I’VE SPENT the last two nights on the island of Maui.  It’s my third time to the island, my second with our school’s seniors.

Traveling with students and peers is always interesting for me.  I never quite know how to fit in with any side, and yet both sides have something vital to offer.  For students, experience seems to be a key thing: do this, take your picture here, have a moment at a good and important place.  For adults, though, information and report seem vital.  It’s adult nature to speak of what one has done, what one has witnessed.  It’s not hard and fast rule, but I find it to be more true than not.  And so, for me, I never quite know how to balance the two.  I long for experience.  I also hate reporting information or simply bearing witness to things (even though I was more of a camera-man on this trip).

Perhaps this is something true for those I am around moreso than for those in other areas of vocation.  Maybe it’s a “teacher thing.”  But the challenge of experience versus reporting is a very real tension for me, real and true is some of my most important relationships, even.  Something to think through, for sure.

You can check out some of my Maui pictures up on teh flckr photostream at the top of this page.  I shot video for the students, mostly, but I was able to get some good shots of dolphin and sky in there.