25 Vote Forward letters
Oct. 11th, 2020 04:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
soniaI've written five Vote Forward letters per day for five days now. It's meditative to give each person's name and address my full attention in turn, and it calms me about the election overall. The back of my brain is satisfied that I'm taking action. I plan to continue through this week until the Saturday mailing date.
Things I have learned, via looking them up online to make sure: Some roads/streets/alleys in Texas just have a name, no road type afterward, like Mill Oak. There's a town called McAllen, and that's how it's capitalized. There's a town called Lacy Lakeview, which brings to mind a lake seen through branches, or through lace curtains. Cv is not a typo for Ct - it stands for Cove.
I'm realizing that the exclamation points in my message make me sound about 15 years old, and maybe that's okay. And maybe it's 15-year-old me saying, please vote. Please. I worry that using flag stamps will make people less likely to open the letters. And if this election is decided one way or the other by flag stamps. Well. We have already gone so far off the rails. I just have to go back to breathing, and doing what I can do, and hoping that along with what everyone else is doing, it is enough.
Things I have learned, via looking them up online to make sure: Some roads/streets/alleys in Texas just have a name, no road type afterward, like Mill Oak. There's a town called McAllen, and that's how it's capitalized. There's a town called Lacy Lakeview, which brings to mind a lake seen through branches, or through lace curtains. Cv is not a typo for Ct - it stands for Cove.
I'm realizing that the exclamation points in my message make me sound about 15 years old, and maybe that's okay. And maybe it's 15-year-old me saying, please vote. Please. I worry that using flag stamps will make people less likely to open the letters. And if this election is decided one way or the other by flag stamps. Well. We have already gone so far off the rails. I just have to go back to breathing, and doing what I can do, and hoping that along with what everyone else is doing, it is enough.
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Date: 2020-10-12 05:09 pm (UTC)I was writing five letters a day too, but then I ran out of envelopes, so I have to wait until I can get more later this week. I also find writing the addresses meditative, and it's fun to see the streets and towns people live on/in.
I like the exclamation points in your message. They feel friendly to me and cheer me up as I write.
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Date: 2020-10-12 05:18 pm (UTC)