We, at FāVS News, have a responsibility to inform the public about news happening in the Inland Northwest. Ignoring news we don’t like doesn’t mean that news goes away. Reporting on news doesn’t mean we endorse what we’re writing about.
An old activist friend of mine, Fran Peavey, used to travel the world’s benches in the 1970s and 80s with a simple sign that read, "American Willing to Listen." We’d be looking at a different political landscape now if only more of us had.
We are devolving into societies that do not know how to listen to each other. And as we become deaf to one another we also become deaf to God, who chooses to speak through us to each other.
A lot has happened since I wrote with any regularity on SpokaneFAVS: I received a Ph.D., was privileged to coach my son’s soccer team, built a deck, had the pleasure of meeting Dr. Jane Goodall and smoked a Boston butt (look it up), and I have even gone to Disneyland.