Towering Pines Blog

With the holidays upon us, I can think back to a time when there was a designated kid’s table for our family gatherings. I often sat at a separate, usually smaller, table with my younger siblings and cousins. We laughed. We joked. We cut up. We hung spoons from our noses. We liked having space between us and them (the adults). At some point, I graduated to the “grown up’s” table and thought that I had arrived. It was some […]

When you are kind to others, it not only changes you, it changes the world. -Harold Kushner With the holiday season upon us, it seems like a perfect time to reinforce the importance of choosing “kindness” as a way to help bring peace and harmony to our world.  This year in particular has brought many unique challenges to all of us that has tested our resolve in almost every area of life.  Layers of complexity have been added to completing […]

It goes without saying that you have seen your share of political ads over the past several weeks and months. More than likely, these ads are telling you something about the choices you should make on November 3rd.  So, instead of advising you who to vote for, we would like to give you a better choice this year. We want you to CHOOSE CAMP! Here at Camp Towering Pines, we actually care about the thing that most politicians only pretend […]

Every TP man who has ventured across the lake in a canoe has heard a ghost story or two. Towering pines is host to all manner of mythical creatures, ranging from the real to the improbable. I myself have seen Moses, the giant snapper of Turtle Bay, with my own eyes. Other beasts sound like the stuff of legends: Water Panthers, Hodags, and even rumors of Velociraptors have come echoing through the woods. When you look at each of these […]

(Written by Kim Aycock) In a blog I read recently by Growing Leaders (excerpts are italicized below), Dr. Tim Elmore talks about how parenting, teaching, and coaching are different today, not because kids are different but because the culture is different. We are raising them in a society where Siri and Alexa offer quick answers, creating eight-second attention spans and expectations that solutions should be instantaneous and that life should be entertaining. It’s not our kids’ fault, but it is […]