Dear heartbreak,

This is awesome. Well said!

Coco J. Ginger's avatarCoco J. Ginger Says

we’ve had our share of fun together (yawn), but I’ve just purchased a little black dress, bright red lipstick, some shamefully elevated risqué high heels, and painted my nails a color Essie calls ‘escapades’. I’m in a white wrangler speeding down the highway to a place where dreams come true, memories of past love DIES HARD. Rumor has it, I will experience ALL this heart CRAVES— and gypsy killers with their special gypsy killing knifes aren’t even allowed in such a non-reality-based place. HA… How spectacular.

I don’t know that I’ll want to see you IF I return, I’ve outgrown your ordinarily dull and miserable presence. I plan to lose my mind and heart.I return ONLY when I have forgotten every ill memory that has disenchanted me for the past month ish.

C’est la vie baby~ good riddance.

Sincerely, Still-a-Dreamer

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Il Divo

By: Gabriela Yareliz

My favorite music group– yes, Il Divo, releasing a Greatest Hits CD with new songs in November. I am so excited!

These men have left me enchanted for 8 years, and I don’t think anything will break that spell. I still remember in high school writing Il Divo lyrics on poor Akash’s paper. Hahaha. Those were good times.

 

 

Barfi

By: Gabriela Yareliz

Barfi comes out tomorrow. I can’t wait until I get to see it (which will be months from now because of my non-theater going ways), but it looks like a really sweet movie.

Ranbir Kapoor and Priyanka Chopra with Ileana D’Cruz.

Also, Priyanka Chopra’s single with Will.i.am is being released today, “In My City.”

Fact: I added my favorite song from barfi in the Bollywood Love section. It is called “Saawali si Raat”-enjoy 😉

 

Remembering September 11, 2001

By: Gabriela Yareliz

It is September 11 today. Eleventh year since the tragedy that struck so many innocent lives.

Today, I went to the Night of Remembrance at the Manhattan Seventh-day Adventist Church, and it was phenomenal.

A lot of people showed up, and the musicians were wonderful. Poets shared (The Two Titans and Heroes were the poems of the night), musicians shared pieces they wrote and covers to other songs while the rest of us cried and sat there meditating on meaningful words.

I thought about how we can never doubt God’s goodness no matter how much sin and selfishness makes us lose in this world, and that we must remember, as my mom always reminds me, that God gave it all for us.

I remembered being on the air force base that day, eleven years ago, and how everything changed for all people in the military. The fear; the uncertainty; the goodbyes.

Politically, one can go into depths talking about this–but I won’t. I want to keep it focused on the people and lives lost and sacrificed; the true heroes who ran into collapsing buildings; the men and women who lived with fear in their hearts from then on–

While walking home tonight, when the street light made traffic stop, photographers would run into the street to take photos of the lights illuminating two light towers. Eleven years later they are still getting those pictures. Eleven years later we are reminded that the FRIENDS skyline is not the same. The sky in New York is healing. For now, we will sleep in the glow of the new Freedom Tower inspiring us to never forget the lives lost and inspiring us to never lose hope.

 

 

Desires

By: Gabriela Yareliz

Taken from the writings of Ellen G. White.

“Ask, then; ask, and ye shall receive. Ask for humility, wisdom, courage, increase of faith. To every sincere prayer an answer will come. It may not come just as you desire, or at the time you look for it; but it will come in the way and at the time that will best meet your need….

God answers, not always according to your expectations, but always for your good.—(Gospel Workers, 258.) – {Pr 188.2}

Nothing can drown the soul’s desire. It rises above the din of the street, above the confusion of the multitude, to the heavenly courts. It is God to whom we are speaking, and our prayer is heard.—(Christ’s Object Lessons, 174.) – {Pr 188.3}”