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Some of you may have heard of such slogans as “Have an attitude of gratitude” or the suggestion to “Make a gratitude list” when you are down in the dumps.  With all the exhausting work of preparing for winter, harvesting firewood, preserving food, tying up loose ends from the summer, and trying to figure out […]

My son Kwan once said to me something like this:  What’s the point of life?  You go to school for years;  Then you go to college so you can get a job;  Then you work and pay bills.  He was 18 at the time.  The question both scared me and made me hesitate – you […]

I started my work at summer camps at the age of 14.  My very first part-time summer job was scrubbing pots at a girls private camp up the road from my home.  Although I didn’t ever get to work with the children, just hanging out in the kitchen with the other young women staff gave […]

On December 26th each year for the past 20 plus years, I ask this question at my family gathering.  “What’s the news?”  We ask this question in Swahili every day for 7 days beginning on the first day of Kwanzaa, a celebration of African American History.  I have been asked quite often, why I celebrate […]

There are a few things in life that will always be good omens for me!  One is a rainbow.  On Mother’s day after a brief downpour this perfect rainbow appeared.  From the porch of my cabin on top of Hammond Hill I was able to see a complete rainbow over Camp Earth Connection below.  The […]

April 5, 2015 “Memoirs and Visions” The Summer of 2014 This was the first summer in about 30 years that I did not work at some type of children’s camp program.  I considered this summer my sabbatical.  It was time to think about the future of Camp Earth Connection, and the direction I would take […]

After a wonderful weekend at the Healing Hearts Winter Day Retreat for Women, I spent time contemplating the magic that often occurs at Healing Hearts and other Camp Earth Connection (CEC) programs.  A Magical feeling happens, when people open up, share from the heart and make connections.  Yesterday I listened to Thich Nhat Hanh  and heard […]