By: Gabriela Yareliz
How is this the last favorites for September 2026? Facts.
This week was busy. Left me feeling like Punch in this pic:
My wish came true, and it’s SWEATER WEATHER. The wind has it feeling 9F cooler than it is. A dream. I wore fleece, sweaters and a set of light jackets this week. Bliss.
I was able to rest today. Took it slow in the AM, and saved my workout for the evening. I am proud of my Ladder MAX stats. Top 5%!!
Hockey is baaaack. It has been a bit anticlimactic so far, but we cling to hope. Waiting for the return of Steve Valiquette and the post-game crew on MSG.
These were some of the favorites of the week:
“If you chose to become a parent, the sacrifice was the job. Not a favor you were doing the child.” Vanessa Fitzgerald
“Steps” And The Humanizing Of The Villains
“A world without play is a world without magic. And a world without magic is a world without resurrection. And in a world without resurrection, nothing good can come true.” Justin Whitmel Earley
7 Touchdown-Worthy Desserts for Football Season
“You can tell how much internal shame you have by how judgmental you are. Every judgment you make about someone else is pointing to a part of you that you’re still rejecting. This is why the things that bother you so much are oddly hyper-specific. The lazy person triggers you if you never allow yourself to rest. The needy person triggers you if you learned as a kid that needing was unsafe.” Joe Hudson, executive coach and founder of Art of Accomplishment
This podcast episode:
“Creativity is inconvenient that way. It keeps asking you to be more and more specific. This place. This person. This page. This song. This scene that you’ve already rewritten five other times and honestly want to scrap anyway, but it just keeps calling you back.” Rainier Wylde
In defense of camping— The inconvenient, thankless weekend tradition that I keep insisting on
“Sabbath is a whimsical rebellion against the idea that work is the only important thing in the world.” Justin Whitmel Earley
This is the song of the week, and this dance lives rent free in my head. I think Ezra is the person I am rooting for to go all the way in DWTS. Pure excellence, inspiration, and take-no-shit grit. Let’s goooooo. This sparked joy:
