Jack’s Winning Words 4/30/19
“Sweep first your own doorstep before you sweep the one of your neighbors.”  (Swedish Proverb)  Some people who recently visited Holland, Michigan, commented on how clean the city was...not even a scrap of paper blowing around.  Amsterdam, Holland, has a project to make theirs a more livable city.  Residents, and even the mail carriers, report any places that need cleaning/fixing up, and workers are sent to take care of it…even sweeping the streets.    ;-) Jack

FROM LH IN FH:  There is a similar quotation from Goethe:  “If man would but sweep his own doorstep, the entire world would be clean.”  I’ve always felt that has such a vast meaning, as an inspiration for things like volunteer efforts in ones own community and moral values training as one takes on the responsibility of raising children.  The same with your Swedish saying. ===JACK:  For me, it means "Don't tell other people how to run their lives until your life is in order,"

FROM ST PAUL IN ST PAUL:  when we were in Norway and Sweden and Finland last May,  there was hardly a bit of trash anywhere!!   we Americans should be ashamed of our roads and streets.  some are just disgracefully trashy!===JACK:  I may be wrong, but I think that the proverb might be referring to a different kind of trash.===SP:  perhaps but your added comments did refer to street trash,  did they not?:):):)===JACK:  OOPS.  I should watch my words!