Saturday, July 12, 2014

Geron is back

Geron Blackman was a camper of mine, when I was camp director, in the 1980s. Now son Cameron is coming to camp, all these decades later. Amazing. At check-out it was quite a reunion, as, at first, Geron knew who I was but I couldn't quite place him, and then the memories of this activity or that, this incident and that, this counselor or that one, flooded back. I don't have words for what it's like for me to see these "kids" as adults and indeed parents themselves. One thing doesn't seem to change: the memories of their FV summers are precise. Now Cameron has his own.