PRICELESS VALUE
It was a veteran group of summer camp counselors at MICHI-LU-CA that year who decided to create a different kind of ‘super-vesper’ for the fourth-sixth grade week. (A ‘super-vesper’ was the final night’s program involving each cabin’s presentation around a theme.) And so the scene was set: a letter arrived from my friend Doug, he was frustrated with people and society and was going to run away from it all. I slammed the letter down, catching everyone’s attention; and as the other counselors consoled me, it was determined that when Doug stopped in to see me on Friday evening (before he “ran away from it all”), each cabin would do something to convince him to not give up on the world. It was the next day when my group of nine year olds headed down to the beach that it happened. One of the boys picked up an interesting stone and said, “I wonder what this stone is worth?”. The six other…
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