Yesterday I moved into the little cabin I'll share with the rest of the administrative staff at Camp Stonybrook, near Waynesville, OH. Crazy.
It's weird to me that 2 weeks ago I had NO plans to spend this summer at camp, a month ago i had no plans to even be in Ohio, and now I find myself here... Getting ready to spend a summer with kids, staff, and leaders doing all the typical camp stuff... And its a completely different world than I imagined I'd be living in.
It'll be different... I still miss that other summer... The one that I had planned of hiking and chillin out west (and the one that had me hiking big mountains last year). But it'll be good too. I'm trying to take the days as they come and I remember a bit more every day how very much I love camp and how important it was to me becoming who I am.
So I find myself here... Sitting in my slightly smelly camp office, looking at a pile of papers that I need to go through, trying to figure out all I need to do to supervise a staff I've never met, and thinking about the ice cream the cook left for us in the kitchen... And it's not at all where I thought I would be. Yet I'm learning to dwell in the now, to dream of the future, and to smile and laugh a whole lot every day.
'Cause life is beautiful... Even when it surprises you!!
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