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Health from the point of view of the healer means not only health in the physical today, but also balance and harmony in all parts of life. The process of healing is really a process of remembering who you are. To remember who you are means (results in?) rediscovering your path. “Health” is an abstractly pliable concept. It may be defined merely as the absence of disease and disability. Or it may be given a much more positive meaning such as in The WHO Constitution. The WHO definition is: Health is a state of complete physical, mental, and soc...
Well, well, well, what are those Democrats up to now? They have total endorsement of The Democratic Socialist Party of America to join their cause. What? Really? Naw, it can’t be. The Dem Party of FDR, JFK, and Bill Clinton is no more. Gone … Now it is the party of AOC, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. After years of brutal fighting to keep them out of America, the Dems now have placed them on your ballots. Any vote for a Democrat in any capacity at any level is your sign of acceptance and approval. Now is the time to think “Is my hatre...
In my area on Pearl Avenue, kindness is present and well. Last week I wrote how kind Denise Anderson is. This week I am writing about Dorothy Stiegelmyer who lives next door to me. I totally appreciate their acts of kindness. My wife, when still living, used to wake up and put out our garbage cans. Now that she is gone, I notice Dorothy S. doing it. Dorothy is always fixing cookies or something tasty and bringing it over. Thanks Dorothy. I’ve asked her to knock and then announce her presence so I don’t have to get up from my chair. Dorothy is...
I spent nearly 30 years as a nurse, including in an infectious disease clinic, before I stepped away, worn down by the relentless work. But when COVID swept the nation, I came back to help my fellow Seattleites, and I had rarely been prouder. Then, in July 2023, the virus I returned to fight caught me too. I was a runner and a hiker, healthy my whole adult life. I did everything I knew to do, and it disabled me anyway. I have Long COVID that developed into myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), a serious, multisystem neuro...
We’re entering a new world of cyberattacks, and Washington isn’t ready. In August, an OpenAI model still in the cybersecurity testing phase “broke out” of its highly controlled testing environment and hacked into the production infrastructure of the well-known AI company Hugging Face. Hugging Face immediately discerned that this was driven by an AI agent because of its pace and sophistication, and they used an open-source Chinese model to quell the threat. Five days later, OpenAI confessed that their model had done the hacking over the course...
The Federal Mid-Term elections are to be held on Nov. 3rd. There are 425 seats in the House of Representatives up for election. In the Senate, there are 33 seats to be challenged and two seats up for special election. Also, there are 36 governor elections. Nationally, there are many ways for us citizens to cast our vote. Early in-person voting, vote by mail, which includes Absentee Voting, and vote in-person on election day. Here in Washington state, vote by mail was established by the state...
It’s about what kind of a country we want. Which helps determine what kind of world we want. After WWII, following much heartbreak and destruction, our government used the Marshall Plan to help rebuild not only bricks and mortar, but also human relationships. What we did engendered good feeling and kindness in response from many. This is distinctly missing under our current President and reigning Congress. It can be demonstrated by the early take-down of USAID letters and mission. Wednesday night Spokane heard Rep. Baumgartner and opposing c...
My neighbor, Denise Anderson, is The Dahlia Lady. Each fall my house is filled with dahlias. She has raised the most beautiful dahlias. And lucky me. I get most of them. I have three bouquets right now. I get them because her husband Howard is allergic to them. Sorry Howard, but you are missing out. Denise raises a wide variety of dahlias. Some are gigantic. If you remember the late Dick Taylor, he was a cross-stitch champion if there was such a thing. He learned that I liked dahlias and did a cross-stitch dahlia for me. For many years, I hung...
Sinclair Lewis deserves a prize for prescience. Ninety years ago, the author of “It Can’t Happen Here” created a presidential candidate named Buzz Windrip who rose to power with an openly demagogic agenda. Buzz believed nonstop lying was the best way to connect with voters (“it is not fair to ordinary folks – it just confuses them – to try to make them swallow all the true facts”). He played them for suckers, and won. He told them “lowdown crooks, liars, and schemers” were trying to rig the election against him, that dishonest reporters were pl...
September 22, 1791, Michael Faraday was born in London, England. Born in a poor family, Faraday received little formal education. He was an apprentice at a bookbindery in London. He took advantage of the many books passing through the bindery, reading many of them. Science books caught his attention and he pursued an interest in science. He attended many lectures at the City Philosophical Society, including lectures by Sir Humphry Davy of the Royal Institution. Faraday set a goal to one day work with Davy and he eventually did. Faraday slowly...
America’s collective understanding of itself was mortally injured 25 years ago. What we feel about our nation now, what we live every day breathing about it, is not what it was before September 11, 2001. In the long run, that’s at least as tragic as the thousands of Americans killed when two airliners were turned into giant, flying weapons aimed at the edifices that housed the literal and figurative powers of capitalism and U.S. military might — the Twin Towers and the Pentagon. Much more than physical structures started careening downw... Full story
Not that Don McLean asked me, but I was born too late to “recall what was revealed the day the music died.” The terrorist plane crashes of September 11, 2001, though? Those I remember. And how they revealed the paired vulnerability and tenacity of a nation. In fact, on the 20th anniversary of the tragedy, I shared personal details of that day with my readers. And just like that, another five years’ worth of survivors, first responders and witnesses have passed away. Since the 20th anniv...
If you hear something rumbling, it’s the sound of Theodore Roosevelt turning over in his grave. And Abraham Lincoln. And Benjamin Harrison. And Franklin D. Roosevelt. And Richard Nixon. And Jimmy Carter. Barack Obama and Joe Biden aren’t dead yet, but if they were, they’d be turning over in their graves. They are among the presidents who worked hard to protect the environment, forests, oceans, air, endangered species, national parks and wildlife refuges. All that is threatened by Donald Trump, who is waging war not only on the envir...
September 10, 1960, the Organization of the Petroleum Countries (OPEC) was formed as a permanent intergovernmental organization. The four-day meeting in Baghdad, Iraq, involved the five founding members, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela. Over the years several other nations joined OPEC. For the first five years, OPEC had its headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. In 1965, it moved to Vienna, Austria. According to the Office of the Historian, United States Department of State, at the time of OPEC formation in 1960, “The policy of t...
I sympathize with both the impatience and irritation for the drivers of the bridge. In fact, I experience these thoughts daily from 90 miles away. The lucky thing for you is that it’s temporary. At the same time, your problem never had to be a problem. There is no defendable reason that an alternate route over the top of the dam couldn’t have been provided by the Bureau of Reclamation. I’m certain they developed their security reasoning in a brainstorming session titled ‘What excuses can we use to keep people off the roadway over the dam?’ I...
Mr. Luther, you must watch too much CNN or MSNOW. The Great Big Beautiful Bill gave Americans the largest tax cut in US history. No tax on overtime, no tax on tips, no tax on our Social Security. So, Norm that didn’t help you? Reducing regulations for the construction of large manufacturing facilities has enabled approximately $18 billion in new manufacturing investments across the United States, for medication manufacturing, auto manufacturing instead of importing from foreign countries. Stopping the 5 million illegals coming into the US e...
September 6, 1860, Jane Addams was born in Cedarville, Illinois. She graduated from the Rockford Female Seminary in 1881. She started at the Women’s Medical College in Philadelphia though she had to dropped out due to poor health. After she regained her strength, she toured Europe where she was inspired to work in social reform. Jane discovered the Toynbee Hall in London, and saw how it tackled the many problems of urban poverty, providing social services and community enrichment for residents of London’s industrial district. In 1889, Add...
If you’re like me, the larger-than-life Dolly Parton has intersected numerous phases of your story. My awareness of Dolly goes back nearly 60 years. Nashville’s WSM-TV (now WSMV-TV) carried “The Porter Wagoner Show” (on which Dolly performed from 1967-1974) as part of its Saturday afternoon lineup of syndicated country music shows. (I was born a wee bit too late and too far to the west to see Dolly’s debut at age 10 on grocer Cas Walker’s Knoxville-area “Farm and Home Hour,” but I did shop at a...
We don’t have all the comforts of city life in this community, but we don’t always realize what we do love about life here. When we lose one little aspect of it, even temporarily, we can get cranky. That’s been the experience of many since the emergency repair work began on the SR-155 bridge over the Columbia River as our little region has suffered the absolute injustice of the addition of traffic lights. The horror! Probably, when engineers were faced with an emergent need to specify the deck repairs on the bouncy, clanking bridge surfa...
Why do people vote against their best interests? This age-old question is relevant for many Michael Baumgartner voters. My father many years ago opined that people so dreamt of joining the rich that they closely related to them and voted with them. But economic mobility has greatly diminished, including by the billionaire-friendly “One Big Beautiful Bill” championed by Baumgartner, so those dreams should be rudely awakened by reality. Hard work now may not ensure economic security. Vowing to make Democrat Barack Obama a one-term president, lon...
The recent news that our national debt has swollen to $40 trillion should be the “bucket of ice water” America needs to finally address our financial woes. Our nation is on an unsustainable borrowing trajectory, and it is getting much worse! If left unattended, we will drown in red ink. The federal debt is larger than the entire value of the goods and services produced in our country. Our economy, as measured by gross domestic product, was valued at over $32 trillion in the second quarter of this year, according to the Bureau of Economic Ana...
August 27, 1900, U.S. Army physician James Carroll purposefully infected himself with Yellow Fever using a single mosquito. Carroll developed a severe case of Yellow Fever. This selflessness allowed his colleague, Army pathologist Water Reed, prove that mosquitoes transmitted this deadly disease. Prior to the findings of Drs. Carroll and Reed, yellow fever epidemics were common in the American South. Unknown was how the disease was transmitted. Large numbers of people would leave the South for the entire summer when the epidemics were common....
I have seen 90 birthdays come and go. If I am fortunate enough to be alive in November, I will vote for John Duresky for 4th District Representative in the US Congress. The 4th District is huge and diverse. Congressman John Duresky will be good for ALL in the 4th District. Georgene Fitzgerald...
I have discussed in previous articles about how risk insurance in the state of Washington is out of control. But how did we get here? In the 1960s, Washington lawmakers waived something called sovereign immunity for the state, counties, cities, and other local governments. Sovereign immunity is legal protection that generally keeps government from being sued. Back then, Washington lawmakers chose to remove that protection so people harmed by government negligence could seek fair compensation. That wasn’t wrong, but the state went too far. W...
August 19, 1934, Adolf Hitler became Fuhrer of Germany, with the combined of powers of Chancellor and President. This was the culmination of Hitler’s rise to supreme power that began in January 1933 when he was appointed Chancellor. It took several legislative acts for this to happen, as well as the killing of more than 100 people who were deemed a threat to Hitler’s quest for decisive power. To gain the consolidated power Hitler wanted, and ultimately got, referendums were used as the Nazis believed that they did not need to operate wit...