Museum Muser

Mission:  Energizing balance of work, play, and learning.  
To energize balancing, of work, play, and learning, we need to grow co-creative resilience. Resilience grows from efficient access to possibilities for co-creativity, with both Nature and neighbors.

Purpose:
This Museum Muser group's purpose is to encourage and inspire co-creativity through museum-hosted edutainment.  We're looking for E-STEAM edutainment designed to help support the growth, of caring co-creativity, in neighborhood relationships, with Nature and neighbors.

The first "E" in "E-STEAM" represents the "Economics" of Nature's balancing, of co-creative living energy's life-sources. The "A" in "STEAM" represents the "Art" humanity's economic balancing of non-living resources like money, time, space, music, books, etc. After the paragraphs introducing the history of your Museum Muser organizers, I've included paragraphs, about the difference between the economic values of E-STEAM and STEAM, for aviation and our water cycle's bioprecipitation.

Current Museum Muser Group's Actions:
Last year (2024), representing this Museum Muser group, my husband Richard Rew, and I. co-creatively co-produced a 4-minute YouTube video encouraging museum's to lead, this type of annualOctober urban edutainment events.

The title of this video is:
October Urban Celebrations of Co-Creativity with Air | Rooftop Farms and Gardens

This video introduces the stories of many inspiring examples, of E-STEAM co-creativity with Nature and neighbors.  We put our spotlight on the example, of the Boston Medical Center’s rooftop farm!

Future Museum Muser Group's Actions:
We invite you to write your comments and recommendations, for enabling your neighborhood’s co-creativity, with Nature and neighbors. The best public place for your comments is in the YouTube comment section of this October Urban Celebrations YouTube video Your comments will contribute to this group's preparation for each one of the annual in-person “October Co-Creativity with Air” events,

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History of Museum Muser group Co-Organizers:
In 2008, my husband Richard Rew and I (Fran Rew) co-founded the Topic-Talk Walks (TTWalks) Meetup group, in Denver.  We began by co-hosting monthly last Wednesday walking conversations, followed by going to the Denver Museum of Nature and Science's "60 Minutes in Space" presentations.  Although we are still doing this, with some Meetup group members, we are no longer posting these events. Instead, we are investing our time, in coordinating annual October E-STEAM Co-Creativity with Air events, to collaboratively share with TTWalks, Museum Muser, and Beckwourth Doers groups.

In 2009, we a became co-organizers of this Museum Muser Meetup group. In these same years, we frequently collaborated with the free weekly playful workshops of the Monkey Butler Improv comedy group, on Meetup.

Also, in 2009, Richard and I began our current 15 years of monthly volunteering as hands-on interactive edutainment volunteers, at the Wings Over the Rockies Air and Space Museum, as a part of the Wings’ monthly 2nd Saturday, Cockpit Demo Days, in Denver, Colorado.

From 2010 to 2019, Winston K. Walker, the founder of the Beckwourth Doers group on Meetup (an African American outdoor adventure group), was an inspiring mentor and co-host, on many of our collaborative walk and museum events.

In 2021, we co-founded the E-STEAM Love channel on YouTube, and dedicated this channel to Winston K. Walker, after he died in 2019.  Winston is especially  remembered for his big hugs.  He treated  strangers like friends he hadn’t met yet.  Memories of Winston’s prolific nature-photography, his stimulating conversation, and his shared outdoor adventures, are still alive in our hearts and minds.  His spirit of encouragement continues to inspire our collaborative Meetup events.  Winston’s memory continues to inspire us to share our E-STEAM co-creativity, with Nature and neighbors.

On October 19, 2024, we volunteered as co-hosts, for our first annual Museum Muser "E-STEAM Co-Creativity with Air" event in the Wings museum, during the Wings' annual Hauntings in the Hangar event.

In 2025, Richard and I sponsored the first E-STEAM award, presented as a part of the state-wide award ceremony, for the 2025 annual Colorado Science and Engineering Fair (CSEF).  Our $100 cash award was given to the senior environmental engineering project titled “The Role of Green Roofs in Urban Sustainability,” by Ali Abostate, from the Lotus School for Excellence, in Aurora, Colorado.

We love doing our best to support the Museum Muser mission and purpose of encouraging and inspiring co-creativity through museum-hosted edutainment, especially E-STEAM Co-Creativity with Air, in our urban neighborhoods! We're hoping future E-STEAM awards, at the CSEF, will be in partnership with museum-hosted E-STEAM edutainment.

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About E-STEAM:
The good news is that the acronym “E-STEAM” is actually an acronym, which can help us all to visualize how to improve our best co-creativity relationships, with Nature and neighbors.

The first “E” represents “Economics.”
This Economics is specifically, about the “Economics, of our relationships, with Nature’s Science-Based balancing, of co-creative living energy, also known as life-sources.”

The “A” in STEAM, represents “Art.”
This "Art" is our lifeline connection with the first "E" of "Economics," of E-STEAM. This "Art" is specifically, about the “Art, of economic relationships, with money, time, space, color, sound, music, stories, and other non-living resources."

For the Art of our economic STEAM resource relationships to stay alive, we need to stay connected with Nature's E-STEAM life-sources. Nature’s economics of life-sources are Science-Based relationships. Humanity's economics of monetary resources are Art-based relationships.

Aviation is an E-STEAM example, of humanity's STEAM imitating Nature's E-STEAM design, for an Economics of Compassion
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E-STEAM is what makes all our aviation “STEAM” (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math) possible.

For example, the "Art" in humanity’s co-creative “"STEAM" continues to be at the heArt of our aviation "E-STEAM." The passion in our hearts and minds to imitate Nature’s seemingly impossible E-STEAM example of birds in flight, led to our co-creative imitation of Nature's E-STEAM. Our "Art" of imitating Nature's E-STEAM is what transformed our impossible STEAM to our very possible E-STEAM co-creativity with Nature. The resilience of our E-STEAM aviation industry continues to depend on, our co-creativity with Nature and neighbors.

It is he resilience of our co-creative E-STEAM in aviation, which makes it possible, for both birds and airplanes to fly, with a predictably lower probability, of collisions, crashes, and loss of oxygen.  These life-protecting E-STEAM aviation designs, for reducing flight risks, come from imitating Nature’s Science-Based design examples, of an Economics of Compassion.

Nature's best examples, of designs for an Economics of Compassion are worth imitating, because they are examples of balancing the protection and nourishment of the living energy of life itself.

If you're thinking that Nature's example of the extinction of the dinosaurs was NOT one of Nature's best examples of an Economics of Compassion. Yup! But the continued living energy within each of one of us has evolved. Now we have an ability to become far more co-creative than dinosaurs, with Nature's designs, for the increased possibility of an Economics of Compassion.

Our Earth's water cycle is another E-STEAM example of Nature's design worth imitating, for an Economics of Compassion.

Nature’s Science-Based bioprecipitation design of Earth’s rainwater cycle is an excellent example of Nature’s life-protecting and life-nourishing design, for an Economics of Compassion.   The rainwater cycle is not one of Nature's new designs. It existed during the time of the now extinct dinosaurs. However, as mentioned earlier, the dinosaurs did not have the co-creative Art of our STEAM. Dinosaurs could not imitate Nature’s snow-making design, for making artificial snow.   What's critically important about imitating Nature's E-STEAM for making artificial snow, is imitating Nature's design of bioprecipiation! Whether we're living on Earth, on the Moon or on Mars, bioprecipitation is our most cost-effective imitation of Nature's E-STEAM water cycle design. Bioprecipitation is also an example of Nature's Economics of Compassion of love, at a molecular level.

At its most efficient and functional level, Nature’s balancing economics for our rainwater cycle has water vapor molecules clinging to each other through cohesive and adhesive condensation, around ice nucleating proteins.  These proteins come from bacteria released by trees, insects, and groundcover plants.  Water vapor’s molecular love-connections, with bacteria’s ice nucleating proteins (like Pseudomonas syringae) are what form our life-protecting, and life-nourishing, low-lying clouds.  These low-lying clouds are far warmer than the higher level clouds. These warmer clouds can more predictably release their bioprecipitation. They can restore a more balanced rainwater distribution for restoring living energy to the plant groundcover below these same clouds.

Earth's bioprecipitation is what protects and supports the reduction of our risks of flood, drought, and fire, while also cooling our cherished Planet Aqua.

You could read more about examples of bioprecipitation restoring the Earth, in Natalie Fleming's well-referenced book "Earth Restored: Reclaiming our Role as Guardians of the Earth." Another excellent book titled "Planet Aqua," by economist Jeremy Rifkin, shares the history of urban civilizations' struggles, with the art and science, of co-creating with the balancing economics, of Nature's bioprecipitation water cycle.

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Thank you, dear reader, for taking the time to consider growing and supporting your own co-creative neighborhood relationships, with Nature and neighbors, as a part of the annual collaborative TTWalks, Museum Muser, and Beckwourth Doers participation, in the “October Co-Creativity with Air” events!

Fran and Richard Rew
(720) 474-5182 (Fran’s cell)
FranRewWalking (at) gmail.com