"I think your head and your heart are out of alignment,"

[CatWoman]

This was a diagnosis made of Lee Atwater by Susan Trout, a spiritual counselor who helped people to grow even in the process of dying.

After watching the Frontline report on Atwater that aired earlier this week, I've been thinking a great deal about him.

He was a very ugly man on the inside, but attractive on the outside.

I found him most complicated, too.

The one thing he was good at was being ugly, and knowing how capitalize and sell that ugliness.

I'm struck by how the ugliness seeped out and just took over his entire body.

This is Lee Atwater before being struck down with brain cancer:



And this is what he looked like afterwards:



For a man who so viciously used race as a wedge, he had many black friends in the music world. This album was released days after he was admitted in the hospital for brain surgery:




I hope we have see enough of his influence on our world.

We have no where to go but up.