The underclass of Hispanic workers in San Rafael are a defacto "unseen " population. To erect a temple to aknowledge their spiritual beliefs and their existence in the community was a noble act and worthy of the egalitarianism and creativity of Burningman. The rest was petty drama in comparrison, in...

Sometimes the "art" is a lovely nipples reaching to the sun, a funny come-back at the porta-potty. Sometimes the "commerce" is verbalizing appreciation to the artist for the installation, word-of-mouth about a hot band. Sometimes the "gift" is drinking plenty of water on a hot day, helping a drunk p...

Sometimes the "art" is a lovely nipple reaching to the sun, a funny come-back at the porta-potty. Sometimes the "commerce" is verbalizing appreciation to the artist for the installation, word-of-mouth about a hot band. Sometimes the "gift" is drinking plenty of water on a hot day, helping a drunk pe...

Well put, Ubu. As a deflowered virgin this year, I too experienced the afterburn depression. But truly, BM is an internal experience (mmmm, just like that other type of BM...) and I have loved the instant energized light that comes into people's eyes when I mention it! Even those who have never been...

Was she from Oregon, with lovely brown eyes, rather thin, nice voice?

Camp Stella was wonderful! Refreshing exotic teas, refreshing exotic (and exquisitely unavailable) men with little on, big warm hugs and free bejeweling to any woman burnt out on hungry testosterone but desireous of that lovely male energy. Yummmmm!

Lost you at Camp Stella's Whoopie Party Friday night. Let's do a Buddhist meeting in Chico. The Big-haired woman: [email protected]

Upriver and other Clean and Sober Kin....Syntonia here happily hyperconcious 16 years. If you are peering over the precipice seek me big chunks of wavy blonde big nose to match volunteering with Mental Health Branch. Who knows I may be on the verge of relapse and your seeking arrives in the nick of ...

[quote]There was an interesting blurb in the paper the other day wherein this scientist theorized that the human thirst for alcohol was an evolutionary adaptation. It made us want to eat overripe fruit, thereby extending the season that we would eat fruit & get those vital nutriants. Too, it made yo...

Caution: Deconstruction in progress

Thanks Zaphod B and Mr. Jelly Ef...wonderful ovenmitt and dayglo helicopter groupthinknot stuff. Household shit takes on new meaning and import. I'll practice this insideout thinking and paint my all a different color. Warm sending fuzzy headed hugs to you two brothers from eons past perhaps....

Thanks to all for the thoughtful replies, even if it was "shit" you just made up as you go along...isn't it all just "shit" we make up as we go? Getting out of self makes great sense when one's expectations diminish the joy. Being an "elder" is a gift then, and the joy becomes watching the lightbulb...

Desert washes all thoughts of Paris and Brittany Brad and Ben Costco stupidity. When dust enters every crevice and curling irons corrode we can suspend judgement size and move perfection criteria no longer matter. Desert camping so many years in my life has always left me blank and distended joyful....

Please tell, what is the 5th freedom?

Yes. SF and RL....Gods and Yawps...it sounds like the mystic pilgrimages that humans have made for eons. We gather, commune and shout find magic are adored and adore then depart. Born in the dez, I've had been many teenage desert hallucinogenic journey times, walking though midnight Joshua tree wild...

Yes. Thank you for the dose of deconstruction. Fire is indeed created by it's fuel. The content and quality is determined by one's own food. Like an acid trip...wonderful or nightmarish. So I will feel the experience from the world of wonder and seek to give more to it than to take and in so doing g...

Wonder sticky Playa clay or dust...wonder itchy sleep or slumber well..wonder...many drunken invasive fondling or careful respect...wonder...too loud noise alldaynight or peaceful moments too...wonder...trash piling or earth honoring people...will it assault my senses or stimulate them? Will you be ...

Peopled out wanting Playa Peoples. BM virgin here missing those I've never met...forest living craving the dez place of birth in prehistoric needing petroglyphs that burn. What shall I wear? What shall I bring? What must I endure? What joy will I have? Will it hurt?

[quote="Syntonia"]This is my first BM. Are there any Nichiren Buddhists who will be chanting morning and evening gongyo?[/quote]

This is my first BM. Are there any Nichiren Buddhists who will be chanting morning and evening gongyo?