SIMPLICITY 

KG Report Card

My Kindergarten Report Card from 1958

We boomers started out just like our parents did and just how the next generation did, we had to learn the simple things of life. We had to learn our colors, our phone number, our birthday and harder things too.  We had to learn how to share and how to tie our shoes. 

What all of these things have in common is that they all started us on the road to learning the art of how to be a human being living in community.

Now I don't really remember a lot about KG but I do remember that the first day I came back I told my parents; "Boy I am glad that is over."    I truly was surprised when they insisted that I return the next day and even the next and the next day for another twelve years.  

I learned exactly two things in Kindergarten.  First I learned that it was hard to be the type of human being that the nuns wanted you to be.  Second I learned that Jesus loved you no matter what.  Both of these lessons are still incomplete in my life.  Through all of the boomer years I still am learning how to be a human being that is loving, kind, willing to share and to color inside the lines.  I am also still learning about the great love Jesus has for me, and not how I will be but how I am right now.

In KG we had lots of things to do, some of them important.  There was milk and cookie time and after that we rolled out some mats and we had nap time.  I don't think I ever slept during nap time but I did lay down and rest.  That too was a lesson.  Life could be divided into four parts.  Working, eating, playing, and sleeping.  That is how simple life really is and just think, this boomer learned it early.  The problem I had later on was putting it into action. 

When life gets you down, when trouble piles on top of trouble, remember life is simple.  Work, eat, play, and sleep is all you have to do.  Get enough of each and you can be happy too.