constant narrator

I returned late in the evening Monday night from an extremely muddy Flipside out at Flat Creek. It was raining sideways when I arrived and I spent the next few hours being pissed off at the ridiculous conditions I was setting up camp in. After a bit I let go of the concepts of “clean” and “dry” and it got to be a hell of a lot more fun.

This was probably my best Flipside, in terms of new connections and personal transformation. I’ve been in a terrible funk the last couple of months and I had my brain dumped out on the ground and sorted through in the rain, only to put some freshly washed contents back in the bin. The themecamp I was with was full of wonderful, hard working, low-drama people and we had many lovely and comfortable places to hang out and enjoy each others’ company. Saturday night had much adventuring with friends and late in the morning Steve played the best set of music in the Hagia Sofia that I have heard since Burning Man 2002. It made it cry it was so perfect and beautiful. The sun put me to bed that night and I woke up a few hours later feeling so much better.

The effigy burn was good but Alissa’s Soulflight temple burn was truly beautiful, with an iron phoenix rising out of the petals as the flower burnt away. I have some amazing friends.

Here’s a pic of one of the arches we built over the road. It was taken from the other arch.

(pic courtesy of g0saru)

We did not fuck around this year, some shit got Done! w00t!