About fifty years ago her daddy gave her a keychain with two words on it. She has not let go of it since.
Love is...
Those are the two words. Here is how Auntie Barb finishes the sentence. Tap each card.
Tap a card to turn it over.
The story behind the cards
Barbara Jean, the name her dad called her, is number one of Isaac and Annie's 13, the one the family calls its matriarch. Ask her what matters most and she does not mention money.
I'm not rich, you're not rich, because love is the strongest thing that you could pass on to one another.
Ask what she is thankful for, and it is not a list of things either.
That I'm here to see my family. That I can love them, and they can love on me, and we're never going to forget each other. Nothing's going to ever sever us from each other.
What does your family pass down?
Psychologists at Emory University found that kids who know more of their family's stories tend to feel more confident and more in control of their lives. Auntie Barb would say she knew that already. How many of these do you know?
Tap each one you know.
You know 0 of 6.
Your turn: love, with a plan
Going to their rescue when they need someone. Because you're going to need someone, something, somewhere.
Treat our matriarch. Say a weekend away for Auntie Barb and a guest runs $1,800. At $10 a month each, how many of us make it happen in a year?
The goal: a weekend for Auntie Barb, $1,800
5 of us at $10 a month: $600 in 12 months.
$1,200 to go.
Be someone's rescue. A cousin's car breaks down and the repair is $1,200. If 20 of us give $10 a month, how soon is it covered?
The goal: the repair, $1,200
20 of us at $10 a month, for 3 months: $600.
$600 to go.
Pass it on
Love is a keychain you carry for fifty years. What do you carry? Tell the fund managers the story behind it.
