WHY THE BEAST WHY NOT A Letter of Introduction from Roanoke Cabin
To the esteemed members of the Council HELLO We are April Jo Mal Molly Ripley and Barney and we want to know E-V-E-R-Y-T-H-I-N-G Which is to say we want to know as much about as many things as we can possibly know We want to know not just many things or a lot of things or several things but SO MANY THINGS about SO MANY SUBJECTS Every time we think we’ve hit the edge of what we can learn about we part the trees and there’s just so much more And that is awesome The world is an amazing place with all these amazing things in it and every minute we spend not learning about all that stuff is just kind of a waste Every second we spend not learning about something is like saying something in the universe isn’t worth learning about And that could never be true That’s why being a Lumberjane is the perfect thing Being a Lumberjane is about taking advantage of every Being a Lumberjane is especially amazing because being a More and more that’s what we see when we read the Lumberjanes single second Lumberjane means always wanting to know more Lumberjanes Pledge
I solemnly swear to do my best Every day and in all that I do 1 To be brave and strong To be truthful and compassionate To be interesting and interested 2 To pay attention and question3 The world around me 4 To think of others first To always help and protect my friends And to make the world a better place5 For Lumberjane scouts And for everyone else THEN THERE’S A LINE ABOUT GOD OR WHATEVER Being a Lumberjane is about being the best Lumberjane you can be and part of being the best Lumberjane you can be is connecting with things outside of yourself By looking at it writ ing down the stuff you see and eventually conducting serious interview-type research We did this project with our whole cabin because Lumberjanes Lumberjanes work best when we work together And we included our friend Barney who is technically a part of Zodiac cabin but really these borders are subjective and multifunctional and Barney is super smart when it comes to anthropological and biological study Plus no one knows more about safety than Barney 1 2 3 4 5 Using every second of every day To learn And observe All the stuff What better way to make the world a better place than by understanding more about it 6
We interviewed mermaids learned camp games from Cyclopses and got some solid hair-care tips from yeti plus we uncovered what Bearwoman eats for breakfast And that’s just the start Each section of this paper was prepared by a member of this team following a general theme April Literary Creatures Jo Flying Creatures Mal Creative Creatures Molly Greek Creatures Molly Greek Creatures Barney Creatures to Watch Out For Ripley Cute and Curious Creatures In addition to our individual observations we have all also notated one another’s research because as Ripley says footnotes and sidebars are like sprinkles they make everything better Thank you for your consideration in the matter of this BEAST We hope you enjoy reading this as much as we enjoyed writing it April Signed Mal Molly Jo Ripley and Barney 7
