… and the lessons I learned from them.
Lessons Learned: Too many to count, but perhaps most importantly, the necessity of of making frequent deposits in the emotional bank accounts of family and friends. (Click on Lisa’s photo to learn more about her side business in retirement.)
Lesson Learned: Sometimes it’s important to consider delaying delayed gratification.
Lesson Learned: Happiness leads to success and not the other way around.
Lessons Learned: College is not the only path to success and that quality of fit is critical when making decisions.
Lessons Learned: My needs are subordinate to those of the cats. They get rescued first in a fire. Their feeding and litter box care comes before Lisa’s and my feeding and home care. Saving for their health care trumps saving for our health care, which makes sense because their vet bills are higher than our doctor bills. My chair in the living room is most certainly my chair, unless one of the cats wants to sleep there. Cats have no sense of delayed gratification. They want what they want when they want it (and they usually get it). If you are interested in reading about some of the additional lessons I’ve learned from out cats over the years check this out.
I’ll let you try to figure out what’s going on in this picture. It might help to read chapter 6.