“So, how was Burning Man?!?!?!?!”

I haven’t yet given a cohesive answer to any of the many people in my life who have asked me the question above. And I won’t try to do it here either. Overall, it’s too much for a Cliff Note. More like a Tolstoy novel. But here’s one of many, many enormous lessons learned.

On the playa we mostly share desires to experience a fuller spectrum of living. But when we leave, we become divided into two large camps.

One is for those who want to keep the playa as their fantasy getaway, the dream of perfection that could never be. May nothing wake them from the dream, ever. But it's just a dream.

The other camp is made of those who plot to continue the rebellion. We’re the ones that say we already KNEW humans were capable of such genius and love, but we have to make communities and NATIONS that allow these qualities to be what guides millions. We’re the ones that do think it is possible. We’re the ones who are NOT satisfied with feeling completely happy one week per year then counting the days for the next 51.

The two camps argue over issues like open sexuality, raising kids, BRINGING kids, cell phones, diet, you name it. May those debates continue to keep us thinking critically and focused on what matters to our souls.

Unfortunately, if one person is in one camp and they love someone in the other, they may not last very long together…

Fortunately, warriors such as myself love a good fight.
I smell a cross-camp kidnapping.
Watch out.
You know who you are.