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"The essence of compassion is to copy how you relate with your child (in your relationships with others)." - Chogyam Trungpa
This is a scarcrow cookie for my 3rd grade neighbor girl, Dana.
My children are all grown up now.
Though I have no children at home, I always try to keep children in my mind and to do things for them as I think of it. My Grandmother was a wonderful woman and she taught me so much about being "Grandmotherly" in her lifetime. I think what she did in her older years mattered a lot. It mattered to me.
I selected this quote because I think it is so true. We learn to be kind as children if we are taught kindness as a child. If I could practice this with all of my adult friends, how much more wonderful would my relationships grow to be.
Below is something I think is so full or wisdom. Its author is Robert Fulgum. Hope you enjoy it.
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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 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.
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 your 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 about three o'clock every 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 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 (1937 - )
Source: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
[THIS PHOTO IS DEDICATED TO PRINCESS ACTIVIST. Flickr friends, please look for her site; she's taught me a lot about caring through Flickr too. ]
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Food Photo Setup: Behind the cookie I have used autumn leaves from my "Dutchman's Pipe" plant.
"The essence of compassion is to copy how you relate with your child (in your relationships with others)." - Chogyam Trungpa
This is a scarcrow cookie for my 3rd grade neighbor girl, Dana.
My children are all grown up now.
Though I have no children at home, I always try to keep children in my mind and to do things for them as I think of it. My Grandmother was a wonderful woman and she taught me so much about being "Grandmotherly" in her lifetime. I think what she did in her older years mattered a lot. It mattered to me.
I selected this quote because I think it is so true. We learn to be kind as children if we are taught kindness as a child. If I could practice this with all of my adult friends, how much more wonderful would my relationships grow to be.
Below is something I think is so full or wisdom. Its author is Robert Fulgum. Hope you enjoy it.
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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 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.
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 your 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 about three o'clock every 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 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 (1937 - )
Source: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
[THIS PHOTO IS DEDICATED TO PRINCESS ACTIVIST. Flickr friends, please look for her site; she's taught me a lot about caring through Flickr too. ]
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Food Photo Setup: Behind the cookie I have used autumn leaves from my "Dutchman's Pipe" plant.