Chapter 17 - SILAS STEPS DOWN
Silas resigned from family governance.
Voluntarily.
Not because he committed fraud.
Because he finally understood delegation had become abdication.
Norwood Family Holdings appointed:
Independent chair.
Professional trust liaison.
Employee director.
Related-party committee.
No centralized family office controlling beneficiary notices.
Direct parent communications.
No signature accepted without verification.
Boring systems.
Beautiful.
Silas remained economically invested.
Did not become poor.
He attended board events as retired founder-family representative.
No authority.
At Amos’s eighth birthday, Silas asked if he could attend.
I let Amos decide.
“Yes.”
Eudora?
“No.”
Silas came.
Brought a telescope.
No money talk.
Before leaving, he told me:
“I should have called you four years ago.”
“Yes.”
He nodded.
May you like
No defense.
That was enough.
