Elders owe the family their wisdom…and they
need to write their letters to their grandchildren.
~ Terry Hargrave
There is no agony like bearing the untold story inside you.
~ Maya Angelou
Our ancestors and our ancestral wisdom live in our blood and in our bones.
~ Julia Cameron
Stories have to be told or they die, and when they die, we can’t remember who we are or why we’re here.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
There are four needs in all people: to live, to love, to learn, to leave a legacy.
~ Stephen R. Covey

Tips and Tools Archive

Tip Part II, The Process of Forgiveness, September 2008.

Legacy writing: From Betrayal to Forgiveness, Part I, August 2008.

Tips and Tools to reflect on our lives in relation to a larger context, July 2008.

The Power of Memories, a legacy reflection for June 2008.

Legacy Tips and Tools honors Mothering May 2008.

Spring, Legacy and Sacred Time April 2008.

Loss, a perennial topic for legacy writing, March 2008.

"Love Letters" a legacy tip for celebrating Valentine's Day, February 2008.

Holiday Reflections is a legacy Tip to preserve family celebration rituals December 2007 - January 2008.

Honoring our Friendships is another way to use legacy letters October 2007.

Summer 2007: a time for reflection and writing legacies about rituals Ritual I and Ritual II

A Tip on Listening is the subject of legacy writing for June 2007.

Transitions and the Rebirth of Purpose is the subject of the April 2007 Legacy Tips and Tools.

Here is a Thanksgiving Day Tip that works equally well at any holiday or special occasion 2006.

- What People Are Saying about the Legacy E-letter
- I appreciate your monthly Tips and Tools mailings and forward them on to my mother. I enjoyed your presentation in D.C. and had my mother begin to draft some legacy tips to me and her granddaughters. Since that time my father developed terminal brain cancer. Your legacy program reinforced the importance of relationships and effectively communicating to those we care about while we can.
  
  Patrick “Pat” Monahan, Director
  Wyoming Primary Care Association
  Cheyenne, Wyoming December 2008
- "[Tips and Tools]...thought-provoking invitations to actually sit down and write about current activities and memories that help to form who we are…one of the most meaningful things I read recently was a letter from children to their Boomer parents saying, 'Yes! At last we understand your
  passion for Kennedy and Martin Luther King'... It IS a monumental time, and
  it would be good to give voice to that for future generations. So thanks for the push!!"
  
  Nancy Mason Hauser,
  St. Paul, Minnesota