Yesterday a group of us walked off campus for lunch. As we were walking down the hill to the gate, one of us shared that "Amazing Grace" can be sung to the tune of "Oh Little Town of Bethlehem." He sang the first line to demonstrate: "Amazing Grace, How Sweet the Sound." We continued to sing the rest.
I said, "It's like Christmas caroling, only different." A man walking in front of us said, "You guys sounded great to me. I can barely manage to walk to my car in this heat, much less sing."
It made me wonder how various groups might respond to a Christmas Caroling in July kind of event. Would patients like it or would we confuse them? I had a vision of Christmas cookies and decorations, but that might be because I love Christmas. I don't want to make extra work for people.
I'm thinking of Christmas in July week at camp, specifically at Lutheridge. It's one of the more popular weeks. If I was choosing a camp week, that would be the one I would choose. Even when I was a kid, I would have chosen it. The only thing that might have been more appealing would be a Left Alone to Read camp week, which as far as I know, doesn't exist. Why go to summer camp to read?
Those of us who love to read know why. You could ask the same thing about Christmas at camp, too, of course. Why Christmas or reading when you could be hiking or canoeing?
It's a larger question that some of us keep coming back to--what is the purpose of camp? There are many answers, and we don't have to choose just one.
In fact, for future viability, it might be important to choose them all.
1 comment:
This is probably not a surprising comment. I did not like camp at all. I would have loved a "left alone to read" camp.
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