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Cal Cullen
Wave Pool Executive Director
Cal is the Director of Wave Pool Gallery, and is responsible for the organization of the associated studios, workshops, and the Welcome Project- a community space for refugees and immigrants. Cal and I talked about her work at Wave Pool, her personal artwork throughout her community, and the ways that she contributes to the Camp Washington community.
So now that we are recording, can you start by telling me your name, your pronouns, and why you think I asked you to be part of this project?
Sure. My name is Calcagno Cullen. I go by Cal and she/her. I think you asked Wave Pool, so maybe you're not actually interested in me personally, but Wave Pool does a lot of community work.
Yeah, definitely. I found you through Wave Pool and Welcome Project. Then I also looked up a lot of your personal work as an artist, so we can definitely talk about that too. So why don't you tell me a little bit about your community involvement?
I live and breathe my community. It's my occupation. It's my art practice. It's what I do. I live here at Wave Pool, which is next door to the Welcome Project. The Welcome Project is a part of Wave Pool, just like our woodshop or the FRINGE bookstore or the gallery. Sometimes that's not clear to people, but it's all one organization that I have the privilege of running. My husband and I started it as a way to support artists in Cincinnati, but it very quickly became more than that. It became a way to support artists through supporting our community and our neighbors. We spend a lot of time listening to our neighbors and developing projects that support our neighborhood and put the interests of the residents here at the forefront. We do those projects through art in order to emphasize the importance of art and the capacity of art to change society in a positive way as well as to support artists to make a living and to be valued for their skillsets.
What would you define as your community? Is it a geographic location? Is it a particular interest in something? What is that to you?
There's several different communities that I work with. The first and most prominent community is the Camp Washington community, which is a geographic neighborhood region in Cincinnati where I live and where Wave Pool is. We do projects with other communities more and more as we be begin to be recognized as this being our strength. Also the arts community is one of the communities that I'm part of. As is the immigrant and refugee community that we work with at the Welcome Project. Those are the three main communities- artists, Camp Washington, immigrants and refugees. But then again, we have worked with and we will work with other communities depending on who comes to us and asks. We don't go anywhere where we're an outsider unless we're invited in. We work with a women's empowerment group that meets here at Wave Pool once a month. That's a group of mostly sex workers and folks that are on parole. That has also become a burgeoning community. That is one that we're supporting.
Why do you feel compelled to participate with all these different groups? You don't reach out to them, but you still are actively involved with them.
Different reasons. The artists community obviously because I'm an artist. I'm part of that community. Same with Camp Washington. Because I'm a resident of Camp Washington. I'm part of that community. The immigrant and refugee group is something that- I'm a dual citizen myself, I'm a European citizen as well US- I became involved in the refugee crisis in Europe in 2012 and have been working with refugee camps in Southern Italy ever since. In 2016 when I came back I was kind of like, 'why am I always going to Italy to work with these groups?' I started partnering with a refugee organization here that didn't have art classes.
THAT'S REALLY WHAT BLOSSOMED INTO THE WELCOME PROJECT. MY FRIENDSHIPS WITH THIS GROUP OF MOSTLY BHUTANESE WOMEN, AND SEEING THEIR SKILL SETS EMERGE AND GETTING THEM WORK AND COMMISSIONS AND THEN THEY WANTED A STORE AND THEN EMPOWERING THEM TO TEACH OTHERS, AND START THEIR OWN BUSINESS. SO THAT'S HOW THE WELCOME PROJECT CAME TO BE. AND THEN THE OTHER GROUPS ARE REALLY COMING TO US BECAUSE THEY'VE SEEN WHAT WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO DO FOR ARTISTS AND CAMP WASHINGTON AND REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS.
So you have lived in other countries, and I believe I read that you lived in California, and now you've settled down and own property in Cincinnati. Do you think that this is a pretty permanent landing spot for you?
Yeah, pretty permanent. My goal for Wave Pool has always been to make Wave Pool sustainable enough so that I will be able to leave and pass the baton to someone else. Because it's really all about creating opportunities for others. I've discussed term limits and what it would look like if our organization had executive director term limits so that we would always have fresh ideas and fresh leadership in place. Maybe every 8 years, 10 years. So that's something that has always been a goal. I think Wave Pool and Camp Washington are always going to be close to my heart, but I don't know if we'll stay here forever. This is as permanent as I've ever been to a place.
THAT'S REALLY INTERESTING. SO YOU DON'T REALLY VIEW THESE PROJECTS AS YOUR BABY THAT YOU HAVE TO CONTINUE TO FOSTER. YOU'RE TOTALLY OPEN TO PASSING THE BATON ON THOSE?
I MEAN THEY ARE MY BABIES. BUT THE WHOLE POINT OF RAISING A CHILD, IF YOU WANT TO CONTINUE THAT METAPHOR, IS TO BE ABLE TO KICK THEM OUT OF THE NEST. I WANT THEM TO BE STRONG ENOUGH AND SELF-SUSTAINING ENOUGH THAT THEY CAN BE LEVERAGED TO EMPOWER OTHERS AND CREATE OPPORTUNITIES FOR OTHER CINCINNATI ARTISTS AND NEIGHBORHOOD RESIDENTS AND REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS TO REALLY TAKE THE LEAD.
So other than supporting and running these organizations, would you tell me a little bit about your personal artistic practice?
The majority of my artistic practice is in the coordination of programs and exhibitions and social practice projects that are part and parcel of Wave Pool. I really do see my role here as an artist. I do still endeavor on my own private projects outside of Wave Pool. I'm working on a series of large public sculptures for Avondale right now, in partnership with Artworks. That's a neighborhood that invited Artworks in. And then Artworks selected me to create these big sculptures that were co-created with the community. I spent the month of February with a couple of teenagers from Avondale neighborhood, doing community engagement projects that solicited advice and words of wisdom from residents in Avondale. Then those words of wisdom are being turned into both a zine as well as a series of faux neon large-scale text sculptures outside of the new rec center. So that's one of the bigger projects I'm working on, but I also do a series of daily drawings that are kind of just for me. Meditations in how my day was, cause I think it's important to look inward as well. I do a lot of interactive sculptural pieces and writing prompts and things with a variety of people. I don't know if you saw the show at the CAC last year, but there were a lot of analog communication devices used as sculptures as a way to collect information and stories from people that were coming to the museum.
So you own the building that Wave Pool is in. And you live above it too?
Yeah. It's not really above it. It's on the second floor where the Artist in Resident lives as well as the large community space that's often used as a second gallery space in our offices. And then our apartment is in the back.
Does it feel like most of your life revolves around this block of Camp Washington?
Oh yeah. Now that we have our own grocery store at the Welcome Project, there is very little reason for me to leave. But I kinda like it that way. It's created my own little utopia in a way. There's obviously all kinds of problems, but that keeps it interesting. I know all my neighbors. I've never felt so good about where I've lived before.
That's awesome. Does it ever feel weird to be in one space constantly or to have your work tied so closely to every other part of your life?
No. It feels good. It feels very seamless. There's no boundaries. I'm just as much a neighbor as I am an artist as I am an executive director of an organization as I am a mom. I don't need to change my clothes or space to do any of those things. That's very freeing. Just being 100%, true to who you are in this moment. It doesn't matter if I'm having a meeting with an artist or while I while my daughter is playing or while there's immigrants coming in to like get supplies or whatever's happening. It's all very open and honest about what's happening, which I really appreciate because I've had to segment my life and in the past. I think that that's one of the biggest challenges for people. You have to go to work and then you work your passion project and the evening, and then you're a different person when you're with your friends at a bar versus when you're a mom. I think that can get really heavy, and maybe is not as natural as just being one person all the time. But there's downsides to it too because when I'm in my pajamas, watching Netflix and then the doorbell rings at 10:00 PM because somebody wants to drop off a piece of art or pick something up and they're like, 'Oh yeah, I know that she's at Wave Pool cause she lives there'. But I've gotten used to not having boundaries, and that's okay.
I guess it has to be okay. It's good that you feel that you can balance all this. Because you do a lot of stuff. You do more stuff than most people do any day of their life and you seem to have to balance a lot of different things all at once.
Yeah. It can get overwhelming sometimes, but usually it's okay.
HOW DO YOU DEAL WITH THAT BEING OVERWHELMING?
IT'S ALSO BECAUSE I'M NOT WORKING JUST 40 HOURS A WEEK. YOU KNOW, MOST PEOPLE JUST HAVE LIKE A 35 OR 40 HOUR A WEEK JOB AND THAT'S WHAT THEY GET DONE. BUT BECAUSE I'VE BLENDED ALL MY WORLDS, THERE IS NO TIME THAT I CLOCK IN AND CLOCK OUT. I'M ALWAYS WORKING IN A SENSE- WHICH IS GOOD AND BAD, BUT I JUST SEE IT AS A LIFESTYLE.
Would you consider yourself to be a workaholic?
Yeah, probably.
Do you like that about yourself?
I don't think I like it about myself. But I can't imagine not working all the time. I really love my job. I love what I do. Artists that are drawing 12 hours a day or something, people wouldn't call them a workaholic because they don't see it as work. It's the same for me.
It seems like a large part of your life does revolve around art in your personal practice, in your work practice. Is that something that you were interested in from a young age? I feel like a lot of artists, they have stories about, 'Oh, I watched my mom do this every day, or my dad taught me this practice'. Is that true for you?
Kind of. I wanted to be an archeologist when I was a kid. Up until I was a teenager. I was always really good at art. I was always the best person that can draw in my class. But that was never seen by me as what I wanted to pursue. But then when I was 16, I had a pretty traumatic car accident and it changed the whole trajectory of my life and I ended up pursuing art after that.
Why did it change so much for you?
I think there were a lot of reasons. I was in a coma for a couple of weeks and when I got out, I was in recovery for a few months, so I wasn't in school. Art became the thing that I could do by myself while I was recovering. Then when I did return to school, the friends that I had changed and everything was different. So was my mindset. I did have a brain injury as part of car accidents. Maybe just the chemistry in my brain changed. I don't know. But that's what happened.
Wave Pool has a space for making. You guys have a woodshop?
Yeah, we have a wood shop and then at the Welcome Project we do ceramics classes and the kiln. We keep the throwing wheel and the roller and the kiln over here at Wave Pool. There's a little room that's kind of part of the woodshop. But we do the handling over at Welcome. And then we also have studios. We right now we've got seven studio that are rented out to artists.
Has most of that shut down because of the state of affairs right now?
Yeah. We haven't been able to have our open wood shop hours or woodworking classes. We haven't been able to have our ceramics classes. The studios are still in use. Probably more than ever because artists are off work. I'm looking outside right now and I can see Emil's car and he has been painting nonstop every day for the past two weeks. Artists are being productive, but by themselves.
How else has this craziest affected your life?
I have a five year old daughter and so she is now homeschooled. Thankfully, or maybe not thankfully, my husband who's the exhibitions director at Visionaries and Voices, he also got laid off. So he's been homeschooling her, which is good for me because I still have to work. Then wave pool has been transitioning as many programs as possible to online videos and live streams. The Welcome Project was finally able to open our market and teaching kitchen February 29th. And that's the worst timing because two weeks later, we're not allowed to have our dinners or our cooking classes or all the things that we had planned on doing in that space. So we've transitioned to now doing weekly grocery delivery to elderly and at-risk residents of Camp Washington. So last week we delivered like 60 boxes of groceries to families and we'll be doing the same this Saturday. This is the third week we've done it. That's been a really great way to still connect with our residents. It's not just groceries. We're including artwork in each box. The artists have been so generous about donating drawings and things to go into these boxes, and photographs. It's been just an amazing, heartbreaking, but also really heartwarming project, to see artists and volunteers and residents come together make sure that our most vulnerable are cared for. It's been really beautiful.
I'M GONNA SEND OUT THE PRESS RELEASE HOPEFULLY TODAY, BUT WE GOT A SMALL GRANT FROM THE HAILE FOUNDATION TO SUPPORT SEVEN ARTISTS' PROJECTS THAT WORK ON SOCIAL CONNECTION IN A TIME WHEN WE'RE PHYSICALLY DISTANT. THE PROJECTS ARE REALLY COOL. ONE GUY IS GOING TO TAKE A FLOCK OF 100 PLASTIC FLAMINGOS AND INSTALL THEM. PEOPLE CAN ADOPT THE FLOCK FOR A COUPLE OF DAYS AT A TIME AND THEN HE'LL MOVE THEM TO ANOTHER YARD. THAT'S A WAY TO BRING JOY TO YARDS AROUND CINCINNATI. AND THEN THE KNOW THEATER IS GOING TO BE CREATING PROJECTIONS THAT THEY'RE GOING TO DRIVE VERY, VERY SLOWLY THROUGH CINCINNATI, PROJECTING ARTWORK ON BUILDINGS SO THAT FOLKS CAN VIEW SOMETHING INTERESTING OUT THEIR WINDOW ENJOY SOME ARTWORK THAT WAY. THE ART HAGS ARE MAKING A SERIES OF POSTERS AND POSTER PROMPTS SO PEOPLE CAN MAKE ART AND PUT THEM UP AS A WAY TO COMMUNICATE WITH EACH OTHER. THERE'S SEVEN DIFFERENT PROJECTS. THE GOOD THING ABOUT WAVE POOL IS WE'RE VERY SMALL AND WE'RE VERY ADAPTABLE. BECAUSE WE'RE A GROUP OF ARTISTS, WE THRIVE BY THINKING ON OUR FEET, AND BEING ABLE TO ADAPT QUICKLY. I WOULD SAY WE ARE BETTER SUITED FOR THIS CRISIS THAN MOST.
Sure. My name is Calcagno Cullen. I go by Cal and she/her. I think you asked Wave Pool, so maybe you're not actually interested in me personally, but Wave Pool does a lot of community work.
Yeah, definitely. I found you through Wave Pool and Welcome Project. Then I also looked up a lot of your personal work as an artist, so we can definitely talk about that too. So why don't you tell me a little bit about your community involvement?
I live and breathe my community. It's my occupation. It's my art practice. It's what I do. I live here at Wave Pool, which is next door to the Welcome Project. The Welcome Project is a part of Wave Pool, just like our woodshop or the FRINGE bookstore or the gallery. Sometimes that's not clear to people, but it's all one organization that I have the privilege of running. My husband and I started it as a way to support artists in Cincinnati, but it very quickly became more than that. It became a way to support artists through supporting our community and our neighbors. We spend a lot of time listening to our neighbors and developing projects that support our neighborhood and put the interests of the residents here at the forefront. We do those projects through art in order to emphasize the importance of art and the capacity of art to change society in a positive way as well as to support artists to make a living and to be valued for their skillsets.
What would you define as your community? Is it a geographic location? Is it a particular interest in something? What is that to you?
There's several different communities that I work with. The first and most prominent community is the Camp Washington community, which is a geographic neighborhood region in Cincinnati where I live and where Wave Pool is. We do projects with other communities more and more as we be begin to be recognized as this being our strength. Also the arts community is one of the communities that I'm part of. As is the immigrant and refugee community that we work with at the Welcome Project. Those are the three main communities- artists, Camp Washington, immigrants and refugees. But then again, we have worked with and we will work with other communities depending on who comes to us and asks. We don't go anywhere where we're an outsider unless we're invited in. We work with a women's empowerment group that meets here at Wave Pool once a month. That's a group of mostly sex workers and folks that are on parole. That has also become a burgeoning community. That is one that we're supporting.
Why do you feel compelled to participate with all these different groups? You don't reach out to them, but you still are actively involved with them.
Different reasons. The artists community obviously because I'm an artist. I'm part of that community. Same with Camp Washington. Because I'm a resident of Camp Washington. I'm part of that community. The immigrant and refugee group is something that- I'm a dual citizen myself, I'm a European citizen as well US- I became involved in the refugee crisis in Europe in 2012 and have been working with refugee camps in Southern Italy ever since. In 2016 when I came back I was kind of like, 'why am I always going to Italy to work with these groups?' I started partnering with a refugee organization here that didn't have art classes.
THAT'S REALLY WHAT BLOSSOMED INTO THE WELCOME PROJECT. MY FRIENDSHIPS WITH THIS GROUP OF MOSTLY BHUTANESE WOMEN, AND SEEING THEIR SKILL SETS EMERGE AND GETTING THEM WORK AND COMMISSIONS AND THEN THEY WANTED A STORE AND THEN EMPOWERING THEM TO TEACH OTHERS, AND START THEIR OWN BUSINESS. SO THAT'S HOW THE WELCOME PROJECT CAME TO BE. AND THEN THE OTHER GROUPS ARE REALLY COMING TO US BECAUSE THEY'VE SEEN WHAT WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO DO FOR ARTISTS AND CAMP WASHINGTON AND REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS.
So you have lived in other countries, and I believe I read that you lived in California, and now you've settled down and own property in Cincinnati. Do you think that this is a pretty permanent landing spot for you?
Yeah, pretty permanent. My goal for Wave Pool has always been to make Wave Pool sustainable enough so that I will be able to leave and pass the baton to someone else. Because it's really all about creating opportunities for others. I've discussed term limits and what it would look like if our organization had executive director term limits so that we would always have fresh ideas and fresh leadership in place. Maybe every 8 years, 10 years. So that's something that has always been a goal. I think Wave Pool and Camp Washington are always going to be close to my heart, but I don't know if we'll stay here forever. This is as permanent as I've ever been to a place.
THAT'S REALLY INTERESTING. SO YOU DON'T REALLY VIEW THESE PROJECTS AS YOUR BABY THAT YOU HAVE TO CONTINUE TO FOSTER. YOU'RE TOTALLY OPEN TO PASSING THE BATON ON THOSE?
I MEAN THEY ARE MY BABIES. BUT THE WHOLE POINT OF RAISING A CHILD, IF YOU WANT TO CONTINUE THAT METAPHOR, IS TO BE ABLE TO KICK THEM OUT OF THE NEST. I WANT THEM TO BE STRONG ENOUGH AND SELF-SUSTAINING ENOUGH THAT THEY CAN BE LEVERAGED TO EMPOWER OTHERS AND CREATE OPPORTUNITIES FOR OTHER CINCINNATI ARTISTS AND NEIGHBORHOOD RESIDENTS AND REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS TO REALLY TAKE THE LEAD.
So other than supporting and running these organizations, would you tell me a little bit about your personal artistic practice?
The majority of my artistic practice is in the coordination of programs and exhibitions and social practice projects that are part and parcel of Wave Pool. I really do see my role here as an artist. I do still endeavor on my own private projects outside of Wave Pool. I'm working on a series of large public sculptures for Avondale right now, in partnership with Artworks. That's a neighborhood that invited Artworks in. And then Artworks selected me to create these big sculptures that were co-created with the community. I spent the month of February with a couple of teenagers from Avondale neighborhood, doing community engagement projects that solicited advice and words of wisdom from residents in Avondale. Then those words of wisdom are being turned into both a zine as well as a series of faux neon large-scale text sculptures outside of the new rec center. So that's one of the bigger projects I'm working on, but I also do a series of daily drawings that are kind of just for me. Meditations in how my day was, cause I think it's important to look inward as well. I do a lot of interactive sculptural pieces and writing prompts and things with a variety of people. I don't know if you saw the show at the CAC last year, but there were a lot of analog communication devices used as sculptures as a way to collect information and stories from people that were coming to the museum.
So you own the building that Wave Pool is in. And you live above it too?
Yeah. It's not really above it. It's on the second floor where the Artist in Resident lives as well as the large community space that's often used as a second gallery space in our offices. And then our apartment is in the back.
Does it feel like most of your life revolves around this block of Camp Washington?
Oh yeah. Now that we have our own grocery store at the Welcome Project, there is very little reason for me to leave. But I kinda like it that way. It's created my own little utopia in a way. There's obviously all kinds of problems, but that keeps it interesting. I know all my neighbors. I've never felt so good about where I've lived before.
That's awesome. Does it ever feel weird to be in one space constantly or to have your work tied so closely to every other part of your life?
No. It feels good. It feels very seamless. There's no boundaries. I'm just as much a neighbor as I am an artist as I am an executive director of an organization as I am a mom. I don't need to change my clothes or space to do any of those things. That's very freeing. Just being 100%, true to who you are in this moment. It doesn't matter if I'm having a meeting with an artist or while I while my daughter is playing or while there's immigrants coming in to like get supplies or whatever's happening. It's all very open and honest about what's happening, which I really appreciate because I've had to segment my life and in the past. I think that that's one of the biggest challenges for people. You have to go to work and then you work your passion project and the evening, and then you're a different person when you're with your friends at a bar versus when you're a mom. I think that can get really heavy, and maybe is not as natural as just being one person all the time. But there's downsides to it too because when I'm in my pajamas, watching Netflix and then the doorbell rings at 10:00 PM because somebody wants to drop off a piece of art or pick something up and they're like, 'Oh yeah, I know that she's at Wave Pool cause she lives there'. But I've gotten used to not having boundaries, and that's okay.
I guess it has to be okay. It's good that you feel that you can balance all this. Because you do a lot of stuff. You do more stuff than most people do any day of their life and you seem to have to balance a lot of different things all at once.
Yeah. It can get overwhelming sometimes, but usually it's okay.
HOW DO YOU DEAL WITH THAT BEING OVERWHELMING?
IT'S ALSO BECAUSE I'M NOT WORKING JUST 40 HOURS A WEEK. YOU KNOW, MOST PEOPLE JUST HAVE LIKE A 35 OR 40 HOUR A WEEK JOB AND THAT'S WHAT THEY GET DONE. BUT BECAUSE I'VE BLENDED ALL MY WORLDS, THERE IS NO TIME THAT I CLOCK IN AND CLOCK OUT. I'M ALWAYS WORKING IN A SENSE- WHICH IS GOOD AND BAD, BUT I JUST SEE IT AS A LIFESTYLE.
Would you consider yourself to be a workaholic?
Yeah, probably.
Do you like that about yourself?
I don't think I like it about myself. But I can't imagine not working all the time. I really love my job. I love what I do. Artists that are drawing 12 hours a day or something, people wouldn't call them a workaholic because they don't see it as work. It's the same for me.
It seems like a large part of your life does revolve around art in your personal practice, in your work practice. Is that something that you were interested in from a young age? I feel like a lot of artists, they have stories about, 'Oh, I watched my mom do this every day, or my dad taught me this practice'. Is that true for you?
Kind of. I wanted to be an archeologist when I was a kid. Up until I was a teenager. I was always really good at art. I was always the best person that can draw in my class. But that was never seen by me as what I wanted to pursue. But then when I was 16, I had a pretty traumatic car accident and it changed the whole trajectory of my life and I ended up pursuing art after that.
Why did it change so much for you?
I think there were a lot of reasons. I was in a coma for a couple of weeks and when I got out, I was in recovery for a few months, so I wasn't in school. Art became the thing that I could do by myself while I was recovering. Then when I did return to school, the friends that I had changed and everything was different. So was my mindset. I did have a brain injury as part of car accidents. Maybe just the chemistry in my brain changed. I don't know. But that's what happened.
Wave Pool has a space for making. You guys have a woodshop?
Yeah, we have a wood shop and then at the Welcome Project we do ceramics classes and the kiln. We keep the throwing wheel and the roller and the kiln over here at Wave Pool. There's a little room that's kind of part of the woodshop. But we do the handling over at Welcome. And then we also have studios. We right now we've got seven studio that are rented out to artists.
Has most of that shut down because of the state of affairs right now?
Yeah. We haven't been able to have our open wood shop hours or woodworking classes. We haven't been able to have our ceramics classes. The studios are still in use. Probably more than ever because artists are off work. I'm looking outside right now and I can see Emil's car and he has been painting nonstop every day for the past two weeks. Artists are being productive, but by themselves.
How else has this craziest affected your life?
I have a five year old daughter and so she is now homeschooled. Thankfully, or maybe not thankfully, my husband who's the exhibitions director at Visionaries and Voices, he also got laid off. So he's been homeschooling her, which is good for me because I still have to work. Then wave pool has been transitioning as many programs as possible to online videos and live streams. The Welcome Project was finally able to open our market and teaching kitchen February 29th. And that's the worst timing because two weeks later, we're not allowed to have our dinners or our cooking classes or all the things that we had planned on doing in that space. So we've transitioned to now doing weekly grocery delivery to elderly and at-risk residents of Camp Washington. So last week we delivered like 60 boxes of groceries to families and we'll be doing the same this Saturday. This is the third week we've done it. That's been a really great way to still connect with our residents. It's not just groceries. We're including artwork in each box. The artists have been so generous about donating drawings and things to go into these boxes, and photographs. It's been just an amazing, heartbreaking, but also really heartwarming project, to see artists and volunteers and residents come together make sure that our most vulnerable are cared for. It's been really beautiful.