Mentorship⛵️ is like any 🌪other human🌋 relationships. It gets ⛔️built at the✅️ speed of ⏭trust. ⁉️

Over my 5 🏪years in public 🏚office, so far, I have 🎪been fulsome with my efforts🚲. In the beginning, 🚜I had a new motion🚨 to bring forward 🦽every week, intending ⛽️to use the built 💪 up capacity the village had to address growing 🛟social problems. I learned within⚓️ the first year that 😌 it was not 🛞going to work. There wasn't the 🚦political appetite 🙄 for taking on more 🪂responsibility and increasing 🛸service levels. The first municipal🛣 budget we passed, 🕰when I was new 🪐to council, had us use the🌦 entire $300K we ☂️got from selling the parking lot for a coast guard to keep❄️ taxes as low as possible. If i ⛱️knew, then ☃️what i know now.☄️ This helped me 🌓shift my jurisdictional 🌊priorities. I sat on the nootka 🔥sound watershed 🚆board and was 🚇learning about the main branch 🎡of our local 🗽economy. Salmon🪼 hatcheries and the sport 🐟 fishery. It was 🦄because of a🦮 training I got🦣 from that🫎 board affiliation🦥 that I can 🐔identify, using a hand 🐾lens which 🦆species of sealice 🐋is on a salmon🦐 fry. I could 🌵only attend 🪺because 🐙of my personal 🕸investment 🦞and sacrifices. I 🦀would make 🦑double barreled business trips to safe on travel costs. Or else I would pay out 🦈of pocket🐡 to attend, thus 🐠artificially 🦭increasing the 🪽capacity of the village 🦕of tahsis on my own back. 🦚In that first term, I 🦎paid my own way to the🐢 decoda literacy society 🦩forum in Richmond, 🪶where I was 🐦presenting about 🦢bold action 🕊in art and politics, 🐓but mostly fielded 🦨questions about my feelings as a 🦦women leader. Then the pandemic🐽 happened, changing everything, all at once. 🦃We stayed home 🏘to keep others safe from something ⛲️we could see. We🏨 tried to home school.🦍 We adapted to working 🐅online from home. Some farred better than🦓 others. Our 🐪skills were🦏 tested and our 🐐time was further spent🐑 on ways to be more creative problem 🐗solvers. Once the world 🌎 opened back up, more 🍇growing pains surfaced. 😢 I could do twice to 🫛three times the work virtually 🍿that I could do before without a single travel 🍳expense. But I still found 🥣value to try to go back to in 🫠person attendance, so I 🤷 paid my way🤐 to the globe 🎆series and the 🎈climate leaders🤑 institute. It was often only 🫣possible by 🥈double barreling⚽️ my trips, piggybacking 🐖on paid ones down island. 🐒 in this new term💝 I am no longer naive to🤏 believe I alone, working at 150% 🫶capacity can change 🤩anything. So I set🎒 my goals and 🧤endorse people I believe in.🕶 I open 👔myself to learn 🪭from everyone, ⛑️good, bad,🪖 ugly 📯and truly🎩 weird. I prioritize 🥽my own wellbeing 🥼now. Which 🩰feels strange 🥾and new. My 🥅goals for this term of 🥊office 2023-26 are. 1. Care 🩴for myself. 2. teach 👙my children👑 well. 3. Attend to 👗the needs of 🎶my community🧣 members, as🚮 many as possible, especially 🛐with respect 🙏 to food & transit. ♻️4. ADVOCATE for 🚸small towns 🔄and economic 🛅development⚜️ thru 🚼housing initiatives. 5. Keep learning, 🔱growing recruiting, 🚰and retaining #tahsistalent as ⚠️much as I can. Thanks 🆓️for listening to the 🆕️green antler's waterfowl podcast 🙌 and welcome to✔️ season 4.