Newsletter September 2025

Subject: Ruth’s Mnthly Report: Nerves, Noodles, and Noticing 🧠🍜✨

Dear Friends,

If August was juggling flaming swords on a unicycle, September was trying to make ramen while the smoke alarm “coached” me from across the room. 🔥🍜🚨 Somehow, we still ate—and learned a lot along the way.

Here’s what I set out to accomplish in the past 30 days:
✨ Share more conversations about emotional intelligence (gentle, practical, human).
🎙️ Shape a few meaningful audio episodes that favor compassion over criticism.
🧰 Tidy up some behind-the-scenes systems so creativity flows with fewer hiccups.
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Refresh a simple parent-support offer with clearer outcomes.
📝 Draft bite-sized EQ prompts people can use in real life—not just read and forget.

Here’s what I actually finished:
🌊 Refined messages that keep Aloha at the center—firm on values, soft on people.
🔧 Simplified a couple of workflows so I spend more time creating, less time clicking.
🤝 Clarified what parents can expect: calmer moments, clearer boundaries, kinder conversations.
🧩 Organized EQ prompts into a small toolkit: notice → name → choose a kind next step.
📣 Wrote short, hopeful posts designed to spark reflection (not arguments).

Tragic moment: 😩 Realizing “add more hours to the day” is still not a viable productivity hack.
Humorous moment: 😂 Counting my drafts and realizing I could start a “Museum of Nearly Finished Things.”
Hopeful moment: 🌱 Watching one well-crafted message land with someone who needed it—that’s enough.
Desperate moment: 😵‍💫 Whispering to my to-do list at midnight, “What if we… didn’t?” (We did. Eventually.)

EQ Notes I’m keeping:

• Presence > perfection. One grounded piece beats three rushed ones. 🧘‍♀️

• Clarity builds trust. Outcomes simple enough to circle with a crayon. 🖍️

• Energy is currency. Systems should serve soul, not the other way around. ⚖️

By the Numbers (vibes, not vanity):

• Conversations outlined: ✔︎

• Support offer clarified: ✔︎

• EQ prompts organized: ✔︎

• Workflows simplified: ✔︎

• Gentle posts drafted: ✔︎

Progress isn’t always loud. Sometimes it’s a quiet click where something finally fits. 🧩

Onward,
Ruth 🌺

Quotes about Children

"The best inheritance a parent can give to his children is a few minutes of their time each day." - Orlando Aloysius Battista

"Your children need your presence more than your presents." - Jesse Jackson

"The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother." - Theodore Hesburgh

"Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see." - Neil Postman

"A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path." - Agatha Christie

"Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands." - Anne Frank

"Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you." - Kahlil Gibran

"To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while." - Josh Billings

"Children are not things to be molded, but are people to be unfolded." - Jess Lair

"The soul is healed by being with chIldren." - Fyodor Dostoevsky

"The most important work you will ever do will be within the walls of your own home." - Harold B. Lee

"Every child begins the world anew, inheriting both the blessings and the burdens of the past." - T.H. White

"There is no such thing as a perfect parent. So just be a real one." - Sue Atkins

"The way we talk to our children becomes their inner voice." - Peggy O’Mara

"Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life." - Sophocles

"The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, the second half by our children." - Clarence Darrow

"The best way to make children good is to make them happy." - Oscar Wilde

"To understand your parents' love, you must raise children yourself." - Chinese Proverb

"Children make your life important." - Erma Bombeck

"Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you." - Robert Fulghum