CREATE

 

Just start by creating your day. Then create your life."

- P

STORM ON THE WATER

 

ATLANTIC COAST

 

JUNE 2026

 

MEMORIAL DAY

 

RACE DAY

Today is the 110th Running of the Indianapolis 500 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

And we so happen to be in Indianapolis this morning! The talk at breakfast was all race this and race that. The televisions all had race info and commentary. 

The sky is overcast, but it’s not raining, so I bet all the race goers are happy. 

We are making our way out of town. Happy to have had the opportunity to see Indy as we make the last leg of our full circle weekend. 

OH CANADA

 

“Growing older gracefully means having a keen curiosity about learning things about the world that you didn’t know yesterday, no matter how many yesterdays you’ve had.”

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– PL

We are all aging, daily, but as I do I’m trying to take the opportunity to reduce stress, love more, cultivate my environment and my curiosity. And take every opportunity to experience new! 

Yesterday we went to Canada. Another first for me. 

Yes, I checked it off the bucket list, but truly I think it just opened my North American bucket list far 

far more! 

Growing old beautifully! 

🍁

TRUTH

 

“The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything.”

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– THEODORE ROOSEVELT

JUNGLE JIM’S

 INTERNATIONAL MARKET

4450 Eastgate S Dr, Cincinnati, OH 

&

4450 Eastgate S Dr, Cincinnati, OH

 

We went to Both!!!

ORDINARY

  “Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary,”

;

 A darling friend ended her life this week. Never would I have imagined that her life would end this way. 

Everything about her seemed so great, so perfect. She was a truly charming and accomplished young woman, with so much future ahead of her. 

To say this was a shock to everyone, is a fact. No one who knew her could have imagined this. 

Our lives were all better for having known her. She was such a great person. 

Her death is truly unbelievable. I cannot wrap my head around this at all. 

Everyone who knew Avery is deeply saddened. 

She was loved.

COURAGE

 

Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.

THE VOICE OF NATURE

Happy 100th Birthday to Sir David Attenborough!

 

“It seems to me that the natural world is the great source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.”

IN THE YARD

 

MEANING & PURPOSE

 

BELIEVE

Your mind will always believe what you tell it. 

So fill it with hope, 

fill it with truth, 

but most of all, fill it 

with love. 

 

LET IT GO

 

MEANINGFUL MAY

 

TODAYS TRUTH

Surround yourself with people who make you happy, who make you laugh, who help you when you are in need. People who genuinely care. They are the ones worth keeping in your life. Everyone else is just passing through.

PROTECTING ME

 Years ago a really catchy song came out. I loved the tune. My son was about 17 at the time, and when it came on the radio I turned it up and told him that I loved this song. Mark asked me if I had listened to the lyrics. I said no, it was hard to decipher so I just went with what I thought the words were. My sweet son said that the song was really catchy but he asked me not to ever look at the lyrics. 

That was about a decade ago. You rarely hear that song on the radio now. But the other day I was modifying a play list and that song came up as one that I may like to add. When I listened to it, I instantly loved it all over again. I was about to add it to my playlist, when I thought, maybe, since I’m not the only person that follows my playlist, I should know the lyrics. 

So I read them as I listened. And like so many great songs, I found out that the lyrics are nothing like I thought they were. I was sad. This tune that I really liked is all about a subject that I cannot glorify. 

I did not add the song to my playlist. I cannot promote, in my life or anyone else’s, such negativity. No matter how fun it sounded and no matter how catchy the tune. 

I am so pleased with my children, for watching out for their mom. For wanting to protect me from the rathe of the world, even when it’s on the Top 40.