Found a quote worth sharing:
The cave you fear to enter
holds the treasure you seek.
-Joseph Campbell
Three Key Questions for Following Your Bliss
The “do what you love and the money will follow” phrase was popular a few decades ago. As I study entrepreneurship and how to run a successful business, that phrase often garners heavy criticism. Simply loving something, such as hot tea, doesn’t mean money will follow.
Various popular marketers I’ve been studying suggest you get a blank sheet of paper and draw two circles that overlap. Inside one circle write what you love to do. And in the other circle write what you think the world needs. The golden answers are in the section where the circles overlap.
I think there’s one other key question to ask that belongs in this method: what where you want to offer help.
Draw a third circle and write in it what you feel passion for improving in the world. Then look at where the three circles overlap.
Don’t be too quick to disregard what you love because you don’t think the world needs it.
“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” -Howard Thurman
Affirmation for Spring
This quote was handed to me and I feel inspired to share it. It reminds me of the power of choices we have every moment.
EVERYTHING YOU DO IS BASED ON THE CHOICES YOU MAKE.
IT’S NOT YOUR PARENTS,
YOUR PAST RELATIONSHIPS,
YOUR JOB,
THE ECONOMY,
THE WEATHER,
AN ARGUMENT
OR YOUR AGE
THAT IS TO BLAME.
YOU AND ONLY YOU
ARE RESPONSIBLE
FOR EVERY DECISION
AND CHOICE YOU MAKE.
PERIOD.
Cheers to your personal power.
The Many Expressions of Amaroq de Quebrazas’ Magical Realism
She’s painted, drawn, and communicated via written stories since she was a child.
Amaroq de Quebrazas was born and raised in a working class Mexican household on the north side of the Bernal Heights, bordering the Mission district, in San Francisco. She’s lived the majority of her life in the city.
“I think and breathe in visual symbols – it’s my personal language. As symbols keep repeating, I figure out what personal growth message they have in store for me,” she said.
She creates graphic novels, screenplays, and paintings, using psychology and storytelling to get to the root causes of human behavior.
De Quebrazas hasn’t let rheumatoid arthritis deter her pursuits. Barney, her Samoyan/Shepherd service dog, helps her in and out of chairs, up and down stairs, and generally commands space for maneuvering in public spaces.
“I write and paint almost daily. My art is ‘Latino Magic Realism’ style. My paintings tend to draw on themes from my subconscious. I also convert my old screenplays into graphic novels.”
She paints with her fingers while using a brush. She experiments with mixing media -charcoal and Conti crayon, watercolor and colored pencil sticks, acrylic and oil pastel on upholstery fabric making a kind of tapestry and gluing or sewing on bits of beads and scraps from old earrings.
Poster Child for City College of San Francisco
“I am in the Disabled Student Program at City College of San Francisco and it has saved my life,” said de Quebrazas.
“Thanks to CCSF I attend and learn at my own pace in classes that are non-credit. For the first time in my life I can get an education. I have a history of doing poorly in school and the vast majority of credit classes are way too fast for me because of my severe dyslexia. In the Program teachers have helped me grow my own graphic novel business where I do all the art, writing and computer work. City College is the only place where I found a chance for a new life.”
She’s rewriting her graphic novel “The She Beast,” a fiction story based on real events. It is a dramatic tale about a tough, audacious and bold teen who’s half child, half woman, with a brazen personality and survival skills.
You can see more of de Quebrazas’ magical work at Graphic Novels by Amaroq at https://sites.google.com/site/graphicnovelsbyamaroq/