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Renovations

“Renovating teaches you something life does too: the plan almost never goes as expected. But the version that happens instead is usually even better.” Danielle Bernstein

“There’s something humbling about realizing your timeline isn’t real… [it] felt like an expiration date.Now it feels like an opening.” Danielle Bernstein By: Gabriela Yareliz I always want to play a game, but we never have enough people to do so. I got this new conversation game from Wilde Paper that I wanted to open,Continue reading “An Opening”

Bits of Beauty and Wisdom

“The uglier the outfit, the better the walk.” Natazia Zu Stolberg “Love isn’t the means to an end. It’s the end.” Amy June

Monday Thoughts (4.13.26)

By: Gabriela Yareliz My brain is a solar system. So much happening and floating around. Here are some of the highlights— in four categories: Boss, Serious, Hilarious and Nostalgic. Boss: Anything Emma Grede Emma Grede’s book Start with Yourself is coming out this week. She is on The Bossticks and Lewis Howes’ School of Greatness.Continue reading “Monday Thoughts (4.13.26)”

Melior De Cinere Surgo

By: Gabriela Yareliz Palm Royale gives us interesting and known tidbits of what it was like to be a woman in the late 60s and early 70s. Nixon, feminists, old money, Vietnam and headscarves. Season 1 ended (spoiler alert!) with Maxine finding out her husband cheated on her and is having a child with herContinue reading “Melior De Cinere Surgo”

Laila Gohar on Living

“I feel uncomfortable when things are too precious.” Laila Gohar to AD It’s always a good time to celebrate, bring out the china, wear the dress, put on the lipstick— today is the day to live.

Neighbors, Histamines and Noticing

By: Gabriela Yareliz I walked out with a neighbor. There is an intimacy to being a neighbor. You hear them yell at their kids, and they see you go grab a package in PJs. So when you see each other fully dressed and calm moving through the real world, it’s always interesting. Not good orContinue reading “Neighbors, Histamines and Noticing”

Some Thursday Inspiration

“Time is a liar. Stop letting the calendar tell you what’s possible. It doesn’t know who you are. It has no clue what’s still alive for you. Culture measures age in years. It tells us to grow older and grow up. To be reasonable. To trade aliveness for safety. But maturity is not measured byContinue reading “Some Thursday Inspiration”

This Week’s Favorites (4.1.26)

“April, the angel of the months.” Vita Sackville-West By: Gabriela Yareliz Thank God March is over. That is all I can say. March was a month that felt a lot like drowning. It’s another day in another week, but when we start a new month, I picture a hand turning a page into a nextContinue reading “This Week’s Favorites (4.1.26)”

Happy at Home

“To be happy at home is the end of all human endeavor. The sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal, or two friends talking over a pint of beer, or a person alone reading a book that interests them; and all economics, politics, laws, armies, andContinue reading “Happy at Home”