Randy Pausch Passed Away Today ....

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Steven J. Manning [sjmanning () fymc com]
Sent: Friday, July 25, 2008 5:09 PM
To: David Farber
Subject: Randy Pausch Passed Away Today ....

Dear Dave.

For IP if you wish....

Randy Pausch passed away today.  I offer these words on the passing of somebody righteous.  Forgive the rationalization 
and the poor prose.  I am not a poet.  Best.  Steve.

Tears For The Righteous
By Steven J. Manning

From ashes to ashes, dust to dust
The righteous, the frivolous, the productive and malevolent, alike
Theirs creator brings into the world and ordain their passing, alike.

The footpath of life, same for all, but for
The righteous walk with bewilderment and purpose.
The frivolous with nary a glance beneath their feet, trampling the flowers under.
The productive with focus and regretfully wasteful haste.
And the malevolent, at the expense of all others.

Our destination same.  From dust to dust is pre-ordained.
How unfair for the Creator to be so compassionate to all.   But for,
Belief in a purpose so esoteric to test the conscious mind.
Suspend intellect.
And task the soul.

For the passing of the righteous, the departure of the soul,
Makes way for yet another of the righteous.
Somewhere, somewhere in the world, perhaps next door
Or conceivably even in some Darfurian place God elected to forsake,
An ordinary woman brings into the world an extraordinary child.

Ordained to greatness.  On a footpath to change the world.

Sorrow salted tears for the righteous slowly, painfully, thoughtfully, give way.
Bittersweet tears of fleeting smiles.
Resignation.  Anticipation. Hope.
And then memories to feed the living.

One righteous soul making way for another.

Dignified remembrance in passing earned by dignity in living.


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