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To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (82691)	11/4/2011 5:13:07 AM
From: Maurice Winn	2 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 217835

It's hard to know what's a "little thing". <little things in life that caught my eye > My experience is that I can do quite little things which move the world if combined with others and timed - in the same way a butterfly flapping its wings can start a hurricane [the story goes]. An electron is a little thing but if it slips loose and starts a cascade, there can be a flash of lightning, a clap of thunder and it can shut down a huge electricity supply. Or a boy can put a finger in a dyke to hold back a flood. Or a little idea accepted by a child can lead that child to enlarge on the idea and change the world - Steve Jobs perhaps had some critical attention in a little way as a child which led him to do what he did. Even if little things remain little things, they can be big enjoyable and that's good enough, even if ephemeral. I am thinking of a time a couple of years ago with 2 year old granddaughter on the bar of my bicycle [with polystyrene taped on and a towel over it for comfort] going around and around on the driveway area and her saying "that way" [being down the driveway to the footpath to head on an adventure as we did]. I commented to daughter [the mother] "This is as good as life gets". Mqurice