Word Life

I'm Carlos Aguilar — Big Brown Dad
and I'm thinking of a master plan.
Carlos Aguilar — black-and-white close-up portrait wearing a knit beanie, beard, squinting into the sun

The Library

Watercolor family portrait lettered Covarrubias-Aguilar, showing Carlos, Angie, Maya, Joaquin and the family dog
Covarrubias Aguilar · artist Marren Parham

Maya, Joaquin and Everything in Between

PB&J Burrito ↗

The Cozy Collection

Our daughter Maya launched a family service project called the Cozy Collection in 2015. The Cozy Collection collected socks and blankets for folks experiencing homelessness in the San Gabriel Valley. Her work collected more than 25,000 pairs of socks and was ultimately featured in media and recognized by local civic leadership.

Big Brown Mom Is the Bomb ↗

Art by Marren Parham
Watercolor portrait of Carlos and Angie Aguilar, with the e.e. cummings poem ‘since feeling is first’ hand-lettered beside them

Carlos Aguilar has made a career out of writing — a 20-year career as a television writer and producer, and as an editorial director in advertising. The credits, the clients and the clips live on the full page.

Carlos Aguilar draws on life experience and insights from philosophy, theology, teaching and advertising to present workshops with impact.

Humor helps us recognize contradictions, question assumptions, connect across differences and find room to act when circumstances feel fixed. A perspective we can cultivate in how we teach, lead, work and live.

Book Carlos.

Questions count

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As an MC, Carlos Aguilar is Bookworm Brown — a microphone in his hand since the church-youth-circuit days, through open mics and tours across China, Japan, South Korea, Mexico and Guatemala. The records, the flyers and the photos are on the full page.

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