I am consistent. I blog once a month.
Not prolific, but consistent.
I can just feel my media empire growing by leaps and bounds.
Time has zipped by since my Burning Man experience and a few things besides playa dust have stuck with me. The week I was there I did not witness one altercation of any kind, not a harsh word, bike collision, fist fight … nothing, not one. It amazed me at the time; bikes, pedestrians, and art cars zipping about in all directions with no signs, lines or signals to guide and yet, no accidents.
Another observation was kind of shocking: unbeknown to anyone at Camp Clueless (my camp) an unfortunate event occurred; only a couple hundred feet away or less, someone chose to commit suicide by hanging them self in some hapless third parties’ geodesic dome. The shocking thing was, thanks to CNN and all, everyone in North America heard about this event before we did.
We saw and heard nothing. We had no idea this had transpired within feet of us, we walked past that camp numerous times. It wasn’t until we heard about it two or three days later from someone else who said it was all over CNN. We were dumbfounded how we could miss the sheriff’s trucks, ambulance, removing the body, people who had been walking past mentioning something going on, but we heard and saw nothing.
There is something to be said for being disconnect from the media: no phone, no internet, no tv, no cable, no radio. You miss ALL the bad news. Something could (did) happen right under your nose and without the media bringing our attention to every nasty detail, could be sweetly oblivious. No news is good news.
Obviously, whatever happened at that camp, we did not need to know.
I’m thankful.
Speaking of thanks, thanks to an inability to read, I was unable to scratch my ‘wanna go back’ Burning Man itch at a much anticipated After Burn party. I was all prepared to attend the day after the actual event. Highly impractical, I don’t recommend it. Pink fur and glow sticks on a Saturday night, downtown east side Van is … well, looking for adventure.
Stay tuned for Part 3
Namaste,
Sensate
