All I Really Need To Know . . . . . . .

All 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 sand pile at Sunday 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're sorry when you hurt somebody.
Wash your hands before you eat.
Flush.
Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you.
When you go out into the world,
watch out for traffic, hold hands, and stick together.
Live a balanced life. . .learn some and think some and draw and paint
and sing and dance and play and work every day some.
Take a nap every afternoon.
Be aware of wonder.
Remember the little seed in the styrofoam cup:
the roots go down and the plant goes up and
nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that.
Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the
styrofoam cup . . . they all die.
So do we.
And then remember the Dick and Jane books
and the first word you learned. . the biggest word of all . . .
LOOK.
Everything you need to know
is in there somewhere.
The Golden Rule, love, and basic sanitation.  Ecology, politics, equality, and sane living.
Think what a better world it would be if the whole world had cookies and milk
at 3:00 every afternoon and then laid down with
our blankies for a nap.
Or if all governments had a basic policy
to always put things back where they found them and to clean up their own mess.
And it is still true, no matter how old you are - - when you go out into the world,
it is best to hold hands and stick together.