Showing posts with label Kotzer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kotzer. Show all posts

Saturday, May 30, 2015

Neighbourhood Peony


The weather has been wonderful, I have been going on a lot of walks and admiring the neighbourhood flowers.

I just read this book called 'Where There's an Inheritance', stories from inside the world of two wills lawyers.  I borrowed it from the library and wondered why it was in the Adult Humour section.  It does have some funny stories along with some serious ones.  A funny one was when this 75 year old man married a beautiful 31 year old.  His friends asked him how he got the beautiful young woman to marry him.  He said he lied about his age.  When questioned further as to whether he might have said he was 65 instead of 75, he admitted that he told her he was 95.

This book makes me realize that possessions should not be put ahead of health and family relations.  We cannot take material goods with us.  These lawyers Barry Fish and Les Kotzer have written 4 books based on their actual experiences/cases.  At first I thought I would read all 4, but now I think I need to take a break.  Some of the cases are hard to stomach, with tough life lessons.  The book ends with this quote from an unknown source "After all, life is really simple; we ourselves create the circumstances that complicate it".