Well, you know, you'd written some questions, so I jotted down some stuff. And so you'd like to know what I'm doing now. Okay, well, right now, I've been a part of mitzvah corps for a temple which services the older people. If somebody's in the hospital, we try and bring them meals. When they come home, we try to offer help as much as we can. But we have a Jewish family service. But, um, the mitzvah corps is feeling a need to for people who are lonely that we can call them, that we can visit them. But we haven't been able to since the pandemic. And so the goodness that we can provide has been. It's been dedicated to phoning and to just letting people know that we care. or sending cards or whatever. Um, and so I do that. After Trump came along, I became very involved in politics, which wasn't my thing at all before I had been very somnolent. Is that the word sleepy about politics and just took it for granted? Everything would be all right. And and just was horrified when this man came along, this really dreadful, lying, evil man. And so I have become very political. So I do spend time doing that. And, um, when Larry was still alive, my husband died about three years ago. Um, we always used to do different things. We used to usher the symphony. We ushered at theater, we ushered at, um, uh, at various places any way we could. And, um, I also headed the membership committee for a while. I was actually the educational director for one year while we were in transition. I've done a lot of different things for the years. I worked hard for B'nai B'rith. I taught Sunday school, except my kid was the worst behaved kid in the school. Which is normal. Um, and, um, let's see, what else do I do? Um. Oh. I also worked quite extensively on creative services for our synagogue, and that was a real love I had. And then, um, and we'd have music and instruments and things, and I just really wanted that because I was not satisfied with the humdrum routine created, uh, services that were provided. And so that's something I tried to do myself, Else was to make that happen. And really we had some beautiful services. But now the rabbi has taken elements of that and incorporated them in these in, in her special services. But we haven't had any of that since the pandemic. So that's all gone by the wayside. So anyway, what else can I tell you? Um, I think I think we as a community have become more religious, if that makes sense. Um, more spiritual. Um, I think like, now, my daughter was saying to me this morning, I told her I'm going to be, um, interviewed today. She said, oh, mom, look at what you've done. Because I came from Victoria and Trail, British Columbia. Had no education, no Jewish education. I didn't know how to read Hebrew. I didn't. And yet I two Jewish parents who came. My mother was an immigrant from Russia. She had no no knowledge of Judaism. My dad, he had a lot more. He was born in Winnipeg, but he was from a Russian mother who knew diddly squat. And so the fact is that that we have become learners. I go to my daughter's Torah class every Saturday morning, which is via zoom. Um, so I'm reading the Torah, which can I admit that I'd read little bits and pieces at bar and bat mitzvahs through the years, but never sat down to read. I'm studying Hebrew now, which I'm very excited about. I want to go to Israel again, though I've been several times through the years. And so I think there's a spiritual thirst in, in, in the new generation that really wants more than what we were offered as kids. And I know that Larry, Larry, when he was 85, he read from the Torah for the first time anyway. And it was a beautiful thing. And then he died about six months later. But how wonderful that he could read from the Torah when he was 85. Can I show you two pictures?
