Monday is: Miraculous, Magical, Majestic, Motivating, Musical, Mastery
Tuesday is: Terrific, Tempting, Tolerant, Total, Timely, Tasty
Wednesday is: Wonderful, Wild, Willingness, Waiting Peacefully
Thursday is: Thrilling, Thorough, Thought Provoking, Timeless
Friday is: Fun, Fulfilling, Fantastic, Frolicking, Food Finds, Flowing
Saturday is: Successful, Sun, Silly, Seductive, Special, Sexy
Sunday is: Selective, Shelter, Sleepy, Slow, Silky, Slumber
How fun to look at life with courage and make the choice to select the ways you want your week to unfold. It takes more work to think and act negatively than positively. You get results either way, so pick the road you wish to travel on. How easy can it be? Get creative and add any words that suit your life. I just quickly added the ones that make me feel good. How Easy Can It Be?
Randy Pausch was 47 years young. His courageous passing will be felt by people across the world. What an amazing man, what an amazing family. Randy was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2006, being told he had 3 to 6 months to live. He made every day count.
Randy Pausch’s Last Lecture at Carnegie Mellon University is legendary - worldwide. The video of The Last Lecture has been viewed by over 10 million people, and translated into 7 languages. This year after appearing on Oprah, Diane Sawyer, and many other interviews, a best selling book “The Last Lecture”, testifying before Congress in regards to Pancreatic Cancer, Randy has passed leaving us all feeling so blessed to have witnessed such Courage and Love.
In the news from The University of Virginia was a quote by Gabe Robins, professor of computer science at U.Va., has described Pausch as the perfect mentor - a combination of Yoda, Captain James T.Kirk, and Jim Carrey.
Randy was such an inspiration to me as a young faculty member and he became a good friend over the years,” said Robins. “The media portrayed this man exactly as he was — bright, honest and sincere. I feel lucky to count him among my friends and mentors. It is very rare to find a person that combines greatness, grace, and courage the way Randy does. I’m so glad that, through his lecture videos and recent book, the rest of the world got to know him too. Randy’s legacy will continue to inspire people for a long, long time to come.
Living in Courage sends love and condolences to Randy’s family - Jai, Dylan, Logan and Chloe.
I would like to thank everyone who left comments over the months here at Living in Courage for Randy and his family and those who continue to do so. We all hold a very special place in our hearts for a very courageous man and his wonderful family.
My good friend David Culiner is a true spirit of Courage, who follows no one but himself. A true Authentic. David owns and runs “Love This Life.” Do yourself a favor - visit his website for a taste of his hypnotic music and check out the clothing line. I can say that all the favorite t-shirts my husband Cody and I wear, (sweat shop free) are from Love This Life. David has quite a following - Angelina Jolie, Hallie Berry, Bruce Willis, Cameron Diaz, Chris Rock, Willie Nelson and Sting, just to name a few. Many of David’s clothing designs include the Love This Life Manifesto. People stop me over the years and ask about it, read it, and want to know where to buy Love This Life items. Now it is time for The Manifesto:
LovethisLife…
is about celebrating the moment
and that we’re not guaranteed or owed another day
and how cool it is that what we hide
can actually be the fuel towards our glory
and that it’s not so bad being proven wrong
LovethisLife…
is about welcoming the blind turn
and the possibility that
there’s no such thing as coincidence
and that empathy is incredibly sexy
and that it’s never too late to
pick up a quitar or a paintbrush
or to make an amend or to make a new friend
LovethisLive…
could be about rekindling a past flame
or igniting a new one
or shape shifting from a dreamer into a doer
or savoring the caress of a love long gone
LovethisLife…
means whatever it is
you want it to mean because
LovethisLife…
is a celebration of you and your path
LovethisLife…
‘cuz it could go at any second
you rock
Copyright 2002, David Culiner
I end with a powerful question David asks that requires courage to answer:
How are you spending your irretrievable nonrefundable allotment of immeasurable time?
John Rendall and Ace Berg found a cub for sale at Harrod’s in a cramped space. They bought the cub and named him Christian. They played with Christian on the grounds of a church until he became to big to keep at home. The introduced him back into the wild of Africa.
One year later they went to see Christian in the wild. They were told that the lion was wild now, the head of his own pride and would not remember them. Here is their courageous story.
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