Saturday reflection. ☕️ What a difference a couple of weeks can make. One portfolio finally strung together two straight green weeks instead of the usual YTD pattern of high, dip, bounce, dip, bounce. Hoping the other two for my wife and a friend can break that cycle soon too. If this is the start of a sustainable bottom heading into earnings season, that would be a nice shift. 30+ years in these markets has shown me the noisy headlines — war, economic data, whatever — don’t matter as much as staying calm through the volatility. Nervous is ok. Scared isn’t. Keep an open mind, persist, and persevere. You get to the other side by wading through the noise and echo chambers, not getting caught in them. Jays trying to keep the momentum going in San Diego as we near the All-Star break. Final two World Cup quarterfinals should be exciting with England on the pitch with Norway and Argentina playing Switzerland. Garden work is mostly done except for the monthly grass cuts — veggies coming along and still waiting on those apples and pears for a good harvest in a few months. Might hit the beach, visit my nieces, or squeeze in another mahjong game with friends. Always comes back to purpose, priorities, health, mental health, time, and money. Value them well and don’t let others control how you spend them. Let the Joneses chase their alter-reality. You stay a step ahead by living your own reality. Have a great weekend, everyone.