What legacy do you want to leave?
Daily | October 23rd, 2008
Your descendants shall gather your fruits. – Virgil
Carrie says: I would like to pass down beauty. In wedding dresses I designed, ideas created, words shared, gifts given and time spent with loved ones.
Danielle says: Sizzling realism in every form of media – especially books, books, books! Conscious birthing and parenting inspiration. Effective philanthropy. A child who fully lives his freedom. Kick ass dance moves.
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October 23rd, 2008 at 12:47 am
Inspired education. You can achieve anything if you have the motive, we just need to help people find what motivates them in the areas they want to achieve in. High self esteem for all young women, you are worth it and you are beautiful!
October 23rd, 2008 at 1:07 am
A legacy that says, I mattered. I was here on the planet and did something worth referring to.
October 23rd, 2008 at 1:16 am
I would like to be a part of the Christian Sexual Revolution.
October 23rd, 2008 at 1:38 am
What the hell is that?
October 23rd, 2008 at 2:07 am
l would like to live a legacy of freedom in body mind and spirit, a legacy of kindeness and sharing for no reason, a legacy of dreaming and playing big, taking risks and enjoying the fruits! .
October 23rd, 2008 at 2:10 am
OMG… can you add a spell check to this part of the site…?
October 23rd, 2008 at 4:59 am
Joy.
October 23rd, 2008 at 5:33 am
I'm creating an Inclusion Revolution and a big piece of that is spreading the word that art belongs to everybody!
October 23rd, 2008 at 5:43 am
I would like to say I leave the ability to give back to the community. I volunteer for Mass Audubon and help with their programs that educate children on wildlife preservation, farm life, and understanding the natural world around you. I don't have kids of my own so it allows me a chance to help the young ones.
October 23rd, 2008 at 5:45 am
Ditto???
October 23rd, 2008 at 5:48 am
I would like for whoever comes after me to know what it is to love someone unconditionally. Love for animals, nature, and “play”.
October 23rd, 2008 at 6:14 am
I would like to start an Independent Thought movement because too many people don't know how to think for themselves and make choices without the racket from society, parents, religious organizations, etc…. I would also like to leave behind several great screenplays that deal with themes that I care about and that were made into movies.
October 23rd, 2008 at 6:25 am
Tough question! Haha I had to think about it on my walk.
I want to leave a legacy of making ppl feel loved for who they are. I want people to feel less judged, more accepted.
Because I want ppl to love me, mistakes and all, so I try to adopt the same policy.
Yeah…I think that's it
October 23rd, 2008 at 6:28 am
I'd like to leave behind a flutter of gardens, a growing community of passionate and compassionate gardeners (literally and metaphorically), and know that I've helped people heal through physical, emotional and all-in-all creative expression that's been inspired by their work and play in gardens.
October 23rd, 2008 at 6:47 am
(I had to look up the meaning of legacy! agh!)
To my son — live his life in creative, free and truth.
My husband — to love more openly, with passionate abandon. Daily.
My friends — to cry more and fall on the floor laughing.
For the world — altruistic love. — And the ability to see Barack Obama's inspiring brilliance without fear.
October 23rd, 2008 at 6:51 am
I've really been struggling with this lately! I am a mother of a young daughter so I would like to leave her with self confidence and self-knowledge first and foremost. I work as a medical research technician and we have published fundamental work in how cells move throughout the body to fight disease and how to develop treatments for MS that don't compromise the body's ability to care for itself. While these are important things and I am glad to be part of them, they are not essentially mine. I don't want my tombstone to read: WIFE, MOTHER, GOOD SPORT. I guess I need to honor the bold part of my Refined Bold statement a little more.
October 23rd, 2008 at 7:13 am
I would love to be an example of boundaries pushed and limits not accepted, philanthropy done by anyone in any circumstances, and of having left the world better than I found it.
October 23rd, 2008 at 7:15 am
woo hoo! is that sexual expression without the guilt?
or…. is it a refurbished morality code?
October 23rd, 2008 at 7:15 am
replying to storyteller
October 23rd, 2008 at 7:20 am
Collectively I'd like us all to leave the world in better shape for our children than it was when we found it.
October 23rd, 2008 at 7:42 am
A legacy of truth, authenticity, gentleness and grace.
This means I have some work to do. Thanks for posing the question.
October 23rd, 2008 at 7:58 am
I'd like to leave behind the sense that we can do or be anything we want as long as we don't let our own misgivings get in the way. we all make mistakes, not everything works the way we'd like it to the first time, but if we keep dusting ourselves off and trying again, we can all do amazing, amazing things. i'd like to impact people in a way that we accept ourselves more (flaws and all), accept others, and dare to be who we really want to be.
October 23rd, 2008 at 8:07 am
Two beautiful children who grow up, hopefully, to be bright, accomplished, loving, HAPPY adults who follow their passions. Also, a body of work (artwork that is….) that I can feel proud of and that maybe, hope upon hope, people deem worth talking about, collecting, remembering……
October 23rd, 2008 at 8:13 am
My children will be my legacy, my masterpieces…I put so much time and nurturing into them knowing they will be amazing spiritaul, giving men one day. I also want to have a legacy of helpinig others to find their creativity, the art within them. Leaving some wonderful words behind for others to read and learn from one day would also make me quite happy.
http://www.snickerdoodles.typepad.com
October 23rd, 2008 at 8:17 am
What is Conscious birthing?
October 23rd, 2008 at 8:18 am
Yesterday a colleague emailed the following to me – “I'm not understating the fact that we all truly appreciate you helping us make a difference”. Inspiring others to get involved and make a difference, that is what I'd like for my legacy.
October 23rd, 2008 at 8:21 am
Carrie,
You do share beauty with the world – that's how I think of you.
October 23rd, 2008 at 8:46 am
a life authentic and inspired all documented in my journals since age 14!
some form of proof that I loved and gave back to the world.
an amazing piece of art whether it be a book or a show I created and performed.
October 23rd, 2008 at 9:17 am
For my daughter- kindness, fearlessness, passion, and most of all dream and live big.
October 23rd, 2008 at 9:44 am
Part of my legacy is that my 23 year old son can sit in front of a masterpiece for an hour to just be in joy. He loves Dali and Escher especially as well as his friend's work. Both my sons enjoy all the fine arts and musical composition. My legacy is that we can all have different opinions and still spread appreciation and magical fun..
October 23rd, 2008 at 9:46 am
A legacy of strong, powerful, aware women who LIVE their lives.
October 23rd, 2008 at 9:48 am
Thank's, you made my day!
October 23rd, 2008 at 9:57 am
A deeply examined, thoughtfully expressed, consciously lived life, in whatever form that may take. A resilient, independently minded, exploring daughter. A string of personal inspirations to anyone who is open to receiving them, through philanthropy, words and witnessing others' journeys…
October 23rd, 2008 at 10:08 am
Whenever I hear the word 'legacy' I am always reminded of the song “Legacy” by Nicole Nordeman. The chorus really speaks to me and what I hold dear.
I want to leave a legacy
How will they remember me
Did I choose to love?
I point to You
Enough to make a mark on things
I want to leave an offering
Child of mercy and grace who blessed Your name unapologetically
I want to leave a legacy
It may sound like a cop-out, but I have always loved this. So much so that I have it hanging on the wall of my studio space.
October 23rd, 2008 at 10:20 am
FYI – If you use Firefox as your browser, it comes standard with a built in spell check…even as you type. Just Google Firefox! Saved my butt many times.
October 23rd, 2008 at 10:32 am
A dream liver. One who discovered how to truly live happily on the path of their dreams.
October 23rd, 2008 at 10:38 am
I would like to leave a legacy of children who are free to be children when they are young, who understand the value of a dollar when they are older, and who act on their convictions. I wish to leave a legacy of a piece of this earth being a little more beautiful because of something I have done, be it a garden or a donated dollar.
October 23rd, 2008 at 10:43 am
Love for each other; for animals; for reading; for astrology. Kindness to self and others.
October 23rd, 2008 at 11:09 am
A life by example which will inspire those to dance to beat of their own drum with complete consideration of the people around them…selfless individuality (geez, that sounds complicated!). A few good recipes.
October 23rd, 2008 at 11:16 am
Paths to unity, to feeling at-one-ness, plays, stories, and poems to feed the spirit, laugh, feel, and question. Deepen connections to nature, create/maintain community gardens, bits of earth re-honored and protected.
October 23rd, 2008 at 12:16 pm
A lineage of compassion, community and care.
October 23rd, 2008 at 12:28 pm
I hope my legacy will be a small army of friends, young and old who have felt enriched and nurtured by our association.
October 23rd, 2008 at 10:56 am
[...] nudge. Carrie and Danielle posed a daily question today related to personal legacies; they asked, “What legacy do you want to leave?” I realized this: I’d like to leave behind a flutter of beautiful gardens, touch a growing [...]
October 23rd, 2008 at 12:57 pm
Entertaining and life escaping young adult fiction books and love and loyalty of family and friends.
October 23rd, 2008 at 1:07 pm
inspiration, love, beauty, reverence for the world and for experiencing life
October 23rd, 2008 at 1:09 pm
JUSTICE.
October 23rd, 2008 at 2:28 pm
KINDNESS…..I pray for my sons to show kindness to everyone they meet…..as I do.
October 23rd, 2008 at 4:57 pm
Both, Pema, well put! I could write a few novels about this subject, Linda and Weezie and welcome your views…I find in my experience: sex is both under rated and over rated in our society. I think Christianity could be very healing and informing for those suffering from unhealthy sexuality – the Bible is ripe with excellent advice and examples of loving sexuality – take Song Of Solomon for starters – but instead, in my experience, the Christian culture is rather “mum” about sensuality and short on celebrating healthy expressions of sexuality. It's a real shame.
October 23rd, 2008 at 5:00 pm
I thought about this all day, and I think I would say that I would like to leave behind the gifts of imagination and empathy: stories, words and images that spoke of things true and beautiful and helped others to “step in another's shoes,” and the inspiration to others to look at their lives and experiences and see opportunities for art and imagination. I would like to help others cultivate and nurture their creativity, and leave behind the fruits of my own labors and hope people find something inspiring in them.
Oh, and I would also like to entertain people in some way or another!
October 24th, 2008 at 1:13 pm
I hope to leave in my wake a small army of people who, at least in part because of our relationhsip, have a strong sense of self worth, love, compassion, empathy, and a rockin' great attitude. I don't care in the least whether or not they know it was due to our relationship…I just want the people I love to be confident in putting the self that I know to be so amazing forward into the world. Because the world will be better for it.
October 26th, 2008 at 7:58 pm
Check out Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh: Lessons for Transforming Evil in Soul and Society by Matthew Fox “In our times a new creation story and a new cosmology have vastly expanded the meaning of flesh…” This book presents a new theology that re-evaluates fundamental Christian methods of perceiving spirit and flesh by denying any hard and fast distinction between the two. Even more radically, Fox denies that goodness and sinfulness can be cleanly distinguished. Following to its logical conclusion Thomas Aquinas's belief that sin is misdirected love, Fox describes parallels between the Seven Deadly Sins of Christianity and the seven chakras of Eastern traditions–how, for example, even the ugliest expressions of lust are, at their root, corrupt expressions of a God-given desire for union with another. In this regard, Fox quotes the German mystic Meister Eckhart: “Everything praises God. Darkness, privations, defects, and evil praise God and bless God.” Sins of the Spirit is so complex and ambitious that its structure and language often become knotty and abstruse; however, Fox always returns to his central goal, “to ground our sense of sinfulness–and of awe–in the body.” For this reason, Sins of the Spirit is a landmark of popular contemporary writing about Christian theology. It points the way to a time when we might learn to live out our confession that God's incarnation is the reason for our faith. –Michael Joseph Gross — Culled from Amazon.com
November 15th, 2008 at 9:15 am
I would like to leave a legacy of family traditions, a cozy and creative home, wisdom for my children and a life that serves as an inspiring example of what truly matters.