Make a brand new ending

"Though no one can go back
and make a brand new start,
anyone can start from now
and make a brand new ending."
- Marcus Aurelius

I woke up this morning thinking about he Silver Award. (And gardening after the rain, but that's a different blog, somewhere.)  Then I saw this quote when I opened my emails.

We really are asking our Silver Award girls to make a brand new ending.  We're asking them to identify an issue that they care about in their community, and to do something about it!  

The identifying is a critical thinking step that is really important, and one that many of the girls haven't had the practice doing.  It's not just coming up with the solution, but diving in deeper, to look into the issue and find the root cause.  And as we all know, no one can go back and fix where something first went wrong, but our girls can start now, and figure out how to make a change.

They are not only using the three keys to Discover the issue, Connect with how they can Take Action to make the world a better place, but they are also working from within.  The girl has the opportunity to learn something about herself:  to discover what's important to her, and why she needs to connect and why she needs to make a brand new ending.

And along the way, she'll be using skills she's honed since Daisys: to be a girl leader, to learn what she's doing as she does it and to work cooperatively with others. As the Silver Award leader, she will certainly use her leadership skills to lead the group to complete the project.

...and make a brand new ending.  Hail Caesar!