10/22/2026
The Real Story Behind My “Why.” 💙
🤓Trust me, there were a LOT of things I wanted to say at Murrieta City Council.
🧐But I had to ask myself, what was I really hoping to accomplish?
🤔More than anything, I wanted to open hearts. To remind people that our ordinary lives, our memories, and our stories carry meaning long after we’re gone.
💁♀️So instead of another appeal, I shared “Forgetting Rubidoux,” a poem I wrote years ago while studying creative writing at UCR, about my grandfather’s final days in a nursing home.
🤷♀️I don’t know if my message resonated. But it was my truth. And in many ways, my “why.”
🥺Twenty-seven years later, I still had to fight back tears reading it.
Because if you know, you know. Grief never really leaves. It just waits beneath the surface.🫣
And that’s why I founded the Pearl Center for Creative Arts. To help preserve the stories that make us who we are—the beautiful, the heartbreaking, and everything in between.
Someday, we will all be history. The question is, will we be remembered?🪦
