Lucy Rodes

My name is Lucy Rodes. I am in XLab in One Stone’s Lab51, I live on a ranch, I love animals and nature, and I really enjoy doing hands-on activities. All my life I grew up going backpacking and in one of my houses when I was little, there was a bunch of room to explore in the backyard. So being in nature feels like I’m home- it’s my happy place. Doing good to me means that you strive to be the person who you always see helping people, the person who you always think is the kindest person. It means to be the change that you want to see in the world. I decided to showcase a picture of me doing water quality testing with different reflections I completed during the Land+Scape+Water+Color immersion in Lab51 as my artifact because I think it really describes who I am. My reflection excerpts showed how much I learned and how much I grew individually throughout that immersion. What breaks my heart is when people treat wildlife and plants differently based on where they are located or just treat them badly all around. I love hands-on activities, nature, wildlife biology, and so many other things. Doing water quality testing for my immersion was a risk. I knew nothing about it and had to do so much work and ask so many questions to even be able to take a single sample. But throughout that experience, I realized that I really did enjoy learning something new and that I wasn’t just passionate about life on land. I believe that this artifact will inspire others to try something new, to do Good because it almost always has a positive outcome and can help you realize so much about yourself and the world around you.