Re: “Parents’ plea: Preserve funding for disability services” (Feb. 1, Opinion):
Two parents, Lee Springgate and Robert Wheeler, have made a simple request of all of us, particularly our legislators.
They have asked to have existing funding for those with disabilities, and those who love and care for them, be preserved. This group of Washington citizens is a very small percentage of the population and an even smaller percentage of the budget. These people are heroes and deserve our support and admiration. Our state Constitution recognizes their rights. They are only asking for what is due to them in justice and fairness.
As one who is grateful every day for my health, I encourage you to join me in contacting and urging our legislators to preserve their funding. Let’s be the voices for those who need a boost. Perhaps we can join their prayer, from John O’Donohue’s poem “A Morning Offering”: “May I have the courage today / To live the life that I would love, / To postpone my dream no longer / But do at last what I came here for / And waste my heart on fear no more.”
John J. Kennedy, Lynnwood
