“You have to have a day on the calendar that scares the sh*t out of you.” Joe De Sena I was enthralled by the conversation between Alex Ikonn and Joe De Sena. Listen to it here. Below, you will find a post from Alex Ikonn on the key take aways. I love De Sena’s schoolContinue reading “Do Hard Things”
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Noise, Despacito
“You need to build a mausoleum in your head with big iron doors so that nobody can get in there except you. You don’t let me in there, you don’t let June in there, you don’t let your manager in there, you don’t let the record company people in there. You have to decide forContinue reading “Noise, Despacito”
—But What is Your Dream?
By: Gabriela Yareliz It was a summer night, and the sun was still shining in the Upper West Side. I was impressed by how bright it was and how tired I felt. I had been looped into a late evening meeting at work and told I could take a car home (which I was gratefulContinue reading “—But What is Your Dream?”
What Abundance Tells Us
By: Gabriela Yareliz If you are rushing around or trying to kill fifteen birds with one stone— this PSA is for you. And you are not alone. I get infinitely frustrated when things unfold inefficiently. I love change. I love speed. I love maximizing. Call it a syndrome from childhood. Sometimes, we need to rememberContinue reading “What Abundance Tells Us”
Nostalgia
“Maybe nostalgia is not a trap, it’s a compass. It points us to what mattered.” Mixtapes by Gor
Peter Crone in Conversation with Alex Ikonn
“Life will present you with people and circumstances to reveal where you are not free.” Peter Crone This conversation between Alex Ikonn and Peter Crone was very interesting, and I really enjoyed it. Sharing here in case of interest. The podcast version is here:
Rebellion
“To write, to really write, in a world that’s become obsessed with brevity and immediacy, has become an actual act of rebellion.” Jordan Younger
Love Received
By: Gabriela Yareliz When a loved one has passed, we still think of them every day. We love them. We miss them. There would be no point in missing someone we won’t see again, but it’s like we know. We know this is not the end. I wonder what happens to all the love accumulatedContinue reading “Love Received”
The Unconscious
“The unconscious wants truth. It ceases to speak to those who want something else more than truth.” ADRIENNE RICH
A Middlemarch Summer
By: Gabriela Yareliz There she was on the train, staring into her copy of Middlemarch by George Eliot. I like Middlemarch. I even read my favorite New Yorker writer’s book that pulls themes from it, Rebecca Mead’s My Life in Middlemarch. Virginia Woolf (one of my all time favorites) said that Middlemarch is “one ofContinue reading “A Middlemarch Summer”
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