Rich Wandschneider

Her genius would link the politics of the day with older thought, culminating in the 1951 publication of The Origins of Totalitarianism. Totalitarianism, said Arendt, was something new, something beyond old concepts of autocracy and dictatorship, because it was “total,” its reach extending to the all-encompassing remanufacture of truth.

Vietnam was a war that would not end. We kept looking for a way out.

There’s a pattern here. People using what we once thought of as temporary housing or vacation housing as full-time housing.

In 1968 the thing we all shared was the belief that we were right in our convictions and positions. Now we have chaos.

When she died, she was lauded as a champion of the Civil Rights movement and the LGBTQ community by scores of friends and customers of Bailey-Coy books on Capitol Hill, her long-time perch at Seattle’s center point.

Years ago, Albert Red Star Andrews of the Joseph Band of Nez Perce on the Colville Reservation in north central Washington, told me about a unique Fourth of July event on his reservation.

One of the privileges of living past 80 is that we can remember a time when housing was not seen as a problem, and “homelessness” was not a word.

I know you have plenty of community groups that look after people and places on the wet side of the mountains, but thought I would chronicle a few of ours, if nothing else to encourage you to join in and/or thank your own doers of good community deeds.

Beirut was once the Paris of the Middle East.. Now Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, and Iran have all dissolved into chaos.

The rooms above Homan’s, with a shaving sink in each one and the bathroom down the hall, have been converted into luxury hotel rentals.