Sheridan's Avowal
An open and frank declaration
Class
0I can’t really put down a salary… but its interestin! HS grad is half of people? Hmm i would have assumed more.
http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/national/20050515_CLASS_GRAPHIC/index_01.html
Make it big with Youtube
04 years ago
by Sheridan
in Superficial
OKGo made the treadmill youtube video and they made big money.
See how this girl does, first she put this webcam kareoke on youtube
Then she’s in a studio and… ya watch to the end
Esmee Denters.
Oh one more, a bit of john legend (one of my favs)
Cooperate
0I’m living out in a new culture I would say. I was about to get a job in the traditional capitalistic business world when I decided I wanted a new experience. I’m workin at a camp out in the ranchlands of alberta. I’ve been to cowboy trail church and then they had a church here at the ranch just yesterday. And ya, people who come sure look and sound like ranchers. We had a rodeo and there were some funny characters who always were laughin or makin people laugh. But it was different. They were having so much fun but it was not really hurtin anyone.
Nowadays peoples ideas of fun will cut someone down, or perhaps hurt themself later. But this culture isn’t like that. They need to cooperate to have a productive life. Crops or labor might be shared. People will maybe cook meals together because its more efficient that way.
In fact, I think pretty much everything is better when done in community. Why did we drift away from this and start to compete against each other? In the big business world, is it really strictly mano a mano? Or can we still cooperate and better everyone instead of scratching and clawing at people to better ourself.
rules or principles
0I am a pretty strong believer I would say. But I don’t believe in many rules. I feel strongly about principles.
Also with disagreements in principle, I dont think there is much room for debate and a shift in principle I believe is a long process with a lot of internal struggle. Enforcing rules on someone will work with a common foundation. But without that, it just divides people.
A major principle of mine is to love people and encourage the same. This doesnt mean I need to knock on a hundred doors or hand out a thousand pamphlets. Many principles don’t change what i do or don’t do, like a rule would. But they determine how I do things… everything, everyone.
Thats the idea anyway.
social
0How social am i? Well i miss socializing with my friends, but then i also really like quiet time. There are people to socialize with, but sometimes i just like to sit.
I had a black bed sheet over my head and music turned up as i simulated like a cave for an hour or so. It was neat, I came up with a bunch of thoughts which will probably make some new blog thought posts later. Philosophize! Contemplate! These are some things that I like to do. Chatting about who is where and doing what sometimes doesn’t appeal to me, so if I prefer making it all black and isolated I guess that proves my introverted tendancies.
Still, I will never box myself in and just dismiss extroverted social opportunities because I have labelled myself as mostly introvert. Maybe i’m 51% introvert so there’s still tons of opportunities to get out.
So you who read this probably think that you have some descriptors that apply to yourself. They may be true most of the time, but they don’t have to be always true. Bust out and experiment with your own character traits and maybe you will develop new skills. Speaking of which, it might be time to be social again 
Stories
0Ok, well I should probably have some good stories to tell by now? Here’s a mishmash
One lazy evening off we were going to go head to someones house and use their hot tub just to chill. I’m looking out on the patio and I see two guys from the other camp site walk towards me. Wearing dresses. They come in and tell us to get “dressed” and meet them at a hill. I find some tropical dress and a lei and we head down to this hill. We assume the whole team from the other site has driven over to meet us. Nobody at our site has vehicles so they have to come to us. (fine with me) Anyway I snuck around to the other side just to avoid any unfriendly surprises but they were just singing this song about “I like the sunflowers, daffodils something, rolling hills” together with actions. When I snuck out from the other side, they clearly saw me in my bright dress and I looked a bit bizarre coming out from the bushes alone. So we get together and catch up, eat cake and play some fierce ultimate frisbee on this slanted hill with piles of crap everywhere (literal crap, horses come often). Then we danced and had a fake wedding photo. ya…
So Ryan and Sydney are a couple that basically run operations at both campsites. They come and go and are busy with lots of things and help teach us things when we need to learn. They are sorta veterans of camp and all things outdoors and they told us that we’d go on a hike on our day off. We found out that it was going to be a climb. And it was a real climb… a scramble to be specific
We were told it was about 3-6h hike and we probably would be at the 6h end of it. Well there were still big snow patches and we rested abit, all in all it was about 7 or 8h trip. We first walked straight into a thick forest with branches getting snapped across our chest. I was wearing jeans and long sleeved so I just motored through. It was like I was wearing armor! hah branches smanches. Then we get to some trickier terrain with rockier parts and some times to use hands and knees to climb up. I thought I was doin ok, my heart was pumping since we were goin pretty fast. We got pretty close to the top and like almost all rocky mountains, the mountain was just rocks. It was a skree slope that we climbed and it involved digging your feet in and carefully walking up a pile of rocks that were mostly about fist size or bigger. They were jagged but still ended up sliding around under our feet. If we weren’t careful a lot of skree would be loosened and people below would get rock showered. Then we had some serious snow climbs too. Climbing snow is tricky because with a lot of weight, the snow will slide down the mountain sometimes. Anyway, we barely made it to the top, there was a lot of hands and knees and some slips and slides (mostly me in my basketball shoes) WE had lunch at the top, I had a meaty sandwich And I took out the gnome i had carried to the top for some pictures.
On the way down I slid much much more, i had serious slide action and cut my hands and hurt my butt. It could have been much worse because the rocks got sharp and some cliffs were close. But I was safe for the most part. My guardian angel was pretty helpful.
Anyway, check the pictuers in my picasa!
Love the campers
0So I love the campers, some of them are really cool and some are sweet. I get a little bit attached in just a few hours of direct contact.
But on the flip side, what kind of feelings would they have? If it is “love”, why is it usually so distorted? My brother once said that the messed up view of love has increased the amount of homosexual interest because people more and more can only get love from romance and its harder to just have loving friends.
Anyway, zero romance here, but i am trying to love and teach love by example. A clean love, a nice love. The kind that seems so foreign to so many people. That’s because in my experience self-less giving love is often from people who are not citizens of this earth, but citizens of heaven. So in a sense it is foreign.
Why would anyone who just wants to enjoy their own life, bother to love someone else if it didn’t benefit them? If all that we have is the here and now, we better take what we can get, and not give anything unless we get a return. Right? Well what would this world look like? I guess its pretty much what the real world looks like. It’s sad.
… I still need to work on the awkward confusing moments though, its very high emotional stress for the campers i think. And its a bit uneasy for me too.
But I can still be generous in love. . My cup only empties when I pull away or put garbage in there
The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want… he leads me beside still waters, he restores my soul… my cup overflows Surely goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.
Ps23
Poignant Nightmare
0Ok so i had a dream that i was in a discussion about problems with the world. I was struggling to get any word in and then finally I said
People just try to set out to meet their own goals…
And i got cut off and someone said, that’s so true Sheridan, now lets watch this video. It was a video of like waves crashing on the sea for like 10 minutes. I was just getting angrier and angrier because i never made my point so I blurted out
There’s no point if I made no point!!
The rest of my sentence was
People set out to meet their own goals without realizing if the goals are worth meeting. There needs to be some superior direction to guide us so that we pursue the correct objective. I liken it to a game of capture the flag where people run to the other side of the field without knowing what a flag looks like. They can put tons of effort in grabbing some random object and maybe they’ll succeed or maybe they wont. But either way its not the point of the game to retrieve something that isn’t the flag, or to meet a life objective that has no value.
Then I woke up.
Camp week 1
0So I’ve had my first week of being a camp staffer come to an end.
I walked into camp knowing a bit of the camp buildings from being a guest a few times.
But I didn’t know anyone.
I also didn’t really know any of the skills that I needed to teach.
I haven’t really led kids before as the big man at the front.
We’ll see how this goes
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