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A Nail Biting Day for America: Voting in a Contentious Time
Is anyone else having trouble focusing on work? I am doing all sorts of smaller tasks, and trying to avoid the news, longing for distraction, anxious, hopeful and scared. It’s the day we vote, and decide the fate of our country for the next four years. On this day, our vote is our leadership, but […]
Why Vote? Because there is no such thing as NOT Voting. #EricLiu
Check out this Ted Talk by Eric Liu, founder of Citizen University in Seattle, WA. He makes a compelling argument that there is no such thing as not voting! Even if we aren’t happy with the exact leader we’re voting for, voting is automatic in our system, even if we don’t exercise that vote. And […]
Walt Whitman on Election Day: The Power of the Vote!
Hereʻs insight into the importance of by Americaʻs maverick genius visionary leader, the poet Walt Whitman. Election Day, November, 1884 If I should need to name, O Western World, your powerfulest scene and show, ‘Twould not be you, Niagara–nor you, ye limitless prairies–nor your huge rifts of canyons, Colorado, Nor you, Yosemite–nor Yellowstone, with all […]
Soon we vote — what good followers will avoid
As we approach the polls, there’s one main thing to remember. DON’T vote for someone just because someone else tells you it’s a good idea. DO YOUR RESEARCH! Beware the lemming effect.
