This man's name is David. He is fairly tall, with gray hair and a bright orange shirt. He is an ordained minister, a beekeeper, and a philosopher. He spends much of his time working on energy sources and various other technological undertakings.
David is currently walking to the nearby Radio Shack to purchase a rectifier for the wind generator he is using at Burning Man. I am unsure what a rectifier is, but I immediately think of the movie Deliverance.
I am not emotionally mature.
David, on the other hand, has spent a lot of time considering his emotions.
"When you think about it, 'Wake the fuck up' is a pretty great message."
"Regardless, I don't want someone writing it in big letters on the hood of my van while I'm sleeping. That made me pretty mad."
"Anger is an emotion that always come from a lack of control. Anytime you are angry, it's because you feel that control has been taken away from you."
David explains that he does his best to live from the inside out. He says that you can't control external circumstances, so the best way to deal with the world around you is to live within yourself.
"Really, you can only control two things: Your perception, and how you react to that perception. Once I started living from within, I found I was happy, and things just keep getting better."
David assures me that about ninety percent of Burning Man attendees are the good kind of crazy, which makes me feel better about the event. Two minutes later, during a conversation about dead animals with the Radio Shack manager, he casually mentions the raccoon skull he keeps in a jar in lye water.
This is less reassuring.
Still, David seems like a nice, interesting guy. Plus, it turns out he is pretty handy with a tool. In addition to his wind generator, he has brought with him a small electric car (think Power Wheels for adults). And, it turns out, he used to build BattleBots.
Battlebots.
Maybe Burning Man won't be so bad after all.
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