Coco Grieshaber, an 8-year-old Camp Mystic alumna, threaded beads into a homemade bracelet at her dining room table, sharing memories of the Texas summer camp that she left four days before flooding devastated the area on Fourth of July weekend.
She chose pink and green beads, while her 11-year-old sister Max, another Camp Mystic alumna who attended the camp in prior years, chose various shades of purple for the bracelets they were selling to raise money for a camp staffer who was impacted by the flood.
A pile of finished bracelets that read “Mystic” were scattered in between them, the word book-ended by beads with crosses or hearts. Outside their home in Fort Worth’s Tanglewood neighborhood, a “Praying for Mystic” yard sign quotes a Bible verse: the book of John, chapter one, verse five…