When the 2018 Gubernatorial Primary was winding down in HoCo, it was time to get rid of all our acoutrements that we’d accumulated over the past year-and-a-half or so…or so the logic went. I couldn’t bring myself to throw away my candidate walk-lit, as they call it. Well, OK, maybe all but one for each Democratic candidate.
My yard signs were another story. I’d grown so close to so many of the candidates and their families, the thought ofc just tossing their signs in the trash (they couldn’t be recycled because of the plastic coating on some or because others were made of materials other than paper). And so I went to a craft store near my house and got a few crafting supplies and decided to make signed yearbook page-cum-political signs out of them. I typed out some memories I had of each candidate and/or their families from events, pollwork, canvassing, phonebanking, postcard-writing parties and more with them. I couldn’t write them, as my handwriting’s become illegible now that all I do is type, type, type. I cut out the printed memories–often sloppier than I would now that I have more faith in myself to do so). Also, I cut out a printed-out photograph of me and the candidate. I pasted these onto their yard signs, along with paper-crafting items like “gemstones,” stickers, puffy balls–you name it. I then presented the decked out signs to the candidate’s I’d made them for.
The looks on their faces when they saw them! Joy,
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