The words just popped into my head: “ A servant’s heart. These men have servants’ hearts.”
It kind of made me weepy, like a proud mother at the Oscars or at a wedding. Except, I was sitting in council chambers at the Federal Way City Council meeting. It was the usual monthly meeting. Nobody seemed especially excited beforehand, just the usual suburban folks listening in on what “the suits” had to say.
I went there with my husband, Col. Eric Vogt, to witness one of his Air National Guard troops take his oath of duty as a new Federal Way police officer.
It is 3:30 a.m., and the words and emotions are at war with one another.
My great-grandfather was a slave on a plantation in Mississippi. The stories about his life were passed down through the art of oral tradition.
I remember living in the South where they had bathrooms for colored people and negroes, and bathrooms for white people. I never could understand why, but I knew not to ask, so I didn’t.
It is 2008, and watching Barack Obama gain the acceptance as the presidential nominee for the Democratic party filled my heart with a great deal of pride — and then the tears came.
This is a national and state year in the election cycle, but there is so much speculating and maneuvering going on at the local level as a carryover from last year and preparatory to next year.
We should do an update.
The Washington State Republican convention held two weekends ago in Spokane should have been dull and uneventful.
Nature makes no mistakes, and that is humanity’s cross to bear.
We have been fortunate in our household to have enjoyed the customs, traditions and cultures of four au pairs (nannies) from Japan, Canada, Germany and Peru.
As America debates and protests the many serious issues facing the country, the most talked about is immigration.
Diversity. Minority. Discrimination. Racism.
I first heard about and considered the immigration issue in 1995. That is when I immigrated to this country.
By Walter Backstrom, No Excuses
By Andy Hobbs, Mirror editor
Editor, Bellevue Reporter
In last Saturday’s Federal Way Mirror, D. Hagan, a teacher at Panther Lake Elementary School, criticized me. She then continued to mention the usual suspects, Charlie Hoff and Bill Pirkle, as just a bunch of negative naysayers, so let me set the record straight:
The city is looking into ways to reduce congestion at the I-5 intersection at 320th street.
By Bob Roegner, Inside Politics
By Rudi Alcott, Mirror publisher
By Bob Roegner, Inside Politics
By Walter Backstrom, No Excuses
By Chris Carrel, Thinking Locally
