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Thanksgiving - fall's finale. Best damn holiday of the year in my worldly estimation.
But more importantly in my book of life, it's what you can't buy with money that is often more important than what you can buy.
Dream Bravely.
Find fearlessness inside of you. Dare, and fear will falter. Challenge, and fear will flee. This is the beginning of your dream-making.
It is everything that makes a man. It is everything that makes this man. And that is who I am alive, and that is who I am dead.
Sometimes we make being happy so difficult. And being thankful such a chore.
Take off my clothes and there becomes a man. Take off my skin and there becomes my bones. Break all my bones and there becomes my heart. Smash my heart and there becomes my soul. And that you cannot take. And what is my soul? ... It is everything that make a man. It is everything that makes this man.
The trick to not growing old is to: Stay curious. Keep your teeth. Stay hopeful. Do everything gracefully, yet kick when you have to.
I promise to dream with you both great dreams and small dreams. To ask your counsel in times of uncertainty. To honor your silence when you seek to be alone. To be ever wondrous at your curiosities and revelations. And to be ever rejuvenated by your passions ...
Heavy rains and a good book. A perfect extravagance.
In reality, Little Ones, there are two winters. One made for kids; the other for adults. The one made for adults is always too cold and always too long. The one made for kids is always perfect. A kid winter is an endless and wild snow carnival where all the rides are free.
Get someone-anyone-to read books to you. Having books read to you at any age is the supremo ultimato of living.
If you don't know how to grow old, don't start learning how to grow old.
KIDS. They know a BRIBE when they see one. They want a PARENT, not a PAY-OFF. They don't care if you're Jack-King-Rodeo or Mister-You-Own-New-York. All they understand is time spent WITH YOU or WITHOUT YOU. It's that SIMPLE.
I can FEEL her next to me. This UNION. Of WARMTH. Of CARING. Of the INDESCRIBABLE. As if there were NO PARTING and NEVER could be.
POLITENESS must carry the true weight of SINCERITY and INTEGRITY for it to be a true act of POLITENESS.
I want to remember warming your two a.m. bottle, clipping your locks, watching you be baptized, bathing you in the big porcelain sink ... how I often laid you against my chest and felt the cradlesong of your tiny breaths as you fell asleep ...
There are hard days to live. And sometimes they will be just a few, and sometimes they will seem endless. And eventually you'll come to understand that we've all been there before - or more than likely are going there now. And maybe that idea will make it easier for you, and maybe it won't. But there will still be hard days to live, and you will still have to find your way through them.
Remember, life is too short to be spent dancing with idiots.
I travel to be replenished with beauty, for travel makes the beauty of this world seem like a Christmas that never ends.
Spring is a time to make up a big bouquet of flowers for someone you love, or are trying to love, or are in love with.
Who will you be, my Little Ones? Will you dance for the fires of your youth and run at midnight to water's edge, diving into summer's heat? Will you ride a wild mare to any thought or dream or love of your making? Will you seek the artistry of your own infatuations and explore ...
It is you who must someday break through the protective polish of who you are, to become naked and powerful to who you can truly be.
To Remember you so Vividly
To remember you so vividly, dancing there, with sweet champagne pulsing through your veins ... to know what it's like to feel another's presence pulsing through mine. And each time, looking forward to popping that enchanted cork with you and really disappearing from the world as we knew it - wondering if we would ever return.
All you have to do to quickly become OLD is to slowly GIVE UP being ALIVE.
I travel because life is short, and I will not wait for fear of death or sanctuary to become a prison of my own making.
It's through traveling you make the great journey into yourself, and it's the clarity of extremes in traveling that forces you to meet yourself like you've never met yourself before.
Marriage is not the beginning of the journey, nor the end - it is the journey.
Let my memories of you be like water on the moon. A beautiful impossibility - but allowing me to sleep and dream of infinite beginnings rather than Othello endings.
A Good Man. Every night, like a question-and-answer prayer, my son and I recite ... What are you going to be? And he says ... An honest man. A fair man. A courageous man. And a good man. That's the most important thing, Papa. And my job is finally done. For the night.
Make doing your best a habit, and you'll never know not doing your best. If you build roads, then build them Roman - make them last two thousand years. Dig ditches as if you were taking them to the state fair to win another blue ribbon for best ditches ...
It's a heck of a responsibility to look after a spirit. So give kids the best of who you are. That's the most you can ever do.
Walk with me now into the very bright night, and revere with me in silence what must be God-given and what is surely God-taken.
Remember, Little Ones, everything is not important all the time. Only living is important all the time. Not things. Not money. Not more things and more endless money. Spend well the quality of your time. And yes, be greedy with your hours. If only to then give those hours away as the most precious gifts you have to offer to yourself, your family, and your friends. And yes, to my Little Ones." –From The Legacy Letters–"The Everything and Nothing of Money.
Just because you're breathing, doesn't mean you're alive.
I travel for the jolting, angelic act of seeking strangeness and newness and profoundness.
Sometimes the best way is to get out of your own way.
The Everything and Nothing of Money
The Legacy Letters
By Carew Papritz
Summer, and you are the first man and the first woman to kiss. The first to know the exacting, steeling pain of a broken heart. The first to know everything about the whole cascading universe of gods and stars and lunacy and tenderness. Thus you become the first man and woman to know love. And God help you, for you are now the first man and woman in the world.
Don't spoil kids by trying to buy them off, to buy their time. Kids aren't stupid. They know a bribe when they see one. They want a parent not a payoff.
I remember once kissing you, your face lit by northern stars. Promising to grow old with you, and now so simply breaking the promise.
Eat Ice Cream. Read Books. Be Happy.
Your time is your time. Be awake to it. It's hard work to be wisely alive.
Time. Either you're for it or against it. So be here now. Not later.
Money can buy you everything to fill your time but it cannot buy time itself. And things are definitely not time.
You become a man when you marry not just for love but to be a partner with your wife. To be the best man you can be with her, and when you fall short, to admit your shortcomings and to constantly strive to be a great man to your wife.
What good is an "I LOVE YOU" If said only when you have to?
What good is it to ride a horse if you cannot gallop?
What good is it to believe in someone if you doubt your own belief?
Money. It fits around your neck like some permanent noose. always waiting for your next misstep.
Money-it can buy your kids anything, but it cannot teach them love, respect, and the true value of living life without things.
Make doing your best a habit, and you will never know not doing your best. If you build roads build them Roman-make them last two thousand years. Dig ditches as if you were taking them to the state fair to win another blue ribbon for best ditches. It's never a question of what you do but how well you do it. Do the best work you can, even if your boss never sees it- what matters it that you see it. Because ultimately you're your own boss. Find work you love to do. Because, the greatest devil of them all is to work just for money. I know more miserable souls who, chasing the almighty dollar through some strange loophole logic, believe that the more money you have the happier you'll be ... generally the richer they become the more wretched they become.
While all the universe and my family are still sleeping, I will walk among the red and blue twinkle-lights of the living room, to sit and gaze upon the pretty white angel atop the tree and say silent prayers, remembering what was good in the world and why I was brought here to remember.
Money may buy you the means to a happiness, but it cannot buy happiness itself.
You haven't seen a thing until you've seen this man fight. My sword is sharp. My heart strong. My spirit ferocious - and I am going to live. Let the swords clash. Let the fight begin.
There are more things I don't even know by HALF than I do know by WHOLE.
Living isn't always red bows and birthday balloons.
The Losing of Love ... Like discovering a shard of heaven's handwriting in the snowflake that has landed upon your hand, desperately wishing you could give such beauty to your best friend before it melts away. And what you are left with is an exquisite regret - the eloquent conspiracy of memory - of the moment lived and the moment wished for that never will arrive.
Older doesn't always mean wiser. It just means that you've had more time to do the same things over and over again- right, wrong, and different.
No, you become a man when you first decide to put away the things of childhood, the talk of childhood, and the thoughts of childhood. You decide because you cannot be treated as both a man and a boy. Because you are either one or the other, but you are not both ...
There's so much to learn. So much to enjoy. So terribly much to be curious about. Take your life and run with it. Make a habit of being alive. This much of anything, I have learned. And am still learning.
Start with a brand new good-morning. To your husband or your wife. To your kids. To those you work with - and don't work with. What's the harm? How difficult is it? And it isn't, and you know it. So do it.
Be the greatest of who you were meant to be. Life goes on ferociously-with or without you. It is your choice. Truly and magnificently your choice.
I wish I could wrap up the glitter star-green of this moment and hand it to you like an angel gift. Give you the heat lightning flying in jagged silence over the distant mountains. And the smell of September prairie grass and the even fainter scent of October pine now descending ...
The things you don't know or understand are as important as your desire to know them. This is the relationship of man to mystery.
You know there's got to be a better way of life - somewhere, sometime, somehow - but you're not exactly sure what better is.
Read what you like, not what you're told to like. That way you'll read for a lifetime.
Love your kids and just be there for them. You don't have to eyeball their every moment or to orchestrate all their comings and goings. They know this. They know that's too much. All they want is to be assured that there's a home fire cooking, that there are two foremen and a rulebook, and that there's someone to tuck them in at night.
Be the same person- with or without money.
Starting the Day
The Legacy Letters
By Carew Papritz
Sometimes we make being happy so difficult. And being thankful such a chore. Starting the day like a job we hate. Beginning it like swallowing ten tablespoons of devil-made cough syrup. Because somehow along the way we forget that being alive and healthy and happy are noble goals-or just good ideas. And that the opposite of being alive is being dead. What a choice.
Old is old at any age. Old is when you quit asking questions about this, that, and everything. Old is when you forget how to love-or worse, don't care. Old is when you don't want to dance anymore. Old is when you don't want to learn anything new except how to be old. Old is when people tell you that you are old-and you believe them.
Wake up. Be thankful. For whatever happens on this day, you are endlessly given the chance to start again-to be alive. And all of us should wish for that.
If You Don't Believe the Numbers and Believe in Your Spirit, then You're Ageless.
Why read? Because books are precious guides to our humanity - civilization's backbone - that tenuous ridgeline that allows us to climb above the jungle and see what the horizon has to offer. Thus they represent the yearning to go beyond, to explore. Yet they are also human-sized. And made of paper and ink, and thus they come from the earth. Their physicality is what makes them immensely human. And they contain the flesh-and-bone thoughts of one person capturing one blink of time, now made immortal in the bound pages carried by your own hands and touched by your own eyes. How can such fragile and thin paper and spidery veins of ink be our most precious treasure, binding together the entire hope and legacy and language of a civilization - of our existence. We touch the book and turn the page, and thus we are bound to our destiny.
Marriage is love put to it's ultimate test - the grindstone of life. Where the idealism of love meets the everydayness of marriage.
Rain. Tumble, bumble and, fall on me. Any old day, any old way. Come for a visit, or come for a stay. Rain, rain, don't go away.
Enjoy what you are learning and doing. This is one of the hardest concepts in the entire world to understand. Harder yet to put into practice.
We may not always fight well, and some days we may not be able to fight at all, but somehow we find out what we are made of by trying and beginning again.
The Number One Rule of Working Is: DO THE BEST WORK YOU CAN. Why do anything but your best? What's the point?
Kids. They're not tin cans or sheetrock. They're laughing machines. Wind them up and watch them go.
It's a fool who thinks having a kid is a right, which is the biggest crock of fish heads I've ever heard.
I gather the last remnants of the evening's breeze, so cool and lazy within my arms, feeling it curl up like a small and innocent kitten.
Teach them what you love to do in life. It really doesn't matter what it is. It never does. Just show them how important a passion is ...
Only you can know the difference between your wants and your needs, and your sacrifice of your life's time to both.
A good man lives for the joy in life and the happiness of being alive, not shackled to the wants of the future or the regrets of the past.
And I don't care what age you are, kissing in the rain is the best.
I travel because I become uncomfortable being too comfortable.
I travel for the great stories now ready tell, and those waiting to be told.
You might want more time in your life to attempt the things you like to do, and not just perform the things you have to do.
As I see it, you GET married - but you MAKE a marriage.
Why travel? To be changed, and to be changed again and again.
Time. Either you are for it or against it. So be here now. Not later. Do what you want to do, and with the people you love. Learn to appreciate time and make doing so a habit. And if you want to do nothing, then enjoy doing it well. Why do anything by half? Why live a life diluted? What's the use?
And Sometimes I Feel as if I'm Only a Doorman Awaiting the Arrival of her Royal Majesty.
So How Much of a THING or THINGS is Enough? And if you have EVERYTHING, have you achieved perfect HAPPINESS?
No one OWES you a THING. So don't EXPECT it. You're on your OWN.