Wednesday, December 31, 2014
Monday, December 29, 2014
opening lines
"By nightfall the head lines will be about devastation.” The opening lines of Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazard. Talking about the weather or maybe not.
“I’m often asked what’s it’s like to be married to a genius.” The opening lines of The Mind and Body Problem by Rebecca Goldstein
Books I’m reading: The Transit of Venus and The Mind and Body Problem
Books I just finished reading: Lisette’s List by Susan Vreeland and The Strange Library by Haruki Murakami
Sunday, December 28, 2014
truth
“In the mountains of truth you will never climb in vain: either you will get up higher today or you will exercise your strength so as to be able to get up higher tomorrow.”-Friedrich Nietzsche
note: quoted in The Consolations of Philosophy, Alain de Botton
Saturday, December 27, 2014
Achieving your childhood Dreams
I created this blog, etcetera, then neglected to sustain it. Like Lisette’s List I will add in my New Year’s list: 2. write a daily etcetera blog daily or as often as possible.
Today is an excerpt from the book, The Last Lecture, by Randy Pausch.
“…I felt at peace and fulfilled. My life had come full circle. I had first made the list of my childhood dreams when I was eight years old. Now, thirty-eight years later, that very list had helped me say what I needed to say and carried me through.”-Randy Pausch
Below are links to Randy Pausch’s live lectures. The 1st one is his lecture at Carnegie-Mellon complete with introductions by his friends. The second one is a 10 minute excerpt of his lecture at a later time. And the last one is same as the 1st but without the introductions.
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