Priorities

[wlotus]

I beg you never to talk about what you will leave me in your will. You see, I feel that what parents leave their children afterward is a barbaric and commercial invention. It is what the parents give now, share now with the children which is beautiful, what they can share together in life....Enjoy it all, enjoy your house as much as possible, to the limit, and leave me a legacy of having known you happy. Let the house live and die with you. It is you and your present life and pleasure which interests me at the moment.
~ Anaïs Nin, in a 1937 letter to her father

Comments

[wlotus.livejournal.com]

I have never heard of that book. What is it about?

[ennuiescapist.livejournal.com]

The book "Die Broke" is a financial book that is based upon similar principles... Taking care of yourself and your family now instead of worrying about a glorious, free, financial future (i.e., retirement) that may never come to be.

I haven't yet read it, but my dad's had it on his bookshelf for a couple years, at least:

http://www.amazon.com/Die-Broke-Radical-Four-Part-Financial/dp/B000GFR9SA/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1212556727&sr=8-1