Doug Cornelius on compliance for private equity real estate
Thank you for taking the time to read Compliance Building. I’m grateful to meet, chat and correspond with so many of you in the compliance community.
I hope you get to enjoy a long weekend to reflect and spend time, with friends, family, neighbors and loved-ones.
That means an extra long weekend for me. In Boston, the big traffic rush was on Tuesday night to avoid the traffic on Wednesday. I think most people have a half day on Wednesday or the day off. I hope you get to enjoy a long weekend before the push for year-end.
I’m going for the #OptOutside Friday instead of Black Friday. Look for me on bike, heading somewhere.
It would not be a holiday without some kind of government action. On Thanksgiving we get the presidential pardon of a turkey (or two): The Definitive History of the Presidential Turkey Pardon.
That means an extra long weekend for me.
The White House traditionally pardons their turkey. The tradition is credited to President Truman who received a White House turkey for Thanksgiving. But there is no evidence that he spared the life of the turkey. According to an in-depth investigative report by the Washington Post, it was George H.W. Bush (41) who first officially pardoned a Thanksgiving turkey:Turkey Pardons, The Stuffing of Historic Legend.
Enjoy the long weekend if you can. I have some stuff in the oven for when I’m back on Monday.
Oven image by Joseph Zollo on Wikimedia Commons:Thanksgiving oven.jpg
With the Thanksgiving holiday this weekend, I’m turning the blog over to public service.
Last Thanksgiving weekend, many bloggers participated in the first documented “blog rally” to promote Engage With Grace – a movement aimed at having all of us understand and communicate our end-of-life wishes.
It was a great success last year, with over 100 bloggers participating and spreading the word. Plus, it was timed to coincide with a weekend when most of us are with the very people with whom we should be having these tough conversations – our closest friends and family.
The original mission – to get more and more people talking about their end of life wishes – hasn’t changed.
At the heart of Engage With Grace are five questions designed to get the conversation started. I’ve included them at the end of this post. They’re not easy questions to answer, but they are important.
To help ease us into these tough questions, and in the spirit of the season, I’m going to start with five parallel questions that are easy to answer:
Silly? Maybe. But it underscores how having a template like this – just five questions in plain, simple language – can deflate some of the complexity, formality, and even misnomers that have sometimes surrounded the end-of-life discussion.
So with that, I’ve included the five questions from Engage With Grace below. Think about them, document them, share them.
Over the past year there’s been a lot of discussion around end of life.
One man shared how surprised he was to learn that his wife’s preferences were not what he expected. Befitting this holiday, The One Slide now stands sentry on their fridge.
Wishing you and yours a holiday that’s fulfilling in all the right ways.
Updated links to others in the blog rally:
