Show Reasoning together for a second piece of my mother's chocolate cream pie after Sunday dinner my father would give me a stern glance "You are what you eat!" he said “Do you want to go through life as a piece of chocolate cream pie?" To tell the truth that prospect did not utterly dismay me But I was a good child I shook my head in a dutiful gesture that could have earned me a job as poster kid for a Weight Watchers "Just Say No” youth program had I not nabbed my pie later when dad wasn’t looking I found out later he wasn’t completely right about that “You are what you eat" business Your destiny as it turns out isn’t entirely controlled by your stomach or even by your equally as hungry nether regions The nobbits of flesh are subject to a higher power the electrical explosions of the brain that make up what some of us still like to consider the mind Dad would have been more accurate if he would have said “You are what you think" I would have accepted that just the way I accepted the way the kids in River City learned to play their shiny new instruments not by study or practice but through Professor Harold Hill’s think method After I saw “The Music Man” I tried to cerebrate myself into the ability to mentally move small objects — plates bearing pieces of chocolate cream pie and the like I would stretch out my fingers and loudly think “Come here!” It didn’t work not even once Still an optimist I next tried to think myself into an A in math That didn't work either although I did get a C on one big test The laws of nature apparently didn't respond to the think method This seemed sad but I accepted it There was comfort in knowing some things — gravity and dad’s prohibition on seconds for dessert— would never ever change But like so many comforts I've clung to this one has proven false Those darn quantum physicists and those darn professors who understand them and who have imparted to me the hazy yet disconcerting idea that reality might not be as real as I used When I used to beg FAMILY TREE 4 By Myra V Gormley Wish you had a photograph of your arrayed in his Civil War uniform? One may exist and it great-grandfath- may be Wash er part of Judith Allison Walters’ collection in Bothell LOOKING BACK By AJ Simmonds 5 special militia review was held in Logan and the regimental structure of the Cache Military District was changed to a brigade structure It was upon that first brigade structure from 1865 to 1867 that the brunt of the final expulsion of the Indians felL On Aug 5 1865 a 8 HOLLYWOOD By Marilyn Beck Ted Danson says he's finally settling down and enjoying his “Cheers” relationship with Kirstie Alley He says he had been “full of bravado and looking forward to the chance of working with a new leading lady But after five years of playing against Shelley Long it turned out there was quite an adjustment for me" 10 BOOK REVIEW By Becky Smith to think We never observe things physicists argue only the interaction between things And since we're part of the interaction we influence the outcome of events The physical world in some complex way that the physicists understand and I do not (except that it sounds an awfully lot like Professor Hill's think method to me) don’t merely shape our perceptions Our Brian Jacques' first book “RedwaU” superficial appears to be just another medieval fantasy peopled win animals enacting the classic fight to the death betweei g good and evil it is actually a rich and novel about the nature of good and evil and now the? affect peoples’ actions and thoughts thought-provokin- perceptions shape it According to this theory writes David Grandy in a recent issue of Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought nature “appears to be incredibly dynamic and faultlessly sensitive to change and influence" Wow But then we know that anyway know at least that we shape our lives by the way we think about them that we create our world around us by acting on what we see through the rose or d glasses we wear mud-colore- Never mind that there are forces beyond our individual control: earthquakes the nuclear arms race and the fall TV lineup In our collective musings and muddlings we fashion life on this planet for better or worse into what it is How terrifying And how exciting to imagine that we could think the world out of its current hellish chaos into Utopia — if only we would agree on what Utopia should be Except that we don't and maybe we can’t except occasionally when a harmonic convergence of ideas makes things happen the way they’re happening right now in City of Rocks a scenic recreation area in southeastern Idaho Today's Cache story tells about how people who normally agree to disagree are taking thought together to save a fragile e and way corner of the earth 14 CITY OF ROCKS By Tim Vitale The playground called the City of Rocks is no longer a hidden enclave only for those in on the secret City of Rocks a scenic recreation area in southeastern Idaho has been found Its rising popularity has resulted in changes and an attempt is being made to meet the area’s future management needs 16 TV LISTINGS Our weekly guide to what’s what on the tube out-of-th- If they can think City of Rocks into a chance for survival who knows what else might be possible I may just start sitting d on my deck every evening facing the East thinking: peace Or at least: chocolate cream pie cross-legge- n nut iitnttiHiniiiiiitti 1 1 m 1 1 1 1 m 1 1 1 1 i ) ) m:t ) Julie Clark Simon ' " LL Focus editor' ON THE COVER: City of Rocks is considered one of West Kioto by i'lJWng spot Schropp |