In writing my last post of daily activities at  CYM in Camrose this year, I note that I am exactly one week behind in finishing.  I had thought I’d be able to finish up every day…not so. I’ll remember that for next year and be a little more patient with myself.

The last day, I rose early and drove Katrina McQuail, the Youth Secretary to the airport.  It was a great early morning time to catch up and debrief the week.  Though Katrina and I have come to work closely and joyfully together over the year, our time at CYM was often spent on our individual programs, finding only moments of time to connect during the week.

This post will be mostly a collection of ‘things I might have missed’, and again I’m so grateful to Bruce Dienes for being so faithful and ‘everywhere’ with his camera.

Meeting for Worship with Attention to Business

…and these words from one of the late night singing sessions (thanks again to Bruce)

What Shall We Do With A Business Meeting?
(To the tune of “What Shall We Do With A Drunken Sailor”)

Opening verse (different ending than all the others):

What Shall We Do With A Business Meeting? (3x)
Early in the morning.

Chorus (sing after each verse):

Hot air, up she rises (3x)
In the business meeting.

Verses:

Center down and find consensus (3x)
In the business meeting.

Help the clerk, don’t speak too often (3x)
In the business meeting.

Make another long amendment (3x)
In the business meeting.

Refer it to a subcommittee (3x)
In the business meeting.

Take a break for tea and biscuits (3x)
In the business meeting.

Move the comma one word over (3x)
In the business meeting.

Take an hour to write a minute (3x)
In the business meeting.

Lay it over ’till tomorrow (3x)
In the business meeting.

Hush now, Friends – it’s closing Silence (3x)
In the business meeting.

Evening Singing

Youth Program – the 7 – 11 group created a composite Friend – wrapping packing tape inside out around individual body parts, each one contributing a ‘part’

Bookstore

As Friends leave, we think of them connecting again with their work ‘back home’, and reconnecting too with family and f/Friends in their home communities
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Elaine Bishop, Clerk of Programme Committee goes back to her work with the North Point Douglas Women’s Resource Centre	Vince Zelazny and Martha McClure return to Fredericton, NB…perhaps grateful for the SKYPE capacity we now have while at CYM to stay connected
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