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But the experience stuck with her, and she returned to it a couple of decades later after retiring from her job as a secretary. She started going to monthly shows of solo performers at The Marsh, a theater in Berkeley, and decided to try doing one herself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The solo show she started working on — called “Victory for the Recycled Virgin” — was full of personal stories: of her marriage, her sex life, the ins and outs of getting older.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgWXMUO2j0k&t=59s\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The show seizes on people’s discomfort with senior sexuality, and pokes at it. Robertson also began trying her hand at stand-up comedy and brought that topic into her act. To her surprise, she found the stand-up comedy world was a welcoming community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Part of it was like hanging out with my grandkids — because most of the stand-ups were in their 20s and 30s,” she said. “And I’m 80! They adored me, I adored them. They told me I was good. 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The show was indefinitely postponed. “This is just such a cruel time for theater groups,” she recently told me over the phone. “And the uncertainty of when it’s going to be over, so how can they reschedule — it’s a nightmare.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11814359\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/Marsh-Postcard-20161.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11814359\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/Marsh-Postcard-20161.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"560\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/Marsh-Postcard-20161.jpg 1500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/Marsh-Postcard-20161-160x224.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/Marsh-Postcard-20161-800x1120.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/Marsh-Postcard-20161-1020x1428.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A poster for Robertsons 2016 show at The Marsh in Berkeley. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of The Marsh)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But, never one to be slowed by a challenge, Robertson's show will go on. The Marsh has started presenting digital versions of shows that audiences can watch while stuck at home, and Robertson's performance is set to go live on April 27.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And to her surprise, the quarantine has given her another opportunity. She’d thought “Story of a Nice White Lady” would be her last solo show. Instead, she’s spending her time at home writing a new one — all about her experience with getting older. She’s calling it \"The Octobabe: Laughs and Longings.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robertson also recently got a tattoo of a labyrinth — a symbol she likes the significance of: “Twisting, turning. But no dead ends,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roberston said her 83 years have been a testament to that: Even the endings turned out to be beginnings. She just keeps going.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is part of a series on ageism and the lived reality of growing older called The Third Act. 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"disqusTitle": "'This Is a Californian Feeling': Poet Tess Taylor Captures Life on the Brink in 'Rift Zone'",
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"content": "\u003cp>Shortly before the state of California ordered its citizens to retreat indoors, I met up with poet \u003ca href=\"https://www.tess-taylor.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tess Taylor\u003c/a> for a hike on a steep hill near her home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was one of those perfect California days: warm; dappled sun; early spring flowers popping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Everything looked and smelled tangy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are so many smells to love here, like rosemary or Ponderosa pine needles in the sun,\" said Taylor, as we hiked up the steep gravely trail to the summit. \"All of these are very specific California smells.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11813218\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11813218\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42848_IMG_3878-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42848_IMG_3878-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42848_IMG_3878-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42848_IMG_3878-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42848_IMG_3878-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42848_IMG_3878-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42848_IMG_3878-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42848_IMG_3878-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42848_IMG_3878-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42848_IMG_3878-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California poppies and a fire hydrant — among the many signs of natural and manmade activity on our hike. \u003ccite>(Chloe Veltman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But every few steps we saw signs of mankind’s interference with nature: chain link fences; \u003c/span>“No Trespassing” signs; the scarred remains of an old quarry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When people came to California and were settling it, they just kind of ripped this hillside open,\" Taylor said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The aggressive contrast between California's beauty and its many natural and manmade hazards forms the backbone of Taylor’s poetry collection, \"Rift Zone,\" which is out this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She wrote these poems before the coronavirus pandemic made life even more precarious for Californians. But the poet’s words speak powerfully to the present moment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor — whose resume includes reviewing poetry for NPR's \u003cem>All Things Considered\u003c/em>, winning national awards and appearing in The New York Times and The Atlantic, among other publications — grew up in the town of El Cerrito, just north of Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11813219\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 480px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11813219\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42850_Tess-Taylor-Taylor-Schreiner-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42850_Tess-Taylor-Taylor-Schreiner-qut.jpg 480w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42850_Tess-Taylor-Taylor-Schreiner-qut-160x160.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42850_Tess-Taylor-Taylor-Schreiner-qut-470x470.jpg 470w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The poet Tess Taylor released her poetry collection \"Rift Zone\" this month. \u003ccite>(Taylor Schreiner)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"I moved into one of these little bungalows and went to the elementary school across the street,\" Taylor said. \"Everybody that we knew was a retired shipyard worker from the Richmond shipyards.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She left for college in the 1990s, and then settled for a while in New York.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I had grown up thinking, I'm done with El Cerrito,\" she said. \"I'm never coming back.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But after about 13 years, the Golden State did lure Taylor back. By that point, she'd gotten married and was pregnant with her first child.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Suddenly, all I wanted was to be home in California near a lemon tree. That's what I dreamed of,\" Taylor said. \"And so we did that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those sunny California lemons still smiled on the tree. But Taylor also saw life here had gotten a whole lot tougher, especially for those less fortunate than herself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Jammed on a freeway forever and ever,\" Taylor said. \"So much inequality. Watching people be unable to continue to make rent.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"California Suites,\" a cluster of four poems in \"Rift Zone,\" speaks to the whiplash Taylor felt upon returning to her home state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Suburbs reveal thoughtless paving; drains\u003cbr>\ngargle now where salmon spawned.\u003cbr>\nPlum blossoms eddy\u003cbr>\nnext to candy wrappers.\u003cbr>\nBetween storms, the light is mercury.\u003cbr>\nHuge wet sets hillsides careening,\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003cem>hurtling down what fault line just thrust up.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor said she wrote \"Rift Zone\" during what she saw as a decade of state and national upheaval — years marked by devastating wildfires, escalating gun violence, the persistent lack of a social safety net and the profound, disorienting feeling of insecurity that comes with all of that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11813220\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 426px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11813220\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42849_RiftZoneCVR-300-dpi-8.22-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"426\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42849_RiftZoneCVR-300-dpi-8.22-qut.jpg 426w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42849_RiftZoneCVR-300-dpi-8.22-qut-160x240.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 426px) 100vw, 426px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The book jacket for \"Rift Zone,\" Tess Taylor's new poetry collection, published by Red Hen Press. \u003ccite>(Red Hen Press)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"The feeling that we are living on a fault line, that we are living in a time when things feel like they're wrenching and twisting,\" Taylor said. \"And this is a Californian feeling. But it's also a world feeling, our national feeling of being on the brink.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Standing at the top of the hill, the landscape unfolded before us: shipyards; an oil refinery; trains whistling through the suburbs; the waters of the San Francisco Bay; far off in the distance, a view of Mount Tamalpais.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We took it all in, then set off on our way back down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If it weren’t for the coronavirus, Taylor would be on a book tour right now, traveling to appear at 45 events across three countries. When we recently reconnected over video chat, she told me these have all been canceled or postponed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's like a big sandcastle: 10 years of work and then just watching it go away from you in a way that you sort of can't control,\" she said. \"And in another way, it feels like, how dare I grieve this 10-year book of poetry when there are so many other things to grieve?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our conversation sent my thoughts back to the day of our hike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before we set off, we stood gazing up at a pair of enormous redwood trees in the poet’s backyard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's nothing quite like measuring your life against a redwood tree,\" Taylor said. \"It really sort of puts everything in perspective, doesn't it?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those redwoods figure prominently in \"Rift Zone.\" And in the ensuing weeks since Taylor showed them to me, their symbolism has grown even more, as in this extract from \"California Suites\":\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Your new house \u003c/em>\u003cem>is younger\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003cem>than your mother.\u003cbr>\nAt your bottle brush,\u003cbr>\nnative hummingbirds.\u003cbr>\nBehind them, two huge redwoods wait.\u003cbr>\nIn redwood years, these trees\u003cbr>\nare babies. They overlook\u003cbr>\nyour fragile real estate.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor said the redwoods in her backyard are only around 80 years old. In 1,000 years, they’ll still be standing — barring chainsaws and blights. And the events of 2020 will be buried deep in their rings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>To find out more about Tess Taylor's \"Rift Zone,\" or to buy an ebook or paperback copy, click \u003ca href=\"https://aerbook.com/maker/productcard-5513837-1458.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are the four entire poems that make up \"California Suites,\" from Tess Taylor's \"Rift Zone\":\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>CALIFORNIA SUITES\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I. Rainy Season\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Season of mud, of swollen gullies,\u003cbr>\nstorms lashing off the Pacific, flinging\u003cbr>\nwet across our solstice months.\u003cbr>\nWe call this bitter damp the winter\u003cbr>\nbut it is different than rosy cheeks or blizzards\u003cbr>\nor catalogs of kids in reindeer sweaters:\u003cbr>\nOur winter turns the hillsides emerald.\u003cbr>\nSuburbs reveal thoughtless paving; drains\u003cbr>\ngargle now where salmon spawned.\u003cbr>\nPlum blossoms eddy\u003cbr>\nnext to candy wrappers.\u003cbr>\nBetween storms, the light is mercury.\u003cbr>\nHuge wet sets hillsides careening,\u003cbr>\nhurtling down what fault line just thrust up.\u003cbr>\nNow ferns glisten, redwoods blacken.\u003cbr>\nNow cold buckeye seed & lemons come.\u003cbr>\nIn rain, streets grow riverine,\u003cbr>\nferrying our cargo to the ocean.\u003cbr>\nO cold spray & green reclaiming:\u003cbr>\nIn you, we are all tributaries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>II. Sempervirens\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>-California Redwood\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We have no old cathedrals here\u003cbr>\nexcept for redwood groves\u003cbr>\nthat wait in parks\u003cbr>\nbehind brass plaques. Signs\u003cbr>\ndate the oldest to Columbus or\u003cbr>\nWilliam the Conqueror;\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>new roads wind to suburbs\u003cbr>\nthat replace them. The plaques\u003cbr>\nare odd, as if we lack\u003cbr>\nanother way to hold in mind\u003cbr>\ntheir presences—\u003cbr>\neons\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>passed in widening,\u003cbr>\nhosting murrelets & owls.\u003cbr>\nThey carve the real estate\u003cbr>\nof centuries. They calendar\u003cbr>\nthe former climate’s fires.\u003cbr>\nWhite settlers\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>cut them down\u003cbr>\n& made them cheap\u003cbr>\n& turned them back\u003cbr>\ninto a luxury.\u003cbr>\nNow we stroke their burls\u003cbr>\nwith short-lived hands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They model wise economy.\u003cbr>\nEach ring is still a living record,\u003cbr>\na transitive, ongoing,\u003cbr>\ngiant conjugate for being\u003cbr>\nrhyming out\u003cbr>\ninside its own slow time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They widen now\u003cbr>\nas ripples do\u003cbr>\non deep & pooling streams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>III. El Camino Real\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The corridor parades its stucco newness.\u003cbr>\nWhat king was it that built this highway?\u003cbr>\nJornaleros in wide bucket hats\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>wait for hire beneath the onramps.\u003cbr>\nBlocks fill with retirees from somewhere colder.\u003cbr>\nChapped garages hold canned food & water\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>hoarded against sure disaster.\u003cbr>\nIn sharp heat, the lava gardens bleach.\u003cbr>\nThe man a few blocks over with his lettuces,\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>raw twang & melanomic skin\u003cbr>\nsaw me walking with my infant son.\u003cbr>\nHe said \u003cem>hey lady, keep in mind\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>I have a gun. You can take my lemons if I offer,\u003cbr>\nbut steal em—bam—you’ll know who’s boss.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>IV. Escrow\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In every sale, a list of ways\u003cbr>\nyour home could be destroyed.\u003cbr>\nFlood, earthquake, fire.\u003cbr>\nYour house may end in mudslide,\u003cbr>\nbe damaged by a rain of golf balls;\u003cbr>\nyou may live downwind of poison breezes\u003cbr>\noff oil fields, refineries, or croplands.\u003cbr>\nYou must assert you have\u003cbr>\nconsidered agricultural toxins; the risk\u003cbr>\ninherent in tectonic plates.\u003cbr>\nSigning on the dotted line allots you\u003cbr>\na postcard plot of Golden State. Will\u003cbr>\nit be cancerous? God-willing\u003cbr>\nnot to you. Your new house is younger\u003cbr>\nthan your mother.\u003cbr>\nAt your bottlebrush,\u003cbr>\nnative hummingbirds.\u003cbr>\nBehind them, two huge redwoods wait.\u003cbr>\nIn redwood years, these trees\u003cbr>\nare babies. They overlook\u003cbr>\nyour fragile real estate.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Shortly before the state of California ordered its citizens to retreat indoors, I met up with poet \u003ca href=\"https://www.tess-taylor.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tess Taylor\u003c/a> for a hike on a steep hill near her home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was one of those perfect California days: warm; dappled sun; early spring flowers popping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Everything looked and smelled tangy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are so many smells to love here, like rosemary or Ponderosa pine needles in the sun,\" said Taylor, as we hiked up the steep gravely trail to the summit. \"All of these are very specific California smells.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11813218\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11813218\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42848_IMG_3878-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42848_IMG_3878-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42848_IMG_3878-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42848_IMG_3878-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42848_IMG_3878-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42848_IMG_3878-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42848_IMG_3878-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42848_IMG_3878-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42848_IMG_3878-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42848_IMG_3878-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California poppies and a fire hydrant — among the many signs of natural and manmade activity on our hike. \u003ccite>(Chloe Veltman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But every few steps we saw signs of mankind’s interference with nature: chain link fences; \u003c/span>“No Trespassing” signs; the scarred remains of an old quarry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When people came to California and were settling it, they just kind of ripped this hillside open,\" Taylor said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The aggressive contrast between California's beauty and its many natural and manmade hazards forms the backbone of Taylor’s poetry collection, \"Rift Zone,\" which is out this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She wrote these poems before the coronavirus pandemic made life even more precarious for Californians. But the poet’s words speak powerfully to the present moment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor — whose resume includes reviewing poetry for NPR's \u003cem>All Things Considered\u003c/em>, winning national awards and appearing in The New York Times and The Atlantic, among other publications — grew up in the town of El Cerrito, just north of Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11813219\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 480px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11813219\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42850_Tess-Taylor-Taylor-Schreiner-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42850_Tess-Taylor-Taylor-Schreiner-qut.jpg 480w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42850_Tess-Taylor-Taylor-Schreiner-qut-160x160.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42850_Tess-Taylor-Taylor-Schreiner-qut-470x470.jpg 470w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The poet Tess Taylor released her poetry collection \"Rift Zone\" this month. \u003ccite>(Taylor Schreiner)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"I moved into one of these little bungalows and went to the elementary school across the street,\" Taylor said. \"Everybody that we knew was a retired shipyard worker from the Richmond shipyards.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She left for college in the 1990s, and then settled for a while in New York.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I had grown up thinking, I'm done with El Cerrito,\" she said. \"I'm never coming back.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But after about 13 years, the Golden State did lure Taylor back. By that point, she'd gotten married and was pregnant with her first child.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Suddenly, all I wanted was to be home in California near a lemon tree. That's what I dreamed of,\" Taylor said. \"And so we did that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those sunny California lemons still smiled on the tree. But Taylor also saw life here had gotten a whole lot tougher, especially for those less fortunate than herself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Jammed on a freeway forever and ever,\" Taylor said. \"So much inequality. Watching people be unable to continue to make rent.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"California Suites,\" a cluster of four poems in \"Rift Zone,\" speaks to the whiplash Taylor felt upon returning to her home state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Suburbs reveal thoughtless paving; drains\u003cbr>\ngargle now where salmon spawned.\u003cbr>\nPlum blossoms eddy\u003cbr>\nnext to candy wrappers.\u003cbr>\nBetween storms, the light is mercury.\u003cbr>\nHuge wet sets hillsides careening,\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003cem>hurtling down what fault line just thrust up.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor said she wrote \"Rift Zone\" during what she saw as a decade of state and national upheaval — years marked by devastating wildfires, escalating gun violence, the persistent lack of a social safety net and the profound, disorienting feeling of insecurity that comes with all of that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11813220\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 426px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11813220\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42849_RiftZoneCVR-300-dpi-8.22-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"426\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42849_RiftZoneCVR-300-dpi-8.22-qut.jpg 426w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42849_RiftZoneCVR-300-dpi-8.22-qut-160x240.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 426px) 100vw, 426px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The book jacket for \"Rift Zone,\" Tess Taylor's new poetry collection, published by Red Hen Press. \u003ccite>(Red Hen Press)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"The feeling that we are living on a fault line, that we are living in a time when things feel like they're wrenching and twisting,\" Taylor said. \"And this is a Californian feeling. But it's also a world feeling, our national feeling of being on the brink.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Standing at the top of the hill, the landscape unfolded before us: shipyards; an oil refinery; trains whistling through the suburbs; the waters of the San Francisco Bay; far off in the distance, a view of Mount Tamalpais.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We took it all in, then set off on our way back down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If it weren’t for the coronavirus, Taylor would be on a book tour right now, traveling to appear at 45 events across three countries. When we recently reconnected over video chat, she told me these have all been canceled or postponed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's like a big sandcastle: 10 years of work and then just watching it go away from you in a way that you sort of can't control,\" she said. \"And in another way, it feels like, how dare I grieve this 10-year book of poetry when there are so many other things to grieve?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our conversation sent my thoughts back to the day of our hike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before we set off, we stood gazing up at a pair of enormous redwood trees in the poet’s backyard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's nothing quite like measuring your life against a redwood tree,\" Taylor said. \"It really sort of puts everything in perspective, doesn't it?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those redwoods figure prominently in \"Rift Zone.\" And in the ensuing weeks since Taylor showed them to me, their symbolism has grown even more, as in this extract from \"California Suites\":\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Your new house \u003c/em>\u003cem>is younger\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003cem>than your mother.\u003cbr>\nAt your bottle brush,\u003cbr>\nnative hummingbirds.\u003cbr>\nBehind them, two huge redwoods wait.\u003cbr>\nIn redwood years, these trees\u003cbr>\nare babies. They overlook\u003cbr>\nyour fragile real estate.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor said the redwoods in her backyard are only around 80 years old. In 1,000 years, they’ll still be standing — barring chainsaws and blights. And the events of 2020 will be buried deep in their rings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>To find out more about Tess Taylor's \"Rift Zone,\" or to buy an ebook or paperback copy, click \u003ca href=\"https://aerbook.com/maker/productcard-5513837-1458.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are the four entire poems that make up \"California Suites,\" from Tess Taylor's \"Rift Zone\":\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>CALIFORNIA SUITES\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I. Rainy Season\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Season of mud, of swollen gullies,\u003cbr>\nstorms lashing off the Pacific, flinging\u003cbr>\nwet across our solstice months.\u003cbr>\nWe call this bitter damp the winter\u003cbr>\nbut it is different than rosy cheeks or blizzards\u003cbr>\nor catalogs of kids in reindeer sweaters:\u003cbr>\nOur winter turns the hillsides emerald.\u003cbr>\nSuburbs reveal thoughtless paving; drains\u003cbr>\ngargle now where salmon spawned.\u003cbr>\nPlum blossoms eddy\u003cbr>\nnext to candy wrappers.\u003cbr>\nBetween storms, the light is mercury.\u003cbr>\nHuge wet sets hillsides careening,\u003cbr>\nhurtling down what fault line just thrust up.\u003cbr>\nNow ferns glisten, redwoods blacken.\u003cbr>\nNow cold buckeye seed & lemons come.\u003cbr>\nIn rain, streets grow riverine,\u003cbr>\nferrying our cargo to the ocean.\u003cbr>\nO cold spray & green reclaiming:\u003cbr>\nIn you, we are all tributaries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>II. Sempervirens\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>-California Redwood\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We have no old cathedrals here\u003cbr>\nexcept for redwood groves\u003cbr>\nthat wait in parks\u003cbr>\nbehind brass plaques. Signs\u003cbr>\ndate the oldest to Columbus or\u003cbr>\nWilliam the Conqueror;\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>new roads wind to suburbs\u003cbr>\nthat replace them. The plaques\u003cbr>\nare odd, as if we lack\u003cbr>\nanother way to hold in mind\u003cbr>\ntheir presences—\u003cbr>\neons\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>passed in widening,\u003cbr>\nhosting murrelets & owls.\u003cbr>\nThey carve the real estate\u003cbr>\nof centuries. They calendar\u003cbr>\nthe former climate’s fires.\u003cbr>\nWhite settlers\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>cut them down\u003cbr>\n& made them cheap\u003cbr>\n& turned them back\u003cbr>\ninto a luxury.\u003cbr>\nNow we stroke their burls\u003cbr>\nwith short-lived hands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They model wise economy.\u003cbr>\nEach ring is still a living record,\u003cbr>\na transitive, ongoing,\u003cbr>\ngiant conjugate for being\u003cbr>\nrhyming out\u003cbr>\ninside its own slow time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They widen now\u003cbr>\nas ripples do\u003cbr>\non deep & pooling streams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>III. 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"content": "\u003cp>Phyllis Lyon, a pioneer in the struggle for lesbian and gay rights, died Thursday morning in San Francisco of natural causes at the age of 95.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1924 but spent her formative years in Sacramento before graduating from UC Berkeley. In 1955, Lyon and her late wife Del Martin, along with three other lesbian couples, co-founded the Daughters of Bilitis, the nation’s first organization devoted to promoting the rights of lesbians. It was just part of Lyon’s lifelong advocacy for LGBT people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The words ‘icon’ and ‘legend’ can get thrown around a little loosely, but in Phyllis’ case they are an understatement,” said Kate Kendell, former executive director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights in San Francisco, noting that their earliest advocacy came at a time when government and society were hostile to gay and lesbian people, barely recognizing their existence, let alone rights. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She and Del, when not only was there a lethality to being out as a queer person, but you clearly could not get a job or maintain a job … (and) in most places you would be jailed … founded the first lesbian organization. They published the first lesbian magazine distributed nationwide, typed it on their typewriter at their kitchen table in order for women to connect with one another,” Kendell said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After starting their advocacy on behalf of lesbians, Lyon and Martin later broadened their efforts to include bisexuals, gay men and women generally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s literally no place in the lives of LGBTQ people that has not been impacted by the contributions both of them made,” Kendell said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lyon graduated from UC Berkeley with a degree in journalism in 1946. In the 1940s, she worked as a reporter for the Chico Enterprise-Record before moving to Seattle. It’s there that she met Del Martin where they both worked on the staff of a local magazine. The couple moved to San Francisco in 1953, where they published The Ladder, a lesbian-focused magazine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lyon and Martin were active in San Francisco politics with the Alice B. Toklas Democratic Club, which lobbied then-Mayor Dianne Feinstein to help pass legislation banning employment discrimination against gays and lesbians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11811694\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/Phyllis-Lyon-Del-Martin.jpg\" alt=\"Phyllis Lyon (left) and Del Martin in 2004.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1487\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11811694\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/Phyllis-Lyon-Del-Martin.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/Phyllis-Lyon-Del-Martin-160x124.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/Phyllis-Lyon-Del-Martin-800x620.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/Phyllis-Lyon-Del-Martin-1020x790.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Phyllis Lyon (left) and Del Martin in 2004. \u003ccite>(Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a statement Thursday, Sen. Feinstein said, “I’m so sad at the passing of Phyllis Lyon, a trailblazer, a fearless activist and a good friend. She truly left an indelible mark on San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 1970s, Feinstein hosted a ceremony for Lyon and Martin in her backyard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was such a celebration of love, and it wasn’t to be their last nuptials,” Feinstein said. In 1979, activists created Lyon-Martin Health Services, a women-focused clinic named in their honor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2008, after the California Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage, Lyon and Martin were the first same-sex couple legally married in California in a ceremony at San Francisco City Hall conducted by then-Mayor Gavin Newsom. Martin died a few weeks later at the age of 87.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Twitter, Gov. Newsom said, “Phyllis and Del were the manifestation of love and devotion. Yet for over 50 years they were denied the right to say 2 extraordinary words: I do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called Lyon “a trailblazer in the fight for civil rights” and “a tireless champion for the most vulnerable among us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A celebration of Lyon’s life is being planned. Meanwhile, the family requests that gifts in her honor be made to \u003ca href=\"http://lyon-martin.org/\">Lyon-Martin Health Services\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>The coronavirus is on all of our minds, and for some, it \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11808367/coronavirus-lessons-from-veterans-of-the-aids-epidemic\">brings back memories \u003c/a>of another public health crisis, where the federal government was slow to respond and communities had to take care of each other: the AIDS epidemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One woman who became an unexpected caregiver is Meridy Volz. Starting in the 1970s, she ran a bakery called Sticky Fingers Brownies. “The business changed,” Meridy says. “It went from something fun and lightweight to something that was a lifeline.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Meridy Moves Out West\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Meridy arrived in San Francisco in 1975, just in time to have her mind blown on Polk Street on Halloween. “It was filled with costumes and color and drag queens and energy,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meridy was ready for a scene like this. She’d already been an artist and activist in Milwaukee, protesting for gay liberation and against the war in Vietnam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And San Francisco was like a land of promise: — liberal and artistic and free,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meridy was a working artist, but needed a little more income, so she joined a friend selling baked goods and coffee on Fisherman’s Wharf. Today, the wharf is a tourist trap, but back then, it was a haven for street artists, selling handcrafted jewelry and knickknacks on little card tables.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Barbara Hartman-Jenichen, former baker at Sticky Fingers\"]‘It was that whole time, that whole era, everything seemed magical. Walking next to cops on the wharf and you’ve got magic brownies in your bag and you know, and you feel protected.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her friend carried a Guatemalan pouch of marijuana brownies over her shoulder, and that quickly became the most lucrative part of her business. When she decided to move to Europe, she offered the business to Meridy. Like every decision in her life, Meridy consulted an ancient Chinese text, the “I Ching,” used for guidance and wisdom, which involved tossing a brass coin six times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I picked up the coins and I tossed a hexagram,” she says, and then asked, ‘Is it correct to start to sell brownies?’ And very quickly, my answer became clear that this was my destiny.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Sticky Fingers Is Born\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>There was one little problem: Meridy couldn’t cook. But luckily, she met Barbara Hartman-Jenichen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barb had been a costumer for a prominent San Francisco theater, but pretty soon she quit that job and started baking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She remembers making a lot more than brownies. “Pumpkin bread, blueberry muffins, some little peanut butter things called space balls, cranberry orange bread.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One evening after handling brownies all day, Barb had an idea: “I held my hands up and said, ‘sticky fingers,’ and boom, that was the name of the business.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The name was perfect: a little sweet, a little dirty, and a little rock ‘n’ roll.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11810549\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1497px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11810549\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42515_Pic-003_Barb-and-Mer-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1497\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42515_Pic-003_Barb-and-Mer-qut.jpg 1497w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42515_Pic-003_Barb-and-Mer-qut-160x128.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42515_Pic-003_Barb-and-Mer-qut-800x641.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42515_Pic-003_Barb-and-Mer-qut-1020x818.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1497px) 100vw, 1497px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Barb and Meridy smile together. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Meridy Volz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The artists at Fisherman’s Wharf started sending Meridy to gallery owners and shop owners in the neighborhood, who sent her to other store owners. Pretty soon, Sticky Fingers was delivering to small businesses all over the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What can I tell you? Fools have no fear,” says Barb. “It was that whole time, that whole era, everything seemed magical. Walking next to cops on the wharf and you’ve got magic brownies in your bag and you know, and you feel protected. I never felt threatened at all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They consulted the “I Ching” over every decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean we wouldn’t even go to a bar without tossing a hexagram,” says Barb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Meridy Volz\"]‘There were beautiful boys everywhere. There was a style: There were sideburns and mutton chops and mustaches. They were draped over cars and leaning on buildings and sitting on steps.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By this time, Meridy was making money. She had good friends and time to paint. The one area of her life that felt unfulfilled was her love life. So Barb set her up on a blind date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He had been going to UC Berkeley, but he dropped out to go to the Berkeley Psychic Institute. He was also a painter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Doug Volz went to Meridy’s house and saw her at the top of these long Victorian stairs, with light beaming behind her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a very strong impression,” he says. “And that first week with her I did more drugs than I’d done in my life previously up until that point in time. It was pretty wild.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They moved in together almost right away, into a firetrap of a warehouse in San Francisco’s Mission District, and Doug joined Sticky Fingers Brownies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11810559\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 489px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-11810559\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42510_orange-and-blue2-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"489\" height=\"620\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42510_orange-and-blue2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42510_orange-and-blue2-qut-160x203.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42510_orange-and-blue2-qut-800x1014.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42510_orange-and-blue2-qut-1020x1293.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 489px) 100vw, 489px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Sticky Fingers crew dressed up in outrageous outfits to deliver their brownies around San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Meridy Volz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>A New Neighborhood Route\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Barb went back to working in theater, so Sticky Fingers hired a new baker, Carmen Vigil, who ramped up production to about 10,000 brownies per month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Which makes you wonder, why would they draw so much attention to themselves if they’re doing something illegal?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Doug explains, matter-of-factly, “The way to be invisible in a situation is to stand out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’d deliver the brownies wearing outrageous outfits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11810565\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 404px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11810565\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42512_Bag-2-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"404\" height=\"730\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42512_Bag-2-qut.jpg 1785w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42512_Bag-2-qut-160x289.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42512_Bag-2-qut-800x1446.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42512_Bag-2-qut-1020x1843.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 404px) 100vw, 404px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Meridy and Doug made hand-drawn designs for the bags the brownies came in. One has a cowboy riding a brownie like a bucking bronco. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Meridy Volz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Dressing up played really well in her newest neighborhood route: the Castro. It was the destination of people from across America who wanted to come out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were beautiful boys everywhere,” says Meridy. “There was a style: There were sideburns and mutton chops and mustaches. They were draped over cars and leaning on buildings and sitting on steps. Lovely men everywhere.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also hand delivered to Castro resident Sylvester, known as the Queen of Disco. Sylvester’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyAHULpMXKQ\">breakout hit, “Mighty Real,”\u003c/a> was playing all over the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meridy says, “He always had an entourage, and there’d be Sylvester, generally in lounging pajamas or kimono, and they’d buy a massive amount of brownies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sticky Fingers Brownies became so popular in the Castro that Meridy could hardly keep up, so her friends at a neighborhood hotspot called the Village Deli started selling them from behind the counter, friends like Dan Clowry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mer was just coming by with a big smile and her beautiful eyes. I always thought she looked like a mermaid or like a peacock feather,” Dan says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dan moved to San Francisco on June 11, 1978. He drove his Oldsmobile convertible into the neighborhood and saw the iconic Castro theater sign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had such a feeling of excitement and thrill,” Dan says. “I could tell I was starting a new life. And I wasn’t disappointed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within hours, Dan landed a job at the Village Deli. “And by the end of the day I was stoned on brownies,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By this time, Meridy was lugging more than brownies around. In late 1977, she and Doug had a baby daughter, Alia. Meridy would push the baby stroller with brownie bags hanging off the sides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They could have been diaper bags! It was a good place to hang the brownies. They were heavy,” she says. She carried up to 40 dozen brownies at a time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dan says the fact that everyone knew they could pick up Sticky Fingers Brownies at the Village Deli gave the cafe a bit of celebrity status. “This added to the the general feeling of euphoria in the Castro at the time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11810562\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 381px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-11810562\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42508_8.-Me-and-Dad-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"381\" height=\"553\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42508_8.-Me-and-Dad-qut.jpg 705w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42508_8.-Me-and-Dad-qut-160x232.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 381px) 100vw, 381px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Doug Volz hold his daughter, Alia. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Meridy Volz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>‘It All Came Crashing Down’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Gay liberation politics were hot and happening in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meridy frequented most of the stores in the neighborhood, including Castro Camera. It was a tiny, cluttered photo shop, that also served as campaign and organizing headquarters for Harvey Milk, who was becoming the most iconic figure of the gay liberation movement. Harvey had sworn off drugs when he got into politics, but that didn’t mean his employees or campaign volunteers abstained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dan remembers, “You know, I got there in June of ‘78, so I only had, what, four or five months of euphoria, then it all came crashing down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In late November, a young Dianne Feinstein made a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NikqzmwbgU\">now-famous statement to the press,\u003c/a> “As President of the Board of Supervisors, it’s my duty to make this announcement. Both Mayor Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk have been shot and killed. The suspect is Supervisor Dan White.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can remember standing in the warehouse and going, ‘Oh, my God,’” Meridy says. “I could feel the earth shift.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dan remembers, “You could feel the shock, the stillness on Castro Street.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At nightfall, a silent candlelight vigil went from Castro Street down to City Hall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"a message on the last bag of Sticky Fingers Brownies\"]‘Give it up and you get it all, power to the people, we love you, Sticky Fingers Brownies.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The candlelight march was one of the most powerful things I’ve ever been involved in,” Dan says. “It just was the start of a whole new feeling in the Castro. Then it became anger and shock and rebellion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The neighborhood changed, the city changed, and the Volz family began to change. The “I Ching” hexagrams Meridy threw took an ominous turn. “Suddenly I’m getting hexagrams like shock, thunder, the abysmal,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With other marijuana busts happening in San Francisco, Meridy and Doug thought they’d get caught. Meridy says, when they announced they were closing Sticky Fingers Brownies, people started to panic buy. Offers poured in from people who wanted to buy the business, or buy the recipe, or buy the customer list. Meridy says the “I Ching” hexagrams kept giving the same answer: not right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They decided to give away the recipe. So on that last bag, they printed the recipe and Meridy wrote in cursive: “Give it up and you get it all, power to the people, we love you, Sticky Fingers Brownies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11810548\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1358px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11810548\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42518_Scan_20200401-6-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1358\" height=\"1057\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42518_Scan_20200401-6-qut.jpg 1358w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42518_Scan_20200401-6-qut-160x125.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42518_Scan_20200401-6-qut-800x623.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42518_Scan_20200401-6-qut-1020x794.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1358px) 100vw, 1358px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brownies wrapped, ready for delivery. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Meridy Volz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>A Changing Castro\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Meridy, Doug and little Alia moved up to a town called Willits in Mendocino County, but with no plan for making a living.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Pretty soon it seemed obvious that our money, whatever we had, was running out. It was a matter of months,” says Meridy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She started making monthly runs back down to San Francisco, often with Alia in tow, staying at Beck’s Motor Lodge on the edge of the Castro. It was on these monthly runs that Meridy first started noticing little purple lesions on customers’ skin. It wouldn’t be long before the brownies became much more than a money-making venture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I believe it was 1981, during my run in the Castro. I walked past Star Pharmacy and saw a poster that had somebody showing their lesions with Kaposi, and it was talking about the ‘gay cancer,’ ” says Meridy. The “gay cancer” soon became known as AIDS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vibe in the Castro began to change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No longer was that kind of sea of pretty men draped over cars and sitting on steps,” says Meridy. “There was a fear. It was palpable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From his post at the Village Deli, Dan Clowry watched the AIDS epidemic unfold. [aside postID=\"news_11808367\" label=\"Looking to the Past\" hero=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/1920_Silverman-1020x574.jpg\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was taking people out right and left,” Dan says. “I was one of the lucky ones.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dan started to see his role change from restaurant manager to care-taker. He wanted to make sure his customers were comfortable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was a lot of shame, and I just did my best to try to not make people feel ashamed,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One day, one of Dan’s regular customers came in, his head swollen and purple like a grape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You could just barely see who he was. But he was always a character in the neighborhood, someone who loved to dress up in 1940s military uniforms. And even with his head being all swollen up, he would dress himself up in his outfits and he’d put that little cap on the top of his head and he’d come to the door knowing that I was gonna be there and say, ‘Girl, you look fabulous today.’ You could see him just straighten up and feel, for a few minutes, it wasn’t nearly as bad,” Dan says, tearing up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meridy started losing friends, too. First acquaintances, lovers of friends, and then her best friend, Phillip.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Phillip was beautiful, with the kind of smile where his whole face smiles,” she says. “One minute we were going to the opera, the next minute he was dead.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AIDS was still not well understood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They didn’t know if that was airborne or to the touch,” says Meridy, “and for me, I didn’t care. I was just there to help. I wasn’t there to judge. I wasn’t there to be afraid. And you had to put your big girl panties on for this. Being in the middle of that plague, my gut never let me down there. I always felt that I would be safe. And that Alia would be safe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Alia Volz\"]‘Pot brownies weren’t going to save anyone’s life over the long term but it brought them relief, and there wasn’t a lot of relief in those days.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the AIDS epidemic killed tens of thousands of people, President Ronald Reagan refused to talk about it for years. Throughout the entire AIDS crisis, there was \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/lgbtq-history-month-early-days-america-s-aids-crisis-n919701\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">chronic underfunding and a lack of government support\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the San Francisco General Hospital opened the first AIDS ward in the country, and activism took many forms. People delivered meals, created hospices, supported emergency funds. Cleve Jones started the \u003ca href=\"https://aidsmemorial.org/theaidsquilt-learnmore/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NAMES Project, \u003c/a>putting together a massive quilt that would appeal to mainstream America. Though it started in New York, the advocacy group ACT UP staged \u003ca href=\"https://48hills.org/2015/06/the-week-act-up-shut-sf-down/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">highly visible protests\u003c/a> in San Francisco, too, and campaigned to get early access to experimental drugs and to make sure that when these drugs came out, they’d be affordable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dan Clowry says, “When they did come up with AZT, that was the only thing they had. Every place you went in the Castro you would hear ‘doo doo doo doo doo,’ because everybody had the little beeper with their pills in it. Every four hours they had to take their pills. Restaurants, movies, bars, you would just keep hearing: ‘doo doo doo doo doo.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It became clear that AZT wasn’t effective in the long term. It extended some people’s lives for a period, but it was also highly toxic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People were sick from the cures,” says Meridy, “and brownies were the one thing that helped.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the ’70s, Sticky Fingers Brownies was all about partying, making art and being subversive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The brownies became something else, when AIDS hit,” Meridy says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It became a calling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It helped with depression,” she says. “It helped with the side effects of the drugs. It helped caregivers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dan says he would give a sick friend a small piece of a brownie, “and then we’d go out for dinner. It was great for an appetite stimulant.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the ’90s, Dan left the Village Deli and became a nurse. He eventually helped open the AIDS unit at Mount Zion hospital, “and I ended up using that experience in my nursing because we would let people smoke marijuana out the windows of the hospital. Anything we could do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11810567\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1335px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11810567\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42516_Scan_20200401-10-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1335\" height=\"1060\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42516_Scan_20200401-10-qut.jpg 1335w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42516_Scan_20200401-10-qut-160x127.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42516_Scan_20200401-10-qut-800x635.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42516_Scan_20200401-10-qut-1020x810.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1335px) 100vw, 1335px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“The Wrapettes,” preparing the brownies for delivery. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Meridy Volz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Finding a Purpose in Providing Some Relief\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>When Alia was 9, her parents divorced. Mother and daughter moved back to San Francisco, and Alia was deemed old enough to help bake, and sometimes she went with her mom on deliveries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“During the AIDS crisis, there were a lot of home deliveries,” says Meridy. At this point she’d been delivering to Sylvester at his house for a decade. “After a while delivering at Sylvester’s, I only dealt with his entourage, when he got really sick.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s another delivery that’s really vivid in my mind,” says Alia. “There was a couple, friends of Sylvester’s, who lived in a beautiful Victorian.” She remembers the man who came to the door being so emaciated she could see every bone in his body.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I did not know what we were walking into,” says Meridy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alia says, when she entered the couple’s living room, she noticed a photograph on the mantle. “They were on a beach with their arms around each other, sand on their shoulders, and smiling.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was a bed in the middle of the room. “It took a while for me to register that what I thought was a pile of blankets on the bed was a person,” Alia says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The caregiver was sick and the guy in the bed was on his last leg,” says Meridy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alia says, “His caretaker who was also his partner, who was also dying, woke him up to say, ‘I’ve got those brownies and it’ll make you feel better.’ After that, when I helped my mom bake on the weekends, there was a new reason to do it. Pot brownies weren’t going to save anyone’s life over the long term but it brought them relief, and there wasn’t a lot of relief in those days.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"pop_103422\" label=\"Stepping Up In a Time of Need\" hero=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Ruth-Brinker-1020x574.jpg\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, first lady Nancy Reagan had started the “Just Say No” advertising campaign during the war on drugs. Alia sat through assemblies at school and saw PSAs on television. “Remember that egg hitting a frying pan?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meridy stayed under the radar. She never got caught. But other people involved with getting marijuana to people with AIDS did jail time and took the fight for medical marijuana public. One of those people was Brownie Mary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meridy remembers her as being kind of conservative. “She kind of looked like the church lady down the block, you know,” Meridy says. “You wouldn’t look at her and say, ‘Criminal, right there.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around this time, protease inhibitors came on the market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They started to have some medicines that seem to be — in some way — helping people live longer with it,” Meridy says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the next two years, Meridy watched cannabis clubs proliferate throughout San Francisco and realized her brownies just weren’t as necessary as they had been. She left San Francisco and has been making art full time ever since. She’s 72 now, living in Desert Hot Springs, where she paints and teaches art to teenagers and retirees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California today, the adult use of cannabis is legal, but Meridy says she’s totally out of the game, only taking an edible occasionally when she’s at home painting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She doesn’t talk about the old days that much, but since Alia just wrote a book about her mom’s life, Meridy’s starting to have to reveal her San Francisco days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alia says her childhood was unconventional, “But I was nurtured, I was cared for, and I was surrounded by an enormous amount of love.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meridy had that same kind of love for her friends and her community, Alia says, and that led her to do the risky work of making and selling marijuana brownies to help ease the suffering of people with AIDS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meridy still finds the AIDS crisis stunning. “I look back at how many beautiful people passed. It was a dangerous time, but in this case, it wasn’t a thrill out of danger. It became a sense of, ‘Well, I have a purpose here in this. There’s something I could do to help a little, relieve a little pain.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Alia Volz’s memoir, “\u003ca href=\"https://aliavolz.com/\">Home Baked\u003c/a>: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco,” comes out on 4/20, 2020.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://californiafoodways.com/\">California Foodways\u003c/a> is supported by \u003ca href=\"https://calhum.org/\">California Humanities\u003c/a>, and the \u003ca href=\"https://thefern.org/\">Food and Environment Reporting Network\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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It was a tiny, cluttered photo shop, that also served as campaign and organizing headquarters for Harvey Milk, who was becoming the most iconic figure of the gay liberation movement. Harvey had sworn off drugs when he got into politics, but that didn’t mean his employees or campaign volunteers abstained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dan remembers, “You know, I got there in June of ‘78, so I only had, what, four or five months of euphoria, then it all came crashing down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In late November, a young Dianne Feinstein made a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NikqzmwbgU\">now-famous statement to the press,\u003c/a> “As President of the Board of Supervisors, it’s my duty to make this announcement. Both Mayor Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk have been shot and killed. The suspect is Supervisor Dan White.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can remember standing in the warehouse and going, ‘Oh, my God,’” Meridy says. “I could feel the earth shift.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dan remembers, “You could feel the shock, the stillness on Castro Street.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At nightfall, a silent candlelight vigil went from Castro Street down to City Hall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The candlelight march was one of the most powerful things I’ve ever been involved in,” Dan says. “It just was the start of a whole new feeling in the Castro. Then it became anger and shock and rebellion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The neighborhood changed, the city changed, and the Volz family began to change. The “I Ching” hexagrams Meridy threw took an ominous turn. “Suddenly I’m getting hexagrams like shock, thunder, the abysmal,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With other marijuana busts happening in San Francisco, Meridy and Doug thought they’d get caught. Meridy says, when they announced they were closing Sticky Fingers Brownies, people started to panic buy. Offers poured in from people who wanted to buy the business, or buy the recipe, or buy the customer list. Meridy says the “I Ching” hexagrams kept giving the same answer: not right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They decided to give away the recipe. So on that last bag, they printed the recipe and Meridy wrote in cursive: “Give it up and you get it all, power to the people, we love you, Sticky Fingers Brownies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11810548\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1358px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11810548\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42518_Scan_20200401-6-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1358\" height=\"1057\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42518_Scan_20200401-6-qut.jpg 1358w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42518_Scan_20200401-6-qut-160x125.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42518_Scan_20200401-6-qut-800x623.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42518_Scan_20200401-6-qut-1020x794.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1358px) 100vw, 1358px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brownies wrapped, ready for delivery. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Meridy Volz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>A Changing Castro\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Meridy, Doug and little Alia moved up to a town called Willits in Mendocino County, but with no plan for making a living.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Pretty soon it seemed obvious that our money, whatever we had, was running out. It was a matter of months,” says Meridy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She started making monthly runs back down to San Francisco, often with Alia in tow, staying at Beck’s Motor Lodge on the edge of the Castro. It was on these monthly runs that Meridy first started noticing little purple lesions on customers’ skin. It wouldn’t be long before the brownies became much more than a money-making venture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I believe it was 1981, during my run in the Castro. I walked past Star Pharmacy and saw a poster that had somebody showing their lesions with Kaposi, and it was talking about the ‘gay cancer,’ ” says Meridy. The “gay cancer” soon became known as AIDS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vibe in the Castro began to change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No longer was that kind of sea of pretty men draped over cars and sitting on steps,” says Meridy. “There was a fear. It was palpable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From his post at the Village Deli, Dan Clowry watched the AIDS epidemic unfold. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Though it started in New York, the advocacy group ACT UP staged \u003ca href=\"https://48hills.org/2015/06/the-week-act-up-shut-sf-down/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">highly visible protests\u003c/a> in San Francisco, too, and campaigned to get early access to experimental drugs and to make sure that when these drugs came out, they’d be affordable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dan Clowry says, “When they did come up with AZT, that was the only thing they had. Every place you went in the Castro you would hear ‘doo doo doo doo doo,’ because everybody had the little beeper with their pills in it. Every four hours they had to take their pills. Restaurants, movies, bars, you would just keep hearing: ‘doo doo doo doo doo.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It became clear that AZT wasn’t effective in the long term. 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I've been very taken by the progress that they've made.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ragazzi member Elliot Lee, 10, said he likes the individual feedback.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The teacher can hear me alone to know what I need to improve at, and what I'm good with,\" Lee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some groups, like the \u003ca href=\"https://www.piedmontchoirs.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Piedmont East Bay Children’s Choir\u003c/a>, are even gamely forging ahead with virtual rehearsals, despite the technological challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around 290 children, mostly from the East Bay, are enrolled in the organization's 12 vocal groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe title=\"Music of the Pacific Rim: Virtual Concert\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/x3lKO2nvabQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen>\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Even though the online format is different and we can't all sing together and revel in hearing each other's voices, we can continue teaching and learning music,\" said Eric Tuan, the organization's artistic director.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are ups and downs with the online forum, but it still keeps them connected and it still inspires them to sometimes break out into song around the house,\" said Aparna Rao, whose daughters Amba and Kiran Beattie sing in the children's choir. \"It also makes me feel less isolated as a parent.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of the technological shortcomings of the virtual platforms, the students mostly have to keep their video feed on mute throughout rehearsals. 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But not each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11810148\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11810148\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42474_eric-leading-online-rehearsal-qut-800x537.jpg\" alt=\"Piedmont East Bay Children's Choir artistic director Eric Tuan leads a virtual rehearsal via Zoom on March 30, 2020.\" width=\"800\" height=\"537\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42474_eric-leading-online-rehearsal-qut-800x537.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42474_eric-leading-online-rehearsal-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42474_eric-leading-online-rehearsal-qut-1020x684.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42474_eric-leading-online-rehearsal-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Piedmont East Bay Children's Choir Artistic Director Eric Tuan leads a virtual rehearsal via Zoom on March 30, 2020. \u003ccite>(Zoom screenshot)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"Zoom choir is fun but very, very different,\" said 10-year-old Kiran. \"We still see everyone else. 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"content": "\u003cp>Across the Bay Area and beyond, crafty people have mobilized to make face masks for health care workers, who are reporting dire protective equipment shortages. There’s a whole lot of heart in the effort, but are these homemade jobs truly suited to front line health care workers confronting COVID-19? That depends on how desperate they are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Social media feeds are filled with calls for money, materials and talent to help deliver personal protective equipment to health care workers: from purpose-built organizations like \u003ca href=\"https://www.makemasks2020.org/volunteer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Make Masks,\u003c/a> to longstanding craft groups like the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sbamodernquiltguild.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">South Bay Area Modern Quilt Guild,\u003c/a> to social service-minded outfits like the \u003ca href=\"https://edeninterfaith.weebly.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Eden Area Interfaith Council\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Businesses with manufacturing capacity are also caught up in the the fervor to donate goods and services. Last week, Gap, the local parent company of a host of clothing brands, announced plans to shift some of its textile production capacity to serve the public good during this pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/GapInc/status/1242652699314675713?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a less industrial scale, \u003ca href=\"https://www.roughlinen.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rough Linen\u003c/a> of San Rafael is sending about 200 linen face masks a week to Kaiser Permanente San Rafael Medical Center and to local firefighters and law enforcement officers. The company typically makes bedding and tableware. But CEO Daiva Finell says, “We are going to be making [face masks] until there is no need.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Danielle Mallory manages marketing at \u003ca href=\"https://www.chromeindustries.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chrome Industries\u003c/a>, a Portland-based company that makes messenger bags, backpacks and cycling apparel. In other words, the company’s sewers are familiar working with a durable fabrics. “The shortage of masks is really awful,” says Mallory. “We wanted to challenge ourselves to help.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/dgd8Mh2gJEU\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After shuttering its production of “Ragtime” to conform with shelter-in-place guidelines, \u003ca href=\"https://theatreworks.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">TheatreWorks Silicon Valley\u003c/a> donated N95 masks and nitrile gloves the company typically uses for set construction. But the crew wanted to do more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It made sense to produce these much-needed items and keep our workers on the payroll as long as possible,” wrote Jill Bowers, the costume director. “The pleas for help with protective gear and supplies were exploding in my feeds, especially \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/groups/SomethingWeCanDo/about/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Something We Can Do\u003c/a>. There are several popular patterns circulating. We’re making the pleated style masks — some with elastic loops that go over the ears and some with ties. This style allows us to make the most with the time and materials we have on hand.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"coronavirus\" label=\"More Related Stories\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a similar vein, Monica Thakkar, \u003ca href=\"https://www.operasj.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Opera San Jose’s\u003c/a> artistic administrator, says the company’s costume director, Alyssa Oania, sidelined by the cancellation of this spring’s “Magic Flute,” is instead churning out 70 face masks a week on her home sewing machine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not a huge contribution, but we’re doing what we can to help our community right now,” Thakkar says. Thakker says the \u003ca href=\"http://vmcfoundation.org/covid19/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Valley Medical Center Foundation\u003c/a> is taking the masks to distribute to health care workers who are not involved in patient care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know, the fabric bolts in our costume shop are not medical grade,” Thakkar acknowledged. But she added, “At least you have a physical barrier” to help protect against droplets of COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As recently as March 17, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended homemade masks for health care workers as a “\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/ppe-strategy/face-masks.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">last resort\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/vmcfoundation/status/1244662681757536259?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/03/16/814929294/covid-19-has-caused-a-shortage-of-face-masks-but-theyre-surprisingly-hard-to-mak\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR has reported,\u003c/a> making medical-grade face masks is a tricky business. They require a material called melt-blown fabric, an extremely fine mesh of synthetic polymer fibers, for the inner filtration layer. Each machine that makes this fabric costs more than $4 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But given widely \u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/2020/3/22/21189896/coronavirus-in-us-masks-n95-respirator-doctors-nurses-shortage-ppe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported shortages\u003c/a>, public health students from UC Berkeley found \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/12a5YO0Z9RpHZk9Zkzl4NOj9CbjzhFfoKjPLFFC-21LU/preview#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">40 hospitals in California\u003c/a> currently accepting homemade donations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s one alternative for hospitals and clinics worried about running out of conventional supplies if/when a surge of COVID-19 patients hits in the coming weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, N95 respirator masks are still the go-to choice at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.scvmc.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Santa Clara Valley Medical Center.\u003c/a> Dr. Sanjay Kurani, the hospital’s medical director, explained, “Out of an abundance of caution, we’re using the N95 mask anytime we think somebody has potentially COVID-19, is going through testing or is COVID-19 positive.” That’s because, like the name suggests, N95 face masks filter out about 95% of airborne particles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11809741\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2149px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11809741\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/Dr.-Sanjay-Kurani-Medical-Director-SCVMC2.jpeg\" alt=\"Dr. Sanjay Kurani, hospital medical director at the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, models a plastic face shield worn over a surgical mask. \" width=\"2149\" height=\"2357\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/Dr.-Sanjay-Kurani-Medical-Director-SCVMC2.jpeg 2149w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/Dr.-Sanjay-Kurani-Medical-Director-SCVMC2-160x175.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/Dr.-Sanjay-Kurani-Medical-Director-SCVMC2-800x877.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/Dr.-Sanjay-Kurani-Medical-Director-SCVMC2-1020x1119.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/Dr.-Sanjay-Kurani-Medical-Director-SCVMC2-1920x2106.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2149px) 100vw, 2149px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Sanjay Kurani, hospital medical director at the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, models a plastic face shield worn over a surgical mask. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Santa Clara Valley Medical Center.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He added that face masks are just one part of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/npptl/pdfs/PPE-Sequence-508.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">personal protection outfit\u003c/a> that health care professionals ideally wear when dealing with patients who have COVID-19. Gloves, gowns, face shields and goggles are also essential.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Makers Want in on the Action, Too\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When it comes to rigid plastics, 3D printers come to mind. Makers of 3D printers, like \u003ca href=\"https://enable.hp.com/us-en-3dprint-COVID-19-containment-applications\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hewlett-Packard\u003c/a>, are proving more than happy to help would-be printers of health care equipment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, the Valley Medical Center Foundation and the Sunnyvale nonprofit \u003ca href=\"https://www.makernexus.com/covid1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Maker Nexus \u003c/a>announced an initiative to produce 3,000 face shields a week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Volunteers hashed out the specifications with hospital clinicians at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center. Dr. Kurani, for one, is thrilled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t need to go out to our usual vendors, who are right now overwhelmed,” he says. “We can actually go out to the community and use them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a bit of a rag-tag army marshaling this fight, but when you see social media posts from health care workers donning garbage bags to protect themselves, you can see why people who know how to make things want to help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/OaklandNurse/status/1244651372491898881?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Do Health Care Providers Want My Cloth Masks, Then?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The short answer is yes. Chris Wilder is CEO of the aforementioned Valley Medical Center Foundation, which raises dollars, and these days, supplies, for three hospitals and 11 clinics and more in Santa Clara County — one of the hardest hit Bay Area counties during the coronavirus pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are so many needs within a health care system the size of Santa Clara County’s. You know, there are so many nonprofits that are helping to distribute food and supplies and keep people healthy in many, many ways outside of the hospital. And so these masks are absolutely going to be used. We need them. The bottom line is everyone should keep sewing,” Wilder said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>So, Where Do I Send These Things?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It helps to connect with a group that’s already established a pipeline of product donations to facilities that want the materials. 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"content": "\u003cp>Several weeks ago, when the coronavirus was still just a distant concern, a big crowd gathered at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/RoselandVillageNeighborhoodCenter/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Roseland Village Neighborhood Center\u003c/a> in Santa Rosa to play \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/censoteria\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Censotería, \u003c/a>inspired by the popular Mexican card game \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loter%C3%ADa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lotería\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The game is sort of like bingo, but with an educational twist. Each of its 54 colorful cards comes with a piece of information in Spanish and English related to the 2020 census.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Santa Rosa resident Raquel Gomez\"]'We need to do activities as a community. It's important. It's cultural. And it helps people understand how much they can help themselves and help the community.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Did you know that 100,000 children in California were undercounted in 2010? Let's make sure all our children are counted in 2020,\" said Refugio Mata, reading out the description on Card 26 to a group of players assembled around a big table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Next up was Card 13: \"Will my information be kept confidential? Yes, under the law, census data can only be used for statistical purposes. Title 13 of the U.S. Code requires respondent's information to be kept confidential, and guarantees information cannot be disclosed for 72 years including names, addresses and telephone numbers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.laluzcenter.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">La Luz Center\u003c/a>, a nonprofit that provides resources to roughly 20,000 underserved, mostly Latino immigrant residents in the Sonoma Valley, developed this game. In February alone, the organization hosted more than 40 events related to the decennial count.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the COVID-19 pandemic has forced the nonprofit to completely rethink its approach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Latinos, who make up a \u003ca href=\"http://www.bayareacensus.ca.gov/bayarea.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sizable percentage \u003c/a>of the Bay Area's population, have been drastically undercounted in previous censuses. That means millions of dollars in untapped federal funds that aren’t reaching some of the region's most vulnerable communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Sonoma Valley stands to lose $17.5 million per year for a decade if not everyone is counted,\" said Angie Sanchez, the community engagement programs manager for La Luz Center, and the brains behind Censotería.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11808949\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11808949 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42297_cards-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42297_cards-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42297_cards-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42297_cards-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42297_cards-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42297_cards-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42297_cards-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42297_cards-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42297_cards-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42297_cards-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Censoteria cards. Until COVID-19 put an end to live events, the new game was part of La Luz Center's strategy to educate the predominantly Latino immigrant community it serves about the importance of participating in the 2020 census. \u003ccite>(Chloe Veltman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But Sanchez said many of the families she works with are hesitant to answer the census survey because they simply don't trust it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They fear sharing their information, thinking that it might be shared with ICE [U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement], with immigration,\" Sanchez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She came up with the idea for Censotería to build trust and allay those fears.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're trying to educate the community. So then they feel more comfortable and actually participate,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The face-to-face aspect is key to building a sense of comfort and trust, Sanchez said, noting that many low-income Latino residents in the Sonoma Valley come to community spaces like La Luz Center for a variety of needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Somebody can come in and receive assistance filling out their food stamp application, and they also might be taking one of our ESL classes or a small business workshop,\" she said. \"Then they also participate in community engagement activities, like Cinco de Mayo and Día de los Muertos.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We need to do activities as a community,\" said Santa Rosa resident Raquel Gomez, who attended the Censotería event with her family. \"It's important. It's cultural. And it helps people understand how much they can help themselves and help the community.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11808950\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11808950 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42298_Census.RaquelGomez-gabe-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42298_Census.RaquelGomez-gabe-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42298_Census.RaquelGomez-gabe-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42298_Census.RaquelGomez-gabe-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42298_Census.RaquelGomez-gabe-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Santa Rosa resident Raquel Gomez attended the Censotería pop-up event at Roseland Village Neighborhood Center before these types of gatherings were canceled because of the coronavirus. \u003ccite>(Gabe Meline/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But since the coronavirus stay-at-home orders, Sanchez said events like that are now out of the question.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Because of COVID-19, we couldn't risk having our staff or volunteers out there,\" Sanchez said. \"We've had to shift our outreach efforts completely.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La Luz Center has had to get creative, fast. With drastically reduced in-person outreach, the nonprofit is focusing on phone banking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're calling those people and saying, 'Hey, you know, have you filled out your census? If not, OK. Would you like us to help you?' \" Sanchez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Sanchez and her team are finding that, not surprisingly, other more pressing priorities have overshadowed the census effort. Many community members have lost jobs because of the pandemic and are struggling to pay rent and buy basic necessities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"more 2020 census coverage\" tag=\"2020-census\"]They don’t have money to go be able to go to the stores to buy all the things that they need,\" Sanchez said, adding that her group has relaunched a \u003ca href=\"https://www.laluzcenter.org/donation-form\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">crisis fund\u003c/a> it started in the wake of the 2017 wildfires to help families now struggling financially.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On their census outreach calls, La Luz Center staff are now also offering to help provide home-schooling resources and grocery deliveries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We want to make sure that their needs are met as well,\" Sanchez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Sanchez said the census can't just be forgotten.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The majority of our families don't realize that for each person that doesn't get counted, we lose $1,800 per person, per year for 10 years,\" Sanchez said. \"That is a lot of money that can be lost.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the phone-banking effort, La Luz Center has also taken to dropping off fliers about the census at local food distribution centers, which have seen a spike in attendance in recent weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11808952\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11808952\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42300_latinas-who-brunch-qut-800x587.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"587\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42300_latinas-who-brunch-qut-800x587.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42300_latinas-who-brunch-qut-160x117.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42300_latinas-who-brunch-qut-1020x748.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42300_latinas-who-brunch-qut.jpg 1612w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Latinas Who Brunch held a virtual game of Censotería \u003ccite>(Instagram screenshot)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Censotería hasn’t gone away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez said she’s seeing groups around the country playing the game via social media, such as the Instagram group, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/B-DVztwgpdJ/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Latinas Who Brunch\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These virtual Censotería games have inspired Sanchez to plan the same type of online event for her own community — on April 2 at 4 p.m. via \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/laluzcenter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook live.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Did you know that 100,000 children in California were undercounted in 2010? Let's make sure all our children are counted in 2020,\" said Refugio Mata, reading out the description on Card 26 to a group of players assembled around a big table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Next up was Card 13: \"Will my information be kept confidential? Yes, under the law, census data can only be used for statistical purposes. Title 13 of the U.S. Code requires respondent's information to be kept confidential, and guarantees information cannot be disclosed for 72 years including names, addresses and telephone numbers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.laluzcenter.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">La Luz Center\u003c/a>, a nonprofit that provides resources to roughly 20,000 underserved, mostly Latino immigrant residents in the Sonoma Valley, developed this game. In February alone, the organization hosted more than 40 events related to the decennial count.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the COVID-19 pandemic has forced the nonprofit to completely rethink its approach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Latinos, who make up a \u003ca href=\"http://www.bayareacensus.ca.gov/bayarea.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sizable percentage \u003c/a>of the Bay Area's population, have been drastically undercounted in previous censuses. That means millions of dollars in untapped federal funds that aren’t reaching some of the region's most vulnerable communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Sonoma Valley stands to lose $17.5 million per year for a decade if not everyone is counted,\" said Angie Sanchez, the community engagement programs manager for La Luz Center, and the brains behind Censotería.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11808949\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11808949 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42297_cards-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42297_cards-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42297_cards-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42297_cards-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42297_cards-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42297_cards-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42297_cards-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42297_cards-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42297_cards-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42297_cards-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Censoteria cards. Until COVID-19 put an end to live events, the new game was part of La Luz Center's strategy to educate the predominantly Latino immigrant community it serves about the importance of participating in the 2020 census. \u003ccite>(Chloe Veltman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But Sanchez said many of the families she works with are hesitant to answer the census survey because they simply don't trust it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They fear sharing their information, thinking that it might be shared with ICE [U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement], with immigration,\" Sanchez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She came up with the idea for Censotería to build trust and allay those fears.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're trying to educate the community. So then they feel more comfortable and actually participate,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The face-to-face aspect is key to building a sense of comfort and trust, Sanchez said, noting that many low-income Latino residents in the Sonoma Valley come to community spaces like La Luz Center for a variety of needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Somebody can come in and receive assistance filling out their food stamp application, and they also might be taking one of our ESL classes or a small business workshop,\" she said. \"Then they also participate in community engagement activities, like Cinco de Mayo and Día de los Muertos.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We need to do activities as a community,\" said Santa Rosa resident Raquel Gomez, who attended the Censotería event with her family. \"It's important. It's cultural. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>They don’t have money to go be able to go to the stores to buy all the things that they need,\" Sanchez said, adding that her group has relaunched a \u003ca href=\"https://www.laluzcenter.org/donation-form\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">crisis fund\u003c/a> it started in the wake of the 2017 wildfires to help families now struggling financially.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On their census outreach calls, La Luz Center staff are now also offering to help provide home-schooling resources and grocery deliveries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We want to make sure that their needs are met as well,\" Sanchez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Sanchez said the census can't just be forgotten.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The majority of our families don't realize that for each person that doesn't get counted, we lose $1,800 per person, per year for 10 years,\" Sanchez said. \"That is a lot of money that can be lost.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the phone-banking effort, La Luz Center has also taken to dropping off fliers about the census at local food distribution centers, which have seen a spike in attendance in recent weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11808952\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11808952\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42300_latinas-who-brunch-qut-800x587.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"587\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42300_latinas-who-brunch-qut-800x587.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42300_latinas-who-brunch-qut-160x117.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42300_latinas-who-brunch-qut-1020x748.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42300_latinas-who-brunch-qut.jpg 1612w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Latinas Who Brunch held a virtual game of Censotería \u003ccite>(Instagram screenshot)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Censotería hasn’t gone away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez said she’s seeing groups around the country playing the game via social media, such as the Instagram group, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/B-DVztwgpdJ/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Latinas Who Brunch\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These virtual Censotería games have inspired Sanchez to plan the same type of online event for her own community — on April 2 at 4 p.m. via \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/laluzcenter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook live.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sweetfarm.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sweet Farm\u003c/a>, an animal sanctuary south of Half Moon Bay, has had to shut its doors to public events and tours during the coronavirus pandemic. But the animals are getting out and about online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Few things drop your cortisol levels as quickly as staring at Stella the sheep, Juno the goat, and roosters Steve, Dan, Gregory and SuSu — all of them nibbling happily in fields of green.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is a strong need for people to really get out, even through this vicarious video screen,” said Sweet Farm co-founder Nate Salpeter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The concept is simple: Whether you’re an elementary school class looking for a virtual field trip or a Silicon Valley startup starved for an amusing diversion at the top of a business meeting, you can book a visit to Sweet Farm via Zoom. Some individuals are even booking farm visits to spice up happy hour video calls with their friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11809436\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1448px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11809436 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42355_Screen-Shot-2020-03-27-at-3.58.39-PM.jpeg\" alt=\"Well hello there, gorgeous. 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It’s not exactly a moneymaker. School Zooms, for instance, are free. Corporate “visits” range from $64 to $150, depending on the length of the engagement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"zoom\" label=\"More Related Stories\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christie Lagally is the founder and CEO of \u003ca href=\"https://rebellyous.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rebellyous Foods\u003c/a> out of Seattle, a food tech firm making plant-based chicken nuggets, patties and strips. 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