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Three years ago today, while camping with my parents I had my first lucid dream.

Two years ago I was vipassana meditating 10 hours a day and hadn't spoken in a week.

Last year I was acid tripping in a wicker dragon with a tiny fairy child, naked singing hallelujah with strangers dripping sauna sweat.

This year I am alone but not lonely across the globe in Nepal. 

Summer birthdays are the best.

xo

Super moon

I have been away for exactly 6 months today, moonwise that is. So much has happened! Wow.

xo

I am caught

In creative flow. I do not want to leave the house and face the busy streets and foreign stares. But I owe 10 rupees to the man who sells me cake. And it might be nice stretch my limbs. xo

sometimes

Someone snaps a picture of me when I am not looking. It is a rare treat :) This year at burning man I cried daily, if not more. I think I need the release to feel good. xo

burning man was....

And now I am home, until I fly away again south. It's so hard to let the magic go. xo

this phase

Is marked by Dawson's Creek, super Mario world and excitement for burning man.  I am SO very excited to come home. xo

notes

Shamandome

Steam bath

Monkey chanting

EFT

Human mandala?

(just some ideas)

xo

today

I will find a pair of dust goggles

did I mention

That I turned 30? 

I wonder what good habits I can bring into the new decade.

xo

festival five

Scott called it his restival, I read Jung and painted. These little crawlies were everywhere! xo

evolution of photo fodder

 from this,

To this!

I hope to capture more of the ladies.

xo

boated

Some pics from a canoe adventure with my latest toy camera. Smitten! xo

And so it begins

In this next phase, my weekends begin Thursday nights with a long drive towards the festive unknown. I am getting excited :) xo

These days....

I finally have a project to work on! Doesn't even matter that it's not mine. xo

Today

I walked all around with Greeni, ran into an past classmate (with a darkroom!) and tasted chocolate from the oldest chocolatier in Sicily. I also sweated buckets in hot yoga and spent time with my dad. xo

I'm a rambler and a rover....

(short visit to my favorite most special piney wood home)

xo

tide pools

xo

I made a calendar

Dear June,

May you be full of joy.

Love, Gianna

home sweet home

Back in Bend after two weeks of being here and there, and indulging to the max. A declaration has been made; the post-burning man binge is officially over! I'm looking forward to being in one place for the time being and relearning how to take care of myself. Some hopes for the next few weeks include:

begin a manifestation journal
write down dreams
palm session
sell things
make things
see friends
eat kimchi
rejuvenate
be alone
stretch
move
laugh

that should be doable, right? right. xo

a concept I like

Synchronicity is the experience of two or more events, that are apparently causally unrelated or unlikely to occur together by chance, that are observed to occur together in a meaningful manner.


The concept does not question, or compete with, the notion of causality. Instead, it maintains that just as events may be grouped by cause, they may also be grouped by their meaning. Since meaning is a complex mental construction, subject to conscious and unconscious influence, not every correlation in the grouping of events by meaning needs to have an explanation in terms of cause and effect.


So yesterday we met up with Elijah and some new friends with tails for an indulgent wanderfest through San Francisco. We hit up the bakery Tartine and headed to dolores park to share our treats (coconut tres leches cake YUM). Somehow a conversation got started about the rainbow gathering - Elijah and Scott had met there this summer and were turned off by what they described as the "undercurrent of desperation." Then I recalled an interesting guy that Elijah and I met at the string summit festival, he was part of the rainbow family and had impressed me with his kindness and wisdom, as well as sparking up a dialog about the gatherings. And then guess what happened!??  THAT VERY GUY walked by us in the park. Fini.


It's scenarios like this that confirm I've found my own undercurrent, even if it's just to dip my toes in. xo