A Life Well Lived

My father died quietly at the house near Seattle this morning, but before the dawn it was 91 years old. Gerhard Emmanuel Lenski, Jr. I was born in 1924 and brought up in Washington, DC. His father went to Gerhard and his father went to Gerry in his life (pronounced like Gary). My father finished studying undergraduate and postgraduate studies at Yale University, college students served by the US Army Air Force for three years during World War II, most of them were in the UK as passwords for the USAAF-RAF Joint Air Force Base. The scholars spent.

After acquiring a doctorate in 1950, my father entered the Department of Sociology at the University of Michigan, where he was promoted to faculty and staff. In 1963, he moved to North Carolina University where he served as an excellent professor of graduates and served as the director for many years. He retired in 1992. He writes several important works. "Religious factors: sociological studies of the influence of religion on politics, economy, and family life" (1961), "power and privilege: theory of social stratification" (1966), "ecological evolution" Theory: Principles and Applications "(2005) and" Human society: Introduction to macro sociology "(1970), now the twelfth edition (2014). He served as Vice Chairman of the American Sociological Association and Chairman of the Southern Social Science Association. His honor includes Guggenheim Scholarship, American Academy of Arts Sciences elections, and the Scholarship Scholarship Awards of the American Scholarship Association.

In 1948, my father married a former poet Jean Cappelmann who had my mother, 4 children. They actively cooperate with civil rights and the Vietnam War. Before my mother died in 1994, they were married for 45 years. In 1996, my father married former Anbrock, a close family friend, a late husband Hubert "Tade" Braque who was my father's colleague. University of Michigan and the University of North Carolina

After moving to the Seattle area, my father will visit Sea Hawks and Mariners, visiting the Olympic National Park, Mount Baker, Portland (where my son lives), Victoria and other Northwest Territories and cities. Talk with his children and grandchildren full of questions and ideas on technology and life

My father is loved by family and friends thanks to his storytelling and humor. - And his deep understanding and appreciation for human history

My father was fortunate able to have a good fulfilling life for 91 years, and I am fortunate to be able to welcome him for nearly 60 years. I am also very happy to be able to spend Thanksgiving with him, and we have the opportunity to share many stories of his life - from the baseball novice to my father's first Skype on his To see the newest grandchild.

Welcome to Life Well Lived: Continuous dialogue on how to improve your life with technology. In this release, I took part in Foursquare's chairman and co-founder Dennis Crowley and talked with Carl Honoré, a popular TED speaker, and the author of the international bestselling "Like Slow". It happens everyday. More requirements. More things to do. And you need to make all work faster. It will be faster. Best selling writer and Canadian journalist Karl Honore made another suggestion: slowing down. With his book "Slow Praise, Slow Repair and Stress", and his very popular TED story, Honoré makes us think deeply, remember more and slows further to improve sex We propose what we can do. Dennis Crowley and Honoré, founder of Foursquare, will sit down to find out if technology is part of the slow revolution and how to do it.

Swarm of Foursquare is an application that acquires things that "life is good" through the record of life. The process of tracking your daily behavior and gathering your best memories to understand your customs. Given the interesting history and weaving techniques (actually the modern computer programming Jacquard loom Jacquard) and the slow pace of art, Maryanne knew of her engagement with technology and how she balanced I knew that it was. The immediacy of numbers and the delay of her practice and correct thinking

Dreamweaver: Maryanne Moodie brings us the art, weaving art and slow creativity of thread