I want to introduce you to my neighbor, Kim Stanley Robinson (KSR). … I just heard him talk about his latest book, Ministry for the Future. .. Believe it or not, he is a utopian & tries to imagine his way to a transformed future where we learn to live differently to survive. KSR could help John Kerry & Gina McCarthy develop their narratives so they are not all doom & gloom.

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…The bad news is what happened to Rodney Reese (RR) in Plano, TX. In case you didn’t read the Guardian, the poor kid was walking home …when the police tried to stop him. They had been called out on a wellness check because someone noticed him stumbling along on the ice. He ended up spending the night in jail….

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…Thank you for scheduling a moment of silence today to mark the loss of 500,000 American lives to CV. I am trying to fathom that #. I’ve seen an analogy showing that a bus caravan of all those people would stretch from DC to Delaware….

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It’s Sunday. Soon, I will be sitting in front of my computer with about 30 faces covering my Zoom window….

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…Did you get to spend much time with Pfizer’s CEO, Albert Bourla (AB)? Did you know that his parents’ survived the Nazi occupation of Greece?” ….

…a 66-year-old who lives within 20 miles of the Pfizer plant hasn’t been able to get vaccinated yet. If she happens to come to your press conference, I suggest that you avoid playing “personal politics” & refrain from telling her you will take care of her. Folks like me wonder, “what about the rest of us?”…

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…Jim McIngvale … the guy in North Houston who has opened his 100,000 sq ft mattress store to 300 folks who were freezing in their houses. He’s got a bright smile & a positive attitude. He says that “when adversity hits, we come together.”…

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…The indefatigable folks of NOLA didn’t forget Mardi Gras. The New Culture Riderz were out in the streets on their horses & the bike Krewe decorated their cycles. Isn’t it great that they managed to mark the day in a CV safe way?…

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…You are off to WI, the Ambrose family stomping grounds, today. Yeah! My ancestors started a mill in Whitewater in 1839. My grandma was the first woman to serve as a Walworth County Supervisors & a bypass of US Hwy 12 is named after my uncle, Stephen…

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…What will you be doing to help the people of Myanmar? Did you hear that there are armored vehicles into the streets & a protestor has been killed? The folks there are asking for our help….

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…I was moved this morning to read about your marriage, especially the story about that plaque you put on the tree at #1 Observatory in 2010….

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…I encourage you to take a look at Stacey Plaskett’s statements…. She scolded the defense team for using footage of BLM activists to engage in “whataboutism.” She’s a compelling figure & I hope we hear more from her….

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Happy New Year!!! It’s now Xin Chou, the year of the Metal Ox, so it’s time for tenacity, hard work & perseverance. ...

let’s commemorate the second new moon after the winter solstice by sweeping out the house &

cleaning the doorway to clear the house of bad luck & usher in good fortune ….

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…Had you heard of Harlem Hell Fighter, Private Henry Johnson? Did you know he was awarded the Croix de Guerre for fending off a German raiding party near the Argonne Forest during WW1? … He didn’t get a chance to “be all that he could be” & I’m afraid that’s still the case for most of the folks who serve….

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…I hope Lloyd Austin (LJA3) is not a hawk. After all, he is a former general who used to sit on the board of Raytheon, but, perhaps, as an African American, he has sensitivities that will help steer the military in a new direction….

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