I was the guest host of Aging Options this past weekend on 770 KTTH in Seattle. Listen in if you get a chance.
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I was the guest host of Aging Options this past weekend on 770 KTTH in Seattle. Listen in if you get a chance.
Hour 1
Hour 2
You can take the money. You can have the property and all of the “stuff” in my house. Just give me one more day with my wife, my children, a close friend. Let me have a day to spend with them, to look into their eyes, to memorize their face, to hear their voice.
Let me realize that day is today.
When I hear about the loss of the firefighters in Arizona, the loss of a daughter in a drive-by shooting, or the many losses that occur each day, I wonder if the loved ones would trade all of their material things away for just one more day with that special person. I believe I know the answer to that question. What would we say to the people in our lives, those people who make our lives worthwhile, if we knew today was it?
Keeping life in perspective is very difficult at times. We get caught up in problems and the things that annoy us. We forget how precious a little thing like one day might be.
Take the gift of a day and spend it wisely – today.
At a recent meeting I attended, the coordinator of a food bank made a presentation about continuing needs at the many food banks in our area. Rather than just give us fact and figures, she proceeded to empty out the contents of a couple of grocery bags onto the conference room table. She pulled out several cans of vegetables, carefully placed some apples on the table, withdrew a bag of rice, some potatoes, and several other items and presented us with what a person would actually pick up that day at her food bank. She then painted a very real picture for us of someone who might be our neighbor, a person serving us our lunch at a nearby restaurant, the nice barista pulling shots for our latte, the friendly teller at our bank or just someone we pass by on the street or in a parking lot. These nice everyday folks need a little help. Let’s all reach a little deeper and help out a local food bank. If you are looking for a place to help or if you are looking for help (a “hand up” not a “hand out”), look no further than Multi-Service Center: http://www.multi-servicecenter.com/get-help/food-bank/
With so much discussion about the right to bear arms, let’s compare the right granted under the Second Amendment to the US Constitution with the Washington State Constitution:
Second Amendment to the US Constitution:
“A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.”
Washington State Constitution, Article I, Section 24:
“The right of the individual citizen to bear arms in defense of himself, or the state, shall not be impaired, but nothing in this section shall be construed as authorizing individuals or corporations to organize, maintain or employ an armed body of men.”
It would appear to me that Article I, section 24 of the Washington Constitution plainly and clearly guarantees an individual right to bear arms in Washington State. The US Constitution sets the floor and States may not go below the floor. They may, as Washington has, move up to the mezzanine.