Dear President Biden, Things have been full on both at work and with volunteer activities so it’s tempting to skip writing to you today, but given what’s been gnawing at me, I figure I better go ahead and tell you about it. You see, I started realizing several months ago that I have a very …
That sort of day
Dear President Biden, Happy (Observed) Juneteenth, a worthy federal holiday, for sure. I am, however, holding out for voting day being designated as a federal holiday as well as passage of a robust version of HR1 and the John Lewis Voting Act, so please don’t let me (and democracy) down on these things. And really, …
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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Rosy gaslighting is still gaslighting
Dear President Biden, This isn’t at all what I was going to start today’s letter with, but I just saw “my” first butterfly of the season. The dogs and I are waiting in the car while Laura does our grocery shopping and a quite large, quite bright yellow butterfly just fluttered by across the way …
A bunny burrow and a POTUS who needs to step it up
Dear President Biden, The nature news from around here is that a bunny or bunny family has taken up residence in our backyard, complete with a freshly dug, quite deep, burrow in the lawn. Mind you, our “lawn” is not one of those neat and tidy bright green things like you have outside your windows. …
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Rainstorms and turkeys
Dear President Biden, Laura’s brother visited us this past weekend to celebrate her birthday. He lives in Atlanta now and at one point yesterday afternoon he remarked that the rainstorm we were having sure didn’t seem like Seattle rain, that it was much more like Atlanta rain since it was pretty much a deluge. And …
Crows, flickers, and White obliviousness
Dear President Biden, Since this is going to be a bit of a lurch-y letter, I’ll just let you know up front that I’ve got a couple of bird things to tell you about and then I’m going to switch over to swimming pools. First, remember how the mean crow swooped me on my morning …
Re-membering
Dear President Biden, A friend of mine texted yesterday morning to let me know that he’d been thinking of Joe Manchin in response to my “Joe McConnell” flub rather than about you. While I do think it’s reasonable to harbor concerns about why you, too, keeping pressing for the completely unrealistic unicorn of bipartisanship, it …
“Always make new mistakes”
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 …
Do no harm
Dear President Biden, This morning, on the return leg of my walk, I crossed one of the light arterials in the neighborhood and on the far side of the street saw what looked like a stick covered with crushed peppermint candy heading north. Seriously. Upon closer inspection, it turned out that it was a six-inch …
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