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Title: ALL I REALLY NEED TO KNOW I LEARNED IN KINDERGARTEN: Uncommon
Thoughts on Common Things
Author: Robert Fulghum
Call Number: 128 F963A 2004
Subjects: Life
John’s Read:
This
is more a complilation of writings to "...friends, family, a religious
community, and myself..." that became published. It was a result of it
being "...sent home from school in the knapsack of a child whose mother is
a literary agent..." who asked if he had any more things he had written.
Since the author has worked as a cowboy, parish minister, bartender, salesman,
folksinger - as a few examples - the writings reflect his vast life experience.
When asked he "...usually replies that he is a philosopher.." who
expresses "...what he thinks by writing or speaking or painting, whichever
seems appropriate."
He extracts thoughtful ideas from everyday life experiences in a way to make people take time to reflect on their own experiences. To take his stories as a parallel course as a way to compare one's own with his so that each may glean that which is wise from our own rather than just going through something, then tucking it away as simply some personal event with little meaning. In other words, rather than, "Okay, I've been through that", to "Wow, why didn't I think of that?!" It is both worth a read and to be passed on.
He extracts thoughtful ideas from everyday life experiences in a way to make people take time to reflect on their own experiences. To take his stories as a parallel course as a way to compare one's own with his so that each may glean that which is wise from our own rather than just going through something, then tucking it away as simply some personal event with little meaning. In other words, rather than, "Okay, I've been through that", to "Wow, why didn't I think of that?!" It is both worth a read and to be passed on.
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