Dear President Biden, I fixed it on my blog, but of course I couldn’t fix it on your correspondence page so I need to apologize to you for the slip up of having conflated you and Mitch McConnell -- “Joe McConnell.” It really was a slip up – perhaps of the Freudian sort – since …
Joe Manchin ~ ‘he’s got the whole world in his (grubby, power-hungry, little) hands’
Dear President Biden, At the end of his article about where things stand on the For the People Act (HR1/S1), Mike DeBonis quotes Senator Richard Durbin (Il) as saying: “I say a prayer every morning and evening for Joe Manchin.” Indeed. Joe M. may just become the most difficult person in my loving-kindness meditation not …
The Big Lies
Dear President Biden, It’s a small problem, but it’s one that I don’t think is unique to me (though how it manifests for me might be a tad unusual), which is the problem of not knowing exactly how to efficiently call out the “bad guys” anymore. It comes up every morning when I’m reciting the …
Waiving patent rights calls for an awesome PR campaign
Dear President Biden, I’m so happy to see that you and your administration have come around to the humanitarian and highly practical decision to waive the patent rights on the coronavirus vaccines – well done! I know there’s a lot more wrangling, hashing out, and parsing of language that needs to happen before the thing …
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Magpie words
Dear President Biden, I don’t think I’ve confessed to you before that I’m a magpie – I collect things, ideas, words, stuff that catches my eye, or my heart. Some of the physical bits are sitting on the kitchen windowsill or the mantel, but mostly the stuff gets incorporated into these letters or my art. …
The vaccine bone’s connected to the carbon bone…
Dear President Biden, You know that song about how the toe bone is connected to the foot bone? It’s variously called “Dem Bones,” “The Skeleton Song,” or “Dry Bones”. Well, back when we lived in Albuquerque and had our most wonderful dog, Barbara the Doberwoman :), Laura used to sing that song to her with …
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We can’t afford the usual faux bipartisan “negotiations” on climate change
Dear President Biden, It turns out that when I’m full-on juggling too many things at work and still trying to cook reasonably good meals, take reasonably long walks, and sleep reasonably healthy stretches, optional letter writing takes a backseat. And so it has lately. In lieu of a real letter, here is a haiku in …
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“The future is harm reduction”
Dear President Biden, One aspect of the endless construction on the street in front of our house is that there are lots of big orange-on-one-side-silvery-on-the-other-side signs for directing traffic, including some that aren’t in use and are just leaning up against the chain link fence just outside the park across the street. The other morning …
Reality nuggets
Dear President Biden, Lately I’ve been hanging out at work (via Zoom-like platforms) with way more young people than old people. I’m humbled and grateful to say that they’ve become my teachers. So many of them are living out loud and questioning what is and why is it is that what is is the way …
Grant due Tuesday haiku 2
Dear President Biden, I’m in the homestretch with the grant that’s due tomorrow but this needs to be another haiku night. Just for fun, I’m going to tell you what the title of this letter’s blog entry is since I’m finding all the “u” sounds amusing: “Grant due Tuesday haiku 2.” Here it is: We’ve …
The Biden Letters 