Just 26 Days before November 5th!

Kamala Harris for President: Official Campaign Website

https://kamalaharris.com/

 Just 26 more day left before the election of a lifetime! Get out there and volunteer for Kamala where it's needed most. I'm phone banking or North Caroline Democrats (remotely). They are energetic and working so hard. 

Join me in supporting their efforts every weekday 5pm EDT/2pm PDT. They will also share the weekend schedules during the intro.

https://meet.google.com/tja-vivc-rxj

If this doesn't seem to be a good fit for you, the main campaign link has lots of options

https://kamalaharris.com/

MSNBC's Stephanie Ruhle Interviews Vice President Harris

 Well worth a watch!

Kamala Harris’ first solo network interview as 2024 candidate I MSNBC exclusive

Making Calls for Harris and Oprah Winfrey

 I'm phone banking to North Carolina for Harris today!

 At 5pm PDT I'm signed up for the live-stream with Oprah Winfrey hosting Vice President Harris

I encourage everyone to join the campaign. There are lots of options to help

Kamala Harris for President: Official Campaign Website

2024 Election - It's about Harris for President

I'm dusting off my old blog to use as a tool for getting Vice President Kamala Harris elected our next President. I know it's a very small contribution to Vice President Harris' campaign, but I want to use every means I have to reach out to my contacts, share information and do my part to win this race. 

It will take a lot of hard work to win on to November 5th! Please join me in volunteering for the Harris Walz campaign. And... please watch Presidential debate on September 10!

Much more to follow!

References:

https://www.cnn.com/newsletters/5-things

Memorial Day 2024 Honoring All Who Gave Their Lives for Our Country

 

Today we honor generations of Americans who gave their lives for our country. Recalling history, words of one of those Americans spoken some 159 years ago seem especially fitting:

"With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan--to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves, and with all nations."

President Abraham Lincoln deilivered these words in his second inaugural address, March 4, 1865.

A little more than a month later, while in serve to our country, Preident Lincoln died by an assanin's bullet, April 15 1865.

"Recall the past, live in the present, give to the future"

Honor the Past - Commemerating Black American Day, March 5, 1971

February was first designated as Black History Month nearly fifty years ago in 1976*. As February came and went, I was reminded of growing up in Oakland. Recently, my long time friend, Phillip Jackson sent me these medallions. During March of our sophomore year at St. Elizabeth High School, Phillip handed these out to mark a new event for us, "Black American Day"! 

Before there was an official Black History Month, California held its first Black American Day" on March 5, 1971, which was championed as a holiday by Assembly member Willie Brown.  A brass medallion, the  "People's Gold", was issued featuring  the dates 1619 and 1971. 1619 marks the first arrival of Africans in Virginia.*

*References:

First commemoration of Black History Month

https://www.voanews.com/a/february-is-black-history-month-in-the-us/7466915.html

History relayed on coins

https://www.coinbooks.org/v24/esylum_v24n06a33.html

Floating Wetlands in Baltimore Inner Harbor

Monday was my second February kayaking and conditions were so good that headed toward the Inner Harbor to check out the "floating wetland" at the Bond Street Pier.

 Floating wetlands that provide wildlife habitats and potentially improve water quality are installed along the developed shorelines in Baltimore's Inner Harbor. The floating wetlands are managed by BioHabitats, .

Meet Justin Park, PLA, ASLA, LEED GA, a Senior Landscape Architect for BioHabitats  as he gives us a glimpse into the care of a floating wetland.

Good works for our environment!

References:

BioHabitats

https://www.biohabitats.com/project