Like every governmental collaboration, the devil is in the details.
After more than 56 years, I can still smell and taste the rubbery things.
Rancor is nothing new when it comes to schools and what is being taught.
I admire these guys for very different reasons.
I’ve heard people say that human beings are the only creatures that know they will die.
Until we work on solving how we created a society with these citizens living precariously close to the edge, we will have a forever problem.
It seems I got to be a geezer awful fast.
And so it goes, with this satire of a column, our present-day reality will forever be conspiracy-muddled when those who know better choose not to know.
Like Teddy Daniels, a former candidate for Pennsylvania lieutenant, who is prominently featured in a series of doomsday, deep-fake ads on Facebook and Youtube.
If Federal Way ever wants to grow its “soul,” it needs to reconsider how it perennially values art, creativity and cultural offerings within its budgeting and community development processes.
I could call up any large chain store in a city and talk to someone without being told to call corporate ownership on the other side of the country.
As a resident and observer of our city, I believe we have shifted our energy from one of believing in the promise of its potential to one that is working hard to avoid being seen as a city in decline.
As the poet Theodore Roethke once wrote: “In a dark time the eye begins to see…”
Now I am the one with the terminal cancer. I’m where my mother was.
Not since I was 14 years old, I have been enthralled by languages.
What happens if our leadership is not on board with or understands the rate of change taking place?
I have said and done many things of which I am not proud. That is, I am no golden bird cheeping about human frailties from some high branch of superhuman understanding.
They catch us unprepared.
Of course there’s irony here in that LinkedIn is asking writers — who, after all, make their living by writing — to help “educate” a technology that would automate their jobs.
It is important to say that 100,000 people call Federal Way home and they need to be thought of as stakeholders to our present and bridge-builders to our future.