Zenful Mindings LLC

03/19/2026

🚨 Want to get more involved with the Youngstown Skatepark Association? Now’s your chance!

We’re excited to announce that we’re looking for dedicated community members to join our committees and help grow the Youngstown Skatepark Association as we continue building momentum.

We’re currently seeking people interested in joining one of the following committees:

• Grants & Fundraising – Focused on identifying grant opportunities, coordinating fundraising efforts, and helping secure the financial resources needed to move the skatepark project forward.
• Community Engagement – Focused on outreach, events, partnerships, volunteer coordination, and growing awareness and support for YSA throughout the community.
• Design & Operations – Focused on skatepark design input, project logistics, coordination with partners, and long-term operational planning.

Committee members help support the work of the organization, bring new ideas to the table, and play an important role in advancing our mission to build a free public skatepark in Youngstown. It’s also a great way to get involved and help shape the future of the project.

If you’re interested, please send a resume and/or a short message explaining why you’d like to join and what skills you can bring to the team.

📧 Email your information to YoungstownSkateparkAssociation@gmail.com
and please include which committee you would like to join. 🛹

03/08/2026

03/01/2026

It’s been 2 months since I’ve officially sent out a newsletter, and I’ve been spending my energy reflecting on what messages and information I want to be sending out into the world and how I want to be creating those messages.

My plan is to share a monthly Zenful Zine that has yet to be fully discovered and formed, and I send forth today the first framework in its rawness and colorful bare bones. This has been a real experiment for me internally, and the action of taking markers in my hands for what you see here, and scissors and glue for some things yet to come, has revived this lovely creative and curious energy within me. What an adventure I’m having!

This will be shared via PDF, so if you want it sent directly to you, please subscribe from the linked page while you have a gander at this evolving project :)

It’s been 2 months since I’ve officially sent out a newsletter, and I’ve been spending my energy reflecting on what messages and information I want to be sending out into the world and how I want to be creating those messages.

02/20/2026

A juicy and delicious way to acknowledge and honor all that you are connected to ✨

A ritual of becoming everything

02/16/2026

We’re gearing up for the Pop-Up Skatepark at Penguin City Brewing Co. on Saturday, Feb 21, and we need your help to make it happen! Come hang out, help out, and be part of the action. Scan the QR code or click the link to join the team!
We are currently looking to fill the following shifts:

🛠️ Event Set-up - 2 Days: Help Set-up Skatepark
(Feb. 20 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM)
(Feb. 21 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM)

📋 First Shift Ops (12:00 PM – 4:00 PM): Help run the YSA table and waivers during the youth session.

🌙 Second Shift Ops (4:30 PM – 9:00 PM): Help run the YSA table during the All Ages session.

💪 Event Tear-down (8:00 PM – 9:30 PM): We need 6 people to help us break down the skatepark equipment and load the trailer.

Even if you can only help for a few hours, it makes a huge difference. Thanks for helping us keep Youngstown rolling!

👉 SIGN UP HERE: [https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C044EA4AA23ABFDC16-61872721-penguin?useFullSite=true #/]

01/25/2026

Body movement and play are vital ways we support ourselves, and safe, fun third spaces promote even more of those. Please consider donating to the Youngstown Skatepark Association to help fund events and make this a reality!

We are dedicated to building a free, public skatepark in Youngstown, Ohio—a safe, inclusive space where people of all ages can enjoy skateboarding, BMX, rollerblading, scootering, and other wheeled sports.Our MissionThe Youngstown Skatepark Association is committed to creating a public skatepark t...

01/11/2026

This last week has been... much and devastating and much and horrific and too much. My spirit has been weary. I am making a concerted effort to only tune into the news in manageable spurts. My mental and emotional capacities are thin and I need them intact.

So do you.

This is a reminder to take care of yourself. In your grief, in your devastation, in your anger or disbelief, in whatever you are experiencing, reinforce your resources so you can maintain capacity to function as well as you can.

We cannot do anything if we toil away to nothing. To stand up, we must be able to stand, and that starts with our internal states. So please.

Please.

Please.

Take some time.

Don't live solely in the overwhelm.

This morning I happened upon this lovely poem meditation I wanted to share. Take this 3 minutes to remember what's beautiful. All those things still exist. Each day is still new. And you are so very important.

This poem is a calm and reflective meditation on beginning the day with presence and intention. It encourages letting go of urgency and past burdens, focusing instead on breath, stillness, and mindful awareness. Using nature-inspired imagery and gentle rhyme, it invites the reader to embrace the mor...

12/03/2025

I write to you on our first official snow day ❄️ of the season! Overnight, it snowed 4-5 inches, my daughter has the day off school, and we are here for it!

Last night we did A BUNCH of snow day rituals to help the cause: flushed a few ice cubes down the toilet, danced around, wore our pajamas inside out and backwards, and slept with spoons under our pillows. I have no idea where these come from, and I don’t remember any of this from when I was little, but it was great fun and an absolute delight when we woke up this morning and saw all the snow :)

What magic ❄️

Do you remember the excitement of snow days from when you were a kid? I hope you had that experience. As a grown up, it’s so easy to forget. Very few of us get snow days, and when we do, we might feel relief, but not the tangible electric excitement of snow days of our youth.

In anticipation of today, I made sure to pick up a couple new sleds yesterday since ours broke last year, and we are making time to go try them today. Thrill or fail, it’s going to be a fun time, especially followed by homemade hot cocoa with fresh whipped cream and marshmallows ☕

Today I urge you to remember that feeling from when you were younger and not so bogged down with the serious of being a grown up. Regardless of how many very important responsibilities you shoulder, you still deserve playdates and adventures. We should never grow out of that.

Whenever you see this, it’s your sign to invite yourself to get nostalgic. Have some fun and get silly. Feel good about it. And get down with your bad self ✨

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11/26/2025

I’d like to first send out a ginormous wave of gratitude for all the support and community I’ve connected with over this past year. I’m extra grateful for the opportunities I have to spread some mindfulness and joy in places that are receptive and in need. May we all be so lucky ✨

I’d also like to take this opportunity to reflect on how grateful I am for the hard things we go (and grow) through. I’m specifically referring to the smaller scale things we handle, maybe on the daily or weekly — things we might get so frustrated and annoyed with. And while I wouldn’t wish them on anyone on purpose, I see how we emerge more capable, more resilient, and even brighter than we might have ever thought we’d be.

We’re going through a good string of growing pains in my house. My daughter is growing up, and that means we’re experiencing a healthy mix of separation and maturation, temporarily regressing back to younger childhood behaviors, and springing without warning into teenage mentality. It’s a wild ride for us both.

There’s a lot of tension sometimes, and there is also so. much. awesome. — from the amazing conversations and ways we connect on deeper levels now, to watching her express her own needs and get curious about her interests, to getting a little more free time to explore things that fill me up in different ways, and still leaning into these beautiful family traditions we’ve built together. Pure magic ✨

And today I’m extra grateful because it really landed within me how much I’ve grown and healed from being a parent. I’ve learned stability in love and family, what it feels like to know that an argument isn’t the end of the world, that you can always take a mulligan, and that hugs have this ancient healing power that we don’t tap into enough.

The way I grew up taught me none of that, but along the way, as I’ve been learning how to be the parent I want to be, I’ve been reparenting myself. And that is some big love, and I’m bursting with gratitude for all of it.

In the face of all the things we witness going on in the world today, I hope you recognize how you yourself are a pocket of light. You are a mystical being who has done more than anyone knows or gives you credit for, and you not only persist, you flourish. You make the world better. Thank you for all the ways you show up through the hard things for yourself and others.

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