by Robert Fulghum
Most of what I really need to know about how to live, and what to do, and how to be, I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top the graduate school mountain, but there in the sand box at nursery school.
These are the things I learned. Share everything. Play fair. Don't hit people. Put things back where you found them. Clean up your own mess. Don't take things that aren't yours. Say you are sorry when you hurt somebody. Wash your hands before you eat. Flush. Warm cookies and cold milk are food for you. Live a balanced life. Learn some and think some and draw some and paint and sing and dance and play and work everyday.
Take a nap every afternoon. When you go out in the world, watch for traffic, hold hands, and stick together. Be aware of wonder. Remember the little seed in the plastic cup? The roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why. We are like that.
And then remember that book about Dick and Jane and the first word you learned, the biggest word of all: LOOK! Everything you need to know is there somewhere. The Golden Rule and love and basic sanitation, ecology, and politics and the sane living.
Think of what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about 3 o'clock every afternoon and then lay down with our blankets for a nap. Or we had a basic policy in our nation and other nations to always put thing back where we found them and clean up our own messes. And it is still true, no matter how old you are, when you go out in the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together.
GOOD MORNING !
It's so true, we try to make life complicated and it's all so very simple .
I slept in this morning and am just now sipping that good coffee !
My little black cat is enjoying my lap and purring away as I post my morning message. She's such a lover.
The painter is finally done and we have our backyard back again!
There is of course still paint chips around and squashed flowers here and there and weeds everywhere. Lots to do outside and inside this weekend.
I hope you all have a great day - I'm going to
***Big Smile***
MA
3 comments:
Love the kindergarden idea....enough to print it out to share with my girls.
That making life simple is so true. some people must do things the hard way. or make things harder on others too. I m feeling that way today big time
Well, I have to say we have created a chocolate and coffee moment at my work about 3:00 p.m.
I usually have a stash of chocolate and one or two folks usually come by asking for some of my stash. I usually indulge a bite myself. So the sharing and friendship occurs just like it did in elementary. We even slap each other's hands if someone goes for the last piece and we don't want to share. LOL. All in fun.
Anyway, this weeks private stash is mini peanut M & M's leftover from a recent employee meeting.
Have a good Saturday and thanks for your last comment. You are right about my needing sleep. My outlook is always so different. I should do like you and write in the mornings. My journal will be more pleasant to read. LOL.
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