Dear DU'ers.... Please Read. Pretty please.

[Window]

All I ever needed to know, I learned in Kindergarten

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 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 good 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 things 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.

--- Robert Fulghum

[fenriswolf]

1. very nice and soulful

[Window]

6. Glad you enjoyed it.

I just so hate the divisiveness on DU these days.



Peace:thumbsup:

[Uben]

2. But this isn't a fairy tale

....and people don't play by the rules anymore. It would be great if they did, but they don't. In order to get ahead, they see their best chances are by breaking the rules, not following them. I give you the example of election 2000, where the republicans and the SCOTUS had to cheat to win, and it paid off. Bush and Cheney had to lie to us to go to war in Iraq, they had to out a CIA agent (Plame), so she would stop investigating their sale of nuclear secrets to foreign interests, CEOs and CFOs had to "cook the books" so they could reap billions in profit.

As dems, we should hold hands and stick together when it comes to punishing those who cheat for their misdeeds. We should make examples of them, like they did with Martha Stewart. We should send them to prison for a very long time. There is strength in unity!

Unfortunately, some did not learn in kindergarten, and must be taught via the penal systems in the Unites States.

[robbedvoter]

3. You said "fairy tale"! I am shocked!

[fenriswolf]

4. yeah i hear that argument alot

"people" don't play fair so I'm not going to

I always liked the argument
some people try to be fair so I will to.

[Uben]

5. No, I didn't say that

I didn't say I wouldn't play fair, I said there are those that would not play fair to get ahead.

[Window]

7. So true...sigh.

I know the repukes wouldn't recognize how to play fair if it bit them in the butt.

I posted this in the hopes that DU'ers would just take a step back, take a deep breath and realize that we are in this together. We must band together to put a Democrat in the White House in November!

(edited to change Democratic to Democrat)


Peace:thumbsup:

[applegrove]

8. That was a sweet book.