Happy Pride Month, day 3, Vote Forward letters

3. I am proud of writing and sending 15 letters for Vote Forward for their Voters Abroad campaign. A couple of people mentioned them to me in the last few days, and I have a bunch of restless open time since I'm barred from vigorous exercise for 2 weeks after eye surgery, so I got myself over the hump of figuring out what to write in the letters and getting my printer unclogged and going to the post office today for international stamps. While I was there I bought 20 additional stamps, so I'm planning on writing at least that many more letters to voters abroad. The international addresses are fun to see.

First I wrote: ( a couple of sentences )

and then I compressed it down to: ( a shorter version )

It feels vulnerable to be sending a personal statement to strangers across the world, hoping it elicits a sympathetic response and nudges them into action.

ETA: I like the message I wrote back in 2020, too. I'm glad I posted it back then.