10/14/2024

My dear Friend & POTUS, JRB,

            This Monday will be different than most. My schedule is off due to late-night airport run to pick up the kiddos from a trip to DC. We’ll be meeting with a lawyer later this AM to determine how best to transfer our Davis house to them.  I need to work on a grant proposal & prepare for class. Then I have a team meeting with neighbors to consider our self-governance processes. A nice array of activities.

            Your Monday will also be different from most. Your public schedule is empty, but that could mean that you will spend the whole day on the phone. Maybe you’ll be following up on the latest trick Big Pharma plans to use to dodge new Medicare rules by launching climate-friendly versions of old drugs, or maybe you’ll be following up on your visit to FL by making sure folks are getting the help they need, or maybe you’re seeing what you can do to salvage the student debt relief. Whatever it is you are doing, the NYT is not writing about it.

            Since you don’t have meetings today, please look into the latest developments in Burma which indicate that the junta plans to recapture Lashio from the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army. The locals say if the United Wa State Army sides with the junta, the the junta will succeed. The citizens have endured frequent bombings by the junta so they want assistance. Please see what we can do to help.

            My kiddos saw a college buddy in DC who works for FEMA & he told them FEMA has had to pull workers out of some hurricane affected towns because the workers are being harassed. Is this true? If so, it’s one more data point making me apprehensive about what could happen in a few weeks.

            I got some hope on that front from hearing a story about Braver Angels on NPR today. Among the many suggestions was the conclusion to start with a Kindness-Meditation. Let’s give it a try.

            BYBS,