LUCKY


Dr. Seuss (1973). Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are?


Dr. Seuss is a pen name for Theodor Seuss Geisel who graduated from Darmouth college with a BA in English...he was planning to get a PhD from Oxford but he met his wife who encouraged him to write. This book is one of over 60 children's books written by Dr. Seuss.

The book begins with an old man sitting on a prickly cacti in the desert, giving advice to Duckie, a young lad also sitting on a prickly cacti (see cover of book below). The theme on every page is BE GLAD you don't have it as bad as "so and so" who has to do "such and such" every day...the usual Dr. Seuss imaginative drawings accompany every page. 

Disappointed with the negativity, presenting problems and reframing them as "aren't you glad this isn't you"! Why not FLIP IT? Tell about all the WONDERS of life, the MIRACLES of existence, the GIFT of being alive...now that's the kind of book i'd like to read (and hope to one day write).


For practice, you could look around your world (home, work, school, neighborhood, larger community) and think about how bad some people have it and how good you have it compared to them, OR you could look around your world and find all the good things going on, all the little beauties and little miracles...it's up to you (maybe that should be the name of the book, It's up to you!).




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