Today, I’m grateful for creativity. We see it so often in every day life and don’t even recognize it, most times.
I’ve seen creativity in my fellow Imagine Home Admins when we decided that we wanted to develop a different kind of transport group. We all brainstormed for weeks about the best way to do things. While we’ve had some missteps along the way, we’ve managed to learn from each experience.
Over the past year, I’ve watched my co-workers/friends come up with incredibly creative solutions for almost every obstacle that we’ve faced. First was Phyllis (who has moved on) who developed our way of recruiting; she asked for certain pictures to be made, and used them in a variety of groups and events. We watched our drivers grow because of those tactics. Teresa has continued to expand on this creative method of recruitment, and has oftentimes used her personal contacts to get “just one more driver.” I’ve witnessed many Wednesday and Thursday late night miracles perpetrated by Teresa and Lori when we despaired of finding anything at all.
Kelly is her very own miracle of creativity. In the year and a half that Kelly Pusskitty has been planning transports, she has garnered respect for her caring, compassion and professionalism from the rescue community. I’ve watched Kelly pull off some creative rescues of cats, including for little one-eyed Max, who is now in his forever home. Kelly has managed to find friends of friends of friends to work last-minute and life-saving miracles.
BekBek Estes and Linda Rattenni are the geniuses behind most of our beautiful transport pictures that everyone shares. Every time I think they can’t top themselves, they come up with another way to take a horrible shelter picture, and turn it into a work of art. Then there’s Dionne, who drew the sketch that started us off, found the colors and fonts that suited our style, and has been the driving force behind the many sharable pictures that you see and share. Dionne had the vision of how our brand should look, and has found ways to keep it from getting stale, even after one year.
Our little motley crew, our band of sisters, used a variety of creative skills to help us grow over this past year. Together, our creativity feeds off of each other, and allows us to build new ways of doing things that seemed unimaginable a year ago. I can’t wait to see what the future brings.
A beautiful post to be sure, and a very concise one at that. But what Noelle didn’t include in her praise of her fellow Imagine Home ‘co-workers/friends’ is the part about herself.
It should be noted that Noelle is also a driving force behind Imagine Home. She is on our FB page with regularity, helping others, answering our messages, responding to the posts by our friends and fans. Our wonderful recruiting pics that she mentions are created by her. She is a marketing guru that keeps us current on what we should be doing to further build Imagine Home. And she does it with a passion that is an inspiration to me.
But mostly, Noelle is a veritable font of love and support. She is a key element not only in our endeavors but in our lives as well. I have seen her give, and then give yet more, when most would have just said, “I can do more.” We would not be the same if we did not have her at our side, at our back, and in our lives.
How can that above make me leak too? You all have such a bond that is genuine & as you mention a sisterhood as well. Who else calls themselves litter mates?