Your eyes are seeing and ears hearing what the Lord had in store for you. Your heart is full of what God had in store for you.
In the 52 years since your death much has happened. One time I say you know all about what has transpired; other times I say I’m glad you were not here to see. One of the biggest inventions is the smartphone. It is a massive computer that we hold in our hands. Its information is at our fingertips. The most amazing feature for me is the countless facts I can get in a few seconds. Continue reading Letter to Dr. King→
It’s a transition that Vu Le has been looking forward to — though he is quick to note that his days are just as busy as ever, just in a different way. Le’s calendar used to be packed with meetings, whether they be appointments with community leaders, funders, donors, other nonprofit executive director — or whether they were ardent reminders that he needed to give himself enough time to get to the airport and through security so that he didn’t miss flights that took him all over the country and the world to speak on the importance of building up powerful voices for grassroots and community-based organizations led by POCs . Continue reading After Stepping Down, Rainier Valley Corp Founding ED Vu Le Reflects on Six Years of Collaborative Leadership and Capacity Building→
In the summer of 1971, my mother, age 24 and many months pregnant, came to Seattle. I don’t know how she got there, but she had little money, so she must have copped a ride or taken Greyhound. She didn’t have a place to stay, so she went to Seward Park in southeast Seattle, where there were other young people camping out, to sleep under a weeping willow along the shore of Lake Washington. Sometime that night, the police swept through, booting people out of the park. But they let my mother be. Continue reading Essay: The Girl Who Wouldn’t Go Away→
On January 8th Mayor Jenny Durkan signed an Executive Order to advance the City of Seattle’s work to combat climate change and commit Seattle as a national climate leader. While there are significant portions of the Executive Order that Got Green and other community partners have fought for and have supported, we at Got Green are critical of the lack of meaningful engagement of frontline communities and workers in the drafting of the Executive Order. Continue reading Opinion: Durkan’s Executive Order Is A Step Toward Climate Justice, But More Needed→
My 13 y.o. son is a nice kid. He’s pretty shy, but hasn’t ever had trouble in school with the work or with making friends. About a year ago, he started to complain about going to school, which was not a surprise, but his complaining turned into many sick days and some trouble catching up at the end of the year. This year, he is not wanting to go at all anymore. We’ve tried bribing him with his favorite things like extra video game time and going to the trampoline park, but those aren’t working anymore. We’re wondering if we should be more serious about our consequences, or what we should do. When we take his privileges away for not going to school he says we’re being cruel, that he has too much stress and we’re punishing him for that. We don’t know what to do, and the school hasn’t been able to help us much since he isn’t there hardly at all. What do you suggest? Continue reading Ask A Therapist: My Child Refuses to go to School→
These seven words encapsulate my feelings of gain and loss, all my hopes and fears, and ultimately the belief that everything happens for a reason.
This is the story of my wife Chelsea and me becoming parents, then having that relationship taken away from us. We thought it was the culmination of our long journey to adoption. Instead it became 74 hours that were among both the best and worst of our lives, during which we experienced the greatest joys and deepest sorrows. Yet it was also a time when we felt an unbelievable amount of love and support from our community, both during the time the baby was home and in the aftermath. Continue reading I Was A Father For Three Days→
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