And so it begins...

My very first post! There's always so much pressure in these moments, isn't there? When you begin a diary, journal, or now in our digital age, a blog, you want to be brilliant, just in case you become famous one day, and all your writings are kept and studied for any hitherto unidentified flashes of genius. Of course, such pressure inevitably destroys creativity, so for my first post, I will rely on the brilliance of others, sharing with you, dear reader, the wisdom of childhood:

All I really need to know I learned in kindergarten - 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 in 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.

*sigh* Brilliant...