Posts with the ‘Attitude’ tag
Below is the You Tube video to David McCullough Jr.’s speech to the graduating Class of 2012 at Wellesley High School. This is an in your face yet inspiring speech to the coming generation. The Bottom Line: His last words to them are about being selfless. Being selfless is truly the most likely way any […]
You see, if everyone is special, then no one is. If everyone gets a trophy, trophies become meaningless. In our unspoken but not so subtle Darwinian competition with one another–which springs, I think, from our fear of our own insignificance, a subset of our dread of mortality — we have of late, we Americans, to […]
Dad: “Did you do what your mom asked you to do?’ Son: (Without looking at his dad.) “Yep.” Dad: (Eye brow raised) “Excuse me?” Son: (Starting to walk away and dripping with annoyance) “Yes Dad. I did what mom asked me to do!” Dad: (Firmly) “Hey bud! Look at me.” The boy turns and looks at his […]
I spend a lot of time in the bleachers at my kids sporting events. I love it. I am a gym rat who loves to watch both practice and games. It is one of my favorite things from my childhood that I did with my dad, The Master of The Sword at West Point. Sometimes […]
