I hope this inspires someone to do the right thing or go take a chance on something they’ve always wanted to do, because we are certainly not getting the time back. Life is perhaps even more precious now than it was before, so we have to keep love in our hearts, even if we have to love from a distance, because anything else is just not worth it, it really isn’t. Maybe that’s the key to staying alive, these days anyway.
Read MoreMaybe it’s the feeling that I’m out of time, or that I may not get to do this again. Mostly, I have never wanted to be an artist more than I do now. I have to do something to ease the pain. Artists make art to remind the world of how much better it can be.
Read MoreI now realize that I am not the problem. Racism and willful ignorance are the problem. I am who I am, and I no longer care how Mexican I am or how imperfect my Spanish is. After all, it is the language of our colonizers. Before I turned 40, I felt a sense of returning to myself. The me I was before this world told me who it thinks I should be. Pale self and all, I KNOW I’m enough. After “Benito Bowl”, I feel free again. I feel alive, I feel even more proud of where I come from, and I will not shrink myself.
Read MoreIt’s that time of the year when we reflect deeply on the choices we’ve made. Some good, some bad, yet it led me to wonder if there ever was such a thing as a “bad” choice? Or are certain choices necessary for us to become who God/the universe has destined us to be?
Read MoreThe ones who I GET TO journey with through all of life’s stages. This holiday season, they are all the gifts I need. I love them and I love life, and I can only hope that they know how much they mean to me
Read MoreI don’t know who I’m writing this for, but I hope you find the courage to embrace the mess, to get dirty, to make mistakes and trust that it’s all guiding you to somewhere or into someone better. Trust that ultimately, it’s guiding you back home to yourself.
Read MoreThe odd thing about being “radical”, you’re more likely to suspend ego and judgment, do research, trust science, data and give people the benefit of the doubt, extend grace and just love anyway. Whereas the fearmongers live and lead with just that, place blame and do not see that they are their own problem. I don’t get it, how are we STILL here? I’m tired.
Read MoreI had a moment while I was in Rome for my birthday where I was reflecting on all that I have been through, and the tears just began to fall. Something about that country re-lit a spark inside me that I feared may have been gone. That inner “je ne sais quis” that says don’t give up, there is more to life and stay curious.
Read MoreI guess that is the beauty of getting older and your perspective changing and how things had to happen the way they did so I could learn and come up higher and show up for myself, this world, and others in a moment such as this one. I’m happy to be alive!
Read MoreI don’t have all the answers, but I feel that that in spite of how dark and gloomy the world may appear, we are also living at time when our world is perhaps being tested so we can expand. Why is it that despair teaches us how to love, or in times of strife that’s when we learn to love and come together? If only we loved at all times and when it’s hard, maybe then this world would experience true peace.
Read MoreWhen will it end? When the last fish has been eaten or the last tree mined? In spite of it all, I somehow have so much hope. I feel it rising in me now. Besides if we always look for evidence of fault we will certainly find it but if we always look for the glimmers in life, I have no doubt in time the path forward will illuminate itself in due time.
Read MoreTo everyone, everywhere just trying to survive, feel seen and heard, that’s most of us, self included and I am sending you so much love. We will find our way & get through this together & NOT apologize for being who we are.
Read MoreWhile I still don’t have all of the answers of how to live in a Fascist regime or dictatorship, I do know they can never take away my education, my passion for learning, the things that bring me joy, and my desire to keep peace and love in my heart.
Read MoreThere’s no where else I’d rather be. I wasn’t born here and as I look back on my life and reflect on how I got here, I’m in disbelief at times. Some New Yorkers are born here, and some are made here. I don’t need 10 years for someone to tell me that I AM a New Yorker, because this was always who I was meant to be.
Read MoreIf you have the gift of calm, take a moment to appreciate it and then extend that outward toward the world. Also, find a way to create joy, in my independent study of one, singing at the top of your lungs even if you’re off key helps, but you know whatever works for you. Enjoy the calm!
Read MoreAs I thought about all the things I endeavor to accomplish this year, beginning with continued work on my mental and emotional health, I asked myself, why is it that we only allow ourselves this permission at the start of the new year?
Read MoreWhat is justice? It certainly is a fleeting concept, especially in this country. I will never stop asking the difficult questions, I will never stop trying to help heal humanity by doing my part. I will never stop loving because it’s all we have.
Read MoreI don’t understand why society says we have to be this or that, or why it has to be black or white. What is wrong with grey? I’m not great at living in the greys of life but I do appreciate them, and dare I say it, I am growing fond of the grey. It means that the best is still yet to come and I can yell “plot twist” and re-write my story at any given moment.
Read MoreI just have to be better about recognizing when to Eb and when to let it flow. But hooray for living, hooray for being able to experience this, all of this! The pain that leads us to a deeper appreciation for life, to be present and just enjoy it.
Read MoreDespite all that I have been through I am almost certain that there will be other obstacles for me to overcome and I GET TO experience it all. It’s a privilege to be alive and I’m HERE for it!
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