1. Earth Day is every day, and every creature on the planet is to be enjoyed, named, played with, and perhaps put in a bug cage to enjoy for a few hours, days, or months. Squishing a bug doesn't mean you don't love it--it just means you want to see what's inside.
2. Anticipating a trip to Sea World by making extensive plans to catch an orca and bring it home in a ziploc bag is nearly as much fun as realizing how massive an orca actually is. Feeding a dolphin is even more fun than feeding a cat.
3. Just because you call someone an unkind name, like "Meanest Mommy", doesn't mean you believe it.
4. Some of the most beautiful flowers are the tiniest, or the ones that the world calls weeds. If you hand a stranger a flower, even if it's a weed, you'll get a smile.
5. Funerals don't have to be sad, at least not the entire time. Especially when there's a field of dandelions nearby.
6. Turbulence on an airplane can be fun, and laughing about it can ease the tension of your fellow passengers.
7. The road-trip games you make up, like "Color Collecting" or "Duck, There's a Bridge!", are generally more fun than the toys you brought to play with.
8. Some days, it's OK to treat the world like your own personal fan club. Some days, it's even true.
9. Too much exercise is a bad thing, and can make you very cranky. Swim class, hiking, and excessive backyard exuberance in the same day is too much exercise.
10. Emotions can just be too huge sometimes, and have to come bubbling out. It's OK to cry because Little Orphan Annie is an orphan, or laugh hysterically at a goofy upside-down cat.
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