Happy Pride Month, day 3, Vote Forward letters

[sonia]

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: I vote because my grandparents had to flee their home country for their lives, and I don't want to have to do the same. I vote because I want all the kids in my community to have a safe and joyful future.
and then I compressed it down to: I vote because my grandparents had to flee their home country for their lives. I want the US to be a haven where all the kids can have a safe and joyful future.
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.

Comments

[runpunkrun]

Thank you for writing letters to voters, and for sharing this!

[sonia]

<3

[jesse_the_k]

I hope the personal connection will be as powerful as the strong feelings it brings up for you.

How long before you can get a new prescription for your eyes? Is the world kinda hazy until then?

[sonia]

May it be so! That's a good way to think about it.

I was told to order glasses without prism before surgery, and I ordered full prescription and stepped-down computer glasses, so I'm all set for that. Since the lenses are thinner without prisms, I'm reusing beloved old frames that I kept around for 20 years. :-)

A++ archiving

[jesse_the_k]

They must be swell frames to survive two long moves!

Re: A++ archiving

[sonia]

They were in a hardshell case, which I will admit was starting to look battered. They kindly gave me a new one when they put in new lenses. Aside from a paint-can opener that I'm pretty sure I kept but can't find, I usually keep track of things through moves.

Re: A++ archiving

[sonia]

PS: Looked more thoroughly in the toolbox, and did find the paint-can opener now that I could lift it out of the cabinet. It was hard to really look in there when I wasn't supposed to lift heavy things. Also found two nice coat hooks behind it that I had forgotten I kept. Yay!