Don t expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you have a trust fund. Maybe you ll have a wealthy spouse. But you never know when either one might run out. Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it.
Advice is a form of nostalgia.
Dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than it s worth. Herbert G. Lingren, Ph.D., Extension Family Life Scientist. Cited in Balance , University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension, December 1998. This rural December, my father drives hours down graveled country roads looking for himself, his boyhood. Each fifteen-hour day the soil that stains your hands and nails is someone else s dirt.