“What you are speaks so loud I can not hear what you say…”
–Ralph Waldo Emerson
At the world’s oldest continuous running summer camp, on Newfound Lake in New Hampshire, there has been a simple, yet powerful ritual observed each week during the summer since 1895. A counselor, ranging in age from 18 to 80, stands before the rest of the camp, underneath a spreading pine tree on a ridge with a panoramic view of the lake–one of the clearest in the nation–and speaks about a value or an approach to life that has been especially close to his heart, why, and how he keeps his eye on what it offers. We will join them to share our own life experiences here…
Meaning Full
For the darkest days of the year and beyond, a modest treatise on the science of hope, faith, and the meaning of our lives, esp. for the young who have become so despairing…
Thanks much to W.E.Kirk Phelps for this image, which shows Tree Talk Ridge as it is today, and to Adam de Boor for the image used as the basis of the title illustration above. Click the pic for more information about Camp Pasquaney…