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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">That is awesome! Would love to hear their stories as well.</div><div><br></div>
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On Sunday, 7 July 2024 at 07:01:08 am GMT+8, Jo Nelson via Dialogue <dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
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<div><div dir="ltr">I just realized this week that exactly 50 years ago, Wayne and I were leading the Rite of Passage Journey with 35 6th graders from staff families, 5th City colleagues, and guardian families. <br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">We spent most of the trip camping in the North Woods of Minnesota. Steve Harrington and his wife were also with us. Being organized in teams was really important to have success with such a large group. <br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Among other activities, we led the kids on a week-long backpacking trip, where they carried all their gear, and we finished the whole journey with what I think was the first overnight solitary vigil for kids on those trips. There was also an awesome night with incredible northern lights that lasted for hours. (We didn’t make that cosmic event happen! But we did shift plans so that everyone stayed up together in awe most of the night in a meadow.)<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Those “kids” are now about 62 years old! <br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">I’d love to hear stories of anyone who experienced it and is still around. <br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Take care,<br></div><div dir="ltr">Jo <br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">From the mobile desk of<br></div><div dir="ltr">Jo Nelson <br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">_______________________________________________<br></div><div dir="ltr">Dialogue mailing list<br></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="mailto:Dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net</a><br></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/dialogue-wedgeblade.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/dialogue-wedgeblade.net</a><br></div></div>
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