~The Long Exhale~

I sit now on a lovely Sunday, quiet here at the farm.  Yesterday parents and family members came from all around to reunite with their campers.  They have all left, and we are now exhaling back into ourselves.

The past two weeks have been incredible.  So full of challenge and growth; so many things to improve on, and so many things done well.  To be with children and youth in this way gives such clear and immediate reflection of one's own fears, self-imposed limitations, and contradictions.

I could write a long time on the particulars of things done well and things at which to get better, but at the moment I don't feel like writing too much.  Maybe its all part of the long exhale...coming out of a space of intense and near-constant extroversion...needing time to rest and digest this fierce grace.

I will instead offer these photos taken over our camp time to give a summation of all the unique and diverse energies that came together.  Oh, also I turned 28 today.  I am remembering myself...

in great gratitude,

Eka