Birthdays are the one day each year we should really truly focus on what we want, and make it happen. 
But YOU made this last year incredible with each hug, word, or smile shared, and you will make the next year the best of my life, so I would LOVE to share some of this day with you.
I love flexibility and spontaneity, so most of the day is open for surprise adventures. 
But, here are some wants for Thursday Oct 21st
Care to join???
-Sunrise!
-Morning dance party in the livingroom
-Breakfast at the Tea House, …

Illumination, Navigation, and Celebration are the gifts of Burningman Lamplighter Camp I was part of, and so I mirror these in my post-burn writings. Illumination holds some of the greater-humanity experiences shared on the playa.  Navigation shares the oddities and facts of Black Rock City and the Burningman organization.  Celebration is my own personal flavor and experiences during the week I spent in the desert.
 
Celebration: Dancing through a Waterfall of Fire at Burningman
 Standing almost 7 feet tall, I watched the horizontal waterfall of fire wash across the desert, clearing barriers and …

My 10th high school reunion is Saturday.  I’ve been thinking about it for awhile.  Go!  Not go… I’ll have to drive straight through from Boulder to make it, meaning I’ll be drained, but what’s that?  I live my life on not much sleep pretty often.  The body is used to it.  I’m traveling with August and Claire for close to a month, so it is more than just my input.  Some more discussion to happen.
I feel like high school was like running through a beautiful garden with my eyes closed.  …

Writing is more than documenting an experience; it is its own journey, moving through hardship and exhilaration along a path completely unexpected.  The doing of the thing is the moment of wonder, the breathtaking event of awesomeness that sets thoughts and ideas free and gives them the power to ransack established worlds, and stable ideas. But soon the moment comes when these ideas (along with everything they threw out the front door) right themselves, and drift slowly back, fitting themselves into beautiful patterns full of clarity and understanding. 
These are the …

“Immortality (or eternal life) is the concept of living in a physical or spiritual form for an infinite or inconceivably vast length of time.”
Fitting I’d say, that I sit here on my 28th birthday and contemplate a book I finished two weeks ago Interview With the Vampire and the odd circumstances that led to me watching half the movie a week ago and the other half tonight. 
Vampires have always held deep magic for me, sexy, dark, powerful creatures that live forever and fly around with the world as their kingdom. 
The …