We’re working our way through 660 Curries, and this is what’s for dinner tonight. It’s been an adventure getting to know the Indian grocery down the street on a hunt for exotic-to-us ingredients.
If nothing else, everyone should learn two physical skills: swimming and falling.
The most important thing I learned from my short time in kids’ Judo classes was how to fall safely in a way that minimizes impact. On more than one occasion โ like the time I stopped short on my bike falling over my handlebars but rolled safely back to my feet in the middle of the road โ this skill has saved me from more serious injuries.
An essay disguised as a novel, full of heavy-handed exposition about the author’s concrete spirituality: hypnotism, psychedelics, Eastern religion, sex, death, eugenics. The way the protagonist often lingered over the breasts of pubescent girls made me squirm. Yet at its heart, brilliance and wisdom.
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