Let your children paint their walls

Sometimes I watch Oprah while I make dinner (and enjoy a glass of wine).  Today I made sure that I didn't miss the show that promoted a visit with Dr. Randy Pausch, a professor at Carnegie-Mellon, who is dying of pancreatic cancer.  As he said, "Of all the cancers you would not want to get, this would be the first."  But he wasn't there to talk about disease and death, but how to live your best life. 

His appearance did not disappoint.  Oprah asked some tough questions, and made her job look easy, which it was not.  I was crying, because Randy's was an act of bravery, love and determination to live and die with class and dignity.  He will leave behind a wife and three children under the age of five.  It is heartbreaking.  Death is something that we eventually must all face.  May we all have the honesty and fortitude that he has demonstrated.

Let your children paint their walls!