What I learned at Lithuanian camp

Change is inevitable

Labas Draugai! (It’s hello friends in Lithuanian):

I’m just wrapping up my last day at camp. There were rainstorms and huge bonfires, an Olympiad (haven’t managed to watch even one event in the actual Olympics) and lots and lots and lots of singing.

As you do when your country freed itself from oppression by singing.

Wanted to show you this incredible art project, though! The empathy teacher had a huge stack of small post-it notes (which autocorrect would like to call “lost it notes” which might be my favorite autocorrect, ever) —she drew a simple colored-in circle on the first one. she gave it to a camper to “copy exactly” on another one - the camper did and she handed the copy to the next camper to “copy exactly”

Here’s the finished project — somehow it made me feel so good to know that you’ll always put your own spin on creative work, even when you’re trying your best to copy — so long as you’re not using tech, humans are, by nature, unique.

I hope you are able to zoom in —the very last one was her own work, copying the one before. And even that one, done by an artist, was not an exact duplicate.

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Spent the whole week creating song parodies and cheers - one in the morning, another in the evening. It’s like boot camp for creatives. No AC. No internet. No cell signal. Pink soup. It’s awesome.

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Random Final Thought:

In case you were wondering:

Also: so so so many mosquitoes. Are there more mosquitoes than usual everywhere or just in Michigan?

PS: my son is stuck in St Louis in transit on a layover to NYC from California and the airline booked him two days later, sent his luggage on before him through Midway—but not him—AND refused to give him a voucher for the 2 nights he is stuck in a STL hotel — this is insanity!

Or wait: this is ridiculous.

(thank you for being a loyal reader!)

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