Dear President Biden, I hope your Easter has been a meaningful one and that revisiting the resurrection story has brought you some joy, some real joy, the smiling through tears sort of joy. I got to experience some of that sort of joy this morning during our worship service – it was wholly unexpected and …
Michigan’s Mom
Dear President Biden, On Sunday we met a very sweet, very old black lab-mix named Michigan and her mom, whose name we of course didn’t get since when meeting people with dogs or small children one focuses only on those who can’t speak for themselves and end up having their names revealed whether they want …
Silk Frost
Dear President Biden, It’s been a minute since I wrote to you. I’ve thought of you often and even formulated some partial Biden letters in my head, but it’s been a hectic couple of weeks and other priorities (like sleep, watching a few Queer Eyes, work, gardening – you know, life stuff) won out. I …
Touching base
Dear President Biden, Thank you for the two semi-personalized responses to my letters your people sent recently. Somebody had to dig a bit to get the salutation right since I don’t think I’ve clicked on that field at all in months and months. The especially specific salutation was the main clue that the responses were …
“all women and men are created equal”
Dear President Biden, If Twitter is to be believed it would seem that Fox News outlets reporting on your addition of “women” to your recitation of the “created equal” part of the preamble to the Declaration of Independence had completely lost their shit over it. Maybe there’s an outlet somewhere where that was true, but …
Pejac’s “The Boss”
Dear President Biden, I’m rarely moved to dive into a verbal description of a piece of art, but something featured on Colossal right now has really grabbed me so I’m going to tell you about it. The piece is by a Berlin artist who goes by Pejac and it is called “The Boss.” I’m including …
A couple of upbeat bird bits
Dear President Biden, Here are two squarely upbeat bird bits from this past weekend – I figure we both need a break from the mayhem, right? First, the parade of geese. Saturday morning Laura, dog Buddy, and I were driving through the UW campus on the way to her office to pick up some stuff …
A magical leaf
Dear President Biden, Last night when I took Buddy for his evening constitutional I had the great good fortune to see a gorgeous medium-small oval-shaped reddish-orange-ish leaf dangling about five feet from the tree limb from which it likely fell and hovering about a foot above the scrappy lambs ears underneath said tree. Such sightings …
Worth doing
Dear President Biden, It had been coming on for a bit, but I finally hit a pretty low point yesterday evening as I considered the enormity of what we’re facing and how, even at the micro-relational level, people can’t seem to get along. All day I’d been hearing stories about people yelling at those they’re …
May we accept and cherish ties
Dear President Biden, I mentioned a few weeks ago that Laura and I have been playing Scrabble lately. What I didn’t say is that we’re back to playing almost every night after not playing at all during your predecessor’s invasion of the Oval Office. It’s one of the things I’m grateful to you for since …
The Biden Letters 