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”
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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”
This Week’s Picks: June 9, 2013
By: Gabriela Yareliz Hello dear ones, I am in a new city for the summer…ahh, yes, summer intern. I am in an Ernest Hemingway kind of mood this week. Despite my dislike for his storylines, he has always had something valuable to say. Take wisdom, and run with it. Of course, along with Hemingway areContinue reading “This Week’s Picks: June 9, 2013”
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?”
The Great Controversy-Book
By: Gabriela Yareliz Today, I got an interesting surprise. I received a The Great Controversy in my mailbox. Why is this strange? It is one of my favorite books (and it was in my mailbox). A book that deals with philosophy, current events, prophecy, history and the future. It holds so many answers to thingsContinue reading “The Great Controversy-Book”
Happy Valentine’s Day
By: Gabriela Yareliz I am thinking about true, lasting love. Love that is expressed in action more than word. Love that is commitment and lasts. Love that goes through storms. Love that doesn’t fade. Love that sacrifices. Love that makes us dream. Love that leaves us with no air or words. Love that is powerfulContinue reading “Happy Valentine’s Day”
Week’s Picks: Dec. 17, 2012
By: Gabriela Yareliz 1] 2] “I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only the past.” -Virginia Woolf 3] 4] Theodore Roosevelt “It is not the critic who counts: not the manContinue reading “Week’s Picks: Dec. 17, 2012”
Alone
By: Gabriela Yareliz Alone Toad went to Frog’s house. He found a note on the door. The note said, “Dear Toad, I am not at home. I went out. I want to be alone.” “Alone?” said Toad. “Frog has me for a friend. Why does he want to be alone?” Toad looked through theContinue reading “Alone”
Saawariya
By: Gabriela Yareliz I saw this movie a while back around graduation time with Liz. My grandmother calls it the movie about the idiot (Ranbir Kapoor’s character)Â and the vagabond (Salman Khan’s character). I thought it was interesting. Based on Fyodor Dostoevsky’s “White Nights.” A young man strikes up a friendship with a girl who isContinue reading “Saawariya”
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