Then: Loud and enthusiastic. Repeat-after-me songs, pickup games, story adventures, word games, puns, and getting tired and dirty every day, and loving it.
Now: Loud and enthusiastic. Repeat-after-me songs, pickup games, story adventures, word games, puns, and getting tired and dirty every day, and loving it.
Between: I keep doing what I do. Some things never change.
Then: Unsure what to do after four years living abroad, looking for fulltime office jobs, because that’s what I was supposed to do. Unexpectedly started looking at camp jobs, just for the summer. Found one that seemed different. Said: this place has something going on, and I want to be part of it.
Now: By summer’s end, I’ll have been living and working with children outside for well over two solid years, between summers at Augusta and outdoor science education in southern California during the years between. No routine air-conditioned jobs yet, for me.
Between: Realizing possibilities were broader than I thought. Finding places I could work hard and following passions as far as they go.