The beginning of something has so much to do with its destination. Children, for example, are dependent early-on for their parents’ love and discipline, nurture and admonition to one day responsibly take their place in society.
Tillicum
Letter: At that very moment, the phone rang
My favorite season of the year to row is Autumn. Sometimes with others, most often alone.
Letter: Restoring cabinets, raising children – the process is the same
“Scene it?” is a DVD game to check your recall on who the stars – as in celebrities – are. If you’re star-struck you probably have perused one of the categories called “From Trump to Tiger – Most Expensive Divorces” among the falling-stars.
Letter: ‘Compassion fatigue’ – homeless to earn their keep
“The City of Auburn is trying something new to fight the homeless problem,” reports Matt Markovich for KOMO News, September 30. It’s called work, “doing chores for a place to stay.”
Letter: She got it at Goodwill for $5
It was marked down. And it needed help. A lot of help. And it didn’t help that in moving it into the house the unwieldy, top-heavy, glass cabinet got away from me and tipped off the porch and crashed to the rocks bordering the garden below where shattered glass told its future: firewood. Nope. My […]
Photo: I’m voting for Garage Sale.
Letter: The eagle hadn't landed – what you think about has so much to do with what you'll be
A 9/11 day-after reflection about my dad, and our country. It’s an old scraggly, stark-naked tree, not a leaf on any of its many – and most decidedly – dead branches. Like the twisted, gnarly and bony fingers of what remains of a skeletal hand thrusting claws up through the soil which my mom was […]
Library Levy, Amtrak Trains and more topic of Sept. 6 neighborhood meeting
Submitted by David Anderson. The Tillicum Woodbrook Neighborhood Association, after two months off, returns to its regular schedule of first-Thursday-of-the-month meetings at the Tillicum Community Center, 14916 Washington Ave. SW, 6:30 P.M. Library levy, Amtrak trains and more will be topics of discussion at the meeting. September newsletter outlines more details.
Letter: Sweet dreams – the value of work
Submitted by David Anderson. “More than 90 percent of Americans agree that able-bodied adults who receive means-tested government benefits should be required to work or prepare for work in exchange for those benefits.” The other 10 percent live in California and Pierce County. Solomon – purported to be the wisest guy who ever lived, and […]