Sometimes we trim the fat and lose the pig

Simplify, simplify, simplify!

I am always trying to find the root of the problem, because it seems to me that it should be easier to fix the foundation of the leaning tower than to rebuild the whole thing, but straining to over simplify can lead to some faulty conclusions.

I've known people who take a phrase like "absent minded professor" and decide that if you act like Fred MacMurry in the movie, you must therefore be brilliant, but sometimes people are simply crazy without the added bonus of intelligence.

Just like being poor doesn't necessarily mean you are lazy, or dumb, but it also doesn't mean you are guaranteed salt of the earth humble and kind.

And being childlike doesn't mean you are angelically good any more than it means you have some kind of disability.

In our society I see people over reaching all the time.  We want our loved ones to be special, so we seek out bizarre behavior and pretend that it's something good in disguise.  It can be, but . . .

It's totally possible to just be curious and curiouser and nothing more.