If you are a volunteer it is an opioid addiction. Family and friends come first though volunteering in an inner-city school and at the Smithsonian are a high knowing you contribute to others while connecting to those outside your bubble and sparking a few synopses that have sat in the rocking chair. I volunteer teach biological lab science for an NGO to 5th gr inner-city students, Help a paleo biologist write a journal report and prep his 20-Myear amber. I mentor two beekeepers, (beekeeper for 19 years) and run 1/2 hour to an hour 7 days a week. Total milage for the past 47 years adds up to circling this perky little planet 4 + times. I write with lots of changes while enjoying the struggle and learning. My immediate goal is to devise a foldscope protocol for collecting environmental data that can be done by my 5th graders.