Planting Shade You’ll Never Sit Under I’ve been thinking a lot about legacy lately. Not the kind you measure in money or monuments, but the kind that outlives us quietly. The kind you can’t always point to on a map or write down in a ledger. Legacy is when we plant trees whose shade we will never stand in. That line gets to me because it reminds me that what matters most isn’t what we keep, but what we leave. When I walk through an estate, I don’t just see “stuff.” I see stor

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