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

© Robert Fulghum, 1990.  Found in Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need To Know I Learned In Kindergarten, Villard Books: New York, 1990, page 6-7.

É o espírito da época: queremos emagrecer comendo trufas de chocolate e tonificar nosso corpo sem esforço, graças a pílulas que agiriam no sono.

Ora, em regra, o que queremos não sai de graça. Num momento de propósitos como o começo do ano, é bom lembrar o seguinte: há várias razões de não conseguirmos realizar nossos desejos; talvez a principal delas seja que, frequentemente, não estamos dispostos a pagar o preço que esses desejos exigem de nós.

Trecho da coluna  publicada na Folha: “Sobre os propósitos de ano novo“.

Ways of Thinking, László Merö

Allocution du Conseiller fédéral Didier Burkhalter
(Lausanne, 15.10.2011)

Source: 20minutes (p.25, mercredi 7 septembre 2011)

* En 2003, l’American Dialect Society a choisi le mot flexitarian comme le néologisme le plus utile de l’année, le définissant comme «un végétarien qui mange occasionnellement de la viande».

True evolution!...

La vignette vélo appartient au passé – et maintenant?

La vignette vélo 2011 est encore valable jusqu’au 31 mai 2012.Par la suite, cette tradition helvétique disparaîtra pour de bon. Selon le Parlement, la vignette vélo n’est plus nécessaire: la plupart des cyclistes disposent d’une assurance responsabilité civile privée.

Pas de lacunes

Dorénavant, les assurances responsabilité civile privée devront couvrir les dommages causés par les cyclistes. La protection entre automatiquement en vigueur le 1er janvier 2012, il n’y a pas besoin de s’annoncer.

Source: ATE Association transports et environnement

Ingredientes

Família: é aqui que tudo começa.

Amigos: nunca deixa faltar.

Raiva: se acontecer, que seja pouco.

Paciência: o máximo possível

Lágrimas: enxugue todas.

Sorrisos: os mais variados.

Paz: em grande quantidade.

Perdão: à vontade.

Desafetos: se possível nenhum.

Esperança: não perca jamais.

Coração: quanto maior melhor.

Amor: pode abusar.

Carinho: essencial.

Modo de Fazer:

Saiba misturar todos os temperos que a vida oferece e faça dela um prato de raro sabor. No final, tenho certeza que você dirá: “Como é gostoso viver!” “Porque a vida é muito mais do que tudo aquilo que insiste em separar as pessoas…“

And the reality of the society we’re in is there are thousands and thousands of people out there leading lives of quiet, screaming desperation, where they work long, hard hours at jobs they hate to enable them to buy things they don’t need to impress people they don’t like.

Nigel MARSH: How to make work-life balance work, available at: TED – Ideas worth spreading

Questões de prioridades, de direitos, que eu não consigo entender.

Nem tento entender…!
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