Sometimes I get writer’s block. I sat in front of the
computer last week and artfully spent a couple hours to write the title and first sentence of several
blog posts-to-be (keep checking back though, since I still want to write about
them!). But, as I was stumbling around the @BalconesSprings Twitter this
morning, there were several—significantly more than normal—tweets and
conversations between camp folks sharing memories of Camp, joking around, and
just saying how much they miss and love each other:
From
@Jillyanne: @beccabeccag @ladykrell @Annabellegwine can we just time
travel back? #Chickeninabiscuit
From @sydneymaeh: @annabellegwine Oh heavens you are precious! A week ago, I mayyy
have been telling people it was Meow Monday…love
you!
From @Jocelynamg: RT @annalynncarroll She knows in her quiet center where God dwells
that he finds her beautiful, has deemed her worthy, and in him, she is enough.-
Stasi Elridge. Love that and love you!!
And those are just a handful from this morning!
But it was Robyn Hammond’s tweet this morning that inspired
me out of writer’s block. It was encouraging Aggies on campus today to come
check out being a camp counselor at CBS while Todd, Martin, and Adrienne were set up at Koldus, but
she ended it with the Hashtag that summed up my feelings from this morning:
I’ve tried to resist using twitter-speak to describe real
life, but it just fits so perfectly. #CampLove is different from #NormalLove
because it encompasses so much more. It conjures up feelings of sitting on the
B-Compound (or D-Compound) porch, talking and laughing with your best friends.
It reminds you of how you feel on the first day when your crazy counselor, who
you didn’t even know then, tackles you when you get off of the bus with a huge
smile and welcomes you to camp. It prompts your memory of when you split a
whole flowerpot of “dirt” with one other person at Women’s dinner. That is
#CampLove!
It may be October, it's finally raining here at camp(!),
and school has started for many of you, but take a study break this week to
look at pictures from camp, or call a CBS friend, or go on the Camp BalconesSprings facebook, or yell a “Five Bullets” everytime the Rangers score a Home
Run—but be sure to tell someone that you #CampLove them!
As part of CBS’s fall recruiting and traveling schedule, Adrienne,
Todd, and Martin have been visiting campers in Houston and counselors at Texas A&M
the past few days with plans to see more of you all in the coming weeks! Checkout our website for more updates on when we will be near you!
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