The Name, The Photo, The Blog

So there might be a few things that need to be clarified before this blog gets going.

First, yes, I am the real Michael Glenwick, rather than a man of the same name residing somewhere in Texas who has a sex podcast. I do not know this man, and I have nothing to do with him. A google search will bring up his podcast before anything having to do with me...I can only hope that this blog gets more hits than his online sex talk sooner or later. I do not know how this 26-year old Dallas-native got his name, and I couldn't care less. All I know is that this is where you will find the real Michael Glenwick's thoughts. And, yes, Jordan is my middle name.

Second, and most importantly, the name of my blog--Live From the Mountaintop--is a reference and a tribute to the late, great Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and his final speech, given in Memphis on April 3, 1968. In that speech, . King said he had reached the mountaintop, looked over, and saw the promised land. He said he might not get there with the rest of us, and he was right. But what he might not have known is that today, in 2007, we are in, many aspects, in the same place, treading water before getting to that promised land. Certainly, we've made tremendous gains, but we've still got a lot of work to do. According to the Census, 37 million Americans are impoverished and 47 million citizens are without healthcare. These are just some of the problems we still have to face, and those are just two of the reasons why we are still very much hovering on top of the mountain., unable to journey down.