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 of the graduate school mountain but there in the sandbox.  These are the things I learned:

1. Share everything.
2. Play fair.
3. Don't hit people.
4. Put things back where you found them.
5. Clean up your own mess.
6. Don't take things that aren't yours.
7. Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody.
8. Wash your hands before you eat.
9. Live a balanced life.
10. Learn some and think some.
11. Draw, sing, dance, play, and work some every day.
12. Take a nap in the afternoon.
13. When you go out into the world, watch for traffic, hold hands, and stick together.
14. Be aware of wonder.
15. Remember the little seed in the plastic cup.  The roots go down and the plant goes up, and nobody really knows why, but we are all like that.
16. Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the plastic cup - they all die.  So do we.

And, then, remember the book about "Dick and Jane" and the first word you learned, the biggest word of all:  LOOK.  Everything you need to know is in there somewhere.  The golden rule and love and basic sanitation.  Ecology and politics and sane living.

Think of what a better world it would be if we all had cookies and milk at about thee o'clock every afternoon and then laid down with our blankets for a nap.  Or, if we had a basic policy in our nation, and other nations, to always put things back where we found them and clean up our own messes.  And, it is still true, no matter how old we are, when we go out into the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together.

(Author:  Robert Fulghum - condensed from the Kansas City Times.)

                                                   Expect Miracles!