Life, hope, lifestyle and everything beautiful
Another year disappears behind me, unnoticed, unceremonious.Once again, my family and I trace our hopes and dreams onto paper, as if naming them might keep them from slipping away. This year, I offer less.No plans. No striving.Only being—and the fragile hope that it will be enough. Time is a human illusion, a construct we cling […]
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I ruminate a lot, perhaps too much. Lately, especially after turning sixty, I find myself looking back to my childhood, my teenage years, and during this Christmas season, to those little-big moments with my dad, my abuelita, and my nieces and nephews, whom I can hardly believe have grown so grown. I remember when Christmas […]
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What one can achieve in sobriety is deeply personal; it looks different for everyone. For me, the emotional challenges were far more difficult than the physical ones. Alcohol gave me a false sense of self. I felt free, uninhibited, as if I had finally broken the chains of shyness and insecurity. But that freedom was […]
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At almost sixty, I find myself looking back, and in doing so, I’ve gained a deeper understanding of who I am today, who my true friends were, and who I loved most—and who loved me back. While I firmly believe that focusing on the future and moving forward is the best way to live, I […]
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Life is a complex and mysterious journey, full of twists and turns that often leave us feeling lost and confused. It can be hard to find meaning in a world that seems so chaotic and unpredictable. The simple truth is that life is meaningless, and there is no grand plan that has been laid out […]
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After reading “The Body Keeps Score” by Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., I have had several realizations about my personality traits and how they have shaped me as a person. One particular realization has to do with my infatuation with shoes, which has puzzled me for some time. Until the age of 36, I owned […]
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As we age, we often act surprised, as if no one warned us that we would eventually get old. When we are young, we tend to believe that old age happens to other people and that we will never experience it ourselves. This is because our brains are wired to resist the idea of our […]
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Stop searching for the meaning of life. This is it: there isn’t any. We come to the world alone, we leave alone, and in between, we live, laugh, dream, cry, suffer, enjoy some joyful moments and search for the answers to living a happy life. And that’s it. This is it—the raw truth. But, there’s […]
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This is my second Thanksgiving alone by choice. The last one, was spent with Drew, my pup companion at the time and it was a very heartwarming evening. This one, I have no pup to spend the evening with, but I still chose to be my own company on a day when everyone is with […]
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It may sound foreign to us who have enough food at the table, but there are many kids out there who are going to school hungry. Right now, more than ever, families are struggling to make ends meet both in the US and around the world. Even if they are able to rely on food […]
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