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”
Category Archives: literature
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”
Truth and man
“The message that means so much to the dwellers upon the earth will be heard and understood. Men will know what truth is.” Review and Herald, Nov. 22, 1906 “God has determined to leave nothing undone to recover man from the toils of the enemy.” Australasian Union Conference Record, Apr. 1, 1898
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”
Simplest things
The simplest things are the most extraordinary. Let them reveal themselves. -Paulo Coelho
Who is afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Quotes from one of my most adored writers.-Gabriela Y. Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent. -Virginia Woolf Life is not a series ofContinue reading “Who is afraid of Virginia Woolf?”
This Week’s Picks: May 12, 2013
Hello Friends! Three exams down and one more to go + writing competition. I do have one thing to say: Yes. I am alive, like Mooshoo from Mulan. Thank God. God is good. It has been a rough set of weeks, but we are almost at the other side. My brain cells are a bitContinue reading “This Week’s Picks: May 12, 2013”
Who is your Shepherd?
Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. 1 Peter 5:8 A Spiritual metaphor from Dr.Tony Evans: If you stare at the lion, he’ll scare you. If you focus on the cage, you can handle him. My sheep hear my voice, andContinue reading “Who is your Shepherd?”
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Out of the depths have I cried unto you, O Lord. Lord, hear my voice: let your ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications. If you, Lord, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who will stand? But there is forgiveness with you, that you may be feared. I wait for the Lord, my soulContinue reading “[insert name here]”
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