Archive for July, 2009
Thursday, July 16th, 2009
Value
Why would more parents want to send their children to camp? Why would more youth serving professionals want to join ACA? I believe there are many positive, legtimate responses to those questions. Let me share one that, for me, has surfaced in the past couple of weeks. We are a professional community that contributes to [...]
5 Comments » - Posted in General by Peg Smith
Tuesday, July 7th, 2009
Mistakes can be blessings
I was having an email exchange with an ACA member this week-end about learning and education. It was noted that it was important to find people who had, in fact, made mistakes and had learned from those mistakes because they would already be 3 steps ahead of the beginner. Not a failure but an advantage. We [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in General by Peg Smith
Thursday, July 2nd, 2009
Love Letter To Camp
A Love Letter to Camp,
I have a poster on my wall at work that says, “Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.” Webster indicates that a dream can be defined as a “fond hope”. Many of us spend our life reaching for a vision with the dream it will be realized. Maybe that is [...]
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Wednesday, July 1st, 2009
Discontent but not destitute
I often feel a level of discontent, even on a good day. Then, I question, but am I destitute? Is there a difference? Yes. We can feel discontented about any of the brutal facts or realities of our past and/or what we face today and still not be destitute. We can feel a level of discontent while, at the [...]
