“They are closing the mine in two weeks, they say. Six days a week bumping down in the gondola, pecking out the rocks and hauling them back up, doing it again the next day for twenty-seven years, one cave-in, three thin raises, and a failed strike. Where am I going to go every day, what am I going to do with all that sunshine?”
Source: 420 Characters
“Well, this is how I feel: I want to live by the ocean but also in the forest but also in the mountains but also in a big city but also in the countryside. Do you understand me?”
“A una chica la han echado hoy de la piscina. A inge Hachmann. Nos han dicho que no podemos nadar con mestizas, que es poco higiénico. Una mestiza, Werner. ¿No somos nosotro stamibén mestizos? ¿La mitad de nuestra madre y la otra mitad de nuestro padre?”
Source: All the Light We Cannot See
“The scents bring us back. That’s what Mr. Agrawal says. He says the scents of summer are the most potent, the most enduring.
The sun beats hard in Duxton, Massachusetts, in late July. It shrivels soft things: flower petals, the worms that struggle up through the ground after a midday shower. The sun here cares nothing for exteriors. It is interested only in essences, the soft middles. Mr. Agrawal doesn’t bother to pick the ripening tomatoes in the garden, infested with rangy weeds and fat iridescent beetles. He says he likes the smell of the flesh once the heat has sizzled the peel.
--from "Wayward," a short story by Chandra Prasad in MIXED: An Anthology of Short Fiction on the Multiracial Experience”
“USA white supremacists do not seem to realize they are probably of mixed race.”
“Takikomi gohan and maze gohan are two methods of cooking rice mixed with other ingredients, and they cover a wide range of similar dishes. Roughly speaking, takikomi gohan is a dish where the ingredients are cooked together with the rice, while maze gohan is a dish where the ingredients are mixed into the rice after it is cooked.”
Source: The Joy of Rice
“There is an information in open sources that nauli is used in various types of Tibetan kum nye and trul khor yogas, as well as in the practice of Tummo.”
Source: Enhancing the Benefits of Nauli with a Key Exercise for Abdominal Muscle Strength: Second Edition
“Many Indian scientists and yogis believe that people learned how to do nauli even before the advent of writing. According to their view, yoga and ayurveda initially existed in oral form.”
Source: Enhancing the Benefits of Nauli with a Key Exercise for Abdominal Muscle Strength: Second Edition
“Individual practitioners of tai chi, qigong, and Eastern martial arts have started to incorporate nauli into their practices. These disciplines share a belief in the fundamental role of the dantian in accumulating "qi" energy and applying it in daily life and training.”
Source: Enhancing the Benefits of Nauli with a Key Exercise for Abdominal Muscle Strength: Second Edition
“Regular practice of leg lifts and nauli contributes to improved digestion. More efficient gastrointestinal tract function ensures a high quality and quantity of nutrients entering the body from the food consumed. In turn, this leads to an improvement in the composition and formula of the blood, which distributes nutrients throughout the body. As a result, the therapeutic possibilities of the proposed exercises extend beyond the abdominal cavity.”
Source: Enhancing the Benefits of Nauli with a Key Exercise for Abdominal Muscle Strength: Second Edition