is also an adjunct professor at SBCC.

Why Hillary’s Economic Policies Will Fail, Part I

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here are three things we ought to accept as truths going into the presidential voting booth in November: • Both candidates lie and over-promise.

• Our two candidates have no clue how to solve America’s problems.

• (Progressive) actions have (negative) consequences.

Readers of this column will note that I have excoriated Donald Trump many times for his lack of understanding of basic economics and politics, and his authoritarian leaning. In my previous column, I pointed out that Hillary’s selfprofessed Progressivism is just as authoritarian as Donald’s, and its naïve view of the economy has made us poorer, not wealthier.

I’ve been following Hillary’s announcements, speeches, and website on her economic policies and they don’t violate any of the three truths noted above. In this series, I’m going to discuss her most important policies to demonstrate why they will fail. Mostly, they are Progressive bones thrown to special interests that will ultimately harm workers.

“A Fair Tax System” I have to agree with Hillary that the income tax system is unfair because the top 10% pay 70% of all income taxes. The top 5% pay 59% of all income taxes and the top 1% pay 39% of all income taxes. The other 90% of taxpayers pay only 30% of income taxes. How is that fair? Hillary is lying when she says the wealthy are leaving the middle class “holding the bag.”

I have pointed out previously that when 90% of taxpayers rely on 10% of taxpayers, you have a very fragile tax system. It can break.

Hillary’s cure for this “unfairness” is a “Fair Share Surcharge” — an additional 4% tax on those making $5 million per year. She says, “It’s outrageous that multimillionaires and billionaires are allowed to play by a different set of rules than hardworking families, especially when it comes to paying their fair share of taxes.”

It’s all show, a phony sop to Progressive class warriors, because it only affects the top 0.02% of taxpayers (says Hillary), or about 29,000 taxpayers. She intentionally omits the amount of additional revenue it would raise, because she knows it is just a drop in the bucket and inconsequential. There are about 147 million returns filed every year and the Treasury takes in $1.235 trillion. 29,000 out of 147,000,000 taxpayers?

It’s just another tax added to other taxes and regulations she proposes that will discourage successful people with capital from investing in America.

“Encouraging Long-Term Growth”

Hillary is proposing a major increase in the capital gains tax in order to encourage capital investment. She does it by increasing the tax rate on sales of investment assets held for fewer than six years. She says this will discourage “short-termism,” which is bad. And don’t worry, it only applies to (rich) taxpayers in top brackets.

Presently, you need to hold an asset for one year to get capital gains treatment.

We should all understand that capital investment is a good thing for the economy because it is the thing that starts and grows businesses, and fuels jobs and wealth.

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You should know that members of Congress in their wisdom instituted a lower tax rate on profits from sales of capital assets to encourage people to invest in America. And it works. Hillary sees this as a “loophole” that deprives the government of income and is inherently unfair because it allows people who have invested in America to pay lower taxes when they sell assets. Her assertions about the evils of “short-termism” and her assumptions underlying her tax increase are not based in good economics; they are Progressive “solutions” to problems that don’t exist.

Who in America makes capital investments? Is it the poor, the middle-class, or the “rich?” If you said “rich” you would be correct; they are the ones who have capital to invest. That her proposal only applies to rich folks is a red herring. Her tax raise will deter capital investment in America. As GDP, manufacturing, industrial production, and worker productivity are declining right now, she would be bad for America and workers.

As I said, actions have consequences. Think before you leap.

“A ‘New Bargain’ for Good-Paying Jobs” Hillary’s New Bargain (like the New Deal, Square Deal, Great Society, and other failed Progressive programs) turns the basic function of a business (to make a profit) into social benefit organizations whose task it is to “do right by their communities and our country.” Of course, Hillary and her bureaucrats know what’s “right” and evil corporations don’t.

The main point of the New Bargain is to prevent American companies shifting some operations abroad or just leaving America. She proposes to eliminate “loopholes” (you know, legal strategies for taxpayers to keep their own money), which allow companies to do this bad thing plus an “exit” tax.

Most of you Progressives will think that this is a dandy idea because it “saves jobs,” but you would be wrong.

The reason companies leave America is because they find better business opportunities elsewhere. If they thought their businesses would prosper here, they would stay and they would also repatriate foreign earnings and invest here. But they don’t because that isn’t the case. By forcing them to stay, things wouldn’t change because unprofitable or low margin operations would eventually be shut down and workers would be laid off.

I find something evil in this proposal. In essence, it is not any different than countries who prevent their citizens from leaving. Cuba, North Korea, and China all restrict citizens from leaving. Forcing companies to pay a manumission tax to leave is morally unacceptable. But I’m sure Progressives think this is okay because corporations really aren’t people, and it’s good for workers and they always believe the end justifies the means.

However, economic realities always overrule Progressive intentions.

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How and Why: The Miracle of the Water

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hese questions haunt our age: why do men with bushy Friedrich Nietzsche moustaches torment us by eating eat ice cream cones? By what strange devolution of studio engineering did the cracking snare sound of 1967’s “Penny Lane” sink to the mid-’70s signature snare sound – a hand puppet hitting a shoebox? Oh, and how do I stop drinking?

Drinking... drinking. Ah, yes! Now I remember. It is, simply put, marvelous.

Why on Earth would you want to stop?!

It’s practically free, perfectly legal, and an always available, authentically ecstatic experience that puts you immediately in mind of a truth-seeing little magus in a velveteen cape. He is sunk comfortably back into the plush velour of your frontal lobe, lazily scissoring his crossed legs, and by your second drink he is laughingly, and with tiny magus-like gestures, parting every curtain you’ve ever hoped to see through. It’s all right there, right in front of you; a glorious dopamine countryside whose untended gardens beckon like a mother.

And what a feeling it is. What a feeling! You drop the little charge of amber fluid down the inner velvet of the neck, and it strikes the tummy like a gushing Peter Max explosion of warmth that is lovelier by half than any other sensation you shall ever thenceforth know. Within a handful of seconds you are seeing, unmistakably, the Next New World. John Cheever, my personal deity and a famous fallen lush (for a time) both decried and helplessly praised “the euphoria of alcohol when I seem to walk among the stars.” I do believe that about sums it up.

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predilection for alcohol is classified as a disease. Because what but an abnormal and skewed constitution can possibly explain the desire to feel really freaking fantastic all the time? “I would love to feel really freaking fantastic all the time!” “Yes, well, that is the nature of your disease.”

Really? At this writing (and according to a talking head who briefly held the floor on my car radio this afternoon, if you know what I mean), recent discoveries based on some over-excited twiddling of the human genome seem to indicate that alcoholism is about 50-percent genetic and about 50-percent willful. Yeah. Uh, thanks, science. You laboriously teased apart the double helix and that’s the best you could come up with? Hope your beakers and stuff didn’t cost too much. That Jacob’s Ladder looks like you got it at a garage sale, dude.

I’m no scientist (to say the very least) and a yen for hooch may well be partly genetic, but this “disease” classification of boozing seems to me a little overweening, having sprung, at least in its initial rollout, from our collective altruistic impulse to let the alkies off the hook. “We gotta let these boozers off the hook! How do we release them from this prison of shame? Can we just say they caught a disease or something? A drinking disease! Yeah, that’s it! How else to humanely explain this embarrassing desire of theirs to feel freaking fantastic ALL THE TIME?” No, dear ones. Wanting to feel really, really good all the time is not a sign of illness. Quite the opposite.

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M.Special: Delivering Solid Beer for One Year

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here have been many changes in the local beer scene during the past year, however none have been more noticeable than M.Special Brewing Co. Since opening, M.Special has caused a splash in the local scene, with their beers available at all of the local bars and a brewery tasting room that is always bustling with drinkers.

After only six months of being open, they even had to bring in additional tanks to double their capacity. On the horizon Friday through Sunday, September 9-11, M.Special will celebrate a year of great beer and success at their One Year Anniversary Party.

The M.Special Team M.Special was founded by family and friends. About three years ago, brothers Brendan and Emmett Malloy, whose Brushfire Records and media company have represented such musicians as Jack Johnson, A.L.O., and G. Love, got together with their cousin, Chris Miller, co-owner of Local Craft Distributing, a local beer distributor focusing purely on providing craft beer to the area.

The original ambition was to start a craft brewery that featured a high quality American-style lager at the center of their lineup. The M.Special name is a light reference to the “M” in both last names but is largely inspired by their late grandfather’s race car named “The Malloy Special.”

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and development, they brought Josh Ellis on board as a brewmaster and coowner. Josh has been around the local homebrew scene for a long time, and his homebrews earned him a reputation as a technically proficient brewer with an eye for balance. Josh and Chris had been friends for years, and Josh’s background in financial planning made him an even more valuable asset for developing the brewery.

Once on board, Josh began designing the American Lager recipe and other brews that would eventually become part of their portfolio. With Ted Fourticq, a business developer, as the fifth member, the team was complete. All in all, it took about two years of development to start the brewery.

considered the height of brewing, since they require more care and patience to produce. The clean character of light lagers will expose any flaws or mistakes made by the brewer, so these styles can be revealing of the brewer’s skill. The M.Special American Lager shows Josh’s years of experience as a homebrewer and his passion for beer. It is gentle but distinct with a flavor of grain and lightly toasted crackers accented by a hoppy hint of lemon and grass aromas. The easy-drinking brew is a perfect match for Santa Barbara’s endless summers.

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Through development, they stayed true to original vision of having an American lager as the flagship of the brewery, and one can see that this idea carried over into the design. Chris mentioned that they wanted to frame their beers and brewery with a hint of old-school, retro flare. This throwback to the beers of yesteryear can be seen in their label art. Jeff Canham, based in San Francisco, is the artist behind their designs and has worked with the Malloy brothers before on various record label designs. His art is bold yet simple, with a whimsical retro touch that looks like it could be part of Disneyland’s It’s a Small World After All. In addition to the labels, Jeff painted the murals that can be seen throughout the brewery.

The past 10 years in craft beer have largely focused on hop-driven and fullflavored brews, but there has been a resurgence of lagers in the last year or two as beerdoes have begun to appreciate the delicate nature of this style. Lagers are

M.Special will be celebrating their first anniversary at the brewery from Friday through Sunday, September 9-11, from 11 am to close. In addition to a plethora of food trucks, music, and – of course – beer, they will be having games and even giveaways such as “Hands on a Surfboard” wherein the winner will get to take home a custom surfboard. Visit their website or Facebook page for a full list of activities.

Of all the festivities taking place, the release of their first-year anniversary beer will be the highlight. Called Double Down Dozer Brown Ale, and nicknamed, one, this beer is an extra strong (9% ABV) version of their standard American-style brown ale, Dozer Special, that has been aged for about four months in George Dickel Tennessee whiskey barrels.

In addition to the anniversary beer, M.Special will be releasing several oneoff brews each day of the event. Josh has brewed an 7.5% ABV Imperial Porter

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that he will be releasing that weekend.

Josh plans on kegging half of the batch and putting the other half in the George Dickel barrels used for the anniversary beer to make a barrel-aged version of the Imperial Porter that will be released later in the year. There will also be a 9% ABV double IPA called Iron Man that has been dry-hopped with the piney-citrus Simcoe hops and the more tropical-themed El Dorado hops. He will also be bringing back their IPElla, an India Pale Lager that was brewed using only Ella hops, an Australian hop known for its intricate spiciness that is reminiscent of star anise.

Throughout the celebration, they plan to tap about a half-dozen casks, including some experimental fruit casks such as Strawberry Blonde.

Josh mentioned that these casks are their opportunity to play with various fruits and see what they like, and how different fruits work with different base beers as he hopes to bring more fruitaged beers into production next year.

Josh has been getting some dark beers ready for the winter months so there might also be a few bottles released of M.Special’s collaboration with the Santa Barbeerians, a 10% ABV Belgian Dark Strong that has spent the past months aging in bottles.

The celebration promises to be a weekend full of music, fun, and the great beers that have made M.Special such a success. Be sure not to miss it.

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Special consideration will be given to interesting, exploratory, unfamiliar, and unusual items. We give calendar preference to those who take the time to submit a picture along with their listing.

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know what you’re thinking – polo is a sport. Even if it’s not in the Olympics, what am I doing writing about polo in this entertainment calendar known as The Fortnight? Well, here’s the deal. Sure, there are men on top of horses trying to whack a hard, plastic white ball through goalposts that might be nearly 300 yards away with just a small mallet. It’s quite a sight to behold. But for the most part, outside of the actual polo players and wannabes in attendance, it’s a good bet that most of the people “watching” the matches don’t understand the game.

They’re there to gawk at the athletes and entourages, hobnob with the other folks in the community – it was only a couple of years ago that members of England’s Royal Family showed up – and imbibe a few cocktails in the process. So that’s entertainment.

The high-goal season at the Santa Barbara Polo & Racquet Club – which used to feature 20 goal teams, but now has dropped down to 16 to encourage more participation – comes to a close this first Sunday, August 28, with a 2 pm match. But get there early for all the hoopla and plan to stay late for the post-party. Who knows? You might meet your own prince or princess.

Moving with Vim and Vigor

Shannon Gillen & VIM VIGOR Dance Company are the choreographer (and company)-in-residence at the Lobero for DANCEworks 2016, a month-long residency during which Gillen and the contemporary dancetheater company will create and perform a new piece, called “FUTURE/ PERFECT”. The company is known for daredevil physicality, using dance to communicate the complexity of human relationships. Against an original pulsating sound score that grinds synth

and bass, the characters in “FUTURE/ PERFECT” confront the paradox of hope and doubt, wrestle with their desperation for a spiritual sign, and ask: What magic is left?

Gillen’s experience as a dancer and choreographer has ranged from New York to Europe, where she was a member of the Johannes Wieland Company based at Staatstheater Kassel in Germany and won commissions from Mainfranken Theater Würzburg and the TIF Theater in Kassel. Her recent projects include commissions from Springboard Danse Festival, Hubbard Street 2, and BEACH SESSIONS. Gillen’s new piece will be performed at the Lobero on September 23-24, but the initial public event of the residency takes place 7:30 to 9:30 pm on September 1 when the Lobero hosts the 1st Thursday: After Hours, offering the opportunity to get up close with the company in a cabaret-style evening highlighted by onstage performances.

The following night offers the first of three installments of the new DANCEworks’ Friday Club, which features the chance to see the New York choreographer in action as she continues to create the ambitious new work. A contribution of $100 or more provides weekly access to all three open rehearsals that also feature discussions about the work facilitated by dance writer and educator Melanie Bales, followed by a reception with Gillen and her company. The dates are September 2, 9, and 16, from 5 to 6:30 pm.

Get details and tickets by calling 9630761 or visiting www.lobero.com.

it out on stage. But every Labor Day weekend the Ventura Improv Company, which is in residence at a small theater in downtown Ventura, puts on a threeday affair that attracts some of the finest comedy improvisers from Southern California and beyond. The Ventura Improv Festival features a wide variety of companies – ranging in size from duos to 10 or more, and in styles covering musical, Whose Line Is It Anyway?-style games, and long-form, which might feature just a single situation stretched out to up to an hour. What they all have in common is building scenes from nothing but suggestions from the audience and few guiding principals.

You probably won’t recognize any of the names, but you’ll likely be laughing too hard to care, or staring open-mouthed at how the actors come up with all those ideas, relationships, and clever juxtapositions on the spot.

There are three-hour shows each night through the weekend, September 2-4, beginning at 7 pm and each usually features at least three companies per show, plus a bonus warm-up session at 6 pm every night free to all ticket holders.

Last year, a ton of schwag was distributed via raffle all through the sessions, including T-shirts, hats, buttons, and passes to future performances at the VIC, which has public shows every Friday and Saturday night. All shows take place at the Ventura Improv Company, 34 North Palm Street, Ventura. Tickets cost just $15 per night, or $40 for an all-weekend, all-show Megapass, and are available in advance or at the door. Call 643-5701 or visit www.venturaimprov.com.

Making it All up

Coughlan in the House

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and staged at Jennifer Sanderfer’s home and reserve a seat by surfing over to www.hounddoghouseconcerts.com.

Doors open at 6:30 for an optional potluck meal – bring a drink or snack to share – followed by the 8 pm concert.

Admission is $21, which is officially a donation. The way they’ve set it up is you’ve got to pay in advance for the “seat reservation,” but then can ask for a refund at the show rather than having the cash go to the performers (who make all the money after expenses if any). But don’t. Because that wouldn’t be cool.

And this series is cool. ‘Nuff said.

Opera on the Open Sea

Look, I get seasick just thinking about the ocean. So the great tragedy for me were I to check out this operatic offering taking place on the Condor Express would be puking over the starboard side during an aria. (You definitely don’t want me as a passenger driving up Gibraltar Road.) But there aren’t going to be any tragic numbers on The Sunset Opera Cruise taking place Saturday, September 3, when baritone Brian Hotchkin and soprano Deborah Bertling, accompanied by pianist Kacey Link, sing only operatic love songs onboard the Condor Express as it meanders out along the beautiful Santa Barbara shoreline, making for a truly romantic evening. The cruise departs the Sea Landing Dock in Santa Barbara Harbor at 6 pm and the $65 “boarding pass” includes complimentary appetizers and a no-host bar. Call 963-3564 or cruise on over to www.condorexpress.com/ specialty-cruises to make a reservation.

S Club Heaven

Shawn Colvin and Steve Earle, both in their early 60s, have forged long careers as solo artists. Earlier this summer, they hit the road on the heels of an eponymous duo album that has won critical plaudits for the revered singer-songwriters, who would seem to have, as NPR noted, “opposing impulses,” but by their own admission discovered during their collaboration that they had been “dancing with the same demons,” according to The New York Times, noting that each had survived addiction, broken marriages, and epic emotional distress. On the other hand, they’ve collected a whole bunch of Grammys, three each to be exact, (Colvin for her debut, Steady On, in 1991 and two more for the revenge ballad “Sunny Came Home” seven years later; Earle for The Revolution Starts Now and his tribute album Townes). The pair perform at the Lobero on the tail end of the four-month tour on Tuesday, September 6, when, we’re told, we’ll hear songs from the new album, as well

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Four days later, the same venue hosts Sara Watkins, who, as compared to Colvin and Earle, began her career as a member of a group, specifically Nickel Creek, the folk-bluegrass trio comprised of preternaturally gifted string players who got together when she was just eight and scored hits and Grammys while still in their early teens. Watkins spent lots of time with her brother, Sean, both in ‘Creek and the Watkins Family Hour. But she has also carved out a formidable career on her own, and the singer-songwriter-fiddler has a new album, Young In All The Wrong Ways, that just came out in July and features all original songs, which Watkins describes as “a breakup album with myself...”

Watkins’s show is part of the Sings Like Hell series, so there’s an opening act (as yet to be named). Both concerts begin at 8 pm. Colvin/Earle will set you back $49 or $59, while Watkins tickets cost $39. Call 963-0761 or visit www. lobero.com.

Loggin’ a Century of Service

Kenny Loggins hosts Unity Shoppe’s Celebration of 100 Years of Community Service at the Granada

Theatre tonight, an event meant to honor and thank those who joined in a collaborative effort to give the community a “Distribution Center” for those suffering a personal crisis, or hardship due to fire or flood or other disasters. The organization provides eight year-round programs that serve nearly 20,000 low-income clients, providing an immediate, efficient method to distribute food along with work and school clothing and school supplies. Loggins, the longtime Santa Barbara-based singer-songwriter and pop star, joins the Unity Shoppe Board and Friends for a “Yesterday - Today and Tomorrow”-themed evening of tributes and entertainment by local youth, volunteers, celebrities, and supporters – kind of like the annual Unity Shoppe Telethon that takes place every December. The night commemorates the effort by those who have supported the growth of Unity Shoppe’s services to assist thousands of low-income families, children, the elderly, and disabled throughout Santa Barbara County. Think we might hear “Celebrate Me Home”? Makes sense to me. Get footloose from 7:30 to 9:30 pm on Wednesday, September 7.

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When prolonged issues such as these persist, it’s easy to become overwhelmed by a feeling of inefficacy. What can we do?

The answers often come in the small and consistent efforts of individuals who achieve incremental changes that eventually amount to substantial ones. Two women in town have taken it upon themselves to be part of one such solution, by offering a service that helps mitigate the effects of California’s relentless drought and empower Santa Barbarans to take action themselves.

Meet Paige Minney and Stephanie Ranes, the power team behind Sage & Willow, a local landscape consultancy that specializes California native and drought-resistant gardens.

The impact of their business is multifaceted; they are helping change Santa Barbara’s “curb appeal” paradigm, proving that native plants can be just as aesthetically pleasing as water-intensive lawns and tropical plants, all while reducing their clients’ water bills and our municipal draw on the ever-dwindling fresh water supply. Sage & Willow is a young, local business, just over a year old, yet they already have a wait list of customers eager to get their advice on how to transform their properties into

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Later, when the coveted position of nursery manager became available, Steph alerted Paige and told her to go for it. Paige’s focus had been in nursery technologies, and at the time she knew little about California natives, having enrolled in the horticulture program with the singular goal of taking her education back to her family’s Protea farm in Maui where she grew up. But Paige did get the job and had to break the news to her folks that she was falling for California (its people and its plants).

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Mark spends much of his time wandering Santa Barbara and environs, enjoying the simple things that come his way.

A show here, a benefit there, he is generally out and about and typically has a good time. He says that he writes “when he feels the urge” and doesn’t want his identity known for fear of an experience that is “less than authentic.” So he remains at large, roaming the town, having fun. Be warned.

’m still recovering from seeing These Walls at the On The Verge summer repertory festival more than a week ago. Everything about the production exceeded expectations, from Olivia Khoshatefeh’s script to the direction by festival founder/producer Kate Bergstrom to the astonishingly good performances to the way the situations, images, and emotions evoked have stayed with me ever since.

The story is about professional cuddler Marcy (Riley Berris) – a “touch therapist” who provides psychological healing through the power of touch, and we see her working with a number of patients (Richey Nash, Jessica Ballonoff, Allison Lewis Towbes, and Josiah Davis) who have suffered from physical abuse, neglect, or issues with separation and other anxieties.

She attempts to help them all by both snuggling – or just lightly touching – and listening to them. And when it all gets a bit much, she escapes to a museum exhibit featuring performance artist Raoul (Justin Stark), who has committed to living inside of a Plexiglas box on display for months.

Marcy finds herself wrestling with questions and pouring out her own problems in front of the exhibit, and – after she discovers Raoul, who she thought was only to be observed, has been listening to her – the two forge a relationship that takes a few unexpected twists and turns. At one point, she sidles up to the edges of the exhibits walls, and the pair have a no-touching romantic interlude that was far more intimate (and I daresay sexier) than anything you’d see at an R-rated movie. It was one of the most riveting and emotional scenes I’ve ever witnessed, and I found myself choking back tears for reasons I

still haven’t come to grips with.

That’s precisely the point of good theater, to confront us with situations that evoke reactions, and make us take a look at our own lives. That experience was enhanced by the talk-back immediately following the final performance of These Walls, which featured Berris – who was brilliant as Marcy – Stark and Bergstrom accompanied by Khoshatefeh, who was seeing the play performed for the first time herself. It was clear that others had been profoundly affected, too, including the playwright, who let on that she found herself among those wishing some of the scenes had gone on longer.

Unfortunately, These Walls was the only one of the four new works I managed to catch during the week of shows at the new Community Arts Workshop (home of the Solstice Workshop). But that was plenty to know that kudos should go to Bergstrom and cohorts for creating this new festival that is only in its second year.

High Notes at Lobero Karla Bonoff played the Lobero last week on the day that happened to be the exact six-year anniversary of the passing of Kenny Edwards, her lifelong friend and musical partner dating back more than 40 years to when they both were teenagers hanging out at the Troubadour.

Edwards spent years as bassist, guitarist, and producer with Linda Ronstadt, the pop star who also gave Bonoff her big break when she recorded several of Bonoff’s songs on a hit record, and had toured and recorded with Bonoff all through her career.

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hile we strolled East Cabrillo Boulevard for Sunday’s arts and crafts show, Brent Green’s art made us stop and say, “What?!” The image seen here is just one fragment of a larger piece, showing Brent’s incredible skill for creating worlds within worlds.

Inspired by public interest in his art, faith, and a one-year tour of Quang Tri, Vietnam, during 1968 and 1969, the complexity of Brent’s art unfolds into changing scenes, colors, shapes, and sizes that will leave you staring, mouth open, in wonderment.

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e all know the words, and when the song plays everyone in earshot gets wide-eyed and belts the chorus at the top of their lungs.

Musician and songwriter Jonathan Cain is behind the ballad “Don’t Stop Believin’”, an American classic that universally brings people together with fist pumps and high-fives. Soon, we’ll be able to hear it in real life when Jonathan and his band, Journey, come to the Santa Barbara Bowl on Thursday, September 1.

Cain was gracious enough to take a moment to explain some of his Journey journey. Even Prince makes an appearance.

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Q. I read you took accordion lessons as a child.

A. I sure did!

What made you choose that particular instrument?

Well, my hands were too small to play the guitar back then. I was eight years old. We couldn’t afford a piano, and I wanted to play music really bad. At the time, it was the rage. Everyone was playing it. I lived in an Italian neighborhood and learned all those Italian songs. It drove all the guys wild, so I was pretty popular. With the old guys, especially. They loved me.

Was that the moment you decided music would be a lifelong companion?

Yeah, it really was. I’m writing a memoir actually right now. It’s called Don’t Stop Believing, of course.

I lived right above an Italian deli. The boss of the store heard me play and said, “When you have ten songs, we’re going to close the store and do a concert.” I thought, “That sounds like fun, I’m going to do that.” Sure enough, I ended up playing and it was terrific. I told my father that’s what I wanted to do and he said, “Well if that’s your vision, son, I’ll share it with you. Something great is going to come out of it.” People used to tease him and say, “What’s your son going to do with all those accordion lessons, anyway?” My father would look at them and say, “He’s going to be a famous songwriter and play in front of ten thousand people a night!” That’s the way it was.

That’s amazing to have such family support!

Yeah, he covered me. I call him my “vision keeper.”

I wanted to touch on the conversation you had with Prince…

I was down in L.A. working on an album. I think it was Michael Bolton or something. I got a call from the record company that I needed to listen to something right away. I dropped what I was doing and went. They played me this track and said Prince is concerned that (“Purple Rain”) sounds too much like (Journey song) “Faithfully” and that he would change something if you’re not okay with it. I listened to it and I get the similarity, but they’re two different songs. So they put him on the phone, and I told him it was a great track and I loved the song. He said, “Thank you, sir. Can I get you tickets when I come to San Francisco?” He put me in the front row and threw a tambourine that had “Purple Rain” on it. I still have the darned thing. He didn’t have to call. But I’m the writer of “Faithfully”, so he wanted to check in. It just shows what a classy guy he was.

My favorite question: what advice would you give your younger self?

My younger self? Don’t stop believin’! My dad was actually the one who told me that. When I was struggling in L.A., I wasn’t sure if I should stay and tough it out. And he said, “Son, I’ve always had a vision for you. Don’t stop believin’”. So I wrote it down in my spiral notebook, and that was it.

Did you start writing the song right after that conversation?

No, it wasn’t until Journey needed another tune on the Escape album. I looked in my notebook and saw it sitting there, and I thought, “Steve Perry should sing this.”

How old were you when your dad said, “Don’t stop believin’?”

I was probably 25. Back in the ‘70s, you know? I lived in Laurel Canyon and was trying to make it in the big show. I slugged it out. Joined the band The Babys with John Waite. Then we opened up for Journey, and I was in the band a year later.

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These days, most people in the U.S. are familiar with the term organic. Some may not know what exactly defines it, but more and more consumers are adopting it into their diets.

Being in the industry, I have done a lot of research and consider myself fairly educated on the topic of organics; however, I was recently introduced to the concept of biodynamic farming and found there was something quite significant that I had not previously known.

The other day, I had a serendipitous experience while standing in the produce section of Erewhon Market in L.A., an upscale grocery store that painstakingly selects and sells only organic and non-GMO produce. As I stood there mulling over the idea of writing about what I had learned about biodynamic farming, lo and behold, I spotted a section labeled Biodynamic. I took it as a message! My evergrowing interest in farming was piqued, and I decided that I needed to dive deeper into the subject.

In the early 1920s, a group of European farmers contacted Dr. Rudolf Steiner, a noted scientist and philosopher of that time. They had discovered deterioration in seed fertility, crop vitality, and animal health, were concerned and wanted to know what to do. Steiner, the founder of biodynamic farming, came to their aid by

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presenting them with the concept of the farm as a living organism: self-contained and self-sustaining, responsible for creating and maintaining its individual health and vitality.

This was the antithesis of the belief that the farm should be a factory, increasing production by using chemical pesticides and synthetic fertilizers. Steiner further explained that the short-term gain of increased production, ironically, was actually the fuel for destroying the environment of the farm and its ecosystem.

Biodynamics is a unique approach to farming, gardening, food, and nutrition that preserves and protects nature for future generations. It is land preservation at its best. It is, perhaps, the highest standard of sustainable farming, with the smallest carbon footprint of any agricultural method. Soil, plants, animals, and humans are linked together as a whole living organism.

Special emphasis is placed on recycling, water conservation and zero pesticides.

Specific plants, minerals, and composted material help increase the vitality of the products grown. The resulting soil gives way to some of the best quality and flavor.

So what exactly is the difference, or perhaps better put, the connection between organic and biodynamic farming? Actually, I discovered that the similarities far outweigh the differences, but there are a few significant highlights to take note of.

The main principle of biodynamic farming is as earlier mentioned, a single, self-sustaining entity with no need for outside input. Where an organic farm may purchase organic seed or feed for livestock, the biodynamic farm produces the majority of everything for itself, on its own premises.

In 2002, as the organic labeling of products was growing, the USDA ruled that there needed to be a base definition of organic. The NOP (National Organic Program) was launched to define organic standards and enforce them through federal law. NOP permits imported organic fertilizers and pesticides.

Biodynamic addresses its needs from within the farming system itself. Where organic certification can be obtained for just one part of the farm, and NOP is crop-focused and allows for a designated parcel to be certified organic, biodynamic is farm-focused and requires that the entire farm be certified.

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native plants an appealing choice for locals.

“We had our finger right on the pulse,” says Paige, “the people coming to the Botanic Garden were people who were already keen to switch to natives, and wanting to know about the most environmentally sound practices.” Both women were taking garden maintenance gigs on the side for extra income, and it didn’t take long for them to realize that that their side hustle was busting at the seams. So, with fair warning, the ladies gave their notice at the Botanic Garden, and within a few weeks had their first handful of new clients – and Sage & Willow was go for launch.

The birth of this business is extremely timely, because native and droughtfriendly gardens are not only increasingly necessary, they are unquestionably fashionable, trending right in line with all things eco-friendly. Sage & Willow reports that loads of people are ripping out their lawns and replacing them with native landscapes, simply because it is the socially and ecologically responsible choice to make… never mind a financially responsible one.

However, we may ask of Santa Barbarans to make environmentally sound choices, but we must not expect them to forgo their municipal right to beauty! “Curb appeal is still very important in Santa Barbara, even among the water-conscious,” Paige reminds me. “Some people come to us because their neighbors are giving them dirty looks, because they stopped watering their lawns.” Thanks to the knowledge and creativity in their designs, Sage &

Willow proves to people that water-wise and native plant-based gardens can look even better than well-groomed lawns.

Like so many small, local businesses that become successful right out the door, Sage & Willow gets its clients through word-of-mouth recommendations.

They don’t do any advertising, because they haven’t yet had to. As Steph tells me, “People come to us because they say they can’t find anyone else doing what we do, and the Botanic Garden recommends us pretty much exclusively.

They have been amazing.”

GOING FOR THE GOLD After a year of seeing their business flourish and fill a real need, they are at a time of reassessing how to grow and to what level. As Steph explains to me, “I think part of our edge in the competitive horticultural business here in Santa Barbara is to stay somewhat small. We are finding that what people really like is having one or both of us there on jobs – not just sending our employees. So, we need to figure out how to still provide the individualized care and attention while addressing the real need to grow. I don’t think we will ever get super-big; it isn’t our style.”

Big growth may not be their style, but Sage & Willow is probably safely in the green so long as the drought keeps our lawns in gold.

Sage & Willow can be contacted by email at sageandwillowca@gmail.com, or by phone at (808) 357-0247 for Paige, or (310) 9682373 for Stephanie.

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instrument that had given him so much pleasure later in life when he became a singer-songwriter immersed in the Santa Barbara scene was living on.

Even better, she used to perform one of Edwards’s songs for the first time in public, the poignant “On the Way to Heaven”, a standout from the latter of Edwards’s two solo CDs recorded here in town. One could hear his rich voice coming through as she sang, a reminder of how much he is missed in the local community.

Another highlight was a brief interlude

by Nina Gerber, the understated guitarist who has accompanied Bonoff on tour for more than a decade, now.

She played an instrumental version of “Imagine” that could have fit right in with Bill Frisell’s Beatles album, a lovely piece of subtly arranged melody and harmony lines.

Bonoff’s catalog is bountiful, and it was wonderful to hear the great songs from her past still sounding fresh and meaningful, and a few new ones to boot. There’s no doubt she plays one of her better shows when she appears in town, just a 15-minute commute from her home in Montecito. Let’s hope she does it more often, and maybe takes Edwards’s lead in getting downtown

more often just to hang out with other music lovers.

Concerts and Fermentation Mid-August might be the hazy, lazy days of summer, but it certainly wasn’t laid-back a couple of Wednesday nights ago, at least not in downtown Santa Barbara. You couldn’t even find a parking spot up around the 1200 block of State Street, except in the big lot behind the Granada Theatre, where Big Bad Voodoo Daddy was steppin’ out, doing their aggressive jump-swing thing for both the listening audience and dancers brought in from local swing clubs.

Meanwhile, at an even more venerable venue the same time just a block away and across the street, Culture Club was hitting the stage at the Arlington for the first time in a generation. On top of that, the Santa Barbara Fermentation Festival was staging a preview party at SOhO, midway between the two theaters, where a film, a panel discussion and tastings were the highlights of the upcoming sixth annual event that takes place on Sunday, September 11, at Rancho La Patera & Stow House. That’s a lot of activity in a 1½-block radius of downtown! I didn’t see any of them, but just writing about it is exhausting.

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ur unit was malfunctioning. We had a momentary, jetlagged lapse and before we knew it, we were lost on the streets of Bangkok. Disconnected.

My husband had walked ahead, more like stormed ahead, in reaction to the many meltdowns that were unfolding from the ladies in the unit. When he turned around, we were gone, sucked into the undertow of a sea of Indian businessmen who had engulfed us.

I had the kids, both girls clasped in my death grip. I did not have the hotel room key, any Thai money, or a good sense of direction. I silently panicked and my oldest daughter started to cry.

I stood on tiptoes, surveying the crowd for our lost general as the reality of our situation began to take shape. This was not smart traveling. It was day one in Thailand, and we had messed up.

A flood of emotions poured out. I was angry that we had bickered and ended up in this predicament. I was scared to be in this foreign land, unprepared. I was tired, so tired from days of flying.

Why didn’t we simply take a trip to Hawaii?

THAI TRIPPING Hawaii streamed through my mind many other times within our 25 days in Thailand: when I wound up with my whole family shoved in a rickety tuk-tuk taxi on the freeway in Chiang Mai; as an elephant trainer guided my child up the trunk of a five-ton wild animal; when that same beautiful creature took us down steep jungle hillsides perched on its head; as our juvenile taxi van driver passed semi-trucks on the curviest, twolane mountain road for over three hours en route to Pai; as I tried my own hand at driving a scooter on the left side of the road with my children on the back.

I’m pretty sure there isn’t a word in Thai for safety regulations.

We purposely put ourselves into these situations and when they got extreme, I questioned our decision-making skills (and our survival). We were far, far from home. Gone was the comfort of cell service and GPS. Taken for granted was the ability to effectively communicate.

(Thailand is nicknamed the land of smiles due to the common grinning nod that Thai people give when they do not understand what you are saying.)

The only thing that remained consistent was our unit. We know each

My girls in the Andaman Sea

other so well, and in our moments of fear, the unit only tightened. It was in the aftermath of some of these traveling fiascos that I would realize just what this adventure was doing for our family.

The cohesion was amplified by being detached from everything that is known, far out of our comfort zone.

For every Yin there is a Yang, and we found that our struggles and traveling trials were rewarded by some of the most beautiful scenes we have ever seen.

We trekked to temples with golden Buddha standing 10 stories tall surrounded by an ancient city of ruins.

We flew to the north of Thailand, all the way up to the border of Myanmar, where we found a tiny village surrounded by jungle, rice patty fields, and happy-golucky people. We spent a full day on an elephant preserve, where we interacted with Earth’s largest land creatures. We fed them, brushed and bathed with them in the river, and we rode them, high on top of their monstrous heads.

In the south, we went to the islands in the Andaman Sea where the water and sand are like butter, and limestone rock structures shock the sea by stretching up to kiss the sky. I’m quite sure my words don’t do it justice.

Within these places, my husband taught the girls to fish and play cribbage.

We studied the Buddhist culture and beliefs. We counted Baht and converted it to dollars. We learned how to say a handful of Thai expressions, bringing smiles to many Thai faces as we attempted to respond properly in their language. We read maps (yes, oldfashioned maps) and found our way around the unknown cities and streets.

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We ate – oh, did we eat – new foods and flavors that can only be found in lands afar. We had fish clean our feet

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The family at Ayutthaya, the ancient city outside of Bangkok

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“What kind of dolphins are they?” I ask.

“They’re porpoises,” Laird replies. “They slam the surface with their tails to stun their prey.” Game on. “Oh, so all that smacking is on porpoise?” I mentally pat myself on the back as eye-rolls from the other kayakers ensue.

We near the Painted Cave, the final cavern and crescendo of the tour. Ferns, algae, and slow drips of water glisten from the crevices above.

Amazing to think wind or birds (or other wildlife vehicles) traveled 25plus miles and dropped seedlings on the cave to create a perfect designedby-nature aesthetic.

Spencer shines a light on the wall deep inside the sea cave, and the belly of Santa Cruz is exposed in all its dark and mysterious beauty. We wait patiently as others in our group paddle in. The haunting natural world inside the island feels cold, comforting, and alive. We kick back, look at one another, and give a can-you-believe-we’re-here head shake.

After the 2.5-mile tour, we take

advantage of the snorkeling gear. “I mean, we’re here, so why not?” I say.

Ten minutes later, snorkel gear strapped and set, we jump in the Pacific with our kayak wetsuits and the icy-cold waters take our breath away. After two to three minutes (Hey, we did it!), the hot shower, tea, and hot lunch waiting for us in the galley felt like a warm snuggle.

From the moment we boarded Conception – a Truth Aquatics sleeper ferry chartered by Santa Barbara Adventure Company – we felt like VIPs. The captain and crew are friendly, attentive, and made us feel comfortable to roam aboard. Bonus were all the “pit stops” on our journey out to the island, giving us plenty of opportunity to take in whales, packs of dolphins, and other seafaring creatures.

As our day-long journey comes to a close, we lay our tired and happy bodies on the upper deck of Conception and bid farewell to Santa Cruz Island with promises to return again and again and again.

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though. I started late, for one thing.

While my more sensible acne-bedeviled compatriots were skulking around the high school parking lot on game night, gulping from bottle-shaped paper bags, laughing like morons and finally attacking one another in zipperfestooned bellbottoms (this may date me), I was going to Young Life meetings and Bible studies and listening to earnest Believers with diaphanous teenbeards strum guitars and sing about the beautiful baby Jesus. I treasure that time and would not trade it for anything.

Those days formed the best parts of me – but it cost me dear. I lost my place on the Practiced Drinking continuum and never quite caught up. In those days I wore a delicate little gold cross around my pencil neck and walked around in tiny ‘70s short-shorts I would today severely punish my daughter for even glancing at on the sales rack at Marshalls. In my Christian finery and Caucasian ‘fro and three-striped knee socks, I was scarier and more offputting to little children and the general population than the most ravaged vodka fiend. Which is all to say, at a time I should have been practicing my drinking with the fellas, I was diverted by other pursuits.

My high school peer group were not “partiers.” While our desperately healthy counterparts were doing the inebriated hokey pokey in the back seats of innumerable cars, we were spending long evenings in the balmy, lamp-lit Baskin-Robbins parking lot, doing Monty Python skits and flirting with

the girls, all of us wearing those genderneutral rugby shirts everyone wore then.

My later boozy training was imperfect and uneven. I would drink a Bud Light and curl up and fall asleep on the couch.

This drinking just makes me tired! It did not occur to me to have another fortifying drink when the effect of the first began to flag. This was in my 20s, and it went on like that for a while.

Once I’d moved into a group house with my longtime friends, you can just imagine how it went. My roommate, an equally inept tippler, would mix a pitcher of martinis comprised mostly of saline slime dumped from an olive jar.

I swore off martinis for years. When I did finally discover the delights and horrors of hard liquor, I was in a band and doing shots and all the rest. How many evenings did I hustle outside to the backyard of our band house to forcefully bark out a variegated mist of pilfered fraternity wine under watchful stars? Many evenings.

Well. What happens is, you grow older. It becomes more and more difficult to lift bags of potting soil without hollering like an animal. At work, you exit your sporty little car with difficulty in the covered parking garage, and the inadvertent echoing groan escapes you like a cry for help, unnerving the 20-something gal three spaces away who briefly looks at you the way Anne Bancroft looked at the Elephant Man. Worst of all, the effects of the twoday Scotch Squall become sufficiently horrific and unavoidable to give you real pause. I was finally spending a lot

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of time feeling crummy and not readily bouncing back. I once calculated that if I lived to be 80, I would have spent nearly five years of my life feeling out of sorts due to post-drinkum.

It was neither guilt nor shame, nor a sense that I was wronging myself or my loved ones (though I was) that gave me the bright idea of stopping: it was the Humble Hangover that unhitched my wagon. I grew to really dread them; to loathe them. When I stopped drinking, and I did it in a day (to my own surprise

lifts, and the feeling of normalcy and gratitude is like the most stridently beautiful sunrise you have ever known.

Everything looks gorgeous. Remember getting over the flu?

Friend and neighbor, you have taken care of yourself and your loved ones, haven’t climbed behind the wheel of a car while tipsy, haven’t gone off the deep end. You’ve been responsible with your sipping (mostly), but you’re concerned.

Are you a drunk? Are you sick, or worse?

I dunno.

You drop the little charge of amber fluid down the inner velvet of the neck, and it strikes the tummy like a gushing Peter Max explosion of warmth and following 25 amateurish years of boozing), it helped that the returns were immediate. I began to converse delightedly at gatherings again, unafraid of slurred inarticulation, I saw the afternoons and evenings through five rinsed and buoyant senses. I would awaken on glorious new mornings without the feeling that a hot pig was trying to burrow out through my forehead.

I never dreamed it would be that easy to just… stop. But I didn’t count on how positively reinforcing the clear days and nights would be. It’s like the cloud that lifts when, as a kid, you have your last spasm of stomach flu over the toilet, your mom with her cool hand on your back. Then suddenly the nausea

But I do know you are not a laggard for wanting to feel really freaking fantastic all the time. Everybody wants that.

The desire to feel good is not a disease marker. Thanks to the thermodynamics of feeling good, though, your notunreasonable pleasure-seeking comes with a price tag; gagging flashes of nausea and the dislocating sense you have been scrambled in a transporter accident out near Starbase 11. Society calls this a bad hangover, and it did me in.

If you’ve had one too many of those, you can call it whatever you want. You can even call it quits. If that’s the way you want to go, let’s get started. The nausea minutes continue to pile up, and the gilded wonder of a clear-headed morning awaits. Your call.

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need to get out. The bright computer screen is melting my retinas, and I’m almost sure I haven’t left my office chair in five hours. If I keep this up, I will no doubt be back at the Sansum clinic for physical therapy before I know it. Thank goodness for Romero Canyon. The scenic drive to the trailhead, the gentle yet challenging incline of the trail, the glittering creek, the prayer flags, the views of front and back country if you trek long enough. My heart rate slows to a steady and meditative state with each breath and step. A mid-week hike is the prescription to keep my head and heart sane.

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By @InteriorTransformer and @IHeartElizabethRose

I Heart SB is a social experiment in dating and relationships through stories shared with and experienced by a thirty-something living in the Greater Santa Barbara area. All stories herein are based on actual events. Some names, places, and timelines have been altered to preserve anonymity and, most of all, for your reading enjoyment. Submit stories (maximum 700 words) to letters@santabarbarasentinel.com.

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added you to the Netflix account,” he says. My eyes soften and I slump into a goofy grin. It’s been almost a year since we’ve been together and still, when he says or shows certain acts of his love, it feels like warm honey poured over my heart.

I log into our account and let out an exaggerated “aw” when, under the Who’s Watching title, I see an orange smiley-faced square with my lover’s name and a tealblue square with my own. The pre-pubescent aw transforms into a 30-something whoa when I read the square below. In big, gray block letters set against a bright white background are the letters k-i-d-s. Lately, the subject has been everywhere.

Even for Netflix, baby’s on board.

Not too long ago, I dropped the bomb on my family that I’m sailing around the world. The news hit them in varying degrees, as can be expected. My mother fears for safety, my dad tearfully applauds my decision, and my sister is skeptical. Her skepticism carried over into our first big fight. I’m not sure what sparked the argument, but the underlying factor was a reaction to our ever-contrasting lives. It became evident on my last visit home, as I laid on the pillow-top mattress in my sister’s guest bedroom and examined our differencing lifestyle choices.

I’m the oldest by six and a half years, yet she’s surpassed me in the sense of a traditional American adult. At 27, she married a loving man. They live in a cozy home with a sweet dog and are rooted in a picturesque town fewer than 10 miles from my parents. I, on the other hand, moved across the country at age 30, made a life as a free-lance writer, and now live on a sailboat with my sweetheart, indefinitely.

The only roots I have are the ones within my soul.

My sister and I made up later that evening. Several days later, we found out she’s expecting.

She attributes hormones for her end of the argument, but hormones only amplified our true feeling. The vibration of change had surfaced long before news of the little miracle. Of course, the happiness for my younger and only sister and her husband is infinite, and the world will only benefit from a duplication of their beings. But selfishly, I felt relieved. Relieved the news would take pressure off me to constantly validate my new life choice.

The baby news also acts like a flashing red light in my face: Do I want kids?

One part of me can’t believe I’m at the age to have kids. There is so much to do sans children (i.e., world travel) and I feel in no way ready for parenthood.

I’d like to put a pin in it for another four to five years. Think about it then.

Another truth is I’m afraid to go down that road for fear of wanting a child so badly that it may not come true. That’s a big one. But it feels good to admit out loud. The third and most important factor? Children are f*cking hard work. I still apologize to my mom for my teenage years, and I’ll admit I rely on my parents for more than just emotional support.

And the questions keep coming. Didn’t people used to have kids for extra hands on the farm? Are kids just a narcissistic way to create mini-versions of ourselves?

Maybe.

A wise woman told me while one woman’s destiny is to create a child, another’s is to create art. We are at the age (30s and 40s) when our bodies want to create and the space to do so isn’t limited in utero. To bring beauty in the world – whether through a child or through art and lifestyle – is the purest form of self-expression. It’s the ability to love something or someone selflessly enough – and to be brave and vulnerable enough – to show what the inside of our hearts look like.

The timing of the blessed child is a beautiful, auspicious coincidence. As one sister begins the adventure of being a parent, the other, a life at sea. Two women, though soon-to-be miles apart, can bond over the trials and celebrations of creating futures for themselves. Whether those futures are created in a belly or on a boat.

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by Eva Van Prooyen Keeping a finger on the pulse of the Santa Ynez Valley: what to eat, where to go, who to meet, and what to drink. Pretty much everything and anything situated between the Santa Ynez and San Rafael Mountains that could tickle one’s interest.

GREEN TOURING THROUGH THE VINES AND WINES

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ustainable Vine Wine Tours co-owners and wine tour hosts Scott Bull (a level-one sommelier) and Bryan Hope (a certified sommelier) welcomed the arrival of their newest addition to their burgeoning premium wine tour fleet this month with a fully electric Tesla Model X SUV. “We are committed to minimizing our environmental footprint and are constantly evaluating ways to become a more responsible business,” says Scott, adding, “Our group tour vehicle, a nine-passenger Mercedes Sprinter van, gets 25 mpg running diesel. Our diesel Mercedes GL320 CDI, is a high-efficiency vehicle for its size and class. We go out of our way to employ diesel-engine vehicles for their decreased fuel consumption and cleaner burning engines compared to their gasoline-powered counterparts.”

Offering small-group and private tours, Scott and Bryan say, “We have a very high standard for the wineries and vineyards we choose to visit,” explaining each winery they bring guests to must have three characteristics that constitute a memorable, unique experience. “First, they produce remarkable wines with hands-on, small-production techniques. Second, they provide a high level of personal service. Finally, they have committed themselves to sustainable, organic, and/or biodynamic agriculture and an elevated degree of environmental stewardship.”

Scott and Bryan personally drive each tour, and with their extensive wine knowledge, many of the locations they visit are truly “sommelier select” and by appointment-only, boutique, often family-owned, small production, premium estate wineries not typically open to the general public. “Our groups will be the only ones on the property for a personal tasting,” says Scott, noting that

in addition to wine tasting, each tour includes behind-the-scenes, barrel room, and vineyard walking access, as well as an organic lunch in a quintessential wine country setting.

Sustainable Vine Wine Tours aims to be “environmental leaders” in the community. “We donate to environmental organizations on a yearly basis, such as the Environmental Defense Center, Santa Barbara Channel Keeper, and Santa Ynez Charter School,” says Scott. They support like-minded vendors, including New Frontiers Natural Marketplace.

For a sommelier-led wine tour or more information, visit www.sustainablevinewinetours. com or call (805) 698-3911.

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2ND SATURDAY ARTISANS ocal artists offer distinctive works of original, handmade objets d’art for show and sale. Treasure hunters are invited to chat with the artists to learn more about their history, process, and story. “2nd Saturdays” are a great excuse to also check out the art galleries, boutiques, tasting rooms, and restaurants packed within the few blocks of this charming town, so be sure to pick up a Los Olivos “Art Crawl” map.

When: Saturday, September 10 Where: In Los Olivos next to the Lavinia Campbell Park, 2374 Alamo Pintado Avenue Info: www.santaynezvalleyarts.org

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FREE MOVIE AT KALYRA or those who have passions aligning at the intersection of all things Star Wars, open-air movies, dining in the vineyards, and drinking wine – Kalyra Winery has your ticket with an outdoor screening of Return of the Jedi.

James Kahn, writer-producer of Return of the Jedi, will be in attendance to chat about the movie, as well as his film Wrongside Bob, which he is making right here in Santa Barbara County. Food by Joe’s Brats and Sapori D’Italian Ice & Gelato, and movie memorabilia will be on sale at a silent auction.

When: Saturday, September 10, at 5:30 to 8:30 pm talk; 8:30 pm movie screening Where: Kalyra Winery 343 N. Refugio Road in Santa Ynez Info: www.kalyrawinery.com (805) 693-8864

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WILDLING MUSEUM MURAL UNVEILING he Wildling Museum invites the community to an unveiling and ribboncutting ceremony to celebrate the completion of a new, permanent wall mural.

The 8’-by -10’ mural depicts the habitat of a Valley oak, created by artist John Iwerks. The Valley oak was chosen, as it is an “iconic part of the local landscape within a wealth of local species.” The mural marks a new direction for the Wildling Museum, which is now dedicating its second-floor gallery to telling stories of the Santa Barbara Region.

When: Friday, September 9, at 5 pm Where: Wildling Museum, 1511-B Mission Drive, in Solvang Info: (805) 686-8315

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FRIDAY NIGHT AT CARR WINERY ucked in the corner of Santa Ynez, Carr Winery presents live music and wines by the glass at their warehouse location every Friday. This 3,800-sq.ft. facility in downtown Santa Ynez is where all of the wines are waxed and bottle-aged. It has a large, open floor with a U-shaped bar made of recycled barrels and booths for guests to enjoy wine tastings, wines by the glass, and wine on tap.

When: Every Friday night from 6 to 8 pm Where: Carr Warehouse, 3563 Numancia Street #101 in Santa Ynez Info: www.carrwinery.com (805) 688-5757

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SAVE THE DANISH DATE alifornia’s premier Danish Heritage Festival is in its 80th year of celebration with authentic food, music, dancing, parades, live entertainment, and family activities. Highlights include Æbleskiver breakfasts, a living history festival, an Old World artisans marketplace, and rumor has it this year may even feature a Viking encampment.

When: September 16-18 Where: All throughout the City of Solvang Info: www.solvangdanishdays.org

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