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 …
Radical resets needed
Dear President Biden, So I think this past week was the longest no-letter-to-a-president interval since I started writing to DJT in February of 2017. I have been thinking about you and about what’s going on (and what’s not going on) but haven’t been able to settle on any one or two things enough to write …
Hypocrisy and bathroom call-outs
Dear President Biden, When I saw the Henry Olsen Opinion headline in the WP – Protest Kyrsten Sinema all you want. But have some decency while doing it. – yesterday I figured there must have been some righteous fussing at her. However, since I can’t stomach Mr. Olsen, I wasn’t about to click on the …
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 …
Transitions ~ small and big
Dear President Biden, Before I launch on the two topics of the day, I just want to circle back to let you know that the raspberries I picked this morning were quite tasty. Ok, next…. Hopefully this time the lesson will stick, but I’m not super confident that it will since it hasn’t the handful …
The perils, and the imperative, of the high road
Dear President Biden, I hope you had a good day today ahead of your dance tomorrow with Vladimir the grizzly. This isn’t the insight of the century or anything, but reading about his basic approach to gaining and retaining power – no holds barred and free rein to be as unprincipled and ruthless as his …
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May we accept our limitations and may we not let them hinder us
Dear President Biden, When I either wanted to stoke my righteous indignation or reassure myself that he probably wasn’t getting up to too much horribleness, I’d check DJT’s official daily schedule. The large chunks of time given over to golfing could be construed either way, or both ways, really, since they signaled that he wasn’t …
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Remembering Darnella, Joe, and George’s moms
Dear President Biden, How are you this evening? By now you’re probably trying to wind down for the night since it’s almost 10pm Eastern. I’m guessing it’s going to be kind of hard for you to settle and maybe even harder for you to sleep tonight after meeting with George Floyd’s family this afternoon, especially …
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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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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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The Biden Letters 