by Volker Brendel and Sanford Baran

Volker Brendel: Hello, friends! It’s a great pleasure to be with you. It’s been about seven years since I last was in Colorado; it was about time to return. The first impression coming back is that you see familiar sights, street names, and so forth. The airport looks the same. I-25 is still a mess. And, of course, there are the majestic Rocky Mountains—to my eyes, unchanged. Rock solid, you might say. It’s comforting to have some things that can be relied on that don’t change or at least don’t change rapidly.