Amanda's Angle

I actually believe that it takes a certain bit of guts to admit that my job means so much to me. Is the expression, ‘work to live don’t live to work’?! And this is Tahoe after all. People don’t move here for jobs. They move here to play!

During my 40 years on this planet, I’ve had a chance to celebrate Thanksgiving in many ways.  I try to live my life from a place of gratitude and joy.  A place that takes time to express thanks.   But all that seriousness can get tiring and occasionally feels cliché.  So today, on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving 2021, in response to our new marketing campaign that aims to position TDRPD as the best place to work and play(#PlayForALiving) I’m going to take a playful approach to celebrating Thanksgiving with the Recreation and Park District. 

The downfall of playing field sports in a mountain town.   We can’t control the weather and despite our best intentions and first place rankings, we would not be getting anymore practices on grass.  I thought to myself and other coaches- what can we do to save our season?

Victory, victory, ooooh victory!  Now that the stage is set, I want to change it around a bit.  Instead, I’m picturing myself and our TDRPD team cheering away-but we are cheering a different chant to a different audience.  Our audience is the community, the kids and families that call this place home.  Our chant sounds like this: B-U-R-N-O-U-T

Queen Butterfairy’s mother is a fairy.  Her father is a butterfly.  She says that she can fly, but only once a month, and only under special circumstances.  It needs to be during the sunset of a full moon down by the river.  She prefers not to be called by her proper name, Queen, but rather just Butterfairy.  Butterfairy visits Camp Trudaca once a week to bring the kids adventure, wonder and of course fun.