Summertime

I was back to full time at Camp Grier for my fourth summer.  A summer full of fun and kids, outdoors and bugs.  I got to go down the Tuckaseegee many times. Out rock climbing in NC and KY. Hiking on the Blue Ridge Parkway and the Mountains to Sea Trail to vistas and waterfalls.

8 weeks of camp, 2 weeks of staff training. about 30 staff and maybe 600 campers. What fun!

The theme for this summer was Going Solo, Better Together.

the opening page of the journal put it this way:

We humans are independent creatures. We often want to do it all on our own. We get frustrated when we can't. This week we will look at some people who wanted to do it on their own, but could only do it with the help of others, and some people who were all alone and knew they needed help. We will try to recognize that together we are stronger and can do so much more.

Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.

~Helen Keller