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I found an old paperback buried in a box: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten.
Yellowed pages. 1986 nostalgia. Did the lessons still stick?
The kindergarten rules weren’t really about children.
They’re the keys we still need:
- Share
- Be kind
- Say you’re sorry
- Stick together
- Wonder
- Look
- Be grateful
We spend years chasing what’s ahead, while real miracles sit quietly in front of us, a sunrise, a child’s laughter, a full moon.
Planting a seed in a Styrofoam cup. Watching roots disappear, shoots reach for the sun. I still don’t know how it works, but it keeps happening anyway.
Fulghum says the first word we learned in kindergarten was LOOK. Maybe that’s all we need: Look at your life. Look at what you stopped noticing.
Lost in adulthood: cleaning up our own mess. (Not the crumbs, the careless words, the arguments that last years.)
Looking back: my Atlanta kindergarten rite of passage? Milking a cow at Mathis Dairy & drinking chocolate milk from a glass bottle. Uncomplicated happiness.
Grief hits differently at 5. My daughter mourned her classroom rat harder than most adults grieve what really matters. (RIP Templeton.)