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”
Author Archives: Gabriela Yareliz
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.
The Hard Way
By: Gabriela Yareliz Some people look down on the ones who take the hard road. We live in a time where you can find easy if you want it. These days, things are so convenient that we as a human race lack intimacy with each other (even in the nonsexual sense) because “real intimacy requiresContinue reading “The Hard Way”
Chaos and Harmony
Words by: Alex Ikkon “Life itself is the ultimate psychedelic. No substance. No filter. Just this. This breath. This moment. This miraculous now. It’s the most exquisite trip we’ll ever take. In its raw, unedited form-without enhancements, without escape— Life is already the highest high, the deepest journey. It’s art in motion. Chaos and harmonyContinue reading “Chaos and Harmony”
GABRIELA YARELIZ 