Topic: Willapa Magazine
Willapa Magazine ©2007
is a daily magazine on the web based in Bay Center, Washington. Launched in March, 2007, we are a general-interest publication offering analysis and commentary about politics, news, and culture that includes but also goes beyond the goings on in Willapa Country on the Washington Pacific Coast.
Willapa Magazine
offers a strong editorial voice and take on current events locally, national and world wide.
Willapa Magazine
is owned by Arthur and Lietta Ruger of Bay Center, Washington on the Willapa Bay. This site does not charge for access and is supported by advertising and donation revenues.
Arthur Ruger is a social worker, a poet and writer. In addition to an intense interest in the American political and regious scene Arthur's leisure interests are families, reading, home improvement, sports. Family issues and values are important as we are parents of a blended family with 8 children and 15 grandchildren.
An informed electorate is the only source of national wisdom. The alternative is our blind trust in someone else's agenda.
Clamoring voices both reasonable and shrill demand our attention. Many feel that in "polite circles" there are two things you do not discuss: politics and religion.
It's as if discussing politics and religion is so private that we somehow must only discuss things in our personal sanctuaries - perhaps our bedrooms with our spouses or our living rooms with close friends and loved ones - but behind closed doors. Citizenship brings duty with it.
If we don't seek to become informed and ponder what we learn, a lack of national serenity will not something to blame on politicians.
Moral values lie at the heart of political debate in this country and now the perceptual differences over moral values have become one of the hottest topics of debate. Politicized religious views task our ability to discern honesty and reality based on our own internal values - values that for the most part have served us well.
An informed electorate is the only way we can hope to wend our ways through these times with any degree of wisdom. No longer are we going to be able to remain silent, non-participating and expect to blame someone else if our manner of living arrives at a place where we have lost more than we can afford.
In reading my point of view in Willapa Magazine you will find conservatively liberal and liberally conservative points of view reflected in essays, articles and op/ed opinion.
Lietta Ruger offers perspectives from her diverse history and life experiences. Raised a miitary brat, growing up overseas and stateside, embracing different cultures was the delight of new discoveries. It was a way to embrace different belief systems and concepts about family, community, expressions of spirituality.
Adult life as wife and mother with a professional career in social services vocation.
" ... passing thru the decades of the pleasantville 50's to the tumultuous 60's into adult life in the 70's with the shifting paradigms on what it means to be modern woman;
into the 80's and fondly remembered as the fun decade;
into the 90's with changes in technology and the emergence of shifts in corporate paradigms;
and into 2000 onward where there seems to be a complete shift of every paradigm I ever understood.
Why does the taste of pennies remind you of losing a tooth?
Lazily disoriented enough to realize there is snooze time available
....or not
.... wake up call coming."
