Wolf Meadow John Stewart, of Kingston Trio fame, wrote a song entitled “July, You’re a Woman” that evokes the essence of the month of July, when the trees and shrubs are leafed out and full, the heat has settled in for the duration, and the cicadas and locusts sing night and day. This summer we…
Rancher Camp
Tuesday and today the Ranchers have been training the incoming counseling staff for Ranch Camp. They do this by being “Campers” for two days, and they take their job very seriously. We do, too, even paying them their regular wage to do it. Everything happens that will happen at regular camp in order to give the…
A Berry Bountiful Harvest
Berry season is upon us! Jerry and I picked blackberries Monday evening and I came home and gobbled mine up right away with sugar and cream. Last night (Thursday) he banged around in the kitchen for about 3 hours with 12 open cookbooks making a pie. After all his labor he declared it unfit to…
Going to Hell in a Wheelbarrow
“The world is going to hell in a wheelbarrow, and this is not going to do retarded people any good.” Dr. Wolf Wolfensberger, Mental Retardation, February 1994. I was skimming the current (April 2010) issue of Intellectual and Development al Disabilities: A Journal of Policy, Practices, and Perspectives, the official publication of the American Association on…