Pine Tree Post

My high school senior quote was an excerpt from the circle game by Joni Mitchell. "words like when you're older must appease him, and promises of someday make his dreams." I first heard these words as a youngest Cayugan in 2001. I didn't know it at the time but they would eventually be a perfect summation of my feelings towards camp Seneca lake. 

When you are a Cayugan, all you want is to be a Mohican, and Mohicans want to be in Tusc, just as Tuscarorans can't wait to be staff. But the words remain the same, "when you're older." Well now I'm 21, "and though my dreams have lost some grandeur", here I am back in Cayuga as a staff member. 

I'm here not to duplicate my experience for these kids, as staff so often say, because camp is not a cookie cutter experience. I'm here to be a part of a new chapter of CSL. New memories and new dreams, and some day I know that these kids will get off the carousel and similarly find themselves back home again, at Camp Seneca lake. 

Tristan LeVant

Cayuga Bunk Counselor (C-3)