Though yesterday may have been the day I got un-stuck (yes, I am now officially un-stuck and will henceforth stop using the phrase un-stuck), yesterday was but the culmination of several weeks worth of reflection. Perhaps I’ll expand on that reflection in the coming days, but not today. What I’d like to do today is thank Randy Pausch.

If you don’t know Randy’s story, that’s okay. I didn’t know it either. I mean, I’d read about Randy and his battle with pancreatic cancer and I’d heard about his lecture at Carnegie Mellon, but I didn’t know much else. Not until a colleague lent me his audiobook version of The Last Lecture did I really get a sense for who Randy is, and by that I do not mean a man battling a terminal illness. I’m not going to give away the head-fake, so you’re just going to have to watch it yourself:

I don’t know how to thank someone for a gift like that, but I do know that I believe in prayer and that he and his family are in mine.