We are thrilled to have this triumvirate in place.
Next month we will announce the Program Staff! 

Hello BDC Family and Friends,

GIFTS??? It's March!

During this long month of moving towards Spring in a 'come here, go away' repeat fashion, I am pondering the notion of GIFTS. Spring is a true GIFT here in New England. Especially, after last month's Polar Vortex - a special new 'GIFT' that we experienced this winter! We didn't have to travel to the Arctic to feel it's cold... It came to us!

Like the Polar Vortex, GIFTS very often come in funny packages that look strangely like obstacles in our path. Sometimes we don't see these things as GIFTS at all.  Rather, we experience them as annoyances, failures, or even crippling losses. This eWAVES is dedicated to the idea of seeing every package as a GIFT, even if it comes oddly wrapped, and appears in the form of a challenge we would ordinarily never pursue or accept.  

When I change the lenses through which I look, I find that what was once a challenge, becomes an opportunity. As Winston Churchill said, "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."

With hard work and the support of a loving community, I find that every opportunity presents itself as a GIFT which then reveals a chance to learn, to grow, and to help me become something more than I was. This choice to view circumstances in a positive light, embracing opportunity, and growing from that experience, is a great GIFT of being human!

'Growing human beings' is the real business of camp. At BDC, we each practice looking through the lens of optimism as often as we can so that we are better able to unwrap the GIFTS around us. Come join us this summer and see the GIFT of BDC in action!