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"To An Old Camper"

You may think, my dear, when you grow quite old
You have left camp days behind,
But I know the scent of wood smoke
Will always call to mind
Little fires at twilight
And trails you used to find.

You may think someday you have quite grown up,
And feel so worldly wise
But suddenly from out of the past
A vision will arise
Of merry folk with brown bare knees
And laughter in their eyes.

You may live in a house built to your taste
In the nicest part of town
But someday for your old camp togs
You'd change your latest gown
And trade it for a balsam bed
Where stars all night look down.

You may find yourself grow wealthy
Have all that gold can buy.
But you'd toss aside a fortune
For days 'neath an open sky
With sunlight and blue water
And white clouds sailing by.

For once you have been a camper
Then something has come to stay
Deep in your heart forever
Which nothing can take away,
And heaven can only be heaven
With a camp in which to play.

~ By Mary S. Edgar

Get Off Your Buts

"Adventure is a path. Real adventure ~ self-determined, self-motivated, often risky... forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world. The world the way it is, not the way you imagine it. Your body will collide with the earth and you will bear witness. In this way you will be compelled to grapple with the limitless kindness and bottomless cruelty of humankind... and perhaps realize that you yourself are capable of both. This will change you. Nothing will ever again be black-and-white." ~ Mark Jenkins
"The best way out is always through." ~ Robert Frost
"(Panel Member) Doctor Arroway, you come to us with no evidence, no record, no artifacts. Only a story that to put it mildly strains credibility. Over half a trillion dollars was spent, dozens of lives were lost. Are you really going to sit there and tell us we should just take this all... on faith? (Kitz) Please answer the question, doctor. (Ellie Arroway) Is it possible that it didn't happen? Yes. As a scientist, I must concede that, I must volunteer that. (Kitz) Wait a minute, let me get this straight. You admit that you have absolutely no physical evidence to back up your story. (Ellie Arroway) Yes. (Kitz) You admit that you very well may have hallucinated this whole thing. (Ellie Arroway) Yes. (Kitz) You admit that if you were in our position, you would respond with exactly the same degree of incredulity and skepticism! (Ellie Arroway) Yes! (Kitz) Then why don't you simply withdraw your testimony, and concede that this "journey to the center of the galaxy," in fact, never took place! (Ellie Arroway) Because I can't. I... had an experience... I can't prove it, I can't even explain it, but everything that I know as a human being, everything that I am tells me that it was real! I was given something wonderful, something that changed me forever... A vision... of the universe, that tells us, undeniably, how tiny, and insignificant and how... rare, and precious we all are! A vision that tells us that we belong to something that is greater then ourselves, that we are *not*, that none of us are alone! I wish... I... could share that... I wish, that everyone, if only for one... moment, could feel... that awe, and humility, and hope. But... That continues to be my wish." ~ "Contact", Dr. Ellie Arroway's Testimony
" As Harold took a bite of Bavarian sugar cookie, he finally felt as if everything was going to be ok. Sometimes, when we lose ourselves in fear and despair, in routine and constancy, in hopelessness and tragedy, we can thank God for Bavarian sugar cookies. And, fortunately, when there aren't any cookies, we can still find reassurance in a familiar hand on our skin, or a kind and loving gesture, or subtle encouragement, or a loving embrace, or an offer of comfort, not to mention hospital gurneys and nose plugs, an uneaten Danish, soft-spoken secrets, and Fender Stratocasters, and maybe the occasional piece of fiction. And we must remember that all these things, the nuances, the anomalies, the subtleties, which we assume only accessorize our days, are effective for a much larger and nobler cause. They are here to save our lives. I know the idea seems strange, but I also know that it just so happens to be true. And, so it was, a wristwatch saved Harold Crick." ~ Stranger Than Fiction
"The greatest thing you'll ever learn, is just to love and be loved in return." ~ A Poet, Moulin Rouge
"My hands are shaking from carrying this torch, from carrying this torch for you." ~ Sondre Lerche
"Well behaved women rarely make history." ~ Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
"Sister, when you get, give. When you learn, teach." ~ Dr. Maya Angelou
"All you need is Love." ~ John Lennon
"It's much better to be a living thing with feelings and stuff, even if you get hurt. Because it's better than being a rock, when all you do is lay around and let ants crawl on you and poke you in the eye." ~ My Niece (7yrs) Maggie
"It is the work of humans to seek answers. It is the work of artists to remind others of the beauty of wonder, the magic of doubt." ~ Sarah Callender
"When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That is my religion." ~ Abraham Lincoln
"You must do the thing you think you cannot do." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
"Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
"We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about." ~ Charles Kingsley
"Don't thank me. Thank God for sending me." ~ Fred Stokes
"Mistakes are the portals of discovery." ~ James Joyce
"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy." ~ Shakespeare's, 'Hamlet'
"Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do." ~ Don Gater

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