By Julia  Turner Hultgren, MSW
www.mndcalm.com

With a great preponderance of positive aspects to Pluto in the sector of creative energy, the New Moon in Virgo on September 8 is all about deep seated and far reaching change. First, AWOL Mercury is coming back into contact with other planetary energies, having taken a short leave of absence.  This contact at the New Moon is still reflectively retrograde, due to go direct just less than a week, under the influences of the . Having taken time to recharge and regroup, Mercury will be at its scintillating best, bursting with intellect and logic regarding the positive changes ahead. At the beginning of this lunar cycle, Venus and Mars in Libra are also in positive aspect to Pluto from the area of personal resources and values. This dynamic association tells us that we do have the energy and capability to achieve change with altruism and compassion, leading to future abundance. With so many planets in Libra this month, balance must be at the core of all of our actions. And finally, as they have been through out most of the challenging times of the past two years, Neptune and Chiron remain in positive aspect to Pluto, telling us that universal love is not only a possible but necessary factor in how we determine our future. We can and must allow ourselves to be inspired for the common good.

Pluto joins Mercury in its forward motion on September 14 when the Moon is in Sagittarius, giving us a jovial bounce to our stride and positive take on the possibilities our future presents.  Ahh, whee, the gutted mechanisms of our existence begin to take on new form.  For awhile, the expansiveness of Jupiter hovers at the door of communal resources, appearing as though it might offer enthusiasm and solutions for improving the outlook of our financial and ecological morass.  Instead it chooses to join Uranus in its insistence on improved relationships.  Before there will be true wholeness, before we can begin to solve our tenancy issues on Earth, there must be a new flavor of merciful benefactor created.  This does not include past practices of enabling weakness in those who have the capacity to be strong.  Instead, it is a mentoring relationship, such as children in the patient and indulgent sphere of their grandparents, before being launched into successful independence.

The potent Full Moon on the 23 of September expands the influence of Venus and Mars beyond their inner planet status and demands our contemplation of the identity continuum with regard to personal and joint resources—most definitely the theme this month. Indeed, it is likely to be for the next year or two.  In a push me~pull you type of fashion Venus and Mars swap strength between the New and Full Moon.  At the New Moon, Venusian energy dominates, articulating the need to define love.  By the Full Moon, Mars gains strength, saying impatiently, “However we define it, it’s time to get moving!”  With the Sun cloaked by Saturn, we must continue to balance our egos with responsibility and steady growth, while the Moon in Aries impatiently calls for those long awaited developments in the financial, ecological and non- and renewable resource sectors world wide, likely to manifest by late winter.

Also at the Full Moon, Saturn is out of combative aspect with Uranus for the first time since September of 2008, until late spring of 2011, so look for some serious accounting of losses to occur. Also, with the above in mind, perhaps we can wish for some creative ideas for conciliation, sharing and growth to occur in that time.

By Melinda (Mindy) Ribner

The holiday of Rosh Hashanah is upon us – Sept. 8,9,10, 2010.  Rosh Hashanah, commemorating the creation of the soul, marks the beginning of a new year and a new contract for ourselves.  On every Rosh Hashanah, we celebrate the gift of life itself.

There is so much to do, so much inner and outer work before the holidays, but the most basic thing is to give yourself some time to contact your core, the place within yourself, the place that only you can enter, and say ” Yes” to life, ” Thank you God for life”. “   This itself is a powerful spiritual exercise when you repeat these words out loud and also silently many times until you experience an opening in your heart and mind to new blessings, new life, the new moment.  From this opening we become plugged into the Divine, and we can share from the abundance.

Another suggested spiritual exercise at this time is to reflect and review last year’s life,  the accomplishments, challenges, learning opportunities of the previous year and begin writing  stream of consciousness, just writing, “Last year  was a time when I…….  and continue writing without thinking too much. Don’t try to figure your life out. Don’t try to make sense, just keep writing until you feel that you are complete. It is amazing the inner wisdom we have to be in the knowing and not-knowing.  When we know where we have been, we gain insight into where we are going.

It is also good to take time now to formulate goals for the upcoming new year. Meditate, journal, share with friends and simply be with the following questions: What do you want for myself this coming year? What does God want of me?  How can I grow and be more authentically me, serve myself, my friends, God and the world?  I have been given the gift of life, how can I be more alive, grateful and joyful? How do I fufill my life purpose?  My book Kabbalah Month by Month and New Age Judaism have many exercises and teachings to support your growth at this time.

In conclusion, I wish everyone a happy and healthy new year. I share with you some writing on this email that I posted in previous years. I still like it.  Torah teachings are timeless. We keep learning and doing the same things again and again,  and hopefully, the truth goes deeper within us.

By Dawud Salaam
Dawud wrote this poem after attending an event in Colorado Springs in July called  An Evening in Jerusalem.  An Evening in Jerusalem gathered members of the 3 religions originating with Abraham – Judaism, Islam and Christianity – for an evening of dialogue.  The premise of the evening was based on the concept of Three Cups of Tea.   That a person doesn’t know someone until they have drunk 3 cups of tea (on separate occasions).

The second cup will be on October 7 at Bemis Hall, Colorado College Campus, Colorado Springs.

Fear

Fear has overpowered us

Made us

Unworthy of caring the mantle

Of being human

Fear has kept us small

Clinging creatures

Holding onto the hand of darkness

Fear has caused us to shed blood

Stain our soul

With stench that won’t wash away

Infused into our fabric

Fear shouldn’t hold such power

It needs to be placed in its rightful place

Not defining our way of being

Human

By Whitney Wyckoff

In the Northern Hemisphere, halfway between the Summer Solstice and the Autumn Equinox, comes the ancient Celtic pagan festival of Lughnasadh,  (pronounced Loo, or, Lew, with the dh just barely touching the top front teeth in a th), also called Lughnasa (or the modern Irish spelling, Lúnasa, the name for the month of August ) and Lammas, one of the eight Sabbats – one of the High Holidays, or four Greater Sabbats – of the Celtic Wheel of the Year.
August 1 is known as the Feast Day of the Chains of St Peter – in Latin, Peter ad Vincula
The month of August was the first in the Egyptian calendar, and called Gule, which when Latinized makes Gula, and signifies the throat.
Seeing the word at the head of the month’s calendar, the Roman Catholic Church made the day a feast to the Christian daughter of the Roman tribune Quirinus, who was cured of a throat disease by kissing the chain of Peter on the day of its festival.
Lughnasadh was imbued by the Church with Christian symbolism, so loaves of bread were baked from the first of the harvested grain and consecrated on the church altar on the first Sunday of August.
On August 1, the national holiday of Switzerland, it is traditional to celebrate with bonfires. This practice may trace back to the Lughnasadh celebrations of the Helvetii, Celtic people of the Iron Age who lived in what is now Switzerland.
In Northern Italy, e.g. in Canzo, Lughnasadh traditions are still incorporated into modern 1 August festivities.
The village of Morvah, Cornwall, U.K, is the home of the Morvah Fair (held on August 1 every year) which has been described as the biggest Lughnasadh celebrations outside Ireland.
In Scottish Gaelic Lunasda means the 1st of August. In County Mayo, IRELAND, on the last Sunday in July thousands of pilgrims still climb to the summit of “the Reek,” or Croagh Patrick, Ireland’s holiest mountain. That day is known as Reek Sunday.
The etymology: the Celtic word nasadh means ‘commemoration’, or ‘to give in marriage’; the Anglo-Saxons call this festival Lughmass; because it takes place between the hay harvest and the corn harvest.
It is also associated with Lugh’s  touching and loving devotion to foster mother, The Royal Lady Tailtiu, (the daughter of an older race, the Fir Bolg),who is said to have cleared the way for the introduction of agriculture in Ireland, thus linking Lughnasadh to the land and the harvest.
After the defeat of her people by the Tuatha De Dannan, she was obliged by them to clear a vast forest for the purpose of planting grain.
She died of exhaustion in the attempt. 
The legend states that she was buried beneath a great mound named for her, at the spot where the first feast of Lughnasadh was held in Ireland, the hill of Tailte.
On this day, Lord Lugh hosts funeral game in her honor.
Traditional Tailtean craft fairs and Tailtean marriages, Handfastings, (which last for a year and a day) are celebrated.
At this gathering were held huge games and contests of skill on the scale of an early Olympic Games.

By Sherry Dell, PhD, CN
(first published in “I am the Allower of my own Wellbeing,”a natural health newsletter

We seldom think of it, except perhaps for vanity’s sake, but our skin is the body’s largest organ of both nourishment and elimination.  This makes your skin one of your most critical components of health.
It is also essentially one of your earliest warning signs of nutritional imbalances, stresses, or other biochemical problems.  You already know this.  One night of poor sleep or a bit too much hedonistic overindulgence, and voila!  What do you see in the mirror?  Dark circles under the eyes, a sallowness in your overall color, maybe some skin outbreaks or eruptions.
If we think about our skin at all, we generally think about what we can do topically on the outside to make it look better.  I want to suggest that the best way to make your skin look better happens from what you put on the inside.  And more importantly,  what you put on the inside will determine how well your skin can participate in keeping you healthy.
There are of course many, many kinds of skin conditions and each will communicate its own unique messages of imbalance to those who know how to listen.  Your job is to find a practitioner who can help you translate those messages.  Here are a couple examples of the kinds of messages you might be receiving.
At age 12, 13, 14 or so, acne is likely to be your primary skin symptom. As the hormones of adolescence begin to kick in, it’s easy for imbalances to occur.  If you happen to be eating a high-carbohydrate diet these hormone imbalances are likely to be more pronounced. Too much sugary carbohydrate raises your insulin levels which in turn creates a whole cascade of biochemical changes in your body moving you away from health.  Acne is one of them.
If you’re still having acne at 20, 30, 40, or 50, don’t feel bad.  The standard American diet has managed to keep our hormones imbalanced throughout our lives.  Begin with your diet to correct these problems.
What does a high carbohydrate diet look like?  Besides the obvious sugary foods like sodas, candies, cookies, cakes or other treats, it also includes processed flour-based foods such as cereals, breads, pastas, crackers, pretzels, etc.  For example, pancakes or cereal for breakfast, sandwiches for lunch and pasta for supper along with a soda or two and a few treats throughout the day is a very high-carbohydrate diet.
So the first best thing to do for adolescent acne is to reduce simple carbohydrates in your diet.  Ensure you eat protein at every meal, preferably chicken, fish, turkey or vegetarian proteins; limit the red meats like beef and pork.  Increase high fiber foods like vegetables, fruit, and whole grains (not processed into flours) such as brown rice, quinoa, buckwheat, etc.  Eliminate sodas and juices and other sweet drinks and replace them with pure spring water.  These changes alone may be enough to re-balance hormones and eliminate acne.
Sometimes you will need to add supplements to your diet to regain full balance.  Two that I have found most helpful for acne are zinc and essential fatty acids.  Ask your natural health practitioner for recommendations on doses and specific products.
At age 40, 50, 60 and beyond, wrinkles, sagging, and discoloration are likely to be your primary skin symptoms.  We associate these symptoms with aging.  But this begs the question, what is aging?
Theories abound, but in general, most researchers agree that oxidation caused by toxins and its production of free radicals are highly linked to the symptoms of aging.  In the skin, cells overloaded with toxins (everything from smog and exogenous hormones from animals raised with high levels of antibiotics and hormones to fried foods, caffeine, and alcohol), and suffering from poor circulation caused by high fat, low antioxidant diets, dehydration (too many diuretics such as caffeine and alcohol), low essential fatty acids, and stress result in age spots, wrinkles and dry skin, and poor muscle tone.
Just as we learned in the discussion of acne, your diet is your most powerful choice to reduce the skin symptoms of aging.  Avoid high carbohydrate diets at all costs.  In addition, to reduce wrinkles and to avoid drying out your skin in general avoid all diuretics; replace coffee, caffeinated sodas and alcohol with at least 8 glasses of water/day.  Emphasize fish in your diet to increase the food sources of essential fatty acids in your diet.  Avoid the red meats and other high fat foods to increase circulation.  And of course, daily exercise is also critically important to improve circulation.
Age spots and sallow, yellow skin are indications of a struggling liver.  In the standard, American lifestyle, the liver has a Sisyphean task to accomplish every day (Remember Sisyphus?  He was the king punished by the Gods who had to roll a huge boulder up a mountainside every day only to watch it roll back down again at the end of the day, for eternity; eek!). The liver has to detoxify all the toxins we ingest via eating, drinking, breathing, or assimilating them through our skin.
The good news is there are many things we can do to help our livers with its many jobs.  Cleaning up your diet of course is probably the most important.  Adequate water and optimal biochemical hydration is also a wonderful support to your liver.  Additionally, with the help of a natural health practitioner, you may be able to go on a liver cleansing program for a few days or weeks each year.  You may also be able to make use of liver cleansing and supporting herbs such as milk thistle, turmeric, yellow dock or burdock. 
To me, even more motivating than the vanities of acne-free, wrinkle-free skin, is the fact that these skin health strategies will go a long way toward improving any other health symptoms you might have.  No kidding.  Improve your skin, improve your health.

By Julia Hultgren

Aries is always the sign of fresh starts, and when the New Moon occurs on April 14, it is the “newest” new moon of the year.  That’s why the urge for spring cleaning hits us this time of year, among other desires such as putting a new face on relationships, and revising plans and strategies for any facet of our lives. And next month, the New Moon in Taurus will help us root and grow the innovations we come up with over the next few weeks.

This month, when the Sun and Moon occupy exactly the same degree and minute of the Zodiac, we are being asked to pay special attention to our desire to retreat from taking any sort of responsibility for the collaborative process we all know we need for healing the planet and ourselves. Our personal egos are so wrapped up in being right, about the issues being all about us, that it is hard for us to see how we, individually, can bring about balance in relationships. Yet, that is the task we are being charged with.

The energy available for delivering this process will help us reach back to the earlier knowledge we have gathered about what helps us heal, alone as well as together.  When we are able to fully contemplate this “knowingness,” even as heavy as it may feel, the rapid intuitive senses will spontaneously begin to fire, lighting new directions for us to explore, and fueling more creative activity than we have been able to access in a long while. Through all this—sounding pretty easy so far, right?—the spotlight is on values and remembering to keep our communications loving and deep.

By the time of the Full Moon on April 28, the energy will have lightened up considerably. We will still be shaking off  pride and ego issues, like a small dog nipping at our feet. But our drive is so electric, our spirit so jovial, that we will hardly notice  those sharp little teeth as they puncture our puffery. We are about sick to death of seriousness and worry, as we are also terribly weary of arguing with ourselves (imagine the Democrats and Republicans in Congress as parts of the same organism). We are finally able to shift into something lighter, sweeter and more profound, just because we have lost stamina for maintaining the other any longer.

Mercury turns retrograde April18-19, depending on your location on the globe, encouraging us to still keep making intentions that align with our values—the health of the earth, the health of or financial institutions, and most importantly this time of year, the smart choices of seeds to sew for the future. With the renewed vigor of our spirit, the temptation will be to start speculating a bit rashly, which would be foolhardy at best. A better use of that impetus would be to plant some trees with your kids.

Julia Hultgren has been a practitioner/student of astrology for over 30 years. She was an avid student of noted Chicago astrologer, Doris Hebel. In addition to basic astrology readings and charts, Julia reads and teaches planetary indications for soul mates, life purpose and monetary aspects. She also reads and teaches charts of relationships, called synastry. She is a graduate of the Weiss Institute, where she was professionally trained in Past Life Regression. She has been meditating for 13 years and has had many profound and happy experiences becoming reacquainted with spirit, while investigating altered states over the years. She has lived in Colorado Springs since 2001 with her husband and 4 children, has an MSW, and also utilizes EMDR, hypnosis and mediation in her practice.

This column is in honor of Erma Bombeck.  Erma was the first person to explain to me the subtle differences between men and women.  Growing up in the 60s and 70s, my concept of men was based on television dads like the kindly Hugh Beaumont (the Beaver’s dad), then like the unflappable Fred MacMurray in My Three Sons and finally like the opinionated Archie Bunker in All in the Family.  Those were my motley role models.

Add to it that my generation was being told “Men were from Mars, the Warrior Planet; and women, Venus, the world of love and romance.   No wonder, I was confused.

And then I discovered Erma Bombeck in the morning newspaper.  She was equally confused about the changing gender roles.  Sometimes, she was mystified about the how June Cleaver (the Beaver’s mom) found time to cleaned her house in white gloves and pearls -  while Erma hid things, so not to have to dust and sweep.  She wasn’t a gloves and pearls kind of lady nor a bra burning woman – uncomfortable in both worlds, striving to create her own – one that she fit in, one that made sense.

She used her column to work out some of the inconsistencies in life, especially the communication conflicts between men and women.  She tried to explain the subtle differences between the sexes, while making it ok for men to be warriors and women, lovers.  Even if I didn’t always understand the differences, she made me laugh.  Erma gave me hope that when I was her age (and as a teen, that seemed impossible) I would understand that there are differences between the sexes and I would laugh about them too.

One of my favorite columns talked about how couples get ready for bed.  In honor of Erma, I’ve up-dated the couples nightly ritual.

My husband rubbed his chin, looked at the cat sleeping peacefully under on his lap, under his lap top and said, “I think it’s time to go to bed.” to whomever was listening.

Agreeing, I started closing down programs on my computer, sending off last minute emails, checking the family’s schedule for tomorrow – our collegiate’s, our high schooler’s, our married daughter (quick check of her blog will tell me where she’ll be tomorrow), my husband (remember to remind about a hair cut) and mine (3 meetings – will need to get up early to prep).

Then it’s a quick trip to the laundry room to either put a load into the dryer or hang up a load to dry.  Before going upstairs, I pick up dirty dishes, clean clothes/towels and anything else that needs to go up.  After climbing the stairs, I put the dishes in the sink, clothes in the upstairs basket and towels in the linen closet.  Then, back to the kitchen to turn on the tea kettle, feed the puppies a quick snack and put them out.  While waiting on them, I remind our teen that it is time to turn off her computer and go to sleep.  I turn off extra lights, the dogs’ music and let the pets in, locking the door and, making sure they have fresh water.  The tea kettle boils just as I tuck the puppy into her kennel.  I make a quick hot drink for my husband and me and carry it downstairs.

After handing the cup to my husband, I feed and water the cats.  On finishing our drinks, I collect the mugs and put them out of the kitties reach.   I, then, turn the bed covers down and start getting ready for bed.

My husband slowly lifts the cat off his lap, puts his laptop aside, rubbing his chin again, he say, “I guess it’s time to go to bed” and I agree.

As a teen, I read two newspaper columns faithfully.  I loved Sydney Harris – the i satirical, political grammarian of his times.  (Think Grammar Girl only old, male and angry).  And, Erma Bombeck.

Why Erma Bombeck?  I could so relate to her.  Being stuck in the middle of the Feminist Revolution, trying to fit into both worlds and not.  That was me, too.  Her mom was perfect.  Stuck in an airport?  Her mom was prepared.  Her father bringing home people for dinner with no notice.  Her mom could handle it.

Erma – well in an airport, she had an apple and a spritz of perfume.  Dinner – well, they could go out.

And on men, her version of Conversation with God was the best.   She asked, “Why did men have big feet?”  So their kids could walk in their footprints in the snow.  Big hands – better to cup small faces and wipe away the tears.  So what if men couldn’t tie a hair ribbon or push a button through a small hole.  They were designed to protect their children.

And most of us have read her article on living life to the full.  A column she wrote when she was in her 50s – years before she found out she was dying.  It talked about, if given a second chance,  all of things she would have done.

This article has had the most profound impact on me.  As any good mom does, I’ve put my life on hold until our girls were grown.  At the same time, I’ve quit saving things for “special occasions” or for later.  There may never be a later.

Erma has taught me “Life is a gift.”  To leave my mark each day – those feminine footprints  in the snow – so that our girls will have a path to follow and not to wait for a special occasion.  It’s more important to create the special occasion or memory than to wait for life to happen.

And one more thing.  Erma died on  Earth Day – April 22, 1996.  Coincidence?

By Amy Cook-Porter

On October 2, the New York City Education Department ruled that there will be no more Bake Sales in the public schools.

According to Jennifer Medina in the NY Times,

The change is part of a new wellness policy that also limits what can be sold in vending machines and student-run stores, which use profits to help finance activities like pep rallies and proms. The elaborate rules were outlined in a three-page memo issued at the end of June, but in the new school year, principals and parents are just beginning to, well, digest them.
Parent groups and Parent-Teacher Associations are conspicuously given an exception: once a month they are allowed to sell as many dark fudge brownies and lemon bars as they please, so long as lunch has ended. And after 6 p.m. on weekdays, anything goes. But at that hour, most students are long gone, and as far as the Education Department is concerned, stuffing oneself with coconut macaroons and peanut butter cookies at that hour is one’s prerogative.

Having been a part of numerous bake sales & root beer float days, I can tell you first hand, nobody got fat eating my cookies, nor did anyone get sick.

Most of the kids had enough coinage to buy 1 or 2 items at best.  This treat was in lieu of their afternoon snack at home or on the way to soccer practice.

I find it ironic that they Ed Department is concerned about sugar and butter, but not about corn syrup and low-fat crap they continually give our kids.  Ask an nutritionist, “Kids need fats and calories.” 

While white sugar is not great, it beats some of the alternatives.  And, at our bake sales, many of the parents substituted honey, agave and applesauce for these offending ingredients.

When will government learn that you can’t legislate what people eat, especially kids.  The more you say “No!” the more we all hear, “Eat me!”  Considering how many diets we’ve all broken, this is a waste of time.  (I see visions of kids on street corners, pulling home-baked cookies out of their pockets, whispering, “Hey kid!  You want to buy a brownie?”)

Bake sales fill a short term need for after school snacks as well as helping the sponsoring organization.  My recommendation for these well intentioned ed folks:  take a nutrition class or two.  Learn what truly causes inactive, computer driven kids and adults to be over weight.  Then change the school lunches to include quality fresh fruits & vegs, range feed meats and multi-grains. 

Of course these ed folk won’t do that.  They’d rather make cookies illegal and sold on neighboring corners.

We have posted articles on Women who have made a difference.  Here is an article about a man who lived in Colorado Spring that made a difference internationally.

The times we are living in seem to be awfully hectic lately. We have wars, economic problems, energy needs and environmental concerns to name but a few.  It’s like we’re living with the challenges of a “Brave New World.”

Although it may seem to be a relatively new world challenge, it’s been going on for at least a hundred years. That’s right; we just fail to recognize the same old tunes.

The American Tesla Society is seeking to identify and encourage willing hands to join us in our search for solutions to our energy, environmental and medical conditions. We need to fulfill our stewardship of our planet and all of its inhabitants. No matter how great or small the impact, every good effort counts. We wish to start at the beginning of:  better, cleaner and cheaper technology.

Way back in 1899, a young and successful engineer arrived in Colorado Springs.  He was highly regarded around the world for his ingenuity at the age of 43. His name was Nikola Tesla; and his ambition was to take the “wheel work of nature off man’s back.”

His arrival in the Pikes Peak region was the beginning of what can be described as the “free energy movement.”  This movement is closely tied to the environmental movement. What Nikola Tesla started is a task we need to finish – not for him, but for us.  We won’t bore you with technical conundrums; rather the long struggle that continues to this day.

Currently,  the American Tesla Society is relentless in their pursuit to provide unlimited cheap, clean energy; and the remediation of past errors of careless environmental practices which are causing serious problems in our daily  lives.  We have questions that need answers.

• Who wants to see soot covered environments?
• Who wants dirty air or contaminated water?
• Who thinks radioactive waste is being safeguarded and impeccably stored, isolated and leach free?
• Who can converge and solve these dilemmas?

The answer is: All of us. Each of us has a role to play.  The smallest positive deed adds up. The same holds true for inventions, which we are most familiar with.

Inventors are special people.  No matter how great or trivial the invention -  it becomes the child of the creator.  No invention that we are aware of was designed to make life harder. To the contrary, inventions make our lives easier, more enjoyable or serve us in some capacity.  We are surrounded by dreams that came into being.

When the young Tesla arrived here, he wanted to innovate a system to harness the power of lightning. Although he abandoned his initial idea, the technology he envisioned, is rising to the surface again and may someday actually be put into use.

From his early research at the foot of Pikes Peak, he went on to invent and construct his magnifying transformer.  This invention was a world changer, threatening to change the status quo. It posed a threat to the robber barons that were running this country.  Woe be to him, who would nullify the system of exploitation they engendered. Their exploitation tactics of consolidated wealth was just an example of their greed and power.  We continue to see it all around us these days. It was no different back then, except that we are paying the price for their abuse many years ago.

To this day, Nikola Tesla, is unmatched in power generation and transmission. Every time you turn on a lamp or start your car, you can thank Nikola Tesla for making it possible. This is one of many areas in which he was king.

Join us at the American Tesla Society and learn more about this man who invented our modern world.

Visit our web site often for energy news, environmental advances and modern day inventors.
If anyone wonders “Where it All Began,” you can tell them in great confidence, it was in the Pikes Peak Region.