Session 2 – Day 10: The beauty that surrounds us
Hi Herzl Family!
On Thursday mornings we do an all camp sleep-in and push flag to 9:00 (as opposed to 8:15). Of course I’m wide awake at 6:30 because it’s required at my age.
This morning I ventured out of the house around 7:30 to go get some exercise and did a long stroll around camp to breath in the beauty of the north woods and the quiet of camp (except by Tzrifim 1-4 where the Ha’atid boys are up and at ‘em by 7:00/7:30 everyday, because they’re 10 year old boys and if they didn’t get up then they would lose their 10 year old boy membership card) in the morning.
The smell of the white pines is omnipresent (yes, I said omnipresent – and I didn’t google it, I actually have that one stocked in the old noggin) and I hear a symphony of birds, ducks, and (my favorite) the Barred Owl.
This nature nerd really geeks out on mornings like this. We have two Red Headed Woodpeckers that live in a tree right by the MerCaz and just north of there is an eagles nest where the juveniles are just starting to practice their fishing skills with mom keeping close watch over Devils Lake. This is what we get to see every morning…It’s a magnificent site (that sounded very Marlon Perkins…which I’m sure is someone you all don’t know of because my hair is most likely grayer than yours).
I try to point these things out to campers…they avoid me at all costs when they see me starting to point to something…but I’m confident I’m getting through and nothing can stop me!
That’s what your kids are experiencing. They probably don’t even see it. They’ll appreciate it someday or maybe it’s creeping its way in now. I rarely get to give you this kind of description because I’m always talking about the day and the nuances of what happened, but I just wanted you to have a picture of the beauty that we get to live in aside from the beauty of what we live in here at Machaneh Herzl.
More nuances to come, I promise. But know this…
All is well, safely rest.
Thanks for sending your kid to Herzl Camp
לילה טוב
Tommy