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Desert To-Dos

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Summer Safari Nights: Art in the Animal Kingdom.

Nature is a lot of things, but one of the things it is is just plain beautiful. I mean, honestly. Have you seen a colorful bird? A zebra? A lion’s mane? Are you kidding me? At the next edition of the Reid Park Zoo’s summer nights series, take some time to appreciate the colors, patterns and allaround beauty of nature.

Leila Lopez is bringing the live music. And, as always, there will be games and wildlife activities, carousel rides and plenty of food and drink specials. 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Saturday, June 26.

Reid Park Zoo, 3400 E. Zoo Court. $10.50 adults, $8.50 seniors, $6.50 children ages 2 to 14.

is preserved or prepared, as well as some of the other important food sources for native peoples. 7 to 11 a.m. Sunday, June 27 and Tuesday, June 29. Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, 2021 N. Kinney Road. $50 museum members, $55 non-members.

Make It! Workshop.

One of the best parts about being a kid is how much less afraid we all were to create stuff. Can’t really draw?

Didn’t stop us from coloring on the walls. Not really sure if the story we were writing was compelling? We’d write them anyway! This very hands-on opportunity at the Children’s Museum’s Curiosity Courtyard is breaking out the hammers, saws and glue guns to give kids a chance to explore tools, design, build and create projects. Obviously adults will be present—and some of you just might find you learn something too. 5:30 to 7 p.m. Saturday, June 26.

Children’s Museum Tucson, 200 S. Sixth Ave. $15 includes supplies and tools, plus tickets are buy one, get one free!

Saguaro Fruit Harvest.

All hail the O’odham calendar, which very smartly begins in the middle of summer. This means you get the most unbearably hot part of the year out of the way right away! This season is also the time to harvest saguaro fruit. The traditional way is to do it using a harvesting pole made from the ribs of the giant cactus. Head over to the Desert Museum this Tuesday Night Live: week to try it yourself! You Kevin Pakulis and his can also learn all about the Band. Repeat after me: This different ways that the fruit is the week I’m going to go

to the Rhythm and Roots concert series at Hotel Congress. These are a blast every week, but if you like Americana music, you really won’t want to miss singer-songwriter Kevin Pakulis. He’s put out several albums since 2004. The latest, Holliday (2018) is all about life in the Sonoran Desert, the many forms of love, and the ins and outs of social disparity.

Pakulis has opened for acts including Willie Nelson, Leon Russell, Merle Haggard and more. 7:30 p.m.

Tuesday, June 29. Hotel Congress, 311 E. Congress.

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Zona Libre at Saint Philip’s Plaza. Saint Philip’s Plaza is one of the most charming locations in Tucson. The Sunday morning farmer’s market, the beautiful fountain, the trees that make you feel like you’re not in the desert. This Friday evening, head over for a live performance by Zona Libre. This suite of musicians has a flair for creating hip arrangements of contemporary Latino urban music.

And tonight, you’ll be able to hear them play from Union, Reforma or Proof. Treat yourself to a fancy Friday night out! 7 to 10 p.m. Friday, June 25. St. Philip’s Plaza, 4280 N. Campbell Ave.

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Irregular ‘side blooms’ on saguaros signify a parched desert Katya Mendoza

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estled within the Tucson Mountain District, Saguaro National Park’s main attraction has been exhibiting a strange phenomenon of “side blooms” well beyond their peak blooming season. The flowering event, which occurs from mid-April to early June, has exhibited more buds dispersed along saguaros’ trunks, with smaller flowers and fruits.

The blooms, which serve as a “little oasis” for insects and bats, have been increasing their flowering, leading to increased visitation and pollination according to Benjamin Wilder, director of the

University of Arizona’s Desert Lab on Tumamoc Hill.

“Last August, many of the saguaros got tricked into flowering again, many of those flower buds aborted, they just terminated, the black tissue stayed on the cactus for a month,” Wilder said.

This irregularity can be seen both in and out of Tucson.

The saguaros, a Sonoran Desert icon, exist along the southern corridor of the Arizona-California border, western Arizona and western Sonora, Mexico.

Although they are the most studied desert plant in the world to ecologists, biologists and botanists, these side blooms have caught the eye of local residents.

Theresa Crimmins, director of the USA National Phenology Network and professor at the UA’s School of Natural Resources and the Environment, stated that desert plants are cued to moisture availability, meaning these plants are well adapted to the environmental variability of dryness.

Phenology is the study of seasonal events in plants and animals. The local phenology program, in collaboration with USA-NPN’s Nature’s Notebook project put on by citizen scientists, has found random saguaro blooms throughout the year. While the saguaro may be an “opportunistic plant,” these side blooms are not necessarily anomalous.

Researchers at Sagua-

ro National Park, which is home to more than 21,000 saguaros, has been tracking irregularities such as these side blooms for the past year.

The Saguaro Flower Project, which began back in 2017, targets a specific plot of 55 saguaros just outside of the Red Hills West Visitor’s Center. Park biologist Don Swann and biological science technician Drew Jackson picked this plot due to its diverse saguaro population, offering them an opportunity to track the different life stages by meticulously taking photographs of each individual cactus in order to track flower and fruit blooms, wildlife interference and environmental changes.

“The rain we get, the weather we’re seeing, the climate we’re seeing affects how these plants are flowering and maybe we’ll figure out [that] there’s something to this ‘side bloom’ based on precipitation [or] temperatures,” Jackson said.

Generally speaking, blooming or flowering occurs on the “crown” (or top) of the cactus, where new tissue growth has occurred.

These side blooms may signify a lack of growth, suggesting that old tissue has simply been reactivated, allowing the cacti to slough off what was supposed to bloom and grow last year.

This year in particular, many more side blooms have occurred, according to photo evidence of Swann and Jackson’s project. While some columnar cacti such as organ pipes, silver torches or cardones are known to have side blooms, this recent widespread occurrence

is unusual for the saguaro cacti and may be related to environmental conditions that haven’t been fully understood yet, according to Swann. One of the working theories points to last year’s record-breaking drought, with only 4.17 inches of rainfall, according to Tucson International Airport.

A weak monsoon led to a stunted growth of new tissue and spines on the saguaros, “cooking” the newer ones.

According to the National Weather Service, 2020 was the second driest monsoon ever recorded, with only 1.62 inches of rain. A normal monsoon sees 5.69 inches of rain. The year’s extreme heat and dryness may have led to some changes in saguaro flowering. Though Swann says side blooms have been seen before in the park, he’s never seen them at this scale.

“The challenge for us ecologists is to try and separate the natural cycle of changes from the longterm trends,” Swann said.

Saguaros are naturally resistant to the droughts which inevitably occur in the desert climate, but some fear that these extreme conditions may continue or worsen, bringing on other changes to the saguaro population. Swann is worried about the future of young saguaros, which only establish themselves episodically.

“We’ve been in a period now of more than 25 years where we’ve had very low survival of young saguaros in the park,” Swann said.

The park experienced a growth “surge” in the saguaro population from the

’70s to the mid-’90s, with young saguaros surviving similar extreme conditions. Although this particular saguaro population is reaching a reproductive age, if these present-day conditions continue, there might be a decline in the overall population.

According to the World Meteorological Organization’s oceanic and atmospheric indicators, this past May closed out the 20202021 La Niña event, which may have explained the warmer and drier climate conditions. The lack of rain this past spring was very predictable, suggesting more neutral conditions in the coming months.

“This is abnormal but not unprecedented,” Wilder said. “It’s very important that we are attentive but not necessarily alarmed.

They are very long-lived individuals and we need to listen to what they are telling us and what we’ve observed.”

While Saguaro National Park works towards the conservation of this plant through education on water usage and volunteer efforts such as “Save the Saguaros,” in order to reduce invasive grass species, lessons can be learned by the Tohono O’odham people, who have preserved their symbiotic relationship with the saguaros for thousands of years, maintaining centuries of practice of “subsistence, religion and reaffirmation of their relationship with their traditional environment,” according to the National Park Services.

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Religion educator pens ‘A Theology for the Rest of Us’ Jeff Gardner Tucson Local Media

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here are questions that have answers, questions without answers, and questions that just lead to more questions. In his new book, “A Theology for the Rest of Us,” local writer Arthur Yavelberg tackles all these types of questions in the hopes of providing some religious illumination in these uncertain times. Now that’s not to say the book aims to convince anyone of anything, but by examining various religions’ insights on topics like free will, the identity of the creator, and why evil exists, Yavelberg provides a map for spiritual awareness.

Yavelberg, who has worked as a teacher of history and comparative religion, as well as the head of Tucson Hebrew Academy, describes the book as “the sum total of his religious theological insight over a lifetime.” But for a book that gathers sources as diverse as the Bible, Buddhist teachings, Dostoevsky’s novels, the Koran and even The Terminator, it’s condensed down to a surprisingly easy-to-read 100 pages.

As Yavelberg states in the book’s opening, “We may never reach absolute certainty, but we are reasonably confident that we can make enough progress to make a difference in living our day-to-day lives.”

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get the idea to write this, and there are reform day and what research was schools, too. But the Tucson Hebrew Academy is involved? a community day school, I’ll say it semi-facetious- which means it is open to ly, I was probably around Jews of any persuasion.

10 years old when I start- Now, some of that is pure demographed watching King of Kings practical with Jeffrey Hunter, which ics, because there aren’t I believe was the first major enough Jews of any parHollywood movie to have ticular sect in Tucson for an actor play Jesus, and each school. So as a comKung Fu with David Car- munity day school, which radine. So even back then even has an accepting adI was interested in different missions policy concernreligions, and the resilien- ing non-Jewish students, cy of dealing with different it was very natural for me crises. I didn’t have any for- to be flexible in respecting mal religious background, a number of different trabut… one thing led to ditions and families. It had another and I went to the the advantage of having Jewish Theological Sem- people talk to each other inary in New York, and it and understand a sense of was right across the street consensus and communifrom Union Theological ty.... There’s a more open Seminary in the Upper dialogue, and a sense that West Side of Manhattan even if we don’t fully agree, and got even more inter- at least we all understand ested. And over time, I be- we’re here with the best of came a history teacher, and intentions and can work whenever I would teach, I out something that can be would always take the po- doable for all of us. And I sition as if I was a member think that’s the spirit of the of the group I was teaching book. about. So this book is a forIn the book, you menmalization of things I had been thinking about since I tion the concept of “Brahman” in Hinduism, which was a kid. teaches there is an ultimate How did your time as underlying reality, and that the head of school at the all religions can be different Tucson Hebrew Academy paths to the same answer. influence your writing of Do you believe all religions are striving for the same this book? end goal?

There are different types I think so. The Jewish of Jewish day schools.

There are the Orthodox equivalent is the Ein Sof, schools, there are Solomon and in Christianity they talk Schechter schools that See Theology, P9 are conservative-oriented,

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s the sun set over Anselmo Valencia Tori Amphitheatre on Thursday night, the graduating classes of Toltecalli and Envision high schools, led by Pasco Yaqui tribal member, keynote speaker and social worker Maria Molina Vai Sevoi, performed a rite of passage ceremony.

Acknowledging the land they stood on and recognizing their roots, Vai Sevoi asked everyone present to close their eyes and breathe in light, love and pride, then breathe out the water, breath and fire that was carried in their ancestors’ body and peace. Then she asked them to raise a fist in the air.

“This represents resistance,” said Vai Sevoi. “This represents resistance as indigenous people, as people of color, the ways that we’ve survived in a society

that said you don’t belong here. When you get your diplomas that’s one of the ultimate forms of resistance. When you succeed, that’s resistance. I want to see some fists up in the air. That represents your resistance, and that represents that we’re not afraid and that we’re going to take space, and that we’re going to be the caretakers of today and of the future.”

In her speech, Vai Sevoi described the graduating class as flourishing flowers and their seeds as everything that comes from their ancestors.

“You’re the seeds that sprouted that your ancestors prayed for, that your mothers carried in their womb, that your caregivers nurtured,” said Vai Sevoi.

“You flourished to this beautiful flower. Everything that they taught you. Those are flowers. Every paper you’ve ever written, every song you ever jotted down, any artwork, anything that

you’ve ever done. Those are your flowers, and they have seeds.”

Graduating senior Cassandra Sanchez is one of those flowers. At the age of 16, Sanchez graduated last week from Toltecalli High School and will attend the University of Arizona to study marine biology.

As a graduating senior from one of the Chicano Por La Causa Community Schools, Sanchez had a flexible, tuition-free learning experience where she could make up for failed credit, utilize on and off campus resources and even graduate early.

Despite the pandemic and remote-learning woes, Sanchez pushed through to graduate.

“That was definitely difficult in the beginning but towards the end it got a lot easier,” said Sanchez. “My grades started going up so much but then we went back to school and then they went up even more.”

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Envision High School graduating senior Caitlyn Esquivel.

The possibility of graduating early and the knowledge that she could do other things after high school inspired Sanchez to graduate. She admits she is scared about starting university when she is much younger than her peers, but is grateful and inspired for the possible opportunities after high school. She was awarded the Wildcat Recognition Tuition Award and thanks her school for the help and resources they gave her to accomplish this.

“Toltecalli has really done a lot for me, and really just brought my spirits up and everything and I’m really grateful for the school,” said Sanchez. “They’ve definitely given me a lot of support, more than I’ve ever gotten from any other school, like they have supported me in creating clubs, getting into new things and going after

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what I really like.”

While at Toltecalli, Sanchez created a travel club and participated in the Student Council.

Sanchez also thanked her mom for her support during her graduation speech while choking back tears.

“But mostly, I want to thank my mom for helping me throughout high school and pushing me to be my very best,” Sanchez said.

“I know I’ve made a lot of mistakes throughout high school, and especially at home but I’ve learned from Toltecalli and from you that the most important thing you can do is learn.”

Like Sanchez, Envision High School graduating senior Caitlyn Esquivel thanked her family and school for their support through a pandemic that made school harder.

“Over these last four years, or three, we have all

had experiences of learning from the good and the bad, to laughing and the crying, or from the late night to the early mornings. I’m not going to stand here and tell you it was easy either, because it wasn’t. Some of us had to deal with loss, anxiety, relationships, grades, tests and figuring out our futures. Some of us did that while working and all of us did that during a global pandemic,” Sanchez told her graduating class on Thursday night. “It is through both our struggles and perseverance that we are walking the stage and getting that diploma with our heads high and our futures on the horizon.”

She specifically thanked her dad for pushing her to graduate as well as everyone present at the ceremony who “helped us graduates get to where we are now and for that we are forever grateful. Whether it was family, friends or teachers we thank you, not just for helping us in our journey but for putting up with us.”

Esquivel accomplished a part of her plan when she graduated early from Envision High School at the age of 17 and plans to attend Pima Community College in the Fall to study business management.

Toltecalli High School Principal Angel Sobrino asked the students to remember who they are and their unique experiences.

“Most importantly guys and I say this seriously, never forget where you come from,” said Sobrino.

“It’s your personal experiences that have brought you guys here today, as many of you guys said.”

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Theology Continued from P5

about Christ’s consciousness, and in Taoism they talk about the tao. In other words, whatever identity is attached to the deity, there seems to be an underlying mystery. Obviously there are fundamentalists in any religion that say “our way is the only way,” and the monotheistic religions are probably the worst in that regard. But I think there is also the understanding that “our way is our way” and the divine mystery is such that it manifests itself differently in different cultures, and in ways that those cultures can understand.

irreligion for each subsequent generation. Do you think this is because younger people are less interested in these questions, or are growing frustrated with organized religion?

I saw some poll that said for the first time since the statistics were kept, fewer than 50% of the American population is affiliated with a traditional religion, but more than like 80% is interested in spirituality.

So it’s not that they’re not interested in religion, but formalized religion is deteriorating in terms of support. I personally think it’s because formalized, traditional structures are more Data shows growing interested in preserving

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their authority and their structures than meeting the needs of individuals who are pursuing these things....

The way it’s framed is always the same: “How can we get people back into the synagogues and churches and mosques?” Invariably, the attitude comes out that “We know what’s right and good, and people are basically lazy and not willing to do what needs to be done in order to do God’s work.” But people don’t go to restaurants to be told what food to eat. They go to restaurants because they know what their appetites are and what food they like to eat. They might ask a waiter for a recommendation, but they don’t go to be told what their order is going to be. People might get indignant and say they know what is correct, but look at the numbers: People

are voting with their feet…

When Pompei erupted in Italy, there are stories of Roman soldiers who were at their post and died being engulfed by the lava because they were so disciplined that even a flow of lava didn’t make them leave their posts.

I think religious authorities are doing the same thing.

They’re sticking to their ways and people are finding other sources to meet their spiritual needs.

For the book in general, is there a goal of convincing the readers of anything?

Absolutely not. When I first broached the book to the publisher, they came out with the cover and everything, but the title was Theology for the Rest of Us, and I said “No, it’s ‘A’ Theology for the Rest of

Us. In other words, it’s just one of many possible ways of looking at theology. The purpose of the book is to get people to give themselves permission to think about and question things they’ve learned and come up with their own conclusions. People are skeptical these days because they feel authorities are selling something, they want them to vote a certain way or join their group. The purpose of the book is that I don’t want anything, I want you to think for yourselves.

People like me, who haven’t had epiphanies, have lots of questions and can be kind of embarrassed and intimidated about talking about them openly. But when we don’t talk about them openly, we don’t get the opportunity to share our experiences and our questions. So I’m not preaching anything,

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I just want people to acknowledge that they have their own questions, there are a number of answers out there, and they should feel free to pick and choose what resonates. As long as they’re thinking about the process, they’re furthering their own spiritual journey.

As the Buddha said, “Be ye lamps unto yourselves.”

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Flora’s Market Run Crudo Bar elevates the raw food conversation Matt Russell

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nly four dishes at the

new Flora’s Market Run restaurant constitute the Crudo Bar section of its 25-dish menu, yet there are three full-time employees dedicated exclusively to its operations.

Crudo means “raw” in Italian, and this kind of staffing ratio suggests that the raw fish element of the Flora’s story is as significant as the wood-fired pizza, house-made pasta, grilled meats and other elements.

At the center of the story is Kyle Nottingham, chef/partner with Tucson-based Ares Collective, which owns and operates Flora’s Market Run at 2513 E. Sixth Street. But he’s not talking about items that you might see at a conventional raw bar. He’s talking crudo, a chef-driven program which elevates the raw food conversation.

“Crudo is really a bal-

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Flora’s Kobe Wagyu Beef is a carnivorous variation on the crudo theme. anced and composed dish,” said Nottingham. “There are elements of acid, of fat, of texture, and it’s about taking the nuances of whatever raw fish you’re working with and amplifying it with

other ingredients.”

To further amplify the offering, Nottingham brought longtime fish monger Jamie TeBockhorst to the Flora’s team after 20 years of seafood superintendency at Canyon Ranch.

“Jamie brings an incredible amount of knowledge and close relationships with sustainable purveyors which makes our fish program pretty impressive,” he said. “He’s a big deal.”

Leading off the Crudo Bar menu is the Hamachi Crudo, with raw yellowtail, fresh citrus, and a grapefruit, orange and sesame vinaigrette. The dish is topped with thinly sliced serrano chiles, fresh greens and Maldon salt.

“This is a simple and light dish with a crunch of salinity from the salt,” he said. “Hamachi is a delicate fish and we didn’t want to

overcomplicate it.”

Tuna has a starring role on the Crudo Bar menu as well with the Torched Ahi. The raw fish is rubbed with togarashi, a Japanese spice blend, and torched to produce a light crust.

It’s plated with watermelon that’s been compressed to

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produce the same deep red color as the ahi and then dressed with a cherry blossom-infused soy sauce.

“This is a nice, bright, cooling, perfect for the summer crudo,” he said.

“And what’s fun is when the ahi and watermelon take on the same color, some people can’t tell the difference visually between the two.

The Crudo Bar also has an option for landlubbers, and the Kobe Wagyu Beef is a carnivorous variation on the crudo theme.

It starts with shaved raw Wagyu beef from Texas which is topped with fried Brussels sprouts, fried chiles and roasted peanuts, and dressed with a sweet ponzu sauce.

“The Wagyu gives you all of that great marbling and fat, which is a nice contrast to the crunch from the Brussels and peanuts, as well as from the chiles that we cook down for hours, frying them in their own oil to render a dark, crispy, Sambal-style sauce,” he said.

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do Bar menu are Oysters Al Fresca, a rotating selection of raw oysters that are sourced from the waters of some of the world’s oyster capitals. They’re served with mignonettes, horseradish, hot sauce, and lemon.

“We don’t just look at what oysters are available, we only bring in those that meet our harvest date specifications,” he said.

“We’re highlighting a different oyster almost every other night.”

Consider going crudo on your next visit to Flora’s Market Run. Start with a dish or two before you dive into a Mercado Pizza, the Short Rib Bolognese, or the Sumac-Crusted Lamb. You might find that raw can really be rad.

Contact Matt Russell, whose day job is CEO of Russell Public Communications, at mrussell@ russellpublic.com. Russell is also the publisher of OnTheMenuLive.com as well as the host of the Friday Weekend Watch segment on the “Buckmaster Show” on KVOI 1030 AM.

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ucson journalist Todd Miller opens his newest book with an encounter he had with an undocumented immigrant in the Arizona desert about 20 miles from U.S-Mexico border.

Miller offered Juan Carlos water and asked if he needed anything else. Juan Carlos asked him for a ride and, while Miller’s first instinct was to help the man, he experienced what he calls “wall sickness.”

He hesitated when he remembered his kindness would be considered a federal crime. At the same time, he thought the bigger crime would be leaving a man to possibly die in the desert.

“Why am I compelled to be complicit either with enforcing authoritarian law or with upholding our common humanity, with building a wall or building a bridge?” Miller asks himself in Build Bridges, Not Walls: A Journey to a World Without Borders.

“In a lot of ways [the book] is a meditation on the fact, ‘Why did I hesitate in that moment?’ It’s also a meditation on these years of reporting on the border and just kind of even a reflection of those years,” said Miller.

This week’s excerpt from the book takes Miller from a shelter in Nogales to conventions where corporations try to convince government agencies to purchase “solutions” to border security issues.

With 15 years of experience as an immigration journalist, Miller has investigated the increased spending on militarization, security and fortification.

At the time of the fall of the Berlin Wall, he said there were 15 border walls in existence; today, there are more than 70

walls around the world.

Writing most of the book during the pandemic last year, Miller found the novel coronavirus showcased the inability of borders to deal with global issues.

“Part of COVID-19’s potent message is that everything can change at a moment’s notice,” Miller wrote. “Hierarchies can suddenly clash and reorganize. Perhaps the pandemic has brought humanity to something that has been needed for a long time: a new frontier.”

Miller acknowledges that his new frontier—a borderless world—is an idea that most people dismiss, including politicians on both sides of the aisle, who say a borderless world would cause chaos.

Miller wonders if that’s a myth.

“It was like night and day.

All of a sudden the border is sealed there,” said Miller.“Why can’t you do it the opposite way? Like Operation Un-hold the Line, but anyhow, that’s not even in the conversation right?”

Miller finds “wall sickness”—a term first used to describe the heightened feeling of anxiety felt by German people living near the Berlin Wall—extends beyond the border now. The narrowness felt from the “internationalization of the wall into the people’s psyche” could be seen in Border Patrol agents, who do not allow people to touch the wall, or a person in Kansas, far from the border, who may tout “Build the wall” because they believe someone will take their job or food.

“I would argue that is an internalization of something, and maybe in this sense, it’s more mythical right,” said Miller. “The same sort of set of mistaken values, I would say. What is really needed for

humankind? What is really a threat?”

Miller quotes Admiral Samuel J Locklear III, commander of the U.S. Pacific Command, who said global warming was the greatest threat the U.S. faced because of mass destabilization.

“The real threat, the biggest existential threat that faces humanity, or one of them, is this rapidly changing climate and that’s what every scientist is saying,” Miller says. “And yet you don’t put enough resources into that, instead you build up your borders. And it just makes absolutely no sense. It needs a global solution. It doesn’t need more divisions between people. It needs people to come together to come up with some sort of solutions and broad strokes and also in very local strokes.”

Thus Miller goes on a journey to consult with philosophers, religious and political figures, migrants and his own child, William, to guide the reader through his own questions and explore a world beyond what we are accustomed to.

Miller explores the idea of sanctuary and transgression through Nigerian thinker Bayo Akomolafe, the Franciscan concept of “overflowing love” from Brother David Bauer and the Zapatistas’ view of the world and the fight to achieve it.

While he offers no set solutions, at the heart of Miller’s ’s book is an impulse toward a humble civil disobedience or abolition through acts of kindness.

Miller quotes Argentine revolutionary Che Guevara: “At the risk of seeming ridiculous let me say a true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love.”

“What I think needs to

be done are the imaginations need to be opened and I’m not even suggesting I know what to do,” Miller says. “What I am suggesting is that me and you talk, maybe our conversation can bring up all these ideas and we bring other people in, regular people, the people most impacted especially and then, we all talk together.

As he wrote the book, Miller watched various moments of social unrest, including the unfolding of the Black Lives Matter movement. Miller believes in the change from the bottom up and the power of interconnectivity.

“If somebody hears abolition, they might think, ‘Oh, that means going and tearing down something,’ or it might mean like a violent act of some sort and really it’s the exact opposite,” says Miller. “It could

be like many things, right?

It could be you in an organization. It could be you doing some sort of civil disobedience on a big scale or it could be like you deciding to be kind to somebody that you wanted to be mean to.”

Miller finds borders to be anti-empathetic, thriving on the idea of “us versus them,” so the person in Kansas who has never seen the border thinks there are bad people on the other side,“which just naturally makes them inclined not to think about their lives at all.”

At an event for this book in Patagonia, Miller met someone who tried to support his idea of a wall by talking about his experience with Columbians in New York. Miller suggested the man travel 10 to 20 minutes to the Nogales border crossing to meet and talk to

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people.

“I think that is really effective, the more that people could go and talk to people that have been otherized, maybe even subconsciously by them, through the ways that people get depicted, and just break through those boundaries,” Miller says. “I think that brings the walls down too.”

When imaging a world with bridges instead of walls, Miller also consulted his now 5-year-old son William.

William called Border Patrol agents “green men,’ indulged in his own act of civil disobedience when he playfully peed on the wall and asked his father why the steel bollards couldn’t be turned into bikes.

“I think that captures the spirit of what I was trying to say with this book, actually,” Miller says.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). Novel challenges will arise, best faced with a partner, friend or team member. There’s more than just one outcome at stake here, the real opportunity being a rare chance to bond. Relaxing has its merits, but working together to achieve a goal brings people closer while creating memories.

CANCER (June 22-July 22). You are in a mood to take control and do it your way. The world still hands you an agenda, but you don’t accept it. Neither will you answer the question you’re being asked or otherwise fall in line. Instead, you’ll affirm what you want, take a step back to reassess, interrupt the pattern and establish your order.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). Action is the remedy for fear. It occupies the part of the mind that otherwise would flow to worry, avoidance, procrastination tactics and the like.

And even better, action allows you to see your impact, feel powerful and prove to yourself that what you do makes a difference so there’s no need to be afraid.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). You can’t change what happened, but you can change what it means to you. The reason to bother with bending your negative stories of the past into the light is because doing so will have a remarkably positive effect on how you feel about today, which in turn has an uplifting influence on your future experiences.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). You’ll learn success strategies from someone slightly ahead of you and gain wisdom from someone who hit their prime decades ago. Just don’t mix up these two categories. Things have changed since the old guard, and the young superstars are wily but not wise.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). When you create something, you open yourself up to the possibility of criticism, which takes an entirely different skill set to handle. Just know that you have options. You can ignore comments or combat them, analyze or apply... all completely valid options this week and there’s special luck for combining all four.

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Pandemic changed needs for seniors Local services are adapting to the new normal Christina Duran Tucson Local Media

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une this year looks different from last year, especially for older adults most affected

by COVID-19. Despite the higher rate of infection for individuals below age 65, those 65 and older had the greatest number of deaths due to COVID-19. While the threat of the virus may have somewhat subsided as about 75% of those 65 and older are fully vaccinated in the nation, other pre-pandemic issues continue to pose concerns for

the aging population.

Even before the pandemic, those in the caregiving professions knew a shortage in workers would occur. The pandemic only exacerbated the problem, said Homewatch CareGivers of Tucson president Margie Lannon.

“We are also taking care of the baby boomers, and there are a lot more baby boomers and we knew a long time ago that this was going to happen,” said Lannon. “Granted the pandemic and the pay rates have made things a little bit more difficult with

the surplus money that they’ve been getting for staying home, but it’s also the generational gap that we have right now.”

The pandemic only caused a greater shortage as individuals felt fear of contracting COVID-19 or infecting someone else.

Particularly in Green Valley, where many of Lannon’s in-home care workers are retirees, she said many of them resigned during the pandemic and about half have returned.

Like Lannon, Pima Council on Aging President W. Mark Clark said

they knew long before the pandemic that they faced problems with that workforce. While there is a general labor shortage in the nation, he admits direct care work “tends to be challenging, and doesn’t pay very well.”

Clark said part of the problem is balancing the workers’ wages with the costs to people who need the in-home care services.

He said the only public support for that non-medical in-home care is the state Medicaid program, AHCCCS, which offers the Arizona Long-Term

Care System for individuals who are age 65 or older, or who have a disability, and require nursing facility level of care.

“Some people think Medicaid pays for long term care, it does not. it pays for a limited amount of skilled rehab care, but not what we call non-medical in-home care. It does pay for long-term like skilled care or residential assisted living or those sorts of things,” said Clark.

“So people are having to pay for much of that care out of pocket and so as we see significant wage pres-

sure, which we know we’re going to see.”

With a shortage of workers and some workers getting sick, Lannon implemented what she calls the “caregiver shuffle.”

“An employee would get exposed to somebody with COVID, so then they couldn’t work for 14 days.

So that caregiver might have taken care of five different clients that week, but I had to find another caregiver that could go in and take care of her five clients for two weeks,” said Lannon. “It’s not like we can plan ahead for a vaca-

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tion...This was you know like five people calling and saying, ‘I’ve got exposed.’”

At the start of the pandemic Lannon had about 20 clients who went on hold because they were not receiving services they deemed necessary.

“We were just helping make their lives a little bit easier by grocery shopping and things like that,” said Lannon. “The people who didn’t feel it was a necessity, they did stop as soon as the pandemic really hit, and all of those people are now back, I think, except for one.”

During the pandemic, Lannon notes demand for their in-home care services fluctuated from month-to-month.

“One month I would have a ton of people who needed help, and then the next month it was quiet as a bee. I mean, there was really no rhyme or reason, I couldn’t make any sense of it,” said Lannon.

Prior to the pandemic, Lannon said they traditionally ran at about 125 employees and have about 91 caregivers at the moment.

As the number of workers climbs back up, Lannon faces increased demand and finds herself

having to refer clients to other agencies, turning away and sending about 10 clients to other agencies in the last two weeks.

“It breaks my heart when people are calling and I can’t help them. It’s probably the worst feeling in the whole wide world,” said Lannon.

According to Clark, the Pima Council on Aging has about 180 people on a waiting list that they have approved for services, but their 13 providers are unable to find a person to work in those people’s homes.

“They’re not waiting for what we would call authorization or service approval. It’s now just a matter of trying to figure out how one of our providers can find somebody to actually go in their house, help them with bathing, help them with laundry, light housekeeping, linen changes. The kind of really important caring work, those direct care workers do on a regular basis,” said Clark.

Lannon had not necessarily prepared for the shortage, but made it her motto to always care for her employees.

“Yes, I own the company. Yes, I’m the adminis-

trator but the person who really is my company is my employees that are out there with their faces,” said Lannon.

When Lannon opened her company about 13 years ago, she conducted a SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats) analysis with all the other companies in town and found no one was offering employee health care benefits.

“I made that my personal goal to be able to do that and at this point right now, I pay 75% of my employees health care benefits to try to make it even more affordable for them because I want this to be a career for them. I don’t want this just to be a stepping stone,” said Lannon.

For the Pima Council on Aging, facing the shortage meant investing in those training the next generation of caregivers.

Last April, the Pima Council on Aging integrated the CareGiver Training Institute (CGTI) into their family of nonprofit companies as a subsidiary organization to keep it afloat. For more than 20 years, CGTI has provided certified nursing assistant, certified caregiver, and assisted living manager

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training.

“Those workers do not tend to be the folks doing that non-medical, inhome direct care work, but they’re the next rung up the ladder,” said Clark.

“Part of the way I think you get people to do the direct care work is by talking with them about how that work will allow them to move into higher level, better paying health-

care careers.”

However, CGTI also faced a decrease in students after they had to pause their programs in March for about three months as they planned their students’ return to a safer environment and changed their training to better prepare their students for their current reality.

They not only provided

remote learning, but also created 40 hours of clinical simulation for students approved by the Board of Nursing, as their clinical sites were no longer accepting nursing assistant students. This meant investing in PPE and more equipment, like mannequins to provide them that experience.

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“Knowing that one of the reasons that people leave the healthcare industry in general, especially within the first year of employment, is that they didn’t feel prepared going into it. They faced circumstances and encounters that they didn’t feel that their training had prepared them for,” said PCOA Vice President of Population Health Initiatives Rebekah McGee. “We not only wanted to address that moving forward, and training on Caregiver Training Institute has always done a really great job at providing quality

training to students, but during this time we wanted to make sure that we were able to do that, especially considering the needs of healthcare workers in a pandemic. “ Once they opened back up, McGee said many students declined enrollment due to personal issues brought on by the pandemic.

“Job training programs saw a steep decline in student enrollment because priorities had to change.

Meeting their basic needs and taking care of kids being at home and lack of transportation, lack of childcare, lack of any other income made people

have to reevaluate, which is completely understandable,” said McGee. Since then, enrollment has increased with CGTI offering full classes, with waiting lists for would-be students. One of the benefits that McGee thinks draws students to enroll in CGTI is that they provide help overcoming barriers to enroll and also connect them with employers through their industry partner program. Those in training may go on to work for Casa de la Luz or other partners that provide care services for older adults.

“The people that are doing this work are just

wonderful. They have such big hearts, and they continue to do it during the pandemic just kind of talks about who they are,” said Lannon. “My office never shut down because of the pandemic, we were always there, we were always still working.”

While the shortage continues and Clark says they have a lot of work to do, he is reminded of the resilience of older adults. When checking in with their 75 and older clients, about 600 of them, nearly 40%, had already gotten vaccinated.

“They’d figured out how to find a friend who can navigate the registration system, the transportation

system, all of that stuff,” portant to remember, besaid Clark. “So that resil- cause sometimes we lose ience, I think, is very im- track of that.”

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