Dear President Trump, I paused for a few minutes after opening the site to send you a message to read something on another site and when I got back, the "First Name" box was outlined in bold red lines and the text read "FIRST NAME FIELD IS REQUIRED." There wasn't an exclamation point, but it … Continue reading Why does your contact page care what my name is?
LKM Basics
True strength, elaborated
Later.... P.S. This list of markers of true strength is going to be a work in progress over time as different facets occur to me. Because I don’t want to risk losing track of them by waiting until tomorrow or some other day down the road, here are a few more important aspects of true … Continue reading True strength, elaborated
True strength
Dear President Trump, When I say a loving-kindness prayer for myself and people other than you, I always include the word "strong" when I send the intention for health so that the phrase is "May you be healthy and strong." I haven't been saying that to you because I've been concerned that your conceptualization of … Continue reading True strength
You can’t logic your way out of a hat
Dear President Trump, I realize you don't care and will never know, but the day rather got away from me so this is going to be short. Rather than launching into a substantive topic about one of the many ways you and your administration are screwing things up for the vast majority of the earth's … Continue reading You can’t logic your way out of a hat
Who are you keeping happy?
Dear President Trump, I may be becoming overly cynical, but I can't help but think that whoever released two pages of your 2005 federal tax return was hoping that it would function as a distracting shiny object that would get us off the difficult and complicated topic of health care reform. Now, if you had … Continue reading Who are you keeping happy?
Fierce compassion
Dear President Trump, One of my heroes is a Buddhist monk named Thich Nhat Hahn. Actually, he is probably a hero to millions of people and I am happy to be counted among them. I return to his teachings often and especially to his idea that compassion may be fierce. Normally we think of compassion … Continue reading Fierce compassion
Listening for Lent
Dear President Trump, You may be aware that today is the first day of Lent, a time for reflection and taking stock so that one's attitudes and behaviors are better lined up with Jesus' messages and examples. The last several years I've worked on giving up righteous indignation for Lent but I decided that would … Continue reading Listening for Lent
About the prayer I’ve been sending you every day
Dear President Trump, On this first President's Day of your presidency I think it's fitting that I explain a bit about the prayer I've been sending you every day for the last week. It is formally called a loving-kindness meditation or a metta and it was what the Buddha taught monks to say when they … Continue reading About the prayer I’ve been sending you every day
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