(via Mike Lynch Cartoons: Girl Scouts Of America Activity Booklet: “It’s Fun To Design” By Kathleen

me, to the kids i worked with last week: welcome to medieval camp everyone! can anyone think of any fun medieval activities we might do here at camp this week?

kid: well, they used to do this thing where they would take your body and make it into four pieces and i think it was called quartering.

me: that’s called torture! we will not in fact be participating in torture this week! …anyone else?

I love Girl Scout Camp because young girls are quite random; at Camp they really let loose and it leads to moments like this from a 7 ish year old:

*world’s most concerning gasp* “I’ve done the unthinkable!!”

Reader, she had simply threaded a pony bead onto a piece of elastic cord- the gasp caused my heart to skip a beat…

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900 favorite vintage postcards, mostly weird.

There were some young kids playing at the park today. One of them said “Liar liar pants on fire!” The other one replied “I don’t even care about that. I don’t even believe in that.”

so ummm welcome to my jar:) lemme show you around! theres some holes poked in the top so i can breathe, theres some leaves to munch on, and ive even got a twig! #mytwig

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i love name-dropping people from camp with absolute no context to people not from camp. like just casually mention my good friend [greek goddess], and you can’t forget our coworker [name-brand cookie]. and of course, there’s [marsupial], who keeps texting me the most out-of-pocket life updates that mildly concern me… what are you talking about those are their names, completely normal names for a coworker

Kindred spirits (lovers of all things Girl Scouts, particularly those which are vintage), I present to you my latest project:

Adding vintage badges to my ‘24 staff hoodie!

Each badge represents one week of my summer season, whether it be a lesson I learned or a reference to something that happened. I think I like the arrangement (all on the left sleeve) but I may change it… who knows! These are all from the 60’s!

Example- my third week is represented by the Campfire Cooking badge, because we had a (quite large) grease fire during cookout… not our finest moments but we survived!

“The whole point of Camp is to dethrone the serious. Camp is playful, anti-serious. More precisely, Camp involves a new, more complex relation to “the serious.” One can be serious about the frivolous, frivolous about the serious”

— Susan Sontag, Notes on Camp