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“Nutmeg." Claudia grabbed the bottle and screwed the cap back on. The story was still filtering through me when a new scent exploded forth. "Orris root," Claudia said, tapping the new bottle on the table. "Am I going too fast for you?" "No," I lied. "Good." Linden blossom. Tonka bean. Benzoin. The smells came at me, little glass missiles fired across the table in rapid succession. "The point is speed and precision," Claudia said. She pushed a stack of papers toward me, the pages divided into rows and columns. "Put each scent in a category. Fresh, floral, woody, spicy, animal, marine, fruity. You need to recognize them instantly, without thinking." The bottles started again, and the world turned into charts and rows, filled with an onslaught of strange names. Litsea cubeba. Frangipani. Neroli. Tagette. Orange broke into pieces, became pettigrain, bergamot, tangerine, mandarin, bitter, sweet, and blood. Pepper was black, green, or pink. Mint was winter, spear, or pepper.”

“Nutrition and physical activity are important parts of a healthy lifestyle when you have diabetes. To manage your blood glucose, you need to balance what you eat and drink with physical activity and diabetes medicine, if you take any. What you choose to eat, how much you eat, and when you eat are all important in keeping your blood glucose level in the range that your health care team recommends.”

“Nutrition matters for everybody, but you can’t major in it at Harvard. Most top scientists go into other fields. Most of the big studies were done 30 or 40 years ago, and most are seriously flawed. The food pyramid that told us to eat low fat and enormous amounts of grains was probably more a product of lobbying by Big Food than real science; its chief impact has been to aggravate our obesity epidemic. There’s plenty more to learn: we know more about the physics of faraway stars than we know about human nutrition. It won’t be easy, but it’s not obviously impossible: exactly the kind of field that could yield secrets.”

“Nutty Community (The Sonnet) Crazy am I, crazy are you, When crazy together, we live anew. Miserable am I, miserable are you, When miserable together, I find joy in you. Broken am I, broken are you, When broken together, we are each other's glue. Insecure am I, insecure are you, When insecure together, we find it all untrue. Disfunctional am I, disfunctional are you, When disfunctional together, we function well. Fallen am I, fallen are you, When we fall together, we'll rise sure as hell. Let us go against ourselves in defying self-centricity. You be a nut, I'll be a nut, let's build a nutty community.”

“Nuvažiavau anksčiau, negu reikėjo, todėl atsisėdau vestibiulyje ant tokios odinės sofos po laikrodžiu ir ėmiau žiūrinėti mergiščias. Dauguma mokyklų jau buvo paleidę atostogų, ir koks milijonas mergiūkščių stoviniavo arba sėdėjo laukdamos savo kadrų. Vienos sėdėjo susikėlusios koją ant kojos, kitos — paprastai, suglaudusios kojas, vienų kojos buvo klasiškos, kitų klaikios, vienos atrodė liuks, o kitos tikros klizmos, jeigu arčiau susipažintum. Buvo gražu žiūrėt, na, žinot, ką aš turiu galvoj. Gražu, bet ir liūdnoka, nes aš visą laiką galvojau, kas laukia visų tų mergiūkščių ateity. Na, kai jos užbaigs savo mokyklas ir koledžus. Faktas, didžioji dalis ištekės už visokių psichų. Už tokių, kurie amžiais nepristinga kalbos apie tai, kiek mylių traukia jo automobilis su vienu galonu benzino. Už tokių, kurie įsižeidžia kaip vaikai, jeigu prakiša golfą arba net ir tokį nerimtą, žaidimą kaip tenisas. Už visokių niekšelių. Už tokių, kurie neskaito knygų. Už baisiai nuobodžių tipų.”

“NVC can be effectively applied at all levels of communication and in diverse situations: intimate relationships, families, schools, organizations and institutions, therapy and counseling, diplomatic and business negotiations, disputes and conflicts of any nature.”

“NVC is language, thoughts, communication skills and means of influence that serve my desire to do three things: 1) to liberate myself from cultural learning that is in conflict with how I want to live my life. 2) to empower myself to connect with myself and others in a way that makes compassionate giving natural. 3) to empower myself to create structures that support compassionate giving.”