You do...what?

It's really hard to explain camp to people who aren't "camp" people.  But essentially here's what I do in the summer:

I bring my family to Vermont where I can "work" with someone else's children.  My "work" this morning consisted of paddling about in a canoe, offering occasional advice to one or two kids who were trying to work out the details of a complicated stroke.  Is this work?  Then I went to the dining hall for lunch (which I did not have to cook or clean up!).  Last week I went canoe camping for nine days with a group of 14 year old boys...no computers, no bills, no stress.

This sounds completely crazy, but it's sort of something you have to experience.  Is it a bit cultish?  I suppose so...but what's most remarkable is that I'm surrounded by people I've known for as many as thirty years, all of whom love it here as much as I do.  It's a remarkable place.