I
look at the Super PACs.
I
see their billions.
They
are HUGE and POWERFUL and FIERCE.
And
I am tiny.
Now
that
I
have
hit
bottom, I am going to
work myself out of the muck.
I
am alive!
I
am a woman. (I happen to like that.)
I
am nice (sometimes), funny (occasionally), adorable (well, … maybe).
AND I know that
$1,000,000,000 doesn’t fill a ballot box.
Instead,
PEOPLE do … like you and me and millions more!
Super PACs buy billion dollar
ads that woo and blame and threaten.
But
ADS don’t fill a ballot box.
Instead,
PEOPLE do … like you and me and millions
more!
Super PACs buy billion
dollar glitter and sparkle and pomp.
But
POMP doesn’t fill a ballot box.
Instead,
PEOPLE do … like you and me and millions more!
The whispers of our combined voices are LOUDER and CLEARER
and SWEETER than all those Super PACs combined.
I
could end here.
I
often do.
But
today I am going to forge ahead …
…
because to fill those ballot boxes, we’ve got to keep up the whisper.
There are a million ways to do just that.
I am going to suggest one that works for me.
1. I buy myself a box of envelpes. (White is good. YELLOW is better.)
2. I pull out my address book.
3. I label each envelope with the name and address of a friend.
4. I Live Life and wait ...
5. ... wait for computer ahHA and LOLs and WOWs, which happen ALL THE TIME.
6. I push PRINT.
7. I write ‘Thinking of You’ on the top of the page.
8. I stuff it in an envelope.
9. I find a mail box.
10. I drop it in.
11. Yes, by snail mail.
I am perfectly aware we live in the 21st century. Yet, when was the last time you opened your
mailbox and found something other than bills .... something YELLOW with YOUR NAME
in handwritingwith a note that read, 'Thinking of you'?
12. Yes, snail mail counts - even in the 21st century.
There are a million ways to do just that.
I am going to suggest one that works for me.
1. I buy myself a box of envelpes. (White is good. YELLOW is better.)
2. I pull out my address book.
3. I label each envelope with the name and address of a friend.
4. I Live Life and wait ...
5. ... wait for computer ahHA and LOLs and WOWs, which happen ALL THE TIME.
6. I push PRINT.
7. I write ‘Thinking of You’ on the top of the page.
8. I stuff it in an envelope.
9. I find a mail box.
10. I drop it in.
11. Yes, by snail mail.
I am perfectly aware we live in the 21st century. Yet, when was the last time you opened your
mailbox and found something other than bills .... something YELLOW with YOUR NAME
in handwritingwith a note that read, 'Thinking of you'?
12. Yes, snail mail counts - even in the 21st century.
That
is ONE idea on how to whisper.
There
are millions more.
You
pick.
Remember, the whispers of our combined voices are LOUDER and CLEARER
and SWEETER, than all the billion dollar Super PACs combined.
and SWEETER, than all the billion dollar Super PACs combined.
Yours truly, Bena
Peep and the Parade by Bena
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whisper .... 'cause together we ROAR.
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benakayusa@gmail.com
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