My oldest daughter and I sat in church yesterday wiping away tears. The passage of scripture the pastor was preaching from, in his series through I Thessalonians, contained words to the effect, ‘I want you to know how it is with loved ones who’ve died so that your sorrow is not without hope.’ I don’t […]
Letters
Letter: In Cahoots in Heaven
I’ll be the first to admit I do not know the names of flowers. I just find them so beautiful. So did my wife, and so did our mom. Nothing – other than watching their children and grandchildren grow and blossom – made them happier than being down on their knees, using a small spade […]
Letter: Still David’s Bride
Chance. Coincidence. Serendipity. Imagine that. Who would have thought? Got a just-so-happened story? If you do, chances are, there is involved a dire circumstance – or two, or three; a consequent anguish of soul of some duration; a twist, or two, in the unfolding plot. What is a love story without tragedy? Sometimes we see […]
Letter: It’s About Time
Is this what a baseball looks like – the stuffing knocked out of it – after the slugger gets ahold of an opposing team’s fastball left hanging over the center of the plate? Or, more likely, is this a baseball that a dog got ahold of, or a lawnmower chewed up as a result of […]
Letter: The Clover Park School District helped me hear and speak better
By Tim Marsh, Lakes High Class of 1966 May was Better Hearing & Speech Month. I am thankful every month for the Clover Park School District helping me hear and speak better. With a congenital hearing loss, I benefitted in third grade at Park Lodge School from speech therapist Peggy Pratt of the District working […]
Letter: Roads to Oblivion
Submitted by Aaron Arkin. If you were to list out every species that has ever existed on Earth—from the tiniest mold spore to the largest mammal—biologists estimate that somewhere around 99 percent of those species would currently be extinct. They were, in effect, evolutionary dead ends. Considering the millions of creatures, insects, flora and fauna, […]
Letter: Hope In Grief
We had a spell of weather recently that was for us unusually warm for the spring of this year. I opened windows for ventilation and continued on about the sentimental task of sorting through boxes upon boxes of 50 years accumulation of memories my wife had carefully categorized into all manner of keepsakes. Baby pictures, […]
Letter: Three Diamonds
Our family celebrated my birthday just days ago, and for the first time in our 50 years of marriage, my wife was not there. But though she had lost her battle with cancer two months previous, she had a gift just the same. How do you prepare for the final goodbye? Except to stay very […]
Letter: “The Grandkids Still Need You”
The evening of the first day of spring of this year, as the flower garden announced that soon it would be resplendent with the brilliant color of blossoms in abundance as indicated by the proliferation of green sprouts everywhere, my dearest treasure on all this earth, fifty years my traveling companion, ended her battle with […]