Camper Bios - 2012

 

  KennitaKennita, 52

Where do you call home?
The San Francisco Bay Area, most like.

Been to Burning Man before? When?
2005-2011.

Camped with PolyParadise Before?
2005-2011.

Why Burning Man? – It is a place to escape mundane woes and cares and find a completely different set of experiences, feelings, and challenges. Here it is brought into high relief that you never step in the same river twice -- impermanence and dynamism is embraced in Black Rock City as it is eschewed in the default world. And it is wonderful to see and join in all the hugging.

Who I Am - I am a walking -- contradiction? frustration? tragedy? I am a quality engineer who can't work, a dancer who can't dance, a bisexual person with no same-sex partners (and hardly any partners at all), a conceptual hedonist but with blunted feeling, a singer with no one to sing with or to.

Toughest Thing - Accepting myself and the world as they are, realizing that only then can I harness my power to change them.

Best Thing - Letting it sink into my bones that there is nothing -- NOTHING -- that I have to do, so I can just relax, and really letting in all the positive feelings that are directed towards me

Burning Man Advice - Just let yourself _be_. And just let others _be_, as well -- you and they are all wonderful people, and wonderful things can be counted on to happen when you are together, Don't push it.