Just completed the ADHD Awakening Assessment and finally saw it: I'm not someone who "just quits or fails again." I'm someone whose brain comes alive with fast feedback, green space, animals, and helping someone who needs me. The proof was in my own answers the whole time - I finished two diet modules, my morning routine is already beautiful, and the 200-acre girl who read books in trees is still in there. Time to build the life she's been waiting for.

Our (my wife’s) dog died 8:20PM EDT this evening. It was a coincidence about the bone I was panicked about earlier. He had a heart murmur since he was young, and congestive heart failure. The doctor guaranteed it had nothing to do with the ham bone. No mass and no pain when he was examined. An ultrasound was done and his liver was “angry” looking. His liver tests levels were off the charts due to the medicine he was on for his heart. The medicine helped one organ and killed another. Anyways, I needed to take a shower as I was holding him for a while. I came out of the shower and I saw our big dog, his name is Flynn, like this. That hit me hard seeing him appear to be guarding Oslo. Then I went to show my wife the picture in the other room, and apparently my dog, Flynn (in picture) and our dachshund, Lily in another picture with Oslo, had gone over and each gave him a Kiss. Then I see this picture so different now. His big brother is guarding him. It’s sad when we lose a family or friend, but it is different when it’s a pet. They show unconditional love, no matter how you are feeling or whatever mask we are wearing. I don’t post to social media. This is a safe space still, right? Thank you.

This is my focus for this week. This lovely little girl, 10yo, found as a stray ended up in the pound before a rescue centre took her in. She arrived a couple of hours ago, and is in her forever home now. This week, everything else can wait.

📅 Daily Check-in - May 25, 2026 "Kelly, what you wrote tonight is the sound of something coming back online inside you. After months of grief, illness, and the dull weight of not knowing what's next, an idea arrived that fits you so precisely it almost feels suspicious, a course built from fifteen years of teaching, shaped for the very people you understand most deeply, with your brother beside you. The wisdom you're already holding, to ride this wave without rearranging your whole life on its crest, is the real breakthrough here. You're learning that excitement isn't a command to leap; it's information to sit with until the feeling settles into something steady and true."