Leave the woodpile higher than you found it.

This is a Brashear family staple. My dad is fond of saying it and apparently his dad was as well. The story goes that a young boy was cutting wood for the winter. His father told him to set aside all the logs that they would need that year into another pile and then, replace what he’d moved with a little more than was there before. Thus, leave the woodpile higher than you found it. What we can take from this is that we all have the opportunity to make choices in this world, and those choices have consequences. Every one of us are consumers; no one has the ability to live without the use of resources. But we get to choose if and how we use them and whether to give back or not. We’ve talked about how we can contribute in meaningful ways in the past. Giving more than you take is the best way to make sure that you leave the world better than you found it. And what more could any of us strive for than that?