The Timelessness of Canoe Trip
Below is a morning meditation that was given by Maddie Harper this past summer on the sense of timelessness you experience on canoe trip. “At camp time always seems to fly by. No matter how many summers you’ve spent here at Wapomeo it always feels like you’ve never left. Time is a strange concept. We […]
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Sharpening Your Axe
Below is a morning meditaion that our Ahmek Director, Greg Albisser, gave this past summer on the importance of taking time to recharge ourselves or “sharpen our axes”. The first part of the meditation is a passge from Stephen Covey’s book “7 Habits of Highly Successful People”, the second half of the meditation was Greg’s […]
Friendship
Every Sunday morning at Wapomeo a section of campers leads the camp in Chapel. Chapel is a time for Wapomeo campers and staff to take a break from their daily routine and reflect on an important aspect of camp life. Below is a Chapel that our Kiowa campers (aged 7 – 9) led on what […]
A Teacher’s Life Lessons Using a Mason Jar and Golf Balls
Below is a morning meditation that was given this past summer at Wapomeo by Alexa Kruyt, our Tuscie Section Director. “Today I’m going to share with you a short story that was once told to me, which explains the importance of priorities. As we are nearing the end of the first two weeks of camp, […]
Changing Perspective & Living Together
Below is a morning meditation that was given by Ahmek Director, Greg Alibisser, this past summer. Once an unhappy young man came to an old master and told that he had a very sad life and asked for a solution. The old Master instructed the […]
The Opposite of Loneliness
Below is a piece that Becca Hastings read this summer for a morning meditation at Wapomeo. The Opposite of Loneliness: We don’t have a word for the opposite of loneliness, but if we did, I could say that’s what I want in life. What I’m grateful and thankful to have found at Yale, and what […]
Silver Days
In honour of the rainy day we are having in Toronto, below is the original “Silver Days” morning meditation given by Taylor Statten I on July 18, 1949. “This is a silver day. It is the sort of day that we were looking for in Florida last winter. In the southern part of Florida, from […]
Camp Friendships
Making friends is one of the most valuable factors of our camp life. Every summer campers meet people whom they never cease to like. Wherever we go we see evidence of this. In schools and colleges throughout the country, it is the usual rather than the exceptional thing to see two or more people who […]
Monday Meditation – Carrots, Eggs, Coffee and Adversity
#MondayMeditation, “Carrots, Eggs, Coffee and Adversity” a morning meditation that our Director Greg Albisser gave this past August. A young woman went to her mother and told her about her life and how things were so hard for her. She did not know how she was going to make it and wanted to give up. […]