During Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat when I came out to ask the audience for donations, I always talked about how the Empress Theatre is all about dreams. Leo Ware's dream of restoring the Empress Theatre and producing plays, our dreams of expanding from the Empress Theatre to the Oquirrh Hills Performing Arts Complex, the dreams of our actors and other volunteers.
Randy Pausch was also about dreams. If you haven't seen this video yet, you need to. Yes, it's an hour and 16 minutes long, but you need to watch it anyway.
One of my early mentors once told me to live my life as if each day might be my last, but also to live as though each day was the first day of the rest of my life. That was always good advice, but Randy Pausch tells it with a little more punch than most. Today really was his last day, and he knew it was coming when he gave "the last lecture."
The same mentor taught me "Someone has everything you want in life, and they will gladly give it to you if you but give them what they want." Randy Pausch was about fulfilling not only his dreams, but of fulfilling the dreams of those around him.
And he wasn't satisfied to do just one dream at a time! He went after quantity as well as quality.
As a boy, he wanted to "be" Captain Kirk. This man, in real life, exuded all of the leadership, courage, and stength of Captain Kirk. I only hope that when my turn comes, that I may go as boldly as he!
In my last post, I touched on the differences between the economic theories of John Maynard Keynes and Ludwig von Mises. Immediately aftward, I was directed to this story in the New York Times. It seems that americans are saving more instead of spending the their money on consumer goods. Up until this downturn, about 70% of the US Economy was consumer spending, and in 2005, the US Savings rate was negative 2.7%. The "stimulus" is supposed to stimulate spending to get money moving again. But it isn't happening as planned. Folks are saving for down payments because they don't expect to get zero down home mortgages; they're saving to replenish their decimated retirement and college funds. The austrians believe that the best way to "fix" the economy is to allow the "malinvestment" created by the false signals in the economy (from the open market ops and deficit spending) to be liquidated and the resources repurposed into better investments. It'
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