Spring Rain
By: Marc Hamer
4.36
Format: 222 pages, Hardcover
This is a story about the rain, a boy, an angry dog and a gardener, and how some of them find peace…
Want to Read $ 16.14"When I look at the past I do it in the present, it becomes the present and I don't have any desire to cling to it. I make the three piles of stuff that we have all made at some time: a pile to keep, a pile to go, and a pile that I don't know what to do with."-Marc Hamer, Spring Rain
"When I look at the past I do it in the present, it becomes the present and I don't have any desire to cling to it. I make the three piles of stuff that we have all made at some time: a pile to keep, a pile to go, and a pile that I don't know what to do with."-Marc Hamer, Spring Rain
"I bought a narrow blue one with white spots and square ends, took off my long-striped tie and rolled it up in my top jacket pocket, leaving a bit sticking out. After a few attempts at the speckled mirror, I manage to get the bow tie almost right, if a little lopsided. In the world of bow ties, it is important that it should be ever so slightly imperfect; this is to show that: a) you tied it yourself; and b) that you are slightly 'devil may care' and not at all prissy. Perfection is the sign of an amateur, perhaps someone who works with great skill but without connection to his animal nature, to passion and lust. Perfection is not for living things, certainly not for human beings; if you are not capable of loving flaws and faults, then you are not capable of love. I have lived most of my life in poverty, but I can tie a bow tie and to some this will be a mystery, but somebody who knows me would say, 'Of course he can tie a bow tie.' Such imperfections - wrinkles in the world - are where all of life's best stories are."-Marc Hamer, Spring Rain
"I bought a narrow blue one with white spots and square ends, took off my long-striped tie and rolled it up in my top jacket pocket, leaving a bit sticking out. After a few attempts at the speckled mirror, I manage to get the bow tie almost right, if a little lopsided. In the world of bow ties, it is important that it should be ever so slightly imperfect; this is to show that: a) you tied it yourself; and b) that you are slightly 'devil may care' and not at all prissy. Perfection is the sign of an amateur, perhaps someone who works with great skill but without connection to his animal nature, to passion and lust. Perfection is not for living things, certainly not for human beings; if you are not capable of loving flaws and faults, then you are not capable of love. I have lived most of my life in poverty, but I can tie a bow tie and to some this will be a mystery, but somebody who knows me would say, 'Of course he can tie a bow tie.' Such imperfections - wrinkles in the world - are where all of life's best stories are."-Marc Hamer, Spring Rain
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