{"id":17792,"date":"2009-09-10T10:11:12","date_gmt":"2009-09-10T15:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=17792"},"modified":"2009-09-10T13:35:07","modified_gmt":"2009-09-10T18:35:07","slug":"typical-evening-at-burning-man-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/burning-man-2009\/typical-evening-at-burning-man-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Typical Evening at Burning Man"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Street scene at Burning Man 2009. Photo by Eric Francis.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Note to Readers:<\/strong> There are about a dozen of these Burning Man posts. They are mixed in with our regular coverage at Planet Waves, though I am doing my best to keep them published in groups of three or four posts. We will have them tagged properly soon within our blogging system; for now, scroll down for additional ones, some of which are on the next page or two. The first in the series has a photo of Centercamp.<\/em><\/p>\n

Looking toward the playa down 4:30, this is a typical evening scene at Burning Man. You can see the Man himself floating in the haze of playa dust above the camp, providing directional orientation from anywhere with a clear view. Travel around the camp is generally by foot, bicycle or art car.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I\u0432\u0402\u2122m abut to leave Reno after extending my stay here for a few days to catch up with myself. I\u0432\u0402\u2122ve been tidying up from my trip to the playa, getting back into the groove of writing (these photoblogs are a warmup, and my notebook from the trip) and spending a lot of time resting \u0432\u0402\u201d it\u0432\u0402\u2122s been a couple of years since I backed off of the astrology side of Planet Waves, and I do appreciate the time to have some fun and sort my priorities.<\/p>\n

Thank you Len for keeping astrology warm. I\u0432\u0402\u2122ve written the lead article in tomorrow\u0432\u0402\u2122s Planet Waves, looking at the symbolism of \u0432\u0402\u045aThe Man\u0432\u0402\u045c of Burning Man fame: the transformational power of that ritual. Nobody comes back from Burning Man the same. It\u0432\u0402\u2122s a little like living through a solar eclipse, directly under the alignment.<\/p>\n

This weekend I\u0432\u0402\u2122m traveling fairly close to home, to the Loving More East Coast conference near Saratoga. I\u0432\u0402\u2122m grateful to be able to get off the Internet and attend this series of events that I\u0432\u0402\u2122ve been exploring all summer. I think it\u0432\u0402\u2122s vital that as part of our community-building project, that we meet in person and actually have the opportunity to experience one another\u0432\u0402\u2122s energy. I’ve done my best to make this week a networking extravaganza, collecting the email address of everyone I’ve met and including them in Planet Waves. I’ve met some incredible people from many corners of the United States, the UK, Europe, Russia and beyond. The people I meet are making me want to visit everywhere — to go back to Belgium, and the Bay area, and many other places.<\/p>\n

My soul has been feeling restless after two years in sleepy little upstate New York (it’s been that long since I left Brussels, hard to believe but true), settling down in Kingston from a full 10 years of living in transit \u0432\u0402\u201d and now I seem to be back on the move.<\/p>\n

Today I’ll have a couple of posts about the camp I stayed at, called Poly Paradise. Tomorrow, if all goes according to the grand scheme, I’ll have my photos of tbe Burning Man ritual from Saturday night. We’ll see if it was worth taking my cameras and lenses out into the dust storm…stay tuned…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Note to Readers: There are about a dozen of these Burning Man posts. They are mixed in with our regular coverage at Planet Waves, though I am doing my best to keep them published in groups of three or four posts. We will have them tagged properly soon within our blogging system; for now, scroll … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1562],"tags":[1805],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17792"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}