…But to act, that each to-morrow
Find us farther than to-day.”
-Longfellow, A Psalm of Life
To take a step back and begin to fill in the gaps: Canada
Immediately after turning in my apartment keys, attending a wedding, and driving across the state: it was time to go to Canada.
For a week I was helping out with a summer camp run by the local Catholic community. It was good. There were cabins, and bonfires, music, and even a bit of stranger-danger involving me in a mask and a bowl of candy.
Everything that week can be summed up thus:
“I was sad, because I had no shoes. Until I met a man that had no feet. So, I took his shoes, ‘cause hey, he wasn’t using them!”
— Jack Handy
That is to say that we all have something to contribute, especially when we take a critical look at out lives and realize what we can spare. A lot of people gave an awful lot for that week.
Most of the people up at this camp I knew. It is always great to be able to go and visit them, and especially to contribute something to their community. It’s strange, the first time I went up, it was a favor to a friend who was short-handed with his team. But over the last couple of years, I have built up a good and ongoing relationship with them. It’s funny the places that life leads you and the people that become close to you, all because you’re not afraid to walk out the front door.
"But now at length I have the happiness to know that it is a rising and not a setting Sun.” -Benjamin Franklin
