Al Gore’s attitude finally fits.
As Vice President his attitude was all about acting a role that would support his boss Bill Clinton. But being Vice President was never Mr. Gore’s mission. As his party’s nominee for President his attitude was focused on serving the party. But being the party nominee [...]
Entries from March 2008
Inconvenient Attitude
March 31st, 2008 No Comments
Tags: career · gore · mission · passion
Attitude Mountain
March 23rd, 2008 4 Comments
Do you remember in PSYCH 101 reading about the “Three Mountain Task?” The child psychology experiment that Jean Piaget conducted back in the 1940’s was an early study of how humans develop cognition. Essentially, Piaget showed young children a 3-D model of a landscape with three mountains. On the other side he placed [...]
Tags: mountain · perpective · race
Attitude of Reverence
March 18th, 2008 No Comments
(I thought I posted the following this morning before the speech, but I discovered just now it never made it out of the “draft” category.)
Had the Reverend Jeremiah Wright yelled “God DAMN America” in the pulpit of any of God’s white houses I attended as a kid, I would instantly recognize the world was [...]
Tags: audacity · hope · reverence · sullivan
Displaced Attitude
March 17th, 2008 No Comments
What do you imagine your attitude might be if one day you had to flee your own country? Where would you go? What if no country officially allowed you to stay?
Christian Payne, also known as “Documentally,” is a fine soul whom I also consider a friend. He is a perceptive journalist and [...]
Tags: documentally · iraq · refugee
