Thank you so much

Abductor · Post by **Abductor** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 1:21 am

I have avoided Burning Man for years, for many reasons. Partly because I was not getting it all, based on hearsay descriptions. And I was always put off by those people who love to say "oh yeah I went when it was really small and cool", looking down their nose at anyone who hasn't been and therefore can never really be as cool as them.

I'm back and I'm exhausted. Too tired to write eloquently. Covered in playa dust. So I'll be blunt and brief.

I'm moved to tears as I write this. I had no idea that such a thing could exist, that so much beautiful art could embrace my ears and eyes and heart. I had no idea that so many wonderful people gathered in such a place and did such things. Not even briefly browsing this site and viewing the webcam stream prepared me.

To everyone who was there, whether you hugged me, or gave me a gift, or rode past me topless, or made me laugh, or frightened me, or moved me spirtually, thank you so very much.

cornelius · Post by **cornelius** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 3:23 pm

That's beautiful! C'mere you lil' monkey and let me hug ya!

skygod · Post by **skygod** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 4:53 pm

Abductor wrote: I had no idea that so many wonderful people gathered in such a place and did such things.

We are all out here, but you never see us. The media makes you think the world is a certain way, but Burning Man is one of the ways we can see the world as it really is.

HughMungus · Post by **HughMungus** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 9:57 pm

Welcome back, brother.

I cried when I left in 2005. I cried when my burner friend said, "How was it?" I cried when I asked one of the virgins I'd met "What do you think?" and he said, "It changed our lives." Some things are just that beutiful.

transgirl · Post by **transgirl** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 10:25 am

I cried all through my first Burn. It was overwhelming...the spirit, the celebration, the art, the community. It was scary at first, then totally mind blowing. Very intense. Most definately awesome.

missy · Post by **missy** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 10:31 am

I was rewarded by a Burning Man ticket and RV ride (very old, 78 Pace Arrow). They came out of the blue three weeks before the burn.

They changed my life!!!! I have never had so much fun!!! Since the last election my faith in my fellow man has been a very low level. Seeing all the love that went into the preperations and operations at burning man made me realize that their are kindred spirits out there.

I was very emotional leaving. My comfort has been the knowledge that I can share burning man next year with more of my family and friends.

Thank you so much everyone

Hug, kisses and good vibrations

Myliatronic · Post by **Myliatronic** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 1:26 pm

Awwwww :) more happy tears upon reading this.

I have laughed, cried, danced and loved harder in the last week than I thought possible. You are all amazing.

To another amazing year. :D

BigBear · Post by **BigBear** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 5:03 pm

[quote="transgirl"]I cried all through my first Burn. It was overwhelming...the spirit, the celebration, the art, the community. It was scary at first, then totally mind blowing. Very intense. Most definately awesome.[/quote]

at the start of the week (this was my first burn) a friend told me people cried during the temple burn and i thought "what the fuck do they have to cry about" well i only lasted till saturday, when the man burnt i balled through the whole thing, the energy, the emotion, the fact that i *thought* it was all over, little did i know and what i found out later that everything after getting seperated from my friends and wandering around COMPLETELY disorientated for fuckin hours was that *it* had just begun.
thank you all.

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