A Small Effort.....

I watched most of the DNC last week and frankly was pumped up by the speakers and the enthusiasm in the audience. So....that's over and now we'll just have to wait until November to see the results.

Last Thursday I followed Michelle Obama's command to "do something" and drove over to the Milwaukee County Democratic Office hoping to get a bumper sticker and a button to wear. They didn't have any road signs yet (which we can't post at our apartment building anyway) or buttons with the Harris/Walz ticket. I did get a Kamala button and the name of the website where I ordered postcards to mail. The smallest order was for 500 so I will be handing bunches out to friends and neighbors eager to help.

Then I saw an idea on Facebook so I am also preparing to share these whenever I am out and use a public bathroom at a store or restaurant or wherever:

I got my pad of post-it notes and started writing. They will "live" in my purse until needed. I plan to stick one at eye-level inside the bathroom stall so the next person in the "space" will sit and see! No name so no one can get annoyed with me, and I expect most will be taken down quickly and go into the trash. On the other hand my little note may bring a smile and a reminder to someone else of just how important it is to DO something and then VOTE!

Feeling encouraged......

Looking Up....

For some reason this past week I've been looking up. Walking along the sidewalk, driving down the road (as a passenger), sitting at one of our outdoor summer concerts. The midwest blue sky with assortment of puffy white clouds framed with sky blue has been just hypnotic to me and the changing light can change each image within minutes. I can remember lying on the front lawn with a friend while in grade school. Like many other children we would be seeing pictures in the clouds above. Mother Nature giving us a beautiful display.

Spend some time looking up.....use your imagination.....what do you see?

....And The Excitement Continues

So our VP, Kamala Harris, chose a running mate and the internet is going wild. The headlines state the excitement as non-MAGAs learn about him and consider the team as a whole. The GOP is going crazy and getting more and more "wierd" by the day! Such fun to listen to 45 and or his VP pick or the pundits who are already just posting nasty comments, stirring the pot of false facts and watching his lead shrink.  This will be an interesting November.

I hear some people saying he's too liberal but while living next door to Minnesota while he was Governor we heard some pretty good things about what was happening in his state. As described in Heather Cox Richardson's letter this morning: "Strong tax revenues and spending cuts gave the state a $17.6 billion surplus, and the Democrats under Walz used the money not to cut taxes, as Republicans wanted, but to invest in education, fund free breakfast and lunch for schoolchildren, make tuition free at the state's public colleges for students whose families earned less than $80,000 a year, and invest in paid family and medical leave and health insurance coverage regardless of immigration status." So if this is too "liberal"....bring it on.

(I was interested to read something the other day that Wisconsin is following suit wiaiving tuition and fees for the 11 Wisconsin universities beginning in the fall of 2025. Even my alma mater (small, private Ripon College) is waving tuition for students whose parents earn less than $75,000 a year.....maybe other states will continue the trend.)

Somewhere along the line the word "liberal" became a four-letter-word for the GOP....they better check with Miriam Webster.

Will the level of excitement last? I don't know, but here's a picture of the line of cars full of people heading to the Harris/Walz rally in Eau Claire today:

(I can already hear 45 whining about the size of HIS crowd at HIS next rally and how it was SO much bigger than theirs. )

Personally I find Kamala's  qualifications, attitude, smile, optimism and thoughtful remarks so refreshing.  You go girl! Laugh your way into the Oval Office!!