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by
Marc Hamer
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January 1 - January 2, 2022
Every small step we take on this earth has consequences and each evening when I get home I scrub out from under my nails the messy business of birth and sex and death and decay and I try to wash it all away.
No living thing is ever perfectly symmetrical, and imperfection is where beauty is found.
We all do what we want to do, and we rationalise it afterwards.
Once you experience this feeling of simply existing you lose the need to ask why you exist.
I don’t know how far I walked because if you are measuring you are not walking.
As a gardener I do not dig any more: I hoe off the weeds and top-dress the gardens in the autumn with compost just as nature does with falling leaves and grasses.
The only permanent things about man are his waste.
I was born a long way from where I am now.
In the north of England and Scotland they do not ask where you live, or where you come from: they ask, ‘Where do you stay?’ as if living somewhere were just a stop on a journey, as if we were all travellers.
they make no plans for the future yet they prepare for winter
There is no avoiding sadness in life, although it seems that happiness is easier to avoid.
There is something deeply magnificent in being just ordinary.
Life is so full of mystery, answers are so few, I do not trust them. I prefer unanswered questions. At the end of the answers there is usually a person who enjoys the power of appearing to know. I have come to like things that are left unfinished. It’s the question that shines the light, that seeks. The answer’s often just a dim reflection of the vastness of the question. There are no answers that satisfy.
Killing a living thing should not be cheap or slow.
Everything has its end and each thing carries the beginning of the next thing.
Scar tissue is an inevitable part of life.
crave the company of human beings, even though I am nervous about how to relate to them.
The small things are the things which in their millions make the world work.