Wear your button with pride.
After waiting for 1/2 hour I was finally able to get my ballot. It then took me all of 30 seconds to fill in my choice.
Erik, I though about writing you in for one of the gazillion judges but wasn’t sure if you’d want all that responsibility :-)
Here’s an amusing story for you: on the way to work after voting this morning, I was listening to MPR and a guest read a poem on the air by John Greenleaf Whittier about voting. I enjoyed the poem so much that I wanted to find the text to read for myself. As a good techie, I began with Google searches. Unfortunately, “John Greenleaf Whittier” returned plenty of sites, just none that included the poem on voting — of which, by this time, I had forgotten the title. Two hours were spent, off and on, attempting different searches of Google and MPR.org when it suddenly hit me: I work in a library! A quick search of the library’s database, a minute’s walk through the stacks, and, lo and behold, there is a book of Whittier’s complete works on the shelf before me. Glancing through the contents I found the poem I had been searching for all morning: “The Poor Voter on Election Day”. Because I still cannot find a decent electronic version of the poem to cite, I will leave it up to you to find a written version because I don’t want to take up all of Erik’s blog space with poetry…. If only I had my own space to post these kinds of things….
Nice find… I found that one, as well. And I even liked it because it was quoting one of my favorite poets, Robert Pinksy. However, I disregarded that link as an actual “find” because it didn’t include the poem in its entirety. If you want to read the complete poem, please see my blog… and please look past the roughness of the formatting, I’ve had no time to do anything besides make that one post.
Wear your button with pride.
After waiting for 1/2 hour I was finally able to get my ballot. It then took me all of 30 seconds to fill in my choice.
Erik, I though about writing you in for one of the gazillion judges but wasn’t sure if you’d want all that responsibility :-)
Button? What button? I didn’t get a button!
Here’s an amusing story for you: on the way to work after voting this morning, I was listening to MPR and a guest read a poem on the air by John Greenleaf Whittier about voting. I enjoyed the poem so much that I wanted to find the text to read for myself. As a good techie, I began with Google searches. Unfortunately, “John Greenleaf Whittier” returned plenty of sites, just none that included the poem on voting — of which, by this time, I had forgotten the title. Two hours were spent, off and on, attempting different searches of Google and MPR.org when it suddenly hit me: I work in a library! A quick search of the library’s database, a minute’s walk through the stacks, and, lo and behold, there is a book of Whittier’s complete works on the shelf before me. Glancing through the contents I found the poem I had been searching for all morning: “The Poor Voter on Election Day”. Because I still cannot find a decent electronic version of the poem to cite, I will leave it up to you to find a written version because I don’t want to take up all of Erik’s blog space with poetry…. If only I had my own space to post these kinds of things….
-jed
Soon enough…soon enough.
I actually heard the same poem on the way to work. I enjoyed it as well. I remember a line along the lines of:
“…and the whole world has not the wealth to purchase the power I have in my right hand…”
I like that.
Very close! Impressive! The line reads:
“…The wide world has not wealth to buy / The power in my right hand!”
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/poems/july-dec00/pinsky_12-14.html
Jeremey – wow I’m impressed! Good find.
Nice find… I found that one, as well. And I even liked it because it was quoting one of my favorite poets, Robert Pinksy. However, I disregarded that link as an actual “find” because it didn’t include the poem in its entirety. If you want to read the complete poem, please see my blog… and please look past the roughness of the formatting, I’ve had no time to do anything besides make that one post.