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A Will is the biggest spending spree we can have in our lives—we can spend it all! Or we can see it as our largest investment. We can dump it all (the dump cake model) or put it to work (the sleeve rolling model).

Investing can be anywhere we want: we can invest in stuff or in people. In people we can invest in bank accounts or education or spirit. We can invest in It, Thou, Among, Poet, Whole-making. So we can invest to meet needs of people we know, people in our family (It and Thou), or in organizations such as churches or civic clubs with whom we already affiliate (Among), or in higher broader things (church, political parties, art, philosophy), or in making the world more inclusive (humanitarian work, our own movements). People tend to see the choices as family or charity, but the spectrum is more subtle than that, the lines more blended—and more meaningful.

:- Doug.

Tell someone “I’d like to show you a picture of my children,” then pull out a picture of galaxies!

:- Doug.

The more words we have, the more things we can say, and the more things we can think, and the more things we can do, and the more ways we can love. Similarly, to what can more diversity of people together lead? So if we want a larger world we need a richer set of contact points.

:- Doug.

You made things better yesterday; today we can make them even better. This is the nature of the world: always presenting us opportunities for better. This is different from the consumer ads which tell us how incomplete we are; we are sufficient and the challenges we face attest to our abilities to meet whatever comes.

:- Doug.

Now is a dance: dance the Now!

:- Doug.