Labors of love
Jan. 18th, 2020 07:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
soniaI've been thinking about how many of the little treasures around us are due to some individual's dedication and volunteer labor.
Here's an example: The Quiet Rescue of America’s Forgotten Fruit: C. Todd Kennedy is responsible for roughly half of the country’s stone fruit collection, because he cared enough to collect and tend rare varieties when federal funding was cut for national repositories. (viaamaebi)
The lovely Crystal Springs Rhododendron Garden is maintained by volunteers, and most of the plants have been donated. I thought I had seen that it was originally one person's idea, but the official story is that it was started by committee. Being part of a committee is work in itself!
All the dance groups I'm part of are completely volunteer-run. One of them has run weekly for nearly 50 years. I've been running mine weekly for 12 years now.
The Hugo Award-winning Archive of Our Own and the stories filling it are a huge example, of course.
One of the many sad things about all the resources being sucked up by the 1% is that the vast majority of people are working harder to survive and have less free time to create and share labors of love. I've been making it a practice to notice and appreciate the people quietly offering their labors of love to the world.
Thank you all who post to dreamwidth. That counts, too!
Here's an example: The Quiet Rescue of America’s Forgotten Fruit: C. Todd Kennedy is responsible for roughly half of the country’s stone fruit collection, because he cared enough to collect and tend rare varieties when federal funding was cut for national repositories. (via
amaebi)The lovely Crystal Springs Rhododendron Garden is maintained by volunteers, and most of the plants have been donated. I thought I had seen that it was originally one person's idea, but the official story is that it was started by committee. Being part of a committee is work in itself!
All the dance groups I'm part of are completely volunteer-run. One of them has run weekly for nearly 50 years. I've been running mine weekly for 12 years now.
The Hugo Award-winning Archive of Our Own and the stories filling it are a huge example, of course.
One of the many sad things about all the resources being sucked up by the 1% is that the vast majority of people are working harder to survive and have less free time to create and share labors of love. I've been making it a practice to notice and appreciate the people quietly offering their labors of love to the world.
Thank you all who post to dreamwidth. That counts, too!
