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1. "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." ~ Carew Papritz

2. "Money-it can buy your kids anything, but it cannot teach them love, respect, and the true value of living life without things." ~ Carew Papritz

3. "It's a fool who thinks that having a kid is a right, which is the biggest crock of fishheads I've ever heard. You have a responsibility, not only to a person but also to a spirit because that's what a child is. A pissing, crying, yawning, giggling, laughing package of spirit that is looking for you to take the lead. It's a heck of a responsibility to look after a spirit." ~ Carew Papritz

4. "Money may buy you the means to a happiness, but it cannot buy happiness itself." ~ Carew Papritz

5. "Walk with me now into this very bright night, and revere with me in silence what must be God-given and what is surely God-taken." ~ Carew Papritz

6. "Marriage is love put to it's ultimate test - the grindstone of life. Where the idealism of love meets the everydayness of marriage." ~ Carew Papritz

7. "HungerYou are only here now, and then you are gone. So be hungry. Hunger toward beauty. Hunger toward love. Hunger towards the unimaginable and unthinkable." ~ Carew Papritz

8. "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." ~ Carew Papritz

9. "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." ~ Carew Papritz

10. "It's not who you are, but what you're made of. It's not where you come from, but where you're going to." ~ Carew Papritz

11. "What good is an "I love you" if said only when you have to?" ~ Carew Papritz

12. "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." ~ Carew Papritz

13. "Kids. They're not tin cans or sheetrock. They're laughing machines. Wind them up and watch them go." ~ Carew Papritz

14. "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." ~ Carew Papritz

15. "With your Christmas-Day-will-never-arrive-soon enough salivations, you anticipate the moment when, like voracious cub lions, you'll rip open the wrapping paper and feast off your every delicious present." ~ Carew Papritz

16. "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." ~ Carew Papritz

17. "Money can buy you everything to fill your time but it cannot buy time itself. And things are definitely not time." ~ Carew Papritz

18. "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?" ~ Carew Papritz

19. "Starting the DayThe Legacy Letters By Carew PapritzSometimes 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." ~ Carew Papritz

20. "The trick to not growing old is to: Stay curious. Keep your teeth. Stay hopeful. Do everything gracefully, yet kick when you have to." ~ Carew Papritz

21. "Part of loving kids is laying down fencelines. They need to know immediately when they've crossed a line; otherwise the lesson doesn't get learned." ~ Carew Papritz

22. "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." ~ Carew Papritz

23. "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." ~ Carew Papritz

24. "When do you become a man? When you become your own man. When other men trust you to do a man's work. Trust you with their name, their reputation, their thoughts. Trust you to watch their backs and trust you with their lives." ~ Carew Papritz

25. "Marriage is not the beginning of the journey, nor the end - it is the journey." ~ Carew Papritz

26. "Do not give a damn what "they" have to say (and you will know who they are) for you are either very right or very wrong, but at least you are very something." ~ Carew Papritz

27. "I want to remember...Smelling your newness upon this earth. The baby-Jesus smell as Grandma used to put it. Pure. Unsullied. Like the imagined smell in the twirling air of eiderdown feathers spin-floating around the yard on a new spring day." ~ Carew Papritz

28. "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." ~ Carew Papritz

29. "Living isn't always red bows and birthday balloons." ~ Carew Papritz

30. "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." ~ Carew Papritz

31. "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." ~ Carew Papritz

32. "Kids are kids and not little adults. They're watching and listening to you all the time. They're figuring out the game plan but still don't know all the rules. Talk straight to them and they'll respect you for it." ~ Carew Papritz

33. "Sunrise - a time when all truths are still clean and enviable." ~ Carew Papritz

34. "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." ~ Carew Papritz

35. "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." ~ Carew Papritz

36. "These Moments Cascade Upon One Another"Here at shepherd's dusk, in a valley without echo, I listen for you. With a frayed longing, I hear your shadow voice whispering within me from far away. I grasp at what is left of this husky sun lying golden upon the upper meadows of lodge pole and bear grass. 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. And I see that behind a cloak of clouds, dalliance suits the canting moon. Suddenly I do not wish to lose another moment, And I covet all pristine light." ~ Carew Papritz

37. "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." ~ Carew Papritz

38. "I remember once kissing you, your face lit by northern stars. Promising to grow old with you, and now so simply breaking the promise." ~ Carew Papritz

39. "I travel to be replenished with beauty, for travel makes the beauty of this world seem like a Christmas that never ends." ~ Carew Papritz

40. "So curious you must be. Like little calves poking their heads through the fence with big eyes and a headful of curiosity." ~ Carew Papritz

41. "Respect both what you need to know and what you don't need to know. Respect mystery, for mystery is still needed to run the universe." -- The Legacy Letters?, by Carew Papritz"Things I didn't know." ~ Carew Papritz

42. "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." ~ Carew Papritz

43. "You become a man when you give your family the best of who you are." ~ Carew Papritz

44. "I travel because it makes me realize how much I haven't seen, how much I'm not going to see, and how much I still need to see."- The Legacy Letters, by Carew Papritz" ~ Carew Papritz

45. "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." ~ Carew Papritz

46. "Wind now Sweeping over my Bare BackI 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 . . .Give you the invisible sage wind whisking past your cheeks. And the cricket quartets and frog symphonies that play near the creek's edge.To collect these sensations like a scientist of the soul and give them to you in their finest hour of coincidence and destiny." ~ Carew Papritz

47. "Who will you be my Little Ones?Who will you be, my Little Ones?Will you dance for the fires of your youthand run at midnight to water's edge,diving into summer's heat?Will you ride a wild mareto any thought or dream or love of your making?Will you seek the artistry of your own infatuationsand explore all the reckless and eccentric cornersof your own impetuous world?" ~ Carew Papritz

48. "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." ~ Carew Papritz

49. "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." ~ Carew Papritz

50. "Get someone-anyone-to read books to you. Having books read to you at any age is the supremo ultimato of living." ~ Carew Papritz

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