….Our nation is fortunate, too. Don’t you think? While we have had our troubles of late, we are overcoming them. When I see what’s going on in Burma, our Jan 6 coup attempt pales in comparison. When I see the people struggling with the flood this fall in Guatemala, the winter storm in TX seems minor…..
…“they are unarmed, but they are the true warriors” & are defying the general’s view of women as weak. I smiled at their “defiant creativity” of stringing “up clotheslines of women’s sarongs, called htamein, to protect protest zones, knowing that some men are loath to walk under them.”…
I got a smile out of reading about Jill’s “semi-stealth visit”…I hope to meet Winette someday, because not only do we share the same last name, we share a passion for baking & STEM education. I’m sure her PhD in Biomedical Engineering comes in handy when she’s thinking through a new cooking technique. Maybe you can invite her to the WH so she can show off her award-winning cupcake baking talents…
…I hope that UN Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield (LTG) is also knowledgeable on the topic (Myanmar). I caught the tail end of her remarks to the special meeting that the special envoy to the UN Sec Gen called today. It seems that she’s bringing her commitment to multilateralism to the situation…
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.
…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….
