I’m at the age when people often think about the legacies they are leaving behind. My legacies include
Do you see legacies in my images for today?
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Randy Rainbow has created a lasting legacy of amazing songs; here is his latest:
Thanks to all who create legacies and help me create mine, including YOU!
Love is a wonderful thing to leave behind — a sentiment left behind last night by Yogi Tea:
I’m wondering how my beloved son and heir, Aaron, will feel if I leave nothing behind but love. I think he’ll remember me, no matter what.
Let’s see if this blog post leaves nothing behind but love.
I have nothing but love to leave behind for the Daily Bitch Calendar.
Here’s what I find on YouTube when I search for “leave nothing behind but love.”
Besides love, I always try to leave behind gratitude, so thanks to all who help me leave behind a blog post every day, including YOU.
Earlier this week, I witnessed a discussion about legacies in a therapy group. People spoke about the legacies left them by their families and also the legacies they hope to leave behind.
I’ve established a legacy here of defining my terms, so …
LEGACY
[leg-uh-see]
noun, plural legacies.
1. Law. a gift of property, especially personal property, as money, by will; a bequest.
2. anything handed down from the past, as from an ancestor or predecessor:
“the legacy of ancient Rome.”
3. an applicant to or student at a school that was attended by his or her parent.
4. Obsolete. the office, function, or commission of a legate.
adjective
5. of or relating to old or outdated computer hardware, software, or data that, while still functional, does not work well with up-to-date systems.
The discussion of legacies in the group focused on the second definition (although I’m now thinking about old or outdated computer hardware, software, or data, which seems to be an ongoing legacy of the information revolution).
Here’s what I wrote about legacies in the group:
Just to be clear, I’m not hoping to leave behind the legacy of a broken heart. That drawing illustrates something else the group discussed: when something is broken, there can be great strength at the places of mending and healing. Ernest Hemingway, who left behind a legacy of great literature, said it this way:
The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places.
Actually, Hemingway’s legacy in A Farewell to Arms was in the context of this:
“If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.”
I’m hoping one of my legacies to my son will be this view from our new home:
… but who knows what that legacy will look like by the time I’m gone.
I’ve tried to leave behind a legacy of great music in this blog. Here‘s The Legacy Trio playing Pat Metheny’s “Question and Answer.”
What do you think about the legacies in the post? You could leave a comment behind, below.
I also try to leave a legacy of gratitude. Thanks to all who helped me create today’s blog and — of course! — to you and all your legacies.