“Es de suma importancia conectarnos con nosotros mismos, para saber en realidad quiénes somos, para descubrir la relación que tenemos con cuanto nos rodea. Basta de acumular títulos y diplomas; lo que prima es lo de dentro. He podido incluso comprobar que si necesito saber algo, alguien me lo preguntará y yo misma me daré la respuesta. A menudo me veo dando consejos a terceros que en realidad van destinados a mí misma.””
“el plátano, la uva y el melón no combinan bien con el kiwi, el limón y la piña, aunque sí se puede tomar un zumo de fruta ácida media hora antes de comer frutas dulces. En general las frutas ácidas van mejor por la mañana y las dulces a mediodía y para la cena.””
“Try to walk as much as you can and keep your love for nature, for that is the true way to learn to understand art more and more. Painters understand nature and love her and teach us to see her . . .””
“you will see . . . Gauguin and Bernard talk now of ‘painting like children’ – I would rather have that than ‘painting like decadents’.””
“The boys walked into the gym, where hundreds of Navajo filled the stands, even three hours before their game. Players spotted mothers and grandparents, uncles and aunties and cousins, brothers and sisters and neighbors, folks who’d piled into old pickup trucks and vans and Chevy sedans to make that three-hour drive. There were Chinle stars who graduated last year and the year before that and the decade before that, young men who bathed still in past glory. There was Cecil Henry, a nearly sixty-year-old silversmith with a rakish mustache and an easy smile and a mighty thirst for the bottle, who crafted and sold beautiful jewelry to tourists on the floor of Canyon de Chelly. He once played high school basketball and ran like a deer and was related to a few of the Wildcats. He’d stuck out his thumb and hitchhiked here from Chinle.””
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