We the Peeps...

That's it! I'm starting my own country. It shall be known as Moxie. It'll be a micro-nation so we'd better have micro-homes, microbreweries and micro-workweeks. We'll skip the microphones and microwaves, thank you very much. We, the peeps, will be proud of our autonomy and simplicity. We will not feel the need for constant reassurance that we are the greatest country in the world, because it just won't matter. We will have no debt issues due to the fact that we will have no monetary base. Our tribe will enjoy life's necessities and appreciate anything more than that as a condition of great ease and comfort. Life in Moxie is simple. Our basic philosophy is taken directly from Robert Fulghum's All I Ever Need To Know I Learned In Kindergarten. The following is an excerpt from his book.


Wisdom was not at the top of the grad school mountain, but there in the sandpile at Kindergarten. 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.

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 Dick and Jane books and the first word you learned - the biggest word of all - LOOK.

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 things back where they found them and to clean up their own mess.
Robert Fulghum, 1990.©

LOOK. LISTEN. BREATHE.