Tradition suggests that if one blows a dandelion’s seeds with one breath, a wish will be granted. For the young fellow I observed fishing with his father, his wish to hook a fish – the first fish, the biggest fish, ANY fish – was hopeless at best. What is it, I wondered, about casting that […]
Letter: Dying Stars And God’s Love
It started out as an experiment to capture on camera the effect of sugar being poured into a glass of water. Not happy with the results, the photographer placed the glass on the kitchen counter in front of his turquoise colored water bottle. The sunlight streaming through the bottle and into the bubbles on the […]
Letter: The Twilight Of A Day In Life
As twilight faded and the day’s last light struggled through the shade trees, a reflected spiderweb of branches connecting the pond’s water lilies pads began to slowly dissolve. The pads seemed on the water like stepping stones leading to the far shore. Sitting on the porch of their dream home where they had raised a […]
Letter: Let Children Stand Out
Never tell boys or girls to line up. For us first-time coaches of first-time baseball players who just hours ago had finished their first day of first grade, we wondered what the first practice would be like. Could we keep these decidedly rough-but-future-stars-of-the-baseball-diamond in line to do anything? “You don’t,” one coach answered, “but you’ll […]
Letter: Feeling Victor’s Pride
Victor Herrera will be whatever he wants to be in life. The reason why? Because he takes the time and effort to pick up litter in his community. And not just the five full garbage cans and three full garbage bags of litter he gathered, but also the three mattresses, a couch, a chair, and […]
Letter: Is It Education or Political Activism?
Or is it both? The California Board of Education “wants to turn your children into militant leftists.” In an opinion piece dated March 18, Kaylee McGhee White wrote in the Washington Examiner that “a divisive and radical educational curriculum that would force a series of courses into the public school system based in critical race […]
Letter: The Miracle Of Life
Because of the time of its blooming and the rose-like shape of its flower buds, The Pink Lady Spotted Hellebore is often called the Lenten Rose. In its center there are five pistils which can remind one of an in-utero baby’s five tiny fingers and toes. A number of years ago, a friend of mine […]
The Little Free Pantry comes to Tillicum + Clothes for Girls
To be stocked with free food this week of March 15, the neighbor-feeding-neighbor program will be formally opened March 21 at 12:30 p.m. Please see the attached information for location; what you can give and expect to find; how you can help and who you can contact. Spring Break Boutique for girls April 6! Spring […]
Letter: Until Then
The storybook words of “once upon a time” usually end with “and they lived happily ever after.” But what if the tale of our lives does not happen this way – what if the narrative of our actions leaves us facing the void of unhappiness? What then of this storybook ending? Sometimes through no fault […]