“Every time you’re given a choice between disappointing someone else and disappointing yourself, your duty is to disappoint that someone else. Your job throughout your entire life, is to disappoint as many people as it takes to avoid disappointing yourself.” Glennon Doyle
Category Archives: literature
Anaïs Nin’s Joy
Wisdom from Cameron Diaz
“I was a woman who knew that I was the only critic who mattered, and that it is my job to create the meaning in my life. Just as it is your job to create the meaning in yours.” Cameron Diaz, The Longevity Book 🤍
Lessons from Unburdened
By: Gabriela Yareliz I loved Dorit Kemsley’s book, Unburdened. These were some highlights for me: “Resilience without boundaries can quietly become self-punishment. I had always believed pushing through was strength.” “I care deeply. That will never change. But caring no longer means absorbing. Loving no longer means overlooking. Supporting no longer means silencing myself.” “OnceContinue reading “Lessons from Unburdened”
The Duty for Weary Seasons
By: Gabriela Yareliz I finished reading Tish Harrison Warren’s book on resilience, What Grows in Weary Lands. It is a gem, as all her books are. It had takeaways such as: “But I can wait. I can keep going. The practices of our faith, acts of perseverance and trust that may feel futile, are atContinue reading “The Duty for Weary Seasons”
Today’s Mood board
We must return to old places. We must go back to the places, both internally and externally, that taught us about the magic and wonder of life. Yesterday, through a book, I went back to Lake Michigan. In photographs, I saw the sparkle of the lake that once captivated me as a child. It remindedContinue reading “Today’s Mood board”
The Right Instructions
“You mustn’t wish for another life. You mustn’t wish to be someone else. What you must do is this: rejoice evermore pray without ceasing in everything, give thanks. I am not all the way capable of so much, but those are the right instructions.” – Wendell Berry
Self-Mastery
“The paradox seems to be, as Socrates demonstrated long ago, that the truly free individual is free only to the extent of his own self-mastery. While those who will not govern themselves are condemned to find masters to govern over them.”—Steven Pressfield, The War of Art
The Writing Life
“One of the things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse to save something goodContinue reading “The Writing Life”
Broadax
By: Gabriela Yareliz I was reading the piece on Annie Dillard’s life and recent death. It made me think a lot about writing. About life. How many hours does any of us have left? We spend so much time in unconscious living; engaging in habits and actions we do on autopilot. How much conscious lifeContinue reading “Broadax”
