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"Day after day the rain had fallen patiently."

"their friendship was forged in the long hours on the boat in which neither spoke an unnecessary word."

"Fall came gently with the second blooming of the dogwood." this touched me because this year is the first year I witnessed (& learned) that dogwood blooms twice a year. I thought previously it only bloomed in the spring.

I think this entire book might be a koan. but I wasn't looking for a koan. and that's the way of the koan.

"You are doing well with the boat In another six months you will be almost as good as an Indian boy by the time he is ten."

"what does it matter if a man is lonely? one does not die of it."

Peter, the carver, heard a flight of wild geese pass over the village, honking loudly, and he counted the seconds of their passing as was his custom.

"getting into heaven could be no harder than reaching this village"