CampLife Newsletter

June 25,2025 - Late post

Daddy Daughter Dance: A First

This week is the *Daddy Daughter Dance*—the first of its kind at this camp. It seems I am getting to experience many *firsts* lately.

One of the benefits of Honor Dorm is access to special programs, and this dance is unique because it takes place *after 5 PM*. It’s a rare opportunity to create a memory that Iris will carry forever.

I wrote Iris a poem for our dance:

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Poem: How to Make an Irisbell

(I) for Ice Cream, and we used a lot (*cookies and cream*)

(R) for Roses, because that’s your Granny Kimberly’s favorite flower

(I) for… Ice Cream again (*yes, we really used a lot of cookies and cream*)

(S) for Simpática, because your Abuela wanted you to be really nice

(b) for Beauty, your Uncle L.W.’s secret beauty potion called *Be-You-Ti-Ful*

(E) for Exciting, from your Titi Net and Nea so you’d never be boring

(L) for Love, the idea Mommy and Daddy had when we wanted you

(L) for Lemon. Pepper. Chicken Wings! Something Mommy and Daddy ate a lot of

Iris will get to hear this poem during our dance—a moment I will give my *all* to create a memory she can carry beyond these walls.

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Books Corner

This week, I read quite a few comic books and continued my second journey through the Bible, this time in the King James Version. Up next on deck: *Handmaids Part 2*, *Wind and Truth*, and *Out of My Skull*.

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Devotional: How You Do One Thing Is How You Do Everything

“Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might, for in the realm of the dead, where you are going, there is neither working nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom.” (Ecclesiastes 9:10)

On your comeback journey, leave nothing on the table. Use *all* your gifts. If giving 100% does not get the job done, the portion you held back will not magically complete it tomorrow.

You can’t give God 98% of yourself and expect 100% of the miracle. You won’t get it with the 2% you’re holding onto either—that math simply doesn’t add up*.

I see it often: people who only do part of the work and wonder why they get partial results, leading to frustration and giving up.

Ask yourself: If tomorrow were never coming, would you go all in today?

Go *all in* on your comeback. I am going all in now, which is why I have the opportunity to create a moment with my daughter that will overshadow these circumstances. I have the chance to erase prison from her mind, even if just for an evening.

Xamy and I are going all in on this Daddy Daughter Dance. Because *how you do one thing is how you will do everything*.