"The Last Lecture"

I am reading "The Last Lecture" by Randy Pausch, it is an often depressing book scattered with pearls of wisdom. Things we all know but when written by a person who knows he is dead in a few short months it takes on new meaning.

I recommend this book to everyone because we take everything for granted. I learned this lesson the hard way when my father died. We had been estranged for more than a decade when he took ill, then got better then died after receiving a colonoscopy that perforated his intestine.

I should have taken that in between time to say the things that needed to be said but i did not and now he is gone. Regret # 1 million and 1.

I placate myself thinking "my father is with me or looking down on me, so he kows what I wanted to say", and that gets me by.