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Hand Me Downs
By: Hugh O'Neill
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If you want to pass on something to your kids, try these 23 tools
for living that'll endure long after you're dead
1. A lucky number. Long before Jordan sanctified it, number 23
was lucky just because Dad said it was. He'd look for it
everywhere. Forty years later, his grandchildren fill the lane on
the break wearing the number he decided was theirs. Memories
accrete around specific things.
2. A passion for tax-free growth.
3. About $3,000. An inheritance cuts your kids' ambition in half,
robs them of the satisfaction of making their own way, and keeps
them from lessons worth learning. So you spend it.
4. A team to love. It's a durable pleasure, best passed from
father to child.
5. A team to hate. Despising a team--with all the venom you can
muster and for no discernible reason--is a gift that gives life
shape. Death to the Astros!
6. A will. And prearrange a really, really, really inexpensive
funeral, too. Rule: Money is best spent on people who are alive.
7. Love of country. The quiet, grateful kind.
8. A decent carving knife.
9. A dented wheelbarrow. Associate yourself with stupid donkey
work, as in moving this stuff that's here, over there.
10. A fragment of inspiring verse. Memorized, so they'll always
have it when they need it.
11. Stories of your screwups. In the interest of less pedestal,
more human, be sure they've heard tell of your greatest misses.
12. A holy book. Your copy of the Bible or Torah, if either has
sustained you. Your Huck Finn or Heart of Darkness, if you're of
a literary cast. An atlas of the world around which a pilgrim is
free to roam.
13. Enthusiasm for two movies: one stupid, one stirring. Say,
Caddyshack and Braveheart.
14. A tattered road map. An old-fashioned, service-station map of
a region you've traveled a lot with the family. It should have a
few words scribbled on it, a couple of routes highlighted in
yellow. Some of the crease lines should be torn from wear.
15. A baseless prejudice in favor of a particular make of car.
Everybody knows that [fill in name of car manufacturer here]
makes the best cars on the road. Period. End of story.
16. A family catchphrase. A brief yelp that captures your take on
life and can invoke your spirit long after you're dead. More in
the manner of "Onward!" than "Life's a bitch, then you die."
17. Respect for baby steps. Most work gets done an inch at a
time. Teach them to just break ground.
18. A coat. Barn jacket, tweed topcoat, or camo hunting shell,
there's something warm about the old man's coat.
19. A patented shot. You put the hoop up in the driveway, didn't
you? Tell me you did, Dad. Name your unique fall-away jumper (The
Dagger) or sky hook (Death from Above). Even memories require
marketing.
20. U.S. savings bonds. They seem the very symbol of hope.
21. A handwritten description of a happy day. So what if you're
not Tolstoy? Scribble a few contented lines about that 16th of
October and stash it in your desk for postdeath discovery.
22. A pleasure in people. Some get annoyed that people are so
odd; lucky folks know that's the fun part.
23. A maintenance jones. If they see you changing the oil in the
driveway, they'll learn to get more service from their stuff and
have deeper friendships.
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