I’ve just got back home from Camp Koinonia, where I spent the weekend at a winter retreat with about thirty kids and a bunch of good friends. We played games in the snow, studied the Bible, and sang songs at the top of our lungs. Everything was beautiful—though I was only gone for about 48 hours, my mind has been re-oriented and I’m ready to back to the real world with a renewed vigor. Camp is one of the greatest things ever.
Here’s the counseling staff from this summer’s Elementary Camp, a.k.a. “the best week of the year”. The summer’s over! But I sure have done some nice things these past few months.
I haven’t tumblred in quite a while! This is partially because I didn’t want to disturb the Meryl Streep photograph at the top of my website. But also because it’s been a crazy past few weeks. First, I counseled for a week at church camp in Geneva, Ohio. I have included a photo of me with actual children as photographic evidence of this. If you look closely, you can see the smoke from a campfire behind me. Camp was superlative. If possible, I will tell you more about it later.
Upon my return home, I found my house with no electricity. We spent a whole week without power! It was too hot inside my house to enjoy playing accordion or knit. I ended up reading pretty much all day long. I got all the way through Christ of the Covenants and made a good dent in The English Hymn: Its Development and Use in Worship, a fascinating survey of English hymnody written in 1915.
So I have only just got back to normal life (read: accordion, freelance work, sewing). And this includes tumblring. Tomorrow I will post a shirtmaking update! I also need to recap a recent concert. But mostly I just wanted to say hello, tumblr. I hope you’re doing well.
A picture of me and some kids from summer camp last year, which somebody just sent to me. These girls made me a duct tape wallet with my name on it.