Camp Green Lane 100th Summer Blog Post, July 17th

I read an inspiring passage today about how nothing, especially time, is promised. And if you knew your time was limited, what would you do differently this week?

The idea is that in life, you should always play like time’s running out.

Here at camp, summer’s clock is always ticking. Time at CGL is a finite commodity. We never have enough of it.

When you’re young, you think you have all the time in the world.

I’m not sure when, but in the last few years, time has been ticking away like lightning for me. Maybe I’m getting old, and that’s what happens; I definitely don’t remember time flying by so fast when I was young. Summers at camp felt endless and the start of a new school year approached ever so slowly. Not anymore.

The reality is a summer at camp is not a lot of time. I made the mistake of looking at a calendar today. Visiting Day is next week already, and that’s alarming. Because it means there isn’t a lot of summer left. We’ve done a lot already. but there’s still so much more to jam into the next three-plus weeks.

Yikes! Three-plus weeks.

Tonight we’ll come together for Friday night services in the Globe again which is being hosted by the Debs. We’ll reflect on an awesome week, hand out awards for Spirit and Inspection and COWs. We’ll also recognize sportsmanship after yesterday’s amazing Olympics competition. We’ll sing Sunrise and have Bunk Parties.

And we’ll keep on wringing every last moment out of this incredible summer.

Because time flies when you’re having fun.

And right now, it feels like we’re on a rocket ship with no brakes.

—Uncle Evan