by Carla Seaquist | Mar 18, 2020 | Op-ed
GIG HARBOR, WASH.—All Americans celebrate the recent Iraqi election—the images of the long lines at polling sites were truly thrilling—and we hope these newcomers to democracy can solidify their historic reality. But there is another set of images and another...
by Carla Seaquist | Mar 18, 2020 | Op-ed
GIG HARBOR, WASH.—In the months since the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz was commemorated, a particular survivor of that death camp—a Polish woman named Saba—has occupied my thoughts. These memories come with marching orders. But first, Saba in...
by Carla Seaquist | Mar 18, 2020 | Op-ed
GIG HARBOR, WASH.—”Things fall apart,” poet William Butler Yeats famously wrote, “the centre cannot hold.” Written just after World War I, Yeats’s lines suggest themselves now—with the fourth anniversary of 9/11—when the...
by Carla Seaquist | Mar 18, 2020 | Op-ed
GIG HARBOR, WASH.—Normalcy: It’s a wallflower during the ball, but it almost always gets the last waltz. Recent proof of this universal truth is reflected in the awarding of the Nobel Prize in Literature to British playwright Harold Pinter. The master of...
