Burningman can be this life changing experience, or at least it is often so described. The questions it raised for me were about the things that I have accepted as values without question. The next stage in my life, however I get there, is get a job, get a wife, and make babies as Greg so eloquently put it. The default that I have always accepted is that time is supposed to relate to progress. Both individually and across generations. My parents worked hard to give me the opportunities t... read more

For the first time in my life, I don't have a future direction planned out for me. I'm at a stage where I can do anything, but I don't know what I want to do. The only things I know for sure are that eventually, I'll have to start paying rent, and Burning Man is at the end of August. I've always considered this next stage of my life somehow secure in the knowledge that I'd make enough money to support myself in some comfortable manner, but those thoughts were always with respect to people ... read more