Thanks to Real Change for allowing this re-print. This year’s One Night Count, the 35th, sets a sobering record: 3,772 people outside without any shelter. A small team of volunteers sank their boots deep into marshy trails and slipped on slick and steep paths through an undeveloped greenbelt in Kent early in the morning looking…
Rounding up: The Central Co-op Partnership
If you’ve shopped at the Central Co-op on Capitol Hill in recent months, you might have been asked by your cashier if you’d like to round your grocery bill up to the nearest dollar for local food banks. This simple question has helped raise more than $6,000 in the past 19 months, resulting in a…
The Yoke of Addiction
Sometimes the most powerful way to explain something complicated is through the use of allegory. In this short film, these animators poetically capture the devastating and imprisoning yoke of addiction using a kiwi bird’s innocent desire for pleasure and flight. Although any single telling risks oversimplification, each of us can connect to the very human…
All Alone at 71…or Not?
At 71 I’m still plenty alert and alive; but, I’m all alone now (with only my dear cat, Sunny). My few living relatives want nothing with me; and I have only a couple good friends. I have no job nor any prospects thereof; and my remaining funds are rapidly disappearing. In the past few years…
A Marriage of Pain
The night that should have ended my marriage, but didn’t, was a mid-winter night about six months after my wedding, during my senior year in college. I don’t remember why my husband and I started arguing, or when the fight escalated. I do remember getting thrown against the wall repeatedly, punched in the arms and…
Sunday Social Builds Community
Seattle’s beloved Seahawks are in the heart of the season, and the SAJD Supported Living Program’s Sunday social group is following them as avidly as ever, regularly gathering for football food and game-watching. “Social isolation is one the biggest challenges people with cognitive disabilities face,” says SAJD SLP Director Rachael Kwong. “Our Sunday social group is…
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