Thank you Monica for hosting book club at your lovely home.
In attendance,
Monica, Joy, Delight(Joy's sister-in-law), Krystal, Cortney and Jamie
We read and discussed The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
from goodreads.com:
"We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand."
— Randy Pausch
A
lot of professors give talks titled "The Last Lecture." Professors are
asked to consider their demise and to ruminate on what matters most
to them. And while they speak, audiences can't help but mull the same
question: What wisdom would we impart to the world if we knew it was
our last chance? If we had to vanish tomorrow, what would we want as
our legacy?
When Randy Pausch, a computer science professor at
Carnegie Mellon, was asked to give such a lecture, he didn't have to
imagine it as his last, since he had recently been diagnosed with
terminal cancer. But the lecture he gave--"Really Achieving Your
Childhood Dreams"--wasn't about dying. It was about the importance of
overcoming obstacles, of enabling the dreams of others, of seizing every
moment (because "time is all you have...and you may find one day that
you have less than you think"). It was a summation of everything Randy
had come to believe. It was about living.
In this
book, Randy Pausch has combined the humor, inspiration and intelligence
that made his lecture such a phenomenon and given it an indelible form.
We are all looking forward to December's Cookie Exchange!
