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Monday Inspiration: February 9, 2015

By: Gabriela Yareliz Greetings! It’s a Wintry-Mix Sunday/Monday. Let’s get pumped for an awesome week! Ready? “They tried to bury us. They didn’t know we were seeds.” Mexican Proverb “If you wear the wrong glasses, you won’t see things correctly.” Dr. Tony Evans “Yet one thing secures us whatever betide, the scriptures assure us thatContinue reading “Monday Inspiration: February 9, 2015”

Shall We Walk to TriBeCa?

[Photos belong to: Gabriela Yareliz] By: Gabriela Yareliz This summer, I worked in Tribeca (triangle below canal street). It became sort of a second home, this neighborhood. I think Tribeca is a neighborhood second only to the Village. It’s clean, renovated, trendy and by the river. This is where you can find shops with French opera posters,Continue reading “Shall We Walk to TriBeCa?”

This Week’s Picks: August 25, 2013/ Back to School

By: Gabriela Yareliz Summer lights are dimming; textbooks beckoning; internships interviewing; summer heat fading; rain storms pouring. It’s New York. You see the nannies with the children of different ethnicities in the strollers; young students laying out at the Washington Square Park on blankets; tourist groups buying Amorino Cones; falafel trucks smoking on corners ofContinue reading “This Week’s Picks: August 25, 2013/ Back to School”

Namesake: Gabriela Mistral

A true poet once said: (Rough translation): “I would only like to be one of the reasons for your smile, maybe a small thought on your mind in the morning, or perhaps a lovely memory on your mind before sleeping. I would only like to be a fleeting image before your eyes, perhaps a voiceContinue reading “Namesake: Gabriela Mistral”

Viviendo [living]: Adamari Lopez

By: Gabriela Yareliz Today, I finished Viviendo, by Puerto Rican actress Adamari Lopez (one of my favorite actresses from childhood). It was a masterful story-telling of her life so far; from when she was born to her meeting and being pursued by Luis Fonsi, her engagement to Fonsi, her telenovela success, her being diagnosed withContinue reading “Viviendo [living]: Adamari Lopez”

Week survival

By: Gabriela Yareliz This week was absolutely insane. When I mean insane, I mean: finishing an oral argument at 10 p.m. at school (but thank God, owning it), that night having to read two briefs and an oral argument, 95 pages each (and it had to be that night thanks to the professor sending usContinue reading “Week survival”

The Same God

Song by Lilly Goodman That you heal the hurt; and you give the blind man sight; that you teach how to forgive; I have heard all of those things and more… That you help the fallen and give him words of faith; that in you, people find peace; all those rumors I have already heard…Continue reading “The Same God”

Quotes-Mother Teresa

By: Gabriela Yareliz I found these quotes, and I wanted to share them: Let us always meet each other with a smile … for a smile is the beginning of love. — Mother Teresa Love to be real must cost; it must hurt; it must empty us of self. — Mother Teresa Be faithful inContinue reading “Quotes-Mother Teresa”