It's about that time again...bringing one year to a close and preparing for the next! As everyone is busy with holiday events, friends and family, or just snuggling up to a good book while enjoying the cold and rain...take a moment to be thankful. I know we hear it a million times, but it never stops being important. If you are reading this email - on a phone/computer/tablet...in your car/home/office/coffee shop...you already have so much more than many, and just for that you can be thankful.
I am thankful for CAMN and all of the joy, friendships, and opportunities it has brought to my life over the past two years. I am thankful for all of the energy, time, sweat, and care that my fellow members and volunteers put into the work they do with the community and in our natural spaces. I am thankful for the rain that finally came...and came...and came...in fact, it can stop for a bit now. And, I am excited about and thankful for the new trainees - the CAMN Class of 2023 - as they join us and bring new energy, ideas, and human-power to the mission of the Texas Master Naturalists and to the Austin community.
So, thank you all, for everything you do for CAMN, for your community, for sustaining our natural resources and areas. It is not always easy to give up your free time to dig holes, pick up trash, attend meetings, work an event, plant trees...but you do it - and with joy. Thank you...and thank the land and all who cared for it before us and all who will care for it after us...as it carries us forward.
Lisa Audiffred
CAMN President
P.S. Also, be sure to check out the CAMN photo albums on our SmugMug site! We are continually adding both old and new photos, so please take a moment to browse the albums and see what CAMN folk have been up to over the years. You can find it here: https://camn.smugmug.com/.
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