By: Gabriela Yareliz People say that if you want a read on someone’s character (to date or work with, for example), go to a restaurant with them. See how they treat the waiter, they say. Please— anyone can pretend through a meal. I have seen enough fake people to last me a lifetime, especially inContinue reading “Forget the Restaurant”
Monthly Archives: April 2025
Ideas for NYC: Open Letter #3
Dear Eric Adams (NYC Mayor), It has been a minute, and today, I bring to you an important matter— an assault on the eyes— the newly “painted” Verrazano Bridge. Let’s hope this is primer— but look at this bridge, half painted brown. What is this? The brown looks terrible. If the idea is to makeContinue reading “Ideas for NYC: Open Letter #3”
A Loyal Friend
By: Gabriela Yareliz “Anger is a map,” Julia Cameron writes. She says that anger deserves to be listened to, not stuffed away or suppressed as we tend to do. Why? Because it shows us, in the most loyal way, where we have been betrayed and where we have betrayed ourselves. Anger is a loyal friend.Continue reading “A Loyal Friend”
Reflective
“Writing is reflective: the more you write, the more it reveals to you about yourself. A relationship worth having does the same.” Meera Lee Patel
LiMu Emu
Activate my new obsession— LiMu Emu. So cute.
Delight
“The quality of life is in proportion, always, to the capacity for delight. The capacity for delight is in the gift of paying attention.” Julia Cameron
The Real Real
By: Gabriela Yareliz I love to try things. I am a curious raccoon, if you will. There are types of supplements where I have tried them all. The language learning platforms— I have basically tried them all. Something else I have tried a bunch of are fitness platforms. I have talked about this in theContinue reading “The Real Real”
Dreamer DNA
“Keepers of private notebooks are a different breed altogether, lonely and resistant rearrangers of things, anxious malcontents, children afflicted apparently at birth with some presentiment of loss.” Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem By: Gabriela Yareliz I saw this Didion quote, and I know there is truth to it. As a kid, I would write 15Continue reading “Dreamer DNA”
Words for the Silence
By: Gabriela Yareliz Two out of my three trains are on time. I am overcoming my shock. As I do that, I continue to reflect on a passage in scripture that deeply moved me this week. You know, sometimes, you are in a weird season. You feel surrounded by an environment you could do without.Continue reading “Words for the Silence”
Keeping the Soul Alive
“To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.” Robert Louis Stevenson Keep the soul alive.
GABRIELA YARELIZ 