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Wednesday, April 16, 2025

It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It

 

 

Robert Fulghum, best known for "All I Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten", reported that firefighters rescued a man from a burning bed. They asked if perhaps he was smoking and fell asleep, but he responded, "No, it was on fire when I lay down on it."

This poor man was obviously chemically impaired that day, but don't some of us - myself included - far too often do exactly the same thing: without thinking, we're jumping in when the bed is already on fire. 

I read this book just after it had been published long before the internet and long before this audiobook became available which I was delighted to find on YouTube. Read by the man himself, it is a 90-minute treat.


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