Sunday, August 2, 2009

Sardines

Taken from All I Ever Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
By Robert Fulghum


Better than hide-and-seek, I like the game Sardines. In Sardines the person who is it goes and hides, and everybody else goes looking for him. When you find him, you get in with him and hide there with him. Pretty soon everybody is hiding together, all stacked in a small space like puppies in a pile. And pretty soon somebody giggles and somebody laughs and everybody gets found.

Medieval theologians even described God in hide-and-seek terms, calling him Deus Absconditus. But me, I think old God is a Sardine player. And will be found the same way everybody gets found in Sardines--by the sound of laughter of those heaped together at the end.

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