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DJ Ari - Mountain Mix Playlist
Mountain Mix, Morning Magic, Big Screen Jamz. I love making (and naming) playlists in my Apple Music app to suit the occasion, time of...
Ariann Mieka
Mar 25, 20232 min read
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Shakti Mat-ing, 20 minutes to Peace.
I have spent the last few days staring at my laptop screen for too long as I had a paper due. I submitted my work around midnight. By...
Ariann Mieka
Mar 24, 20232 min read
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Food Photographer or Taste tester?
My beautiful and talented friend Jeunesse and I created a magazine! I am so proud of the two issues we have released, and we are working...
Ariann Mieka
Mar 23, 20231 min read
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An Aha Share: Identifying habits that gotta go.
What comes to mind when you hear the words 'toxic habit'? A couple of cliché examples may come to mind due to our 'Morals and Ethics'...
Ariann Mieka
Mar 22, 20232 min read
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Love after Love.
In 2014 I went to see Oprah in Miami for a weekend event. I remember looking in the workbook we received and saw a Derek Walcott poem...
Ariann Mieka
Mar 21, 20231 min read
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Flashback Vibe: Pon D Hillside.
I came across this video in my collection and realized that I have been making videos for a long time! Radiating a Sunday kind of vibe, I...
Ariann Mieka
Mar 20, 20231 min read
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Show and Tell - Jewelry.
One of my favorite pieces of jewelry is one that I made! It is a wood and silver ring with a garnet stone set into the wood. I was...
Ariann Mieka
Mar 19, 20232 min read
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Dip in the Collection.
This photograph is from a visit to Paramin, a village in the Northern Range of Trinidad. Two blue devils, one of our country’s well-known...
Ariann Mieka
Mar 18, 20231 min read
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Trees in a forest - The Cube Houses.
Exploring Rotterdam for the first time was wild! Over the years, I guess I kept going to cities/ towns in the Netherlands that all had...
Ariann Mieka
Mar 17, 20231 min read
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8 minutes to the center.
Yesterday I shared a breath work practice, and today I am sharing an audio recording of it so that it's easier to follow along. All you...
Ariann Mieka
Mar 16, 20231 min read
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Back to the breath.
Tuning into my breath is one of the things I reach for in my wellness toolkit regularly. This practice centers me, helps fight anxiety,...
Ariann Mieka
Mar 15, 20232 min read
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Design, decor, photography! Yes please!
Photographing interior design and architectural spaces is something I enjoy! I love coming into a newly renovated or redesigned space,...
Ariann Mieka
Mar 14, 20231 min read
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Sing along to the waves.
There is something about the sound of waves that always seems to help ground and balance. After spending even a few moments by the sea,...
Ariann Mieka
Mar 13, 20231 min read
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Self portrait y Frida.
I needed a photograph for something that I am too shame to say what it is for specifically, as it is something I should have submitted a...
Ariann Mieka
Mar 12, 20231 min read
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Out and about in Central.
In the video above, I share more of my fun outing in Central Trinidad! (See my previous post for my account of the trip). The highlight...
Ariann Mieka
Mar 11, 20231 min read
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To Central, we go!
For one of my cultural studies classes, we go on outings all over Trinidad (and hopefully in Tobago in the future) to attend events or...
Ariann Mieka
Mar 10, 20232 min read
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To the Women in my life.
Today is International Women’s Day, so I thought a post that acknowledges and sends love to all the women in my life would be best...
Ariann Mieka
Mar 9, 20231 min read
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Late night salad.
Late night dinner again but this time I felt for chickpeas! I didn't want the meal to take a long time to prepare, and although the...
Ariann Mieka
Mar 8, 20231 min read
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Food for thought.
I had a wonderful afternoon into the evening (into the night) in Talparo today. By the time I drove home, it was close to midnight, and...
Ariann Mieka
Mar 7, 20231 min read
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Collage O’clock.
Today was a long day and I knew I was too tired to focus on some classwork that I needed to do. I wanted to decompress, so I pulled out a...
Ariann Mieka
Mar 6, 20231 min read
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