To vote from outside the U.S., go to https://www.votefromabroad.org/
Request your ballot by email or fax if you are abroad, as the international mail can be slow…especially in Mexico. Xmas cards have taken up to 3 months to arrive from the states!!!
I checked this out and 37 shootings occurred in the U.S. on September 27 or 28, 2025 !!!! When are they going to pass gun control?????
Welcome to “The Numbers Game #92”. Today’s number is 214. To play along, go to your photos file folder and type that number into the search bar. Then post a selection of the photos you find that include that number and post a link to your blog in my Numbers Game blog of the day. If instead of numbers, you have changed the identifiers of all your photos into words, pick a word or words to use instead, and show us a variety of photos that contain that word in the title. This prompt will repeat each Monday with a new number. If you want to play along, please put a link to your blog in comments below. Here are my contributions to the album.
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For Sunday Stills: Every Window Tells a Story
And also Monday Window
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Graffiti
Some viewers lift their glasses and drink to genius that
gave birth to every brush stroke. Each dribble and each splat.
They say these shocking images awaken us to see
much more than just one artist’s route to immortality.
Others blame the artist who has had the gall
to spray art uninvited upon a public wall.
They say raw art does nothing to put out raging fires.
Solutions to world problems are not what art inspires.
Prompt words for The Sunday Whirl are: drinks fire wake catastrophe shocking say social drastic world art raw blame
Forked Tongues
These messengers speak words
that can slap you awake,
then abandon you
as they return
to the problems
of the privileged rich.
For Weekend Writing Prompt: Speak (limited to 22 words)
Not dead..just stuffed full and taking a rest.
Cleanup Crew
They eke their living out of our scraps
purloined while we are taking naps
or out for walks or just aren’t looking––
so intent upon our cooking
that we fail to see them scamper
(from where they hide behind the hamper)
out to gather crumbs they seek.
But instead, they prompt an “Eek”
as Mom goes one way, they the other
off to find, they hope, another
kitchen where the cook’s more willing
to ignore their needs for filling
rodent jaws and rodent tummies
with some errant human yummies.
The SOCS prompt is eek/eke
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For the Which Way Challenge
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 