If Rev. Robin Hoover of Humane Borders is the "irreverent reverend", as I've suggested in other places, Sue Ann Goodman, his wife, is the "undercover mother"--relaxed, approachable and smiling.
My first impression of Sue was violet. Sue was violet. She was wearing a solid purple shirt when I, as per my usual m.o., barged my way into her office. She graciously offered me a seat, spoke with me for a few minutes about my project, and allowed me to invite myself into a visiting group's water run and trash pickup in the following days.
In a H.B. meeting later that week, Robin referred to his wife as "lavendar" for her like-colored shirt.
I'm inclined to think of Sue as an extremely patient woman, if not only for sparing moments for nomadic cyclists and allowing for self-references by hue.
In this way, I suppose that you can think of Sue as the beautiful desert flower, lavendar, to her husband's at-times prickly cactus.
Sue does a lot of the behind-the-scenes work to keep the organization running.
Sue is a nine-to-fiver, seven days a week. When Robin is away, she becomes the voice of H.B, and she leads a lot of groups even when he's in town.
This clip is of her explaining to the Michigan group why they're out in the middle of nowhere, what they're supposed to do in the middle of nowhere and how far they can go in the middle of nowhere.
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