Category Archives: literature

This Week’s Picks: July 14, 2013; A ray into a fabulous heart: Europa

By: Gabriela Yareliz Happy jour de la bastille! Bastille day (France’s National Holiday!) This week’s theme of my picks is extra-Euro. Embracing the little European inside. 1] Cambardi Suitcases 2] Sophia Loren style 3] DO it— Do what you dream. 4] Marianne 😉 5] Yesterday, Florida. Tomorrow, New York. Someday, Monte Carlo. 6] Marie AntoinetteContinue reading “This Week’s Picks: July 14, 2013; A ray into a fabulous heart: Europa”

Glory

Glory is God’s applause in your life. — Ravi Zacharias His lord said unto him, Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord. Matthew 25:21 Glory is fame with God. Knowing thatContinue reading “Glory”

Love Motto

Love to man is the earthward manifestation of the love of God. It was to implant this love, to make us children of one family, that the King of glory became one with us. And when His parting words are fulfilled, “Love one another, as I have loved you” (John 15:12); when we love theContinue reading “Love Motto”

The artist bets his life by: Adam Gopnik

From the New Yorker’s Adam Gopnik about Vincent Van Gogh: “Some stories in history we want to have neatly finished; some we like to have always in play. We accept without too much trouble the ambiguity of the old and new stories because they add up to something similar in the end. Van Gogh’s earContinue reading “The artist bets his life by: Adam Gopnik”

To hold a letter

By: Gabriela Yareliz I like writing letters and leaving them for my mom. I don’t think people today realize how meaningful it is to receive or write a letter. To have a piece of that person that you can keep, smell, read, over and over again…It is gorgeous. Handwriting conveys so much more than aContinue reading “To hold a letter”

Quotes from Sofia Coppola’s Lost in Translation

Life may not be a Sofia Coppola movie, but there are strangers who become friends and leave their mark.-Gabriela Yareliz Bob: Can you keep a secret? I’m trying to organize a prison break. I’m looking for, like, an accomplice. We have to first get out of this bar, then the hotel, then the city, andContinue reading “Quotes from Sofia Coppola’s Lost in Translation”

The probability of finding love

By: Gabriela Yareliz Featured on Yahoo! is an article about a man who wrote a research paper about the odds of finding his soulmate in London. He was left with a percentage that left him with 26 women. Hilariously, he is marrying this week, despite his unfavorable odds. If he thought his odds were low,Continue reading “The probability of finding love”