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darkfyre_museI realized last summer that I really do identify as a Burner. Not everyone who goes to Burning Man does and that is fine. They go once a year and don't think about it much otherwise. And in 2008 and the first part of 2009 that was me. It was fun, a place to escape for a week. Maybe partly because everyone told me that it would be life changing, or partly because I was only there 4 days, or partly because I was looking forward to performing and couldn't, but for whatever reason Burning Man '08 was not an earth shattering epiphany for me. I mean I 'got' why it was for many people, it just didn't have that overwhelming effect on me. But it planted a seed that took 9 months to blossom into 'OMG OMG are we there yet!'.
I have been sitting here and trying to figure out what I want to say about the above reality. And really I think it is sometimes just a lot of little things. Looking at a bin of colored duct tape wondering if I need a new roll of blue. Or actually enjoying the 'playa egg' (a poof of playa dust in an unexpected location) that I found in my closet 2 weeks ago. How totally excited I get when I find Burners in unexpected locations. (Yes that 70 yo grandmother over there might be one. Or maybe my sister's answer to the phrase "I don't know how we got talking about Burning Man..." Her answer "Of course you were talking about it, It's almost July! We are running out of time!"
But it all really amounts to one thing. Spreading the joy of Burning Man through the following bumper sticker:
"People don't kill people; Burning couches kill people."
I have been sitting here and trying to figure out what I want to say about the above reality. And really I think it is sometimes just a lot of little things. Looking at a bin of colored duct tape wondering if I need a new roll of blue. Or actually enjoying the 'playa egg' (a poof of playa dust in an unexpected location) that I found in my closet 2 weeks ago. How totally excited I get when I find Burners in unexpected locations. (Yes that 70 yo grandmother over there might be one. Or maybe my sister's answer to the phrase "I don't know how we got talking about Burning Man..." Her answer "Of course you were talking about it, It's almost July! We are running out of time!"
But it all really amounts to one thing. Spreading the joy of Burning Man through the following bumper sticker:
"People don't kill people; Burning couches kill people."
