egads and small fishes

Life is a great bundle of little things.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

By managing the little things we make more room for the bigger things - the things that give our life meaning. Tasks that follow us day in and day out can over-run us if we do not give them their own place so we can move away from that place quickly and efficiently.

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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-1894) was one of the best regarded 19th century American poets even though he was a physician by profession. His poem Ironsides gave him national prominence and generated enough public sentiment that resulted in the historic frigate USS Constitution being preserved as a monument rather than be broken up for scrap.

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