Randy Pauch: Extraordinary – In More than One Way

Saturday, July 26th, 2008

Professor Randy Pauch died yesterday. He gave a lecture called Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams. I remember watching this lecture several months ago. He inspired me back then. With his death, he has inspired me again. This site is ExtraordinaryInOneWay.com. Sometimes people are extraordinary in more than one way. ...

Kindred spirits – a meme to consider

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

Good afternoon, There is a meme I'd like us to consider: Kindred spirit. A kindred spirit (I'm just going to use kindred as a noun this point forward) refers to a person with whom you have an easy time relating; with whom you can talk easily; with whom you can walk a ...

A Lake to Remember

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

Good evening, One of the things I do that helps with the heart-fires is recalling things I recently did with Donna. I don't do this in order to obtain a specific "heart-fires" result. That would just get in the way. I'm just noticing that it's something I do, which does produce ...

Doing things together

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

Good afternoon, And a glorious afternoon you'll find it here in the greater Seattle area, where it's cloudy, and a ghost's whisker shy of 60°. My wife, Donna, and I just got back from a weekend vacation in Sequim at a delightful bed and breakfast called the Lost Mountain Lodge. We liked ...