3/28/2026
My Dear Friend & POTUS, DJT,
How ARE you? I know I just asked you that question on March 23, but I am still wondering about your well-being. I know that if I were you, I’d be having trouble sleeping at night. You never get much sleep so maybe it’s not a big deal for you to be awake in the wee hours. Perhaps you became a short-sleeper early in life because you’ve always been in some kind of mess that interferes with deep sleep & you’ve just learned to go with it.
Speaking of sleep deprivation, I experienced its advantages when I gave a teacher workshop in Iceland. My advisor handed me the job of providing a five-day training on gender issues in math & I had no idea what I was doing. I got through the week numbed by exhaustion. I was so tired I just went through the motions of implementing my plan. This held my anxiety at bay, but probably hindered my performance as well.
Is that your strategy? To be so fatigued that you are only half-conscious of what’s going on? To take things one day at a time, without a long term plan? If so, EFO should make it clear that you need a new approach, because many people think we are now in a worse position with Iran than ever.
Patrick Wintour writing in the Guardian suggests we are further away from a diplomatic agreement with Iran than we were in May 2025. Meanwhile, you are trying to reassure the farmers of America that you’ve got their backs by promising them a bigger tractor. Most can’t get a loan to buy fertilizer. What banker is going to give them $$ for a bigger tractor?
Growing food is on my mind, because it’s almost time to put tomatoes in the ground. They are my favorite crop & the abundant variety of species makes it hard to choose what to plant. The tastiest varieties often aren’t prolific or disease resistant. Some plants get too big for my space. Some are prone to sun burn or don’t perform well in the heat. So many things to think about. I need all my neurons firing to make good decisions.
I feel so lucky to live in a country of so much abundance that we can pay farmers not to plant. I hope you are not doing that this year because the world will need every calorie of nutrition that we can produce. Places like Burma are especially vulnerable to food insecurity.
Speaking of Burma, 12.4 million people there, nearly one 1/4 of the population face acute hunger. The World Food Programme says it will be “forced to prioritize the most urgent life-saving needs, potentially scaling back recovery efforts that help earthquake survivors rebuild livelihoods & reduce long-term dependence on aid.”
Let’s figure out how to share the wealth!
I don’t have time to edit this down because I’ve got a full Saturday planned which includes joining my neighbors in demonstrating our Constitutional Rights of Freedom of Speech & Freedom of Assembly at the No Kings Day event.
LYGST,
RCA
