Anyone remember the hit Suncreen Spoken Word Song from the late 90s?

I blame hearing this at the impressionable age of 7 for being the reason why I love to both take in ample self-help material and dispense unsolisited adivce.

As journalist Mary Schmich¹ shares in the original faux address to the class of '97:

Advice is a form of nostalgia, dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, and painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than it's worth

As I move from living in the expansive Dallas metro area to the stunningly scenic & smaller town of Boulder, I was thinking about these lines:

Live in New York City once but leave before it makes you hard,
Live in northern California once but leave before it makes you soft.

In my own fan-fiction of the song, I'd add two lines right after that:

Work with your mind to stay sharp,
Work with your hands to keep patient.