Life Partners: Going Home To The Desert
Life Partners is a short essay series where Kinfolk employees, friends and family share whatever’s on their mind. Today we have well-traveled friend of Kinfolk, Ada Roszkowska, talking about the infamous Burning Man Festival, and why everyone should go at least once. After the story, be sure and check out a Burning Man photo gallery courtesy of Khanh Gia!
The steadfast love I receive from the Kinfolk family most certainly makes Kinfolk Studios my safe haven in New York City, but I’ll be leaving for a while soon. At the end of August I’ll be taking my soul and spirit to the desert for the most soothing and refreshing experience I know. Alongside a close group of friends from the east and west coasts, Europe and the land down under, I’ll be celebrating life, love, and freedom at Burning Man. I’m going home.
To the uninitiated, Burning Man is most commonly perceived as a week long rave full of hippies tripping on psychedelics. There are also those who would love to see what it’s really about but are too afraid to leave their comfort zone and have to go without showering for a week. Then there are those, like so many I meet, who have no idea what I’m talking about when it comes up after too many gin and tonics at the bar.
Gin and tonics excused, Burning Man is a place where everyone is open, everyone is genuine, everyone loves and expresses and most importantly, everyone is free. At this time each year, I find myself untangling a knot and end up leaving Burning Man with a piece of unknotted string. This string grows into me throughout the year. You become aware of how much control you have over any negativity around you. The truth you find in yourself and in others makes things simple and the experience carries over to make life much less thorny. It’s a transcending experience in its truest form that everyone should get to experience. So I go, at the end of the month, to celebrate my new year.
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