March 18, 2008
Oprah’s Big 1 Million Dollar Mistake
It was a bright, sunshiny, pre-spring Sunday (about a week ago).
We were just taking a short cut, through the Wal-Mart parking lot, so we could make a fast beat to Dutch Bros (our favorite local coffee drive-thru joint), and there it was:
Hardship, sorrow, suffering…
Adversity, fear, worry, and shame.
But, mainly, on the surface of all that dark despair was a man who somewhere along the line lost his faith in himself — his creativity, self-reliance, his pride — and believed that the greater victim he could portray, the better.
