Uploaded on April 13, 2012
If I owned the park,
If the park were all mine,
I’d never put up a single sign
That said, “Don’t pick flowers!”
Or, “Don’t climb trees,”
Or, “Please don’t feed
The animals, please!”
I’d just put up one that said, “Hello!
Please go wherever you’d like to go,
And do whatever you’d want to do —
If the park were yours,
And the animals, too.”
—Kathryn Jackson
The Golden Book of 365 Stories
04.13.2024: I often wish I could back to when my kids were little and do things a bit better.