Dear President Trump, So where’s Melania? What’s she up to? Your staff insists all is hunky-dory and everyone is just in a spin over nothing, but you’ve got to know this is at best a very odd situation. For someone as rabid about managing optics (even though you fail miserably all the time), it is … Continue reading Our children’s children’s safety
Environment
The moral arc of the universe is pretty dang bumpy
Dear President Trump, Because I am, in part, using this exercise of writing to you every day to record what I’m noticing and thinking, I want to tell you about another cool bird action I saw yesterday morning in our backyard. We’ve let our little postage stamp area of grass “go meadow” so there are … Continue reading The moral arc of the universe is pretty dang bumpy
What’s on your mind?
Dear President Trump, This morning I planned out my run so I could go by the huge Buddha head a few blocks up on a side street. Now that it’s light so early it felt safe to go ahead and run on side streets. I got to see the big Buddha as planned, but then … Continue reading What’s on your mind?
“They’re protecting what they hold dear”
Dear President Trump, I hope you played golf today and didn’t spend Earth Day ordering Pruitt to find yet more environmental protections to undo. Yesterday there was an article in the WP about the idea that millions of years ago there might have been another version of an industrial civilization on earth. The people floating … Continue reading “They’re protecting what they hold dear”
The white patriarchy is rootless and dead
Dear President Trump, It’s been raining here for weeks. We’ve had almost twice the average rainfall for April and more rain is forecast. We can hear the water moving through the drainage system in the basement and I continue to be grateful we got it together a few years ago to replace our aged sump … Continue reading The white patriarchy is rootless and dead
Hummingbird down
Dear President Trump, This morning when I took the dogs for a walk there was a perfectly intact dead hummingbird sitting on the sidewalk in front of our next-door neighbor’s house. With the dogs in tow (or really, me in tow), I couldn’t stop and study it right then but after we got back I … Continue reading Hummingbird down
Job security in the Age of Trump
Dear President Trump, Where, oh where to start? Let’s go with job security in the Age of Trump. Scott Pruitt’s job is hanging by a thread but he’s still useful to you so he’s getting a pass. He’s slithering by because he is doing a bang-up job of gutting President Obama’s environmental protections. Does he … Continue reading Job security in the Age of Trump
Please pull your head out
Dear President Trump, I haven’t shared anything especially positive with you lately so I thought I’d tell you what happened this morning on my run-walk. A young white man who looked like he might be homeless was standing on a corner with his skateboard out in front of him in my path. I said ‘hi’ … Continue reading Please pull your head out
A plague on us all
Dear President Trump, At this point, if the cameras hadn’t been rolling on January 9th no one would believe you ever talked about a “love bill” for the Dreamers. When I heard the recording of the outgoing message on the White House contact line blaming the Democrats for the government shutdown and claiming it’s because … Continue reading A plague on us all
Noticing
Dear President Trump, There’s one more thing from yesterday morning to tell you about. I walked in to work from where I parked along the edge of the golf course abutting the VA campus. It’s a public golf course that was built in 1915 and throughout the course, but especially along the edges, there are … Continue reading Noticing
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