![]() ![]() To sing and dance like nobody's watching. (Ignore the part where she goes a knuckle-deep in her nose). We forget what it felt like to see the world afresh. Just watch this 30 second video a kid talking about imagination. Then we go home to bury our face in our phone as we half-watch another episode of The Voice for the third night in a row. As if we’ve earned the right not to put things back where we found them. As if the speed of life negates the need to share and say your sorry when you mess up. It seems as if the more our world speeds up, the less we remember these rules. Everybody can sing and dance.)īut somewhere along the way we’ve lost these rules. Before you questioned if you could sing or dance. Before you realized that a “smock” was really just your dad’s old dress shirt. Before you realized that nobody wants the white crayon or the white jelly beans. Rules like “Play fair” and “Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody.” Basic things that we all learned before we could even write our own name with a broken Magenta crayon. But who knew that we would need these rules even more today. Rules that were relevant to adults (and kindergarteners) in 1986. Rules of living decently with other human beings. ![]() You see this book is really about a set of rules. The kind that make us slow down, and savor life for a minute. Old school stuff, for sure. The kind that make us think about everyday happenings. The kind of stories that make us feel good. I decided to re-read this book to see if the yellowing pages had the same impact on me after some 30-plus years stuffed in a box. ![]()
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