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Wow. I don’t know what made this year so incredible. Was it the great weather, great visit with great old friends, great music and art, the great new bathrooms, the great 4QF members, the great people from Gaian Mind and other collectives that did such a great job putting this together, the great people that showed up this year to attend, the keg of great beer that we had finished off by Saturday afternoon? This year was an even greater time than all of these great things combined. A truly blessed event. I remember walking thru the grounds Saturday afternoon and seeing people sitting out in the grass chatting with friends, reading, relaxing, playing with the kids. So peaceful, so blissful, a temporary Utopian society.

I didn’t want it to end this year. 5 days wasn’t enough. It was all too perfect. I feel like I didn’t have enough time to go to enough workshops, listen to enough music acts, visit with friends enough, and meet enough new friends. The whole event was inspiring. It pulled me out of the rut of my daily reality that had been really starting to get to me. Showed me that life and society is what we create. It brought an abrupt end to the cloud of depression that has been building over me for the past few month and gave me hope and anticipation for the so many great things yet to come.

Check out our pictures here: Gaian Mind Summer Festival

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I’m finally regaining coherence after a week of sleep depravation. I went to Cambridge last week for a User Interface conference. The conference had its ups and downs, but over all I did learn some interesting things that I can apply to my job. I spent the first part of the week hanging out at pubs with some friends that my coworker Kim had met last year. They were a fun group and a nice escape from the usual corporate drones that populated the conference.

On the last night I was there I went out on my own to do a little exploring. I ate at a yummy vegan pizza shop, then headed to a club across from Fenwick park for some dancing. The club sucked. I think almost everyone was 18 and apparently nobody had ever explained the concept of beat matching to the DJ. I jetted out of there and over to a little bar that a cool cat on MySpace recommended to me. It looked like a good time, but it was 1AM and they were packing up. I decided to skip the T and walk back to my hotel. On the way I passed a bar with some thumpin music and decided to check it out. There was a really good local D&B DJ. And by really good, I mean, I don’t usually get into D&B, but I danced my ass off until they closed. Very intelligent music, but I guess that what you’d expect when your at a bar half way between Harvard and MIT.

Got into freezing cold Cleveland the next day. Had a nice lunch with my mom, Stef’s mom, and Stef. Spent the night with Henry at his new place in Willoughby. Went to Melissa’s wedding the next day. Great wedding and a beautiful day for it. It was outside and a little chilly, but the sun was out and the ceremony was very nice. We went to the Goahead monthly Saturday night and it was a great time. I’ve very impressed with how far they’ve come. The decorations were fantastic and the new hardcore-industrial-dark-psytrance producer in town, Xyla, played a set that was a fire breathing breath of fresh air for our Goahead scene. It was so nice to get to spend the night with good friends. It was sad to have to go back in the morning, but it’s defiantly nice to be back and catching up on sleep.

Stef and I can’t wait for Christmas when we’ll have a long 10 days to spend with family and friends. It will be here before we know it.

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Gaian Mind was once again a blast, despite the rain. It was a weekend filled with music, dancing, swimming, stomping in mud puddles, and drinking meed while watching the rain come down. Living in the desert for 7 months and then camping in a rainy woods is quite a shock to the system. Fortunately the rain held off during the music. There was significantly more people there this year so we were camped way back in the members only area. We had a quite little place tucked back in the woods. It was a nice secluded hang out, but it made it a little harder to be a part of what was going on. We did catch the closing ceremony this year which was nice to be a part of. If GM get any more people it’s going to out grow Four Quarters. That would be sad, the place is very nice.

It was really nice to hang out with old friends, it was like we had never left. We decided to get a hotel for Sunday night instead of camping another night. We really wanted to take a nice shower before flying home. Then we almost missed our plane with some bad directions landed us in downtown DC during rush hour and the highway back to the airport was closed due to a mud slide. That was stressful.

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