AFRIKABURN
a beautiful weekend
a beautiful weekend
With beautiful people
In this beautiful place
Celebrating beautiful life
In a beautiful way
Let the love continue…
I don’t know where to begin to explain this weekend. It was like living in a snowglobe for a weekend and it wasn’t until we drove back tonight that I realized how far from civilization we had been. Part of that is probably because everyone lives so well in community out there that you just see yourself in a whole new world.
When we explored the campsites we met some amazing people and there was so much love everywhere. There was a wall with quotes of love and thoughts and prayers and then we got to go to a tent with spiritual healing and they just spent time praying for us and the women prayed as if they knew Maria, Cindy, and I because the things they said in their prayers to us. They asked that love continuously flow through me and I pray that same prayer. I love to love and I love to give love and I was able to do both of those things not only this weekend but everyday here in South Africa. Because I wrote so long ago about Afrikaburn and because my friend Maria is such a great writer I will share some of her words about the weekend:
“This is the concept of Afrikaburn- there is absolutely no buying or selling of anything in the desert, whether it be water or drugs. Everyone willingly comes to Afrikaburn to contribute and to share themselves and their supplies with anyone and everyone camping along. There are families with young children as well as adults who come together in the desert for the same purpose- to experience one community with continual and uninhibited happiness. Artists work to create their own sculptures or create a themed camp that is open to everyone else at the event. It was these art pieces that formed the main event of Afrikaburn on Saturday night: the burning of their spirits… You live for others as they live for you; no boundaries, no questions, no expectations, just acceptance. Acceptance in its purest and most simplistic form. Afrikaburn showed me everything in humankind that I can stand to be proud for.” –Maria
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