Retro Friday: Old Cabins
Posted by phil
Our Cabins here at Camp Ridgecrest have made quite a bit of progress over the years. There have been a number of renovations including: adding new roofs and higher walls, painting the cabins different colors, adding sky lights, adding block stilts rather than wood, adding small platforms outside the door, adding a small deck to that platform, and now adding a covered porch. It’s neat to watch the transformation over the years! What do you remember?
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As with all things, over passage of time,
so will transform the types of the cabins.
In my era, there was aura begiven by cabins.
Aroma from oldness of wood
of names painted on walls and on ceilings
in continuance of traditions.
It was there that we slept,
and we talked and we played and we prayed
under the aegis of ceilings with names
of those that we knew or knew not
still tumbled tradition.
But cabins, at their simple, are just physical,
though they have the potential to spiritual,
as into their wood that they absorb the aromas
of the rollick and snores of the boys.
I give my entrustment
to construction new cabins
that will carry the torch
to a new crop of men.
Sat beneath cabin,
in perusal of pillars
composed just of log
yet so support the cabin,
Marveled of simple
as splinters of log
but yet strength of support.
Post firmly planted
deep into earth
by former a workman.
It is good to have sat in dirt
afforded us under our cabins
appraisal of logs served as support
but yet, touch of the splinters
So carry we now
lessons of logs served as pillars
but also of splinters.