What’s Going On

Hey all, I haven’t been posting much recently. So I thought I’d give you all a rundown of what has been going on in my little corner of the world. Ready? Let’s go:

-First and foremost, my daughter has been acting. I’m amazed and truly proud with how hard she is working on her acting. Her most prolific commercial so far has been a commercial for KiwiCo, a monthly STEM box for kids, that she did the entire voiceover for (you can also see a still of her towards the end of the commercial). The YouTube link is here, and you can see it on Instagram here. She also appeared in a couple other KiwiCo commercials that are harder to link to, this one and this one. Those are google drive links, so they may not work for all of you. She has signed with an agency now (scroll to the bottom and look for Ember M), and we’re really excited to see what is next for her on this journey.

-We did take some great family photos, that you can see on my wife’s instagram. Big thanks to Tiffany for being our family photographer all these years!

-At work, we did the Severe Weather Shelters for the city and county of Santa Cruz during the storms of January, February and March of this year. Here is our brief listing of the program on our website, and one announcement from when we were activated. You can read about the shelter itself here.

-That lead to a great profile of our organization, here.

-Part of what we’ve embraced at our organization is that the general public needs to be educated about the realities of homelessness so that we all can be advocating for effective funding levels and policy from our elected officials. In that light, we’ve started a series of videos to educate folks on the realities of homelessness. Here they are so far:
Video 1
Video 2
Video 3
Video 4

or just go to tiktok to see them all.

-Oh, we’re part of a fundraiser this weekend as well! Check that out here.

-Because we think that ending homelessness is going to take a broad community effort, we recently had a Community Meeting to bring people together who care about this issue. If you would like to come to future community meetings, contact us here.

-Of course, donations of all sizes make so much of our work possible. Go here to donate to all of our efforts!

-If you want to follow The Free Guide on social media, you can find us on facebook, twitter, instagram, and tiktok.

I think this is all the updates, for now. I find that most of my self expression in life is showing up in my work, so I don’t feel like I have a lot of opinions to share with you all right now. Though they are still there… you’ll know if things are going well in my world if I get another blog out in the next month about my thoughts about democracy 😛

Sending love to all of you out there!

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