Happy June - Let's celebrate Brain Health!

Yay! A new month is always motivation for me to celebrate and June is absolutely a glorious month here in Colorado. The weather is perfect, the flowers are blooming, we are socializing again, and soon, my eyes will be fully functional again.

Part of my monthly ritual is to pick a "theme" for the month and this month that theme is...

...Brain Health!

I've been blogging about Healthy Aging and Brain Health is part of that and (as I've highlighted below) there are several monthly themes in June that I will be celebrating:

• Adopt a Cat Month
  
• Adopt a Shelter Cat Month
• African-American Music Appreciation Month
• Alzheimer's & Brain Awareness Month
• Antiphospholipid Antibody Syndrome Awareness Month
• Aquarium Month
• Audiobook Appreciation Month
  
• Black Music Month
• Cancer from the Sun Month
• Caribbean-American Heritage Month
• Cataract Awareness Month
• Celibacy Awareness Month
• Child Vision Awareness Month
• Children's Awareness Month
• Corn Month
• Country Cooking Month
• Cucumber Month
• Dairy Alternatives Month
• Dairy Month
• Disaster Preparedness Month
  
• Effective Communications Month
• Entrepreneurs "Do It Yourself" Marketing Month
  
• Fight the Filthy Fly Month
• Fireworks Eye Safety Month
• Fireworks Safety Months (June 1 - July 31)
  
• Gay & Lesbian Pride Month
• Georgia Blueberry Month
• Great Outdoors Month
  
• International Childhood Cancer Awareness Month
• International Men's Month
• International Surf Music Month
  
• June Dairy Month
• June is Lane Courtesy Month
• June is Turkey Lovers Month
• Lemon Month
• Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month
  
• Light the Night for Sight Months
• Mango Month
• Men's Health Education and Awareness Month
• Myasthenia Gravis Awareness Month
  
• National Accordion Awareness Month
• National Aphasia Awareness Month
  
• National Bathroom Reading Month
• National Burglary Prevention Month
• National Camping Month
• National Candy Month
• National Caribbean-American Heritage Month
• National Congenital Cytomegalovirus Awareness Month
  
• National Dairy Month
• National DJ Month
• National Fresh Fruit & Vegetable Month
• National Frozen Yogurt Month
• National GLBT Book Month
  
• National Homeownership Month
• National Iced Tea Month
• National Microchipping Month
• National Migraine and Headache Awareness Month
  
• National Ocean Month
• National Papaya Month
  
• National Pest Control Month
• National Pet Preparedness Month
  
• National Rivers Month
• National Rose Month (Wine!)
• National Safety Month
• National Scleroderma Awareness Month
• National Seafood Month
• National Smile Month
• National Soul Food Month
• National Steakhouse Month
  
• National Turkey Lover's Month
• Okra Month
• Perennial Gardening Month
• Pharmacists Declare War on Alcoholism Month
• Pluot & Aprium Month
• Potty Training Awareness Month
• Prepare Tomorrow's Parents Month - May 9 - June 20, 2021 (From Mother's Day to Father's Day)
• Professional Wellness Month
• PTSD Awareness Month
• Rebuild Your Life Month
  
• Rose Month
• Skyscraper Month
• Social Petworking Month
  
• Sports America Kids Month
• Student Safety Month
  
• Vision Research Month
• Women's Golf Month
• World Infertility Month
• Zoo and Aquarium Month

Here are some of the goals I hope to accomplish in June related to these themes:

• Start up my Carpe Diem Connections Podcast again (using my new microphone)
• Interview Baroness Susan Greenfield, a renowned neuroscientist, about Brain Health (I discovered her through the Douglas Adams event in March.)
• Interview Janet Blaser about her life as an expat living in Mexico
• Finish my cataract surgery post-op treatments and resume hiking, weight-lifting, and socializing!
• Take Coursera Class: Brilliant, Passionate You
• Take Coursera Class: Biohacking Your Brain's Health
• Eat Brain-Healthy Foods
• Figure out an alternative way for blog readers to subscribe to this blog (since Feedburner is being discontinued.)
• Support the fight to end Alzheimer's.

How about you? How will you be keeping your brain healthy, happy, and active in June?