Everything I needed to know about life--hold hands and stick together

We learned about life and how to live it in kindergarten. But, Robert Fulghum wrote about that and it seems like it was very revealing with much truth to it. I came across another saying that one of my hospice patients gave me with a similarity. This patient had been a rancher all his life. His wife posted this poem framed on display at his funeral. I had someone copy it for me and will share it here:

Everything I Learned About Life I Learned From A Cow

Nothing is better than milk and cookies.

Life is a moo-ving experience--milk it for all its worth.

Make hay while the sun shines.

Don't put up with any bull.

When searching for greener pastures, watch out for the electric fence.

Never give anyone a bum steer.

Some days you step in it, some days you don't

If you're always full of bull, it can get you in a stew.

Eat more chicken.

Apple pies always taste better than cow pies.

Manure happens. Author Unknown

I found Robert Fulghum's interpretation to include here too.

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 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.
• 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.
• When you go out in the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands and stick together.
• 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 and love and basic sanitation. Ecology and politics and equality and sane living.

Take any one of those items and extrapolate it into sophisticated adult terms and apply it to your family life or your work or government or your world and it holds true and clear and firm. Think what a better world it would be if we all - the whole world - had cookies and milk at about 3 o'clock in the afternoon and then lay down with our blankies for a nap. Or if all governments had as 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 in the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together.

[Source: "ALL I REALLY NEED TO KNOW I LEARNED IN KINDERGARTEN" by Robert Fulghum.