Dear Alfred
Some make little of much and others make much of little.

Some make little of much and others make much of little.

From The Beginning Viewed from the End, one of 296 sayings written by John Sarris over thirty years.

From Alfred’s journal

Two feeders on the same block today, forty yards apart. The one on Pell Street is a brass contraption with a copper roof and a squirrel baffle, kept full of sunflower hearts, and the woman who fills it stands at the window afterward looking disappointed at the three house finches who bother. The other is a coffee can wired to a fence post behind the auto shop, cracked corn mostly, and the man who fills it talks to the jays by name and laughs when they shout at him. I used to think the difference was in the birds. Some make little of much and others make much of little, and I have been on both ends of that, having once spent a whole October sulking in a stand of oaks heavy with acorns. Switch says the corn is worse and he eats it anyway. I did not ask him which post he goes to first.

Some make little of much and others make much of little, wornSome make little of much and others make much of little, worn

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