this instruction with what you support and what your government is doing daily?

Really! Justice, mercy, humble.

Reality: ICE, Alligator Alcatraz, “Big, Beautiful Bill”

Early in my voting career I was a straight ticket Republican voter. In the last 25 years I haven’t voted for a Republican at any level. I vote at every election including primaries.

Me!! I voted for all 3. (Long ago I was a straight ticket Republican voter.)

No! I gathered eggs every day of my life growing up. I don’t eat eggs now on my very low protein diet.

Everything has been done for a week. A family gathering on FaceTime on Christmas Day. No special carrot purchase at our house in Central Illinois. The deer pass through our pollinator garden nightly to raid our bird feeder. I can get surprisingly close to them. They leave no presents—except pellets.

And I knew people with polio who lived (and died) in an iron lung in the 1950s.

And I knew people with polio who lived (and died) in an iron lung in the 1950s.

And I knew people with polio who lived (and died) in an iron lung in the 1950s.