Sunset Over Peter Barton Lacrosse Stadium

I walk my sister Susan's dog Blackberry past the University of Denver's Peter Barton Lacrosse Stadium, seen at sunset as a silhouette on the left side of the above photograph, almost every day, and until recently have never given any thought to who Peter Barton was. It turns out he was the founding president of Liberty Media, which became a primary shareholder in major cable television programming providers such as the Discovery Channel, Time Warner, and TBS. After graduating from college, he became a professional skier for two years before entering the business world, and left Liberty Media in 1997 with a $100 million stock portfolio to spend more time with his family here in Colorado. What strikes me the most is that he died from cancer just five years later, at the age of 51. Does that not make you think about work, success, family, and what is most important in life? Barton was a big donor to the University of Denver, but what his connection to lacrosse was I do not know. It just seems like a life lesson for us all.