Somewhere along the way, he and his wife determined, "shrouds don't have pockets and don't try and control the world from the grave," said Mr. Weill, 80. "So basically we're trying to do as much as we can while we're around here".
"One afternoon, eight or ten people showed up while we were around the bonfire, and they started beating my parents.
But while we are rushing around trying to pick up all the other falling dominos, the housing crisis continues, and must be addressed.
"Others are doing great deeds on the work front, freezing in the snow, diving into the flames to save their comrades, while we are hanging around in the kitchen doing nothing".
The time to file our reports, to write our headlines, to raise our monuments, to write our poems&songs-&most important, to act to prevent this inconceivable fate-is now, while we are still around.
"The rest of the world — while we're sitting around doing nothing — is racing ahead".
Shouldn't we share this stuff with one another while we're still around to hear it?
"I don't have a sing-the-national-anthem voice," he said one day while we were driving around Nashville.
Mark Duplass Jayy and I will often sit in the airport while we're traveling around and we'll see someone do something that at first makes you laugh.
The first time was by my 6-year-old nephew, Luca, after I accidentally knocked an already-dangling baby tooth from his mouth while we were horsing around in the pool.
