Abraham VillarrealLove, sacrifice, and other Holy Week remindersLast week at the migrant center, a kid about nine years old wanted to help me hand out cake for one of the birthdays we were celebrating…·3 min read·Mar 31, 2024----
Abraham VillarrealBeing quiet in a world that’s too loudAll my life people have told me to speak up — to enunciate. “You mumble” are two words I hear in meetings and during phone calls. Being…·3 min read·Mar 19, 2024----
Abraham VillarrealGrief, obituaries, and choosing words to sayI helped a friend write an obituary this week. It was one of those acts of kindness that come after you tell your friend that you are there…·3 min read·Mar 11, 2024----
Abraham VillarrealSometimes words are all we have to leave behindWe all have people in our lives that we remember for that one statement they made. The saying or the declaration they shared stuck…·3 min read·Feb 26, 2024----
Abraham VillarrealI like bumpy roads and other things that are now unlikeableThere is a lot to like about all the things we don’t like anymore. The things that we are too rushed to appreciate, too busy to know they…·3 min read·Feb 20, 2024----
Abraham VillarrealPigeon coops and other things we left behindEvery now and then you notice that times have changed. That you are living in a different generation than that of your parents, or…·2 min read·Feb 11, 2024----
Abraham VillarrealSigns worth reading need to make a returnI like signs that really mean what they say, even if what they say might be a little more than what you thought at first glance. Like…·3 min read·Feb 5, 2024----
Abraham VillarrealThe meaning of keeping things from the pastWhenever you think of your grandparents, you think of the things they had but are now long gone. Things that you wish you still had but for…·3 min read·Jan 29, 2024----
Abraham VillarrealMoms are the best kind of marketers out thereOne new thing about the new year is that I gave up coffee. I never thought I would write these words. Maybe I’ll have it again someday. I…·3 min read·Jan 21, 2024----
Abraham VillarrealI like the old McDonald’s and other places of the pastIn a coffee shop where I like to do my writing, a small group of people broke into a Spanish worship song. I didn’t expect it but it was…·3 min read·Jan 8, 2024----