…This sentiment emerged from reading about your visit to Canada & KMH’s visit to Africa. You spent your visit trying to reassure the kanooks that we are “two people” that “share one heart.”…
3/20/2023
….How delightful to read that you are celebrating Nowruz today! … It makes so much sense that Persians begin the New Year at spring equinox. I’m not so sure about jumping over fires but love the special meal with 7 symbolic offerings starting with the letter “S.”
3/19/2023
I just listened to Rabbi Peter Berg at the Ebenezer Baptist Church as it celebrates its 137th anniversary. Sen. Warnock introduced him with a story from 1965 when Rabbi Jacob Rothschild rallied temples to sponsor an interracial celebration of MLKJ’s Nobel Peace Prize which launched Atlanta as a metropolitan city, “too busy to hate.”…
3/16/2023
…I was interested in a factoid you shared in Las Vegas yesterday. “3.4 million people with Medicare would have saved an average of nearly $70 on shingles, tetanus and other vaccines last year had the Inflation Reduction Act been in effect — a total savings of about $230 million.” I hope the right people were listening to that one….
3/12/2023
…“A Silent Sangha? Buddhist Monks in Post-coup Myanmar.” It included the idea that we are seeing “a break from the past, when monks played a significant and vocal role at moments of political crisis (making) room for youth – particularly young women – to take on prominent roles in the struggle.”
3/10/2023
…So, all the press on your $6.8 trillion government spending plan, $31.4 trillion debt, etc., is not my favorite topic, but it is inescapable. I’m grateful that you have some brilliant Black women working on this with you. It’s too bad that Cecilia Rouse is returning to Princeton sometime soon. Luckily, Shalanda Young remains….
