Comments on: Back to the garden

By: CRICKET RODRIGUEZ

CRICKET RODRIGUEZ — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 01:29:02 +0000

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By: Sandman

Sandman — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 19:33:40 +0000

Thank you so much, John. Your story really hit home. Would love to reach you regarding that photo at the base. Keep digging it…

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By: denshi

denshi — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 18:18:17 +0000

Regarding the caption on the third image, that’s Sarah, not Heather.

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By: Kozmo

Kozmo — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 22:01:03 +0000

wow, really making me nostalgic over here. I’ve been 3 of the last 4 years and will be taking my special lady friend in 2010. The only problem i’m having is with trying not to tell her too much, cuz i want her to have no idea what to expect. I would like for to have the proverbial crap your pants moment that i did when realizing the sheer magnitude of it all and to be bowled over by what materializes when like minded people (people like us) focus our creative energy in one place. Truley awe inspiring…

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By: aimee

aimee — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 09:23:08 +0000

thank you for that beautiful post. i’m missing yet another year and glad i can read about it through you. here’s to 2010!

~aimee

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By: Ocotpus

Ocotpus — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 09:39:13 +0000

Lovely, thanks. And, yes, it will not go on forever but humans have been creating ritual since we dropped from the trees. We will always create ritual and art and be free, always.

There in spirit, here resisting the NWO in spirit.
In solidarity and great affinity,
Octopus

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By: megan dana wallace

megan dana wallace — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 19:28:45 +0000

John, thank you for the article. I was at BM eight times, from 1994 to 2001 –the “old” days? My late husband Bob Wallace was a great supporter and I think about him now — he died a few weeks after Burning Man in 2002. It’s wonderful that BM goes on.

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By: LaVeRnOiNfErNo

LaVeRnOiNfErNo — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:19:29 +0000

Man, after reading this, I wish I was HOME!!

I, too, had to for go the Burn this year. Two years in a row to the Burn, and it was HARD to choose. It was between that or roadtripping Europe and the UK in a old London ambulance renovated into an RV. I chose the trip across the pond to go camp in Holland, Belgium, and go to the Glade Elecrtonic Festival in the UK. Funny enough, the 4 day camping fest in the rolling pastures of the English country side greatly resembled the Burn in the States. Replace the playa dust with muddy fields, the dust storms with rain storms, and the necessary goggles, with Wellingtons and you have yourself a proper English Burn.
But after reading this blog, I realized there was something missing; that VIBE, that LOVE, that camraderie that the BuRn produces is like nowhere on EARTH. Only in the BRC. And another thing I’ve learned; NOTHING THIS GOOD LASTS FOREVER.

Relish it people! I’ll see you at home in 2010.

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By: diagonal

diagonal — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 20:51:30 +0000

Very well written, John. Your thinking and distillation of thoughts certainly repeats my own. Yours of course, elegant and beautifully arranged. Mine, kind of like little bottle rockets of insight going off now and again.

I am not at BM this year, but for those who have not been there, for those thinking of going….be certain you go. It will profoundly affect your thinking about people, and people on this planet. What most people cannot anticipate, yet is so wonderful, is the non-uniformity of the participants and their dwelling arrangements. I met an elderly couple in folding chairs outside their modest trailer, lounging underneath a simple awning. They had been coming for years. No tattoos, no strange clothes, nothing artistic about them. As if dropped from a campsite in the Midwest. They would have been waaaay out of place at Woodstock, but not BM. Everything about BM is about humanity, and speaking, conversing with these folk was so genuine, so truly unfettered by our personal history, our personal position among society. This elderly couple was there to simply sit and observe, and it was all good!

If you’ve never been to BM, you simply cannot conjure up the context needed to see why the presence, the tidy “two-person camp” was just as participatory, just as needed and welcome, as all the wild, wonderful artistry of the major players who spend self and pelf creating the jaw-dropping works that feed one’s mind.

Perhaps the “outside world” fetters you in so many ways…. but if only once…GO ONCE!!

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By: Gingi Medina

Gingi Medina — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 15:21:20 +0000

I am from the Pink Posse Pussy Tribe. Unfortunately over the years I have not been able to make it to all of them but I have in fact made it to four beautiful burns over the passed years and the desert is my home…I send you all my light and love now from London and to all of my furry little felines…I await you in the midst of the dust.
Burn burn on lovely souls..This blog was AMAZING by the way. I love the passion one speaks with when they explain what goes on in our community out there:)
I’ll most certainly be home again soon.
Bless.

Gingi

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