Future Environment
Designs wishes all of you a Happy Memorial Day as we honor those who served and
died for our country. This Memorial Day
weekend we also celebrate our daughter's, Alyssa Rosemary Garcia, graduation
from Cornell University with a Baccalaureate of Science degree in Landscape
Architecture with a minor in Natural Resources. Many of you met my daughter during the
various stages of her life. At the
beginning stages, she used to attend some of our classes where she heard my
presentation so frequently she could actually pass the exams of the various
courses we offered. Later on she created
the character "Safety Suzy" that has been a major part of our
newsletters and is now the monthly newsletter we send out to our clients. Just before going away to school she worked
in the office transferring my overhead presentations into PowerPoint
slides.
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| Cropped screenshot of Charlie Chaplin and Paulette Goddard from the film The Great Dictator (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
- Charlie Chaplin is credited with saying "The best thing in life is to go ahead with all your plans and your dreams, to embrace life and to live everyday with passion, to lose and still keep the faith and to win while being grateful. All of this because the world belongs to those who dare to go after what they want. And because life is really too short to be insignificant."
This quote is so
appropriate for those graduating today.
Do not let anyone tell you can't do your passion. As the title of one of my favorite books, by
Marsha Sinetar, says "To Build the Life You Want, Create the Work You Love." If you think about this you
will realize once you create the job that matches your passion you won't have
to work a day in your life. We no longer live in an age where you need to work for someone. Alyssa graduated from Cornell University where many students were opening businesses right after graduation. Previously that was unheard of, but in this new age anything is truly possible. It is up to you! As Cornell University's Convocation speaker, Ed Helms, said "Be a fool!"
Now as Alyssa starts her life in the real world, her first employer, Disney World in Orlando, has gotten a lady that works hard and has a passion and a dream to help animals. We look forward to seeing her achievements in the field of landscape architecture and the development of her dreams.
