Why the bird?

You might ask, "Why the bird?"

Simple, I just get a big kick out of him.

As a father of three lovely young girls, I've been able to read and enjoy many wonderful children's books. This particular fellow is from Big Dog, Little Dog, by P.D. Eastman.

I don't want to spoil the book for you, but it ends with the unnamed bird offering up advice that I find to be remarkably compelling:

"Why make big problems out of little problems?"

This nicely sums up how I largely look at the world. I don't like silly problems, and I sure don't like when people, myself certainly included, make big problems out of little problems.