By: Gabriela Yareliz I saw a guy with the tip of his hair flicked up with hair gel. It was such a 2003 moment. Speaking of 2003– I was thinking about the two writers who had many of us (me specifically) in a chokehold during the early 2000s. One was Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, writer ofContinue reading “Sarah Dessen is Back”
Category Archives: literature
My Torso is on Fire
By: Gabriela Yareliz It’s going to be a rainy week. Today is the one sunny day, and I am grateful. You can just feel the March energy, even though it was freezing this morning. I saw someone start their post by saying they feel like they are drowning (it was all on the luxury ofContinue reading “My Torso is on Fire”
Circle
“Cézanne painted the same mountain because he wasn’t done seeing it. You are allowed to circle something until it opens.” Rainier Wylde Circle as long as you need to.
Hope
From Tracy Anderson’s newest publication, Atlas: “I hope you connect to your past. I hope you see your stories. I hope you dream forward.” TRACY ANDERSON
Literary Canon
“It’s marvelous to know another person’s entire literary canon by heart. It’s like knowing their secret personal language.” Lauren Groff
Against the Stream
“A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.” G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man
A Lesson from The Abolition of Man
“Did you know C.S. Lewis predicted the modern obsession with “being nice” would destroy the soul? In The Abolition of Man, Lewis argues that when a society stops believing in objective virtue, it doesn’t become tolerant… it becomes manipulable. He calls the result “men without chests.” People with appetites and intellects, but no courage, noContinue reading “A Lesson from The Abolition of Man”
No Bad Weather
“There’s no such thing as bad weather, only unsuitable clothing.” Alfred Wainwright By: Gabriela Yareliz Alfred Wainwright is right. The morning was warmish and damp. I ventured out ambitiously, and now, the temperatures have dropped wildly. I find myself yearning for thicker sleeves and my knit hat my mother made me. I was reminded ofContinue reading “No Bad Weather”
Creation
“Bradley Cooper: Don’t you think if we’re doing our jobs properly, everything’s autobiographical? Guillermo Del Toro: People say, ‘Oh, you identify with the creature.’ In the past, yes. Now I identify with the creator. I’m the antagonist of my own story, as well as the protagonist.” On Frankenstein (Source) By: Gabriela Yareliz I heard somewhere that nothingContinue reading “Creation”
Wintering Reminder
“Plants and animals don’t fight the winter; they don’t pretend it’s not happening and attempt to carry on the same lives that they lived in the summer. They prepare. They adapt. They perform extraordinary acts of metamorphosis to get them through. But that’s where the transformation occurs. Once we stop wishing it were summer, winterContinue reading “Wintering Reminder”
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