... Living these moments

Current location: Camp Stonybrook (still)

It still messes me up sometimes that our camp sessions are only 4 days. So campers arrive on Sundays and Wednesdays and leave on Wednesdays and Saturdays... Really messes with my traditionally resident camp brain. None the less, after our closing campfire Tuesday night I was hanging out in the field looking at the amazing stars, watching the last of the summer's fireflies, and talking with my friend Link. Beautiful.

We made an agreement with each other that in the craziness that is summer camp, in the midst of the things that at times threaten to overwhelm us we want to enjoy these last few weeks at Stonybrook. Camp is lots of fun, we laugh a lot, we take ridiculous trips in our golf cart, and we talk about dumb things. We don't sleep much, we eat terribly, and we work hard not to say inappropriate things on the walkies. Camp is lots of laughs, but in our jobs it's not all fun and we have to deal with things we don't love.

Yet as we walk through these weeks... With lots of stress and campers to come we both want to remember to love these days, to laugh, to breathe, to smile.

So our commitment to that was sealed with joining the PA's for a roll down singing hill... Cause in our brains we are still young (but my bum shoulder clearly reminded me I am not!). Yesterday we laughed and sang loudly at campfire, today we tie dyed and drove the golf cart down crazy trails we probably had no business on! Tomorrow we'll... I don't know... But we'll laugh and love and breathe and smile... Cause if we don't have many days left in this magical place we want the ones we do have to count.

This session's inspirational quote says is best... "Sometimes you need to step outside, get some air and remind yourself of who you are and who you want to be."