<html><head></head><body><div class="yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Dear Colleagues,</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Days in the city of Denver are a bit hazy now with a cloud cover that gives way to a dark inky night. I happened to look out in awe transfixed at the window last week as I viewed a beautiful, pearlescent orange quarter moon in the east in the sky...</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">After observing this wondrous sight with a solo obeisance of one, I remembered the plight of bicoastal colleagues and folks in the mountains to the west of me; and a couple whom I know in the hills of Boulder that had rebuilt after the last conflagration. I said a prayer for them and for the lost lives and former safety, and security of towns, homes, livelihoods in these times full of an intrusive "new normal" afflicting the environs of our nation. We join the host of countries which have been sorely affected by pandemic and climate change...</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Yes, times of trial and testing are upon us yet we rely on tradition to spring us forward through the open gateway to the future.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">We continue to hold before us images and perform actions that sustain us expectantly while waiting patiently for the object of our supreme devotion to birth the new thing...<br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Kindfully yours,</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">dawn collins</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"> We love the Final Reality because the Final Reality loved us first.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">- 1 John 4:19 </div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"> <br></div></div></body></html>