“Nobody has walked the path that I have walked. They have not seen the things that I have seen. They must, if they truly want to understand me.” I dunno. Isn’t that the point? Is it really that important that I drag someone down with me to the muck I came from just to feel …
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Topsoil
Get old enough, and your habits, your pleasures, your fixations require a push, a jab, to still feel something. The depths of perversion one must reach. Pain in the mix. The risk of embarrassment. The final washing away of the delusion that after death you’ll have to stand in judgment as the film reel of …
Blame
“You are responsible for your own experience.” From what I’ve been told, this statement is posted at the front gate of any Burning Man event. It is supposed to be an admonition to seize your own destiny and craft the kind of life you want to lead. To me, it feels like an after-the-fact, regret-filled …