{"id":130,"date":"2010-04-04T18:29:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-04T22:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/robingabyfisher.com\/?p=130"},"modified":"2022-05-06T14:09:18","modified_gmt":"2022-05-06T18:09:18","slug":"the-priority-list-a-teachers-final-quest-to-discover-lifes-greatest-lessons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robingabyfisher.com\/index.php\/2010\/04\/04\/the-priority-list-a-teachers-final-quest-to-discover-lifes-greatest-lessons\/","title":{"rendered":"The Priority List – A Teacher’s Final Quest to Discover Life’s Greatest Lessons"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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In this \u201cbeautiful, heartfelt, and ultimately important story about love, kinship, gratitude, and miracles\u201d (Elizabeth Gilbert, #1 New York Times bestselling author), a beloved high school English teacher with terminal brain cancer undertakes a cross-country journey to reunite with his former students in order to find out if he made a difference and discovers what is truly important in life along the way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

David Menasche lived for his work as a high school English teacher. His passion inspired his students, and between lessons on Shakespeare and sentence structure, he forged a unique bond with his kids, buoying them through personal struggles while sharing valuable life lessons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When brain cancer ultimately stole David\u2019s vision, memory, mobility, and\u2014most tragically of all\u2014his ability to continue teaching, he was devastated by the thought that he would no longer have the chance to impact his students\u2019 lives each day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But teaching was something Menasche just couldn\u2019t give up. Undaunted by the difficult road ahead of him, he decided to end his treatments and make life his classroom. He turned to Facebook with an audacious plan: a journey across America\u2014by bus, by train, by red-tipped cane\u2014in hopes of seeing firsthand how his kids were faring in life. Had he made a difference? Within forty-eight hours of posting, former students in more than fifty cities replied with offers of support and shelter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Traveling more than eight thousand miles from Miami to New York, and visiting hundreds of his students, David\u2019s fearless journey explores the things we all want and need out of life\u2014family, security, independence, love, adventure\u2014and forces us to stop to consider what truly matters in life. Evocative, moving, and inspirational, Priority List \u201cis a rousing testimony to the ways in which, in the face of death, living fully in the present moment becomes possible\u201d (Publishers Weekly).<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In this \u201cbeautiful, heartfelt, and ultimately important story about love, kinship, gratitude, and miracles\u201d (Elizabeth Gilbert, #1 New York Times bestselling author), a beloved high school English teacher with terminal brain cancer undertakes a cross-country journey to reunite with his former students in order to find out if he made a difference and discovers what … <\/p>\n

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