 | The Giving Treeby Garrett Alberico
Over the past frew years, the maple at 362 E Broadway became known in the neighborhood for the trinkets and treasures it bestowed on passerby. The gardener who tended the tree tells about the Giving Tree's final days.
They finally arrived in mid-August. Men in grey T-shirts and white hard hats. Urban Forestry had left the notice on the door when summer had just barely arrived; a rather thoughtful and compassionate note considering its bureaucratic origins. It informed us that after years of decline, the once-lovely maple in the parking strip had indeed died over the winter, and that the Dept. of Urban Forestry would remove the tree soon. They kindly thanked us for providing a home and caring for such a valued tree and acknowledged that it had served the community well.
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 | The Mod Squadby Jane Laird
Sleek lines, geometric forms, open floor plans: Mid-century Modern is nearing the age of venerability. The Salt Lake Modern Committee reveals that preserving utah's mid-century architecture is not only groovy—it's green.
The monumental Salt Lake City and County Building was at one time considered a possible tear-down. Now its iconic Romanesque Revival towers anchor, in exquisite marbled and brass renovation, urban Salt Lake. But thoughtful foresight has not always prevailed. On the list of lost Louis Sullivan buildings is the circa-1890 Dooley Building of Salt Lake City, built at the same time as Sullivan’s renowned Wainwright Building in Chicago. These were the years, the buildings and the architect that gave rise to the simplified vertical form of the steel skyscraper. This structural form would eventually spread around the globe and into the next two centuries. In 1965, the aging Dooley was summarily demolished, amid protests. Had it survived, it would have become one of the most architecturally significant structures in the West. What was built in its place? The extant Shilo Inn.
Some would say that was a crime.
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 | Men Who Walk With Goatsby Steve Chambers
You walk, they follow. Sort of. Leaving it all behind with a High Uintas goat pack trip.
At 10,000 feet, the air has about half the oxygen it does at sea level, which explains my pounding heart and burning lungs. My backpack is lighter than usual, though, thanks to Shorty, who is carrying about 30 pounds of my 45 pounds of gear. Shorty is my goat.
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 | Dreamtime: Enter the Dream Worldby Machiel Klerk
The first of a series of Jungian-oriented recipes for dreamwork.
You find yourself naked, stepping onto the bus, and it dawns on you that the people in the bus are appropriately dressed and staring at you. You are being chased by a monster; you lose all the strength in your legs, and can't run away. These are common experiences in dreamtime. While dreaming, it is difficult to distinguish dreamtime from waking consciousness. Usually, you only know you were dreaming once you wake up. The recently released movie Inception builds on this notion. Throughout the ages and in various cultures, dreams have been experienced as enigmatic and important. ...Read More >> |
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