By: Gabriela Yareliz
Chris Kreider and Jacob Trouba (former Rangers Captain) were welcomed back into MSG, as they arrived to play against (and slay) their former team (the NY Rangers) with the Anaheim Ducks. These two trades were among the most controversial, in recent time, steeped in drama from the players to the fans.
The Ducks won 4-1. Kreider and Trouba looked happy— happier than they did before their exit from a team where rumor has it, they both wanted to stay. The departure was hard.
There is a comedian I like, Tony Dabas. The Staten Island native does skits and believably (and kindly) can play a whole range of nationalities. His imitation of accents and mannerisms are so on point. I kept wondering where he was from, and I found a video where he discussed growing up Arab on Staten Island. After 9/11, he started to pretend to be Italian because being associated with anything Arab at that time made your life hell. What started as survival became a full-on comedy style that brings light and laughter to the world.
Bryony Basse survived a disastrous accident that almost killed her and had her bedridden in her early years of being a young adult. What literally almost killed her, plus her rheumatoid arthritis, left her to finding classical Pilates. She healed her body, and now leads one of the best Pilates fitness platforms in the world.
Often, the story is way better on the other side of our pain, loss and shame. Sometimes, it’s that “trade moment”, the moment we are ostracized or the moment that threatens to take us out that takes us to a different level. What I have found as a pattern in these stories is that beyond the darkness comes a season where you are prepared to win.
May we all win 4-1 on the other side of our trade. Shine bright and slay.
GABRIELA YARELIZ 
The sensation , efforts, focus ,timing and breakthrough ; all of them make a recipe for a delicious victory.
Like “elevation” u2! right again. Shine bright & slay.