“And you do have more agency than you think. You can try anything, make your own rules, make unconventional decisions that might initially only make sense to you. If you’ve never learned to really listen to yourself and figure out what it is you actually want out of life, you can start now.” Erifili Gounari What doContinue reading “Figuring it Out”
Monthly Archives: October 2025
The Struggle with AI
So true. With the mass layoffs this week and last— AI is top of mind. How will the world keep changing? On a day like today where I am dragging myself after hopping onto like 17 trains to get home, can AI clean the bathroom and do laundry? Ugh. It won’t.
A Train (Love) Story
By: Gabriela Yareliz I saw the most precious duo on the train (I know— that is a rare statement). Usually, the trains feel like they emerge from hell (D train, I am looking at you)— but here we are. A different morning. Maybe, I was looking for something different, and that helped me find it.Continue reading “A Train (Love) Story”
A Call to Prayer
By: Gabriela Yareliz At first, I had prepared this as a piece to a post I was going to have go live earlier, but this merits its own post and many more. We encourage all who read to join the global body of Christ in prayer for Kevin Rideout, U.S. missionary abducted last week inContinue reading “A Call to Prayer”
This Week’s Pinterest Mood Board
Commitments
“Our biggest commitments, the things we are most dedicated to, rarely pay us back in equal measure. That might be the point.” Seth Godin
Before Goop There Was My Mom
By: Gabriela Yareliz Before I was obsessed with Gwyneth Paltrow, and before I found the article on Goop that changed my life— there was my mom, my original health influencer. In every house we had, my mom created a garden (not just flowers but food). She has always been a nature person. I think sheContinue reading “Before Goop There Was My Mom”
The Reader
“She likes to read, she reads all the time, and she prefers to be reading several things at once, she says it gives endless perspective and dimension.” Ali Smith, Autumn
The Unexplainable
“But maybe magic isn’t just for kids. Maybe it’s for anyone brave enough to still believe in things they can’t quite explain.” Sadie from The Slow Living Lane
Happy Home
“To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition.” Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) By: Gabriela Yareliz This Dr. Johnson was way ahead of his time. This week has felt so weird. Started with food poisoning, a truck soaked me on my way to work— you could have wrung my pants and allContinue reading “Happy Home”
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