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Mission: Energizing balance of work, play, and learning.
Last year (2024), my husband Richard Rew and I co-produced a 4-minute YouTube video encouraging annual October events, titled:
October Urban Celebrations of Co-Creativity with Air | Rooftop Farms and Gardens
We began this video with an inspiring urban neighborhood example of energizing balance of work, play and learning. Surrounded by the beauty of the rooftop farm, of the Boston Medical Center, I jumped one of our Topic-Talk Walkers’ (TTWalks) origami jumping frogs.
When you look at this Boston Medical Center rooftop farm on this video, do you feel some of the enthusiasm that helped them to co-create this beautiful Boston Medical Center rooftop farm together? I can’t stop feeling the enthusiasm to see similar neighborhood co-creativity hubs like this, here in Denver!
Would you like to join Richard and me, in encouraging neighborhood urban rooftop farms and gardens, in the Denver metro area? One of the many ways you can encourage these possibilities in your neighborhood is to join TTWalks, to stay connected for updates. Another more publicly visible and co-creative way is to share your written encouragement and recommendations, in the YouTube comments section, of this video, on the TTWalks-sponsored E-STEAM Love channel.
The good news is that the acronym E-STEAM is an acronym that can actually help us all to visualize how to learn more, about how to co-creatively build better relationships with Nature.
E-STEAM stands for Economics, Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math.
This first "E" is about "life-source Economics” - not just “resource economics.”
“Life-source Economics” is about Nature’s balancing of living energy relationships.
From Nature’s design, for the unconscious breaths of air we breathe, when we’re sleeping, to Nature’s love at a molecular level, when water vapor condenses into a snowflake around the ice nucleating protein of a plant’s bacteria.
The "A" in "STEAM" includes the “Art” of balancing "resource economics.”
“Art” includes the “resource economics” relationships, of time, money, color, sound, materials, stories, etc. Proof that money itself is an "art" and not a "science" is the behavioral response of other animals, when given a choice of our money or some food.
Our ability to imitate and co-create with our “life-source” of Nature’s balancing of living energy is what can make humanity’s STEAM impossible or possible.
In 1903, following the lead of the Wright brothers, humanity began sharing our co-creative STEAM, by improving our ability to co-create with Nature, and imitate Nature’s balancing science, of flight controls, on birds.
For me, flight itself is one of Nature's many unique examples, of a scientific design for the possibility, of an Economics of Compassion.
With or without identifying flight as one of Nature's many examples, of a design for the possibility of an Economics of Compassion, humanity is continuing to learn more about co-creating with air, going far beyond learning about the resilience needed, to land our airplanes like birds, without crashing.
Predictably, our co-creative Art of "resource" choices are at the heart of what makes love possible, and at the heart of what makes an economics of compassion possible.
Co-creating with Nature's air, begins with each intentional and unintentional breath of air we breathe.
Now, in 2025, on the International Space Station, each seemingly impossible breath of air, at 250 miles above Earth's sea level, continues to become possible, because we're continuing to learn more about how to imitate Nature's Economics of Compassion.
Richard and I, are joining the many other people, who are enthusiastic about increasing the number of publicly accessible co-creativity hubs, on urban rooftop farms and gardens. We would be very grateful, to read and respond to your co-creative comments and encouragement, or your respectful discouragement, on the TTWalks-sponsored E-STEAM Love channel on YouTube.
Denver's 2025 annual October urban celebrations could begin by becoming co-creative event planning partnerships, planning activities which could include:
Walking conversations / ZOOMing conversations / indoor and outdoor museum visits with Interactive Hands-on Science for all ages / visits to urban rooftop farms and gardens.
Thank you for taking the time to consider our invitation, to join us in encouraging publicly accessible co-creativity hubs, on urban rooftop farms and gardens.
Fran and Richard Rew
(720) 474-5182 (Fran's cell)
FranRewWalking@gmail.com
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See all- E-STEAM Playtime - Music & Dance - First Fridays, Five Points JazzBlair-Caldwell African American Research Library, Denver, CO
Music and Dance is the first language of our very souls. From the first moment of our conception, the rhythm and movement of our life's beginnings, began guiding our journey to the joy of being fully alive!
Friday, October 3, 2025, we're beginning our 2nd annual October celebrations of Co-Creativity with Air, with E-STEAM Playtime, with music and dance.
For the next three years, you're invited to practice co-creativity toward the E-STEAM Love channel's 2028 celebration of our collaborative Meetup group's 20-year anniversary. From 2008 to 2028, the TTWalks (Topic-Talk Walks) Meetup group is continuing to evolve together, with the Museum Muser and Beckwourth Doers groups on Meetup.
The goal of our October celebration activities is to invite the general public of all ages, to become a co-creative part of our E-STEAM Love channel's annual October Co-Creativity with Air celebrations.
For last year's first annual 2024 October celebrations, my husband Richard Rew and I (Fran Rew) co-produced a 4-minute video on the E-STEAM Love channel, titled "October Urban Celebrations of Co-Creativity with Air | Rooftop Farms and Gardens."
Just before the music and dance of the Five Points' First Friday Jazz begins at 5:30 pm, on the south side of the Blair-Caldwell African American Research Library, Richard and I invite people of all ages to join us in E-STEAM Playtime edutainment activities, and our sponsored free SAME Cafe delicious signature cookies, from 3:30 pm to 4:30 pm, in the Community Room of the Blair-Caldwell library. If you want more E-STEAM Playtime than only one-hour with us, keep watching our collaborative Meetup calendars for more October 2025 celebration activities with us, at other locations.
The Blair-Caldwell African American Research Library is located at 2402 Welton Street, Denver, Colorado. The irresistible dancing rhythms of the First Fridays Five Points Jazz will be played by the exhilarating funky rhythms of the Fedora Swing jazz band. You can bring chairs to sit in the Sonny Lawson Park, located on the south side of the Blair-Caldwell library, or stand and dance in the Charles Cousins Plaza, where the live band is playing, between the library and the park. The smooth sounds of the KUVO Jazz radio station announcer introducing the band comes as a partnership with the Curtis Park Neighborhood Association
My husband Richard and I will be giving away origami jumping frogs, with a QR-coded link on their backs, which links to our collaborative E-STEAM Love channel's 4-minute video "October Urban Celebrations of Co-Creativity with Air - Rooftop Farms and Gardens."
We'll also be carrying our Winston K. Walker E-STEAM traveling events bags. Each bag includes a small collection of our toys for interactive E-STEAM Playtime edutainment.
If you arrive early, we encourage you to visit the Blair-Caldwell African American Research Library's Western Legacies, the gallery and exhibition space, which is on Level Three of the Blair-Caldwell African American Research Library. The library will close at 5:00 pm.
I'm hoping that arriving early will enable us to get a parking space on this beautiful library's northwest side parking lot.If not, we're prepared for limited parking availability in the area, and we'll be considering the possibility of arriving by RTD light rail, by purchasing an all day ride-pass, from any RTD bus driver, light rail location, and/or Park 'n Ride.
Richard and I are looking forward to sharing some E-STEAM playtime with you, experiencing the many joyful ways each of us can intentionally be co-creative with Nature's gift of air, and our gifts to each other, of simply "showing up" for E-STEAM Playtime together.
