What book to take

Today when we got home from Church we decided to work on the office to figure out what books we will leave behind and what we want to take with us and what we want to send back to Utah for storage. Daniel reminded me that everything now is found in the internet and that we can't be carrying around so many heavy books but I love books. Here is a blog post I want to  share because she took my words out of my mouth... "I especially love books that teach you something like the book by Robert Fulghum : All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten.
(Villard Books: New York, 1990). The following excerpts are from pages 6-7 and they contain the most simple, yet powerful advice. I love that this advice applies to all of our lives.  Hope you enjoy it as much as I do:

All I Really Need To Know I Learned In Kindergarten      (by Robert Fulghum)

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 with
our 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.

SO GOOD! I love that advice and it is so relevant to all of us. I agree the world would be better if we had milk and cookies and a nap everyday. Wouldn’t that be awesome!  And most of all, I agree that we need to hold hands and stick together.  Have an amazing day everyone!" Amy

I also love so many other good books and can't part from them. A favorite of mine is written by a French Author Antoine De Saint-Exupéry: Le petit Pince and like that so many others... sad to know I can't possible take them all!