domingo, 7 de setembro de 2008

Books




All I Really Need To KnowI Learned In Kindergarten

by Robert Fulghum


An excerpt from the book:

Alll 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 sandpile 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.

  • 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 into 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 of those items and extrapolate it into sophisticated adult terms and apply it to your family life or your work or your government or your world and it holds true and clear and firm. Think what a better world it would be if all - the whole world - had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down withour blankies for a nap. Or if all governments had a basic policy to always put thing 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.

Robert Fulghum, 1990. Found in Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need To Know I Learned In Kindergarten, Villard Books: New York, 1990, page 6-7.

See his web site at http://www.robertfulghum.com/

Back on the road again!

Hello world me is back!!!!





Depois de uns meses bem vividos e de umas férias bem merecidas cá estou de volta ao blog. Fazendo um pequeno balanço o ano de 2008 tem sido ou está a ser um ano muito bom, quase diria de recompensa!!!Desde já agradeço ao meus anjinhos.LOL.
E para não dizerem que andei por ai sem fazer nada, aqui vão umas fotos dos meus trabalhos manuais:)


A primeira e a segunda fotos são do meu tapete de arraiolos, finalmente concluído ( só falta mesmo uma moldura).



A terceira foto é de um quadro pintado e imaginado por mim. Nada de copiar!!! Este vem da alma e do coração pelo que será díficil fazerem igual.LOL



Nestas férias e não só vi muitas asneiras nas estradas portuguesas, as quais não vou comentar! Vou antes agradecer a todos os condutores que por teimosia e persistência continuam a seguir o código da estrada. O meu bem haja aos que fazem pisca ao mudarem de direcção, nas rotundas...O meu muito obrigado a todos os que respeitam a sinalização, a todos os que cumprem os limites de velocidade e a todos os que se respeitam a si mesmos e aos outros.


A mim cabe-me dar o exemplo e tentar não abusar da buzina.LOL


Façam o favor de serem felizes!!!

Lots of love!!!!!