Our values and hard-earned wisdom may be the most important legacy we give our children. We can leave it to chance and hope they heard us when we were alive or we can choose to make sure that our message is clearly stated. When my mother passed away, she didn't intentionally leave anything for me in the way of wisdom. My only window into the parts of herself that she kept private were some scraps of paper that she had saved. On one of those pieces of paper she had written: The gift is the present. My mother was not someone who saved many things. That she kept this piece of paper was significan
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