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November 22

Denise Poloyac

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November 22
2024: Recognizing Our Work. Taken at Revolution Brewing on Kedzie south of Roscoe in Chicago.

It is a few weeks after the election now. Despite the outcome, we at Indivisible Chicago still wanted to recongize all the work of our many hundreds of volunteers who spent weekends canvassing in Michigan and Wisconsin, evenings phone banking voters, days sending texts, and many hours writing postcards. So tonight many of us got together at Revolution Brewing to be in community which is so important these days. The flag belonged to the brewery; it was not ours.

2020:The Calm Lake. Taken at Promontory Point just north of 55th Street in Chicago. After making tamales all day, Mony and I went to the Lake since that is always what I do on the anniversary of Barbara’s death. We had to drop postcards off i in Hyde Park (yes, there are more postcards), so we walked along the Lake front there. It was a calm night at the Lake.
2018: Same Lake. Taken at Shalda Creek in Good Harbor Bay in Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore in Leelanau, MI. Every year, on the anniversary of Barbara’s death, I go to the Lakefront at Montrose Harbor and take a walk. This year the 22nd fell on Thanksgiving and we went to Michigan for the holiday. So I still took my walk along the Lake -- but it was at Sleeping Bear Dunes instead of Montrose. Still the same Lake.
2016: Wave Action. Taken at Montrose Harbor in Chicago. This was Barbara’s favorite place and where I always go on November 22nd -- the anniversary of when she died. Today reminded me of the last time we went there -- a windy day with waves -- and how we walked over to look at the City skyline over the Lake on our way home from one of her treatments at Northwestern.
2012: Barbara. Taken at Montrose Harbor

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