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Thinking about the Aaron item above, I feel I should note that the number of Eagles, though impressive obviously, should not be the focus, or so it seems to me. Eagle "is not the goal of Scouting". Note what this veteran says in his discussion with Aaron. He stresses the "boy leader" focus and the concept of let them do it. "Keep your hands in your pockets" and let them run with things. As far as Eagle is concerned, it comes on its own for those youth that truly care to make it happen. And they are likely the strongest of the many. But, all of us that have likely shaken our heads about "paper Eagles", have seen some of those somehow rise from their misguided concepts of importance and become what we hoped at the start, or what we should hope for anyway. Over my many years trying to sit back, but not doing it well too often, I have seen youth never become Eagle, yet they took control anyway, and got it done. It is not the rank, it is the skill and character that should be the goal. Or that is how I have come to feel. -
Today's Aaron on Scouting; https://blog.scoutingmagazine.org/2024/12/23/scouts-bsa-troop-celebrates-1000th-eagle-scout-all-under-the-same-scoutmaster/ https://blog.scoutingmagazine.org/2024/12/23/scouts-bsa-troop-celebrates-1000th-eagle-scout-all-under-the-same-scoutmaster/
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Pick up a copy of the PL Handbook from the 1950s for ideas of Patrol Activities, games, etc... Also a 1940s Fieldbook, it is organized to be basically a manual of patrol activities. These will be a good resource for you if the SPL asks for ideas of "how to..." -
"If Bugling be the food of Scouting, play on ! Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. That Bugle call again! it had a dying fall: O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of camp tents,,, Stealing and giving odour! Enough; no more: 'Tis not so sweet now as it was before. O spirit of Scouting ! how quick and fresh art thou, That, notwithstanding thy capacity Receiveth as the sea, nought enters there, Of what validity and pitch soe'er, But falls into abatement and low price, Even in a minute: so full of shapes is fancy That it alone is high fantastical. "" -
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