It is said that there are three phases to life that are difficult: Start-up, Keep-up, and Give-up. Start-up is hard. Remember those days when you were so few in number anybody who raised their hand there in that first-grade classroom was on the team? And in life, as in baseball, keeping up is harder. It […]
Tillicum
Letter: I Will Remember
When I can’t see the forest for the trees, I will remember. “When sorrows,” as Horatio Spafford wrote, “like sea billows roll,” I will remember. When tears cloud my vision like rain borne sideways against the windshield, obscuring the road ahead, off to the side of the road I will go, and there I will […]
Letter: Before The Lights Go Out
Shortly after 5 a.m. this morning a truck hit a light pole and our community was instantly dark. No street lights, no neighbor’s lights and, in our own home, no wall night lights. There was coffee though. Set to perk at 5 a.m., the pot preempted the pending predicament by enough minutes for me to […]
Letter: “Rare and Beautiful Treasures”
There’s a proverb, according to the Aramaic translation, which reads: “A house is built by wisdom and by understanding it is entirely put in good order. And the inner chambers are filled by knowledge with every possession, honor, and delight.” But it’s not brick and motor, cabinets and furniture, or trinkets of one kind or […]
Letter: Just Across A Crowded Room
“The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only.” ― Victor […]
Diversity Matters Day brings together Military Department employees to learn and reflect
Camp Murray National Guardsmen and civilian employees celebrate and learn about one another’s differences and help the organization grow stronger on its Abby West Diversity Matters Day.
Lakewood Libraries Community Survey
Pierce County Library System announcement. The Pierce County Library System and the City of Lakewood need to hear from you about how they can provide quality services in safe, welcoming spaces for Lakewood and Tillicum residents. Please take this 5-minute survey to share your thoughts! This survey will help to supplement outreach conducted in 2019, […]
How to provide quality library services in Lakewood?
Pierce County Library System press release. PIERCE COUNTY – The Pierce County Library System and the City of Lakewood want to hear Lakewood residents’ ideas and opinions about providing quality library services. They encourage Lakewood residents to complete a survey to share their ideas and opinions about quality library services in welcoming spaces. People may take the survey […]
Lakewood Library Community Advisory Committee meeting
Pierce County Library System announcement. The Lakewood Library Community Advisory Committee is meeting on Thursday, June 30, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., to discuss how best to provide library service for Lakewood and Tillicum, a neighborhood in Lakewood. The Pierce County Library System and the City of Lakewood created the advisory committee from citizens who […]