… How do you define friendship? Is it about compatibility - liking the same things, enjoying the same activities, relaxing in one another’s company? …

…My dad, who identified his temper as his Achilles heel, used the mantra, “keep smiling” as a tool to quell his disproportionate outrage. Perhaps you can adopt that as well….

…Their stop at the the Normandy American Cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer must have been heart wrenching. When you were there in 2019 for the 75th anniversary did you feel the presence of  the 9,400 U.S. military personnel who are buried there? …

…Since my latest obsession is with AI, I wonder if the Custers use any kind of AI on their farm in Chippewa Falls, WI….

…Today’s example of your propaganda campaign may not go over as well as you’d like. While Coalie may be cute, most of us know coal is not the best. most beautiful answer to our energy needs. …

… We even put the word on our money, although I wish our currency would not specify that we trust God…

… Is one of your meetings with Howard Lutnick? If so, I encourage you to have a Crucial Conversation with him & tell him he needs a new approach to running the Commerce Department…

…perhaps it’s time for you to adopt the power nap. You could set a new trend in MAGA land by educating folks about the importance of timing when snoozing during the day….

… Did anyone notice my pause? I missed a couple of letters during my retreat with a couple of cohousers in the Redwoods….

…did you see Pope Leo’s (PL14) encyclical where he talks about the need to “disarm” AI?….

…As you lay the wreath today at the tomb of the unknown soldier, I hope you feel the full weight of the grief of every family of the 646,596 Americans who have died in battle while serving in our Armed Forces for the past 250 years….

…CWD turned me on the the Strother School of Radical Attention (SoRA), dedicated to "ATTENTION ACTIVISM: the movement to push back against the fracking of human attention by coercive digital technologies.”….

…Back to Radical Hospitality, I quaked telling a roomful of strangers about Friends’ use of this phrase. We had just viewed a fascinating documentary about Earthseed, a project of People’s Kitchen Collective…

…I hope you will mention the names of the three men who lost their lives intervening with the shooters at the Islamic Center in San Diego. Amin Abdullah, in particular, deserves to be honored for putting himself into the line of fire to protect the children at the Center… 

I am preoccupied this morning by intruding thoughts about my actions at a meeting yesterday where I told two of my neighbors that I was tired of their macho bullshit…