Who speaks for Flying Cloud?
Flying Cloud feels like a home to me, just as much as the place I live for the rest of the year.
What makes Flying Cloud beautiful is everyone’s capacity and willingness to love and care for one another.
I feel like I can be truly comfortable with myself and my identity at Flying Cloud.
I love being in a community filled with familiar faces, people who I know and care about and who care about me.
These words and many more filled the Roundhouse as we came together for our closing Friendship Fire to appreciate each other and the loving little community in the woods we created over the last two months. The beauty and importance of the values we hold dear were lost on none, and the camper’s resolve to take these values back into their lives for the rest of the year was heartening and inspiring. Reverence for the natural world and respect for their fellow humans abounds within these young people and I have faith that they will live by these tenets in their lives away from Flying Cloud.
We also used the space to announce our new Camper Leaders for 2017. Holding the torch next summer will be..
Sunshower’s Gift as Drumkeeper
Wolf at Dawn as Firekeeper
Glowing Earth as Spiritkeeper
Heart & Sky as Speaker
The thought of working with these young people as they rise to face new challenges and fill their new roles already fills me with anticipation for next summer — ten long months away.
Thanks to all who have been reading the blog this summer, and to all who make Flying Cloud possible! Here’s hoping your lives are filled with beauty, expected or otherwise. Until next summer, take care and be well.
-Charlie W.