Mahalo too Jeanne, for sharing my posting as you did with your Twitter village.

That particular coaching, to keep my business a “person” separate from me, has also helped me a great deal in thinking about succession and legacy. I do not have the desire to grow my business via larger scope right now (on the contrary, I want to “focus like a laser beam” on what I am already doing), however I constantly think of the future, in terms of how the business will continue without me when I am long gone, or in the shorter term, when I am ready to tackle something else (yet within the value of Ho‘omau, causing the good we have already created to be long-lasting).

My daughter and I visited Central Park in New York City a few weeks back. We made it just before I took ill, and before the snowpocalypse now descending in the east, and as we walked along the mall in the south quarter I was very happy to see how they’d intentionally kept the lawns with the great American elms fenced off, so that people would not trample on the roots during the winter months when the weather is so challenging. In fact, I had posted a picture with that comment on Flickr: This photo is just past the Literary Walk and you’ll see how though winter-barren, the elms rise above in an impressive canopy:

And oh! the bounty a tree can reveal! This beauty is a coconut tree in my neighbor’s yard: