“Some of you were lessons, some of you were poetry, and all of you were necessary. Either way, you gave me a story to tell. No royalties will be issued. Wishing you all the best (but mostly therapy).” Cara Alwill By: Gabriela Yareliz I can hear Fergie’s Big Girls Don’t Cry being blasted by myContinue reading “Necessary People”
Author Archives: Gabriela Yareliz
Through
“Hear the voices. Feel the fire’s fury. Watch the collapse. Give your trembling terror. The way out is through.” Rainier Wylde
Ricky
By: Gabriela Yareliz I typically avoid tourists. Most New Yorkers do. We don’t have time for slow walkers or people who take up the entire walkway with their tour group. Today, I was walking through an area that attracts a high volume of tourists. Central Park. As I was walking, some food cart was blastingContinue reading “Ricky”
A Starbucks Monolgoue
“You have to pay a price for your distinctiveness, and it’s worth it.” Jeff Bezos By: Gabriela Yareliz I stopped at Starbucks this morning for a boost of energy; matcha. I felt a lot of desperate energy from the staff. Businesses— they lose their soul through rapid expansion, technological advances, being sold, having a changeContinue reading “A Starbucks Monolgoue”
Recent Thoughts on Truth
“My dear, the real truth always sounds improbable, do you know that? To make truth sound probable you must always mix in some falsehood with it. Men have always done so.” Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Demons
Different
“If you want something different, you are going to have to do something different.”Jack Canfield By: Gabriela Yareliz This may be one of the hardest lessons life offers us. Hard because ‘different’ requires courage. It requires risk. It often requires uncertainty and the unknown. It requires sitting down and doing the hard work of tryingContinue reading “Different”
In the Dark
“Ironically, though light can be scarce at night, the darkness can often bring clarity.” Richard Christensen By: Gabriela Yareliz We often talk about the clarity light brings us. We rarely talk about the clarity found in darkness. The truth is, some of the darkest moments in life clarify things for us. We see things notContinue reading “In the Dark”
Ideas for NYC: Open Letter #2
By: Gabriela Yareliz Dear Eric Adams (Mayor): Public things require courteous and considerate users. Absent that, they are destroyed. Public libraries (which we should talk about because funding is being cut, and they barely function pre-cut), public pools, public parks— but let’s talk about public transport. Public transport is the pool everyone is peeing in.Continue reading “Ideas for NYC: Open Letter #2”
Mario Joseph
By: Gabriela Yareliz Today, I cried when I heard of the passing of Mario Joseph. Mario was a Haitian human rights attorney that I worked extensively with through BAI for my asylum cases. It was a thrill to meet him in-person at the Center for Constitutional Rights Social Justice Conference in summer of 2014, afterContinue reading “Mario Joseph”
Self-Narration
I have been currently reflecting on the following: “We become the stories we tell ourselves.” Michael Cunningham
GABRIELA YARELIZ 