One Fire, Many Irons

= Favorite songs of all time Greensleeves.King Henry VIII? Angie.Rolling Stones Knights in White Satin.Moody Blues Hello It's Me.Todd Rundgren Benny & The Jets.Elton John Sweet Dreams are Made of This.Eurythmics Golden Brown.Stranglers Songs that touch me, Deeply Greensleeves The first time I heard 'GreenSleeves' as a 7 year old, I was haunted. I asked my mother who wrote it and she said, 'King Henry VIII' and I remember thinking, 'No he didn't'... Angie, Rolling Stones I was 9 years old, awestruck. I CRIED at the end of the song. Knights in White Satin, Moody Blues We lived in New Jersey, it was a dark raining night with my mother driving the red Karmann Ghia with just us three. The song was made ever potent with the driving rain. Hello, It's Me, Todd Rundgren It was a Summer day and we were just a family out for an outing at the nudist colony. [More on that later]. I was maybe 11 and there was a dark haired boy there I looked longingly at in a ...

To have (too) many irons in the fire "to be doing too much at once" is from 1549. irons in the fire, matters with which one is immediately concerned; undertakings; projects: He had other irons in the fire, so that one failure would not destroy him. "Don't have too many irons in the fire" is a saying of unknown origin but is believed to date back to the 1600's. Nowadays it means we shouldn't take on more than we can handle. It's original meaning, however, came straight from the blacksmith's shop where a blacksmith had to find a delicate balance of having enough irons in the forge to keep him busy without putting in too many. If there were too few irons in the fire, the blacksmith would have to wait for some to heat up and couldn't stay constantly busy. If he had too many, he couldn't keep up with them and he would be labeled inefficient. Having just the right amount of irons in the fire was the sign of a good blacksmith and allowed the smi...