A couple weeks ago Heather Fitch, the owner of Host of Charlotte introduced us to Michelle with Otis Spunkmeyer. Tough negotiators that we are, we folded like a cheap suit and made a purchase 2.5 seconds after she said “Hi guys, Ya wanna buy some cookies?” and VLK is now in the cookie business. Sooooo…come on people, we got these really good fresh baked cookies that are available on the front counter. It also made me remember a great book by Robert Fulghum I read about 20 years ago and one of the things he learned in kindergarten. WARM COOKIES AND COLD MILK ARE GOOD FOR YOU. If you did not read the book, the important part is posted below.
ALL I REALLY NEED TO KNOW I LEARNED IN KINDERGARTEN
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. 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.
I would only add that a little exercise in the form of kart racing is a good way to add a
little balance to your life.
Later this month, I will introduce you to a couple of the “souls” of VLK. Stay tuned.
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