Comments on: Commencement… to Life! http://larkinflight.com/blog/commencement-to-life/ A Spirited Adventure Trancending Ordinary Bounds Mon, 30 Aug 2010 13:49:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Lark In Flight » Blog Archive » 28th Birthday: Vampires and 5400 Years of Love http://larkinflight.com/blog/commencement-to-life/comment-page-1/#comment-176 Lark In Flight » Blog Archive » 28th Birthday: Vampires and 5400 Years of Love Thu, 22 Oct 2009 04:31:31 +0000 http://larkinflight.com/?p=476#comment-176 [...] I’m going to live longer than anyone alive today, much longer, and more important, that life will be full of passion, love, motivation, caring goodness, appreciation, and all those things that [...] [...] I’m going to live longer than anyone alive today, much longer, and more important, that life will be full of passion, love, motivation, caring goodness, appreciation, and all those things that [...]

]]> By: Kath http://larkinflight.com/blog/commencement-to-life/comment-page-1/#comment-175 Kath Sat, 29 Aug 2009 02:31:01 +0000 http://larkinflight.com/?p=476#comment-175 In a way, each time you write a post it's like giving a mini-commencement...sharing your thoughts and inspiring us to take what we can and run with it. Maybe like our lives depend on it? In a way, each time you write a post it’s like giving a mini-commencement…sharing your thoughts and inspiring us to take what we can and run with it. Maybe like our lives depend on it?

]]> By: Kevin Reitz http://larkinflight.com/blog/commencement-to-life/comment-page-1/#comment-174 Kevin Reitz Wed, 27 May 2009 02:07:06 +0000 http://larkinflight.com/?p=476#comment-174 "Think about this: we are the only species on this planet without full employment. Brilliant. We have an economy that tells us that it is cheaper to destroy earth in real time than to renew, restore, and sustain it. You can print money to bail out a bank but you can’t print life to bail out a planet. At present we are stealing the future, selling it in the present, and calling it gross domestic product. We can just as easily have an economy that is based on healing the future instead of stealing it." I've never heard it put so perfectly. “Think about this: we are the only species on this
planet without full employment. Brilliant. We have an economy that tells
us that it is cheaper to destroy earth in real time than to renew,
restore, and sustain it. You can print money to bail out a bank but you
can’t print life to bail out a planet. At present we are stealing the
future, selling it in the present, and calling it gross domestic
product. We can just as easily have an economy that is based on healing
the future instead of stealing it.”

I’ve never heard it put so perfectly.

]]> By: Paul Hawken: the Commencement Address. | elephant journal http://larkinflight.com/blog/commencement-to-life/comment-page-1/#comment-173 Paul Hawken: the Commencement Address. | elephant journal Tue, 26 May 2009 22:54:13 +0000 http://larkinflight.com/?p=476#comment-173 [...] I heard about it yet again. And so, I figured it’s worth sharing. Must be something special here, considering I [...] [...] I heard about it yet again. And so, I figured it’s worth sharing. Must be something special here, considering I [...]

]]> By: Larkin http://larkinflight.com/blog/commencement-to-life/comment-page-1/#comment-172 Larkin Tue, 26 May 2009 17:26:39 +0000 http://larkinflight.com/?p=476#comment-172 Commencement speeches have always really fascinated me. It is a difficult thing to keep a pile of young people interested and entertained while trying to give them a message to jump start their lives in a positive direction. I think part of it is I have a deep down fear/hope that I'll be giving one someday, and I know it will be one of the hardest things I'll ever do; not because there are any serious repercussion to giving a poor one, but because there is such huge potential to do good by giving a great one! Commencement speeches have always really fascinated me. It is a difficult thing to keep a pile of young people interested and entertained while trying to give them a message to jump start their lives in a positive direction.

I think part of it is I have a deep down fear/hope that I’ll be giving one someday, and I know it will be one of the hardest things I’ll ever do; not because there are any serious repercussion to giving a poor one, but because there is such huge potential to do good by giving a great one!

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