This situation has been the source of many lessons for me, and I would like to share some of these with you. Of course, the primary thing on our minds is health and safety - of ourselves, our families, our neighbors, and all of the helpers who inspire us each day. You know things are bad when that happens. There is even speculation that there may be no football in the fall. Stores are closing (some temporarily, some permanently). School buses are running, but the only passengers are the prepared meals that are being delivered to students who need them. “Uncommon times” is an understatement, isn’t it? Campuses are empty and are being described as ghost towns. I have borrowed Fulghum’s sentiment in giving this reflection the title, “All I Really Need to Know I Learned During a Pandemic.” If I were to have a subtitle, mine would be “Common Thoughts During Uncommon Times.” The subtitle of his book is “Uncommon Thoughts on Common Things.” In the book he describes how the simple lessons he was taught in kindergarten (share, don’t hit people, take a nap every afternoon, etc) continued to have significance throughout his life. Nearly 35 years ago, author Robert Fulghum gave us the now well-known book All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten.
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