burning-man

Hi yawl!

So, let's wrap up the BM story and move on; shall we?

Well, Saturday I also went out exploring lots of art - I chanted in a double dodecahedron installation in the desert, and generally just had a wonderful time. That Saturday night I was sooo tired though from not sleeping more than 2 hours in the last 48 that i actually had to go to sleep right after the man burned [so I missed the oil rig burn/explosion].

Most of the story has now been told; the remainder was simply beautiful - another incredible sunrise on the desert, such a wonderful place!

before we finish the BM story... lets get up to speed a little...

I just got back from the permaculture course + the symbiossis festival.

The course was nice, I learned a lot about a whole variety of areas. It really showed me a lot of new doors of possibility. The people who attended the course were also all really beautiful amazing people; all very different and unique. It felt very weird leaving the place yesterday, I was very much at home there.

Radical self reliance, radical self expression... i repeated these words as I curved beautiful patterns in the sand; I was at play, joyful and carefree - I look around and its just amazing everywhere, everything is just shinning with pure beauty.

I consider choices, opportunities, responsibility.

Ooops, it seems that I confused some notes and dates, my thursday day report included also much of Friday's day report... but this doesn't really affect the story that much as we can now skip to the more juicy bits.

So, Friday night was upon me, now every year I've been, Friday is the peak. Everyone is out at night, a huge amount of art projects are done, the vibe is buzzing, the options for entertainment are vast.

Man, times are so-so-so rich and full right now; and again my blog is waaay far behind the reality I am currently living... it is good that we are now at Thursday though, for starting from this day onwards amazing growth and grace enters my life [although this only become apparent by Friday]. Not that it isn't always full of grace; but my awareness of how lucky and thankful i am for all of the magic that encircles my life becomes quite conscious and focused... so to speak.

So Wednesday Bibi and I dress up in our Greek outfits and go seeking my friends Konstantin and Telene. We manage to find their camp and then on the way back we stop at math camp... a camp all dedicated to mathematics.

At math camp we talk about different subjects when I'm at the white board drawing a picture of a hang [ a musical instrument from switzerland ] and someone says to me "hey, are you going to give a lecture on string theory?"

and i think to myself 'that's weird, cause i do know enough to talk about that...' so I say "well, I can if you like."

Tuesday, Burningman 2007.

Tuesday morning I woke up early and tried to find different camps from different people. I couldn't find either of the permaculture camps, but we did manage to register ourselves in the computer directory and determine where the ice was stored.

One group I did manage to find is the Virus camp; where Mark the author of books on the Chakra's was to be found.

This is going to be one mega long yarn to unwind...

Dave picks us up at 4 in the morning to drive out, we have a really nice trip on the road for about 4 hours with the trailer behind us zipping through the mountains into Nevada. Dave is 40 something and he's been with the same guy [virtual marriage] since he was in his early 20. They have 3 children in their early teens, all brothers and sisters that they adopted from Russia about 8 years ago. Quite a special story. Dave, and his partner: Joel are really sweet fun loving great people.

well, these last few weeks have been great. very busy with preparations for burning man !

dinosaur costumes are complete, as is a wonderful cape and other garments that my mother also helped me sow together. i hope to get some nice pictures as i think its going to look great!

i plan on visiting some permaculture tents while I am at the event, so I can meet some cool new people and make some contacts in this new world.

being back in california feels like a dream right now. its terribly familiar, and yet it also feels foreign.

someone's video of the event:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQ1XTK3ASBU&NR

more photos from anon sources:

http://flickr.com/photos/w5nyv/sets/72157594222047196/
http://flickr.com/photos/dandawson/sets/72157594257930185/with/232521801/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fetching/sets/72157594263080615/with/236100...