Category Archives: literature

Living with Joy-Susan Spencer-Wendel

By: Gabriela Yareliz A fellow University of Florida journalism alumna, Susan Spencer-Wendel, wrote a book about living with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and living with joy for what matters most. According to NPR, she wrote the book on her iPhone. 🙂 Check out more about her inspiring story. Books are like letters, and hers is titled,Continue reading “Living with Joy-Susan Spencer-Wendel”

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”