The Chaplain’s Screed BORG sent me a couple pictures from our MOOP sweep.  They found a wet wipe and, more Resto Team Showing Us the Wet...

The Chaplain’s Screed I remember the first time I made love.  A couple weeks prior, aged 17, I was about two weeks into my freshman year...

The Chaplain’s Screed The Participation ethos at Burning Man is inherited from the Cacophony Society and, before that, the Suicide Club. ...

The Chaplain’s Screed One of the Ten Principles is Gifting.  The word ‘gifting’ has been used as a verb for centuries and sounds as if...

The Chaplain’s Screed Those of you who are regular readers of this newsletter know that I distinguish Leave No Trace (LNT) from the other...

The Chaplain’s Screed Self-Reliance is the first of the Ten Principles and, relatedly, the one that seems to have the most tension with...

The Chaplain’s Screed Communal effort isn’t just one of the Ten Principles, it is, arguably, the main reason camps like ours are able to...

The Chaplain’s Screed Many people know the Burning Man history bit about how, after getting kicked off Baker Beach in San Francisco,...

The Chaplain’s Screed Decommodification is the one of the Ten Principles that most makes me feel free; even more than Radical...

The Chaplain’s Screed For those of you who have camped with me, you understand that Radical Self-Expression is one of the Ten Principles...

The Chaplain’s Screed I’m officially starting my yearly rotation of focusing on one of the Ten Principles with each and (nearly) every...

The Chaplain’s Screed In a week or two, I’ll send out a newsletter focused on tickets and in March I’ll start my cycle of Ten Principles...

The Chaplain’s Screed Burning Man preparation is like a wheel.  You’re always moving forward on your journey, but the mechanism that gets...

The Chaplain’s Screed Burning Man culture predates Burning Man itself.  It came from a rich cultural brew of avant garde absurdist...

The Chaplain’s Screed Well, everyone, it’s been a while since you’ve heard from me and I hope you’re all the better for that. Much has...

The Chaplain’s Screed Wow… I have still not come down from this amazing Burning Man. Thank you all for making it so special. And thanks...

The Chaplain’s Screed This newsletter is going to be a bit different than the rest. It is mostly my discombobulated ponderings. I don’t...

The Chaplain’s Screed I’ve saved the most boring of the Ten Principles for last. It’s funny to me to go through the Ten Principles and...

The Chaplain’s Screed Before I get to the meat of this newsletter, I wanted to share with you a thought I had. I love watching my...

The Chaplain’s Screed Immediacy is, for me, the hardest of the Ten Principles to incorporate into my life. I’m working on it, but to be...