J Davis

Departure Day is a whirlwind of emotion, joy, tears, and activity. For those of us who have to drive or function safely on Departure Day morning, getting a good amount of sleep is important but seems in hindsight to leave little time for those last goodbyes. Even those campers who choose to stay up all […]

Today was the last day of camp.   For some, it was the last day of their first year. For others, it was the last day of their final year. I’m in the latter category. I don’t really know how to feel about it yet.   The day started slow, with breakfast of camp potatoes […]

A couple years back I was really obsessed with the Japanese street fashion style, and I stumbled across a Japanese fashion magazine called Fruits somewhere on the web. In the late 90’s and early aughts they released the photo book Fresh Fruits that catalogued the fashion of the current era. The book had pictures of […]

My day started off earlier then I wanted it to. I had decided to sleep in the field with my friends last night. but it started raining around 5am, we were one of the first groups to wake up, so when we moved to the covered porch we got to watch all of the other […]

Goblin Rave! So, so much fun. Apparently, it was better than real raves. I wouldn’t know, but it sounds true. Fred curated the music. It was like a mix of rave-y moshing music and boing boing ghost frog electronic brain music, is the best way I can describe it. There was a little blanket area […]

Camp is in equal parts absurd and touching. The push and pull between moments of laughter and great vulnerability thaw the heart like jumping into a cold plunge after sitting in the hot tub. I was woken from my slumber to the SpongeBob squarepants theme song sung loudly by a group of campers that woke […]

Last night I slept in the field again, something I have been doing every night this year. I love how many stars you can see when it’s clear out (including sometimes meteors!) and the pretty cloud patterns on other nights. In the morning I headed straight to the kitchen to chop vegetables and serve breakfast. […]

yesterday was so much fun. I made a lot of nice memories. I sat on the bus with Bellasky and we reminisced Barbie songs and Barbie movies.   I think I was one of a couple who started the singalong bus this trip. Me and Bellasky started to sing riptide (cause everyone knows riptide…), we […]

I am meant to write something here and the words arrive tangled in thorny brush. The Douglas fir at camp that we affectionately call the climbing tree is most difficult to climb for the first few branches, and then after that the spacing becomes even and the movements smooth out into each other. Beginning writing […]

For Day 4 at camp, I joined a group and hiked to Vista Point. It was my first time on this hike, and though the journey was long and arduous, the view was absolutely worth it. Afterwards, we ate a glorious dinner in the lodge, and then enjoyed an amazing concert performed by campers and […]