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PUEBLO SERENA HOA BOARD OF DIRECTORS

JUNE 2025

Board Chair : Anamaria Erickson.................................................................................415-988-5882

Treasurer: John Kyle......................................................................................................415-341-2463

Secretary: Robert Bruce ………………………………………………………………650-678-4122

Director-at-Large: Bert McCarthy ……………………………………………………755-221-0040

Designated Tenant Representative (DTR): John Kyle 415-341-2463

GSMOL Super Chapter President: Ann Colichidas … 415-902-7690

GSMOL V.P. Membership: Carol Werner 707-935-1235

PS & HOA Email Communications: Hugh McBride .. 707-934-0860

Social Activities Coordinator: Linda Bruce 650-678-4121

Emergency Response Coordinator: Mike Colhouer 707-227-0848 Sandi Bird Homeowners’ Phone List: 415-450-1755

Cul-de-Sac Coordinator: Linda Bruce #112 Merida 650-678-4121

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707-732-0624

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Monica Wohlferd #35 707-939-3683

Cathy Flight #43 415-531-5489

Terry Swartt #59 707-225-6864

Keval Nguyen #58 415-203-3323

Kathy Jewell #126 707-225-4804

Barbara Rose #123 707-592-8892

Sandy Colhouer #75

707-318-3480

Barbara Crow #94 415-308-6204

Carmen Naimish #99 805-745-1520

Diane Lumiere #113 916-761-3234

Donna Tranchina #117

707-938-7674

Happy Summer Solstice

June 20

JUNE 2025

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TENDING OUR SOUL GARDEN

A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life. James Allen

Every garden needs tending, including the garden of our soul. One of the symbolic exercises we did at an elder leadership training I attended was called “Weeds and Seeds.”

Weeds: In the morning we were asked to go on a kind of scavenger hunt and find items in nature that represented the “weeds” in our soul garden that were interfering with our ability to live joyfully and express fully. What I’ve noticed about my home garden is that weeds have a habit of spreading quickly and choking out the plants I am trying to grow. I suspect the same is true for our soul garden where negative attitudes, destructive habits and limiting beliefs can take over if we don’t pay attention and learn to control them.

For many of us doing the exercise, the “weeds” included such things as a tendency to get distracted by unimportant things, assuming too many responsibilities, living in the past, lack of confidence in our abilities, unhealthy lifestyles, difficult relationships and dreary routines that did not inspire our imagination.

Seeds: The afternoon session focused on finding things that represented the “seeds” we wanted to plant in our soul garden. Like seeds in a home garden, these also require our effort and attention. The ground must first be cultivated, the seeds must be watered and fertilized, and once they mature, they require regular attention to ensure that they survive and thrive.

In the exercise, some in our group wanted to plant a “seed” for improved physical wellbeing through a healthier diet and more exercise. Others felt the need to cultivate opportunities for more intellectual and spiritual stimulation. A few wanted to focus more by setting priorities and limiting their commitments.

Like good master gardeners, most of us have a vision of how we want our soul gardens to look, but we sometimes neglect to do the necessary weeding and seeding. As elders, it is easy for us to become complacent and allow our soul gardens to become barren in some areas and overgrown or weed-choked in others.

What are some “weeds” that you would like to remove from your soul garden? What are some “seeds” that you would like to plant?

Gary Hermes is an 86-year old resident of Sonoma Oaks. This is one of a series of his “thoughts” on the challenges and opportunities of aging as he shares his elder journey. He would love to hear your reflections as well. You can reach him at (707) 227-6935 or via e-mail at GaryDHermes@comcast.net

What's more fun than a once a month swap meet? A spring clean-up dumpster. Our neighbors were able to dispose of 30 cubic yards of unwanted large items, as well as recycle a lot of items. Living in close proximity to dumpster row, Bill and I were able to observe items arrive and disappear within hours of their arrival. A chair, large basket, [great for storing your sofa blankets], a humming bird feeder, several suitcases, and other finds that I can't remember. We will have another dumpster in the fall, but in the meantime, remember the monthly swap meet. The fourth Tuesday of every month, January through October.

What's more fun than a senior’s brunch? A Bunny Hop, with children. Thank you again, to our wonderful Social Club that plans, cooks, arranges, makes sure we all have scrumptious food including a festive desert, provides a lovely environment to enjoy the food and our neighbors, and cleans everything up at the end of the day. If you haven't already, be sure to thank the members of the Social Committee. As a Granny of three little girls, I want to send a special thanks to Anamaria for creating a fun time for the children. My munchkins were thrilled to enjoy Peeps for the first time. I may have enjoyed a few myself. The Easter Egg Hunt was a huge success.

What's more fun than losing power for 3 days? Oh wait, that was not fun, especially for Lin Marie, and Judy, who had to endure the noise and inconvenience of having their yards dug up. However, Reyffe Electric stepped in and located the problem, provided a backup generator and then fixed the problem and mostly, put back the gardens. What they did not finish Bill and Jim did. And that brings me to the "horde" of people in orange vests, prowling around armed with spray cans of white paint and leaving marks on our driveways and streets. Trust me, this, in the distant future, is going to be a good thing, right after it is an inconvenient thing. All of the gas and electric lines to our homes will be replaced by PG&E. This is for our safety. At that time the new meters will be read by PG&E and the residents of Pueblo will pay them directly for their superior service. Again, this is a year or two away, so save your panic till then.

What's more fun than a story of young love? Of course, a story of love that can be appreciated and savored by those who have been on earth for more than seven decades. For those who have not heard of Nona Schurkes incredibly exhilarating, inspiring, love story, that includes the internet, travels to Sicily, returning married, and planning a celebration for friends and family in Sonoma, then please stop in my office and with her, and Charlies, permission I'll tell you, the whole story. Unless you want to wait and watch it on the Hallmark Channel. I may or may not be working on the screen play now.

Thank you Nona and Charlie for including Bill and I in your joyous celebration.

What's more fun than the swimming pool opening? NOTHING! That’s why everyone wants it to open early. I wish I could tell you with confidence the pool will be open by the time you read this, but I can't, at least not with confidence. If not, then by May 30th for absolute sure, or weather permitting. For every time you ask us to open early, I check with my superiors three times. Fingers crossed. That's it. Be kind, thoughtful, and try to give others the benefit of the doubt.

Robin McCormick, Bill Nichols

Resident Managers, Pueblo Serena Estates

Help with Healing through Dreams

Dreams can open us to a whole world of information, insights, into our own lives.

Once I had this pain in my legs which no one seemed to know why or how to fix it. Then I had a dream. In this dream the word “MOLD” in big bold letters showed up on my arm.

When I woke up, I knew immediately what it meant. I looked up symptoms of mold and discovered that only about 10% of the population are susceptible to mold and mold can cause nerve damage.

I was living in the Sunset district in San Francisco for many years and it’s no surprise that mold exists in this foggy part of town. The pain in my legs eventually went away after all the mold remediation was done.

Dreams are windows into the inner worlds. This window can open one up to many, many possibilities. What does it take to have meaningful dreams, remember and understand them? It may take time and effort such as getting enough sleep, writing down your dreams when you wake up, reviewing your notes, and contemplating. It requires a sincere desire to explore the inner worlds, to connect with a spiritual guide or divine source that can protect and lead you through the many levels of the dream universe.

Asimple and easy step to open this window is to chant the word HU, an ancient name for the Creator. Although I learned about HU through Eckankar, the Path of Spiritual Freedom, this word does not belong to any religion or path. It is the Sound behind all Sounds. It can help anyone regardless of spiritual beliefs or non-belief. The body needs food and water for sustenance. The Sound of HU sustains the spirit, it is a vibration of pure love that sustains all life. Insights through dreams are just one of the many benefits one can have when the spirit is nourished and sustained. Would you like to lift your spirit, get help in daily life including health challenges and more? Join us for chanting sessions or start your own practice by downloading the HU app via the link below.

CCC sessions (Chanting-Contemplating-Chatting) every Monday from Noon PM to 1 PM at the P.S. Clubhouse and/or other dates and times that work for you.

Keval Nguyen (415) 203-3323

For more information on HU and/or download the HU App onto your phone:

https://www.eckankar.org/experience/hu-the-sound-of-soul/

For the PUEBLO SERENA SOCIAL COMMITTEE’S JUNE Event

An Ice Cream Social & Welcome to new Neighbors!

Menu: Ice Cream: Vanilla, Neapolitan, Rocky Road. Toppings: Hot Fudge Sauce, Caramel Sauce, strawberries, blueberries, bananas, whipped cream

Plus: Root Beer Floats & Chocolate Chip Cookies

Donations Gratefully Accepted BYOB

FUTURE Pueblo Serena Social Events: October - Halloween

December - Holiday Party

The Pueblo Serena April 2025 BUNNY HOP

Brunch & Easter Egg HuntDELIGHTFUL!

Mimosas were flowing

Welcoming table decorations

MENU: Fruit salad, spiral ham, two coffee cakes, five quiches, a huge frittata, carrot cake, coffee, tea, juices, Peeps & chocolates

The Social Committee created the best Spring brunch ever! Thank you to all who helped!

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happy attendees enjoyed the Spring celebration

Special* How to make a Bunny Cake! By Carol Kelley

For me, making a bunny cake wasallabout the decorations. It was great fun for the most part. It took me a few weeks of fretting and thinking to decide on a direction. I thought I would try to pipe simple shapes from buttercream to decorate the cakes with. But that was a disaster! I had no idea it would take so much strength to squeeze that goop out of a tiny hole! And I had little control! SoI scrapped that idea and went to candy and fruit and coconut. Sent to local grocery stores for ideas for the candy that was fun! I decided to make 2 cakes a boy & a girl. Used 9” rounds, 2 for each cake. One round was the head, the other I cut crescents out of for the ears. So much fun! Took me back to the years I had my children at home and decorated cakes for them! I got the carrot cake recipe on the internet and although a bit more complicated than the usual cake,it turned out very tasty. Spice is everything in the

cake (and carrots) & the recipe knocked it out of the park. So if y’allwant me to be the official Bunny Cake Maker, Iwill sign up! CK

Anamaria invited the Easter Bunny to make an early stop at Pueblo Serena and hid over 60 eggs for our kids to find at the Bunny Hop. Such a nice bunny! A table was set up witha large basket w/ lots of different kinds of candies outside, and then Mara, Emma, Liam,Lila, Evvie, RosieJean and RobbieGrace decorated their bags with their names using crayons, felt pens and stickers. The final touch was picking out special colored grass for their baskets. Then the race was on. We hope you got to see the children running around looking for eggs! After brunch, the kids partycontinued outside with a lot of drawing, coloring, blowing bubbles and eating candy. Anamaria had the best job of all,getting to play with everyone. Thank you to all the parents and grandparents who helped make it so much fun for everyone! Notes by Anamaria

The Easter Egg Special Prize was won byRickMorgan, w/ neighbor Cynthia Boyerenjoyingthe festivities.

Submitted by Cynthia Boyer

“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.” Groucho Marx

Our Caring Community

Helena Friedman - our neighbor on Guadalajara Drive, recently shared a story of a good neighborly deed. She needed assistance w/ her microwave, and after a call for help, she had several neighbors show up.

There are stories like this happening every day in this vibrant & friendly community.

Keep that Attitude of Gratitude going in our lives. Thank you to everyone who takes the time to help a neighbor. LMdV

“Blue

Jay and the Voice of the Wind”

They say that long ago, the Wind had a voice a real one. It used to whisper secrets to the trees, tell stories to the rivers, and sing the dreams of animals while they slept. But the Wind grew tired. Too many ears closed. Too many hearts forgot how to listen. So the Wind went silent.

Blue Jay noticed first. He hopped from branch to branch, tilting his head, frowning, mimicking old echoes. “Where did your stories go?” he shouted at the sky.

No answer.

Just the sound of his own chirp bouncing back. So, Blue Jay decided to find the Wind’s voice himself. He flew into the mountains and tickled the sleeping rocks. He flew into storm clouds and shouted louder than thunder. He dived into rivers, asking the fish if they’d swallowed it.

Still nothing.

But on the seventh morning, as he sat soaked, tired, and covered in pine needles he heard it. Not from the sky, but from within. A tiny whisper. It wasn’t a story. It was a laugh. His own.

And that’s when Blue Jay understood: “The Wind never lost its voice. It just waited for someone curious enough to carry it again.”

Since then, Blue Jay never stops talking. Never stops asking. Never stops laughing because he knows, somewhere in all that noise, a story is waiting to be born.

From Lake Superior OJIBWE CHIPPEWA

From Cynthia Boyer

Submitted by Cynthia Boyer

Thank you to our Serenan delivery guys, Jim & Kent. We appreciate you!

Puzzles and Word Games you can

COMMON MEDS SMALL INCREASES

ADDERALL AMLODIPINE ATIVAN

BENZONATATE BIKTARVY CYMBALTA DUPIXENT

EMTESA FARXIGA GABAPENTIN

HUMIRA

KEYTRUDA

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OZEMPIC PREDNISONE TRAMADOL

VIAGRA XANAX

Across 1.Carbonium, e.g.

4.Charm

9.“Gimme ___!” (start of an Iowa State cheer)

10.Trowel wielder

11.Flexible mineral

13.Believed

14.African conflict of 1899-1902

16.Not out

17.Big Apple attraction, with “the”

18.In attendance

20.Shiver from fear

22.Chill

24.Big time?

25.Wuss

27.Chemical ending

28.“The Republic” writer

29.Darling Down

1.Poets’ feet

2.Part of “the works”

3.“Good one!”

4.Morning, for short

5.Gandhi’s title

6.Conniver

7.Fa follower

8.Terminate

12.Chair part 15.___ bit 18.Companionless 19.C.I.A. director under Clinton and Bush 20.Charlie, for one 21.Page 22.Software program, briefly 23.“For Me and My ___”

26.Rocky’s greeting

The headline is a clue to the answer in the diagonal.

Heliport Wordoku

How to solve wordoku puzzles

You only need logic and patience to solve a wordoku.

Simply make sure that each 3x3 square region has only one letter from the word HELIPORT. Similarly, each letter can only appear once in a column or row

in the larger grid. The difficulty on this puzzle is medium.

TRIVIA TEASER

Looking Glass

1.What weekly radio program has been hosted by Ira Glass since 1995? a"Car Talk," b-"This American Life," c-"All Things Considered," d-"A Prairie Home Companion."

2. What broken crystal animal is offered to Jim by Laura at the end of the Tennessee Williams play "The Glass Menagerie"? a-Unicorn, b-Swan, c-Deer, d-Alligator.

3.What architect designed the glass pyramid in the courtyard of the Louvre Museum in Paris? a-William Burgess, b-I.M. Pei, c- Eliel Saarinen, d- Benjamin Latrobe.

4.What New Wave band had a #1 hit with the song "Heart of Glass" in 1979? a-The Happenings, b-The Dolls, c-Blondie, d-Wang Chung.

5.Father Time carries an hourglass in one hand, and what object in the other hand? a-Football, b-Flute, c-Beaker, dScythe.

6.What actress is accused of being a Soviet spy in the comedy film "The GlassBottom Boat"? a-Doris Day, b-Eleanor Powell, c-Judy Garland, d-Brigitte Bardot.

7.Which of the dwarves in Disney's "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" wore glasses? a-Happy, b-Bashful, c-Doc, d-Grumpy.

8. What was the last name of the police detective played by Ron Glass on "Barney Miller"? a-Meyers, b-OíHara, c-Harris, dRiley.

9. Who recorded the 1974 top 10 song "Long Tall Glasses (I Can Dance)"? a-John Denver, b-Engelbert Humperdinck, c-Carl Douglas, d-Leo Sayer.

10.Selenium is used in glassmaking to create glass of what color? a-Red, b-Yellow, c-Violet, d-Green.

QUOTES

Less ego, more wealth. Saving money is the gap between your ego and your income, and wealth is what you don't see. So wealth is created by suppressing what you could buy today in order to have more stuff or more options in the future.

Morgan Housel

More people can be greater leaders than they think they can, but they need a purpose greater than themselves.

William J. Clinton, 42nd president of the United States.

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.

Frequently attributed to Abraham Lincoln, 16th president of the United State

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan, "Press on," has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.

Calvin Coolidge, 30th president of the United States, from a sign on his desk.

Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.

Andrew Jackson, 7th president of the United States

Live without pretending, Love without depending, Listen without defending, Speak without offending.

Aubrey Drake Graham (Drake), Recording artist, songwriter

If Trivial Pursuit had been designed by economists, it would have had 100 questions and 3,000 answers.

Ronald Reagan

The Lighter Side

Rice Preference

The young woman really thought she'd been very patient through a protracted period of dating with no talk of marriage.

One night her steady boyfriend took her to a Chinese restaurant. As he perused the menu, he casually asked her, "So . . . how do you like your rice? Boiled? Steamed? Or fried?"

Without missing a beat, she looked over her menu at him and replied clearly, "Thrown."

Talking Clock

While proudly showing off his new apartment to friends late one night, one wag led the way to his bedroom where there was a big brass gong.

"What's that big brass gong for?" one of the guests asked.

"Why, that's the talking clock," the man replied. "Watch", the man said, giving the gong an ear-shattering pound with a hammer.

Suddenly, someone on the other side of the wall screamed, "F'gosh sakes, you idiot, it's 2 a.m. in the morning!"

Apples

The children were lined up in the cafeteria of a Catholic elementary school for lunch. At the head of the table was a large pile of apples. The nun made a note, and posted on the apple tray:

"Take only ONE. God is watching."

Moving further along the lunch line, at the other end of the table was a large pile of chocolate chip cookies.

A child had written a note, "Take all you want. God is watching the apples."

Answers to Looking Glass

1-b, "This American Life" 2-a, Unicorn 3-b, I.M. Pei 4-c, Blondie 5-d, Scythe 6-a, Doris Day 7-c, Doc 8-c, Harris 9-d, Leo ayer 10-a, Red

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