Welcome! Today is the day I introduce the world of The Happy Burro. I read that there are approximately 56 million active blogs (a/o 10/06) and the average lifespan is three months. That the trend is cooling for 2007. That only one person on average reads a blog. Here’s to still writing in this space come April! With luck and your contributions too, we’ll be here, and more.

First Post

My stepmother-in-law, Marcia Hyatt, said to me at Thanksgiving 2006, “…the power of positive thinking. That’s your legacy.”

Whoa. Legacy? Like I am the CEO of a multinational corporation, or some grand philanthropic leaving millions to my grad school , or my grandparents! The dictionary defines ‘legacy’ as:

1. Money or property bequeathed to another by will.
2. Something handed down from an ancestor or a predecessor or from the past: a legacy of religious freedom.
“legacy.” The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004. 30 Dec. 2006.

This is a heavy word. So…everyone has a legacy. Every company, every person we come in contact with.

That sort of changes things then. I am rarely one to look behind, just forward. Ever forward. Yet the trail I leave is the legacy Marcia mentioned.

What legacy do you leave? How do you move forward, ever forward, with a keen eye on what’s left for others?

Joe Raasch :: Jan.01.2007 :: Personal :: 2 Comments »