Randy Pausch

I clicked on some link - who was this guy? Why was he in my google news? Why was it such a big deal that he died today?

I watched the video on youtube, quietly sewing some buttonholes as I listened to Randy talk about his life goals and experiences as a professor at Carnegie Mellon. I got all teary-eyed near the end when he talked about loyalty and how things come back to you. I hope you take the time to watch it too - it's a funny and interesting lecture, not anything that I expected it to be.

I guess I've been thinking about honor and earnesty a lot lately. Maybe earnesty isn't a real word, but you get what I mean - it's about being heartfelt and well-intentioned, about really caring about what you're doing. How can I make earnesty the center of my world? I think I've been chasing honors - or accolades? - for a long time now, and I'm ready for a change. Or, at the very least, a redefinition of honorable living.