September update

High time for an update. Summer camps are complete. Four weeks of camp with White Pine and then I worked for two weeks with Johnny Pazdon and Mary Mazur who run Coyote Club in Dover, NH. It was rewarding work and I feel good about all of the connections I made with the little people this summer. Since camps ended I've been spending time in various places around New Hampshire and a week in Toronto at the first Canadian Art of Mentoring. I'm going to do a separate post about that.
I spent a week with my friend and White Pine co-worker Hillary Behr in her cutsie hometown of Tamworth, NH. She lives in black bear country just south of the White Mountains. We took a 5 day camping/backpacking trip in the Sandwich range. I climbed a mountain in flip flops and camped alone for a couple days. It was my first time to do so in a place with bears and it was a little scary.
Now I'm living in an animal house in Madbury, NH. I slept in at least 14 different places this summer so it feels good to be a little more settled for a couple months. I'm spending most of my time studying for the Specialist tracking evaluation coming up in October. After thats over I'll be driving back down to Texas and moving on to new things. Or more accurately, similar things with new people in a different place.

Here are some kids shooting freshly made bows and arrows.

Here's Hillary standing in front of her entire hometown.

This is Hillary's garden at sunrise where she grows flowers to sell at the Farmer's market.


Here is my new favorite sandpit, just down the street from my house. Following that are caterpillar tracks and Mourning dove tracks.