Friday Five - Join Hands
Jan. 9th, 2026 09:02 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pshaw_raven1. Do you have a favourite cause that you support?
I support several different things in different ways, but I go out of my way with two - Keep Clay Beautiful and Rails To Trails.
2. If so, how do you support it?
Keep Clay Beautiful is pretty simple. I pick up trash. So much trash. Every month, Fox and I get out to the highway and pick up garbage all along a one-mile stretch, sometimes going so far as to haul off things like tires, doors, and truck grills. We can count on people driving by beeping and giving a thumbs up. Rails To Trails is a national org, so I usually "just" do a yearly donation, but recently I was part of an email/letter writing campaign to secure funding for a mixed use trail near me. They haven't started it yet, but the money got earmarked and the trail will run from Gold Head all the way into Jacksonville.
3. Have you been an active member of an organization (attending meetings, volunteering, etc)?
I'm not really a "go to meetings" type. If you're going to go out and do something, you can count on me to help, but I dislike meetings. I guess you could say I'm active in the above two things, and I'm also an active member of CoCoRaHas, which is a group that collects rain gauge data. I've been reporting my daily rainfall almost every day since 2015. Citizen science!
Also, if I never see or hear of Roberts Rules of Order again it will be too soon.
4. Have you ever led any group?
Nope.
5. If so, how was your experience with it?
OR: 5. If not, why, is it a conscious choice, of lack of opportunity?
I have never wanted to lead a group. I don't like being in leadership positions, I don't want to manage people. I prefer being allowed to go do my own thing - you can trust me to self-manage and I'm happier working by myself. Having to deal with other people usually just annoys me and stresses me out.
I support several different things in different ways, but I go out of my way with two - Keep Clay Beautiful and Rails To Trails.
2. If so, how do you support it?
Keep Clay Beautiful is pretty simple. I pick up trash. So much trash. Every month, Fox and I get out to the highway and pick up garbage all along a one-mile stretch, sometimes going so far as to haul off things like tires, doors, and truck grills. We can count on people driving by beeping and giving a thumbs up. Rails To Trails is a national org, so I usually "just" do a yearly donation, but recently I was part of an email/letter writing campaign to secure funding for a mixed use trail near me. They haven't started it yet, but the money got earmarked and the trail will run from Gold Head all the way into Jacksonville.
3. Have you been an active member of an organization (attending meetings, volunteering, etc)?
I'm not really a "go to meetings" type. If you're going to go out and do something, you can count on me to help, but I dislike meetings. I guess you could say I'm active in the above two things, and I'm also an active member of CoCoRaHas, which is a group that collects rain gauge data. I've been reporting my daily rainfall almost every day since 2015. Citizen science!
Also, if I never see or hear of Roberts Rules of Order again it will be too soon.
4. Have you ever led any group?
Nope.
5. If so, how was your experience with it?
OR: 5. If not, why, is it a conscious choice, of lack of opportunity?
I have never wanted to lead a group. I don't like being in leadership positions, I don't want to manage people. I prefer being allowed to go do my own thing - you can trust me to self-manage and I'm happier working by myself. Having to deal with other people usually just annoys me and stresses me out.
