Breathe Journey

We invite Cadettes to join us on our Breathe Journey this summer!  We've had fun getting it started, and now we're looking for girl input on June 17th, to fill in the days. There's already a field trip planned out to the Wind Turbine Farm in Palm Springs, and we'll have one meeting at Cal State Fullerton in a classroom and at the Arboretum.  We've done other long terms planning to get all our approvals and adults lined up, but we're truly hoping for girl input, too.

If you are interested in helping, we welcome the help!  Just let us know what you want to do, and when you can do it, and we'll see how we can make it work. 

You can reply on this blog OR to my aacrane96@gmail.com account.  We'll also be checking the website for comments as well.  It's still under construction, but you should be able to get to the pages we have posted.

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!