Craig Rennebohm provides a refreshing look at compassion and caring for Seattle's outcasts in Souls in the Hands of a Tender God: Stories of the Search for Home and Healing on the Streets (Beacon Press, 2008 194 pages).
Timber! The Seattle Times has a series of special reports about the lack of oversight in the logging industry and the cost to state taxpayers [http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2008050123_logging14.html]. According to the report, no one checked when Weyerhaeuser started clear-cutting u
I happen to be one of those Buddhists who believes in rebirth. I might be the only Buddhist, however, who believes that mean girls are reborn as aphids [http://www.ext.vt.edu/departments/entomology/factsheets/gaphids.html] and continue to prey on the young, the beautiful, and the innocent. In my cas
Environmental activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. [http://www.robertfkennedyjr.com/] recently paid a visit to Washington and sang its praises [http://blog.oregonlive.com/breakingnews/2008/07/rfk_son_faults_bushs_environme.html], but I'm not sure why he'd be welcome these days.
In the midst of exponential growth, Seattle can't remember how to be Seattle. It's time we went back to school and learned how.
