In 1966 I would sit at the table with my grandparents and eat breakfast before school (high school) and I remember him saying " There are two kinds of people in the world; the Have's and the Have-Nots" and I also remember thinking that he was so out of touch and that when I was older the world would...

I have to wonder why is it we are all still here, and they are not.

Dinner and a show.

I bring an old but serviceable Oscar Schmidt acoustic guitar the last 3 years, no case, and it hasn't warped.

I have been practicing opening my eyes really wide.

When you're watching the Man or the Temple burn,
and you're sitting and you don't like people standing
OR
You're standing and don't like people asking you to sit down
Think of something good to yell
Instead of cursing at each other

Make it fun!

I mean, if you play your music on the streetcorner, you have to expect some people to start dancing.

Mayavin provides a good medium for the growth of consciousness, like bacteria on a petri dish. We have an advantage over the Greek philosophers since we can use statistics for our insights. They would debate how many teeth a horse would have based on whether man was superior to the horse, but they w...

We will get it all back, and move forward. One Burning Man at a time.
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Simon of the PLAYA: Do you ever feel as if your are bringing a glass of water to the river?

O pretty baby, the reason I breathe is you.

Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates.
~Georg C. Lichtenberg

I say there is no consciousness without desire. The desire to know and it's delights.

I gave up owning you but I missed you too much.

gyre wrote: Making eye contact in customs will get you focused on quickly.

Eye contact is the window to Another World, and will always mark you as a Possible Subversive. Its a luxury anywhere else but Burning Man, and even there it's a risk.

somekind wrote:Try to find someone who is OK with no showers for a week and is willing to strip naked and run after a water truck. That person should be good to go.

God has many faces and that for sure is one of them.

Nobody likes the Creepy Old Guy Reach Around!

I never try to talk people into going. I just tell them what it was like for me, and that I would help them if they decided on their own to go.

Burning Man is not easy to like, I think a person has to want to like it.

I got in at 2 am monday morn, and met a virgin greeter. He was very nice, took the cold fat tire i offered and started chatting, but the master greeter girl told him to hurry me up there were people behind me lol.
Other greeters were having the virgin burners make dust angels.

I think Craiger is giving us the "Lost Sheep" story. Do we leave the rest of the herd to go find him?

We Have Met The Enemy And They Are Us!

Finlee!
What a sweet name.

A beautiful girl from Washington sat down next to me at the Sat burn and just started talking metaphysics out of the blue. Her name was "Cloud" and she was an "aeriel dancer" fer crissake.
I'm in love.
I hope she emails me!

Enterprise took my cargo van back yesterday with no problem. It was a little dusty after i hosed it out at the car wash but they said they expected cargo vans to come back dirty. The rental was from sat to tues 514 bucks.

Laid back and dusty.

But Opulent Temple and Syd Gris were outstanding as usual!

Did anyone else notice the barbed wire around the upper base of The Man this year?
Like the concertina wire around the freeway signs on LA freeways.

Get Used To It.

Thank you Badger.

I saw a baby in a stroller outside center camp when it was quite dusty and windy. The baby did not look happy, and did not have any respirator or cloth covering his face. The mother seemed oblivious.
Should I have said something to her? I did not.
Should I feel ashamed? I do.

Good Idea.
I never see anybody on the forums at BM.

Have fun Eric!

Maybe there will be a miracle and it will magically reappear this year/

"I also have a very nice set of Ti...(I know what your thinking) tights, lingerie or costumes and tons of NEW adult toys, potions/lotions & things that go buzzzz in the night. Perfect for your own pleasure, or gifts on the playa. I'm willing to trade straight across for equal value, though donations...