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- EVERYTHING I NEED TO KNOW I LEARNED IN KINDERGARTEN PROFESSIONAL
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In each shoe is a chocolate chip cookie wrapped in wax paper. When Fulghum gets home, he opens the bag. The cobbler then goes to the back of the shop and returns with the shoes in a stapled brown bag "for carrying" Fulghum thinks. The cobbler inspects the loafers carefully, then announces regretfully the loafers are beyond repair. What a marvelous metaphor for getting the most out of life! When you read one of the better Fulghum essays in Kindergarten or his other writings, you're struck immediately by his care for the details.įor example, the author does a piece about his shoe cobbler Elias Schwartz whom Fulghum claims is the 145th reincarnation of the Haiho Lama-the Lama was known for "doing wise things in small, mysterious ways."įulghum takes his prized loafers to Elias for a complete renovation. To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour. What's that famous quote from William Blake: And I think Fulghum's work perfectly distills the benevolent awareness coming up the road, none too quickly I might add. Myself reading so much in the course of my Coffee Coaster work, I'm beginning to get a sense of where the collective consciousness of humanity is headed. So budding authors, take Fulghum's tack to heart. And cleaning up! According to his Wikipedia article, he has sold more than 16 million books in 27 languages in 103 countries. But Fulghum is working a different corner from mine. I know, my readers sometimes wish I could be so terse, or at least write more about like kindergarten, eensy-weensy spiders, South Pacific islanders who yell at trees, raccoons making whoopy in the crawlspace, buying deerskin gloves in San Saba, Texas, coloring with Crayola crayons, and other rituals of "deep-rooty places."įulghum's essays are uniformly brilliant and efficient: the long ones are at most 1000 words.
EVERYTHING I NEED TO KNOW I LEARNED IN KINDERGARTEN SERIES
In All I Really Need to Know we have a series of short essays about "ordinary things". When asked, "What do you do?" he usually replies that he is a philosopher, and then explains what he likes to do is think a lot about ordinary things then express what he thinks by writing or speaking or painting, whichever seems appropriate.
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EVERYTHING I NEED TO KNOW I LEARNED IN KINDERGARTEN FREE
So the author is what one might call a free spirit. At least for the time when the book was published in 1988 he lived with his wife on a houseboat in Seattle.
EVERYTHING I NEED TO KNOW I LEARNED IN KINDERGARTEN PROFESSIONAL
The author of All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten, Robert Fulghum, at least has lived widely: having been a ranch hand, a folksinger, IBM salesman, professional artist, parish minister, bartender (I almost wrote 'parish bartender' :-)), teacher of drawing and painting, and father. He paraphrased Fulghum's charming little book as follows:Ī set of premises totally in keeping with the Sacred Nonaggression Principle (SNaP) and, equally important, a prescription for living well. John Stossel of ABC 20/20 "skewerer of conventional knowledge" fame addressed us at the banquet with a message that simplicity favors liberty. The inspiration for reading this book comes from a reference at the Free State Project 2007 Winter Porcupine Festival. Please go to the new Coffee Coaster site implemented more gracefully in Wordpress.