the burning man..or dear redneck

Ganmain, what a crazy month we have had. It is always a busy time when harvest starts up,  Christmas is not far away and it all gets a bit crazy. On top of that we have had ‘those crazy hippies’ come with their Burning Man festival, and without sounding like a redneck here (I am married to one of those very concerned farmers , actually I WAS one of those very concerned farmers who partitioned to try and stop them from burning in our forest) it was quite an unbelievable occurrence.

As we know it all panned out the rain thankfully came to dampen things prior to the big pilgrimage making the burning a  lot safer. They came, they went, they didn’t flush a heap of money into our town, but all in all they didn’t hurt anyone and we said goodbye.

The Burning Man for those not in the know is a whole heap of things if you want to visit their website.. but to some it up in my terms ‘ a big hippy party with a giant symbolic wooden statue burning’

I of course as a concerned farm owner on the outskirts of the State Forest felt it my duty to go and check it out. OK, I couldn’t sleep I could hear the music, and wanted to make sure everything was hunky dory.  The next day I took the kids down for a look.  My children did say it was a bit ‘freaky’. My 8 year old said he saw someone hugging a tree and a man wearing a tutu. We sat in the beanbags under the fairy lights which were crisscrossed above us through coloured piping , listened to the music and watched all the craziness .

On the way home my 11 year old daughter summed it up nicely. She said Mum apart from being a bit freaky looking those people were really nice.  They didn’t care who you were or what you looked like, they just wanted to be happy. (Then she followed that with.. ‘but if we were all like that nothing would ever get done!’) hmmm!! little redneck.

So my recap of the Burning Man, and what I would like to take from it is: Acceptance. If someone wants to wear a tutu  because it makes him or her feel good than why should we judge them, are they hurting anyone? Ganmain folk, lets take the positives from this. Look around and next time you want to say something negative about something and someone, just stop.

Stop and think  ‘hey, but thats great they love doing that’ or ‘they are having fun’. It may not be your cup of tea, and you may not understand but there is always a positive.

feel the x love. peace, freedom and equality