If you haven't read Randy Pausch's "The Last Lecture", I suggest you do. I had to make a number of different appointments in various towns the other day. Without traveling beyond a 30 mile radius, I somehow managed to rack up 200 miles on my car. The trip seemed short and the day not long enough, somehow, due to the stories I was hearing on audiotape.
The Last Lecture is the inspiring, heart-wrenching true story of Randy Pausch, in his last months of life. He somehow pressed on through immensely difficult cancer treatments to leave a positive legacy for his children.
Visit Randy Pausch's website.
He speaks of achieving childhood dreams.
Randy's childhood dreams include:
Being in zero gravity
Playing in the NFL
Authoring an article in the World Book Encyclopedia
Being Captain Kirk
Winning stuffed animals
Being a Disney Imagineer
Those are huge dreams! But if you listen to his Last Lecture, or read his story, you can see how each of his dreams was achieved.
He is also the creator of the Alice project, which is a program that lets students create computer programming in a 3D environment. Storytelling Alice, is a program for kids. How cool that kids can learn to create their own computer programs so young. I haven't had time to look into it, but I definitely will.
I am inspired to think back to dreams I had when I was a child, and dreams that I still conjure up in my mind for the future. The possibilities are endless...
Listen to Randy's lecture.
Thursday, July 2, 2009
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