by Adriana
I am here for you. Those words are powerful. When you can’t predict exactly what someone in your life needs, being fully present is sometimes enough. In that space there is often room for openness and awakening to what’s real.
Categories: Art, Meditation, Writing • Tags: Being Present, Meditation, Practice
by Adriana
I’m excited to be reading on Sunday, February 18 at the Hudson View Gardens on the theme of absence and excess. The event is part of the Bloom Reading Series. Other readers for the evening include fellow Jersey City Writer and poet Sarah T. Jewell and fiction writer Aarti Monteiro. This will be the first time I read from a story from my collection about a mother who lost two of her children as babies a year apart from one […]
Categories: Art, Events, Fiction, New York City, Reading, Writing • Tags: Absence, Excess, New York City, Readings, Writing
by Adriana
Silence duplicates itself.
Categories: Art, Fiction, Meditation, Writing • Tags: Art, Inspiration, Meditation, Patience, Silence
by Adriana
I noticed the sun first this morning followed by the heat piping out of the old radiator. Lightness on one hand and heaviness on the other.
Categories: Art • Tags: Art, Inspiration
by Adriana
I lost myself to a dream two weeks ago when I watched acrobats perform in Compagnia Finzi Pasca’s “La Verità” at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. I rediscovered unencumbered childhood delight and wonder, and laughter that rises up just because without any strings attached–no sarcasm, no wry humor–just pure laughter. All of it derived from watching comical dances, contortionists, musicians, dancers, and aerialists fly, embrace, swing, and spin. In addition to the performers, a Salvador Dali painting, which takes up […]
Categories: Art, Events, Performance • Tags: Acrobats, Art, Circus, Dream, Performance, Salvador Dali, Surrealism
by Adriana
I ran into one of my characters from a short story on a walk through downtown Jersey City not too long ago. He stood still at the corner of Second and Hudson Street. Despite his steely silence, he spoke to me from the words and letters painted on his torso. This wasn’t your average José, this was a character that had once been written about in the New York Times. In that 2001 article, he is described as a “Man […]
Categories: Art, Jersey City, Writing • Tags: Art, Fiction, Graffiti, Jersey City, Sculpture, Travel, Urban hiking, Urban landscape, Writing
by Adriana
Quanah Parker stands guard at the corner of Warren and Morgan Streets. Plastered against a rusting metal rectangle on an old warehouse, the image stands between Jersey City’s industrial past and its luxury building future. To the right, the Native American Comanche Chief looks out on parking lots for commuters. Directly in front, beautiful, old gold doors beckon passersby into the Morgan Industrial Building. To the left Parker sees an empty, grassy lot and beyond that a luxury building rises. […]
Categories: Art, Jersey City • Tags: Art, Industrial, Jersey City, Jersey City Powerhouse Arts District, Quanah Parker, Urban, Urban landscape
by Adriana
By the time we arrived at the road named after Juan Montalvo, a famous Ecuadorian author and essayist, the dawn’s mountain mist had given way to gray morning light. The streets in Baños, Ecuador were mostly empty and quiet that Sunday morning as my husband and I made our way to the thermal pools. Without a map or a guide, our desire to get to the healing mineral baths served as our compass. We headed in the wrong direction at […]
Categories: Art, Ecuador, Travel, Writing • Tags: Banos, Ecuador, Graffiti, Hiking, Inspiration, Street art, Travel, Writing
by Adriana
When I arrived at the cold, corporate lobby at the corner of Greene Street and Christopher Columbus, I didn’t expect to see the Jersey City sky I am so often mesmerized by at sunset. But there it was painted onto a 30×40 inch canvas in brilliant hues of purple, red, and orange. There were gorgeous clouds that loomed above shadowy trees and a house – the sky visible in its windows. I stopped in front of the painting thinking, “I […]
Categories: Art, Writing • Tags: Art, Inspiration, Jersey City, Writing
