You know, like, my commitment has been kind of, you know, I guess acknowledged and, you know, something outside of work. And that's really big for me because I'm really passionate about this community garden. This was kind of a big change for me, but I really liked it because I learned a lot of stuff. We have master gardeners and I like being able to share, you know, a skill, but not very many people use it more. I've been volunteering with the Red Cross as their Disaster Action Team Supervisor probably for about two or three years. And so, we usually go if they're, you know, to set up with wildfires, that kind of stuff, people who are displaced by fires in their homes and we kind of help with their financial aspect of it, you know, make sure they have emotional support if they, if anything, you know, lost an animal or, or loss of life or anything like that.
I also do fostering for animals because, you know, I, I started on with a 406 K9 rescue and they need fosters because they're, they don't actually have a shelter. They're completely volunteer-run, and they need any kind of fosters and most people are like, oh, puppies, but they're, you know, there's other dogs out there too. And so we, we are one of the few that like, we're like senior dogs with, you know, dogs with diabetes or special needs or anything. Because those volunteers are very few and far between. Even if you're volunteering maybe just an hour a week, it helps because it feels - you get this sense of community, but also this sense of reward because you're not asking for anything in return. You're, you know, you're putting this good out into the world and it's like this good karma that comes back to you. And it's just, at the end of the day, it's a good feeling. Like, I did that, I helped establish that, or I helped do this. And it's just that really good feeling.
