Everyone's afraid of this conversation so nobody has it, and then the lawyers get rich later. A script for saying it plainly while everyone's still healthy and nobody's circling.
Everyone at the coffee group has an opinion and none of us actually understood the math until now. Not advice β arithmetic, in plain English, with the questions to bring to a real advisor.
She sends me things like "grandpa you're so unserious π" and I need to know: good or bad? It decodes, then β the important part β writes me a reply that keeps her texting me.
Photograph your homegrown haul and it becomes a 1920s seed catalog cover. My tomatoes have never looked so employable.
Photograph something growing, get back a proper botanical plate. I've got four framed in the hallway now.
Described my old street in Dayton to it β the porch swings, the elm that came down in '68, Kowalski's corner store β and it built the whole block. My brother recognized it immediately.
I print these on regular paper for when they visit. Clean lines, big open shapes β my 4-year-old grandson can stay inside them, mostly.
I get four of these a week now. It tells you what gave it away, what the real company would do instead, and exactly what to do next. I taught my whole retiree group this one.
