For the last three weeks, Maya has been attending Farm & Wilderness camp in southern Vermont. The last day is always bittersweet as she says goodbye to her friends. This year her apprenticeship was Rocks and Ropes. In a letter she sent to us she described and illustrated a cantilevered climb which she completed successfully. For the third year running she harvested a chicken for the camp’s end-of-session banquet. Maya has requested that she be allowed to attend camp for a seven-week session in the future. I can barely stand the idea of her being away from us for so long but I also see how she returns from camp each year a stronger, more confident and capable girl with deep friendships. Due to my soccer tournament, I was unable to join Jeanine on the overnight retrieval mission that I look forward to each summer.