The Day After Memorial Day

WishesErin
May 26
5 min read

Yesterday, many of us in America paused.

Flags were lowered. Names were remembered. Families gathered beside graves, memorial walls, folded uniforms, photographs, and memories that still ache decades later.

I attended my local community's parade, watched as the veterans stood in front of the memorial wall by the tiny town square and saluted. I heard the shots fired and the Taps being played at the cemetery just outside of town, less than a mile walk from the memorial wall.

Yesterday, we honored the men and women (past and present) who stood in defense of this country against enemies foreign and domestic.

But today is the day that matters too.

Because honoring sacrifice means more than ceremonies once a year.

It means asking: What kind of country are we actually building with the freedom they protected?

And perhaps more importantly: What have we allowed ourselves to become?

At Wellness Wishes, we believe remembrance without restoration is incomplete.

We believe the next era of America will not be rebuilt through extraction, corruption, fear, overreach, dependency, or systems that consume people faster than they heal them.

It will be rebuilt through stewardship. Through truth. Through sovereignty. Through responsibility. Through remembering. Wellness Wishes was born for this moment.

Redefining Philanthropy

The old systems taught us that philanthropy is transactional: A few give money. Many remain dependent. Institutions grow larger. Communities grow weaker.

We reject that model.

The old extractive model is DYING. The New Earth model is already growing.

The future is regenerative.

In a regenerative system, every person contributes value. Through money, yes, but also through wisdom, labor, care, creativity, protection, teaching, healing, cultivation, and presence.

Money is energy. And energy must circulate in ways that restore life instead of extracting it.

This is not charity. This is collective stewardship.

The Guardian Protocols

Every person, partner, project, initiative, and program connected to Wellness Wishes operates under what we call the Guardian Protocols.

These principles exist to ensure coherence, ethical alignment, accountability, transparency, harmony, and protection against the very patterns that have damaged humanity for generations: greed, manipulation, exploitation, deception, ego-driven leadership, and abuse of power.

It protects against groupthink, demands regenerative cycles instead of depletion, and locks service to the collective over personal enrichment. This is not optional branding language. It is our operating system.

The systems of the future cannot be built with the consciousness that poisoned the old ones.

If we want a different world, we must govern ourselves differently.

Taking Back What America Was Meant To Be

Wellness Wishes is NOT interested in preserving the illusion of freedom while communities collapse beneath debt, sickness, corruption, isolation, and institutional abuse.

Americans still remember something deeper: truth, freedom, transparency, local power, community responsibility, personal sovereignty, and the right to live without constant extraction from every direction.

People are exhausted from systems that take and take and take. All while giving back dependency, confusion, illness, division, and fear.

We are DONE tolerating fraud, waste, abuse, corruption, and unchecked power; whether its governmental, corporate, medical, financial, or institutional.

We REJECT overreach. We REJECT identity fragmentation that divides us.

We stand with survivors.

With veterans.

With protectors.

With truth-tellers.

With those who refuse to back down regardless of personal cost.

And we refuse to forget the sacrifices made by those who believed this nation could still become something honorable. The sacrifices of yesterday demand better from us today. Their courage seeds our work.

ANCHORING IN 2026...

B3 Agriculture & Conservation

The Earth remembers what humanity forgot.

Healthy soil. Living seeds. Clean water. Pollinators. Biodiversity. Regenerative agriculture. Sacred relationship with the land.

B3 exists to protect and restore the ecosystems that sustain life itself.

Not through exploitation. Not through chemical dependency. Not through corporate extraction disguised as progress.

Through stewardship.

The future of human health will not come from deeper disconnection from nature. It will come from remembering how to live in harmony with it again.

Meraki Apothecary

Meraki is about reclaiming spiritual, mental, and physical sovereignty.

For too long, human beings have been taught to surrender their power...to institutions, industries, systems, and external authorities that profit from prolonged suffering.

We are remembering that healing is not owned by corporations.

The Earth provides medicine. The body carries intelligence. Stillness restores. Meditation heals. Energy matters. Holistic practices matter. Human beings were never meant to exist as permanent consumers of sickness.

Meraki exists to help people reconnect with the tools, wisdom, and practices that help them heal from the inside out.

Bubba Eats

Food is not supposed to be synthetic, disconnected, and lifeless.

It is supposed to connect us: to the Earth, to family, to culture, to nourishment, to gratitude, and to one another.

Bubba Eats exists to restore the sacred relationship between humans and what sustains them.

We REJECT the industrial systems that prioritize profit over health, convenience over vitality, and mass production over integrity.

We believe food should heal communities...not poison them.

The Dagaz Project

Dagaz honors those who have sacrificed for their communities, families, and country.

Veterans.

First responders.

Survivors.

Protectors.

The exhausted.

The grieving.

The unseen.

But healing cannot stop with the individual.

Trauma ripples through families, communities, and even animals who carry the emotional residue of human suffering.

Dagaz exists to help survivors remember their strength, their dignity, and their capacity to heal, not only for themselves, but for future generations.

Animal Wishes

Humanity cannot heal while continuing to brutalize the beings we share this Earth with.

Animal Wishes exists to restore interspecies trust and remembrance.

Animals are not commodities. Not testing equipment. Not disposable property.

They are conscious beings capable of connection, intelligence, emotional resonance, protection, healing, and love.

When humans and animals heal together, something ancient reawakens inside both.

Tails & Tea

Animals are family.

Tails & Tea exists to nourish both human and animal well-being while helping communities remember that companionship is sacred, not transactional.

Care is sacred. Nutrition is sacred. Presence is sacred.

Healing often begins in the quiet moments: a shared meal, a rescued animal, a conversation, a safe place to rest, a community table.

Wellness Wishes' Funds & The Mall Market Project

Communities deserve ownership over the places they live, work, raise families, and build memories.

These initiatives are rooted in regenerative economics: returning land, spaces, homes, commerce, and opportunity back to the people connected to them.

Not absentee extraction. Not endless displacement. Not systems where communities generate wealth that disappears elsewhere.

We believe restoration must become local again.

Wish Granted

At the center of everything is one simple truth:

Humanity does not survive through domination.

It survives through love.

Truth.

Forgiveness.

Compassion.

Courage.

Accountability.

And the willingness to protect what is sacred.