This document printed from the University
of Illinois Extension Tent Poles at http://www.extension.uiuc.edu/macon/
Time on Your Hands?
June 18, 2003
Rexlyn Nicole
Community and Economic Development Program Coordinator
Macon County Unit 2535 Millikin Parkway
Decatur, IL 62526
Phone: 217-877-6042
FAX: 217-877-4564 rxnicole@uiuc.edu
So you are not working this summer and you have some time on your hands. What are you going to do? Why not start a project that does not require a lot of money, but that can bring great results?! Work on you. Work on getting into shape, work on loosing weight, work on standing straighter, getting some sun, playing with your kids or grandkids, work on the yard, work on fixing that door that you keep promising to get to, but work on SOMETHING. Your house is in good condition...then work on your neighbor's, your mother-in-law's. Go somewhere and do something but do not sit around and let things fall down around your ears...including your family life...so get up get busy and get going, to Work!
If you look at life as a tent, do you know the importance of tent poles? When putting up the tent, the tent poles are hard to deal with, they are cumbersome and yet without them, there is no tent. The tent poles are there for support. They are the backbone of the tent. They are the foundation of the cover against the storm while camping. Tent poles are in your every day life as well. They are there propping you up when times are tough. Do you know who and what your tent poles are?
