A happy Friday morning to you!
We are allegedly in for rain and cooler temps, after today. We’ll take it. So done with summer.
A closet sweep still awaits me.
The week has felt eternal (last week blurred into this week), the weather fluctuated wildly, and we have finally reached the culmination of it.
Florida v. Auburn, this weekend. (Legendary rivalries entering the chat). Hockey starts next week. The Paper is still certifiably hilarious.
This week, I was deep in the following book:
It still shocks me, on these trains, as I see men just sit while all the women stand. It really reveals something disturbing about today’s society.
I felt pretty spent this week, but despite my fatigued energy— here are some of the favorites that caught my attention. I hope you have a relaxing unwind to the week. Cooler weather is on the other side.
“The heart always follows the habit.” Justin Whitmel Earley
“Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.” Donna Tartt, The Secret History
“Creativity is more than making things. It’s actually a way of meeting reality on its own terms.
You look at what’s left. You resist the urge to call it failure. You stay curious. You ask what this strange stew of random events and accidental disappointments might be asking of you now. And then you make something from that.” Rainier Wylde
“Living life as an artist is a practice.” Rick Rubin
This piece had some valid points: If Sexual Liberation Is Empowering, Why Is Everyone Mad at Sydney Sweeney?
“And sometimes true love comes later.” Pamela Kelley
What Exactly Do We Want a 60-Year-Old Female Movie Star to Look Like?
“Maybe freedom isn’t becoming someone new. Maybe it’s realizing how much of yourself was there all along, underneath everything you collected.” Alyssa Lynch
“Spend your money on the things money can buy. Spend your time on the things money can’t buy.” Haruki Murakami
“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.” Ernest Hemingway
“Everyone longs to be loved. And the greatest thing we can do is to let people know that they are loved and capable of loving.”
Fred Rogers
This week’s song (felt feisty this week):
(When I hear this song, I am 12 years old again with my church friends in a Pizza Hut parking lot on a Saturday night. Me rolling my eyes while they try to do parkour off cars like they are in the (at the time) new Jackass movie. We all felt like we were on top of the world).
GABRIELA YARELIZ 