Growing Up Westsider 1950s, 1960s and Beyond

As an Architect, we often think of "Way Finding", starting when one approaches the site. We create signs to point to the emergency access, the normal access, and the delivery dock. Once inside the facility, we provide directories and directional signs. In life, our parents, then friends, then teachers and employers try to "point" us in the direction they want us to take. However, we came into this life with a Plan, Mission, and a List of Lessons to be learned, but it takes us nearly a lifetime to rediscover the reasons we came here and what we intended to do while we are here. If you want to move forward, you need to look back; otherwise, you'll forget where you came from and where you need to go. From time to time, we need to conduct a Life Review. Essential for me is a Sense of Place. A beginning point to always call home. I am and always will carry with me being a Westsider (now termed the Old Colorado City Historic District). It is and was a community located within Fountain Creek Canyon (Hurricane Canyon) between the Mesa and the Mountains, was fully built-out by 1920, and at one time was self-contained. Here, a sense of family and community were paramount, where neighbours knew neighbours, merchants knew the kids, a family had a "tab" at the Mom & Pop grocery store, and where honesty, civility, and good manners were the norm. As Dorothy said, "There is no place like home" even when one is not at home. This book is the author’s Life Review, and it points out the need for detail that you need to include in your own Life Review. To be effective, it needs to have detail. The author's process will lead you to what the universe knew the day you entered this world. Through Astrology, you will learn that there is a Plan built into your Natal Chart that could guide you along your path, instead of finding your Path through circumnavigation (the method we have all used to "beat the bushes" and walk a circular path about the problem of what is the meaning of life and specifically, your life). The Life Review will show that what appeared to be random was, in reality, the Path that, if projected, points to your future. Look at everything as a lesson to be learned and not as a problem to be solved. A Life Review will show that the "puzzle of life" does come together for a purpose and often points to the future. STOP GUESSING AND START KNOWING! Take control of your life, or others will control you.