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Now would seem an appropriate time (less the "hold hands and stick together"), to be reminded of the well-known counsel of Robert Fulghum's "All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten," as quoted below:

Share everything

Play fair

Dont hit people

Put things back where you found them

Clean up your own mess

Dont take things that arent yours

Say youre 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 oclock every afternoon and then lay down with

our blankies for a nap. Or if all governments

had a basic policy to always put things 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.

As Mr. Fulghum stated,wisdom has never been taught at the "top of the graduate school mountain," and likely never will be. Tragically this lack of wisdom is the primary reason why America faces the overwhelming, life-or-deathchallenges it does today. And the epicenter of this lack of wisdom is and has beenWashington, D.C. The most recent gross neglect and incompetence (COVID-19)and immeasurable pain and suffering causedis unconscionable and unforgivable! Sadly, the "sins and iniquity of the fathers," surely are visited upon their children for generations to come.

May we all better incorporate into our lives that which we should have learned in kindergarten!

Warren S.Wright is a resident of St. George.

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