Successful Women

By: Gabriela Yareliz

I had a conversation with someone about how it’s harder for women with higher education to date, marry or simply find someone they can hold conversation with who isn’t afraid of her.

“In reality it is the college-educated woman who is the prize. Her husband can expect a higher level of income, a healthier life and longer marriage.” Princeton Mom vs. the Facts, The Atlantic, Lisa Endlich Hefferman

This was an interesting article about college-educated women and marriage.

Do you have any idea…

what we are going through?

New York is under a mattress of snow. I have seen people try to get out of their parallel parking spots and slam into the car behind them. I have seen people try to park between mountains of snow. Some guys were shoveling today outside of the church, and the pile of snow was taller than me (perhaps not hard to do, but nonetheless impressive).

Walking outside is virtually impossible because there is so much snow coming down so fast. The chess players, art vendors and people usually there to chill (they are probably thawing now) weren’t even around Union Square.

Walking across the street becomes some awkward slide fest–but lucky for me, no one saw because the snow had them blinded.

I feel like going outside and finding Narnia…
but with all of this snow, I may not see the lamppost.

No winter lasts forever, though.
So, I guess we’ll enjoy winter storm number 6(?) while it lasts.
-Gabriela Yareliz

Historia de Amor: Ulises y Ainhoa

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By: Gabriela Yareliz

Una de mis historias de amor preferidas…la de Ulises y Ainhoa.

“El hogar no son cuatro parades y un techo. Ni una hipoteca de 30 años. Es mucho mas. Es a la gente a la que quieres.”-Ulises

Feliz dia del amor y la amistad. Y que tengas el amor y a la gente que quieres contigo, siempre.

Valentine’s Day

“To love another person is to see the face of God.” Jean Valjean, Les Miserables

By: Gabriela Yareliz

Happy Valentines Day! I thought the storyline in the ad [above] was so cute…and Hrithik Roshan looks ah-ma-zing.

Here is a beautiful remix of songs that I found. Paying some tribute to a language that inspires so many to believe in the beauty of love.

Here is to all of the types of love:

the familial;

the unfulfilled; the sacrificing; the broken;

the inspiring; the everlasting; the overcoming;

the unmatched; the incomplete; the hopeful;

the impossible; the enduring;

the unperceived;

the friendship;

the confusing; the passionate; the innocent.

“There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love.” 1 John 4:18

A Moveable Feast

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By: Gabriela Yareliz

Here is some inspiration from Ernest Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast.

1. We become better people when we laugh and make others laugh

“They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.”

pg. 86, Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast

If there is something I have learned working with other people and dealing with a lot of not-so-happy situations is that you need humor. Life gives us too many opportunities to smile, and none should be wasted. Make that soil well graded. /Catch a falling star and put it in your pocket…save it for a rainy day/.

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2. Mystery is good in books, but even better in people

“We need more true mystery in our lives, Hem [Hemingway],”

Evan Shipman, poet. Pg 112, A Moveable Feast, by Ernest Hemingway

I don’t know if we know what mystery is anymore. We should practice. Not just mystery, but true mystery. Hemingway himself left more unsaid than said. Many scriptures and amazing writings need to be deciphered by studying and perusal. Oftentimes, the things most worth knowing take time and effort to discover.

The definition according to Google:
mys·ter·y /ˈmist(ə)rē/noun

noun: mystery; plural noun: mysteries

1. something that is difficult or impossible to understand or explain.

“the mysteries of outer space”
synonyms: puzzle, enigma, conundrum, riddle, secret, problem, unsolved problem More

-the condition or quality of being secret, strange, or difficult to explain.
synonyms: secrecy, obscurity, uncertainty, mystique More

-a person or thing whose identity or nature is puzzling or unknown.

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Be charming. Be mysterious. Be you.

Paint the world with happiness.

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Your moment

Alia Bhatt.
Alia Bhatt.

 

“Everyone has a moment in history which belongs particularly to him. It is the moment when his emotions achieve their most powerful sway over him, and afterward when you say to this person “the world today” or “life” or “reality” he will assume that you mean this moment, even if it is fifty years past. The world, through his unleashed emotions, imprinted itself upon him, and he carries the stamp of that passing moment forever.” -John Knowles, A Separate Peace