Transitions

Today's the day when most of the Silver Lake 2012 Summer Staff heads home.  It's been a wild ride, and the past couple of days have got me thinking a lot about transitions.  My friends who are leaving camp right now are all going through their own transitions-- getting ready to start the school year, starting a brand new teaching job (yay Megan!), or just going back to their outside-of-camp lives.  No matter how many times you go through transitions in your life, they are never easy.  They're always accompanied by anxiety, anticipation, and uncertainty. 

I haven't put too much thought into this next transition that I'm about to embark on.  I've been busy all summer supervising a group of crazy 16 and 17 year olds as they learned to live in community and worked harder than they ever had before.  Now I'm trying to enjoy my last few days here at Silver Lake, a place that has given me more gifts and growth experiences than I can even begin to explain.

This was a difficult time for me before I left for Honduras-- having to say goodbye to everyone.  Last summer I got my James Taylor Tanglewood Concert/Cryfest with all of my close friends.  This year I first have to say goodbye to all of the people I've grown so close to over the past 9 weeks at camp.  Then I have go head home, start thinking about packing (because I haven't been thinking about it at all yet), and say goodbye to everyone else.  Oh, transitions.

Transitions suck.  There we go, I said it.  But without them we'd always be stuck in one place, and what's the fun in that?