While we were in Hawaii earlier this month we played a game called The Voting Game.

(It has some questions that are inappropriate for a young audience, so we screen those out.)

It involves reading questions from a deck, and then figuring out which player is the best answer to the question. For example: which player will leave the biggest impact on the world? Etc.

During our game we encountered this question: who gives the most awkward hugs? Poor Veronica, one of the five daughters, won that card.

Now to the letter.

You may recall Blake Brewer and his Legacy Letter Challenge from earlier this year. He has a course that helps parents compose their "legacy letter" to their children. I took the course myself and wrote the letter.

It's not a letter you give your kids when you're terminally ill, or dead. It's a letter they can keep and cherish while you're still alive that involves a mixture of praise, advice, memories, and a sense of what your family stands for.

I'd been waiting for just the right moment to read it to them, and I found it when we were on vacation.

I wanted to read the letter without letting emotion overtake me, because I wanted them to concentrate on the words as opposed to my reaction. But it was a very moving experience, and it was hard to remain stoic throughout.

When I finished, and Regina could see how intense the emotions were, she gave me a hug.

Veronica, citing her vote total in The Voting Game, extended her hand for me to shake it. "Apparently I'm not so good at this," she joked.

I'll say this, though: the process of writing and then reading that letter really focused my attention on my aspirations for my children.

This is a tough world for people like you and me. I want them to have the courage and strength to resist fashionable but destructive trends. I want them to have the knowledge they need to inoculate them against propaganda and evil ideologies. 

I want them to be as bulletproof as possible against inflation. I don't want them to have to worry about a fickle job market; I want to convey to them the knowledge they'll need if they prefer to work for themselves rather than for The Man.

Although I don't want them to obsess over material things, I want them to have what they need.

They are the most important reason I started my School of Life, and I hope your own children are your most important reason for joining.

And tomorrow at midnight I'll be closing down my little gift offer I made last Thursday: that anyone who joined between then and tomorrow would also get, when it's published, a signed copy of my forthcoming book Diary of a Psychosis: How Public Health Disgraced Itself During COVID Mania. I won't be shipping out any other signed copies.

So not only can we build a better world for ourselves, but you can also get a free signed book.

The link:

https://www.TomSchoolOfLife.com

Tom Woods

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