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Tell FDA Draft Guidance Fails to Regulate Homeopathic Medicines in Accordance With the Law

Action Alert!

It is our last chance to let the FDA know we support homeopathy.

The goal is to reach 40,000 comments by this deadline! Please take action by December 7!!!

Access the form at the following link and add your name and comments to the list. (The site does not save or reuse your information).

Tell FDA Draft Guidance Fails to Regulate Homeopathic Medicines in Accordance With the Law Tell the FDA that the Draft Guidance fails to regulate homeopathic medicines in accordance with the law.

New Year, New Artist at Miriam's Place: Come Meet Sonja Hilmer

Come check out the amazing and wonderous work of Sonja Hilmer.
Join Us For Art and Appetizers and a Live Stream, Tues January 11, at 4 PM

Welcome to the Second Tuesday in January. It's our first official art show of the year. Happy New Year! Join us at Miriam's Place and welcome Sonja Himler into our atrium gallery for our monthly art show. Please join us, in person, for a public presentation and reception on Tuesday, January 11, 2022, at 4 PM. If you are unable to join us in person, please join the live stream (link below) starting around 4:30 PM and restreaming at 7 PM on the Miriam’s Place page (https://www.facebook.com/MiriamsPlace/).

Meet Sonja Hilmer

Sonja is a 22yr old creator in Colorado Springs, originally from New York state. She is an illustration major at UC Denver and hopes to progress into concept design. Playing with new and varied media is one of her favorite parts of art, and she reflects that in her work through unique formats and one-of-a-kind pieces. Some of the media you'll see in her display are traditional acrylic painting on turkey feathers and giant scallop shells, acrylic pour painting, fumage techniques, and small-scale trinket carving from natural materials found in the Colorado wilderness.

Aside from illustration work, she is also a competitive figure skater and cosplay craftsman. She competes at the Senior level in singles ladies figure skating, where she is a member of USFSA's International Selection Pool and an up-and-coming choreographer. As a cosplayer, she goes by the alias "Optical Phenomenon", and teaches herself techniques in sewing, foamsmithing, casting, and more to bring her favorite characters to life, which she has won multiple awards for as well.

Are Y'all Ready For This??

Tis' the season of giving!

Holistic Networkers Association 2021 Annual Charity Fundraiser

This year the Holistic Networkers Association is working to support the ongoing needs of three Colorado Springs charities: The Place (https://theplacecos.org/), Project Angel Heart (https://www.projectangelheart.org/), and Westside Cares (https://www.westsidecares.org/).

You can support our 2021 fundraising efforts in any of three ways:

*Donate cash via PayPal (email [email protected] through your PayPal account) or send a check by mail to our Miriam’s Place office at HNA Fundraiser, 1519 East Boulder St, Suite C, Colorado Springs, CO 80909. *We will send out a PayPal link as soon as it is available!

*Donate canned goods and non-perishable items at our drop-off location at Miriam’s place, above.

*Donate socks, sweatpants, and feminine hygiene products at our drop-off location at Miriam’s Place, above.

**There is a donor receipt link on our website: hnacolorado.com, for tax purposes that visitors can download and print to keep track of their HNA-related donations.**

The HNA 2021 fundraiser begins on Monday, November 1, 2021 and will end on Wednesday, December 15, 2021. The Holistic Networkers Association will deliver the funds raised along with collected items so that they can be disbursed into their respective communities during the upcoming holiday season.

Donors are encouraged to stop by Miriam’s Place and drop off your donations in person. If you can’t visit or if you would prefer to donate remotely, donors are encouraged to donate via PayPal. Visit hnacolorado.com for more information.

Stay tuned for updates on our page and contact the Holistic Networkers Association via email for more information on how you can support this event.

(Donations can be dropped off at Miriam’s Place, 1519 E Boulder Street, Colorado Springs CO 80909 throughout the month of November and through December 15, weekdays during normal business hours. Donors can also call ahead to schedule a drop-off at (719) 301-9508.)
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Miriam's Place is collecting socks and sweatpants for the holidays!

Tis' The Season, Again!

Miriam's Place Presents:

2021 Annual Seats & Feets Fundraiser!

Sweatpants & Sock Drive

We are collecting socks and sweatpants in adult sizes to donate to UCHealth-Memorial Hospital in Colorado Springs in order to benefit homeless and other patients that require access to warm clothing before being released from care. Large to XL adult sizes needed!

Donations can be dropped off at Miriam's Place: 1519 East Boulder, Colorado Springs, CO 80909 Monday through Friday during normal business hours. Please feel free to call ahead and schedule a donation drop-off at (719) 301-9508

Follow our page at https://www.facebook.com/MiriamsPlace/
or visit http://www.miriamsplace1519.com/
to get informed on our clothing drive and receive updates on Miriam's Place events and activities!

Please join us at Miriam’s Place (1519 E Boulder St.) on Sunday, March 7, at 2 PM to celebrate, in loving memory, the life of our dear friend and colleague, Virginia “Ginny” Gwaltney.

Please bring a dish and enjoy a meal as we share our favorite memories of Virginia with one another.

RSVP to [email protected] or (719) 301-9508.

Thank You!

Thank you to everyone who donated socks and sweatpants to our Sock Drive at Miriam's Place!

Today, we delivered 80 pairs of socks and many pairs of sweatpants to UCHEALTH Memorial!

Thank you all for your generosity.

To my friends of Terra Essentials

Terra Essentials has accepted the challenge of raising matching funds with the Holistic Networkers Association for Colorado Springs Food Rescue. Our goal is 10 friends of Terra Essentials (FOTE) to donate $10 to match our $100 donation. The money raised goes to support the affiliated food pantries and community programs supported by the Colorado Springs Food Rescue organization.

If you have $10 to spare during the holiday season, could you please click on this link (Donate Here! https://paypal.me/hnacolorado?locale.x=en_US) and make your donation?

Amy
Terra Essentials

Please join us!

2 Days!! Until the HNA Annual Holiday PARTY

TODAY is the last day to RSVP for our special ONLINE EVENT

Please join us as we connect with one another and come together to support the local community as we fundraise for: WESTSIDE CARES and COLORADO SPRINGS FOOD RESCUE

Our goal is to raise $1000 to fight hunger in Colorado Springs as so many families are struggling in our community.

Please send an email to [email protected] and let us know how many people will be joining this event. We’ll send the Zoom link 24 hours before the event.

Visit HTTPS://HNACOLORADO.COM to learn more and/or to make a contribution to the fundraiser.

At the Holistic Networkers Association, we are establishing small mastermind groups to assist our members during these challenging times.

Follow the link for more information. Help make HNA an organization that not only supports the Holistic community but also supports you!

Creating and Sustaining Community through HNA

At the Holistic Networkers Association, we are establishing small mastermind groups to assist our members during these challenging times. As a group we decide:
– what day and time we meet as well as how often – if we meet in person or by zoom or a combination – what venue fits us best (we are supporting restaurants serving healthy, locally- sourced foods and rotating where we meet)

We talk about our business challenges and share support. We also share personal happening in life just to stay balanced and connected.

Keep reading: https://www.hnacolorado.com/events-and-happenings/hna-monthly-event/

“Why Talk Marketing When I Don’t Know if
I’m Going to be in Business in a Month?”

This is the number one question I’ve heard this month. It reminds me of when we started work on our first issue of Terra Essential in October 2008. It was the week before the economy tanked. Yet we stayed focused, published and promoted the holistic community. If Terra Essentials could survive our rocky start, we can surely support our advertisers through a pandemic.

Keep Reading: http://www.t-essentials.net/uncategorized/why-talk-marketing/

Cranio Porter will be in Portland OR this week, offering bodywork on injured protesters. Contact us if you are in Portland and need bodywork or if you have friend in Portland protesting who needs bodywork.

If you aren't ready to have someone touch or work on your body, due to injuries. We can work with you on researching what to do to ease your system. So you can get back to protesting.

Post-COVID— What Do I Do Now? – T-Essentials Healthy Community Guide

From T-Essentials: Healthy Community Guide

Post-COVID--What Do I Do Now?

http://www.t-essentials.net/terra-essentials/post-covid-what-do-i-do-now/

Post-COVID— What Do I Do Now? – T-Essentials Healthy Community Guide Prior to March 17, we had: Active practices; Clients we supported; And, a cash flow that made us comfortable. Then the pandemic exploded. Our practices were shut down for 2-plus months. We reopened to a duality-driven world, based on what was deemed essential or non-essential. If you touched someone...

Laundry and Other Mysteries • A podcast on Anchor

COLORADO SPRINGS, April 12, 2020 — LAUNDRY AND OTHER MYSTERIES, a new podcast (https://anchor.fm/desiree-hickson), about laundry, laundry tips, and tricks and focuses on business owners and creators, social impact businesses, and how business owners and creators support their communities and is geared toward business and creative entrepreneurs of all ages.

The fourth full episode features Amy Cook Porter, Managing Editor of Terra Essentials, a business directory based in Colorado Springs and the host of Laundry and Other Mysteries, Desiree Hickson, also known as “The Laundry Diva” having a discussion of how new and seasoned entrepreneurs can reinvent their businesses despite “The Great Pause” that has come in light of the novel coronavirus, COVID-19.

Listen To The Latest Episode of Laundry And Other Mysteries: https://anchor.fm/dashboard/episode/ecmr4r

Laundry and Other Mysteries • A podcast on Anchor

Home - Ormao Dance Colorado Springs

This looks like fun! https://vimeo.com/401400480

Check out the Ormao Dance School's Couch Dance https://ormaodance.org/

Home - Ormao Dance Colorado Springs Ormao Dance Company is an innovative, inclusive and noncompetitive home for dance and the arts in downtown Colorado Springs.

During This Time of Social Distancing

Please Join The Holistic Networkers Association For

A Virtual Meeting & Panel To Discuss

How To Reinvent Your Business

Come Share Your Ideas.

Thursday, April 16th at 11AM

Hosted Online

Download Zoom at www.zoom.us

RSVP to [email protected] for Your Zoom Link or For more info!

Come learn about the Pikes Peak Region food system successes, opportunities and challenges at our monthly Sustainability in Progress (SIP) event on February 19th at our new location at the Pikes Peak Community College Downtown Campus, 100 W Pikes Peak Ave, Colorado Springs, CO 80903
Room S-212.

This month's event will provide an update on local food policy and continue the discussion about how we can make locally grown, nutritious and tastier food more available and accessible to residents.

This is sure to be an informative and engaging event!

The presentations will be followed by a Q & A session between the audience and the speakers.

Speakers:
Aubrey Day, Healthy Environment Manager, El Paso County Public Health
Natalie Seals, Market Manager, Colorado Farm and Art Market

Free coffee and pastries provided. No need to RSVP.

Join thousands throughout the planet for the 18th Annual WORLD SOUND HEALING DAY on Friday, February 14, 2020. At 12 noon (local time in your time zone), sound forth for 5 minutes with the “AH” created and projected with the energy of compassion and love, sending a sonic valentine to Gaia, our Mother Earth.

At that time, please go to templeofsacredsound.org to enhance the vibratory effect as we sound together for Global Harmonization, planetary peace and healing. Please visit Healing Sounds for more information.

If you cannot tone at 12 noon, sounding anytime during February 14, 2020 will help create positive shift and change for our planet
on World Sound Healing Day.

The purpose of World Sound Healing Day is to:

1). Heal Our Planet!
2). Heal Our Waters!
3). Raise Our Consciousness!

For more information visit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3f7o6MQdjjM
worldsoundhealingday.org

Dear Food Friends,
I'm forwarding information on becoming part of a remarkable community garden experience on the Westside of Colorado Springs in 2020. All levels of gardeners are welcome!


Join us in creating community as we garden the Westside and Vermijo gardens. Learn how to grow locally using regenerative practices such as composting, soil building, and intercropping!

Peer-facilitated classes, observational learning, community building
ALL experience levels of gardeners needed!

To learn more
Town Hall Informational Meetings
Westside Community Center (1628 W. Bijou St.)
February 5th 2020 at 6:30 pm OR February 9, 2020at 2:00 pm

Enroll NOW for 2020
Membership fee: $145.00 [Approximately 26 weeks’ worth of produce!!]
For Westside residents only [West of I-25 including Manitou]
Email: [email protected]
https://tinyurl.com/wcg-Description
Limited enrollment; classes begin Feb 19th

All donations and fees support the garden infrastructure.
No individuals or company profits from association to WCG.

Green Cities Local Food Coalition Food Shed Forum,
February 8,2020, 9:30am - 2:30pm
Pikes Peak Community College Centennial Campus

This will be an inspiring experience and an opportunity to strengthen connections among people who care about sourcing your food as locally and healthfully as possible.

🧚‍♂️*Feel free to share and comment on this post so that others can find and support this great cause!*🧚‍♂️

Please spread the word. We are only as good as we speak our truth to power!

On Wednesday the 29th CSU is having an open house on energy issues.

This will be an opportunity for folks to state their priorities on our energy future.

Jan 29th
6:00 pm
Library 21c
Chapel Hills and Jamboree

🧚‍♂️*This is an opportunity to make your voice heard. Share this post and comment to help others find out about this upcoming event*🧚‍♂️

Please take a few minutes to fill out the HNA 2020 Membership Feedback Survey

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/QY8Y8CT

This survey is an opportunity for the HNA to connect with our membership and get an understanding of what our community expectations currently are and how we can do more as a community in 2020 and moving forward.

Miriam's Place is hosting a special auction of "The Shaman" by Artist Shanon Padmore!

The second Saturday in January is National Vision Board Day⁠
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What do you see happening for your business in 2020?⁠
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Today is a great day to take some time to set your goals for 2020 and put them where you can see them!⁠
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Share your vision board in the comments to help inspire others!

Happy New Year! May you pursue new opportunities and receive amazing rewards! #2020