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SHORT TERM REASONS Back before the San Juan/Chama project, people talked about water limiting the population size of New Mexico. We’re never going to get another project like that. The people of the Colorado River drainage would scream. We have to get real about our situation and so does Texas. Probably we really need the federal government to step in on the Western water disputes. Beyond that, trees are dying up here around Santa Fe from lack of water. There is not a lot of reason for optimism in anything like the near term.

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Conversation with a Young Poet New Santa Fe Youth Poet Laureate seeks to connect with passion and hip-hop

definitely like filmmaking. [It] has really caught my attention, and the image and writing scripts, and maybe even producing or directing.

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When did you start writing?

About 2018. I started journaling to cope....

Some of my friends had lost their lives to suicide. Taos has a really high rate of that.

So I started journaling to cope with that. And that’s kind of how ...I got into poetry....That’s something that helped me. I think [poetry is] definitely the reason why I’m writing and I’m here.

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z Leshem, the newly crowned Santa Fe Youth Poet Laureate, only started writing a few years ago, driven to poetry for comfort and clarity. Hip-hop and jazz music are both inspirations for Leshem’s writing, as well as politics and the beauty and struggle of New Mexico and its communities.

For example, an excerpt from the poem, “Word to Everything I Love:” “to the girl who beat me at limbo last night, at that party on 3rd, who sipped scotch like a vanilla milkshake. to the one who leaves the fork in their mouth an extra second, to savor the flavor, whose hands are softer than kindness itself. word to my poems before august, word to everything i love. the abandoned brothel across the street, yelling drum sirens to the beat of the bell at Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish on sundays.”

The Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry supports the Santa Fe Youth Poet Laureate Program in partnership with the National Youth Poet Laureate Program and Urban Word NYC. Judges chose Leshem, a 15-year-old who lives in Taos and is a sophomore at New Mexico School for the Arts, from among 42 poets from across Northern New Mexico. SFR spoke with Leshem about their future dreams as well as how they view poetry. This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

SFR: What do you want to be when you are older? A poet?

Oz Leshem: Definitely something in the writing world, maybe publishing. I

What inspires you with your poetry?

My community is a really big thing; like, writing about New Mexico, and just the beauty and the people.

Anywhere I’ve been, I always tend to miss New Mexico. And I think I’m going to definitely come back here.

Politics is something big. I feel that when I have a platform through writing, if I can at least make someone smile or make someone just think differently than how they already thought, and then I think that’s a success in my book—literally my book.

Do you get writer’s block? And if you do, how do you get out of it?

I always tend to go back to some of my favorite books. I like to go back to Allen Ginsberg a lot. Then this writer from Chicago named Kevin Coval, who is a contemporary writer. I’m Jewish....I’m Jewish and Palestinian, so I like to talk about that. That’s a big influence in my writing.…Jewish poets, I like reading them. And that usually inspires me a lot. So I also try to constantly read a variety of people.

I always try to read if I’m stuck. That’s usually where a lot of my writings are influenced, from other people.

Facebook live or Zoom call. So I think in that realm, poetry is still alive because of it, and I think new, young writers and people are starting to get careers and opportunities from social media. For example, zines and youth literary reviews are all starting to come up because of social media. And I think that’s really important and really cool to see that transformation.

Do you think the internet and social media contribute to the well-being and propagation of poetry?

Practically all of the readings I attend and all of the open mics and things are always online on an Instagram live or

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What do you think all good poems have in common?

I think if the writer can connect with something, or if the writer is passionate about something that they want to say, regardless of how they share it, I think it’s going to connect with someone. Like if you’re really passionate about talking about mental illness or talking about politics, I think someone is going to be like, ‘Yep, I agree with that and I connect with that and I get that.’ Or if you’re talking about trauma or pain, there’s always going to be some form of connection. And I always say this is kind of cliché, but...I remember this quote; [one of my friends] said, ‘Poetry is useless if it isn’t true to you as the writer.’ And so that was really a big thing that stuck with me; like, when I was trying to find my voice and how I write or what I write or what I want to write about.

What book are you reading right now?

Right now, I am reading Amiri Baraka’s collected poems from 1965 to 2013.

What’s your favorite poem?

I don’t have an answer for that. I can tell you my favorite book...The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop. Also, hip-hop is a big center of my writing, like adding music and a beat; rhythm and wordplay and all of those types of literary devices really stick out to me when I try to write. And I usually listen to music and I write specifically, like really lyrical hip-hop music and jazz. And so trying to find that deep within my writing is really, really interesting to me. And that’s what I try to aim for. Maybe not songs; I still identify them as poems, but I love the music that comes with poetry.

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anta Feans concerned about light pollution, particularly in residential areas, will have a little more time to convince city officials that a proposal to convert thousands of street lights could overly illuminate the area’s famous dark, starry nighttime skies.

The city proposes to take 5,500 cityand utility-owned lights, which register between 2,700 and 5,000 on the kelvin scale, and rework them to a more energyefficient LED model with lights between 3,000 to 4,000 kelvins.

Dark-sky advocates have raised concerns about how that could alter Santa Fe’s nighttime look for the worse, so the city has extended the deadline for public comment on the issue from May 10 to May 24.

Officials are reconsidering the color and brightness, and may recommend LEDs that provide a warmer quality of light than those initially proposed. Some city officials have even set their sights on pursuing a Dark Sky City designation, which would officially mark Santa Fe as a place dedicated to protecting a starry night sky and animal species whose survival is threatened by the loss of natural darkness at night.

Los Angeles went through a similar debate in the 2000s and early 2010s and ultimately decided on a darker sky.

Advocates in Santa Fe have presented before and after images of the City of Angels—from 2008 and 2012—and the difference is striking.

Mayor Alan Webber says the International Dark-Sky Association is advising the city on next steps.

“We want to not only get a good solution for these street lights, but we want

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The City’s Plan

In April, the Santa Fe City Council passed a resolution approving a contract with Dalkia Energy Solutions and directing the Public Works Department to begin a public engagement process that includes demonstration sites where residents can experience the proposed lights.

The new LEDs are 60% more energyefficient than the bulbs currently lighting city streets, and could save $550,000 a year in energy and maintenance costs.

They have a dimming function and can be programmed to emit less light in the middle of the night, plus a detection system that would automatically alert Public Works if a light goes out.

The city initially proposed to install lights with a 4,000-kelvin rating for major roadways and a 3,000-kelvin rating for residential streets. Public Works Director Regina Wheeler says these ratings are considered best practice by state agencies and are used by cities across the country. However, Santa Fe dropped those numbers to 3,000K and 2,700K in response to public feedback.

“The team is in the learning and evaluating options mode, that’s what this phase is all about,” Wheeler tells SFR, adding the city is exploring options for fixtures to reduce glare and expects to install some at the demonstration sites in the coming weeks.

Wheeler says the clamor for darker night skies might represent the loudest Santa Fe residents rather than the majority, and she’s spoken to many people whose top priority is safety. For example, she says she spoke to a mother of a young Black man who felt that brighter lighting would help in deterring and documenting police brutality.

“There are quite a few people out there who think, ‘the brighter, the better,’” says Wheeler.

On May 26, the Public Works Department is scheduled to present its final proposal to the City Council.

Wheeler tells SFR she expects the City Council to schedule a vote sometime soon after.

Residents can submit public comments at the Dalkia project webpage,

ABOVE: Dozens of Santa Fe residents will assess the difference between traditional city street lights and the proposed new LEDs at an event at Frenchy’s Field Park demonstration site. MIDDLE: Los Angeles in 2008, before the city transitioned to LEDs. BOTTOM: Los Angeles 2012, after the transition.

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to be a dark sky city,” Webber tells SFR. “What we have to do is not only address public lighting, but then we have to move forward and address lighting solutions for everybody.”

Down the road, that could include changing city policies regarding lighting on private property.

For now the city has a lot of work to do to make its own street lights fit the bill.

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Los Angeles Basin, 2012

Kelvins measure the color of a light, not its brightness. The higher the kelvin rating, the bluer the light is on the color spectrum and the cooler and whiter it appears. The lower the kelvin rating, the further the light falls toward yellow, orange and red.

While cooler light might appear brighter than warm light, both warm and cool light can be bright enough to safely illuminate city streets, says Sam Finn, a retired astrophysicist and dark sky advocate who helped set up nightskysantafe. org to keep residents informed about the potential issues with the streetlight conversion project.

“My vision for Santa Fe is really all about that candlelight quality,” says Finn.

“This kind of lighting can be done in such a way that still prioritizes safety.”

He notes the two organizations that set national standards for street lighting— the Illuminating Engineering Society and the American National Standards Institute—have found light color has no impact on the safety of drivers or pedestrians. The standards require lighting to meet performance metrics, but not specific kelvin ratings. However, Wheeler tells SFR lower kelvin ratings make it harder to meet brightness requirements.

For example, lights might need to be spaced closer together at the low kelvin ratings proposed by some advocates to still meet safety standards.

Finn says bluer light can increase light pollution because it is more likely to bounce off of air molecules and “scatter.”

This can have a negative impact on birds and other migratory species that navigate by night, and can disrupt the reproductive patterns of many animals. It also limits our ability to see the stars.

The International Dark Sky Association recommends cities stick to a kelvin rating of 2,200 for most city street lights. City councilors recently visited the parking lot of The Santa Fe New Mexican printing facility, which is the only place in the city lit by LEDs with a 2,200 kelvin rating.

Wheeler says the New Mexico Department of Transportation requires lights on state-owned roadways Highway 599 and St. Francis Drive to be at least 4,000 kelvin.

She says the city is considering postponing the installation of new lighting on those roads until NMDOT releases new standards that will likely include lower kelvin ratings.

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Southside Pride Santa Feans find pride, success despite stigma, the pandemic and a sluggish economy

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ot steam rises gently from the Zia constructed of dough, carefully placed in the middle of the caramel apple and green chile pie. Miguel Carrillo, his hands in black mitts, places it on the marble countertop and pauses while it cools.

It’s a rainy Wednesday afternoon, and Carrillo is on the third of his typical sevenday work week at Sweet Santa Fe, a small cafe tucked into the outlet mall. He’s only 17, but he works about five hours each day, including the weekends, heading over to the store as soon as he’s done with school to bake pies and perform other chores in the kitchen.

Then he heads back home to the Paseo de Angel home, where he lives with his parents and two much younger siblings, to finish his homework.

Carrillo is the first in his family to complete high school. He’ll graduate from Capital with honors on May 27, his 18th birthday, before heading off to the University of New Mexico with a full ride scholarship to study dental hygiene.

He’s the first of a lot of things— also the first of his family to be born in the United States, and he’ll be the first to earn a college degree.

The Southside of Santa Fe is his home, where he has spent his entire life until now. Carrillo sees the area for all its complexities and contradictions—the place with the most young families and people of color and the most mobile home communities surrounding some of the city’s last dirt roads. (COVID-19 hit the 85707 ZIP code, full of essential workers, particularly hard.)

Despite the pandemic and the area’s economic disadvantages compared to other parts of the city, some businesses have thrived. While it has the fewest grocery stores, Latinx tiendas have carried on, supplying the area with much needed produce.

Gritty hope marks the Southside, and those SFR interviewed have pride in their place at the feet of the Sangres.

What follows is a State of the Union of the Southside, which has carried a largely unwarranted stigma in many city circles for decades, but is so much more than the lip service paid by the wealthy and political classes.

“We came from pretty humble beginnings, but I mean, I’m proud of it,”

Carrillo says. “Why wouldn’t someone be proud of where they come from and where they started? I’m hoping that I can show people just ’cause you grew up on the Southside doesn’t mean that you’re gonna be a gang member or be a failure or something. I’m going to college. I graduated high school. I have good grades. I have a job. I have friends. It’s just normal.

We’ve got to live down here, but it’s nothing to be ashamed of.”

Economics on hold

Carrillo is careful about his life choices. He started the job at Sweet Santa Fe two years ago to avoid construction. He worked on job sites from age 12 until he found the position at the mall. For a couple of months at the beginning of the pandemic, he had to go back to working construction while the café was closed.

And Carrillo chose to study dental hygiene because his parents and grandparents weren’t able to afford quality dental

I’m hoping that I can show people just ‘cause you grew up on the Southside doesn’t mean that you’re gonna be a gang member or be a failure or something.

-Miguel Carrillo

care. They were too focused on survival after arriving in Santa Fe as teenagers and raising Carrillo in a mobile home community behind Ramirez Thomas Elementary School.

Carrillo’s family story echoes across the Southside—people immigrate to Santa Fe from Latin America and are able to find at least relatively affordable housing, mostly along the Airport Road corridor in the southwest portion of the city. (Defining the Southside’s borders can be debated, whether it’s only Council District 3 or also parts of District 4, but there is no question that Airport Road is squarely on the Southside.)

Airport’s 3-mile, four-lane artery slices between multiple trailer parks and

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apartment buildings, storage units, a mix of industrial businesses and a few scattered restaurants, as well as an outsized proportion of the city’s fast food joints and stretches of empty land.

At the end of 2019, the city’s Office of Economic Development was looking for “shovel-ready” projects to improve quality of life on the Southside, in particular in the Federal Opportunity Zone—a triangle-shaped space between Airport Road, Jaguar Drive and Cerrillos Road.

The zones are identified by the feds as places in which private sector investors can park their money with certain incentives.

But that search has been stalled because of the pandemic, according to Rich Brown, economic development director.

“There is a private parcel at South Meadows and Airport (Opportunity Zone) that has Land Use Planning approval, but nothing has been started. This, I believe, is a result of COVID-related economic stress on bank capital and the commercial real estate market,” Brown writes via email.

Brown also noted that while residential housing construction is booming, none is in the Airport Road district.

The city’s Office of Affordable Housing is assessing unused city land that could be designated for mixed and affordable housing projects.

“COVID has really slowed everything down considerably,” says Chris Rivera, District 3 city councilor. “The fire station on 599 and South Meadows, which would have served this part of town with essential emergency services, with fire and especially ambulance—the funding for that fire station had to be used to help us shore up the shortages that we had with COVID. So a lot of things were set back.”

Not all is slowed, however, as El Paisano Supermarkets, a family-owned Hispanic grocery store with two locations in Santa Fe and Española, built a third at 4405 Airport Road. General Manager Moises Tarango Jurado tells SFR the plan is to open the newest location in September or October 2021. The store has been in Santa Fe since the mid1990s, serving up Mexican food and traditional cooking ingredients, as well as a meat market.

Miguel Carrillo, 17, makes a caramel apple and green chile pie at Sweet Santa Fe.

Case in point: the students. Whether graduating from Santa Fe or Capital High School or Santa Fe Prep, this year’s seniors attended almost an entire year of online schooling and finished their degrees and made plans for college despite a pandemic.

Santa Fe Public Schools’ graduation rate increased to 86.3% for the 2019-20 school year, up from 78.1% the year before, according to data provided by the New Mexico Public Education Department. Santa Fe High went from 76.7% to 87.5%. Capital High went from 78.1% to 82.7%; that’s the Southside school with historically lower graduation rates.

Older students may soon take advantage of the Plaza Comunitaria, established thanks to an agreement reached between the local nonprofit Earth Care and the Consulate of Mexico in Albuquerque, to help Spanish speakers with basic literacy and education, including computer skills. It also paused when the pandemic hit in March—but is now back and “way better,” according to Miguel Acosta, executive director of Earth Care.

“We’re hoping to kick off in the fall with basic education and literacy in Spanish, but also possibly some opportunities for more advanced students,” Acosta says. “As an extension of the Plaza Comunitaria, we can establish a relationship with one of several Mexican universities and [the students] could do master’s degrees for free in Spanish. And all of these studies, everything is through treaty and United Nations’ agreements and all that. All these degrees are valid here in the United States. So it’s going to be fun.”

Before the pandemic, life for Carrillo, for example, looked like work, school in-person and then a game of pickup soccer with friends. Online school kicked in, but not a great deal changed, he says.

“I always try to make my parents proud and my grandparents, because I know how hard they worked to get here and to give us all that we have,” Carrillo says. “Since I’m the oldest one, I guess I lived a little bit of both worlds, ’cause we just got here and we didn’t have anything. We had a little home, not too good or anything, and I grew up seeing my parents work hard. My mom worked at Panda Express for 15 years from open to close. My dad’s worked construction his whole life, and I just wanted to show them that I appreciated their work and CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE

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The Southside is just where I’m at.

I never go past St. Michael’s or anything up there. It’s home, really. All my friends, everything I know, is here...

-Miguel Carrillo

Groundbreaking is planned for the fall on the $6 million, 17,000-square-foot center that includes a gym, game room, arts and crafts space, and a dance and performance studio, as well as a soccer

field. The center will also provide afterschool and childcare programs.

“What’s more important than their behavior is what can they do to feel supported and to feel inclusive, to feel a part of. And really that’s what restorative justice is about, is including everybody and recognizing that they are all equal and that they matter the same,” Romero tells SFR. “And so you can have a building, but if you don’t have the people that are best fit to include all of the kids from the Southside of town, you know, then there’s a whole different dynamic happening.”

Jocelyn Hernandez Monsalvo, the student resource coordinator for the Santa Fe Community College, has worked extensively with homeless youth and has a master’s degree in social work.

Monsalvo, 24, believes that the issue of teen violence in this area of Santa Fe comes from multiple places, and isn’t a blatant desire for chaos.

“Sometimes they don’t have that support and sometimes they’re trying to look for that support elsewhere without really knowing what they’re getting them-

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what they’ve done for me, and that it’s not just all for nothing.”

Carrillo has kept his life on the straight and narrow. Some of his friends, however, have not always been able to, including those in the Southside Goons, a group of young men who say they are a music group but who local law enforcement considers a gang.

There were three high-profile killings of adolescents by their peers in 2020: Aiko Perez was allegedly stabbed to death by his friend Matthias Hutt on June 5; Ivan Perez was allegedly shot in the chest on the Southside by 17-year-old Mario GuizarAnchondo on July 15 (Ivan and Aiko are not related); and Estevan Montoya, 17, faces murder charges in the shooting death of J.B. White, a well-known local basketball player at Santa Fe High.

Carillo and Ivan Perez had known each other since they were in the sixth grade.

Carrillo says he has stayed out of violence and gangs because of his desire to make his parents proud and get ahead in life.

But he pushes back against any idea that the Southside is somehow a hotbed of teen violence.

“The Southside is just where I’m at.

I never go past St. Michael’s or anything up there,” Carrillo says. “It’s home, really. All my friends, everything I know, is here....People that live up there tend to think they’re bougier. I mean, we work as hard as they are working and there’s good people everywhere; there’s bad people everywhere.”

Mary Louise Romero, the restorative justice coordinator for the Santa Fe Public Schools District, believes that a planned Southside teen center is an important start to healing and guiding the youth in Santa Fe from all parts of the city. The teen center has been a long time in the works—officials developed two early concepts for a teen center in Tierra Contenta: one in 2010 and another in 2016. But the city did not contract with an architect until 2019.

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selves into, like gangs and being violent,” Monsalvo says. “And also sometimes that leads to maybe homelessness, which leads to wanting to have a place to stay or a place to be. And sometimes that’s where that might kick in.”

For now, she is putting together a resource in English and Spanish for SFCC students to access a range of services, from childcare to help with finances to food access. For her, more access to resources means more safety in the community.

“I know there’s a lot of apartment complexes down there in the Southside; some of them are based on income and others are based on tax credit and then there are others that are a little more expensive, so I’m hoping to get a lot more resources on that and hopefully on child care,” Monsalvo says.

The Southside narrative

There’s a story that people from inside and outside of the Southside tell. First: It has the highest population of Latino and Hispanic people, which is true—the percentages of Hispanic/Latino residents are at least 50% and as high as 77%, with median household incomes between $30,000 and $54,000, making it the lower-income part of the city by far, in comparison to the uber-wealthy enclaves of the northeast side. According to the latest Census projections, around 40% of Hispanic and Latino people are living in poverty throughout Santa Fe. Another part of the story: It’s a food swamp and food desert—the USDA found that fast food restaurants increased in Santa Fe County from 90 to 109 between 2009 and 2014. That’s a 21% increase, most of it on the Southside, where the city is developing the fastest.

And a previous analysis by SFR found 49 fast-food restaurants, three dollar stores and eight Allsup’s convenience stores south of St. Michael’s Drive, plus eight grocery stores. But only Walmart

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Humans of the Southside—What Does the Southside Mean to You?

Southside resident since the 1980s

“I don’t like nothing about Airport [Road]. Like I tell you, if I could start all over I would, but I can’t. And I think it’s dangerous. Like Geo Lane. They drag race there too….We have too many food trucks. I don’t like the way the outhouses look outside of them….The trash here on Geo [Lane], when I have enough energy I’ll go clean the field there. I know that all the fields here that are vacant are owned by people that live out of state, not in the city, out of state.”

Ian Widrick Martinez Santa Fe Community College Student Government Association President

“[The Southside] definitely doesn’t mean anything negative....I do look at it as home. I think there could be improvements everywhere. But there hasn’t been anything specific that stands out to me at all….I live right across from my elementary school. I lived right next to my high school, and I lived a mile away from my middle school. So everything was very close. We don’t really have to travel far to go to the store, go places. It seems everything is pretty central to where we live.

For the most part, I really enjoyed it. And there’s several parks, so I think it’s a really nice area.”

Chairwoman of the Santa Fe Southwest Advocates

“Southside to me, it just means that’s just the section of the city you live in. I did not know at the time I purchased, I didn’t know that this was a more industrialized zone. I didn’t realize that folks in this area may have felt left out in the past. There are a lot of gringos who live in this neighborhood, retired lawyers, retired doctors, retired priest families, as well as the Hispanic families that have immigrated, as well as the Northern New Mexico families whose roots go back to the Spaniards. So it’s a really mixed community. I see

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“Back in the early ‘90s, whenever they were considering building Tierra Contenta here, it was a good place to help people find affordable housing. The thing I liked about it was at the time when they were talking about this area, they were talking about it and it was planned to be a mixed residential area where

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housing was affordable for low income people, but they would also intersperse with more highend places to try and create a more diverse community and I think in a lot of ways it succeeded at that...And I like the diversity of people from all over the world that [Tierra Contenta] has attracted to the Southside. What I think we need still here is I think we need some grocery stores.”

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Asian people. I see everybody here.”

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Supercenter, Target, Sprouts Market, Mini Super Delicias and Albertsons sit south of Zafarano Road.

The Southside also has a proliferation of predatory lenders: SFR analyzed the locations of the 16 lending storefronts in Santa Fe County. Just one is located near downtown, or the north side of the city, which also has the lowest percentage of Hispanic/ Latino residents and significantly higher median incomes by Census tract. The other 15 stores are located on the Southside and middle sections of Santa Fe. Residents complain of historical neglect and lack of investment by the City Council, including by its own District 3 councilors.

Previous initiatives to create a healthier community have floundered.

Roman “Tiger” Abeyta, who is going into this third year as a District 3 councilor, tells SFR that COVID has highlighted the Southside’s needs: more amenities, more parks, more things for people to do and businesses to patronize, as well as a senior center built with federal and state funding, similar to the teen center. Abeyta says he hopes the senior center is built in Santa Fe within the next five years, preferably on the north side of Airport Road.

But the teen center has been Abeyta’s main focus.

“My plan has been getting the teen center up and running, back under construction,” Abeyta says.

Those who live on the Southside do not see their origins or current life in the area as something that holds them back, regardless of the dearth of amenities. It’s a point of pride to manage a good life despite the obstacles.

“If you talk to folks on the Southside, especially the displaced Chicanos that used to live on the west side or Canyon Road or whatever and are now on the Southside, they claim Southside as a real identity, as a real moniker,” says Acosta. “Self identification and identification of place are important for community development. We have to have a name. We can’t just be a place without a name and an identity.”

Acosta tells SFR that when he worked on a Healthy Communities initiative with former Councilor Carmichael Dominguez several years ago, they interviewed over 400 Southsiders. Most loved the area, despite listing several things they thought the city could improve. Because ultimately, Southsiders want to stay.

“When we asked the question, ‘What do you love about this community?’ They had positive things to say,” Acosta says. “When we asked the question, ‘What’s missing?’

They talked about services, they talked about entertainment, they talked about things that would be good to have. But they wanted to have them here. They didn’t want to have to go somewhere else.”

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“The term ‘Southside’ is not inherently problematic.…I think we tend to overdetermine and objectify certain neighborhoods and certain ethnic enclaves, and they tend to typify the prejudice and bias that we have in our society. Southside, or what a lot of people refer to as the central south side of the Airport Road, what I think is really interesting is some people perceive Airport Road as being a dangerous actual road, transportation-wise, or a dangerous area. I never got that feeling from it….And so I think we tend to objectify an area, calling it the Southside or whatever. It can kind of be damaging because it perpetuates maybe an us-versus-them dynamic...but I would say that I had heard people talking about the Southside and whatever sort of stereotypes they had about it; it was pretty easy for me to disregard after living in cities like Chicago and Johannesburg and living in Central America to say that when people talk about neighborhoods being a certain way, it’s usually a perception more than it is reality.”

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If you’re somehow one of those people who has just never seen a drag show, kindly rectify that mistake ASAP. Drag is one of the most creative and downright fun art forms around, and when it comes to a troupe like Albuquerque’s SAINTS BALL, the ante only ever seems to go up. This week, on Thursday, the avant-garde group engages in virtual Zoom discussion with form & concept gallery director (and former SFR contributor) Jordan Eddy. Then, on Saturday, SAINTS BALL performs in the gallery’s Living Room exhibit, a group show dedicated to the idea and ideals of queer chosen family. Look, we know we’ve been mentioning form & concept kind of a lot lately, but the shows at the space right now are hot, hot fire. (Alex De Vore) SAINTS BALL Virtual Talk: Noon Thursday, May 6. Free. formandconcept.center SAINTS BALL Performance: 2 pm Saturday, May 8.

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Did you hear the one about how Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery built an outdoor stage to help usher live music back to a thirsty Santa Fe? Well, it happened (and Tumbleroot already had one of the better stages in town), and the small engagement shows are already rolling. Case in point—DJ Pygar, a mysterious being with roots in Holland, South Africa and, we hear, the multiverse. Because of that, we’re not even sure if he’ll be him (if you catch our drift), but word on the street is that if you’re looking for sci-fi super jamz and dance tunes by which to dance after a year spent watching Hulu, Pygar’s your huckleberry. Can we also say we appreciate Tumbleroot’s efforts to get us all rocking safely?

Maybe things are looking up after all. (ADV) DJ Pygar: 6 pm Friday, May 7. Free.

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Hoop dancers from Lightning Boy Foundation return to the Plaza

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Teaching the ins and outs of programs like Ableton Live and Reason, Goodyear not only fosters DJs and electronic weirdos, but has spawned generations of potential producers, tweakers, audiophiles, et al. Why is this so important? Because we want music to sound great, and because those people in Goodyear’s class who might just become the next big thing will be showing what they’ve learned, what they’ve written and why computers can be a musician’s best friend. Drop the beat. (ADV) The Twilight Tone: 7 pm Tuesday, May 11. Free. twitch.tv/sfccaudio

“This [pandemic] has been harder for our kids than I’ve ever seen or experienced,” Felicia Rosacker-Rivera, director of the Lightning Boy Foundation, tells SFR. “We had to do Zoom classes with most kids the past year, and the kids always have Zoom fatigue after school. A lot of this past year has had to be dancers doing their own thing and keeping us updated.”

Despite the difficulties, including how Indigenous communities have been hit disproportionately hard by COVID-19, the organization’s upcoming performances on the Plaza and elsewhere herald a positive point for the youth dancers—albeit a masked and socially distant one.

The Lightning Boy Foundation focuses on traditional hoop dancing and tribal youth, with dancers and instructors mostly hailing from Northern New Mexico pueblos. The organization began in 2017, following the untimely 2016 death of Rosacker-Rivera’s son, Valentino Tzigiwhaeno “Lightning” Rivera (Tzigiwhaeno, Valentino’s Tewa name, means lightning) at 8 years old.

“It was originally a healing ceremony, not performance, and the ceremonies were performed with willow hoops,” Rosacker-Rivera explains. “Nowadays the dancers use PVC pipe. We still try to approach [the dance] for its traditional healing purposes.”

According to Rosacker-Rivera, the emphasis on various Indigenous traditions helps youth form a better understanding of themselves and the cultures they inhab-

it, as well as those around them.

“For the kids, having that community is very important,” Rosacker-Rivera continues. “We’ve got tribal youth from a lot of areas, from the Navajo tribe and one from the Mohawk tribe of New York State. This is how they can connect with each other.”

Dancers from the Lightning Boy Foundation perform on the Plaza on Saturdays and Sundays from 3-5 pm this summer, in addition to recurring biweekly performances at the Ojo Santa Fe Spa Resort. The organization was also one of the recipients of the 2021 Mayor’s Excellence in the Arts Award.

Rosacker-Rivera hopes those who attend will leave with a deeper understanding of hoop dancing traditions, as well as why its proponents continue the age-old practice.

“I always love it when we get a big crowd,” she says. “I hope people come out and try to get a new perspective on Native American dancing. Come out and see what our kids can do.” (Riley Gardner)

LIGHTNING BOY FOUNDATION HOOP DANCING 3-5pm Saturday, May 8 and Sunday, May 9.

Free (donations encouraged).

Santa Fe Plaza, 100 Old Santa Fe Trail. lightningboyfoundation.com

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A&C

Theater Rebounds

BY ALEX DE VORE a l e x @ s f r e p o r t e r. c o m

The 2020 song is pretty much the same for any venue, troupe, company or ­organization—it was hard. But as Santa Fe remains steadfast in its vaccination rates and consistently relaxed health orders handed down by the state, some things are coming back in admittedly altered ways. One such thing would be New Mexico Actors Lab, which took over the former Adobe Rose/Swan theater in Midtown months before the pandemic and this week announced it will host an in-person four-show 2021 season starting in August. I phoned the company’s Managing Director Robert Benedetti to find out more.

SFR: The inevitable question—how was 2020 for New Mexico Actors Lab, and how did the company ­manage to make it through?

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­account. We didn’t have a lot of trouble economically. In fact, last October we signed a three-year lease on the theater that used to be called the Adobe Rose and then The Swan, which I think is by far the nicest small theater venue in Santa Fe—a black box that seats about 110. We’re calling it The Actors Lab, or just The Lab for short, and that’s ­going to be our home for the foreseeable future.

Has anything big changed with that takeover?

We’re planning to have a pretty lively rental market. We’ve already rented the month of December to Just Say It Productions, and we’re looking for rentals for the coming year, although we are going to do at least a five-show season ourselves in 2022. We would be open to concerts, live music events—we’re very open to any of the performing arts.

Has the pandemic shift in how people consume entertainment had any impact on you as a theater pro, or on future operations, productions, etc.?

We know there’s a tremendous pent-up hunger for live theater. How much of that hunger can override whatever residual reservations people have about attending an indoor theatrical event remains to be seen. Even [for] people who are eager for theater…it will really depend on the condition of the pandemic. We had originally planned to open in June—that felt too soon. Then we moved to July, and even that felt a little early, but we were pretty comfortable with August. The Opera will have been open by then, the Botanical

Garden will have been open. They have the advantage somewhat of being outdoors, but we have a big loading door in our theater, so we’ll have outdoor level ventilation at least before and after performances, and we’re planning on the basis of socially distanced seating whether or not it’s still required by the state. If I were a betting man, I’m thinking it would probably still be somewhat required. Right now we could open at one-third capacity under the state’s turquoise restrictions, and given that our capacity, according to the fire marshal, is 190, we could do a show with 60 people in the auditorium. That’s enough for us, and we’ve mapped things out so people can sit in a socially distanced way, and I think we’ll probably go ahead with that plan. Hopefully that will help to overcome whatever lingering fears there are about attending an indoor performance.

selves busy and to keep our brand alive in the minds of our audience. Zoom programming is difficult for the actors to really interact with one another, much less an audience. It’s just not what we’re about. Over the last six years of our existence, we kind of grew up in the intimate space of Teatro Paraguas, where the audience could reach out and touch the actors if they wanted to. Having developed an aesthetic and performance style for that highly intimate space is something we’re not going to change.

Do you have a plan B? Will you keep streaming performances in your back pocket?

No. As soon as we can go in-person, that’s what we’ll do. The online stuff was strictly a stopgap measure to keep our-

Tell us about the upcoming season.

The biggest show we’re doing this season is The Cradle Will Rock, which is extremely pro-labor and pro-union within its musical form. The first show of the season that we’ll open with is called Lifespan of a Fact, which seemed to us a good show because it’s really about the boundaries of journalism and the tension between entertainment and news—not just entertainment, but fine art, essay writing of a subjective nature…the kind of writing that tries to get to the human essence and feelings of an event rather than simply reporting. All of the shows involve questions of truth and public policy. In one way or another, all these shows relate to the question of, ‘What is truth?’ We live in a time when truth has been so degraded that people may be entitled to their opinions, but they’re not entitled to their own facts.

We really are living in a time when the line between truth and fiction is almost impossible to ascertain.

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BY RILEY GARDNER a u t h o r @ s f r e p o r t e r. c o m

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he age-old problem: Your wallet is hurting but the weekend brunches are calling. You are not alone in your troubles, and rest assured SFR is on the hunt for some of the best (and quieter) brunch and pastry shops around town, particularly as businesses are allowed to start serving more patrons. Perhaps if there’s one thing uniting this fractured nation right now, it’s brunch.

WHERE THE WILD CREPES ARE

Sagche’s Coffee House (730 St. Michael’s Drive, 780-5263) feels old school in most ways. If it has a website, we couldn’t find it, and its social m ­ edia spheres aren’t particularly active. Still, co-proprietors and brothers Erwin and Walfre Sagche have built a faithful ­following at their limited Midtown digs, and though Sagche’s Coffee House might be small and lacking in aesthetic pretense, the emphasis is placed on the food rather than the decor.

Sagche’s boasts full menus for breakfast, lunch and dinner, and the siren call of crepes was too much to ignore, even if the eatery’s variety is ultimately small.

Ranging from $8.50 to $11.25, crepes come in both sweet and a savory varieties, so we sampled one peach and one veggie breakfast (both $8.50). Sagche’s doesn’t

skimp on presentation. The peach crepe was spongier than expected and had a muted, sweet flavor, which balanced well with the smooth peaches that topped the package. With three dollops of vanillainfused whipped cream and a light drizzle of hazelnut sauce, it almost felt like a work of art even as there was some difficulty in navigating a fork around its delicate texture. Perhaps it was a bit too rich, and a balance of tartness could have added nuance, but still—it already feels like it might become a go-to crepe for future visits.

The veggie breakfast crepe contained an unfamiliar variation of green chile, which was both odd yet pleasant; spicy, but not hot enough to sweat. But isn’t that kind of the chile dream? You want bold flavors without so much spiciness as to cancel out any enjoyment. Blended with squash, zucchini, egg and mushroom, this crepe held together better than the peach did, and though the flavor could’ve been stronger or even harder on the herbal fla-

Holy peach crepe, Batman—Sagche’s Coffee House offerings are out of control.

vors like thyme, it was showing up on Santa Fe well worth the price. menus, and at Angel’s Sagche’s enjoys Bakery, they’re both an under-the-rasizable and afforddar yet devoted folable ($2.50 each). lowing to its coffee.

A gorgeous goldEven during a brief en-brown topped with visit, you’ll notice a good roasted and caramelized handful of folks coming brown sugar that adds a light in for a cup as if it were and pleasant crunch, neither Oh, Angel’s Bakery cheese Java Joe’s. The Sagche the peach or pineapple emand blueberry danish—how brothers outsource their panada tasted overburdened we miss thee so. coffee from family-owned with sugars, and the pineapOdacrem in Albuquerque, ple’s light acidity contrasted a small-batch roaster with bona fide coffee wonderfully with its sweet filling. Both experts from El Salvador and Costa Rica. kept firm and never crumbled, even afThe Peruvian blend really should fight the ter a bite or two revealed the tasty layers Mexican organic in the parking lot to see within. which comes out on top, but the edge goes Blueberry cheese danishes followed to Peru. Keep your eye out for Odacrem’s ($2.50 each), and I could easily see myself blends—they’re killing it. So is Sagche’s. spending the rest of my life with them. Soft with a light sugared glaze, this became my CHRONIC DANISH ADDICTION, favorite item on the menu. Lesser pastries DON’T SEND HELP are often overreliant on their fruits and Already on the path of low-profile cafés, fillings—the kind you bite into only to have I’d heard through the grapevine Angel’s blueberries spill down your chin. Not so at Bakery & Café (4350 Airport Road, Angel’s. The cream cheese and blueberries Ste. 13, 557-6156) was still running after are used expertly, crafting a creamy yet vacating its downtown locale some time firm balance of sweet and savory. ago. The cinnamon rolls, I’ve been It was almost hard to save room for the told, are insane. You might recall a cinnamon roll ($2.50). Full disclosure: I’ve time when the bakery had a space never been a fan. In my experience, most on Water Street, but it closed up cinnamon rolls are often tough or doughy shop in 2017 to focus more on or purely a vehicle for icing. At Angel’s, the wholesale side of things. An however, it’s easy to taste each individuonline search might tell you the al step in the cooking process, from the bakery has closed down—but that’s earthiness of the roll’s browned butter to a lie. With that knowledge happily in subtler and evolving cinnamon profiles hand, it was obviously time to sample that never overpowered the cohesive flaan assortment of pastries recommended vor. Crisp at the edges, the center stayed by the bakery’s staff. soft, but not undercooked. What is this?

To start, Angel’s empanadas are an Magic? I won’t go so far as to say I’ve been exciting take on the Spanish treat. More converted to a cinnamon roll super fan, and more, these little pockets of flavor are but this one brought me close.

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Here Are the Young Men Review

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A whole lot of nothing yearns to be something

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Here Are the Young Men from filmmaker Eoin Macken seemingly believes itself philosophically rich, though the sad truth is that it winds up feeling more emotionally bankrupt.

Matthew (Dean-Charles Chapman of Game of Thrones), Kearney (Finn Cole) and Rez (Ferdia Walsh-Peelo of Sing Street) roam the streets of Dublin carousing and drinking, dabbling in hard drugs and having the type of tedious socratic gab sessions most youths have when they’re feigning worldliness. Amidst the booze and the waxing philosophical come debates about what it means to be truly free and, for them, freedom seems to be an existence beyond any and all authority— like an Ayn Rand novel on ecstasy informed by those too young to understand objectivism’s myriad inherent flaws.

Thus, when the trio witness a tragic accident during one of their binges, reactions vary from terror to pleasure, and young Kearney’s emerging psychopathy begins an irrevocable split just as the boys realize freedom is ultimately beyond

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When developers Ed Boon and John Tobias conceived of the video game Mortal Kombat waaaaaaay back in 1990-something-or-other, not even they could conceive of its becoming an absolute juggernaut property (to be fair, Congress’ response to its now-tame violence was probably the biggest favor anyone ever did for anyone)— but the ol’ MK has grown ­massively and captured fans across generations. That’s kind of why director Paul W.S. Anderson (he makes those awful Resident Evil movies, too) made the original movie in 1995, and that’s for sure why Simon McQuoid is out there with a new take as of last week.

And though the lore of the Mortal Kombat multiverse is the sort of knotted madness that can only come from decades of adding, adjusting, retconning and re-kajiggering, McQuoid starts simply here, with information about a semi-annual, multi-dimensional martial arts tournament that, for some reason, allows whatever dimension is victorious to take over another dimension. Yikes.

But let’s go back a bit to a Japanese curse from the 1600s, where Sub Zero (yes, that’s a name; Joe Taslim), uses his ice powers to kill some poor schmoe and his family. See, Sub Zero hails from Outworld, which is, like, this desert hellscape zone run by a dude called Shang Tsung (Chin Han) who is for sure a little power-hungry. Seems he doesn’t

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their control. Macken’s setup is unquestionably intriguing, but those who came for a c­ hallenging look at disparate psyches should take note— much of the promise of Young Men is sacrificed early on to focus on murder, drugs, and drawnout sequences of partying and drama involving “the girl;” Anna Taylor-Joy of The Queen’s Gambit, who gives a hell of an effort here despite being given too little. Gross.

Macken’s tale does strike impressive notes, particularly in how some performances come off so well with hardly any motivating factors scene by scene or line by line. The central theme of individualism runs amok, however, becoming a mere vehicle for getting to the flashy guts the director evidently finds appealing: hypnotic drug-fueled raves and meta-commentary on the American brand of capitalism told through an

want to take part in the upcoming tournament so much as he wants to use monsters and fourarmed beasts to kill everyone because there can’t be a tournament if there aren’t any fighters, right?

Still with us? We don’t actually care, because here in Earthrealm (that’s where we live), MMA fighter Cole Young (Lewis Tan) just found out he’s been marked with a mystical dragon...thing, and thus chosen to take part in mortal kombat (lower-case k this time).

Do the monsters and four-armed beasts and MMA fighters get backstories? A little! But barely! Do they get character development?

Shit, no! Will you care? Not even at all, because someplace between the ice swords and robot arms and lasers fired from eyeballs belonging to Australian mercenaries, you just kind of think “Fuck it,” and get pumped on that multi-­ dimensional ice ninja slashing a dude from hell, freezing his blood into a blood knife in mid-air and then stabbing said dude from hell with his own blood...knife. McQuoid leans into why we’re watching (kung fu and robot arms) so brilliantly, in fact, that you won’t even care how cringey it is to hear a character use a line from the games like “Flawless victory!” And that’s because the character who said it just sawed someone in half with his hat. HIS HAT! Anyway, it’s a really stupid movie with solid CGI and some very cool fight scenes. Can we ask for more? Should we? Nope. This is exactly what a Mortal Kombat movie needed to be, and you bet your robot arms there’s going

exposition-spouting TV show that exists solely within the boys’ minds.

A society built on individual rights as a screen for anarchy feels like a great thesis for a story to build upon, but when it’s clear the minds behind the film don’t believe in what they say and only want to dazzle with impressive camera tricks, you get 90-ish minutes of actors playing support pillars to a poorly constructed narrative that winds up straining beneath the weight of its considerable promise. If the only message is “things suck,” what’s the point in all the effort, anyway?

to be a sequel. Heck, it might even become its own movie universe now that someone made a movie worth watching. (Alex De Vore) HBO Max, R, 110 min.

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There’s a funny saying I rather like: “First they came for the journalists and I did nothing; then we don’t know what happened next.” Maybe the word is actually “maudlin,” but still, America is one of the few places where the press is so strongly woven into the very fabric of society that, while being the only job expressly noted in the Constitution, it is often taken for granted. But this isn’t a story about the American press—it’s the tale of the small Romanian paper Gazeta Sporturilor which, in 2016, uncovered a shocking conspiracy within the country’s healthcare system.

In 2019’s Collective (or Collectiv, if you like), filmmaker Alexander Nanau follows the sports (yes, sports) paper’s then-editor Catalin Tolontan and his small team as they come to learn about shady hospital dealings across Romania. In 2015, the Romanian nightclub Collectiv caught fire during a show. That night, over two dozen in the audience were killed, and over two dozen more died of infections in the weeks that followed due to absurdly lacking policies in Romanian hospitals.

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At first, it seems as simple as shady mob deals and hospital managers diluting disinfectants to a horrifying degree, but as Tolontan and company dig deeper into the issue and reveal more to the story, murder, governmental shifts and systemic failures come to a head, and the country itself is forever changed.

Full disclosure: We like movies about investigative journalism, but Nanau’s look at Gazeta Sporturilor’s herculean efforts goes beyond mere insights into how the press is valuable and shows us the results of difficult reporting. Nanau hits it from three main angles—the paper’s day-to-day reporting on the issue; the fire’s surviving victims and the families of the dead; and newly appointed Minister of Health Vlad Voiculescu, a former patients’ rights activist who, in perhaps one of the more shocking twists in the film, actually cares about the Romanian people.

Through whistleblower doctors, gut-wrenching footage of the fire and the hospital conditions, we observe how the country itself changes.

A small team did that, and it’s important for everyone—from everyday people to journalists themselves, even in small towns—to understand what can come from an unwavering dedication to the truth and transparency. There simply is no overstating how important the press can be, and Nanau’s dive into what it takes to make that a reality—especially as it applies to the people’s right to know what their government is doing—is nearly flawless in execution. (ADV) Hulu, NR, 99 min.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Created by Leonardo da Vinci in the 16th century, the Mona Lisa is one of the world’s most famous paintings. It’s hanging in the Louvre museum in Paris. In that same museum is a less renowned version of the Mona Lisa. It depicts the same woman, but she’s unclothed. Made by da Vinci’s student, it was probably inspired by a nowlost nude Mona Lisa painted by the master himself.

Renaissance artists commonly created “heavenly” and “vulgar” versions of the same subject. I suggest that in the coming weeks you opt for the “vulgar” Mona Lisa, not the “heavenly” one, as your metaphor of power. Favor what’s earthy, raw, and unadorned over what’s spectacular, idealized, and polished.

rious, welcome the numinous, explore the wildness within you, unrepress big feelings you’ve buried, and marvel adoringly about your deepest yearnings.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Taurus poet Vera Pavlova writes, “Why is the word yes so brief? It should be the longest, the hardest, so that you could not decide in an instant to say it, so that upon reflection you could stop in the middle of saying it.” I suppose it makes sense for her to express such an attitude, given the fact that she never had a happy experience until she was 20 years old, and that furthermore, this happiness was “unbearable.” (She confessed these sad truths in an interview.) But I hope you won’t adopt her hard-edged skepticism toward YES anytime soon, Taurus. In my view, it’s time for you to become a connoisseur of YES, a brave explorer of the bright mysteries of YES, an exuberant perpetrator of YES.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Science writer Sharman Apt Russell provides counsel that I think you should consider adopting in the coming days. The psychospiritual healing you require probably won’t be available through the normal means, so some version of her proposal may be useful: “We may need to be cured by flowers. We may need to strip naked and let the petals fall on our shoulders, down our bellies, against our thighs. We may need to lie naked in fields of wildflowers. We may need to walk naked through beauty. We may need to walk naked through color. We may need to walk naked through scent.”

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): As Scorpio author Margaret Atwood reminds us, “Water is not a solid wall; it will not stop you. But water always goes where it wants to go, and nothing in the end can stand against it.” According to my reading of the astrological omens, being like water will be an excellent strategy for you to embrace during the coming weeks. “Water is patient,” Atwood continues. “Dripping water wears away a stone. Remember you are half water. If you can’t go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.”

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In a letter to a friend in 1856, Sagittarian poet Emily Dickinson confessed she was feeling discombobulated because of a recent move GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In indigenous cultures from to a new home. She hoped she would soon regain her West Africa to Finland to China, folklore describes foxes bearings. “I am out with lanterns, looking for myself,” as crafty tricksters with magical powers. Sometimes she quipped, adding that she couldn’t help laughing at they’re thought of as perpetrators of pranks, but more her disorientation. She signed the letter “From your mad often they are considered helpful messengers or intelli- Emilie,” intentionally misspelling her own name. I’d love it if you approached your current doubt and uncertainty gent allies. I propose that you regard the fox as your spirit creature for the foreseeable future. I think you will with a similar light-heartedness and poise. (PS: Soon after writing this letter, Dickinson began her career as a benefit from the influence of your inner fox—the wild poet in earnest, reading extensively and finishing an part of you that is ingenious, cunning, and resourceful. average of one poem every day for many years.)

CANCER (June 21-July 22): “The universe conspires in your favor,” writes author Neale Donald Welsch. “It CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Now is a favorable time to celebrate both life’s changeableness and your own. consistently places before you the right and perfect The way we are all constantly called on to adjust to people, circumstances, and situations with which to unceasing transformations can sometimes be a wearyanswer life’s only question: ‘Who are you?’” In my ing chore, but I suspect it could be at least interesting book Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings, and possibly even exhilarating for you in the coming weeks. For inspiration, study this message from the I say much the same thing, although I mention two further questions that life regularly asks, which are: “Welcome to Night Vale” podcast: “You are never the same twice, and much of your unhappiness comes from 1. What can you do next to liberate yourself from some of your suffering? 2. What can you do next to trying to pretend that you are. Accept that you are different each day, and do so joyfully, recognizing it for the reduce the suffering of others, even by a little? As you enter a phase when you’ll get ample cosmic help gift it is. Work within the desires and goals of the person you are currently, until you aren’t that person anymore.” in diminishing suffering and defining who you are, I hope you meditate on these questions every day.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Aquarian author Toni LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The poet Anne Sexton wrote a Morrison described two varieties of loneliness. The first “is a loneliness that can be rocked. Arms crossed, letter to a Benedictine monk whose real identity she knees drawn up; holding, holding on, this motion kept secret from the rest of us. She told him, “There smooths and contains the rocker.” The second “is a are a few great souls in my life. They are not many. loneliness that roams. No rocking can hold it down. It They are few. You are one.” In this spirit, Leo, and in is alive, on its own.” Neither kind is better or worse, of accordance with astrological omens, I invite you to course, and both are sometimes necessary as a stratetake an inventory of the great souls in your life: the people you admire and respect and learn from and feel gy for self-renewal—as a means for deepening and grateful for; people with high integrity and noble inten- fine-tuning one’s relationship with oneself. I recommend either or both for you in the coming weeks. tions; people who are generous with their precious gifts. When you’ve compiled your list, I encourage you to do as Sexton did: Express your appreciation; perhaps even send no-strings-attached gifts. Doing these things will have a profoundly healing effect on you.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): England’s Prince Charles requires his valet to iron his shoelaces and put toothpaste on his toothbrush and wash all of his clothes by hand. I could conceivably interpret the current astrological omens to mean that you should pursue similar behavior in the coming weeks. I could, but I won’t. Instead, I will suggest that you solicit help about truly important matters, not meaningless trivia like shoelace ironing. For example, I urge you to ask for the support you need as you build bridges, seek harmony, and make interesting connections.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “It’s a temptation for any intelligent person to try to murder the primitive, emotive, appetitive self,” writes author Donna Tartt. “But that is a mistake. Because it is dangerous to ignore the existence of the irrational.” I’m sending this message out to you, Virgo, because in the coming weeks it will be crucial for you to honor the parts of your life that Homework: The Dream of the Month Club wants to hear can’t be managed through rational thought alone. I suggest you have sacred fun as you exult in the myste- about your best nightly dreams. Truthrooster@gmail.com

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