“Be Prepared.”
It doesn’t mean carrying everything you own in your car in the event that you need a case of expired soda on hand or might want to play football in the 7-11 parking lot. It doesn’t mean carrying survival gear on the bus like you’re going into the bush. It doesn’t mean that your iPhone will save you when you get lost and try talking to it, or even giving it kisses via the touch screen.
In case you were wondering.
There was a gateway competition at camp this past weekend, and the boys wanted to do “The Raven.” The rules stipulated that the gateway was to be made at camp, out of “natural materials”, by hand. No bust of Pallas, then. But the boys found this bust in a closet and thought it would work well with the bamboo they lashed together. We found a robin in a store’s garden section and painted it black for the raven itself. Hunting decoys were too expensive. The “raven” was fixed by lashing a pole behind The Chief and then around the bird.
