http://musicandcats.com/2008/07/randy/ "There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats." --Albert Schweitzer Sat, 05 Nov 2011 10:08:30 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://musicandcats.com/2008/07/randy/comment-page-1/#comment-89404 Julie Sat, 26 Jul 2008 16:30:15 +0000 http://musicandcats.com/?p=809#comment-89404 Well said. Randy clearly had huge ambition, ego and talent. Like his "brain fakes" in which one learns something in addition to the ostensible lesson, it seems to me his "last lecture" demonstrates not just how make one's dreams come true (be born into a supportive family for starters!) but how to share one's intellectual gifts and passions with grace. His frequent humble asides and sharing of credit (in lectures and on his website) appear less "natural" than a well-learned practice of keeping his hubris in check. That is a lesson in itself. And this is a longwinded way of saying that you and all the other people in his life who reacted to his occasional jerkdom share the credit for the maturing of Randy. He lived much more deeply than long, and may the same be true of us, no matter how long. Well said. Randy clearly had huge ambition, ego and talent. Like his “brain fakes” in which one learns something in addition to the ostensible lesson, it seems to me his “last lecture” demonstrates not just how make one’s dreams come true (be born into a supportive family for starters!) but how to share one’s intellectual gifts and passions with grace. His frequent humble asides and sharing of credit (in lectures and on his website) appear less “natural” than a well-learned practice of keeping his hubris in check. That is a lesson in itself. And this is a longwinded way of saying that you and all the other people in his life who reacted to his occasional jerkdom share the credit for the maturing of Randy. He lived much more deeply than long, and may the same be true of us, no matter how long.

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