i've mentally divorced from school and minnesota this week.
i just changed my facebook photo to this.



looking at it is making my heart hurt a little.

sometimes i get so worked up in the business of it all that i forget the root.
it's like i'm wrapped in a warm blanket of majesty and forgiveness in that photo. it's like this magical paradise is behind me that is so vivid it seems fake.

i mean, am i crazy, or can other people feel the radiation of hope and healing looking at this?
camp little notch is more than a girl scout camp.
she is more than a piece of land.
she is more than a legacy.
she is more than a vital part of our history and our future.

camp little notch is sacred. she possess a virtue so strong there is no way to describe it. i feel anointed when i am there; safe to exhale all my woes and start again. she has an unparalleled power.

and i can see it all in that photograph.