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According to the estimated figure I've seen slightly less than 60% of those eligible to vote actually did.  This suggests around 40% of your population either didn't give a rat's arse who got in, or perhaps thought both candidates were equally unworthy of their vote. We're no better here in the UK, ...

Marc,

I'm not one for praying, but this is beautiful, sincere, and has everything a prayer should have.

Gyppo

You're welcome, Marc. It was just one of those little moments which cried out to be captured.  I was busy working on something else, saw the lights passing by, opened a spare document, captured it whilst it was still fresh, saved it, and went back to what I was working on.   If I'd told myself I'd r...

A Brief Glimpse A rippling stream of lights, at  different heights. About a dozen of them, moving past my uncurtained window  with a bouncy gait. Some pure white,  most LED blue or green. A brief WTF moment, then it clicked. The local runners' group,  hardly noticed in daylight, becoming a luminesc...

Cheers, Indar.

I was robbed again.  No storm last night.  Woke up this morning to clear blue sky, not a cloud in sight.  Hey Ho!  We'll survive.

Gyppo

Praying for a thunderstorm. It's so hot, and close, and my spirit is oppressed, my life-force diminished as mugginess blankets everything. An occasional spit of rain does nothing,  and the speckled pavement dries in minutes. It's a day to do nothing. Nothing but pray for a storm,  to break this str...

Indar,

This paints a delightfully gentle image of a small moment in time on a journey.  Just a handful of specific images let the reader fill in the rest from their own travelling experiences.

Gyppo

Glad it made you smile.  It was triggered by a happy moment. I remember the military 'naming of the parts'.  There was a chap who used to hang around the folk clubs of my youth who used to perform it, very much in the role of a sergeant instructing raw recruits, as one of his party pieces. [1] The o...

Naming of the parts. My Grandaughter challenged me, "Name the parts of your Ukulele." So I did, from one end to the other. Head stock, tuning pegs, nut, neck, strings, frets." She nodded her approval. "Body, sound hole." I turned it over, tapped the underside, "Belly." "Didn't know that, Grandad. T...

    Solstice Greetings     Tonight, 21st, is the longest night of the year.  When our little rotating rock ball we call home is the furthest it ever gets away from the Sun.     After this the days will start getting longer again.     It may not feel like it, but it will be happening.     Rejoice!  O...