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From Me To You... There is a strange amnesia that comes with rapid change, and most of us never notice it happening. Something once impossible arrives, stuns us for a up, which says less about SpaceX and more about my attention span, currently rivaling a golden retriever near a tennis court.
season, then folds into the background of ordinary life. We stop looking up. I include myself, since my capacity for wonder has the shelf life of a rotisserie chicken. Consider what it must have felt like in 1938 when Orson Welles aired his radio adaptation of War of the Worlds. People genuinely believed Martians had landed in New Jersey. Cars clogged the roads as families fled imaginary invaders. It sounds comical now, and I like to think I would have been smarter than that, though I am relatively sure I would have been the first to peel out of my driveway. The fear then was real because an alien arrival still lived entirely in fiction, so when it seemed to happen, panic filled the space where understanding should have been. Compare that to watching a SpaceX rocket climb into the sky, something that would have seemed like pure fantasy a couple decades ago. I remember standing in California watching one go up, feeling genuine amazement and a strange secondhand pride, as if I had personally contributed more than mild applause. Now those launches happen so often I barely glance
This isn’t a failure of imagination. It is simply how attention works. We are built to notice change, not sustain wonder at a fixed state, however extraordinary. The first time is astonishing. The hundredth time is Tuesday, and most of us can barely stay awake through Tuesdays as it is. What’s worth paying attention to is not that awe fades, because it always will, but what we do once astonishment wears off. Do we shrug and scroll on, or think about what we’ve built and where it’s taking us. The real question is whether any of us look up long enough to ask what we want the next headline to be, before it becomes another shrug and a glance back at our phones. Because at the rate we’re going, the aliens could actually land, and most of us would just check if there was a post about it on Facebook. Catherine Uretsky Editor, CB Living Magazine info@estrellapublishing.com 623.398.5541
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Directions 1. Preheat oven to 350°. 2. Pat chicken dry then sprinkle with salt, pepper, and garlic powder. 3. Place chicken in a greased 13x9-in. baking dish. 4. In a small bowl, combine salad dressing and sour cream; spread over chicken. 5. In a separate bowl, combine crushed croutons, Parmesan cheese and melted butter; sprinkle over chicken. 6. Bake, uncovered, until a thermometer reads 165°, 45-55 minutes. 7. Sprinkle with parsley. 8. Serve with salad for an easy healthy dinner, or pasta if you love carbs!
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Walking with the Animals Starting a walk before daybreak is, I hear, the only way to beat the summer heat. One friend was telling this to his neighbor, and she asked if that was dangerous with all the wild animals here. “Aren’t you afraid the coyotes, javelinas, or bobcats will attack you?” He explained that they’ll avoid him if he doesn’t corner them or get between them and their young. A bobcat is likely to just ignore you without moving. “If people are really anxious,” he said, “they should carry a big stick and a flashlight.” “And what about mountain lions?” she asked. “I’ve seen pictures of them in here.” He said he’d believe that when he saw it himself. Someone in Sun City West posted cougar paw prints on Facebook, but never a photo of the cougar. A cougar could pass through, but I doubt one stays long, any more than the Sun City West one is a resident. A healthy mountain lion avoids people; we aren’t on their menu. An injured cougar that can’t catch fast game might try a person, but it’s unlikely one would make it all the way to CB from the White Tank Mountains.
Javelinas often raid garbage cans just before dawn, and during winter cool spells they’re sometimes active by day too. To keep them from prying open your can, don’t let the bag fill past a foot from the top, or set it out the morning of pickup. Several residents have modified their cans to keep javelinas out. They aren’t hunters, just opportunists after garbage, agaves, and tender young plants. Walk early enough and you might spot a great horned owl hunting, or one of our Cooper’s hawks swooping low. If a hawk targets your bird feeder, remove it for a week to break the routine, then rehang it near dense shrubs, switch to a caged feeder, or add obstructions overhead. These hunters keep down rabbits, doves, quail, snakes, rats, and lizards. Coyotes and bobcats favor rabbits but eat mice and lizards too; bobcats love a fat dove. A leftover foot, scattered feathers, or small innards means one of them has been on the job. Nobody’s starving here in CB, and none of them are hunting us. But keep an ear out for any news of mountain lions. Submitted by G. G. Wosi, Corte Bella resident
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The Back-to-School Mindset Isn’t Just for Kids There’s something powerful about a fresh start baked into the calendar. You don’t have to be a student to take advantage of it. Walk into any Target or Walmart in August and you’ll feel it immediately, the back-to- school energy. New notebooks. Fresh supplies. The faint promise of a clean slate. Kids feel it instinctively. What’s interesting is that adults can access that same reset, and most of us never think to try. Psychologically, what makes the back-to-school season so potent is what researchers call a “temporal landmark”, a point in time that feels like a meaningful boundary between the past and the future. Studies published in the journal Psychological Science have shown that people are significantly more likely to pursue goals and make positive changes right after a temporal landmark: a new year, a birthday, a Monday, Wellness
or, yes the start of a school year. The calendar creates a mental permission structure. The old version of you was last season. This version gets to be different. You don’t need to be enrolled in anything to harness that. August is a genuinely good time to audit your habits, your routines, and your goals, not in a punishing way, but with the same curious, optimistic energy a kid brings to a new backpack. What’s working? What got lazy over the summer? What did you mean to start in January that you still haven’t? The back-to-school mindset also carries a social dimension worth borrowing. Kids returning to school are thinking about community, new classmates, new teachers, reconnecting with old friends. For adults, this is a nudge to ask the same questions. Are you plugged into your community here in the West Valley? Are you showing up for the people and things that matter? Routines are also easier to establish in August than in January, because the environment is already shifting. Kids are back on schedules, evenings get quieter earlier, and the oppressive heat of summer starts, slowly, to relent. Use the momentum the season is already generating.
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AUGUST 21 THROUGH SEPTEMBER 13, 2026 When four fading Broadway stars hear about a small-town high school’s decision regarding the annual prom, they swoop in to save the day – while also hoping to revive their own careers. Their over-the- top activism clashes with small-town traditions, leading to chaos, comedy, and ultimately, change. The Prom is a joyous celebration of being true to yourself and dancing to your own beat!
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Puzzles & Games Back to School and Back to a challenging Sudoku. Fill every row, column, and 3 × 3 block with the numbers 1 to 9 without repeating them.Overlap boxes belong to both connecting grids. Any number placed in an overlap cell must be valid in both grids simultaneously. Solutions are on our website www.EstrellaPublishing.com, or scan the QR code.
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As the golden season approaches and Corte Bella begins to awaken, homeowners and winter residents are already envisioning their next chapter — from refined lock ‑ and ‑ leave retreats to spacious lifestyle homes crafted for elevated living. Sellers ready to move forward and embrace the next chapter life has waiting for them. New Era of Power, Precision & Proven Corte Bella Expertise This year marks a powerful evolution for I Got Gows. We are proud to welcome Lillee A. Myers, Realtor®, JD, whose expertise in contracts, trusts, and modern marketing brings a new level of strategic protection to our clients. Her legal insight, combined with our proven success of selling over 250 homes in Corte Bella, strengthens our family ‑ driven approach in a way the community has never experienced. If you’re considering a move, now is the ideal moment to position yourself ahead of the seasonal surge. A personalized, luxury ‑ level market analysis can help you plan with confidence and clarity. To the right are reflections from sellers who have entrusted their homes to I Got Gows — and experienced the difference of true expertise.
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