Expect miracles.
By: Gabriela Yareliz
I was saddened to hear that Larry Brooks passed away. He is known for having covered Gretzky’s career from start to finish. He covered the NY Rangers for about 40 years! (And covered them brutally last season, as they deserved). He didn’t sugarcoat it. He fought with coaches (the YouTube videos of Brooks fighting with John Tortorella are hysterical). An iconic figure in sports reporting and a hockey hall of famer.
Rest in peace, Brooksie.
By: Gabriela Yareliz
When you walk through Times Square and you see two women wrapped in scarves, smiling and loving the woman on the karaoke machine you walk past every morning— you know they are tourists. They also offer some much needed perspective, at times.
When was the last time you smiled in your Times Square? Sometimes, what we dread is a magical-wonderland-dream-come-true to others.
Happy Veterans Day to all who have served! It’s a frigid 15F. Winter has announced herself. The cold is weirdly energizing.
On this frigid morning— I leave you with wisdom from Arnold Schwarzenegger:
“Don’t live a half-rep life. Be fully present. Go all the way in everything you do.”
Let’s go!
“Faith is not being sure. It is not being sure, but betting with your last cent.” Mary Jean Irion
By: Gabriela Yareliz
Life is brimming with uncertainty. So, faith is one of the ways available to us to deal with the unavoidable uncertainty. It’s the way God asks us to handle the uncertainty ahead. I was chewing on the intro quote and wondered— what are you betting on with your last cent? What am I betting on?
God doesn’t ask us to be sure. That would be an impossible request. Instead, He asks us for courage; boldness to take a risk.
By: Gabriela Yareliz
That’s life, right? Sometimes, it feels like life holds many twisters, and we are huddled together, holding each other until the storm passes. Until peace falls upon the land, and we can walk out hand-in-hand to assess the landscape. The best shelter is found together.
“Give me ordinary. Give me cups of tea in the backyard and an afternoon so slow I can hear the hummingbirds. Give me time to look at the moon and midday trips to the bookshop. Give me satisfaction with Enough. Give me the same dinner rotation every week, because simple saves energy I’d rather spend elsewhere. Give me a tiny following of devoted & connected humans over a massive following of strangers. Give me cozy over fancy, sustainable over the latest new trend, slow progress over time over speedy growth. Give me satisfaction with the mundane. Give me creating mediocre art over not even trying to make art. Give me goals because they’re aligned, not because they’re markers of becoming more important. Give me time in nature and laughing with my child. Give me a sink full of dishes after a good meal. Give me dew on flowers and writing that isn’t the best but feels good to write and a messy top of the dresser because life is full. Give me ordinary. Give me the knowing of ordinary being enough.” Lisa Olivera
“Because for Dickinson, creativty wasn’t performance. It was prayer.” Rainier Wylde
By: Gabriela Yareliz
I loved this podcast episode— Sandy Brockman is back on the TSC Him & Her Podcast. It was all about health, body composition, mobility, corrective movement and muscle. It’s a great episode for men and women. I learned so much. Sharing here.
By: Gabriela Yareliz
Here is your PSA now— Starbucks and Dunkin cannot make a matcha to save their lives. #disgusting
With each passing day, NYC unlocks a new sub-basement of low IQ.
If there are a few things I have learned along the way in the last decade—
-Steel yourself from the opinions of others and work from integrity. The majority of people don’t have any. Don’t let them mold you.
-Hold onto whatever rebellious streak you have. It’s a gift to push back against evil, stupidity and mediocrity.
-Do your own research and don’t try to prove anything to others. Let people do their own search for truth. You can lay cold hard facts in front of someone, and they can still find a way to reject them if they are determined to stick to a narrative or ego. It’s a waste of time. People are responsible for themselves. He who argues with fools becomes one.
-People don’t care about others in the way we were taught as children. Don’t be deceived by a desire of acceptance or belonging. Don’t betray yourself for a person who would sell you out in a millisecond. People who truly care and operate in kindness are rare, spirit-filled people. Their actions show it.
-Accountability matters. Hypocrisy and incompetence abound.
-Evil is unsustainable. It eats itself alive.
-Care is reciprocal in its most genuine form.
-People live and make decisions from a place of self-loathing in their default setting.
-People-pleasing is always exploited. Don’t become prey.
-If someone gives you a bad cup of anything— don’t drink it, and don’t go back. (And get your refund). If you start a bad book, don’t finish it. Life is too short to not exercise your agency and waste energy or time on something unworthy.
Agency is so key. Every day, we should reflect on what we have chosen and what we are choosing in the present moment. If we don’t like it, let’s have the courage to change it.
I have found that when things get dark, opportunity lies ahead. The key is to be bold enough to seize it.
The bad cup belongs in the trash. You deserve better.
GABRIELA YARELIZ 