COVID TIMES
Ideas
Images
Crowd shores of consciousness
Clamoring
Look at me
Do me
Love me
Tend me
Me, me, me
And shape up
Fly right!
A monotony of
More, more, more.
Where am I?
I don’t know.
Pandemic panic? No
Waves spray into
Light ethers
Recede, return,
Recede, return.
A monotony
Water-symphony
Sprays over Tsunamis
Of catastrophes
At every hand.
Is this the COVID depression onset?
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A few sentences on the pages of a book preface leap out. About potatoes. Growing potatoes. The departure of the angst is so swift it startles; my chest lightens, the brain fog evaporates, a curious, calm interest in the day ahead touches my shoulders.
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...And VOTE, AMERICA!!!...
Sonja and Jeff voting in Utah.
So, all the immediate family, PA, NM & UT have voted. May all our votes make a difference!
Look up any vote info you need to know including tracking your ballots...
Nationwide:
ELECTION INFORMATION from League of Women Voters Education Fund
See the candidates and issues on your ballot anywhere in the US, the office function, the candidates, each ones' answers to their background, why they're running, and their answers to questions on current issues. There's a side-by-side, visual comparison of candidates tool. Each ballot issue is there, stated in succinct, plain-English summaries with both Pro's and Con's supporter views on each one. While you're reviewing the candidates and issues, the interactive lets you check choices, print the list out, or email or text it to yourself so you'll have your own personalized, informed list--no matter your political affiliations! Plus...
*Check Your Voter Registration
*Register to Vote
*Find Your Polling Place
*Discover Upcoming Debates in Your Area
U.S. ELECTION ASSISTANCE COMMISSION
For assistance, accessibility.
The next two links repeat what is also available above in LWV's vote411.org. But I'll include them anyway.
https://www.vote.org/am-i-registered-to-vote/
To see if you are registered.
https://www.vote.org/absentee-ballot/
To get your absentee ballot.
See the candidates and issues on your ballot anywhere in the US, the office function, the candidates, each ones' answers to their background, why they're running, and their answers to questions on current issues. There's a side-by-side, visual comparison of candidates tool. Each ballot issue is there, stated in succinct, plain-English summaries with both Pro's and Con's supporter views on each one. While you're reviewing the candidates and issues, the interactive lets you check choices, print the list out, or email or text it to yourself so you'll have your own personalized, informed list--no matter your political affiliations! Plus...
*Check Your Voter Registration
*Register to Vote
*Find Your Polling Place
*Discover Upcoming Debates in Your Area
U.S. ELECTION ASSISTANCE COMMISSION
For assistance, accessibility.
The next two links repeat what is also available above in LWV's vote411.org. But I'll include them anyway.
https://www.vote.org/am-i-registered-to-vote/
To see if you are registered.
https://www.vote.org/absentee-ballot/
To get your absentee ballot.
Election Official Directory & State Voting Requirements & Information
To hand-carry your ballot to your Election Office. If the United States Postal Service is unable to overcome its recent cutbacks and restrictions, this is where to find your district's Election Board office address so you can hand-carry your mail-in/absentee ballot to the office or designated drop boxes to avoid the virus and make sure your vote is counted on time.
To hand-carry your ballot to your Election Office. If the United States Postal Service is unable to overcome its recent cutbacks and restrictions, this is where to find your district's Election Board office address so you can hand-carry your mail-in/absentee ballot to the office or designated drop boxes to avoid the virus and make sure your vote is counted on time.
In Pennsylvania:
Here's where to hand-carry your ballot in Montgomery County, PA: Voter Services, 1 Montgomery Plaza, 425 Swede St, STE 602, Norristown, PA, 19401
Ballot deliveries must be done in person; no proxies.
10-27-2020: Still another Republican lawsuit to restrict counting of Pennsylvania ballots asks an expedited Supreme Court review to eliminate Pennsylvania ballots postmarked by election day but received afterward, and further, to be separated from the other ballots so that the Supreme Court also can decide whether Pennsylvania can count those votes at all.
10-19-2020: Here's where to see your ballot status: PA Voter Services Ballot Status
9-18-2020 update:
The Pennsylvania high court ruled in favor of voters...
1. Extended the deadline for mail ballots to be returned to Friday [5pm] after Election Day.
2. Ruled that voters can use drop boxes to return ballots.
3. Removed the Green Party’s presidential ticket from the ballot.
4. Upheld the requirement that poll watchers only work in the county where they are registered to vote.
In favor of the RNC's suit the court...
1. Prohibited third parties from collecting and returning mail ballots. (So now, if I help a wheel-chaired neighbor by dropping off their ballot at a dropbox or election office, I'd be “ballot harvesting” according to RNC and Administration.)
2. No "Naked Ballots" will be allowed; ballots that arrive without a separate “secrecy envelope” inside the mailing envelope.
9-16-2020 update: The Philadelphia Inquirer headline on pg B8 today--"Mailed Votes Can't be Tossed Over Signature" per new guidance from the Pennsylvania Department of State.
... and, please, watch out for more last-minute impediments and carry out your voting plan.
We need you!
Michael Curry, Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church shares with us on YouTube: A Prayer for the Election
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From the Blogger Desk: Grrrrr! this platform has permanently morphed now. It's been going on for months. It's laborious to upload and distribute photos in blog posts and previously posted videos seem not to work any longer. Current videos are not uploading. Video links behave weirdly. Rats!!! and other expletives.
Yes, I appreciate the platform is free, but don't appreciate this "upgrade" that is a downgrade.
A COVID haircut...
Sent by John. Wendy's become really good at haircuts for the men in her household.
(Note, there no longer is a caption option!)
A fine reminder made by Valerie in Albuquerque...
In Utah...
Elijah.
A cold day at the Great Salt Lake.
Kingston found this sun on the beach.
Duck feeding
Kingston
This morning Tim sent this image of the snowfall at their home in Albuquerque...
September's NM and UT families' convergence visit in Durango...
Tim and Kingston.
Here in PA some recent photos...
From Wendy...a recent trip to a Philly sound studio where Aidan recorded for auditioning.
And that brings us to the Mask Desk:
The virus is airborne, time to get masked
To cover our airways, don’t wear it half-mast
Put it over your mouths
And over your snouths!
Cover them both!!! Don’t be half-assed.
I think we need some cat images...
Nigel in Valerie and Tim's household...
When we started on a walk at the farm Toby was sitting transfixed in the middle of one of the pastures, poised, ready for whatever mouse or vole rustled near him. A half-hour later he was nearly in the same spot, intensely engaged. That happens in between his naps in the barn.
