“There’s something very deep here. How do we endure pain? How do we transcend it? We turn it into art.” Steven Pressfield, Govt Cheese By: Gabriela Yareliz There is a book I have been thinking about since February 2023. I bought it, and it is filled with short standalone chapters that sort of build onContinue reading “A Boat Appeared”
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Favorite January 2022 Quotes
By: Gabriela Yareliz Here are the handful of quotes that stayed on my mind throughout the month of January 2022: Understanding “Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.” Attributed to Marie Curie Fear really distorts thingsContinue reading “Favorite January 2022 Quotes”
Understanding
“You’ll understand, someday,” some hurtful people say. That phrase irks me. Sometimes, I think people use it hoping they will understand their own actions, someday. Unfortunately, some actions can’t be justified or excused, even after the passage of time. And that’s just how it is. -GY
Tag: Day #3
By: Gabriela Yareliz Last day of the Three Days, Three Quotes challenge! “Language and identity are so fundamentally intertwined. You peel back all the layers in terms of what we wear, and what we eat, and all the things that mark us, and in the end what we have are our words.” Jhumpa Lahiri, VogueContinue reading “Tag: Day #3”
Hero
By: Gabriela Yareliz Sometimes, we discourage people even though we mean well. Often, we can’t see when people are really unhappy because all we see is what we want for them. We keep pushing them out of love, not out of malice, because we think we know what is best. I heard Wilson Wilson Jr. tell Tim Taylor a quote: “You don’tContinue reading “Hero”
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