Let’s see. This week I’ve managed to vote (oh, the things I could say, and may say, but not today–except to note that the people who work our polls are helpful, upbeat, friendly, and I appreciate them so much) with Tom, Tim, and Debby. Tim was kind enough to take a selfie with my phone.
I’ve composed a two-page letter with 11 attachments to try to resolve a situation that has caused me abundant stress for the last seventeen months. You don’t want to see any photos of that–including how I look when I wake up at 5:00 AM and decide there are a few more things I need to do before that packet can be faxed.
Every day, I take on a small household task in addition to the routine bedmaking, straightening up, meal planning and cooking, and cleaning up after four dogs (who yesterday were stuck inside because it drizzled all day and it takes a village to get them outside in the rain, and I am but one person). Also, my Instagram posts take a little time to set up, shoot, and then put everything away.
Yesterday’s small task was giving the inside of the refrigerator a good cleaning and organizing it better. I’m not sure what today’s task will be–after I have breakfast and then take a nap since I woke up way too early.
I spotted this photo of actor Viola Davis this morning in my Instagram feed of accounts I don’t follow but show up because of other accounts I do follow. I think she’s pretty fabulous.
But what made me pause and screencap was that her fashion reminded me of an outfit I made for my first Runway Monday final collection in October 2008 based on characters in my novel A Coventry Christmas. Here’s Keelie in the same color palette.
Enjoy the middle of the week! Gonna leave you with this old Crowded House song I love.
I’m not going to ask but just assume you wouldn’t/couldn’t vote for that……Greg Abbott or that Ted Cruz. 🙂 I did early mail in voting here because I wanted to make sure that it was done! I love Texas so much but the politics there right now. Things need to change. OK, that is my only political rant.
Cruz is not up for reelection this year, though you’re right: I’d never vote for Abbott or Cruz.
I knew you were smart.
I have to live with myself. I can’t in good conscience vote for candidates or a party willing to strip away the privacy rights and dignity of women and families; who want to institute a theocracy; who advocate, or at least applaud, a violent overthrow of our government and harm up to and including torture and death to our elected officials and their families; who believe or amplify easily disprovable lies to protect their own interests at the expense of the health and happiness of others; who don’t acknowledge that problems with economies, immigration, and the environment, along with systemic racism, are a worldwide product of greed and willful ignorance; and who believe the right to free speech means there are no consequences to hate speech, and that everything, including character, integrity, and decency, can all be bought for the right price.
You said it beautifully! I worry about a population of people who are so gullible that they believe the lies, can excuse cruelty and bullying of elected officials, who with proof, cannot consider they were lied to, who choose violence, prejudice and hate everyday when they wake up.
The anger… The irony is that the people who I believe absolutely have the right to be angry because of how the system excludes them in so many of the ways the rest of us enjoy, or whose rights are being systematically stripped away right before our eyes, keep struggling, keep trying, keep believing in the principles that in theory were meant to include them. Whereas the people out there spewing hate and targeting marginalized groups in general have good lives. But they believe those lives are threatened–they feel something slipping away. They’re right, but their enemies aren’t who they’re being led to believe.
It all breaks my heart.