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By: sleather2012Simon Leather

sleather2012Simon Leather — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 06:49:52 +0000

Nice, thought-provoking post and a philosophy that I should certainly try to emulate. Like you I seem to be rushing from one place/task to another and never really catching up. We shoul all perhaps remember the classic line from Simon & Garfunkel – “Slow down, you move too fast, got to make the moment last”