6/24/20235

My Dear Friend & POTUS, DJT,

            Have you ever read anything by Hannah Arendt? 50 years after her death, she’s making a comeback. I got 2 books by her & 2 books about her from the UCD library yesterday. In case you haven’t heard of her, she was a German Jew who escaped detention & eventually came to the US to philosophize about the intellectual & historical foundations of the Nazi & Stalinist regimes. I am drawn to her sentiment that we all need to learn to THINK rather than follow orders.

            Writing these letters to you every day forces me to THINK, so thanks for that. Jotting these missives requires my mind to dance as I search for ways to lovingly tell you the truth. I’m afraid you don’t have many people in your life doing that. They either tell you want you want to hear, which lulls you into thinking they love you, or they tell you the truth, which just makes you mad.

As you know I have adopted bell hooks’ conception of love, which in case you have forgotten is, “the will to extend oneself to nurture one’s own or another’s spiritual growth.” My way of loving you is to offer up suggestions so you can change into a person who can find peace in his head & heart so he can live in the moment.

            It will be hard to do that as POTUS, but you can move in that direction. Today, you might take a breath as you continue to coax Bibi & AAK into putting their guns down. I was amazed to see your post about the END to THE 12 DAY WAR with the word CEASEFIRE repeated 4 times. It’s too bad that hasn’t held, but at least those 2 are willing to entertain the idea.

            Perhaps you will find some solace at the Huis Ten Bosch palace tonight as you rub elbows with King Willem-Alexander. I’m afraid he may be preoccupied by the political turmoil in the Netherlands as their government is struggling over migration issues.

            SoW, I encourage you to get the NATO folks to face the fact that the world would be a more secure place if we could address climate change rather than arming ourselves to the teeth! According to CNN, over 250 daily temperature records could be broken this week including both record highs & record warm lows.

            Please make sure that the NATO crew discusses how to bring peace to places like Burma & the Sudan to prevent even more mass migration of refugees.

            BYBS,