Category Archives: Wills

Making a Will is a sacrifice

Making a Will is a sacrifice—for surely some day you will yield all. But whether you give your best to your best-loved ones is a choice. Many give only stuff. You, give the stuffing. :- Doug.

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Not every one can write the Good Will

Not every one can write the Good Will. There is much homework—one must study each person and one’s self and one’s possible gifts. One must sit with the work until it writes you. More, until you let your people write … Continue reading

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In creating your Will, ask

In creating your Will it may help you to ask “Who is this person? Where is their soul? From where are they coming and to where going? How can I help?” :- Doug.

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For this child?

What do you want for this child? :- Doug.

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stopped selling Wills

I have stopped selling Wills—it is conversing around them that is most telling—& that’s where I concentrate. Wills then flow from conversations. :- Doug.

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invest in you

We invest in you pieces of our lives :- Doug.

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This red ribbon

This red ribbon is not the gift nor are pretty pieces of paper —it’s in shared glimmerings of life The gift is the heart of the giver :- Doug.

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family & life & dreams

At this market we are selling completeness and wholeness of family & life & dreams :- Doug.

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Why a dump truck Will?

Why do you want a dump truck Will? If all you want is to rid yourself of stuff then Who gets it and How should matter little. If it is important who and how, then you owe them to think … Continue reading

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Nurturing dreams

A Will is a way of nurturing dreams—those of your tribe as a whole, particular ones of your children and other beneficiaries. What do they dream? How can you help? What do you have—especially besides things? :- Doug.

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There once was a couple….

Once there was a couple who sought to make their Wills. They thought about their children’s loves and skills and difficulties. They thought about their house of worship. They thought about all the things they did in the world: work … Continue reading

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A Will is more work than that.

A Will is more work than that. :- Doug.

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What you say to your grandchildren matters

What you say to your grandchildren matters. What message do you have for each? What you say does not matter. For each of them who are you? :- Doug.

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What life give your grandson?

What kind of life would you give your grandson? What sort of home for your granddaughter? What career, what passions? What in them would you feed? :- Doug.

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A Will is a wish that another be well.

Weal is related to will and wish and well. So a Will is a Wish that another be Well. It pulls us out of ourselves to think of another, to think of the other’s well-being. :- Doug.

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Making a Will is not a math problem

Making a Will is not a math problem: it is a blood, sinew and brain question: How Will I love you? :- Doug.

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Inherit from me?

What, son, would you like to inherit from me? :- Doug.

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